Chapter One

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

-Elizabeth Foley

A/N: I do not own anything except my characters and my dreams. Everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling.

-Bridget's P.O.V.-

I sat at the Slytherin table with the rest of my house, it was the first day back at Hogwarts and Professor McGonagall, a very strict woman who taught transfiguration, was calling out the names of the first years to be sorted. I tried to pay attention during the ceremony, I managed to clap with the others when a first year was sorted into Slytherin.

However my mind was elsewhere, as it usually was. I looked over to the other end of the room, where the Gryffindors were seated. As a Slytherin I too had a hatred towards our house enemy, Gryffindor. Mostly because of the Marauders who kept on pranking us, however there was one exception. My twin sister, Brianna, who was sorted into Gryffindor. Despite the hatred between our houses we still remain friends.

I caught site of her auburn hair, she was clapping along with her house mates as a first year got sorted into her house. James Potter and Sirius Black, the ringleaders of The Marauders, stood up whistling and clapping. I rolled my eyes at them and looked over to the Ravenclaw table, where a bunch of over acheiver's sat. With them was my best friend Helena. She was sitting with her back straight and looked like she was actually paying close attention to the ceremony (which she probably was).

I started looking for my other best friend, Maggie. Her real name's Margarite but everyone call's her Maggie, including some of the teachers. She wasn't too hard to find since she had curly blonde hair. I could see her wispering to the Hufflepuff girl that sat next to her; they were probably catching up on the latest gossip.

I couldn't wait for tonight, Brianna, Helena, Maggie and I would be sneaking up to our meeting place like we usually do. It was an abandoned classroom on the third floor but Helena usually put a locking spell on the door just incase. It was risky getting there, but that was half the fun. Since we're all in different houses we try to hang out as much as possible.

I was snapped out of my thoughts as food magically appeared infront of me. The Sorting was over and the Great Hall was filled with chatter as people filled their plates with food. Some of the girls who I shared a dormitory with started talking about their amazing summer. I looked over to my left where Evan Rosier was sitting. He looked amazing with his green eyes and dark hair. He was a sixt year Slytherin that I had a huge crush on . Of course no one knew this except for my three best friends.

"Who you looking at?" I looked up to see Mary smirking. Her long brown hair was down as usual, her gentle waves falling to her shoulders.

"Nobody" I replied and shot her a glare before I returned to my plate of food.

"So did you do anything interesting this summer?" she asked

"Not really" I replied tyredly as I poked my food with my fork. "What about you?"

"My family and I went to Paris, it was amazing!" Mary bragged. I continued eating my food in silence while half lisening to Mary continue to brag about her trip to Paris.

"Did you guys hear about Severus?" said Susan, a girl whom I also share a dorm with.

Mary was sending her a glare for the interruption. I was a bit thankful for it.

"What about him?" Mary said rather coldly.

"There's a rumor going around that he's a Death Eater." she said rather impressed.

"What?" Mary asked, suddenly interrested and forgetting that Susan just interrupted her.

"I don't believe it." I said. "He's friends with Lily rememeber." I reminded them, it's not like I had anything agaist the girl, besides the fact that she was a Gryffindor.

She seemed a bit like a show off in class but I didn't care that she wasn't a pureblood. I didn't care about anyones blood status, i'm friends with Maggie who's a muggleborn.

"Well, I dunno. I'm just saying what I heard." Susan said

After the feast ended I headed down to the Slytherin common room with Mary and Susan. It was a bit cold as it usually is in the dungeons, and once we entered the common room we sat on a green couch. Susan and Mary were still discussing the possibility of Severus being a Death Eater.

I looked around the dungeon-like room which was lit with green candles. Some of the older Slytherins were initiating the first years. Evan was among them, I didn't really care. It was tradition here in Slytherin to initiate the first years. Besides, it's not like he was a bad guy, I mean comparred to every other Slytherin.

Time seemed to have flown by, because next thing I know i'm lying in my bed with my eyes open, lisening to Mary's light snoring and waiting for the rest of the girls to fall asleep.

As soon as I thought it was safe, I silently got out of bed and grabed my wand and my cloak. Tiptoeing out of the common room was easy, now I had to worry about teachers, prefects, and Filch. He was Hogwarts caretaker and was always lurking around the castle looking for students to punish.

I made it to the Entrance Hall no problem and was going to make my way up to the first floor when I saw another light coming my way. I jumped behind an hourglass which marked our house points.

The light seemed to be getting closer, I held my breath and prayed that it wasn't Filch. My body relaxed once I saw who it was.

"Maggie" I wispered, making her jump as she turned around.

"Merlin's beard, don't scare me like that, Bridget." she said

I smiled as I walked up to her and we went up the marble staircase together. I decided against lighting up my wand since Maggie's wand provided enough light for the both of us. We almost got caught on the second floor as a Hufflepuff prefect did his rounds, but I pulled Maggie behind a suit of armor and he walked right past us.

Once on the third floor Maggie and I could hear Helena and Bree coming.

"Jesus, Bree! Lower your wand, you're blinding me here."

"Sorry"

Maggie and I both chuckled at our friends arguing.

"Quiet down you guys or else we're going to get caught" Maggie called out.

I opened the door to the empty classroom and we walked on in, Helena putting the locking spell on the door as usual.

"Here we are" I said and turned around to face the rest of them. Bree and I smiled at each other, looking at her was like looking into a mirror. We were both 5"6 and had the same shoulder lenght auburn hair. The only difference was that she had golden brown eyes while mine were green.

Helena was now casting small flames from her wand, which levitated over our heads and lit up the room. We sat down in a circle on the floor as Bree and Maggie pulled some candy that they brought with them from their cloaks. We shared our story's about almost getting caught tonight as we ate licorice wands, Bernie Bott's Every Flavored Beans, and even a few Ice Mice.

"You think you guys had it bad." Bree said "I had to make sure Lily Evans was asleep before I left, if she wakes up i'm dead."

"I thought you were friends with her?" Helena asked.

"I am, but it's hard sneaking out with her being a prefect and all."

"Would she really tell Professor McGonagall on you?" Maggie asked

"Probably, it's her job as prefect." Bree said

After a minute of silence we started to talk about silly things again.

"So, anybody got a new crush?" Maggie asked, boys seemed to be her favorite topic.

"You all know who I like" I said, thinking of Evan Rosier.

"Well, i'm starting to like Sirius again." Maggie said embarassed

"What?" We all shouted

"He's such a jerk." Helena added

"Well I think he's charming. And we all know how gorgeous he is."

"You're forgetting about second year when he pulled that prank on you." Helena said hoping to get Maggie to change her mind about Sirius.

"And didn't you say, and I quote" Bree said making quotation marks with her fingers "He's just too immature for me."

"But he's changed!" Maggie defended

"C'mon Bridget" she looked at me with pleading eyes "Help me out"

"Hey, don't look at me. I'm not fond of the guy either."

Maggie gave an exasperated sigh once she realised she was defeated and that neither of us approved of Sirius Black as boyfriend material.

"Fine, but I still think he's gorgeous."

"Of course" Bree agreed

"What about you Helena? Who do you like?" Maggie asked

"No one" she replied

"C'mon, you must like someone" I said

"Nope. I'm too busy with school work to chase after boys."

"You must find someone at Hogwarts cute." Bree said

"Sure, but looks aren't everything."

"Well, how about you Bree?" Maggie asked.

Bree looked at me and I smiled since I knew exactly who she was crushing on. Maggie gasped as she noticed our little exchange.

"There is someone! Tell us." she said

"Ya, Bree. Tell us." Helena encouraged

"Well" Bree started shyly "you all know him, and he's in Gryffindor too.."

"Who is it" Helena asked impatiently

"Sush!" Maggie said as she threw a bean at Helena.

"It's... Remus."

"Awww" We all said to make Bree blush even more.

"He's cute" Maggie said

"And smart" Helena added.

"You two would make a perfect couple" I said to my twin.

"Oh, shutup" she replied embarassed which made us laugh. We continued to talk for a long time until Helena noticed how late it was. We decided to head on back to our common rooms, Bree and Helena making their way up the stairs, while Maggie and I headed on down. Hopefully we won't be too tyred for tomorow.

-Helena's P.O.V.-

I tried my best to lisen to Professor Babbling during Ancient Runes this morning but I was still very tired from last night. I got back to Ravenclaw tower without being caught and went straight to bed, althought morning seemed to have arrived way to fast.

My head throbbed a bit from the lack of sleep, maybe at the next meeting I can suggest a curfew. I needed my sleep, especially if I want to do good with my school work. And this year was very important since this was the year that we take our OWL exams.

I could feel the sun on my back as I sat at my desk, trying to take notes. Unlike Maggie, who sat to my left and was fast asleep. It was incredibly hard to focus, I looked around the room to see everyone else taking notes furiously. I bet they all got a good night's sleep, all except for one person. I realised it was Remus Lupin, the Gryffindor guy that Bree is crushing on. He looked as tyred as I felt, with his dark circles under his eyes and a slouched posture. However, although he looked tyred, he was still taking his notes as fast as everyone else.

I looked on down to my own notes. It was sad to look at, I only managed to get down a few sentences. Normally I took pride in my notes since they were so well kept, maybe I could borrow someone else's notes later.

I looked on over to my right where Remus Lupin sat one desk ahead. How did he manage to write his notes while being so tyred? I looked on down to my notes again and tried to get my hand to move faster. I felt so weak at the moment and frustrated at the fact that Remus could continue his schoolwork at full potential and I couldn't.

I looked on back to Remus, maybe it was a whole mind over matter issue. Or maybe I was just more tyred than him. Yes, that must be it.

I was so lost in my thoughts that I never saw Remus' amber eyes looking back at me. He must of thought I was a freak for starring at him like that. I brushed my hair from behind my ear so that I could use it as a curtain to hide behind.

Normally I didn't like to have my hair down because it was always in my face and distracting me from my schoolwork, however I would have to make an exception. I couldn't concentrate anyways so my hair distracting me wouldn't make a difference.

The bell rang, signalling the end of class and waking Maggie up. She had a bit of a mark on her cheek which she covered up with her curly blonde hair. I packed my things into my bag which felt especially heavy today, probably because I was so tyred.

Others passed on by me as I got ready to leave. To my horror Remus Lupin stopped by our desk and was looking at me. Maggie was looking at the both of us with a confused expression. She left us alone and was probably going to ask me about it later. Merlin, I hope she doesn't think I like him. I would never do that to Bree. Once a sister liked a guy he was officially off limits to all other sisters, no questions asked.

He was taller than me, I only reached up to his shoulders. Then again I was used to being short, all my friends were taller than me, alot of people were. I suppose I could see why Bree liked him, he was cute, but I didn't think of him like that.

"Hi" he said acuardly. Yup, he thought I was a freak.

"Hey" I replied before I took up the courage to actually look at him.

"Sorry about starring at you like that earlier, I'm just really tyred today." I blabbered out. He just nodded.

"I figured, you kinda look like it."

"I hate to be a bother, but would it be alright if I borrowed your notes. I couldn't really concentrate today." I asked.

"Sure" he took his notebook out of his bookbag and handed it to me.

"Thanks" I said and gave him a small smile.

I went on down to the dungeons where Bridget and I had Potions. Normally we made a good team since we were both good in Potions, and it helped that Bridget was in Slytherin. Proffessor Slughorn had a soft spot for everyone in his house, but not in an overly unjust kind of way. I found him to be fair to everyone.

However this class seemed to be the worst one ever. Bridget and I were so tyred that neither of us could concentrate on the Potion we were suppossed to be making. It ended up exploding and making a big mess, covering Bridget and I in it's contents. Luckly Proffessor Slughorn said it was harmless, but he was dissapointed in us and took off 5 house points each.

Bridget and I were excused from class so we could get cleaned up before lunch.

It took all of my energy to climb up the flights of stairs towards the Ravenclaw common room which was located on the west side of the castle.

Once I was in the shower I made sure that the water wasn't too hot, the last thing I needed was to be relaxed. I also made sure that I didn't take too long and got ready quickly. I made it down to the Great Hall just in time as everyone else started pilling into the Hall for lunch.

I ate a few chicken sandwiches and drank pumpkin juice before I took out Remus' notes from my bag. The last thing I wanted to do right now was work since I was still tyred but I didn't want to keep his notes for too long. The sooner I returned them the better, besides Maggie would probably need my notes later.

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