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"Ravenclaw!" Shouted the Sorting Hat after well over a minute of debate. While Ravenclaw House and (very very) suprisingly the majority of Slytherin cheered, Sirius Black let out a sigh of dissappointment. James Potter patted his back sympathetically. It seemed ladies man and heartbreaker extrodinaire, Sirius Black, had fallen in love with a girl...a part Veela girl...because of her looks...No surprise there. He had hoped, like half the male population in the school that she would be in his House only to get his heart broken. Poor Sirius.
If just last year, somebody were to tell anybody, anybody at all who studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that Sirius Black would have to chase a girl that he liked, who just happens to be a certain home schooled witch, fifteen years of age, who was sorted into Ravenclaw, that person would have been transferred to the 'Janus Thickey Ward' aka Permenant Damage Ward for Nutters and unfortunate people who were on the wrong side of Lord Voldemort and his squad of Deathly Dumb Pureblood Fantasy Eaters.
Alas! Little did anyone know that soon Sirius Orion Black would be doing exactly that. But that soon was not now. For now was the Feast, and at a Feast there was food and in the brain of Sirius Black there were only few things that mattered:
Food 40%
Pranks 30%
How to get Evans to like James 15%
Moony's Furry Little Problem 15%
The following morning, after a night of excessive 'welcome back to school partying', the Marauders minus Remus Lupin arrived late for History of Magic, not that Professor Binns nor the Marauders noticed but what Sirius did notice was the fact that they had managed to grab most of the students attention (the ones who were not asleep atleast) and in particular a certain new student with honey brown hair and warm blue eyes. Ivy Prince stared at him with an unreadable expression on her face. Sirius offered her a charming smile but she looked away. Feeling slightly stung, Sirius huffed and sat down. He could handle rejection, he already had, but to come from a girl to which he was genuinely attracted to.. Right then and right there, Sirius Orion Black made a silent vow to himself. No matter if the sky was falling down, he, Sirius Black, would get to know Ivy Prince better.
The rest of the period passed gloomily with Evans and the Ravenclaws scribbling away while the Marauders and the rest of the Gryffindors made paper planes and chucked them about. Potions with Slughorn hadn't started any better. After a lecture from the professor about OWLS they were assigned to start working on the 'Draught of Peace'. The only improvement was that James had "accidentally" chucked a bit of syruped hellebore at Snivelling Snivellus but he missed and it fell in Avery's cauldron instead, causing the whole room to STINK of rotten eggs. Which in turn caused the class to be cancelled resulting in the majority of the class whooping with glee. James and Sirius skivved Divination while Peter headed off to Muggle Studies and Remus to...whatever he does (too complicated stuff).
Using the 'free period' as an excuse they sat in the Gryffindor Common Room when he saw them...