Hey guyyyyys. Harry Potter fic no.2. The full sumarry is as below. Read, Review and most of all, enjoy.

Also.

I obviously don't own Harry Potter. It belongs to JKR. I'm just a bored fan with nothing better to do after finished Deathly Hallows.

Anyway.

ONWARDS!

In Those Hours.

Sirius Black had it all at Hogwarts. He was notorious, he was popular- one could even say he was notorious for being popular! He had three best friends, and a wonderful girlfriend. She was just like him. Popular, beautiful- they were the Hogwarts 'it' couple. People always assumed they'd get married. They'd already started calling her Anna Black, just as a joke.

What no one was supposed to know about was the hours he is spent in library with her. Not his girlfriend. The other her. In those hours, everything changed. Sirius was no longer popular, nor notorious. He was, just simply, himself.

But, deep down, Sirius knew that eventually he would be forced to choose between the popular, simple Anna, and the quirky outcast Klara. And with Voldemort on the rise and the times becoming more and more dangerous, things were not looking up.

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"Mr. Black! Would you kindly pay attention to the lesson?" Snapped Professor McGonagall, hands on her hips.

"But of course I was paying attention! How could I ever draw my eyes away from you Professor?"

She glared down her nose at him, "Very funny Black. Now, would you please be considerate enough to take down the notes I've written on the board. Although, I'm sure a wizard of your calibre would have no need for the notes, as you already know it all."

"You're very right, I don't need it. But for you Professor, anything."

The class laughed, and James shot Sirius a wicked grin.

"Ten points from Gryffindor, Mr. Black." McGonagall said coolly, "Now, back to work, everyone."

The class finished their work, and then promptly ran out as fast as they possibly could when all was said and done. James, Sirius and Remus gathered their things and moved towards the Great Hall for lunch. They walked together, James and Sirius laughing about the lesson while Remus tried not to join in. A girl walked behind them unnoticed by James and Remus, but Sirius knew she was there. He always knew she was there these days.

Peter, the fourth member of the almost revered Marauders, was already seated at Gryffindor table when the boys arrived for lunch, stuffing his chubby face while his watery eyes poured over his Charms notes.

"Slow down Wormtail, you're going to make yourself sick," Said Remus, not unkindly, taking the seat next to his friend.

"But don't you get it Moony?" Said Sirius, "He's trying to make himself sick on purpose so he can miss next period."

"I'm not!" Protested Peter, "I'm really not!"

"Sure Peter," Said James, smirking at the stressed out form of Wormtail.

Peter sighed, looking at his calm friends, "How can you guys be so effortlessly good at NEWT level subjects?"

"Hey, I'm not effortlessly good at anything," Said Remus

James shrugged, "I can't help it. I'm just amazing,"

"Gee, just when I thought you'd deflated your head, Potter," Said Lily Evans dryly from behind him,

"Lily!" He exclaimed, sitting up slightly straighter, "To what do I owe this pleasure?"

She rolled her eyes, "C'mon James. We were going to meet in the library, remember? To organise the prefect duties and stuff."

James grinned sheepishly, "Sorry Lily, I wanted to eat first."

She rolled her eyes again, but now she was smiling, "You're a pig James Potter. All you ever think of is food and Quidditch."

He grinned, "And you, of course."

She waved a hand at him airily, "Oh shush, would you. I'll meet you in the library when you're done, okay?"

He smiled, and bowed at her in his seat, "You can count on it, fair lady."

She chuckled and walked away, her dark red hair swinging behind her.

James watcher her go, pure affection on his face. Sirius watched the exchange and said, "Well, well, well Prongs. Was that an almost friendly exchange of words between you and Miss Evans?"

"Yes Padfoot, I believe it was."

Remus chuckled, "The first, and knowing those two, the last."

"Oh shut up," Said James lightly, still smiling. He scoffed down some Shepard's Pie and then was off to the library with Lily, a new spring in his step.

"Ah, young love," Said Sirius jokingly

"Speaking of love, where's Anna today?" Asked Peter, flipping a page in his notes

Sirius shrugged, "Off somewhere with her friends, I suppose." He checked his watch "Well kids, I'd better be off."

"Where are you going?" Remus asked, puzzled

Sirius shrugged, "I'll be around."

Sirius paced around Hogwarts, avoiding having to go to Charms. It was, of course, not the test he was worried about, but where he has been forced to sit in the classroom. He grimaced, and as he remembered the lesson, he was hit by a fresh flood of annoyance. Having arrived late to the first Charms lesson of the year, he had lost his usual seat next to James to Lily Evans. Anna, being in Hufflepuff, didn't have Charms with the Gryffindors so that automatically ruled her out, and since Remus and Peter were sitting together, he was left to fend for himself. So, left out, annoyed and with the sincere apologises of his friends in his ears, Sirius had grumbled and pounded his way to the back of the classroom, to take the only unoccupied seat in the room next to Klara.

There were only two widely known things about Klara Pernondi: the first was that she was extremely strange and the second was that she had a violent temper when her buttons were pushed hard enough. Seeing as Klara was a Gryffindor, she and Sirius had had their fair share of encounters over the years, all of which had ended with Sirius being dragged, carried or helped in some way to the hospital wing. He visibly cringed as he walked towards her, imagining being stuck next to her for the rest of the year, enduring her presence. In the common room and at meal times, Sirius avoided her as much as possible, having finally learned that no matter how much fun annoying her could be, it was never worth the apparently mandatory trip to the hospital wing that he knew would always ensue. Being thoroughly beaten up by a girl wasn't good for his reputation. So, he sat down lightly, and didn't look at the girl next to him. The lesson went quite normally. It appeared that Lily and James were passing notes to one another, a look of joy on James' face and one of annoyance on Lily's. Lily and Klara had always been good, if not the best of, friends, so, Sirius couldn't understand why they weren't sitting together. Deciding it was worth a shot, he turned to Klara

"Hey, Pernondi." He whispered to her, for Flitwick was still talking

"Black," She murmured back curtly, not looking away from the board

"Why aren't you sitting with Evans?"

Her quill stopped moving on the page, and she whispered back, "Why aren't you sitting with Potter?"

Sirius was taken aback, and said, "Because Evans got there first!"

Klara smiled slightly at him, "No, Sirius. James took my seat next to Lily and refused to move. And Lily, being the stubborn mule that she is, wouldn't move either, because she had decided that was her seat. Now they're stuck together. The idiots."

Sirius shook his head, "I don't understand why he hasn't just given up on her."

"You wouldn't" She said.

"What do you mean?"

She looked at him, and it was as if her gaze was burning holes through him, "It's obvious that you've never really loved someone, because if you had, you wouldn't ask that question."

Sirius open and closed his mouth several times, but realised he had nothing to say. What he should have said, of course, was that he was in love with Anna and that what James felt for Lily was just lust. But, he couldn't. It would've been a lie. Not the bit about loving Anna, of course. He loved her as much as he knew how, but it was the part about James only feeling lust for Lily. That was a downright lie.

"They're not dating," He muttered mutinously

"For now," Said Klara, "But it is inevitable. And love doesn't need a relationship to exist"

"You're delusional," He told her cheerfully

"Shut up Black." She snapped, louder than she had intended.

"You shut up!" He snapped back, childishly

"You started it!" She said, their conversation getting louder and louder, with people in the class turning to look at them

"Mr Black and Miss Pernondi. Is there something the rest of the class can help you with?" Said Flitwick in his squeaky voice

"No, professor," They both muttered, not looking at each other.

They had spent the rest of the lesson in silence, but what had Sirius worried was what had happened that night in the common room, when it was very late. Klara was the only person still up when Sirius had come down stairs from his dorm. He had received a letter from his cousin Andromeda, informing him that she was set to marry Ted Tonks. He had, of course, been elated by the news, but it had got him thinking to what Klara had said. The stuff about what real love was. And seeing her sitting there, reading calmly, seemed to make his blood boil.

He trumped down the stairs, and snapped at her, "So tell me, Klara. What would you know about love anyway?"

She jumped out of her chair and had drawn her wand, "What are you on about, you blithering idiot?"

"You said I wouldn't understand real love."

She stared at him, and then lowered her wand and started to laugh, "Oh Sirius Black. It has taken my seven years to truly say something that got under your skin. Who ever would have thought it would've been something about love."

Sirius drew his wand, "Shut up."

She glared at him, "You came down here, demanding answers of me, and now you're telling me to shut up? Well, you know what? I'm not going to. You listen here, you big arse. Love is something unexplainable and unplanned. It just hits you. Like lightening. You can't explain it- it just is."

"Tell me Klara, how many times, precisely, have you been in love?"

She drew herself up, "A precise number of zero times."

He laughed, "Then what the hell would you know?"

"A lot more than you. Tell me, Sirius. How many times have you been in love?"

He stared at her, and said, "Well, Anna-"

"I didn't ask about Anna." She said scathingly, "I asked how many times you've been in love,"

Sirius stammered and said, "Once. With Anna."

"Have you told her that?"

He nodded and she laughed coldly, "You dirty, rotten liar."

"How dare you!"

"Oh shut up, Sirius. I'm going to bed. Goodnight." She stooped down and picked up her book and then marched towards the girl's dormitory.

Sirius called after her, "What makes you think James loves Lily? What makes you think that's so real?"

She stopped and turned to him, smiling, "What makes you think it isn't? Have you seen the way he looks at her, and the way Lily looks at him when she thinks no one's looking? It is, quite simply, love. All Lily has to do is stop being a prat and embrace it."

Sirius didn't have an answer, and Klara knew this and kept walking.

The conversation played in Sirius' head as he lined up for Charms, having realised that pacing the Hogwarts corridors was quite pointless. Klara was already there too, conversing with Lily. They whispered to one another in that way that girl's do when you know they're discussing boys. He looked around, but James wasn't there. Peter and Remus showed up together, with Remus quizzing Peter on the different types of Charms they were bound to be asked about. The relief on Sirius' face when he saw them was so obvious it made Remus beam at him.

"Ready for the test, Wormy?" He said, nudging his shorter friend

Peter gulped, "I suppose."

"Don't worry, you'll be fine." Said Remus, "All you can do now is your best."

"How touching," Said Snape, as he walked up to them, "How positively touching,"

"Hey Snivellus,' Said Sirius loudly, "Washed your hair lately?"

"Oh shut up Black, you blood traitor pretty boy,"

"What!" Roared Sirius, reaching for his wand

"What did you just say, Severus?" Said James Potter calmly, walking down the hall

"You heard me, Potter."

"Well, I heard you, but I hope I didn't hear you correctly. Because if I did, you just called my friend here a blood traitor and a pretty boy all in one breath."

"What are you going to do?" He sneered, "Set the Mudblood on me?"

Before either James or Sirius could react, Snape was sent flying backwards into a wall. He hit his head and slid down slowly, barely conscience.

"You listen to me, Severus Snape." Said Klara as she walked forward with her wand out, books discarded, "If I ever, ever hear you refer to Lily that way again, I will curse you so hard, it'll make your ancestors dizzy. Are we clear?"

"Stop it Klara!" Said Lily, "it's not worth it!"

But Klara didn't hear Lily. She glared at Snape, "Did you hear me, you greasy Death Eater?"

The people around them gasped, unsure what to do.

"What's this?" Said a quiet voice from the end of the hall. Albus Dumbledore came striding towards them at an even, steady pace, his facial expression blank and calm, "Klara, put your wand away please, and follow me. Now, Dawlish, Trout, if you would be kind enough to help Severus up, I believe he needs to go to the hospital wing. That was a particularly strong Impedimenta spell he was hit with, he may have a few broken ribs."

"Follow you, sir?" She asked quietly

"Yes, please. I believe it is time we had a small talk, you and I."

"But she has a test now sir," said Sirius, unexpectedly, "She shouldn't miss it, should she?"

Dumbledore gave Sirius the smallest of smiles, "It can be rearranged Sirius. Now, Klara, please."

Klara stared at Sirius only a moment, and then followed Dumbledore.

"Oi, Pernondi!" Said Sirius

"What, Black?" She snapped

"Nice work."

She stared him again, and scampered after Dumbledore, having nothing to say in reply.