A/N: I had to throw some Remus/Sirius into this, okay? I love this whole chapter except the ending. I'm uncertain about the ending.
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Has anyone seen A Very Potter Musical and a Very Potter Sequel? I'd like to point out that AVPS just further solidifies my point that Remus and Sirius are totally an item. Just watch both, on youtube, by Starkid Potter, if you haven't. They're HILARIOUS.
Disclaimer: It gets rather repetitive. I don't own any characters in this story besides Miles Dawson and Charlie Weasley's fictional boyfriend (who may or may not be Oliver Wood, it depends on if you like that couple).
January 12th, 1976
Well, Sirius is off with some bird, and James is trying to hit up Lily, and Peter is god-knows-where and I think I may be drunk, but that's impossible because I've only had butterbeer, but the people in Gryffindor (the Sixth and Seventh years, anyway) have been celebrating the New Year for twelve days now and who knows how long this butterbeer has been marinating and how many alcoholic drinks have been tipped into it.
Anyway, my head is buzzing quite pleasantly.
It's weird, inn't? I just figured out I'm in love with Sirius Black. Probably when I'm sober this will be a shock to me and I'll start weeping and smacking my head against the wall and saying "whywhywhywhy" over and over again, but the truth is that I think I've loved him for ages and leave it up to me to only figure it out when I'm drunk. Remus, you are the most pathetic spo in the world. Sop Spo. Oh, damn, I can't spell at all right now.
Sirius would find that funny. Actually he'd find the fact that I'm drunk funny, if I could even find him. I don't remember who he disappeared with. Miranda something. Not his usual type. She didn't have sandy brown hair or blue eyes- that's the kind he goes for. Maybe if I pointed out to him that I have sandy brown hair and blue eyes he might want to go have a bit of a snog with me.
Oh, Merlin, I am pissed, if I'm saying things like this.
Blast it all, I'm going to go have another butterbeer.
January 17th, 1976
WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?
It's only just sunk in. I mean, why am I in love with Sirius Black? And why can't I change that, or even want to change it, when it's so achingly clear that he is as straight as an arrow? I can't tell anyone about this revelation of mine, and you know why? Because the person I would normally tell IS SIRIUS.
I think I'm drunk again, so I can't tell if this is ironic or not.
See, I've decided I will only write in this book when I am completely drunk OR when something ridiculously important and/or impossible happens, like when Peter gets an O on his Charms exam or Lily asks James out or Sirius Black confesses his undying love for me.
HA.
Sirius and Peter and James are drunk too, which is the only reason I'm writing in this book, is because I'm quite scared of them reading it but because they're drunk they haven't tried. Well, I'll amend that, they have tried but they're all more pissed than me so the words won't stay still on the page. Sirius even accused me of enchanting the page so the words moved. Hardly.
James accuses me of being a boring drunk, the deep philosophical type. Unsurprisingly, Sirius and James are the rowdy kind of drunks, they like to make noises and shout things they think are deep. Peter just giggles a lot, which isn't much different than his normal personality.
AWAY, Sirius.
All right. He just fell asleep. I'm quite confused.
-Moony
After this, there were some more random drunk entries (most of which made no sense at all), but a lot of useful notes. Remus had been quite the artist, Teddy discovered, as he went through drawing after drawing of the Marauders and occasionally pictures of Lily. Sirius, of course, was the most dominant of all of the Marauders- It's because, Remus said in one of his entries, Sirius will pose for me the most, the vain puppy.
Teddy smiled. Of course it had never occurred to his reserved father that Sirius liked having an excuse to sit and watch Remus for hours on end while he posed as much as Remus loved to watch Sirius.
There were notes. For classes, between him and James, or him and Peter, and more frequent, him and Sirius.
James.
Do you want me to pass this to Sirius?
No, you prat, I want to talk to you.
What about? I'm trying to write a love poem to Evans.
Could you please re-read what you just wrote?
Oh dear Merlin. Carry on, then, before I completely lose my mind.
Do you know why Sirius has been acting so strange?
No stranger than usual.
I mean... he's stopped... touching me.
Mate, could you go back and read what you just wrote? Somebody's been on the end of a bad confundus charm...
You know what I mean. He's always so... touchy-feely?
Maybe he fancies you. Heh. I've really got to go now, though, Moony. Talk to you later.
Pages and pages of Potions notes, of herbs and plants and flowers useful for brewing, additions to the textbook instructions... and the defense against the dark arts pages... well, Teddy was fascinated. There was so much information there, about dark creatures and dark spells and dark wizards... it was unbelievable.
There were pages on Werewolves, too. Remus would cite books and state whether the information within them was true or false.
"For example, this one-" Remus pointed out, at one time, "says that werewolves mate for life. That's a load of poppycock if I've ever heard one. I don't know where they come up with this stuff, but they clearly don't deem it important to think of asking an actual werewolf if he can only shack up with one person for the rest of his life."
The things Teddy read... he skipped over a lot of notes, however, to find Remus' next truly interesting diary entry.
June 2nd, 1976
What.
What is this world turning into?
I'm not drunk for once, thank you very much for asking, and I'm writing in this because I THINK THE WORLD IS ENDING.
Would you like to know why?
Because Lily and James are sitting, TOGETHER, in the Marauder's tree, on the lowest branch, and they're laughing. Laughing! She's not hitting him, she's not hexing his hair blue, and she's not insulting him. Oh, dear Merlin. She just giggled. Giggled. At one of his jokes. She GIGGLED. What is the world coming to?
I take back what I said. The world is definitely ending. And do you know why? Because Peter just came up to me, all sunshine and lollipops and rainbows, and told me that he got an O on his Charms exam. And that the teacher was so amazed, he's talking to McGonagall about Peter maybe becoming his assistant, so that Peter will be the Charms teacher when Professor Flitwick retires!
James just fell out of the tree, so hopefully that means Lily pushed him and the world has righted itself on its axis again. I have to go for a bit. I need to help James up.
-Remus
Later,
It turns out James didn't need my bloody helping up because the reason he fell out of the tree is because LILY ASKED HIM OUT. She did. She asked him out, not the other way around.
And do you know what this means, if you turn back to my drunken ramblings of January 17th?
It means the only thing left to happen is that Sirius Black has to confess his undying love for me.
And he's marching towards me right now, with a very determined look on his face.
I am about to either become the happiest bloke alive, or the most disappointed one.
Later,
I am the happiest bloke alive.
A/N: Hey. Review.
Shadowed Shinobi: You know what? I can see OliverxCharlie too. It just popped into my head when I was writing chapter 11 and I was like, why not? Thanks!
HarryPotterResidentEvilFanJnL: I'm glad you liked it :)
Soapiefan: Actually, I think I'm in awe that for once I'm finishing a story, start to finish. I usually lose inspiration and stop halfway through. But in this story, for once, I didn't.
Noir Lime Canuto: Oh, I know. JKR made it totally obvious when she posted the family tree thing and it showed Charlie as never having married. He was gay. Gaygaygay. I have always thought Sirius and Remus were gay, and I argue it vehemently with anyone who says otherwise. Dumbledore just gives off that vibe, you know.
tricks-meuler: You're right, I suppose- Remus and Sirius are the only slash couple I actually believe to be canon (besides Dumbledore and Grindelwald, obviously).
ConradKCat: I love cheesy speeches! They make me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside :) I'm so glad you like it so much!
121 Amanda: thanks so much!
Ellara: In response again, thanks for realizing that I switched the names... not even my beta did, haha.
