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I do not own the song How to save a life, by The Fray either.

Chapter 6: From The Frying Pan Into The Fire

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life.

-The Frey

During the past month Lily had become much better friends with Hermione. Their friendship had blossomed, out of annoyance towards James and Sirius, and fellow minds. After all, birds of a feather flock together. Wasn't that a saying, Lily wondered, silently. Perhaps that was why she and Severus had been so good friends too, she wondered for a moment, before discarding the idea. The reason she and Severus had been friends was the fact that it was he who told her that she was a witch. It was out of gratitude, she commanded her brain. Perhaps she would believe it one day too.

Lily had seen Hermione and Remus sneaking around a few times, and part of her was wondering if they were involved, but Remus would never do that, she reminded herself. Not without Hermione knowing and accepting his status, and Lily knew for a fact that Remus hadn't told her. He and she had in fact spent the better part of last night discussing weather to tell her or not. They had decided against it in the end, not because they thought she wasn't trustworthy, but because James and Sirius would bother Remus about it.

This particular day had started out as any other day. She had woken from a deep slumber at the same time the sun did. Hermione had been up before she was, so when Lily finally managed to rise from her bed, Hermione was already done in the bathroom, fully clothed, and sitting on her bed, reading a book with more pages than their whole chorus together. Lily had to smile to herself. Hermione and Remus were really alike, and she found herself wondering, if things had been different for Remus, perhaps he would have made a move towards her. In Lily's opinion, he should make one anyway. Hermione didn't seem like the kind of girl to judge based on things people had no control over either.

After going to the bathroom, and getting dressed, she and Hermione ventured downstairs to the Great Hall for breakfast. Not surprisingly, they were some of the first to arrive. A few other students were scattered around the room, however, none of them looked up when they entered, either to tired or to engrossed in the conversation they were having, or book they were reading. The girls silently walked over to the Gryffindor table, and sat down, both silently wondering what Potions class with the Slytherins would result in today. It never ended well, they were used to that by now. They had worked out a good method by now. Lily worked with Hermione, Remus with Peter, and James with Sirius. When they first had started, Lily had been thankful that she didn't have to work with Snape anymore. She was still thankful.

Their way down to the dungeons was done with some quiet small talk, none of them really concentrating on what they were discussing. The boys had yet to join them, but Hermione and Lily both enjoyed the silent friendship between two very much alike girls.

Remus groaned. He just knew that this was going to end badly. There was no bloody way it wouldn't, and he knew it. Sirius and James decided that he was wrong, however, and he just knew that it was going to end badly. He wanted to smack his head in the brick wall in front of him, or better yet, he could smack their stupid heads. Why, moaned he silently, couldn't they just take his word for it? It was going to end really bad. Really really bad.

The idea was simple. Make some of the Slytherins sick, so that Gryffindor would have more students in potion class than the Slytherins would have. The idea was simple; smart even. The way they were going to perform their planned action, however…

When the four boys arrived at the potions dungeon, only Hermione, Lily, and Snape were seated inside.

Lily and Hermione did not look up when they entered, too engrossed in the conversation they were having. Remus could hear most of it, but he tuned it out, not wanting to do something that would upset either or both of them.

As several other students started entering the room, Remus noticed that the girls had stopped talking, and were both focused on reading something from a book laid on the table before them. He could see Hermione's curly hair bouncing all over the place as she showed Lily something, presumably something from the book.

The next thing he noticed was that a few slytherins students already had started leaving the classroom. Remus wondered how James and Sirius were going to explain this when they were caught. A few minutes late, a slightly red Slughorn tumbled in, his breath smelling of butter beer. Remus found himself wondering if James and Sirius had gotten him drunk. It would definitely be something that they could have done.

It was about half an hour into the first hour of class that the thing happened. In the future, it would be known as the time Hermione Granger went raving mad at Sirius Black, and James Potter went mad at Sirius Black too. For most people, it wasn't a pleasurable moment, although, enjoying for some.

Remus had known that Sirius really only chased after Snape. He didn't actually think that he would do something that could harm him in the long run, that's why he hadn't stepped in sooner, the future him would tell himself. Remus didn't think Sirius actually meant the thing either. No, scratch that. Remus knew that Sirius and James didn't mean to, it just… happened.

At the very moment that Sirius uttered the silent spell, that was meant for Severus only, someone got in the way. Because at that moment, Lily Evans stood up to fetch some more ingredients from the cabinet. She hunched over at once, her arms cradling her body as she fell to the ground. Hermione was right next to her with a blink of the eye, and Remus right after.

Meanwhile, Slughorn had managed to stand up, wondering what all the noise was, and Severus had managed to see that the spell that had been hit, because they all saw the magic hit her, in his direction. No one would be stupid enough to hit the Head Girl with a hex on purpose, after all. The next thing that happened, however, did neither Severus nor Remus expect. With a sudden swift of her cloak, Hermione pointed her wand at Sirius.

"McGonagall's office, now." She said, her voice low, but everyone in the room knew that if he didn't do as she said, there would be consequences. When Sirius started to protest, Remus dragged himself out after him. Severus was left at his desk, mouth wide open in shock as Sirius was dragged out of the room by one of his best friends, while Potter, after Hermione had ordered him to, took Lily to the Hospital wing with a fumbling Slughorn following closely.

Hermione turned towards Severus as the rest of the rooms inhabitants left. "Looks like you might need to pair up with me in potions in the future," she said. Than she left, and Severus sat, gawking, at the same place he had been sitting when the spell was shot.

A/N:

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