Paddy and Prongsie here. Long time now see. Sorry for that.

This chapter is called: Harmonicas out of Harmony? Enjoy an remember to review! (it's a great inspiration. If it's a positive one:P)

It was 1st of September and Sirius was glad he had been allowed by his parents to attend Hogwarts again this year after James and his so called camping trip. His parents had been furious and he hadn't been allowed to go outside the house for the rest of the summer.

At the Potter house it had been a bit easier, sure, James hadn't been allowed to go out of the house for more than his instrument lessons and out in the backyard. Still it was more than Sirius had been able to do. The boys hadn't met after the incident.

Now they were both sitting in the same compartment, exiting about their third year at Hogwarts. Mr. and Mrs. Potter had gone to the place where the tent had disappeared, and got it up from the water together with the boys' brooms. Said brooms were now packed in their suitcases, ready to be used when they reached the school.

Sirius and James were now telling their story to Remus and Peter. From time to time Remus told hinted about facts they should have known about before they went on their trip and so on.


Earlier that day: What James saw made him really happy! I couldn't believe the fact that Lily Evans was going to sit in the same taxi as him. A few days before school began the Potter family had ordered a taxi to arrive at their house early in the morning on the 1st September.

The man answering their call had said, with a hint of deep confusion in his voice, that they had to share a car with another family, due to lots of orders around that time on that particular day. Peculiar!

Truth be told the muggles knew very little of the fact that there were a lot of witches and wizards going to school with a red train on the 1st September. The taxi had come to pick up the Potters first, then they went to get the other family.

Curious about what kind of family they were going to meet, James had stuck his head out of the window the whole way. He loved meeting new people!

They turned a corner and when James first saw who they were sharing the taxi with he was really surprised. In a positive way. For who would've thought that they were going to share a taxi with the Evans family?

James had recognised Lily's red hair the moment he saw her. He tried to keep his face still, so his parents wouldn't see the massive grin which wanted to spread on his face. Hopefully his parents hadn't noticed a change in behaviour.

There were seven seats in the car. One for the driver, three for James and his parents and the rest for Lily and her parents. Her sister had refused to come along to bid her sister farewell. She had more important things to do, like hanging out with her boyfriend.

James saw Lily making a face when she entered the car and saw him, he smiled to great her and offered her the seat next to him. Her parents soon entered and she ended up with only one choice. Sitting next to James.

Their parents began to speak to each other while the kids stared out of the window. (Padfoot/N: Did you guys know that the English word "window" is an old Norwegian word "Vindu" that the English adopted from the Norwegian Vikings?)

Though James couldn't resist to look at Lily every now and then (Padfoot/N: Here meaning: All the time!)


Sirius was sitting in a compartment together with Peter. He waited impatiently for James to get there. They were in the middle of a conversation about chess when they heard some noises coming from the hallway.

A minute later James winked to them from outside the compartment window. They could hear Lily Evans telling their friend that he owed her a chocolate frog, to which their friend stuck his tongue out and told her that it wasn't his fault and she wouldn't get any frigs from him.

James jumped on the train and went inside.

"Hello mates, long time now see!"

"Hello James!" said Peter simultaneously to Sirius saying: "What was all that abou?"

Not a minute later Remus showed up, smiling. He took a quick look on Sirius' face and turned to James. "Go on, tell your story now. I don't think Sirius can take it much longer."

Sirius nodded impatiently.

James told them about the taxi ride where he'd been sitting next to Lily.

When the three boys asked if anything had happened, James honestly said that he'd spent the entire time staring at Lily. This had really upset her for some reason.

"oh, and I refused to give her a chocolate frog," he added.

"Idiot. Is that a way to get girls?" Sirius snorted. "Amateur!"

Everybody laughed at James, and Remus managed to change the subject to Quidditch so that Sirius and James wouldn't start arguing.

Then, after a while, Lily knocked on the door. James opened the door with a delighted smile, but before he had the time to say anything Lily had lifted her wand and said: "Accio chocolate frog". She then gave James a victory smile and slammed the door in his face.

If Sirius hadn't been thinking so quickly, James would've run after her and wrestled with her until he got his frog back. Luckily he didn't get the chance to do that.

James was miserable. Lily Evans had yet again managed to take his last chocolate frog away from him and this time she would really have to pay for it.

Sirius sat down playing on his harmonica, but after a while everyone wanted to do something fun so they started playing exploding snap.


Later that night, when James lay down in his familiar bed he recalled a conversation he and Sirius had had on the train.

"You didn't get more punishment than that!"

James had told Sirius what his parents had told him after the more or less failed camping trip.

Padfoot/Note: The Very failed camping trip! It was a disaster! I'll never understand those muggle things of doing stuff!

Prongs/N: Well, we learned something, right?

Padfoot/N: Learned something! I learnt that the muggle way of doing things is often very stupid, and unnecessary.

Prongs/N: Well, I learned that food don't just pop up on the table whenever I'm hungry.

Padfoot/N: Yeah, because you forgot to bring a house elf.

Prongs/N: I thought we were going just the two of us on that trip, that was the whole point of it, wasn't it? See if we could do things on our own.

Padfoot/N: ...

When Sirius told what his parents had made him do.

"What! That is totally crazy. I can't believe you've turned out so well with those trolls as parents!" James hadn't been happy at all with his friend's punishment. They were children after all, not some teenager who had broken the law.

The rest of the day went as usual, and at the end of it all boys fell asleep momentarily, glad to be back at school.


When James came down for breakfast the next day and saw that Lily was already sitting at the table smiling and talking with some other girls he remembered meeting from the train the previous day.

He walked to the table and sat down in front of her. "You know you owe me a frog, don't you?" He looked at her when she turned her head, "You can go get one yourself. I'm not going out in a sump to get you one for you."

"I meant a chocolate frog, you understood that!" James began to fill his plate with eggs and bacon.

"How could I? You asked for a frog, I'm not psychic!" Before James was able to say another word Sirius showed the fork James was holding into James' mouth to shut him up. "Sorry, Lily, James don't have time to talk to you now, we have something to do before class starts. Eat James!"

Sirius, soon followed by Remus and Peter grabbed some food and began a competition to see who could finish their plates before the others. James joined them and his thought about Lily disappeared for a while.

When he finished right after Sirius, who had been the first one to finish (Padfoot/N: What can I say? I'm a fast eater if I want to) James asked about what they were going to do, but was told that it was a secret and that they couldn't talk about it with the whole school present.

Away from the rest of the school Sirius began to speak with a hushed voice. "Well, I thought since it's the start of a new school year and all, that we should get started planning our first prank. I've got a few ideas in mind, but neither of them are good enough to be the first one."

All of the boys began to think of new ideas, found out that they would colour the Slytherins brooms red and gold right before a Quidditch match (Padfoot/N: would be confusing right?), make Snape's hair so greasy it would even spill on the floor and a lot of other wonderful ideas.

The boys had to go to their first class now and it wasn't before they stood in the hallway thinking about which classroom they had to be going to they found out that they had left breakfast before getting their timetables.

They run as fast as they could to the Great Hall, when they arrived they found it empty. "Woah! We could make a prank here someday!" James commented before they run out of the room again and tried to find the rest of their class.

"Pity you don't have an antenna to where Lily are now James!" Sirius screamed while they run up the stairs.

"I know. I would Love to have one!"

"Let's run to the history of magic classroom and check. It's the closest one to here," Peter suggested.

All four boys laughed, when they arrived at the history of magic classroom, they stopped for a minute to catch their breath before knocking on the door. They opened the door when they heard a voice from inside, looked at the students sitting there, excused themselves and decided to run to McGonagalls' classroom.

They knew that she would know where to go and what to do. She always did.

To their surprise they saw the door open, and they ran inside without stopping to think first. All they found there was a cat sitting on the teachers' desk. "Professor, could you please tell us where our class is, as you know we haven't got our timetables so we don't know where to go."

Their teacher transformed right there in front of their eyes and handed them their timetables. After a quick look at them they looked around in the room and asked where the rest of the students were. According to what their timetables said they were in the right room.

"They're out on a little treasure hunt I planned for the lesson. Here's the map. And boys, try to come in time next time, you don't have much time left." Surprised they didn't get any punishment they read the map and found out that they were to find five different objects before the class was over. All these objects were transformed and they would also have to transform them back to their right form.

The boys began to walk in the hallways, their eyes wide open, looking for... well. Something. Their map showed five different hallways and they believed they would have to find something unusual in them.

When they reached the closest hallway they found some of their classmates there looking around desperately (Padfoot/N: and some had given up and waited for someone else to find the thing. You know the type). It didn't seem they had found what they were looking for yet.

Most students usually didn't walk around in the hallways the map shoved, but the four boys had been there many times before. When Sirius stood in front of a picture and turned to James to ask for some help to take it down, the others thought he collected a random object to show their professor.

Sirius, James, Remus and Peter hadn't asked the professor whether there were one object for each group, or just one object for the whole class, but that didn't matter now. They jogged to the next hallway.

By the time they reached their fifth and last stop they had collected two pictures, one shoe and a book. Now they were standing in an empty hallway, except the students who now, more desperate than ever were looking for an object. To James joy, Lily was among these students. He walked towards her and asked her what she was doing.

"I'm looking around for something I don't know what is. I suppose you should be doing the same."

"Yeah, under normal circumstances I would love to have a chat with you, but unfortunately I don't have time at the moment. I'll talk to you later."

With that James walked back to his friends. "Do you know what we should be looking for Sirius?"

Sirius looked at the floor, the walls and the ceiling. Then he looked back on the floor. "I think it should be something small and simple, like a needle," he whispered back.

Then all four boys began to act a childish game pretending they were cows eating grass. (Prongs/N: I have been pretending that I've been eating grass from the floor at home not so long time ago. Then I found out that I really miss being a child and being able to play all the time.)

(Padfoot/N: Normally I wouldn't lower myself to these standard and... Who am I kidding? I'm always in on Prongsies stupid ideas. It's usually a whole lot of fun)

That way their classmates wouldn't understand that they truly were looking for their last object. (Prongs/N: Ingenious right?)Suddenly Remus made a sound, still pretending to be a cow, telling the others that he had indeed found a needle.

They all stood up and said it was too bad they hadn't had the time to complete their mission, but that it now was time to go back to their classroom to transfigurate the objects they had back to their original form.

Professor McGonagall looked very pleased when she saw the boys coming back, each one carrying one object. She didn't see the needle Remus had in his pocket. James, being the best of the boys in transfiguration pointed his wand first at the pictures, then at the shoe and lastly the book. They had decided that they were going to wait with the needle until they had to show their professor what they had found.

Most of their classmates hadn't been able to find more than two or three different things, but Lily's group had found four.

McGonagall looked very pleased with the boys when she saw the things they had collected. They had, after all, not had as much time as the rest of their class. When they transformed the objects back to their right form, the pictures became a couple of leaves, the shoe turned into a frog (naturally making James think of chocolate frogs) and the book was actually a newspaper.

The professor made a move to leave the boys table when Remus stopped her. "Professor, there's one more thing I would like to show you." He put his hand in his pocket where he found the needle.

He took out his wand and soon the needle was gone, and changed into a candle lying there in its place. "Good job, Potter, Black, Lupin and Pettigrew," their professor said before giving them ten points.


Sirius and James were playing a game of chess. They had just finished their homework (Prongs/N: yes, we are doing homework now and then) and had decided that they wanted to have some fun.

"James, look! Lily just walked in through the portrait!" Sirius said. James turned his head to see that Sirius had been right. "Check mate," James turned his head to see that he indeed was out of the game.

"How did this happen?" he wondered. He was sure that he had been on his way to win the game. "You cheated!" He told Sirius.

"What? I would never…" Sirius started.

"Why did you do it?" James asked.

Trying to stop the argument Remus told them that they could simply just start a new game, but this Sirius and James heard nothing of. When it was time to go down for dinner they still argued. There was a pause when they eat because they showed the food into their mouth so fast that they wouldn't be able to speak even if they wanted to.

Padfoot/N: Actually competing to see who finished first. I won – as I always do in competitions against Prongs

Prongs/N: That's because you eat less on purpose, you moron. Always Cheating!

Padfoot/N: Am not!

Prongs/N: Are too!

As soon as they got up they began to argue again. They hadn't come very far before they took out their wands and began to throw spells on each other. When they reached the third floor, they stopped walking and seriously began their spell fight.

Being as unlucky he was with these boys Snape was on his way down the hall when he was hit by a spell from Sirius. Thinking this was a spell meant for him Snape shortly became a part of the fight. With James doing pirouettes in the middle with Sirius and Snape on each side of him, the fight looked different from most fights. There were three against three and both Sirius and Snape saw the two others they fought. James had to turn around all the time to be able to see.

They had been fighting for a while when James suddenly passed out and fell to the floor. Hit simultaneously with two spells from both Sirius and Snape.

"Oops," Sirius and Snape said. Before looking at each other.

For some reason they both went over to him to see how it went, and they found out that he was indeed unconscious. As if they followed a script they both took James arm on each side and carried him up to the hospital wing. Thought, they continued their fight as they walked, this time with words.

Saying things like: "This is your fault!" to each other.

Inside the hospital wing Madam Pomfrey helped the boys as they laid James down on an empty bed. She then said that neither of them were to leave the wing. A few hours later Snape left the wing together with Sirius. Not wanting to spend even more time in the hospital wing they left each other at the first opportunity.

The next morning James walked down for breakfast and knew little of what the day would bring. He ate in silence since he still didn't talk to Sirius. His so called friend had left him before he even woke up so they hadn't had time to make up. Not that James was in the mood to be social at the time.

Remus, who usually was the one to make Sirius and James make up and who would be the one to do it this time also if it hadn't been for the approaching full moon. He was turning paler by the day. This made Peter the remaining person to keep Sirius and James civil.

All Peter knew that morning was that he was going to have some great trouble getting his friends to talk together, and he knew that this was a job he would have to do alone since Remus seemed sicker than he had ever seen him before.

James sat down at the table close to Lily. She was the only person he would talk to at the moment, even thought he knew she probably didn't want to. And he was right. Whenever he tried to speak to her she turned her head away from him and began to talk to the person sitting next to her.

(Padfoot/N: Damn. That's cruel! Hang in there Prongsie! Right... I'm not supposed to talk to you...)

Still, at the moment he was just glad that she hadn't changed seat, now he would be able to just look at her closely and he didn't mind that.

At the other end of the table Sirius was sitting together with Peter and Remus. Peter tried what he could to make Sirius go over to where James sat and talk to him, but Sirius refused, saying that it was James who should make the first move.

When James walked away from the table Peter followed him and tried to talk to him. The two boys hadn't walked for long before they were attacked by Slytherins, Snape was among them. But luckily a teacher walked past them and stopped them before they started to fight. James and Peter didn't know that their hair had turned green.

It wasn't before the middle of the class that Remus told Peter and James that their hair was green. At first he had though, like most of the class, that they did it on purpose. But if he thought about it, he found out that he should've been able to understand it. Who in Gryffindor would have turned their own hair green?

James obviously didn't get too happy about the news and when Sirius said: "I thought you of all would have noticed since you usually look at yourself in the mirror about five times after breakfast," he sure didn't get much happier. But this way he knew what he was going to do later that day, he hadn't known until that moment.

Sirius knew he was in an argument with James, but they were both Gryffindors and he took the prank from the Slytherins as a personal matter as a Gryffindor, not as a friend of James and Peter. He figured that the best thing to do as a Gryffindor was to come up with an idea and make a better prank on their enemies.

James and Peter were sitting in the common room thinking about what to do to the Slytherins. While they were thinking a girl came in the portrait carrying a lot of balloons. James looked at them and an idea was set. He would use water balloons as revenge.

Sirius, being seated at the opposite side of the room, came up with the exact same idea. The difference being that he would use water guns.

Prongs/N: I know, not the most original idea I could have made up. And thinking of the so called "terror day" when the RUSS (third years, upper secondary school, who's graduating this year) aim for the first years with lots of water, right Paddy?

Padfoot/N: I didn't get wet at all on that day! Everyone loves and respects me:P I liked the idea. It's nice and simple! Good plan. It's approved

When he was thinking about how to corner the Slytherins James heard Sirius shout for Peter. Peter who wouldn't take sides walked over after telling James that he would be right back. At this moment James couldn't care less (Wormtail/N: HEY!), he was too occupied with the idea he had just had.

The person on the other side of the room hadn't really had a reason to call Peter over; he just didn't want his friend to take sides with James. After all, he was the one who would be bullied the most by the enemy if he got caught by them. With this opportunity Peter started to talk to Sirius about making up with James. Sirius just ignored him.

After dinner James smiled to himself, a very evil smile to be him, a smile that showed the rest of the school that they shouldn't be outside their common rooms, so most of them began to hurry back as fast as they possibly could.

All of the teachers had left the room when James started his prank. The first thing he did was to glue all of the remaining Slytherins to their chair using a simple spell; he didn't know that Sirius helped him with this unwillingly. He had already filled the balloons with water and hung them up under the roof; no one usually looked up at the ceiling they were too used with the sigh.

Sirius on the other hand had found great help in the Gryffindor house so most of the table had been waiting there together with him. Some had stood up and walked away when they had seen James' smile, but most had stayed.

Sirius counted to three, and soon they had all found a water gun each, except James, who hadn't known about this idea. He on the other hand had dropped all of his balloons and started to run towards the door when he had heard Sirius shout. He had turned around to see the already wet students sitting there, unable to stand up and sprayed with water.

The only son of the Potters then ran out of the room and up to his dorm before the teachers would return. Sirius ran the same way as James, but his gang ran outside pretending they had had a water fight outside all along. It was easier to pretend they didn't have anything to do with it when they didn't have James or Sirius among them.

The door had just closed behind James when he heard it open and heard Sirius enter. "You just had to steal my idea right!" Sirius shouted.

"I didn't steal anyone's idea! And by the way, I was the one to do it first!"

"But I had planned it for longer than you did and I was the one to glue them to their benches!"

"You're wrong. I was the one to glue them to their benches. I was the one who first came up with the idea! And I was the one who had a perfectly good reason to prank them!"

"Just to tell you, I didn't take revenge on your behalf; I did it for my house!"

"So you don't even care about your friends?" James was furious. He could not believe that Sirius would steal his idea. That had never happened before.

"We're not friends, if you don't remember, were in the middle of an argument!"

(Prongs/N: Trust Padfoot to be the only one who calls an intense fight and argument. I passed out yesterday!)

James slipped the covers around his bed and ignored what Sirius had said. He knew that if he continued arguing with Sirius he would end up saying some pretty bad things he would regret later. He didn't want them to end their friendship so easily. Peter entered the room and they knew they wouldn't be able to talk more that night.


Nothing happened until after lunch the next day. With nothing I mean nothing. Sirius and James hadn't talked at all, mainly ignoring each other.

Peter and Remus had talked and Remus had told Peter that he had to go visiting one of his sick aunts soon, meaning that he wouldn't be able to help Peter out with the James/Sirius problem they were now facing. Peter didn't think much of it, since he was used to the fact that Remus left the school every now and then.

Sirius was sitting on the roof of the astronomy tower playing the harmonica (Padfoot/N: From my Uncle Alfred. He gave it to me during my lonely days in the Summer Holidays) Feeling lonely and misserable. He was playing John Lennons imagine.

But after lunch times without happenings were over:

James had taken a walk outside in the sun thinking it might help his mood a little. He had a free period since the teacher had caught the wizard flue. (They still hadn't found an elixir you would get well of; they had just found something to make it a bit lighter, so whoever caught it wouldn't be able to concentrate too much the next week.)

Not concentrating and being a teacher didn't fit too well together so they had gotten a free period instead. James was happy that he wouldn't need to see the Slytherins in class.

Outside he felt the wind in his hair and regretted not bringing his broom out so he could fly. Instead he began to jog, letting some of his energy be used. He jogged alongside the lake.

After about fifteen minutes he saw something red orange and familiar. Having seen this hair every day for the last two years and not getting bored of it, he decided he would jog to the owner. Soon he stopped at the most shocking sight he had seen. Lily Evans, his Lily, was sitting there with a snail of a human, Snape.

"Evans! What the hell are you doing?"

"Potter, haven't I told you to let me do as I please and not bother?" Lily asked in return, not answering his question.

"If you have said so, I don't remember. But what are you and Snape doing together? You know he is the enemy, right?" He stepped closer to her. If Snape had been the one to drag her there, James would gladly protect her. No, he would protect her no matter what.

"I'm talking to a friend, all right?" Lily stood up and walked away. James walked after her, questioning her about her friendship with Snape. She didn't answer him at all.

Prongs: Why am I the only one writing? Why am I almost the only one coming up with ideas of what to write? And why don't I even remember how to write the easiest words? I have learned "confused" instead of "comfused" but most other word I don't remember any longer. Paddy...

Padfoot: It's all right Prongsie. I'll write a lot now that school's almost over. And you promised me a Band chapter. I'm so going to write that!

That evening James had to come up with yet a new idea. He found out that it wasn't so easy without Sirius around, since they usually would come up with ideas and then the other would tell whether the idea was good, or plain out stupid. Peter wasn't of much help either; he walked between him and Sirius the whole evening, trying to make them talk together again. They both ignored him.

In the end James ended up going outside (using his invisibility cloak) and lay down in the grass playing on his harmonica that his father had given him some weeks after the failed tent trip.

Sirius didn't know about what James had seen by the lake, if he had heard about it he would've been sitting together with James and talked about some brilliant ideas he had come up with. But now he was sitting there trying to come up with new ideas for what he could do about the Slytherins, his old ideas had been made especially for Snape.

He knew that they would eventually make a prank on them, so he wanted to be ready. Being in a conflict with James, he also had to find pranks he could do to his "former" friend.

When Peter came over to James for the fifth time that evening, James wouldn't let him sit there and try to be Remus again. "You know what, Peter?"

"No?"

"I think I'll take a walk now, so if you want to come with me, go get your cloak. If you want to be inside, then talk to you other friend." With that James stood up and crawled out of the portrait. He had no idea where he was going, but he thought he would need some fresh air. The clouds on the sky were dark, and the air was heavy, but it didn't rain. He found this weather comfortable.

He pulled out his old (inherited) harmonica and played Let it Be by Paul McCartney. It only made him think of Sirius, so he had to stop. James used all his force and threw the harmonica out into the pond.

He hated arguing with Sirius. Hated it. And it had all started because Sirius cheated while playing cards. After standing there staring at the place where he'd dropped his harmonica he pulled out his wand and said: "accio". He did love his harmonica after all. Just as he did love Sirius as a brother after all.

He decided that the only thing for it was to go to the room of requirement and play some piano. Always cleared his mind.


Someone else had thought of this first though. Sirius had found his favourite requirement-room. It was a cosy library with good reading chairs and, most importantly, a grand piano in it. Right now he was playing a song he'd heard on a muggle radio once.

"Let it be, let it be, whisper words of wisdom, let it be"

Sirius sang while playing the chords.

"You playing The Beatles, eh?" someone behind him asked.

Padfoot/N: I'm sorry if you don't agree but personally I think the Beatles are so awesome that they can't simply be plain muggles! Therefore Sirius knows who they are because they're actually wizards, and playing on both the muggle and wizard market.

"What are you doing here!" Sirius turned to James and said.

"I know we're not talking, but whatever I'm going to do you're thinking of doing the same. Like with the Slytherins and like now," James sighed. "We're just so similar. Just as stubborn at least. Sirius, you're my best mate and I hate arguing with you."

Sirius looked down and continued to play a couple of chords. He stopped and looked at James again.

"Did you know that since The Beatles broke up Paul and John are writing songs criticizing each other? They're really not speaking at all. I just don't want us to end up like that." Sirius said.

"Yeah. I don't want that either," James said. "Friends?"

"Friends!"

They shook hands and hugged (A/N: You know. The way boys hug. Very manly:P). Then proceeded to play duets on the piano.

Padfoot: Thanks to Prongsie who's written 90% of this chapter. I'm going get a comeback in the next chapter though. Sorry about The Beatles, but I love them so much!

We're actually going to manage to post soon. I don't have another Maths lesson in my life! (Doing the happy dance!) so I have more time to write. At least for now.

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Love,

Prongs & Padfoot