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The four newest Gryffindor males had seated themselves in their first lesson of the day, Charms. James and Sirius on the back bench and Remus and Peter on the one in front. The five new girls had settled themselves nearer the front. Marlene and Alice sat in front of Remus and Peter, Lily and Severus in front of them, with Dorcas and Mary at the other side of the room.
"Oh great, look who's right at the front." muttered James, his eyes flashing at Severus and Lily.
"Ginger and Greasy." Sirius muttered back with malice.
"His hair is very greasy, isn't it?" noted Peter.
"Yeah. It's disgusting." replied Sirius, but he couldn't add anything else as their professor had entered the room. He was a small man with crazy black hair and a happy smile.
"Good Morning first years." he chirped happily. "I'm Professor Flitwick and I will be your Charms teacher throughout your time here at Hogwarts. Now, today were are going to start your learning in Charms with a very simple but useful spell, but first I am going to take a register."
He took his register, and taught the students the basics of a spell called "Wingardium Leviosa".
"Wingardium Leviosa." muttered James, for what seemed the millionth time, when in fact it was only the fifth. He groaned as the feather stayed completely stationary. He was not the only one that was struggling with the spell, everyone in the class was. To be fair, it was only to be expected, it was only their first day.
"How're you doing?" James asked Sirius, who was currently studying his feather intently.
"I'm trying to see if this feather has magically glued itself to the desk."
"Ooh, look everyone!" squeaked Professor Flitwick, interuppting whatever James was going to say next. He was currently pointing to the feather that was floating in front of Lily Evans's face. "Ms. Evans here has completely conquered the spell."
Lily smiled at her Professor.
"Ten points to Gryffindor!"
Some of the other Slytherins in the room groaned quietly, while the Gryffindor's perked up. All of them, that is, apart from James and Sirius, who glared at the back of Lily's head, who was currently sharing her newfound happiness with Severus who was sat next to her.
"Great." muttered James.
"Of course she's the one to be able to do it first." added Sirius.
"What's the matter?" asked Peter, turning around to face the two upset boys. "We just got some house points."
"Yeah, but we got them from her." said James.
"If you want the glory of house points, impress the teachers." said Remus, watching his feather float in front of him.
"Another ten points to Gryffindor!" squeaked Professor Flitwick as he walked past Remus.
"It's not that we want the glory of house points, that'll make us look like teachers pets-"
"-Hey!-"
"-Sorry, not you Remus. What we meant was, we don't like the fact that she was the one making our house look like teachers pets."
"It didn't sound like that before." said Peter.
"Well it is now." Sirius replied. "Quick, we need to regain masculinity for Gryffindor. Think of something cool to do, James. James?"
James was floating the feather in front of his face, like Lily and Remus had done before him. He turned and smiled smugly at Sirius.
"James, that is not how we regain masculinity."
"But this is." he whispered. The feather that had been floating in front of his face landed softly back onto the desk. He was now pointing his wand at the ink pot in front of them. It began to float.
"I'm not getting involved." said Remus, turning back around to face the front.
"Neither am I." agreed Peter, also turning back around.
Sirius nodded at James, and the ink pot slowly gained height and moved forward until it hovered just above Lily's head.
"Do it." whispered Sirius and the ink pot slowly tilted forward, with its contents spilling onto the red head underneath.
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"That was brilliant James!" exclaimed Sirius as they made their way to their next lesson, Potions.
"I can't believe you did that." Peter said with awe from behind.
"It was great James." said Sirius, complimenting him again. Peter and Sirius carried on walking to Potions, complimenting James the entire way, while Remus walked quietly behind unwilling to comment.
"Potter!" a voice shouted from behind. James and the three other boys turned around to see where the voice had come from. Marlene McKinnon was currently striding towards them, her face contorted with anger. James smirked as he saw her approach.
"What do you think you're playing at?" she spat at him.
"I'm not quite sure what you mean." he said innocently.
"You know what I mean."
"I'm sure I really don't."
"Whatever game you're playing Potter, give it a rest, and leave me and my friends out of it."
James smirked again.
"Don't you dare smirk at me!" she screeched, her face a few inches from his.
"Then don't give me reason to smirk."
She quietly screamed with frustration, and threw her hands up in the air.
"Just leave me and my friends alone, Potter. Okay?" she said.
"Fine." he sighed dramatically. Marlene huffed and joined Alice Steward who was currently waiting for Marlene at the corner of the corridor. Once they had left, James sighed.
"What a drama queen."
Sirius roared with laughter and he grabbed James's arm and pulled him of to Potions.
Once they were settled in the dungeons, Professor Slughorn took a register and introduced them to a potion they were going to be making that cured boils.
Half way through his demonstration on one of the trickier parts of the potion making process, Lily Evans walked into the Dungeons.
"Sorry I'm late Professor." she said quietly, her eyes avoiding James who was currently smirking.
"It's alright Ms. Evans." he replied. "Professor Flitwick, told me about what had happened."
She nodded.
"Why don't you go round the back next to Mr. Potter, and I'll carry on my demonstration." Lily walked to where a mischevious-looking James was standing, and watched as Professor Slughorn carried on talking.
"Why so glum, Ginger?" James whispered to her.
Lily simply scowled, and ingnored him. Severus was watching Lily carefully from the other side of the classroom, as were Alice and Marlene.
"Seriously." James whispered into her ear. "Why the long face?"
"Oh, I don't know." Lily angrily muttered back. "It might have something to do with the fact that an idiot poured ink all over me."
"Ooh." said James. "Feisty."
"Leave me alone, Potter."
"Ouch, you just last named me."
"I wouldn't last name you if you didn't give me reason to."
"It was an accident." he said innocently.
She turned around to face him. "You may have fooled Professor Flitwick into thinking it was an accident, but you haven't fooled me. I can see through your little facade, Potter, and I know that you are bad news."
"Everything alright back there?" Professor Slughorn asked, peering over the students to look at James and Lily.
"Fine, Professor." James lied smoothly. Slughorn carried on with the last part of the demonstration, and Lily turned her attention back to James.
"Just leave me alone, Potter."
"Fine."
Lily nodded mutely and walked over to join Severus and her other friends.
"What was that all about?" asked Sirius as he and James stood behind their cauldrons. Slughorn had just finished the demonstration and had sent them back to their places, in pairs to make the potion.
"Nothing." James replied. "I was just pushing her buttons."
Sirius laughed, but Remus looked uncomfortable.
"What's the matter?" asked James, noticing Remus's discomfort.
"Don't you think you've pushed her enough today?" asked Remus. "You've already ruined her first day enough without making her more angry."
"Stop being so dramatic Remus," said Sirius, giving Peter the dried nettles to weigh. "Having a good first day isn't the be all and end all."
"It is for some people." he said quietly and carried on crushing snake fangs for his and James's potion.
Sirius didn't seem to have heard Remus and carried on trying to help Peter crush their fangs to the best of his ability.
"Well done Ms. Evans and Mr. Snape!" the boys heard Slughorn from across the room. "10 points for Gryffindor, and 10 points to Slytherin!"
James rolled his eyes once again.
"What a teachers pet." James heard Sirius mutter next to him and he nodded in agreement.
Slughorn then made his way over to inspect Sirius and Peter's potion.
He peered over the edge of the cauldron carefully, flinched when he saw what was inside, and quickly moved back again.
"Erm," he started. "I would get rid of this boys, before it ends up hurting anyone."
Sirius and Peter shared a startled look and quickly started to clear away the potion. Slughorn moved to Remus and James's cauldron and nodded happily.
"I'm happy with your progress today boys good work."
Remus lifted his head, moving his hair out of his eyes to see Professor Slughorn. Slughorn almost did a double take after looking at Remus full in the face for the first time. He suddenly looked uncomfortable, looked at his feet and began to walk off, stuttering, "Yes-yes, good work b-boys."
Remus looked down at his feet again, and his blonde locks fell over his eyes again, covering his face.
Sirius and Peter, who had since disposed of their potion, had seen the last part of the exchange between Slughorn and Remus, and they both looked very confused.
"What was that?" Sirius mouthed at James, over the top of Remus's head.
James shrugged and looked at his tall, gangly friend who was depositing their potion into an empty vial.
Sirius's eyes widened slightly, as if to say "Weird."
James mouthed back, "Later," and went to help Remus pack away.
Sirius turned to Peter who just shrugged, then went to collect his bags.
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"You okay?" Marlene asked Lily, who was packing her and Severus's stuff away. Lily hadn't had chance to talk with the two girls since leaving the Charm's classroom covered in ink.
"Yeah." Lily muttered quietly. Severus had continuedly asked that question throughout their Potion's lesson, and she was know getting slightly tired of it.
"Don't let James worry you." Alice said comfortingly, patting her hand. "He can be a bit of a pain, but he doesn't mean it."
"You think too well of people, Alice." said Marlene. "He does mean it, but that's no reason to let him get you down. He's an idiot."
"Looking forward to Transfiguration, Lily?" Alice asked, changing the subject.
"Yeah." said Lily, clearly brightening up.
"You can all set off to your next lesson now! Dismissed!" said Slughorn from the front of the room, looking slightly twitchy. He quickly exited the Dungeon's leaving all the students by themselves.
"What's up with him?" asked Marlene, watching his retreating figure.
"Who knows." said Lily.
The three girls left the Dungeon's after packing away to set off to Transfiguration.
"I'll see you later then!" Severus called after them.
Lily quickly ran back and gave Severus a hug.
"I'm so sorry I forgot to say goodbye. My mind's kind of on other things at the moment." she apologized.
"No problems." Severus said nodding. "I understand."
"Good." she sighed. "See you."
"Bye."
Lily then ran back to her two friends who were waiting at the corner of the corridor.
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"Welcome to Transfiguration." Professor McGongall said to the First Year Gryffindor's and Ravenclaw's. "Transifguration is one of the most difficult and complex branches of magic."
She took a sweeping glance around the room and carried on.
"And if it goes wrong...the consequences are severe. Anyone messing around in my class will be punished. Any questions?"
Everyone in the room was silent.
"No. Good." She turned on her heel and walked back to her table, promptly turning it into a pig. All the students mouth's opened in shock.
McGonagall smirked and changed the pig back into a desk.
She handed out their books for the year, took a register, and gave them very complicated notes to copy down. Soon enough it was time for them to try Transfiguration by turning a match into a needle.
Everyone struggled a lot with the task that was set and no-one completed it. The nearest anyone got was Remus's match becoming slightly shiny.
By the time everyone had finished their dinner's and headed up to their dormitories they were all too tired to do anything taxing and decided to just go to sleep.
"What do you think was up with Slughorn?" Sirius asked while Remus was in the bathroom. This was the first time that Remus had left them alone that afternoon long enough to discuss what happened in Potions.
"Who knows." said Peter.
"He didn't react until he saw Remus's face." said James, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "So he must have seen something that freaked him out, or he knew his face from somewhere or something."
"Well he has that scar on his face." pointed out Sirius. The scar on Remus's face started in the corner of his right eye, ran over his nose and ended just under his left eye. It was faint, but it looked as if it had been caused by something particularily horrible. The three other boys, despite their curiousity, had refrained from asking Remus about it. "Maybe it was that."
"That doesn't explain why he acted so twitchy through the rest of the class." Peter pointed out.
"True." said James. "Let's leave it for now. I'm too tired to think this hard."
Sirius nodded and jumped into his bed. A couple of minutes later, Remus came out of the bathroom.
"Goodnight." he said to the rest of the boys.
"NIght."
"G'night, Remus."
"Hmm."
Remus jumped into his bed and turned of the lamp that was lighting the dorm.
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A/N: Few notes on the chapter -
- Alice is being nice about James because she believes in the best of people, not because she fancies him.
- I know there's no lunch break. I just couldn't be bothered to add it in. This chapter is long enough as it is.
- I hope you understand why Slughorn was being weird, if not, you'll understand by the next chapter.
- Next chapter Full Moon
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