A Potent Potion

Chapter 1: The Bad Beginning

Disclaimer: If I was JK Rowling, do you think I'd be here writing fanfiction? No. Everyone but Danielle belongs to the goddess of authors. I just like to borrow some of them once in a while. I really wish I owned Padfoot though...

It was 2 weeks before Valentine's Day, and Sirius Black was yet again trying to get Danielle Smith , the foreign exchange student from Canada to go out with him.

Unsuccessfully. Quite unsuccessfully, might I add.

Here's what their conversation sounded like:

"Please?"

"You know that stupid pout won't work on me."

"But it works on all the other girls."

"Well, they are all obviously complete and total idiots. Now would you PLEASE go away?"

"Fine. Playing hard to get are you?"

"Silencio!".

This is what their everyday conversation is like. Actually, this is pretty mild. Last time Sirius asked her out, she hit him with Eat Slugs.

Not a pretty sight. Several first years were scarred for life.

But that's beside the point. The point is Danielle absolutely refused to go out with Sirius.

So he had to resort to desperate measures. But we'll get to that later.

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"Prongs, why won't Dani go out with me?", Sirius asked his best friend later that day.

James sighed. Not again. He had already had this conversation with Sirius yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that.

And the MONTH before that.

As you can guess, he was pretty tired of it. So, his reply was monotone: "Danielle will not go out with you for a number of reasons. Number 1: She Does. Not. Like. You. Number 2: She hates being called Dani. Number 3: She doesn't think you are capable of having a relationship lasting more than a week, which is probably true. And Number 4: You're too persistent. Try leaving her alone once in a while."

Sirius thought about this for a moment then replied. "Wait, why am I asking you? You've been trying to get Evans to go out with you for years. I'm gonna go ask Moony for help."

James tried to contain his grin. Finally, he would be left alone. Poor Moony.

"Mooooooooony!"

Remus groaned. In his head. And no, that was not dirty.

He just knew that whenever Sirius came up to him and whined, something bad was gonna happen. But, despite his instincts, he asked: "What's wrong now Padfoot?"

"Dani still won't go out with me!"

Once again, Remus silently groaned. This had been going on forever. So, he decided to try and help his friend. Big mistake.

"Maybe you shouldn't call her Dani, seeing as she doesn't like that"

"But she DOES like it. I can tell."

"No, she doesn't like it. Last time you tried calling her that, she hexed you."

"She DOES like it."

"No, she DOESN'T."

"Does too."

"Does not."

"Does too."

"Does not."

"Does too."

"Does not."

"Does too."

"Does not."

"Does too."

"Does not."

"Does too."

"Does not."

"Does too, and that's final. Every girl in this school loves me. I am the almighty Sirius Black. I am the GOD of Smexyness. Every girl wants to g-"

Sirius' sentence had been cut short after a pillow went flying through the air and knocked him off the bed he was standing on. "Mooooony!"

"Let's face it. You're hopeless. Danielle wouldn't go out with you if you used a love potion to get her."

"Love potion?"

"Wait, I didn't say that. Padfoot, WAIT!" But it was too late. Sirius had already gone off to do God-only-Knows-What, and it was all Moony's fault.

He mumbled to himself: "Note to self: Never EVER try and help Padfoot with girl troubles again. EVER!"

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Lily watched Danielle stomp into their dorm room and fling herself on her bed.

"Sirius Black has got to be the most annoying person in the history of annoying people!"

Lily sighed. Everyone in the school knew about the fight between Danielle and Sirius.

Personally, Lily thought that Danielle should stop arguing and just go out with him. But it certainly didn't look like that was going to happen.

"Did he ask you out again?"

"Yeah. AND he got me landed in detention. Apparently our head boy doesn't think that using a silencing charm on him was doing the whole common room a favor. Even though it WAS."

Although Lily had to agree with this, she shook her head at Danielle. Encouraging her would only make it worse.

"Well, maybe next time, you should wait till the Head boy is OUT of the room before hexing Sirius. Or better yet, just don't hex him at all. You know he loves attention."

Danielle nodded. "I know THAT. He's so arrogant. He's convinced that every girl in Hogwarts has a mad crush on him. Excluding the 6th and 7th years."

Lily thought about this. A lot of the girls DID seem to like Sirius...

"I don't know. I think a lot of them do have mad crushes on him. Especially Claudia. She STALKS him. It's quite creepy, really."

Danielle looked dumbstruck.

"I can't believe you! You like him don't you?" Lily blushed and stammered out her response. "Well, I don't..Not really.. He IS rather...nice eyes..."

Danielle cut her off. She didn't want to hear anymore.

"I have to go. I'm meeting Peter in the library to help him with his Transfiguration homework. Bye." She walked out of the room, presumably to the library.

Lily shook her head once more. This had been going on way to long. She decided that she needed to go talk to Remus.

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"Hey Remus?"

Remus looked up. Lily was walking over to him at his table in the library. "Yes?"

"I think we need to do something about Danielle and Sirius. This has been going on for way too long, and I don't want to be dragged into it anymore."

The werewolf nodded. "I agree. Padfoot's getting really annoying. I think we should try and get them together. Do you have any ideas?"

Lily grinned, and said "Oh yeah. I've got TONS of ideas."

Remus look wary. Lily looked like his friends when they were coming up with a prank. That was NOT a good thing. "Do I WANT to hear these ideas?"

Lily laughed, and said "Yeah. They're not too bad. Both Danielle and Sirius have detention together on Friday, right?"

Remus nodded. "Yeah..."

"Well, I was thinking that we could use that to our advantage..."

(A/N: Ooooh, what's Lily planning? Know what you have to do to find out? Press that little purpleish blueish button. And review. We all know you want to. Come on. Press it. It's not that hard. Even if you hated it. It's ok. I can take criticism. I'm just starting out, so I need all the help I can get.)