I was suprised to find out that that day was going to be the first Hogsmeade's visit right after school. It was an unexpected pleasent suprise. I had lost track of things, and everyone was excited. I asked why and both Remus and Lily looked at me in an odd way that said I was clearly behind. We got to class on time, actually well before the class started. And we were even more suprised to see James and Sirius sitting on two tables talking and laughing.
"So, if it isn't Mr. BigShot and Mr. Quiddich Man! Thanks for showing up, but we won't be needing you today. Or come to think of it, we won't need Sirius EVER." I joked and sneered at Sirius.
"Oh, babe, you'll need me before you know it." Sirius said, wiggling his eyebrows.
"That's sick." I spat.
"Sure it is." Sirius laughed. I rolled my eyes and picked a seat in the middle of the class. Remus sat down next to me, James next to him, and Lily sat next to him, leaving Sirius to sit on my other side. I wasn't happy with this seating arrangement but didn't want to be away from the only people I knew. When Mcgonagall walked in, we were still the only ones in there.
"Oh! My dear! What have were here?" She asked, eyeing us suspiciously. "Wait, is that really Black and Potter in my class on time?"
"Yes ma'am, even we were suprised." I laughed at her amazed look.
"Oh, hello Miss Warring, I forgot you were in my class first hour." The professor looked at me approvingly. "But I can't help to ask why you've acquainted yourself with a two of the biggest troublemakers at Hogwarts? I can uderstand Mr. Lupin and Miss Evans, but Mr. Potter and Mr. Black?"
We all five laughed and smiled until the whole class filled up. Then among much of the talk and banter, Professor Mcgonagall stood up. The room got fairly quiet then, and we started into class. I had done this exercise before at my old school. It was turning a teacup into a rabbit. Lily and I were the first to get it, James, Sirius, and Remus never did. They were goofing off and being lazy. I knew Remus could have if he tried, but he didn't.
"Alright, class, now focus!" Mcgonagall reminded us. "You need to becomeone with the-"
"RABBIT!" Lily and I squealed at the same time.
"Yes, with the rabbit-"
"No, professor, we made a rabbit!" I said happily. Mine was a light grey while Lily's was a deep black, and she had even made it have green eyes.
"Very well done, girls! Take ten points each for Gryffindor and five for the eye color of Miss Evans'." The professor chortled. I smiled at Lily and she beamed with pride. We looked down the row at the boys to see they had all either broken their teacups or turned them into a teacup with a tail.

The next classes throughtout the day weren't nearly as fun as the first. Many of the teachers made us play one of those name games or some other useless thing. So we went through our classes all happy and feeling very free. We met up for lunch and a free period and then back to classes. This was a very relaxed school and I figured I would like it a lot. So when I had a class with only Remus for my last one, I was glad we could talk without interuptions.
"Why didn't you try harder in Transfiguration?" I asked in Charms. We were practicing cheering charms, a brush up task.
"Ah, I've done that a million times. It's a sort of bore now." I tried to do the charm on Remus, but I couldn't find the energy.
"I can't do it...you try." I smiled. He flicked his wand at my face and I instantly felt tingly and happy and like I could do anything I wanted. A wide grin plastered my face and Remus laughed happily.
"Wow, you're good at that!" I grinned.
"Thanks. Your turn!" Remus said, wiping the smile of his face and sat very still in his seat. I could do this, I could do this. I flicked my wand at his face and his mouth widened into a grin too. The class ended right then and Professor Flitwick said something about a choir practice. "Choir?" I asked Remus.
"Yes, Professor Flitwick is the choir teacher, as well. None of us do it though, we don't sing. Do you?" He said this all very fast and excited, for he was a very happy person at the moment.
"I like to, yeah!" I said, flipping my hair behind my shoulder and out of my face.
"Sing something for me!" Remus pleaded.
"No, no, not right this second, how about later?" I said.
"If we hurry, we could get Sirius, James, and Lily and we could go to the secret room." Remus whispered in my ear.
"Sure!" I smiled, giggling. We set off in search of the three. We found Lily and James first, walking down a deserted corridor. That was odd, I thought.
"Lily Evans!" I called. She turned wildly. She saw me and grinned with relief. "Hey, you guys!" James laughed, smiling at us. He wiggled his eyebrows at Remus, Remus rolled his eyes and shook his head. We decided to let Lily and James do whatever they were doing before and go ourselves. We got into the room and shut the portrait behind us. "Well?" Remus said, smiling. The cheering charms had worn off, but Remus smiled anyway. I took a deep breath.
"Remus, I've never sang for anyone." I said, staring at the floor.
"Ok, well, I can be the first!" Remus smiled.
"Ok...are you sure?" I asked him.
"Yeah, why not?" He smiled.
I sighed. I took in a deep breath and.
"We get it on most every night When that old moon gets so big and bright It's a supernatural delight Everybody was dancin' in the moonlight Everybody here is out of sight They don't bark, and they don't bite They keep things loose, they keep things light Everybody was dancin' in the moonlight."

I cut the song short, and stared at Remus's face. He didn't say anything, which I guessed was good. His mouth was a little "o" and I couldn't understand why.
"That bad, huh?" I asked, blushing.
"Maddie..." Remus started, looking purely shocked.
"I'm sorry, Remus, I told you, I've never sang for anyone before and I'm really nervous and you're right there and I love that song and I'm sorry it must have been awful, but you asked me to so I did and-"
"Maddie, that was amazing." Remus stopped me mid-speech.
"What?" I asked, thinking I must have heard him wrong.
"That was...beyond amazing. That was spectacular." He said, grinning so wide I thought his mouth would shatter.
"You liked it?" I asked, blushing. "You really like it?"
"You should join the choir!" Remus thought. "You'd be amazing!"
"Oh...I don't know..." I said hesitantly.
"Well, why don't you think about it? But for right now, James, Lily, and Sirius are probably looking for us." Remus laughed.
"Yeah...wait, why would they be looking for us?" I asked, feeling a bit slow.
"The Quiddich practice. Remember? They're going to teach you, Lily, and me to fly."
"Oh! Right! We'd better get going then, they probably-" I started, grabbing my bag from off of a chair.

"After I ask you something, though." Remus said, grabbing my arm as I swung the bag on my shoulder, causing me to hit myself with the bag. "What?" I asked, rubbing the back of my head.
"What's your impression of our little group so far?" Remus asked me honestly, leaning against another chair.
"Well...I think Lily's wonderful. She's kind and sweet and pretty and she seems to really lke me."
"She's glad to have another girl. She doesn't have many girl friends." Remus laughed.
"And Peter doesn't really have any impression on me."
"Good. He's not the most interesting person in our little group."
"James is really just a big bully, but he's a lovable bully. I can't understand why Lily likes him; he acts like a big important person when really he's just like the rest of us. And he thinks So I guess I don't really know how to feel yet." I said, biting my lip as I spoke.
"James isn't so bad! He's really a good guy."
"And Sirius is a...he's so...ugh, I can't even find the worst word possible. He's awful, he's terrible, thinking he's all cool and smart and handsome, and he's a stuck up little-"
"You know, I'm really starting to like you, Maddie Warring. You might be the first girl to ever say that about him." Remus laughed.
"What do you mean?" I asked curiously.
"Well, everyone thinks James is a big Quiddich star and the Sirius is his super handsome best friend. And that Lily is kind and a nerd. And that Peter is a dork." Remus added laughing. I just stared at him.
"Girls think Sirius is....what?" I was confused.
"Well...they think Sirius is...well, sexy." Remus shrugged.
"Oh, that's disgusting." I faked barfing.
"Ha, yeah that's what we all say." He laughed.
"Wow...oh, I think you're nice. You may be the nicest one of the group. You have my trust so far...don't screw it up." I smiled at him and pointed my finger at him. And then we grabbed our bags and started for the common room.

It was a warm Monday afternoon, about 4:00. And I was spending it sprinting down the long halls toward our common room with one of my best friends. Remus and I ran faster and faster toward the Gryffindor common room, trying to push ourselves to beat the other. Remus won, but only because I wasn't watching where I was going and ran into an open door. I was fine and he checked, but then took off a hundred paces ahead of me. We laughed and laughed all the way down the halls. We finally came to a halt in front of the portrait and Sirius was lounging outside, checking his wristwatch. "Hey, there you guys are. What took you so long?" He smiled. "Ooh, Moony, did you get some action?"
"Ha Ha Ha No. Not funny." I said, pushing past him to get into the common room. Sirius grabbed my bag and spun me around. "James and Evans are down at the pitch, waiting for us. So bring your bags and come with." Sirius said, leading us down the hall. I pulled my bag out of his firm grip.
"Don't we have Hogsmeade today?" I asked them.
"At six. It's only four." Sirius informed me.
"Wow, Padfoot, I'm suprised you knew that." Remus laughed.
"Well, Moony, the only thing I like better than Quidditch is girls and butterbeer." Sirius laughed. He glanced at me.
"And girls who don't know about Hogsmeade." Remus laughed, catching his glance.
"And the only thing I like is being with friends and not big-heads." I reminded them. We took several turns down the halls and walked out the big front doors. Kids roamed the field in front of the castle and laughed and played. We started down the big steps. Then something flew at us, a piece of paper that been bewitched to fly at us. I ducked and it hit Sirius in the head.
"Ow! What the bloody..." He said, picking up the note. He unfolded it, "'Stay away from her.'"
"What?" I asked, reaching for the note. It read in slanted hand writing exactly what Sirius had said. 'Stay away from her'
"I don't understand." Sirius said.
"Me neither." I said, flipping the note over, checking to see if anything else was on the paper. There was. "The other side says...'or else.'" I looked at Remus.
"Well, it's probably nothing. Just a joke." Remus said, pocketing the piece of paper.
"SNIVELLUS." Sirius said angrily.
"Sirius, there's no need to be blaming people." I told him.
"He's a little-"
"Sirius. The Quidditch pitch." Remus said, taking his arm and leading us away again. We walked in silence, everyone thinking about the same thing. What had the note meant?

"Hey, took you long enough!" James yelled from up in the sky. He was zooming around on his broom, laughing happily to be back on the pitch. "Where's Lily?" I called.
"Up here!" Lily called, waving from the highest stand. "By the way, Maddie, we were going to go to Hogsmeade together, us five. You want to come?" Remus invited me, smiling.
"Yeah, I'd love to!" I smiled.
"Yeah, and then we can teach you all about it. And me." Sirius said, wiggling his eyebrows. I sighed.
"Nasty, nasty, nasty. Are you ever going to give up?" I shot at him.
"Probably not." Sirius shrugged. We walked into the pitch just then, and the sight of the place made me smile. It was huge. It could easily fit everyone into it, teachers and kids. James flew around far above our heads. Lily was taking the stairs down two at a time to meet us. I looked at Remus, and he looked at me and we smiled at each other.
"Do you fly?" I asked him.
"Not at all." He replied, laughing.
"Hey!" Lily greeted us, running, out of breath. "James wanted me to get this for you." She said, pushing a broomstick into my hands.
"For me?" I repeated, looking at the broom.
"Yeah! Let's see how the princess flies!" Sirius laughed. "Accio broomstick!" He yelled to the open sky. A second later, his broom was zooming toward us fromt he castle. He grabbed it, hopped on, and took off, whooping, into the sky. A woman came out onto the field.

"I see we have our two best players back!" She yelled up at the boys. She was short and plump, with glasses. She looked over at us three standing on the field. "Ah, Miss Evans, it's good to see you back! And Mr. Lupin! And who do we have here?" She asked, eyeing me.
"Maddie Brady," I introduced myself. "I'm new."
"And do you fly?" She asked me, pointing to the broom in my hands.
"Oh, I've never tried. But James Potter got me this. He wanted to try me out." I informed her.
"Potter is the captain of the Gryffindor Quitdditch Team. If he wants to try you out, I'm not one to stand in his way." She smiled. "I'm Madam Hooch."
"Thank you, Madam." Remus told her, smiling.
"Not at all. Now, I'm going back into my office. Don't try to kill each other." She advised us.
"Waaaaaaiiiiittttt!" Sirius yelled, zooming to a sudden halt in front of Madam Hooch. "Where are our balls?"
"I'll go get them." She walked off the feild, smiling to herself. We all laughed.
"What?" Sirius asked, smiling as if he knew exactly what. Hooch reappeared a moment later with a large case. She dropped it in front of Sirius.
"Here are your balls. Don't get anyone...hurt." She wagged a finger at him and went off the field again. Sirius turned to me.
"Alright Princess, let's see how you fly."