Chapter 1
I first uploaded this to Wattpad, but I also really like this site so I thought that I would upload it here too. It's my first story, sorry if it's awful.
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*Sirius' POV*
It started out like any other Monday. I went down to the Great Hall for breakfast to find Lily Evans and her best friend, Marlene McKinnon, sitting with Prongs, Moony, and Wormtail. This had become a regular occurrence since about half way through our sixth year, when James had finally stopped obsessing over Lily and quit being such a prat, and Lily had decided that he wasn't all that bad. Since then, they had actually become quite good friends, and we had all begun hanging out together. And although James claimed that he was over her, basically everyone but Lily seemed to be able to see that that was about as far from the truth as you could get. Although, I wasn't completely certain of how Lily felt about James.
"What have we got this morning after Charms again?" I asked as I sat down.
"Double Potions." Replied Marlene.
"You know, you're going to have to learn the timetable eventually." Lily told me with a pointed look.
"Oh give me a break, Evans, we're barely two weeks in." I shot back.
"Just saying." Lily sing-songed in response as she made to get up. "Come on, or we'll be late."
We all made our way to Charms, which moved by quite slowly. We were learning about more complex healing charms today, a topic for which I carried little to no interest for, so I didn't really pay much attention for most of the lesson. Soon the bell rang and we had to head off to Double Potions.
"Ah, good morning class," greeted Professor Slughorn, "this morning we will be brewing Amortient, a much milder form of Amortentia. You see, Amortient will merely make you act as though you are in love with whomever you happen to look at first after drinking it. It generally isn't very dangerous, as one sip will only last for about twenty four hours. Also, it usually doesn't create the obsession that Amortentia does, as well as being much simpler to concoct, which is why we will be brewing it now, before Amortentia, which will be next class. When you are finished, if brewed properly, it should have turned a lovely, sky blue color, as well as the steam rising in spirals similar to Amortentia. Amortient also emits the same smell as Amortentia, different for each person, according to what attracts them. Now, please turn to page 28 of your books, you have until the end of the lesson."
We all began reading the instructions, and talking with our table mates, mine being Marlene. We had gotten much closer since James and Lily had become friends, even working at the same table in Potions, next to James and Lily's.
"Do you think they'll ever do something about it?" Marlene asked me, shaking her head at James and Lily.
"Who?"
"The Irish about Scotland beating them in the Quidditch World Cup. " She deadpanned, the sarcasm practically dripping off of her words. "James and Lily about their feelings, you idiot!"
"Wait, so Lily definitely fancies James, then?"
She looked at me as if I had just told her that the sky is blue and snow is white.
"You know, sometimes I think that you just say stupid things on purpose to be ironic, and then you go and say something like that." She said.
"Hey, I say plenty of smart things!" I tried to defend myself.
"Clearly."
"Anyways, back to James and Lily. She really does fancy him?" I asked, choosing to ignore the previous jabs at my intelligence.
"Of course, can't you tell?" She responded like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I know James fancies Lily because I know James. But how do you know that they fancy each other?" I asked her, genuinely curious how she could read both of them so well.
"How can you not? James looks at Lily like she's the greatest thing since the invention of a broom, and Lily looks at James like she wants nothing more than him, period, end of story. Not to mention they spend at least three quarters of their time together, between lessons, meals, Head duties, plus all the time they spend together when they sneak off to the library or somewhere to hang out or do homework or whatever they claim to be doing. An then there's the fact that they never shut up about the other on any of the rare occasions when they are apart. Plus, have you seen either of them so much as look at anyone else since they've become friends, as well as how no one else is going after either of them since everyone knows that it's only a matter of time before they get together, especially since it's really only a case of when one will pluck up the courage to kiss the other. Really, you have to wonder how in the world you DIDN'T know, as opposed to how I did." She explained, stirring her potion as directed. "In fact, I bet you that they even smell each other in their potions."
I wondered to myself how in the world I had been so clueless, and how much thought Marlene had put into her theory. I mean, honestly, was I really the only one who couldn't see it (Apart from James and Lily, of course).
"Well, when you put it like that," I conceded, "still, not too much concrete proof."
"Oh I'm sorry, what more could you possibly need?!"
"I don't know! Why don't you just slip them some Amortient!" I joked as I added the final ingredients to my potion.
Now, I had always gotten along with Marlene fairly well. But I had never truly realized how truly calculating she could really be. Until then, of course.
She got a look on her face. I couldn't quite explain it, but it had determination, mischief, and pure deviousness written all over it. And what made it all the more worse is that we had both just made it to the last step of our potion.
Now, I am normally all for pranks. I mean, I practically lived for them. But this, to me, would be crossing a line.
"Marlene, no. OK, this is not like giving them something that will make their ears turn green or make them sound like they drank a gallon of helium. These are James and Lily's feelings, which really, REALLY should not be messed with right now, if they are trying to figure out exactly how they feel about each other." I tried to talk her out of what I was almost certain that she was planning.
"Sirius, will you relax, it's not like I'm giving them Amortentia, Amortient will only make them act like they're in love with each other for a day. Anyways, if I'm right, then they may not even react." She attempted to persuade me.
"And if they do?"
"It's Friday, they have the whole weekend to get over it." She replied.
"I don't think that this is something that just a weekend can fix. A decade, maybe, but definitely not a weekend." I tried again to convince her, although I knew that it was too late. She was already sneaking a vile of her potion into her bag, before handing another into Slughorn, who promptly vanished the rest of her potion.
"Don't take part in it, fine. But don't tell anyone either." She told me, a murderous look in her eyes.
"I don't know if I'll tell anyone." I replied, trying to make her believe that I wasn't scared of her, when in reality, I was about ninety eight percent sure that she would put me in the hospital wing if I so much as thought of saying anything to anyone about her little plan.
"Honestly, I'm simply proving a point." She sighed, clearly beginning to get bored with this conversation. "We all know that they're already practically dating, I mean they spend nearly every waking moment with each other."
"Are we sure that they're not just sneaking off to shack up in some broom closet when they're supposedly making rounds?" I joked.
"Honestly, I've thought about it."
"Oh for the love of-" The bell cut me off.
"Time for lunch." Marlene said brightly.
"Oh boy."
*Remus' POV*
I was already chatting with Peter about that morning's lessons while eating our lunch at the Gryffindor table when Marlene and Sirius came up, arguing about something.
" You can't do this Marlene, Lily and James will kill you when they find out, not to mention it's really, really wrong. And that's coming from me, the guy that hid McGonagall's glasses in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom last year." Sirius appeared to be trying to convince Marlene of something, though I wasn't sure of what.
"If they find out, OK, if, which they won't, so will you relax already, it'll wear off, and it's not like anyone's getting hurt." Marlene seemed a bit exasperated with Sirius, like she'd been saying the same thing over and over again.
"Maybe not physically, but as for their emotions and mentality, well..." Sirius fired back.
"Why will Lily and James kill you and what'll wear off?" I asked, curious as to what they were rowing about.
Marlene and Sirius looked at each other, then back at Peter and I, then back at each other, before Marlene sighed and made a gesture that seemed to be meant to say, Oh, go ahead.
"Marlene swiped some of her Amortient when Slughorn wasn't looking, and is now planning to drug Lily and James with it. Now will you please tell her that she's mad so we can all just move on with our lives?" Sirius explained.
"I agree with Sirius, I think you could get into way too much trouble, assuming you survive if Lily finds out." Peter agreed with him.
"Thank you Peter, but you know that you forgot James." Sirius replied.
"Right, like James will have even figured out what's going on before Lily has sent Marlene's corpse to go and live with the giant squid." Peter scoffed.
"Erm, well thank you for that very, um, graphic interpretation of the situation Wormtail, although I do believe we have yet to hear Moony's thoughts on this particular matter." Sirius said, turning to me.
I took a moment to ponder the situation for a moment, before letting a wide grin spread across my face. "I think it's bloody brilliant!" I exclaimed. Marlene beamed at me, and before Sirius could protest, as he seemed poised to do at any second, I quickly told her, "Quickly now, put it into their pumpkin juice, they're headed this way."
Marlene didn't need to be told twice. She emptied half a vile of a sky blue liquid I was assuming was the potion she had stolen (Kept? I'm not sure, considering it was, in fact, her potion.) into each of their cups just as they were walking towards us.
"Merlin, you really are moony." Sirius muttered to me under his breath as Lily and James sat down.
Lily and James greeted us, and before Sirius or Peter could stop them, they each drank their pumpkin juice while conversing with each other about the Transfiguration homework, as though nothing had happened, while Sirius and Peter gawked at them, and Marlene and I just shared a knowing look. I could definitely see what Marlene was talking about. Maybe it was just that we had gotten used to it, or that I was just now truly paying attention, but the way Lily was giggling at James' stupid jokes, or how James was looking at Lily, I could just see it so much more clearly now. You could see it in their eyes how in love they were, it was almost nauseating.
Lily noticed the looks we were giving them first. As if she felt our gazes, she turned to us. "What?" She asked us, confused.
Sirius and Peter continued to stare at the two of them in disbelief, and Marlene and I just burst into laughter. "Nothing. Nothing at all." I managed to choke out.
"You're all mad, you know." James said, shaking his head at us, before he and Lily went back to their conversation.
Once we were all finished with lunch, we headed back to the common room for our free period before Transfiguration. Lily and James went off in a different direction, saying something about having some meeting with McGonagall about their Head duties, or something like that.
Finally, Marlene spoke once we were all sitting on the overstuffed couches and chairs around the fire in the common room, trying to avoid the mountain of homework we all had, despite only being back a couple of weeks. Once we were all settled, she turned to Sirius and said quite triumphantly, "I told you so."
"No, the potion must not have been mixed properly. Nothing changed." He replied, quite obviously confused, whether or not he was willing to admit it.
Marlene and I both snickered, while Peter and Sirius just looked confused. "Slughorn told me that I did the potion perfectly when I handed it in, that it was quite possibly my best work yet." Marlene told him. I vaguely wondered if she put so much effort into her Amortient purely so that she could properly execute this little 'experiment'.
"But you heard Padfoot, nothing changed." Peter chimed in.
Marlene turned to me. "They still don't get it." She smiled, while shaking her head, the cheerful tinkling of a laugh lacing her voice.
"Get what? Nothing changed." Sirius repeated.
I grinned back at her, and turned to Padfoot and Wormtail to explain it to them. "You're both right," I told them, and as I said it, I saw a look of realization dawn on their faces, "but you see, that's just it. They both drank a perfectly brewed potion that was meant to make them act as though they were in love with each other, and nothing changed."
So that's the first chapter of my first story. Hope you liked it!