The 6 days has been exhausting, Sirius and Marley aren't speaking, Cadence and Sirius aren't speaking, Alice is on Cadences' side and I am in the middle of everything and it is the same with James, he is in the middle of everything but Remus is also in the middle of it, Peter isn't involving himself but he is on Sirius' side, you can tell by the way he has been acting, he is up Sirius' ass, but on the bright side me and James are beginning to get close, we are spending more time together to get away from everything and Remus is spending some time with Marley to try and get her to speak to Sirius and Cadence, I do what thinks to be back to normal and I'm hoping this trip is going to do it, the camping trip is on today, we just have to get through another day of classes and hopefully when we get back everything will be back to the way it was before all of this happened.

I was waiting in the Common Room for someone to come down because no way was I walking to Potions on my own, Professor Slughorn always tries to form a conversation with me and it is always effort to do that early on a Friday morning when I have double Potions ahead of me and then double Transfiguration followed by Care of Magical Creatures. Soon enough Remus came down the stairs with James, me and James being friends is working out well and it was for the best, things are a lot easier now that we aren't constantly arguing with one another, now I can actually study for my N.E.W.T's in the Common Room without being harassed and the end of year test but I don't really have to revise for that since most of the stuff was on my O.W.L's and the rest of the stuff that should be on it I know or will know by the end of the year thanks to the classes I attend. We walked to the dungeons to the Potions classroom and we walked in. A few minutes after our arrival class started.

"Okay today class we are going to be learning how to brew a successful Draught of Living Death, if you will turn to page 100 it tells you what you have to do and if you succeed in making this you can then produce Felix Felicis, which is more commonly knows as Liquid Luck which is on page 74 but before you brew the second potion have me check the first one to make sure it is right, if you manage to brew these particular potions correctly they are yours to keep but be aware, they are very dangerous, even though the Draught of Living Death is a sleeping potion it could easily kill you and Liquid Luck could give you too much luck and cause an unimaginable situation." He explained.

I got up out of my seat and got all the ingredients and then sat back down to get started. I opened my book up onto page 100 and started on my potion. "Cut up the Sopophorous bean" it read in the book. I grabbed the knife that I got at the start of the lesson and began to cut away at the bean that was mentioned. It kept moving and slipping everywhere but I eventually got it cut up into 3 small pieces. I pushed the beans to the side and I got my beaker and used the Aguamenti Spell to put 250 oz of water into a beaker and then I got 5 oz of African sea salt and then added that to the beaker too as well as putting the Sopophorous bean piece by piece. I set the beaker aside but I was careful not to shake it because then I will have to re-do it. "Leave the water and salt to rest for five minutes". I did what the book said and then 5 minutes later I slowly poured all the water into the cauldron. 40 minutes later I was doing the final touches to my potion. I added one small piece of Valerian root and my potion turned a pale pink colour, proving my potion is now complete.

"Professor Slughorn." I called to him.

He came over to me.

"I think my potion is done." I told him.

He eyed my potion up for a few minutes and then turned to me with a face as bright as the sun.

"Yet again you seize to amaze me, it's perfect and you are the first in the class to achieve this greatness and therefore this potion is yours to keep, use it well." He said.

He went away with my potion and I started just as the bell went signalling the end of the first lesson, to me that went fast but by the look on Remus' face he didn't, he was only just half way through his potion and to my surprise James was almost finished.

"I didn't know you we're good at Potions." I told James.

"I always have been I just never really worked because Sirius was always asking me what to do and I never got round to doing mine but Marley being the amazing girl she is showed him how it works and now I don't have him in my ear hole all the time and I can actually work." He told me.

"Speaking of Sirius, where is he, on his timetable it says he should be here with us." I said.

"Sirius was refusing to go to Potions this morning because he wanted to talk to Marley." Remus said.

That's a typical Sirius Black for you, always cutting class for reasons that aren't necessary at that moment of time, he could talk to her after school or on the camping trip

"What about Marley, where is she?" James asked.

"She was crying this morning and I said I would cover for her." I said.

The rest of the lesson we spoke about the camping trip and Marley and Sirius whiles we all brewed our potions. I ended up finishing both of my potions, as did James which shocked me but Remus only managed to finish his first and he did a bit of the second but the bell soon went and then off we went to Transfigurations class with Professor McGonagall. That lesson was terrible, I wasn't bad at Transfiguration in fact I got praised far too much in it, but on the bright side Marley showed up and she said that she wasn't feeling to well this morning and for once since I've known her Professor McGonagall actually let it slide but then again Marley is a good kid, sometimes but always in this lessons because she is an expert in this, it's like me in Potions. I was surprised to see that Sirius passed Transfiguration and James, they were never very good at this but they just skimmed their Transfigurations O.W.L's, Peter failed this, Remus passed with flying colours, Cadence just got in to this class and Alice got in as well but Cadence, Alice and Sirius had it the last 2 lessons and now they had Potions but we all have Care of Magical Creatures together in the last lesson which works out well because then we can all walk to the Common Room together and then go and pack for the trip. I think this is going to be fun, I will get a bit emotional because the only times I went camping used to be with my parents and now that they are gone I can't do that any more so I may spill a few tears but I'm determined to make this trip amazing. In this lessons we were working on Human Transfiguration, basically a human being able to turn into another form like a chair or something. It wasn't a practical lessons which James moaned about a lot but I just smacked him on the back of the head and he shut up. Care of Magical Creatures was absolutely awful, I don't know why I chose it, we were learning about Fire Crabs. That is a large, turtle-like crab that has six legs and a heavily jewelled shell with different colours and it defends itself by shooting fire out of the rear end when it is attacked; they really aren't interesting but Professor Kettleburn was nice and I wouldn't go to his lesson and not get involved in what he was teaching - like Sirius and James did - I think it's too rude.

An hour after the lessons finished I was clipping up my trunk, I had just finished packing my clothes for the camping trip, this weekend was going to be a non-study weekend, apart from when I get back I need to finish my 4 foot long Potions essay. I am nearly finished I only have to do like another quarter of a foot, that will only take about half an hour which is good. Today's study lessons with Jamie has been cancelled since when we have it scheduled I will be at the camp site. Now that I think about the camp site I don't even know how we are getting there, I would think it will be by a portkey.

I went down to the Common Room and James, Sirius, Peter and Alice we're waiting for me there. I heaved my trunk down the stairs.

"Where is Remus, Cadence and Marley." I asked.

Sirius flinched at Marley's name but I ignored him.

"There already in the hall." Alice said.

Remus has been going with Cadence everywhere recently, they were getting closer and Marley has been sitting in the Library all the time to try and dodge Sirius, I feel really sorry for her, she didn't ask for any of this and it has been wedged upon her. We walked to the hall and when we arrived Professor McGonagall had a large piece of parchment in her hand.

"Miss Evans since you are one of my best students you will be sharing at tent with Mr Potter, Mr Black, Mr Pettigrew, Miss Prewett, Mr Lupin, Miss Johnson and Cadence Trellay since over the last few weeks I have seen you become very close to each other and I know you will be sensible." She told me.

"Thank you Professor." I said trying to be polite.

Obviously she hasn't been looking at us the last week or she wouldn't in her right mind put us all in a tent. This is going to be bad.