Why So Irritating?
Author's Note:: Hi everyone. This is my first attempt at writing a Marauder's Era story and I hope that it's one you enjoy. I don't really have much to say other that (in general) all characters whose names you recognize belong to J.K. Rowling, all whose names are new to you belong to me. Happy reading!
The Hogwarts' Express 1972
Eirian scanned the compartments of the Hogwarts Express looking for her best friend. Her thoughts were on the upcoming year at Hogwarts. Without having to worry about whether or not she'd be sorted into the wrong house, she didn't have to deal with the nervous excitement of last year.
As she was beginning to consider giving up her search, she caught sight of her friend's red hair, sticking out of a compartment, looking the opposite way of Eirian. "Lily!" Eirian called and her friend's head whipped around. Lily smiled and stepped out of the compartment waving to Eirian.
"How was your summer?" Lily asked, once Eirian had reached the compartment. They entered together.
"Oh, good I guess. We didn't vacation this year, but we had a lot of family come to visit. I missed you something awful though." Eirian said sitting down next to Lily.
"Hello, Severus." She greeted the boy who was sitting across from Lily. Little had she known last year that when she befriended her dorm mate, she had befriended Severus too. Actually, Severus and Eirian weren't really friends. They just shared a mutual best friend and were polite to each other. He wasn't as bad as his friends, but in the back of her head, Eirian still heard her sister's warnings against Slytherins whenever she saw him. There was an obvious difference about Severus when he was with Lily as opposed to when she saw him in the halls, or eating lunch with his friends. It was probably due the fact that he obviously fancied Lily.
"Hello, Eirian." Severus said, from his seat in the corner by the window. He sounded slightly annoyed, but he always sounded slightly annoyed.
"We were just talking about my summer, before I started looking for you. You're late."
"I know. Rhys through a temper tantrum and dad had to resolve it before we could leave. Then of course we realized that we were almost out of Floo Powder, so mum wrote it on her shopping list. And then there was the usual 20 minutes of hugging, kissing, and going over how we're to behave. I'm just glad that Tesni and I made it on the train I can't wait to be at Hogwarts."
"Me neither!" Lily agreed earnestly. "SO anyway, I was just telling Sev the story of the time that Tunney and I fought over the one blouse. I told you about it in that letter." Lily said before turning back to face Severus. Eirian wondered why Severus hadn't been told about it in a letter."So, as I was saying, Petunia got so angry she snatched it right out of my hands. I told her that if she didn't give it back, I'd turn her into a frog. Of course, she doesn't know that I can't do magic outside of school, so right away she gave me my shirt back." Lily finished smiling big. "That ends my biggest tale of the summer. What did you do over your summer, Sev?"
"Nothing." Severus responded.
"Nothing?" Eirian asked. She knew her summer was boring and would almost merit being called 'nothing', but she was at least able to find some good in it.
"Well I wrote letters." He admitted a bit deliberately.
"You didn't write me any letters." Lily sounded a little bit hurt. "And you only visited once. I know Tunney's a little hard to be around, but really Sev, a whole summer?" That answered Eirian's question. Since Lily was muggleborn and didn't have an owl she had to wait for other people to write to her first. She used school owls to write to her parents."Who were you writing too?"
"Avery, McNair, my other friends…"
"Them?" Eirian and Lily asked together.
"Why? What's wrong with them?" he asked getting defensive. "They aren't like Potter and Black and his gang."
"What's this got to do with Potter?" Lily asked getting mad at the mention of him. She had no patience for him and his gang, and after meeting them for the first time Eirian agreed with her views. All of her experiences last year with the Marooders, or whatever it was that they called themselves, with hadn't been good ones. The word chaos came to mind.
"Or Black?" Eirian added. She hadn't noticed that the door was slid open until it was too late to do anything about it.
"I told you they were missing us, Sirius." James Potter and Sirius Black stood in the doorway for a brief second before they came in and sat down.
"What are you doing here?" Eirian asked flatly.
"A simple hello would have been enough, but we'll take what we can get." James said putting his arms behind his head. "So Evans, miss me?" he asked and he put his feet in between Lily and Eirian. Sirius stretched his legs out on the floor. Sev seemed to be boiling with rage, but then again, Lily and Eirian probably looked the same way. There was just something about these boys (possibly the fact that their arrogance made them popular) that made her hate them.
"Not at all. Now get out before your fat head takes up all the space in this compartment." Lily said angrily.
"Snivellus hasn't had a turn to talk to us yet though." Sirius said pouting. James flung an arm around Severus, who had retracted into the corner as far as he could. James and Sirius hated Severus with a passion. It was their goal in life to humiliate him and make him miserable whenever the chance showed itself.
" ." Severus whispered scathingly, not even bothering to move the arm.
"So soon?" James asked. "I'd rather stay. I like it in here. Cozy, really." Eirian shoved James' feet off the seat. "Now Saise what made you do that?"
"I'm making it easier for you to leave. Get out, Potter. You too, Black." Eirian glared.
"I thought we were having a lovely time." Black said in mock surprise.
"Nobody here likes you. Go back to Pettigrew, why don't you? He probably doesn't know what to do with himself now that you're gone."
"Now that wasn't a very nice thing to say." Potter said.
"Remind me to leave you an apology in my will." Eirian retorted.
"Clever, this one." Black commented. "You could take lessons from her Snivellus. Maybe she'd help you gro-"
"Finish that sentence, and I'll make you wish you hadn't." Lily said, he wand out.
"Well I can see we're not welcome here." Potter said standing up in mock offense. Black followed suit. "See you at Hogwarts." The two exited the compartment.
"You okay, Sev?" Lily asked stowing her wand.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Severus sniffed. Lily sighed.
"So, you said you had family visiting?" Lily asked to lighten the situation, and the three began to to talk again, trying to put James and Sirius from their minds.
James and Sirius exited the compartment and continued down to where Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were sitting.
"What a friendly lot." Sirius joked.
"You know, I wouldn't be surprised if we were invited to spend Christmas with them. Of course there is the question of whose we'd choose to attend."
"Well we'd have to choose Snivellus' of course. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if we broke his poor little heart." Sirius said and they reentered the compartment laughing. Remus was engulfed in a book, but Peter looked over from where he was gazing out the window.
"We're back." James announced sitting next to Remus. Sirius took a seat next to Peter, with a nice amount of space in between them.
"Where have you been? It shouldn't take that long to change into your robes." Remus asked his eyes still on his book. He finished the page and closed it looking at them.
"We visited our dear friends. Evans, Saise, and Snivellus." James said. "They invited us to sit with them when we got there." Peter laughed nervously.
"Shouldn't we try to be nice to Severus this year? After all it's not too late to apologize." Remus suggested.
"Apologize? Blacks never apologize." Sirius scoffed.
"And neither does this Potter." James added. Remus sighed and opened up his book again.
"So Sirius, I was thinking, it's our second year here and time to liven things up a little bit."
"What did you have in mind, mate?" Sirius asked, leaning forward. Peter leaned forward too, and Sirius shot him a look.
"I was thinking that we should start it off with a bet?" James started.
"I like where this is going." Sirius nodded
"Well since we are just so popular why don't we make a bet on who can get a girl the first?" James suggested.
"That's too easy." Sirius said.
"Not if we pick out a specific girl for each other, and you know, just in case you need some more incentive, the winner should get five galleons."
"Five? I'll give you fifteen galleons if you can get who I'm thinking of." Sirius objected.
"Alright fifteen galleons then. Do we have a deal?"
"Deal. I'll choose first. I say Evans."
"Evans? Then you get Saise."
"Saise?"
"You gave me Evans."
"Fair enough."
"Don't you think that Lily and Eirian won't be very happy to be bet over?" Remus asked. "You guys already aren't on the best terms."
"They won't find out." James dismissed.