Chapter 12: A fond Memory…Sort of

Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter, I do own Victoria and Serenity. I also do not own the train seen. Anything you really recognize, I do not own.

"Remember when we first became friends with them?" Victoria asked recalling the day.

"Yes. I do. Well I actually remember our first encounter with them…" Serenity replied, thinking back four years, when they were in there first year. "We were in the train corridor talking about which houses we were going to be in. You wanted to be in Gryffindor, Slytherin, or Ravenclaw, anything but Hufflepuff." Serenity said.

"And I still don't, Hufflepuff is for the people who have no specific strength. Yes nice enough people… But still remember 'give the rest to hufflepuff'" Victoria said remembering that from the Sorting Hat's song.

"Anyway Snape just left with Lily, and we took there place in the boys compartment, and you were talking all about how Slytherin would be so cool, since everyone else in your family has been in it and it would be cool to continue with it, and James caught onto that….

"You want to be in Slytherin?" a young boy with messy black hair said turning to her.

"Didn't you just get rid of another soon-to-be Slytherin?" A boy with long black hair asked the other boy.

"Yes, yes we did, why don't you go join him?" He said smirking at Victoria.

"Why don't you make me? All of my family has been in Slytherin, why should I be any different? What do you want to be in?"

"Gyrffindor!" Both of the boys shouted.

"I was talking to the other boy; sorry I didn't catch your name."

"James Potter, and that's Sirius Black." James said pointing to the other boy who was smirking.

"Well Potter, I don't think it's in your power to tell me where to sit and where not to sit." Victoria spat out.

"Well seeing you're in a compartment of soon to be Gryffindors, and your just one little Slytherin girl, I think we do." James said smirking.

"What's the problem with Slytherin? You couldn't care less when you didn't know I wanted to be in Slytherin. What's the problem you scared?" Victoria said with an evil grin on her face.

"Come on Vicki; let's go find another compartment..." Serenity said knowing that grin and what it can do, without magic; she'd done it before.

"Fine." She said grabbing her bag and heading out, almost getting tripped by James. "I'd count your blessings." She muttered while slamming the compartment door, and walking with Serenity to an empty compartment.

"That Potter boy is an arrogant brat." Victoria said sulking in her seat. "Why did we have to leave?" She asked Serenity.

"Because I knew that look on your face. It's the same look you had on when you gave me this," Serenity showing a healing cut on her arm.

"Oh I did?"

"Yes you did. And personally, I would like if you didn't get into a fight before the school year starts." Serenity said coving up the cut.

"Why would it matter to you? It's not like you were fighting." Victoria said avoiding eye contact."

"Yes, but you drag me into it…"

(Present day)

"Oh ya, how's that cut doing?" Victoria said smiling. "It turned into a scar thank you very much." Serenity said giving her an annoyed look. "I don't get what his problem is with Slytherins, thoughIts kind of weird, like I was talking about going into Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, he had no problem, but what's so wrong with Slytherin?" Victoria thought out loud. "I don't know…" Serenity said.

"I remember when we first really became friends, or really when they started hanging around us, because Sirius felt really bad about what happened…

Victoria and Serenity were in there third year and eating breakfast in the great hall. Victoria has, like every other girl in the school, fallen in love with Sirius, yet because her and James could hardly talk to each other with out uttering an insult, or wishing one of them would just 'drop dead', they could not talk to each other, or she could not talk to Sirius…

"Look Victoria, every other girl in the school, has fallen in love with him. Just get over it. Besides he's friends with that arrogant toe-rag, James Potter. How do you expect to talk to Sirius if he is always by him? Did you think of that?" Serenity said trying again to talk her out of this 'silly crush' she had on Sirius.

"Yes I did think of that, but if I catch him alone, it would be a good excuse to talk to him. It would be better if I was partnered with him in a project of some sort." Victoria said turning away from him, just before he looked her way. "I know he is friends with that arrogant toe-rag, sad excuse for a person that ever walked the earth, James Potter. But that shouldn't matter-"

"Now who is this Potter fellow you're talking about? It couldn't be me? Now it couldn't be me now could it? But I'm the only potter here…So…" James said from behind her, leaning down so his face is right by her ear, like he is telling her a secret.

"Oh hello Potter. Don't you have better things to do besides Eves drop?" Victoria said after jumping in her seat, silently cursing, for not checking around her to make sure he wasn't there.

"Well I usually do, but since you're talking about me…"

"Well, I hope you don't make a habit of it, most girls don't like that. Then again, I'm sure lots of girls like arrogant toe-rags. Like Lily for example? Wait, sorry she actually likes guys with the decency not to hit on every girl who walks your way! My mistake!" she said now standing, just about half and inch shorter of James, and in an 'up in your face' stance.

Sirius had heard her say that last comment, (actually all the marauders did, Remus was just rolling his eyes but then seeing the stance, started to get up too,)Looked up and noticed this, and was now starting to come over.

"Why you little-" James had started, but Remus and Sirius had come and started pulling him back.

"James calm down…" Remus said,

"Prongs, just calm down, it's just a girl, she can't help it…" Sirius added in.

"Oh I'm just a girl?" Victoria said a little sad. Not exactly what she wanted to hear, not that she wanted Sirius in this feud her and James have been having since first year.

"James why don't you listen to your friends, and Victoria listen to your cousin, let this go, just save it for another time…" Serenity said, getting nervous, most of the great hall was looking at them, including the teachers.

"Yes James, listen to them," Victoria said turning around leaving. Serenity quickly following her.

"I'm going to get that little Snake wanna-be…" James said, grabbing his stuff, "Just you wait; I'm going to get her good; how dare she insult me!" He said walking out of the hall and heading toward his next class.

"Oh boy, that is not going to be good for Victoria." Remus said rubbing his head. "Is that what her name was?" Sirius said surprised.

"Yes Sirius, Her name is Victoria Harper, and her Cousin, the girl who followed her is Serenity Hullhund They're in all of your classes." Remus said rolling her eyes, how he could not notice the girl that was staring at him through out the day, was beyond him. "Oh well she is cute…" Sirius started, "Like how Katie Holms was cute? Or like all of the other girls you snogged through out the years?" Remus said rolling his eyes and grabbing his stuff and heading out toward his next class.

"Hey no fair!" Sirius said catching up to him, "All of those girls are cute, and they all want me. How am I supposed to pick just one?" Sirius said while just grabbing his stuff while walking with Remus, Peter quickly following.

"Oh yes, quite the dilemma. Sirius Black can't pick one girl out of thousands that are in 'love' with him…" Remus said sarcastically.

The next few days were fairly normal, but the next trip to hogsmead was coming up and all of the girls were waiting to see if Sirius would ask anybody to go with him, or that they would get caught under the mistletoe that is hung through out the castle, in the most unexpected places… Victoria could settle for either one, she really didn't care.

"James has been awfully quite these past few days I'm starting to worry." Serenity said, while they were walking back from Care of Magical Creatures.

"Oh stop worrying and start thinking about if you're going to get asked to go on the hogsmead trip with some one!" Victoria said happily, she has been hoping that Sirius will be asking her to the hogsmead trip.

"Why am I the only one worried that he could be plotting something? I've seen James and the rest of the Marauders huddled around a piece of parchment, and there were dots moving…" Serenity said, but before she could say anything more, she was hit in the back of the head with a snowball.

She turned around and saw Victoria stifling a laugh and then quickly pointed to Remus, who was next to her nose in a book. He looked up confused, and saw Serenity just about to chuck a snowball at Victoria. Right, and I mean like milliseconds after she threw the snowball, Victoria grabbed Remus's arm and pulled him in front of her, and taking the snowball hit. "Sorry Remus." Victoria said after the snowball hit,

"Um, ya its ok?" Remus said, not exactly knowing what to say.

He looked up and saw Serenity's face bright red, and her hands cupped over her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She said, "I'msoooooooooooosorryremus! Ohmygod, Ididn'tmeanforyoutogethit! ItwasmeantforVictorianotyou!" She said quickly almost unintelligible.

"What?" Remus asked confused,

"She said she is sorry, she didn't mean for you to get hit, it was meant for me; why I say sorry-again." Victoria said while moving in front of him, seeing James and Sirius coming out of the corner of her eye. "Sorry!" Victoria said now running and grabbing Serenity's arm and dragging her along with her.

"What did she do to you?!" James said shocked.

"What did you do to her!?" Sirius added, "I mean she has a reason to dislike James, but what did you do to her?"

"Oh nothing, I just blocked a snowball for her…" Remus said,

"Wait, did you run and protect her?"

"Or did she pull you in front of her?" Sirius and James said finishing each others thoughts.

"She pulled me in front of her, she I think hit Serenity with one, and Serenity chucked one back and Victoria grabbed me and pulled me in front of her. Serenity had perfect aim; she'd be a pretty darn good Beater…" Remus babbled on, "Wait, and put me out of a position? No way, besides girls can't play on the quittach team." Sirius said.

"Remus you just gave me a pretty good idea on what to do to get her back. Thanks buddy." James said hitting Remus in the back, knocking a bunch of snow off of his head.

On Saturday, all of the students, third year and above were at Hogsmead. Since Victoria wasn't asked out by Sirius, or any other guy for that matter, she was at the fence that separated the pathway to she Shrieking Shack and Hogsmead, sketching it out. "Man, Sucks I can't get any closer. Serenity better hurry up, how long does it take to finish a cup of tea?!" She said to herself, getting mad that the sketch wasn't turning out the way she hoped. She was about to give up when a snowball hit her in the back of her head. "Haha, Serenity. Come on come out, you got me, we're even." Victoria said turning around facing the way the snowball came. Another snow ball came from her left and hit her in the head. "Ow!" She said turning to her left; then another came from her right and hit in the head.

"OW!!" She said, now facing her right; a huge snowball, and I mean HUGE, came and hit her from the side, knocking her down, just barley missing the barbed wire fence. She looked down and saw a huge like 3 inch by 7inch rock had been lodged into it. She got up as quickly as she could, and started to run as fast as she could, but she was being pelted by snowballs as she was running, some of them had rocks in them, she got to where she could see the three broomsticks. She leaned up against a tree and sighed of relief. She knew Potter was behind this. She put her hand up against her head, and felt blood, she looked and she saw a lot of it. It had gotten on her shirt, and her sleeves. "Boo!" Something said, laughing. Victoria screamed, while jumping up and started running but not getting very far, tripping and falling onto the cold hard ground, knocking her out. The last thing she heard was Serenity shrieking "Victoria!"

The next thing she knew she was in the hospital wing of the school. Serenity was there, reading a book, but you could tell she was somewhere else; her face was red, from crying. "Sen?" Victoria said quietly, "What happened?" "Victoria! You're awake! Oh thank god!" She said calling over Madam Promfry. "All I remember is getting hit by rocks, hidden by snowballs, blood, tripping and knocking myself out…" Victoria said trying to sit up, but Madam Promfry pushed her back down; and gave her a blood red drink, smelling of cooked liver, spinach, cooked char, and other disgusting stuff; it tasted worse than it smelled. Victoria was about to put it away, or rather dump it somewhere, but Madam Promfry would not look away till she drank it, so gaging every now and then she drank the vile drink.

"I'm going to ignore the rocky snowballs for now, but after you got knocked out, I dragged you to the Three Broomsticks, and Professor McGonagall took you to the hospital wing… Why were James, Sirius and Peter coming out of the forest after you? Did they do this?!" Serenity asked a little peeved.

"Well, I don't really know…I mean all I remember are getting hit by the rocky snowballs. And someone saying 'Boo!' and laughing…wait…It was Sirius! I know that laugh…I never thought…Sirius…Why would they do that? I mean I knew James wanted to get back at me, and so did I…but never like this…I mean this is just cruel….I never did anything to Sirius…I could have died from blood loss…" Victoria said turning on her side, tears forming in her eyes, why? Why Sirius, I didn't do anything to you…she thought, silently crying.

"Serenity, I think you should leave. You can come back in the morning, bring her some clothes." Madam Promfry said, shooing her out.

"Ok, I'll see you in the morning Victoria…" Serenity said walking away, getting ready to give James and Sirius Heck.

Victoria was released from the Hospital wing in the morning, when they went to the Great Hall to sit down to eat, Victoria noticed that all of the girls, and some boys who were guilted into leaving and sitting with there girlfriends, were seated away from James and Sirius, even Remus was a few seats down. That was thanks to Misty Dragonheart, one of Victoria's friends that was in her fourth year at Hogwarts. She did that with the help of Serenity, the entire school was buzzing about the prank that went to far. Sirius looked up and saw Victoria he had a bit of remorse on his face, while James looked up and his eyes been filled with hate, as per usual, but now Lilly would ignore him completely, or utter worse insults then before. That went on during breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next couple weeks. Victoria found out that McGonagall had given James, Sirius, and Peter 2 week's detention, every night and for both Saturday's, so now the Quittach team hated them.

"SNAKIE! SNAKIE!" Sirius said running trying to catch up with her, they were coming from Potions. "WAIT UP! WAIT UP! I NEED TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!" He said still trying to catch up, once he did, he went in front of her and stopped her. "Hello?! I was calling you." Sirius said out of breath.

"I have a name Black. And until you learn it I don't answer to you. So just leave me alone." Victoria replied, walking away from him. Sirius stood there for a minute, hitting his head for her name.

"Victoria! Victoria!" He said catching up and going in front of her again. "There I know your name! So now wait and here me out!" He said quite proud of himself for remembering.

"No I won't, I don't want to hear what ever you have to say. So get out of my face." Victoria replied coldly,

"Hey you said until I learned your name you wouldn't answer me! And I know your name. So you need to hear me out."

"NO I said I don't answer to you until you learned my name, that didn't imply anything. I am not one of your little love sick puppies that follow you around, Black. And I never will be." She started, but Sirius cut her off,

"Hey who said I'd ask you out? What if I'm trying to apologize? Huh? Think of that?"

"Who said I say yes? Who put you up to this huh? What, is this another sick joke you and Potter cooked up? Why don't you and your sick sense of humor, and go jump of the astronomy tower. Why don't you take Potter along with you?" She said venomously while walking away. Sirius looked a little hurt, and surprised. He had never been rejected before, and he wasn't even asking her out! He ran up to her again, easily keeping up with her fast walking.

"You know what, until you hear me out; I'm going to just keep following you around." He said quite proud about his decision.

"Oh what about your little fan club? Won't they get mad?"

"Mad? What would they be mad about?" Sirius said confused.

"Oh that me, the girl who hates Sirius Black with every fiber of her being, and then some, is getting all of his attention." She said casually, not even noticing that Sirius has stopped short, and was staring at her in shock.

"Now wait a minute!" Sirius had said running to catch up to her, "Why do you hate me?!" He demanded. "What did I do to you?!"

"Oh for once in you life think! Is your head really that hollow?! I thought that was just a myth!" She said full of mock laughter. "I didn't do anything to you that would justify what you did to me…" She said, trying to walk faster, they were now approaching The Fat Lady.

Sirius had stuff going though his mind, trying to make sense of what she was saying. "Wait do you mean the snowball incident? That was not my idea, it was all James." Sirius started, but got cut off by Victoria,

"But you went along with it. It does not matter who idea it was, but who went along with it." Victoria said quietly, and slipping in the portrait hole with another group. Sirius just barely made it, the portrait slamming shut at his heels. "I never did anything to you Sirius Black, but what you did, just so you could have some fun, not even thinking about what you were getting into, that can not be ignored, that was just wrong. So just shove off." Victoria said walking into the girls' dormitory, and slamming the door in his face.

For the next weeks, and months, all classes that Sirius had with Victoria he would sit with her, trying to get her to talk to her. At the end of the year, Victoria was slowly starting to talk to Sirius.

"Sirius I can see you, you're no ninja." Victoria said stopping in the corridor, waiting for Sirius to come up and try to get her to forgive him.

"Hey! You called me Sirius!!" Sirius said happily, as they started walking towards Potions.

"Don't get used to it Black." Victoria said, not realizing that she was talking to Sirius with out yelling, or insulting.

"Ohh were back to Black aren't we now? Well I can wait," Sirius said.

"Wait for what?"

"Wait for you to start calling me Sirius again."

"Oh yes, not going to happen; for a long time."

"Oh I don't think so…It will happen sooner than you think."

"I don't think so, see you still don't get the concept that as long as you keep snogging all of these girls, I'll never like you…" Victoria said as she was going down the steps towards the dungeons.

"Oh I don't care about that…I do care about you hating me for helping with James's prank." Sirius said carelessly.

Victoria just scoffed at that last comment and shut the potions door in Sirius face.

(Present Day)

"Wow, I like completely forgot about Sirius's involvement that last part… How did you ever forgive Sirius?" Serenity said staring at the ground. "You know I don't think I ever did, I mean I've always hated James more ever since, now I have a justified reason to." Victoria said, then jumping up when James came up behind her and said, "You had to tell that story didn't you? How many times did I say I was sorry?"

"Not enough Potter." Victoria said, putting her hair behind her ear, to show a scare right above her ear. James stopped short in his step. He hasn't ever seen that scare before.

((A/N: ok this is now the longest chapter I have ever written, and the most important one. You lucky people got to see the hate that has been in Victoria for a long time… Oh by the by this is a whopping 6 pages in word. Verses the like 2 or 3 I usually write…))