The Moon necklaces

Chapter 10: Charms

~James~

Last night's events were buzzing though my mind like a swarm of bees. I kept glancing at Remus every now and then as we got ready for school. We went to breakfast as usual to receive our new timetables for the year.

"Great!" Sirius cheered as he got his new timetable, "first lesson Charms with the beautiful Gabriella!"

"Oh dear," I laughed "the great Sirius Black has a crush on a teacher."

"Shut it Potter!" he snapped as he threw his timetable in my face. That only made me laugh harder, then I heard the sweet voice of Lily Evans ringing in my ear.

"Potter!" ok she might have snapped a bit but so what? Any voice of my Lily is sweet to me. "Potter, are you going to answer my question?"

"Sorry," I apologised, Lily just rolled her eyes and asked again.

"Where is Peter?" Peter? Yes where was Peter that was another mystery. I looked between Sirius and Remus they shook their heads. We still hadn't heard anything about it maybe I should write him a letter after classes. We went up the way to the charms class room were Miss Chant was standing at the door with a huge smile on her face and she lead us into the class room and got us settled.

"Right class," Miss Chant greeted us warmly clasping her hands together "my name is Miss Gabriella Chant and I'll be taking charms until Professor Flitwick returns." Lily, who was sitting just behind me shot her hand up. "Yes Miss Evans?" asked Miss Chant.

"Where has Professor Flitwick gone?" asked Lily. Miss Chant suddenly looked very uneasy for second but she shook it off.

"I really don't know Lily, maybe your head of house can answer that, now on with the class…"

35 minutes later

"She's amazing," sighed Sirius in romance, "she even said my first name ah… the charming Charms teacher Miss Chant!" Remus and I shared a look and shook out heads before bursting out in laughter. We went though the rest of day as normal.

Luckily we didn't have Defence against the dark arts today. After what I had witnessed last night I was actually, for the first time, dreading that lesson. Remus has not said a word about his dad so he probably didn't know I was there, which as a relief, but we had to have this conversation sometime. My guess is that Remus's dad brought the book with him and we are in serious need of that book it's the only lead we have in finding Annabeth. Other than that the day was going smoothly until…

"Hey Potter, Black and Lupin" Severus Snape aka Snivellus just appeared around the corner while we were on our way to the Great Hall. He had a sly grin spread across his face that made me uneasy. No doubt that he has been waiting for us all this time, it's just the kind of thing he would do.

"What do you Snape!?" Sirius asked for me. If there was anyone who hated Snape more than me it was Sirius.

"Just wanted to see if you all had a nice holiday" He said innocently but that grin made me think otherwise. You see Snape had been with us during that business in Scotland. He had been out of the action most of the time but whatever memories he had of that day to him are now all just a dream. Apparently I knocked his head so hard he fell unconscious during the final battle. After he woke up when it was all over we managed to convince him he got lost and fell off his broom and landed here which was probably for the best.

"Get out of our way Severus," Remus stepped in, he spoke polity but sternly like when he was telling off first years for running in the halls. "We don't want any trouble."

"Oh no not perfect Remus," Snape sniggered. I stepped in front of Remus protectively Snape was always taking the mickey of Remus, I don't know why, it's me and Sirius who bully Snape not Remus in fact he is always the one who tries to convince us to leave him alone I think it's just jealousy because Remus is so smart…I don't know.

"Just leave us alone, we don't want to get on to a bad start on our first day do we?" I said, trying to match a smirk that would put that Snivellus's smirk to shame. I think it worked because he left rolling his eyes and made his way towards the Great Hall.

"OK what was the point in that?" Sirius asked with a hint of irritation in his voice as we made our own way down to the Great Hall, "does he want to be hung upside down again?"

"You don't think he remembers do you?" asked Remus worriedly. You see we don't know if Snape has found out that Remus is a werewolf yet due to this summer's events, but hopefully he still thinks it's just a dream.

Hopefully.

"I don't think so Moony," I said reassuringly, "I'm sure if he did remember he would have said something."

"Or he could just be buying his time," Sirius muttered quietly, but loud enough for me and Remus to hear.

"It's not important now we still have more pressing matters to discuss," I was about to say more when I spotted Lily Evens waving at me frantically from the Gryffindor table. It looked like she has saved a space for us, isn't she sweet? But it was strange though, she always used to hang around with those giggly girlfriends of hers, maybe she's just realised how awesome I am, then I saw she had a pile of books with her and my heart dropped; she had something important to tell us…No date for me then.

"Hi Lily," Remus smiled as he sat down next to my Lily, I wanted that place! Oh well maybe one day, so I sat across from her with Sirius sat next to me.

"What up Lily?" I asked I hoped she found out something about the moons necklace and doesn't want to discuss homework instead of going out with me.

"Guys," Lilly addressed us like she heard me, "I had a free lesson today I was looking up about the phases of the moon."

"I didn't know you did astronomy," Sirius asked, we all stared at him in puzzlement.

"She means the nine phases of the moon which will help us find Annabeth, Padfoot," said Remus shaking his head, not at all surprised of Sirius's stupidity.

"Yes," Lily continued, "I have found something interesting."

"Get on with it, Evens" Sirius sighed in boredom.

"There aren't nine phases of the moon, there are eight."

"Interesting," Sirius yawned; I was getting fed up with his impoliteness and slapped Sirius across the head.

"Pay attention!" I snapped. Then I turned to my Lily with my biggest smile "It's ok Lily, carry on." Lily nodded her head silently probably to say thank you, but I know she would never say that to me out loud. So she carried on.

"So the eight phases of the moon are of course is the Full Moon, Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous, Waning Crescent, First Quarter, Last Quarter and New Moon. I can't remember if that's the right order or not but I can bet that the necklaces will have these eight moons on somehow.

"But what about the ninth moon?" askes Remus, "I'm sure the book said nine."

"I don't know, we have to get book back from Remus father."

"Professor Lupin" Sirius corrected.

"Yes Professor Lupin."

AHHHHHHHHHHHH Where have I been! I'm so sorry for the long, long, long, long wait!

FORGIVE ME! I WILL have more chapters up from now on.

I would like to thank Chloe (Guest) for that lovely review she sent to me I wish I could reply to you but Fanfiction can be a bitch sometimes LOL. But seriously thank you so much xxx