Year 6

James

"New year, clean slate." Sirius sighed as we pushed our cart towards the train. I shook my head.

"No way. You think the teachers will forget that stunt we pulled last year?" I asked, grinning. Last year, we put puking pastilles in the food that went to Slytherin's table. It was pretty funny to see everyone all of a sudden put a hand over their mouths and then lean over to hurl.

"Oh yeah. That was brilliant. We have to another one like that." Sirius exclaimed, grinning. I nodded my head.

"Of course! It's a yearly tradition!" I chuckled. Sirius took off his luggage on the cart as I did the same. We heaved them on the train and onto the very last compartment. Inside was Moony and Peter. I smiled as I shoved the luggage above Moony's head.

"I hear there's a new teacher this year." Moony said, leaning back.

"For what subject?" Sirius asked. I shook my head.

"Well, we'll give them hell, won't we?" I grinned and sat down next to Moony. They laughed.

"To answer your question, Padfoot, she is teaching Divination." Peter said to Sirius. I rolled my eyes.

"That has to be the stupidest subject." I groaned. They nodded.

"By far. We should plan our next prank on her. What are we thinking, boys?" Sirius said.

"How about we have one person predict the death of another and then they'll collapse?" Peter suggested. We gave each other an eyebrow.

"An option," Moony nodded his head.

"What about one of us knocks a crystal ball off the table and put some Cockroach Clusters on her desk while she's not looking?" Sirius asked. We all nodded our heads.

"Well, we should put something else on there too. Maybe like licorice snaps?" Moony suggested. We all nodded our heads enthusiastically.

As we talked about possible pranks, the train left the station and was a quarter of the way there.

"Hey, James, I have to ask about this Lily thing. Will it…" Moony asked. He gestured with his hands.

"Oh no, of course not. She's too annoying to be liked. I wouldn't… no." I shook my head a few too many times. "No, of course not. Shut up!" I yelled as they sniggered.

"Alright, whatever you say," Sirius said, holding up his hands in defense. I sighed.

"Hey, look the food cart is here." Wormtail smiled and licked his lips. I turned my head to see a woman knocking on the glass of the door. Sirius got up and slid the door to the side.

"Hi, dearies. What can I get you?" She smiled and gestured to the cart. Sirius pulled out a sickle and gave it to her. He grabbed a few chocolate frogs and sat down.

"Anyone else?" She asked. Moony gave her a few knuts and asked for some Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. I gave her a sickle and grabbed some Pumpkin Juice.

"I never get to have these at home." I said, holding up the bottle as the woman walked away. Moony popped in a Bean and swallowed. He scowled and shook his head.

"Which one?" Sirius asked, chuckling.

"Cockroach," He choked.

We all doubled over from laughter and Sirius fell off the seat. Moony set the pack of beans next to him and laughed a little. Then, we all went around and tried different flavors. I got toilet water at some point and Peter got rat dung once.

"Moony, real quick check if anyone is outside the door." Sirius whispered all of a sudden. Moony got up and peered out the door. He sat back down and nodded.

"Okay we need to talk about… " He whispered, looking at each of us. "when we're you know…"

"Moons? Wolves? Animals?" Peter asked. Sirius hit him.

"Shut up! Someone might hear you, idiot!" He whispered yelled. "Listen, Moony, we're sorry we didn't join you that last time. You know that we had to sneak into Professor McGonagall's office to get those items for the potion."

"Ah that's okay. I know that to help me, you guys have to not help me at times." He smiled. I nodded my head. "But there is one thing that happened…" He trailed off.

"What? Who found out? Did you wreck anything?" I asked. He shrugged.

"Lily stayed up that night for some reason and heard me. She looked out the window and…"

"Bloody Hell, Lupin! Do you realize what she's going to do?" Sirius almost yelled. Moony shook his head and looked down.

"I'm sorry, I know she's going to tell someone else." He put his hands on his forehead.

"We should've been there! I don't know why we had to go to McGonagall's office!" Sirius ran his fingers through his hair.

"The reason we were in there was because we needed to make the potion that would calm Moony down! Sirius, relax! She's not going to tell anybody." I threw my arms up in the air.

"You don't realize that I'm just looking out for him! Do you know who's noticing us, James? Snape! I can tell! He's been asking where I go with you guys around the full moon! He knows, Moony! I didn't want to tell you this because…"

"I get it! I get it." He sighed and leaned back in the seat. He put his arms over his head.

"I-I'm sorry guys. You've sacrificed everything to keep my secret and… I-" He was cut off my someone opening the door.

"We'll be at Hogwarts very soon. Change into robes now." A prefect said, peeking his head in. He closed the door and walked off to the next cart.

We changed into our robes in silence until we got to Hogwarts. We all tried to talk about classes but it wasn't our usual talk.

Then, I noticed the red hair in front of me. I smiled and, as Peter talked to me, I thought about the red haired girl. Nothing had changed from last year except that she was linking arms with a couple of girls. Gryffindor girls I had seen at the dance.