The Siriusly Little Things

Basic Overview: Companion/sequel to The Little Things. James loves Lily. Lily hates James. James asks Lily out. Lily rejects James. James' heart cracks a little. Sirius picks up the pieces. We all know how it works. But although Sirius appears not to care about Lily, he cares about James. A collection of one-shots featuring Sirius trying to help James win Lily's heart. Pity there's no one around to notice.

Read The Little Things first, please. This story won't really make sense otherwise....

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First Classes

First Year

Sirius Black and James Potter were reminiscing.

Weird, huh?

One would think that they were old and gray (or at least old), the way they were talking about "the good old days."

Actually, it was late October, 1979, and James and Sirius were 19.

"The good old days" referred to the days they were at school, at Hogwarts.

Again, one would think that they were talking about grade school, or preschool even, but no.

They were talking about events that happened when they were between the ages of 11 and 17.

After a couple of hours of remembering and laughing about a good number of their best pranks, an idea came to Sirius.

"Hey, Prongs?"

"Yeah?"

"Remember our first day of school?"

James laughed. "That was a while ago, Pads. What part did you want me to remember?"

Sirius smirked. "The part where Lily beat you in all the classes."

"Hey! She beat you, too! Besides," James drew himself up proudly, "I was top of the class in Transfiguration, remember?"

"Yeah, right."

"I was! I turned my match into a needle in just seven tries!"

"Uh-huh. Sure you did."

"C'mon, you have to remember! I even turned yours into a needle, and Peter's, too!"

"Oh, yeah...I forgot about that, sorry."

"You're forgiven."

Sirius thought for a moment, then his face lit up with glee.

"Hey, didn't you Transfigure Lily's match, too?"

James reddened slightly.

"How did you know about that?"

"Wizard."

"C'mon, Padfoot, really, I thought no one was watching!"

Sirius smirked arrogantly.

"Of course I knew about it, I was the one who threw my needle at Snivellus, remember?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"I distracted the professor and Lily, buying you enough time to Transfigure her match!"

"Oh, yeah...."

As soon as the professor left, James told Sirius to throw his new needle at Severus, and Sirius readily agreed.

Sirius took aim and threw the needle.

A yell of pain and fury told the boys that, to their great delight, the needle had hit its mark.

Unfortunately, Sirius had thrown as the professor was grading Severus, so she saw the needle hit him.

The professor looked around for whoever had thrown the needle, thinking that whoever didn't have their own needle must have thrown it.

However, James was ready for this, and had picked up Peter Pettigrew's burnt-out match lying discarded on the floor, Transfigured it, and handed it to Sirius.

The professor, going off on a hunch, told Sirius off and docked points anyway.

Lily looked around nervously for the professor, to see how much longer she had till she was graded. She was shocked and saddened to see the professor standing mere feet away from her, grading Severus.

She glanced back down at her match.

To her great surprise (and much greater delight), her match was gone.

In its place was a shiny, silver needle.

Lily was awarded full points.

"Hey, wait a second!" cried James, outraged. "You didn't throw the needle to distract anyone, you did it to hurt Snivellus!"

Sirius turned pink.

"Well, intentional or not, I still helped you help Lily!" he argued.

"Whatever. The point is, how do you know I Transfigured her match?"

"I already told you--"

"But you were lying, we just finished discussing this."

"Well," Sirius smirked again, "you were bragging about it to Lily last month."

"EAVESDROPPER!" James roared.

"It's hardly eavesdropping if you're discussing it over dinner."

"YOU WATCHED US EAT DINNER TOGETHER?" James accused. "CREEPER!"

Sirius sighed.

"You invited Remus, Peter, and I to dinner that night. We were discussing the lessons we took during school and you decided to tell Lily that you cheated for her."

James blushed furiously.

"Oh...right."

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