The four of them were sitting in the common room.

Sirius lounging lazily on the couch, giving a wink at a pretty girl who had just walked in.

James toying with that Snitch of his, letting it go, but snatching it before anyone really had a chance to tell it was getting away.

Remus sitting closest to the fire in an arm chair, a book nestled in his lap as he comfortably studied.

And Peter. Struggling so hard to finish his Potions essay that the others had finished hours ago.

"Blasted... bloody... bastard!" he said frustratedly, blotching ink all over his parchment. This essay had to be thirty, agonizing inches... and he was barely halfway through. No one paid much attention. Peter was always fretting over his homework.

"Alliteration." came Remus' voice, so simple and soft that if the others didn't know his voice so well, they would have missed it completely.

"What?" Sirius asked.

Remus looked up from his book, as if he were almost unaware that he had even spoken out loud.

"Alliteration." he repeated. "The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words." he said, as if it were a dictionary sitting in his lap instead of his Charms book.

James got a thoughtful look before snorting, "So... Remus runs rampantly while roaring his ruddy head off? Is that one?"

Remus just hummed, "Yes. I suppose it is. Though whoever it is you are referring to is most likely running rampantly due to his bizarre friends."

James just smirked... but now Sirius was thinking.

"Sirius is seriously sexy." he said with a sly grin.

Remus rolled his eyes, "...You two are a ruin to literature."

"Are not. Let me try again." James said, tapping his chin in thought.

"Flitwick fires flaming bogies at first years."

Sirius snorted, "...Wish I had thought of that."

Remus opened his mouth to say something when another voice cut in.

"I see ignorant imbeciles idly inquiring each other about idiotic instances."

James looked up in awe to see Lily standing with her hands on her hips.

"...And James' jaw drops..." Remus said, trying his very best not to smirk.