"Well, Minerva I think I will have to ensure that Harry is given a positive view of the marauders, I hadn't been sure about showing some of these but I suppose it won't hurt." Remus knelt before a bag that had been abandoned by the door and retreived a vial, he quickly transferred it into the pensieve and a familiar image appeared.

...

Snow softly appeared to fall from the ceiling of the Great Hall, various groups of students sat idly chatting and enjoying the remainders of their dinner. James Potter and Peter Pettigrew sat at one end of the Gryffindor table enjoying the last morsels of the Christmas pudding.

"I'm never going home for Christmas again," Peter declared as he licked the last of his pudding from his spoon.

"Really, that might be slightly awkward after you graduate."

Peter looked concerned, he had not taken into consideration that there was a limit to the number of years a student could spend at Hogwarts. "I'll just have to get a job here or something, yes, that's it I can be a teacher."

James snorted, "You teach! Oh that's too good Pete, just wait until I tell Sirius and Remus of Professor Pettigrew's dream of being a teacher.

Peter glared at the black haired boy sitting across from him, who could barely contain his amusement and looked to be about to fall of his seat.

"I'll leave you to it then," Peter said to James stonily before making his way out of the Hall.

"Oi, Pete, wait up," James ran after him catching up with him on the staircase. "Where are you going?"

"Common room," Peter replied shortly but within half a minute he and James were laughing over the pranks they had planned for the Slytherins over the coming month. Upon their return to the Gryffindor Common Room they found Sirius in a chair by the fire, reading, as he ate a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.

"Sirius are you alright?"

"What, course I am." This worried James even more however as Sirius had barely looked up from his book he gave Peter a worried look before asking, "What's that you're reading?"

"Just one of Rem's books that he left behind."

"OK, but why are you reading it?"

Sirius paused before putting the book down in front of him and grabbing a chocolate frog from the table, as they waited for him to respond James and Peter noticed that the book was called 'Magical Beasts'. "First of all hear me out on this ok? It might sound a bit far off but I swear the facts are all there."

"Yeah, can you just tell us, you're starting to scare me," Peter said impatiently, as he sat next to Sirius grabbing one the box of beans. James nodded his agreement, looking from the book to Sirius' excited face with worry.

"You know Snape, right?"

"Who," James answered, vaguely looking at Peter who sniggered.

"Very funny, but seriously it's about Snape, I know what he is, he's a vampire."

"Vampire?" James and Peter both looked stunned.

"Yes," Sirius began to hastily explain himself. "He's really pale, you never see him outside and if you do he's wearing his thickest robes and you can hardly see his face for that greasy hair. It's all there, Snape is a vampire."

"Sirius, you do realise that vampires sleep during the day."

"Yeah, and they drink blood, they don't eat normal food like us."

"Snape attends all his classes during the day."

"He's always at meals, he was there tonight and he wasn't drinking blood."

"That doesn't mean he's not one, just you two wait, I'll prove that he's a vampire."

James looked at Sirius, taking in the chocolate smeared on his cheek and the empty packets of sweets surrounding him, "Sirius are you sure you're not just a high on sugar, how much have you had, wait a minute." James leaned down and picked up one of the wrappers at Sirius feet.

"Sirius, please tell me that one of your pure-blood, muggle hating relations sent you this muggle chocolate bar."

Sirius gulped as James held the Cadbury wrapper in his face, "but Snape's a vampire James, honest, just let me prove it, please."

James laughed and ruffled Sirius' hair, "well it was nice knowing you Black, but a word of warning you may not want to spend the next few hours proving Snivellus is a vampire. There won't be any point." James sat down next to Peter and laughed at the expression on Sirius face.

"What do you mean no point?"

James and Peter looked at each grinning before turning to Sirius and at the same time saying, "Because Remus is going to kill you."