Chapter 1
As the dawn rose on the scenery of Hogwarts you couldn't ask for a more peaceful day. The sun shone brighter that day than any the world had ever seen, it brought a mystery and a beauty far beyond that of any morning that anyone had ever seen. The teachers were slowly rousing at this accursed hour to go to their classrooms and prepare for the day. Lessons were to be taught and they wanted a good impression left on their new students, especially those of higher class families. Many could not appreciate such a morning because of this circumstance, it bothered some but it was a blessing to others. To see such a fine sunrise was to remind them how early it really was and that they had a splitting headache from the alcohol consumption the night before.
It was nearing 5:30 in the morning when James woke up. He yawned a bit; scratching his elbow as the first beams of sun could be seen rising in the distance. He heard a loud growl and looked towards his belly, smiling a bit he patted it waiting for the annoying sound to stop.
"There, there belly, we'll getcha' fed in no time. Just need somebody to come with me." Looking around the room towards the other boys he figured three things, Sirius was not a morning person by his looks, Peter was just too shy to confront, and Remus seemed to be a morning person by how cheerful he was. His best bet was to deal with Remus.
Walking out of his bed and towards the others was a dangerous task, for many discarded and random items laid on the floor and one false move could wake everyone up. James wanted to play a game, one that dealt with him waking up Remus first.
Reaching his destination he stared at the other boy, "Mmmnmn…" The other mumbled incoherently in his sleep.
"Remmy… Remmy wake up!" He whispered while poking the other, other whacked his hand away from his body saying, "Soit tranquille je dors…" Falling back to sleep. James puffed out his cheeks in annoyance, his voice turning to a whiny wheedle, "I don't speak Spanish Remmy…Just wake up!!"
It was at this moment something hard tried to make friends with his head, but sadly to say, it failed… Miserably.
Now James knew only a few things were true in life, one, the ceiling was always supposed to be above you and the only way you ended up laying on the floor without knowing the cause was that something hit you. Turning to see the offending object, or the person to throw the offending object to be precise, he saw a giant, black, angry teddy bear looming down on him from above…no…wait…
'Whew…it's only Stupid…'
"It's five in the freaking MORNING!!!" he screamed.
"Five thirty" James corrected him. Then, with a terrified look on his face, he fled to the other side of the room, using the still-unconscious Peter as a shield from Stupid suddenly lunging for his throat in a bloodthirsty rage.
Then, much like what Stupid did to him, Stupid suddenly fell to the floor unconscious because something resembling a rather large, thick, and VERY HEAVY textbook came flying towards him. No wonder…it WAS a rather large, thick and VERY HEAVY textbook! Fortunately, he didn't really lose consciousness right then, and as he turned around to face the culprit, he found himself facing a person who appeared to be trying to meld a pillow to his own head.
"SHUT UP!!!" Remus yelled. "You two are acting like four year olds!!! You are the most insignificant, paramecium brained, boisterous, ludicrous, preposterous little twits I have ever had the misfortune to meet in my life!!"
They sat there staring at him in a stupor. Stupid, or should we say Sirius, looked over at the boy that, just moments before, he had tried to murder with his bare hands. James leaned closer to his bruised friend.
"Did you understand a single word he just said?" he asked in a whisper.
James blinked and whispered back, "I'm not sure. What does insignificant mean?"
They sat staring at each other, wishing that Remus didn't have to use such big words. After a few moments consultation they looked over at the boy standing across from them who was fuming to the point where they'd swear smoke was coming out of his ears.
"We love you too, Remmy." James said decisively.
Remus groaned.
"What did I do to deserve this?" Remus pondered at the ceiling.
A small rustle sounded through the room as the oblivious Peter awoke from his death like slumber. "Hey guys," he said sleepily, "what's going on?"
"Yay, you're awake!" James beamed at him, "Now we can all go to breakfast!" Remus groaned again, sliding out from under his covers.
Sirius cringed at the loud noise, despite the fact that they had been causing such a ruckus only moments before, "Geez, James. How can you be so cheerful and awake at this ungodly hour?"
James smiled at the others, "Ah, this is nothing. My mum gets me up at four every morning! I slept in today!"
Sirius was astonished that a boy could act like this so early in the morning and get up that early for that matter. "What, were you raised by gypsies?!"
James got a really serious look on his face and glared at Sirius pulling out his wand that seemed to've come out of nowhere, "Don't ever make fun of my mother!"
Remus was now at a loss for words, when he finally grasped what the other had just said he posed his question, "Were you?"
James beamed at his friends interest in his family, "Of course I was! Ever since I was a baby!"
Sirius placed his head in his hands shaking it back and forth, "This explains so much…
James's eyes seemed to sparkle as he looked at the other boys, "So, how about breakfast?!"
All three of the other boys groaned and fell back into their beds. It was only after a lot of begging and pleading (for James to go back to bed), the four boys got up, dressed, and went down to get something to eat.
"Yay, hotcakes here I come!!" James cheered as he led the others down to the Great Hall.
Sirius ran up to where James was, telling him to slow down and wait up for the rest of them. Peter ran up not wanting to feel left out of the group. Remus stayed back looking at his robes, his friends all had really nice black ones, custom made to fit the boys perfectly in every way. His on the other hand… Taking one more look he sighed sadly, the only part of his uniform that wasn't old were the shirts, ties, and pants. The other things were hand-me-downs from when his father went to school. He didn't want any of his friends to see the old robes.
James was the first to notice the skinny blond boy missing from their entourage. Looking behind him he saw Remus stalled looking down at his feet, sorrow clear on his face. James ran back making the other two boys by him look back as well.
Before he knew it, Remus was surrounded by the three boys, all three smiling like there wasn't a care in the world. James's hand was extended towards Remus's, a gesture of friendship as those brown eyes sparkled with life.
"Come on Remmy, we're waiting on you!" Remus's frown turned to a small smile, he was happy to start walking again. James was running down the halls with great excitement as thoughts of his breakfast were running through his head. "Mmm, I hope they have hotcakes! With jam and oh, pumpkin juice would be nice too!" The other three boys trailed behind all of them yawning at the cursed hour. It was now about six o'clock, and the sun was shining through all of the windows brightly making the three boys groan at the sudden burst of light.
By the time the others had caught up to James he was already sitting at the Gryffindor house table in the Great Hall, happily dreaming away about hotcakes. The long oak tables were barren, no food in sight, because breakfast wasn't going to start for another half-hour or so. As the three boys took their seats next to James to get a little more shut eye before other students would filter in, James loudly interrupted their sleep… again.
"Hey, so Remmy what's with the accent?"
Remus was baffled, he had an accent? He didn't even notice, he thought spoke pretty good English and could pass off for an Englishmen himself.
"What do you mean James? And it's Remus."
James shrugged, "Well when I tried to wake you up this morning you spoke Spanish. Are you like part Spanish or something?" Remus and Sirius decided to laugh at the brown haired boy's stupidity.
"It's French you twit!" Sirius said still laughing at the other. Remus nodded in agreement while still chuckling himself. James was baffled… "There's a language called FRENCH?!! Where does it originate?!"
Remus smacked his forehead with the palm of his hand, "You have to be joking!" James laughed at him.
"Of course I am Remmy, I've been to France before. But I've also been to Spain and to me all foreign languages sound the same! But wow, France!"
Remus smiled a bit, "Yes that's right, I'm half French, half English." Sirius was the next to pose a question.
"So why aren't you attending Beauxbâtons?" Remus brought his hand to his chin and thought deeply on the question. After about ten seconds or so of pondering he said.
"Well my dad's an Englishmen and attended this school, and so naturally I would want to attend the same school as him."
"What about your mum? Did she attend Beauxbâtons?" Peter asked. Remus shook his head sadly. "My mother is a muggle."
James and Sirius seemed shocked that someone like Remus would be a "half-blood", he seemed so informed in wizardry as if both of his parents were magical folk.
James was the first to comment on the discovery, "Well, it must've been quite a shock to your mum when your dad told her he was a wizard!" Remus laughed wholeheartedly at the joke and nodded in response.
"She was indeed."
Students started filing in all yawning and talking about how cool their classes were going to be that day. There seemed to be hundreds of students when it couldn't have been more than fifty or so.
Sirius felt a tap on his shoulder and the boys stopped talking to take a look at the almost inhumanly beautiful girl before them. She had long brown hair that was straightened with the exception of a few curls on the ends that gave her an even more girly appearance as she had a green band going across the top of her head. Her eyes were a bright brown, almost like James's, only they were wider and surrounded by a deep green eye shadow with a hint of yellow as well. Her lips were full to the point of a man's fantasy of lips that he'd want to kiss they were a dark cocoa color to complement her eyes and hair. Snake earrings hung from her ears, both of them having a silver color and emerald eyes. Around her neck was the house tie that she belonged to, a silver and green, a patch woven onto her blazer of a snake with red eyes, underneath the crest it read, Slytherin. On top of the tie there was a pendant of a woman that seemed to be chained down to a rock of some sort with a wave crashing against the rock, the rock was a crystal that had a glowing object inside that was just like Sirius's pendant. The pendant on the womans neck read, Andromeda.
"Hello Dromeda, come to pick on me as well?" Sirius asked turning back to his friends with a grouchy face. The girl chuckled a bit and spoke, her voice was like sweet honey.
"No Sirius, I came to congratulate you on making it to Hogwarts." Sirius glared at her and spat back, "That's not what Cissy and Bella said."
Andromeda bit down on her lip and sat down next to Sirius, "Listen Sirius, Bella went home last night and I bet she went and told your parents what happened. Be prepared for anything okay? I'll make sure that nothing bad happens to you this year Siri, I'll look out for you like I always have."
Sirius smirked at her, "Thanks Dromeda… But I think you'll have to do a lot with keeping that witch of a sister away from me." Andromeda chuckled a little bit.
"Just be careful okay? I can't watch out for you all the time… Even if you are a Black you're bound to run into trouble." With that the beautiful girl got up from the Gryffindor table and began walking towards the Slytherin one. James's mouth was wide open.
"Who was that?! She's HOT!!" Sirius laughed a bit.
"You remember those two witches from last night?" The three boys nodded and James gasped, "You don't mean that she's the one with the curly hair?!"
Sirius glared, "No, her name is Andromeda and she's my cousin. She's a seventh year Slytherin."
Remus looked towards the Slytherin table where the beautiful girl was studying a book and smiled, "You do have to agree with James though, she is very pretty."
"And sorry to say but the blond one was pretty good looking too…" James said. Sirius glared at the two of them and yelled, "Stop fantasizing over my cousins! They're demented!"
Soon enough breakfast started and the professors were gathered at the front table. Dumbledore got up and walked to the podium, "Before breakfast begins I have a few announcements, the whomping willow tree on the north east side of the castle is off limits unless you have a death wish. Also Hogsmeade visits will begin on the first weekend of October, and remember third years you need to have parent permission to attend as for first and second years you will be suspended and or expelled if found wandering around Hogsmeade without permission."
The breakfast poured out of nowhere and James instantly dug into the hotcakes like he said he would. Pouring syrup, jams, and getting bacon, ham and eggs onto his plate as well. Remus pulled a little bit of food onto his plate not really feeling hungry. James looked at him and said, "Remmy are you not hungry?"
"No, I just don't feel too good." Remus said a little shakily, eating a little bit he left the rest of the food untouched after a few bites. Hearing a few screeches everyone looked up to see owls pouring in, hearing one of the other students say, "Oh, looks like mails here…" They looked to see if anything was coming. A letter fell infront of Sirius's face and he nearly fell out of his seat. A look of pure terror was over his face as he saw the letter written out,
Sirius Orion Black
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Gryffindor Table.
Sirius looked at the letter and the look of terror was still on his face, he looked so scared that James had to see what it was. At the sight of what it was he too became pale, Remus and Peter didn't get what was going on, "What is it Sirius?"
"A h-howler…" James and Sirius shuddered at the word. There were a few cackles from the Slytherin table and James saw the blond witch again with a few other people as she whispered what the note to Sirius was. The room was still alive with chatter and Sirius felt sick to his stomach.
"I might as well get it over with…"
As soon as the seal was broken a loud screech went though the great hall screaming, "SIRIUS ORION BLACK!!! HOW DARE YOU GET SORTED INTO THAT HOUSE OF MUDBLOODS!!! I have never been so humiliated and ashamed of anyone in my life! You are a disgrace to our family, a BLOOD TRAITOR, shame to my flesh! I should burn that hat for even saying that horrid word! You promised you would get into Slytherin and this is the thanks and promise I get for raising you to who you are now?!! Next time you come home we'll have a long talk about this!! Orion do you have anything to say?!" The note the puffed out smoke into Sirius's face, "I am deeply disappointed in you, boy. This type of behavior had better not rub off on Regulus or you will regret it… See you during Christmas and don't be late, boy."
The note then tore itself to pieces and Sirius's eyes were wide in shock and pain, the every wound was like a stab to his chest and gut. Sirius felt faint and sick after hearing the note, not only did he have to suffer from hearing his parents fury, but the entire school had to hear it. He glared at the note, he wouldn't let them have their way with him. He was going to take it like a man and move on. He wouldn't let his cousins have the satisfaction of what they had done.
"Cissy was right… They did go through with telling my mother." Remus looked at the note, "That was your mother? It sounded like a banshee with a toothache." Sirius began to laugh and kept the tears that were in his eyes held there, he wouldn't cry… He… couldn't cry. Not here, not in front of everyone.
James patted Sirius's back and said, "Well, let's get ready for class okay? That should take your mind off of it."
The four boys got up from the table, James looked around the room to see everyone looking at Sirius in confusion, fear, and like all of this was some funny joke. James glared at them and said, "Well there's your theater now eat your breakfast!" When everyone still had the same faces on, he yelled out, "NOW!!" Everyone then began eating afraid of what the first year boy could do. When he felt like, his mother's rage could show through him.
"Holy cow Sirius, your mom is freaky!" Peter said and Sirius said, "At least you don't need to face her later on." Chuckling with a hint of fear in it he continued, "What I'm terrified about though is my father…" The tears were reforming and Sirius wiped them away with the sleeve of his robe. He stopped and walked towards the window leaning his face against the window.
"My father has never been ashamed of me… Here I am the first day of school and he's already disappointed." His form began to shake and he began to fall to the ground. He kept sniffling and letting out shallow breaths that were all the signs of crying. None of the other boys knew what to do in a situation like this, they were boys! They didn't know all that much about comforting and talking things out… Well apparently one of them did…
Remus leaned down and placed a hand on Sirius's back and began to rub circles around, kind of like a mother would do to a child, "It's okay Sirius. You'll be okay, just let it all out…"
After a while he let out a couple more sniffles and began to speak, "I know I shouldn't be crying but it's just so hard not to…"
Remus was still rubbing circles around the others back and whispering a little bit. "As I said, it'll be okay. We're here for you…" Sirius calmed down and stared at the blond boy for a bit before grinning.
"You're right Remus. I think I'll be okay… Thanks." Remus smiled a bit and helped the other up, "It's no problem."
Remus sighed as he dusted himself off and grabbed his textbooks again the three boys were silent and still as Remus began walking down the halls again heading to their first class. Remus turned back to them and smiled, "Well, aren't you coming?" They three boys hurriedly ran to the other with laughs and smiles on their faces. No traces of crying were left on Sirius's face, it was unflawed once again.
They headed towards the staircases that would lead them under the school and into the cold dungeons. And when we say cold we mean cold, it was so freezing that you could practically see your breath. As they entered, the door screeching with a blood chilling sound, they looked around at the other first year students. The professor inside was a short and plump man that could only be described as a "walrus," his face was chubby and covered with a huge moustache that looked like walrus tusks. His eyes were a gooseberry color and were almost hidden behind the fat cheeks.
As for what he wore it was a classic suit that seemed so large that you could probably fit about four or maybe even five of the students in the classroom into it. The robe was no exception either, it was rather large but still covered the man which was amazing to the boys. Now to let you know, he probably wasn't that fat, but to the eyes of four ten year old boys of course he'd seem that big!
They took their seats next to each other and as all the students filed in and began to sit down the teacher began speaking, his voice was gruff with a slight wheeze in it, "Welcome to Potions, I am Professor Horace Slughorn we should get started right away so we don't waste any time."
Looking around the classroom his eyes fell on Sirius and the Professors became wide. "Sirius Black huh? I never thought I would see the son of Orion in my classroom. You look just like him when he was your age. He was a bright student, sat right next to I believe… Hrm... Oh yeah… He would sit in the Great Hall with your mother Walburga." Sirius glared at the professor as he continued to speak, "Yes, Orion was quite a genius at potions, one of the best students I've ever had. Too bad he took up smoking in his fifth year though… he altogether quit potions in his sixth year to pursue the ways of Divination and Arithmancy. Why he would do such a thing as go into an inaccurate and imprecise way of thinking is beyond me. Then again, I never really understood Orion. I don't think anyone ever has…" Looking around the class he coughed a little bit.
"Oh sorry, I got a little sidetracked from Mr. Black. But as for potions, it is required to have precise and perfect measurements each and every time, otherwise you'll end up making the wrong potion or a complete catastrophe. Now to set you into partners…" He looked at his list of names and began to name some off.
"Alright Black, since you're right there, I want you to be with… Potter." Sirius and James high-fived each other and laughed a little bit as Slughorn looked over the chart and began naming some more students.
After a while he announced the pretty red haired girls name, "Evans, I want you with Prewett." And Peter was paired off with a Ravenclaw girl which left only a couple more names. Remus was one of the last to be named off.
"Snape I want you and Lupin working together." Remus smiled at the Slytherin boy and got up from his seat and moved to sit next to Snape. Sirius and James on the other hand had their mouths wide open at the scene. Here was their best friend sitting next to the boy they deemed their arch nemesis! Now he wasn't their nemesis. He was now their worst enemy.
Remus sat down and smiled at Snape, "How are you today Severus?" Snape nodded his reply and looked through his textbook.
As the lesson ran along James and Sirius were having a little too much fun with 'writing their notes'. "We'll teach him to take our best friend!" James whispered to Sirius and the other cackled in return.
Remus was taking notes like a maniac, writing down every word the teacher said. It was amazing that a boy could write that fast and still hear every word. He was so engrossed with the notes that he didn't even notice the other two boys on the opposite side of the room getting ready to throw a paper creature towards Snape. But as the creature flew out of James's hands and towards Remus's partner, he held his hand up and caught the object without the teacher noticing. James and Sirius looked at each other baffled that Remus knew what was going on. He must've seen them about to throw it that was the only logical explanation.
As the class ended Remus looked at his notes and let out a depressed sigh, "I still don't understand a word he said. My English still isn't that good…" Snape looked at him and began packing his things into his satchel, "You could've fooled me. Although, now that I think about it, you do have a slight French accent." With that Snape began walking towards the back of the classroom where Lily was waiting for him.
Remus walked up there with Snape and smiled at Lily, "Hello Lily how are you today?" Lily blushed a little bit, holding one of her arms with a hand and rubbing it up and down in a shy manner. Her foot was also drawing a pattern on the floor. The blush on her face made her look really cute and girlish.
"F-fine Remus, and how are you?" She finally muttered out, twirling one of her curled red locks around her finger. Remus looked back into the classroom where James and Sirius were still. He then began to respond, "Oh just fine. A little tired and sick but nothing much. What's your next class Severus?"
Lily's face turned to a pout and said, "Sev has History of Magic and we have Defense against the Dark Arts. Well, see ya later Sev, maybe we can meet up later on?" She asked pushing him along, he was a little baffled and angered but silently nodded and began to walk away.
Lily looked towards Remus and smiled once again, "Well should we get going?" Remus looked back in the classroom where Slughorn was holding up Sirius and James talking to them about Sirius's father and a Tom Riddle. Lily looked back there and glared, "What are you waiting for Remus? Those two?"
Remus nodded, "I have a feeling if somebody doesn't escort them to class then they won't go." Lily laughed and said, "I'd believe that. Well, see ya later Remus…"
As they finally got the other boys out of the classroom they began to listen to Sirius and James complain, "Merlin, I didn't think we'd ever get out of there!"
"Yeah I know, I thought he'd keep talking about them all day. As if I need to remember I'm a disgraced child." Sirius spat out. James nodded and looked towards Remus who looked really sick.
"Yo Remmy? Are you feeling okay?" Remus looked at him and nodded with a hand over his mouth, "Yeah… I'll be fine."
As they entered the Defense classroom they saw the teacher was already getting things ready and teaching. Looking up from his desk he glared a bit, "Nice of you to join us boys, but if you hadn't noticed class started about ten minutes ago!"
Sirius glared back at him, "Blame Slughorn not us!"
"Ten points from Gryffindor!" The teacher yelled, "Now take your seats…"
As they sat down, James mumbling something about "No good teacher…", the teacher calmed down. "Alright as I was saying we're going to be learning about disarming spells today. It is one of the easiest and most basic spells that you'll learn so I thought we could get off on a nice start. Now if Mr. Black and Mr. Potter will be so kind as to come up here and demonstrate we can begin." James and Sirius looked at the teacher.
"Why do we have to do it?!" The teacher smirked, "Punishment for being late. Now come on it isn't that hard to learn." They walked to the front of the class room and took out their wands.
"Okay, now the spell we'll be learning today is Expelliarmus. Now can anyone in here please tell the rest of the class what this spell is commonly used for?"
Remus raised his hand into the air and the teacher gladly called on him. "Yes, Mr. Lupin?"
Remus breathed out a little bit and then said, "Expelliarmus is a spell that is used to disarm another wizard, typically by causing the victim's wand to fly out of reach. It can also throw the target backwards when enough power is put into it." The teacher smiled and said. "That is the perfect definition of the spell. Twenty points to Gryffindor." James and Sirius now seemed excited to be casting the spell. Mainly because they'd be putting all their power into the shot to see who could throw the other backwards.
The teacher then said, "Alright now I will also be teaching you about dueling. Alright boys, walk up to each other." They did as they were told and stood face to face, Sirius standing a couple inches taller than James. "Hold your wands up to salute the other." They each held their wands in front of their faces, "Now bring them back down and turn around. Take ten paces and then stop." They lowered their wands and walked ten paces each.
"Alright… Ready… Begin!"
James was the fastest to turn around and he cried out, "Expellamus!" Sirius went flying back and hit the wall rather hard, falling back down and hitting the floor unconscious with his wand still in hand. James stared at the other not knowing what had just happened. Sirius began to stir and got up, "Whoa… That was AWESOME!!! James! Do it again!!"
The teacher quickly walked between them and held up his hands, "No, no, no! That's… quite alright. Bravo James. Please take your seats…" As they took their seats the teacher rubbed his eyes with thumb and index finger.
"Can anyone explain what they saw what was wrong with the spell?" Lily raised her hand and the professor called on her. "Yes, Miss Evans?"
Lily looked at James and Sirius with a stuck-up look. "Well there were a few things wrong with it! For one thing he didn't even disarm Black. He just severely hurt him!"
"AH!" Sirius yelled towards her, "He only severely injured me SLIGHTLY!!!"
Lily rolled her eyes and said, "And for another thing he said it wrong! He said it ex-pell-AH-mus. It's pronounced ex-pell-ee-AR-mus."
The teacher nodded, "That is true, be sure that when you say spells to say them correctly or otherwise you will end up severely injured like Mr. Black."
"I said I'm only SLIGHTLY severely injured!!" He said just before he passed out again.
As they sat in charms they watched the small man get onto his podium. "Okay Class, today as you can see there are feathers in front of you we're going to be learning a spell that goes Wingardium Leviosa. Now to perform this spell it requires a 'swish and flick' movement! Now all of you try it."
Sirius took his wand and spoke. "Wingardium Leviosa." With the 'swish and flick' movement that was described he then began levitating the feather. It was funny at first to watch it and everyone in the classroom watched as well. Professor Flitwick clapped his hands together and said, "Bravo! Now let's get the rest of you to go."
Remus then tried it, "Wingardium Leviosa." And his too was up in the air. James had a little difficulty at first but eventually got the feather up. Peter however couldn't get his up for the life of him.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" Remus chuckled a bit. "It's a swish and flick movement Peter." He said demonstrating the movement. Peter looked at the feather and then his eyes drooped. "I'm no good at this Remus…"
"You just need to keep trying."
" you're supposed to use the SPELL to keep the feather in the air, NOT your breathing!" James pouted and said the spell once more with the movement, resting his face in his hand in a bored like manner.
That night at dinner Remus was looking rather pale, he was holding onto his stomach and shivering so violently it seemed that the table was shaking with him. Sirius stared at him and asked, "You alright there Remus?"
The other just nodded a little. "I'm just not used to the climate here that's all. I'll be better in the morning." James took this opportunity to speak with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and meat, "You should go see Madame Pomfry! She'll get you feeling better in no time!"
Remus shook his head and began eating just a tiny bit. "I'll be fine. I just need to rest a bit, that's all…" The others exchanged glances and then returned to Remus in concern.
Remus excused himself only a few minutes later after touching his food for a while. He hastily ate a roll and smiled at them. "Well, I'm off to do my homework and then to bed. See you later." The boys nodded and then began discussing.
"Do you think he's really ok? He looked really sick to me…" James said, Sirius shrugged and Peter didn't know what to do. James looked over at the door where their friend was exiting and went back to his food. "Cause I've NEVER seen anyone look that sick before."
"That's cause you've lived in the wild your whole life you mangy animal. I've seen my brother look that sick before. He had a fever and that's all. I think that's what Remus has, either that or altitude sickness." James looked worriedly at the door and then back to his plate again not knowing what else to say.
As they finished off their dinner they walked back to the dorm talking about how they wanted to try out for the Quidditch teams this year. "But they hardly EVER let first years in on the teams. The last first year that made it onto the Quidditch team lived nearly a century ago…" James shrugged his shoulders. "Well I'm going to try out anyways. And if I don't make it, big whoop! I'll try out again my second year!"
Sirius laughed and hit James on the back in a friendly manner, "Well then if you're going to try out then I'll try out too!" James beamed at this and hugged him tightly, only to realize that he was hugging another bloke and he quickly let the other go, moving to the other side of the hall with wide eyes. "Yo, I'm sorry about that! I don't know what came over me…"
Sirius was stunned to say the least. The only boy that had ever hugged him was Regulus, and even then they were little children when they did that. Sirius had a look that said 'what-in-Merlin's-name-just-happened', while Peter was exchanging worried glances between the two of them.
When Sirius had not responded to his apology he ran back to him as fast as he could shaking him with all his might, "I'm not a bloody poof Stupid! You HAVE to believe me!!"
Sirius gave off gagging sounds and tried to pry the other off, when that was no use he replied, "Okay, okay, I believe you! Get off! Sheesh," He ended when James finally stopped, "I wasn't even thinking that you were a poof. Gosh, you make a statement when you mean it." Dusting his arms off and straightening his robes he rolled his eyes at the other. "You were just excited that I was going to try out with you, I get it."
James grinned widely and started walking up the stairs with the other two close behind, humming lightly as they headed up the stairs towards the tower. "So, do you think Remmy would want to try out as well? I think he'd make a good Keeper personally."
Sirius shrugged and jerked to the left when the stairs decided to change all of the sudden. "I don't know. He doesn't seem all that interested."
As they entered the dorm room, they saw papers on the desk, most likely Remus's homework, while the poor skinny boy was curled up tightly in his blankets, fast asleep. Poor Remus, they thought.
Sirius was the first to get ready for bed while James was still putting on his pajamas getting tangled up in the sleeves, falling to the floor with a big thud. Sirius and Peter chuckled at this, making sure not to wake up their sick friend.
James walked towards his bed, falling into the unmade sheets, tossing aside the note on his pillow which said:
'ATTENTION ALL HOUSE ELVES,
Please don't make my bed today.
Thank You,
James Potter.'
"Ahh…" he said, rolling over. "They do listen." He snuggled his pillow, letting out a long sigh of relief. Sirius crawled into his perfectly made bed and shook his head disapprovingly at James.
"You're sick, man." He said. James chuckled sleepily. Sirius looked out the window at the stars overhead momentarily eying his star sign. He sighed and gazed at the nearly full moon before drifting off to a fitful slumber.