(James's [2] point of view)
The rest of breakfast was eaten in silence, ruptured by the occasional glare from James or Sirius. A couple of times Lily seemed on the verge of saying something, but she quickly shut her mouth, and continued eating. I was fiddling with my wand when I felt pieces of paper, and was reminded that I had my Lily's schedule. Luckily she was no longer sitting at the Slytherin table and was instead walking over to where McGonagall sat.
"Hermione! Come here," I shouted. She looked at me and after a couple seconds, and walked over.
"What?"
"I have your schedule, McGonagall gave it to me."
"Okay, thanks. I'll see you later."
She was walking away when Lily stood up and ran over to her.
"Hermione, I don't want to seem nosy, but, when did you meet Severus?"
"Huh, oh! I met him in the library this morning."
"Be careful, please, they are not exactly the best crowd."
"I know, really, it's okay. Well, I'll see you later. Bye guys!" She waved to the rest of us, but only Remus and I returned the favor.
"I think we should get going too if we want good seats. I heard Flitwick was starting a new lesson today."
Reluctantly we all got up and gathered our things to go to class. Once we were out of the hall I was cornered by James and Sirius, Lily and Remus
hung out on the sidelines.
"Why did you let Hermione stay there? Don't you now who they are," Sirius was shouting at me.
"Reasons that should be discussed at a later time, with less people." I added the last part in an undertone with a gesture towards Lily.
"That's a good enough reason for now. I say we should head to class before we draw too much of a crowd," Remus said while shoving James and Sirius forward.
"Good idea Remus. Let's go James."
Lily took his hand and together they walked in front of us, with Sirius in the middle, and then Remus and I walking side-by-side at the back. We
arrived before the rest of the class, and upon Lily's persisting and threatening, sat at the desks in the very front of class.
A couple minutes passed while the rest of the class was coming in and I was surprised at the lack of people that had made it to newt level, but then I remembered that there is way more kids in my year in the future, and that it only looks small. Finally, Flitwick himself walked in and began the lesson. Instead of the new lesson Lily promised, he droned on about proper wand handling and movement during spells. He said he felt the technique of the class was lacking after the results of the last test they had. I spent most of class watching a fly try to get out an open window. It almost succeeded, but sadly it hit the window sill again and dropped dead to the floor.
"Psst, James."
"What?"
"Why are flies so stupid?"
"What?" He turned his whole body to face me as he had been staring out the window.
"Why are flies so stupid?"
"I don't know. Why did you ask that?"
"I was watching this fly try to get out the window, but instead it hit it too many times and died."
"I see that all the time. You would think the other flies would just learn to fly straight through the window huh?"
"Yeah."
Sensing the end of the conversation we both turned back to our respective windows and continued staring. Flitwick was not even close to done when the bell rang, signaling the end of class. Lily who had been aggressively taking notes jumped when it did, knocking her bottle of ink into Remus's lap.
"How many times are you guys going to spill things on me today?"
Sirius, James, and I burst out laughing while Lily cleaned the spill with a spell. Severus, who I didn't notice was in our class, turned around from the doorway and sneered over at us. James returned it, but quickly went back to a neutral expression when Lily turned to look at him. Still laughing I
gathered up my stuff and headed out with the rest of them to potions, which we seemed to share with exactly the same people as our charms class. When we reached the dungeons Slughorn came bouncing out and ushered us into the classroom. He took his place at the front of the room, while we headed to tables in the middle. James shared with Lily, Sirius and I shared one, and Remus was left to share a table with a tall, curly-haired Ravenclaw. He turned slightly red and turned his full attention to Slughorn. I smirked deciding to ask him later about what was between the two of them. Slughorn cleared his throat rather loudly resulting in everyone to turn their attention to him.
"Good morning students I hope you brought your intuition with you today because I am going to let you make a spell of your own creation. You will need to include a description of what the potion does, ingredients, and how to make it. It will be due by Monday. Good luck!"
"Bloody Brilliant. I'm barley passing this class and now he has us making our own potions. Like my life wasn't complicated enough!" Sirius was grumbling to himself. I chuckled while thinking of an idea for mine. Would I even be here on Monday? Maybe I shouldn't even try to make one
if I'm just going to leave before we have to turn it in. No, I should probably make one, cause with my luck we'd get stuck here forever and I would be forever branded with a terrible potion grade. With this new reality in my head I immediately began searching my brain for a suitable potion. Didn't Albus invent his own breath purifier last year? I could probably just use that seeing how I use it basically every day instead of mouthwash. Yep I'm going to make that. Now I just need to remember the ingredients. I hope it doesn't take more than a couple days to prepare. I've never actually seen Albus make it. Wait, Lily has, I'll just ask her for the steps and stuff and say I only need them to make my breath minty. That way she won't know I'm cheating.
For the rest of the class I watched the other students pour over their notes and textbooks looking for ideas. I noticed Snape had already started brewing one and, by the looks of it, he was almost finished. By the time the bell rang for lunch Snape was bottling his potion, and handing it to a beaming Slughorn along with a parchment I assumed had all the required descriptions and stuff. I noticed Lily was watching him too. Since I had packed up earlier I exited the class and waited outside for the rest of them. They were the first to leave and didn't see me leaning on the wall, so I had to run and catch up with them.
"Yo guys, wait up!"
"Sorry Ron we thought you had gone ahead to lunch," Remus said.
"No problem Moony. Hope you don't mind me calling you that."
"No, it's fine."
"So what's up between you and that Ravenclaw chick?" I looked at him while wiggling my eyebrow in a flirtatious manner. He went super red and started stammering incoherent phrases. The rest of us were chuckling at the way he was reacting.
"Moony here was partnered with her on an assignment last year, and during one of the sessions, she snogged him senseless. He hasn't been the same since," Sirius said. He added the last part while sighing.
"Why didn't you go out with her Remus," Lily asked.
"Because he was worried he would put her in danger, and she wouldn't stay, and la de da de da," James, rather grumpily, said.
"Remus you don't honestly think that do you? My dad had a friend like you when he was younger, and last time I checked, his friend was happily married with a newborn son," I said.
"Wait you know," Lily turned to me and asked.
"Yeah he knows, but Lily how do you know," Remus asked.
"I found out fourth-year."
"And you didn't say anything?"
"Remus what was I supposed to say? 'Hi Remus how was your break? Oh and by the way I know you're a werewolf.' Yeah, don't think you would have taken that too kindly."
"You know," she nodded her head, "and your not scared, or disgusted, or anything?" He looked at her hopefully.
"Remus if I was any of those things do you honestly think I would be here right now?"
"No, and Lily thank you."
"Your welcome."
"All right you two, enough of that we are causing a stand still," Sirius said while gesturing around him dramatically at the couple of students who were standing somewhat awkwardly behind the sort-of wall we had created in the corridor.
"Yeah lets get a move on gents and lady," I said while pulling Remus and Lily behind me.
"Ron?"
"Yes Lily?"
"How come you know?"
"Special circumstances. Now lets move I'm starving!"
We finally reached the Great Hall and, unluckily, my favorite spot was already occupied so I grumpily lead them to my second favorite spot. I wondered if Lily would join us, but ceased when she came skipping into the hall and plopped herself down next to me.
"Glad you decided to grace us with your presence Hermione. What all the good Slytherin spots taken?"
"Har har har James, and for your information I only sat there to sit with Severus and he is staying in the library so I am sitting here now." She
angrily started scooping food onto her plate and the rest of us followed suit, but not in the same manner.
"So anything exciting happen Hermione," Lily asked.
"Oh nothing just the usual classes and such," she said a little to casually while waving her hand in dismissal. She took a sip of her juice, but I
noticed she barley drank anything. Something is up.
"Really? Are you sure?" I asked.
"Positive," she squeaked, with way to much enthusiasm to be real. I hmmed in response while watching her closely. She turned scarlet under my gaze and started up a conversation with Remus about grindylows. Something definitely happened.