Diaries of Hogwarts Past

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Ok, I am SO SO SO SO SO sorry for not updating sooner! I know that all of you are probably really annoyed at me but I really am sorry.
And i'm warning everyone - you'll either think that this chapter is hilarious or that i have lost my mind. I hope you find it funny *hopeful smile*

Chapter 38 – 2nd Year at Hogwarts

James' Diary 9:57am 30th March 1973

Ok, there is a reason why I am writing now instead of on my actual birthday (as of 3 days ago I am 13!).

Kinda because on my birthday I was incapable of writing about anything but Sirius...

But that's not the point.

The point is, my birthday was pretty messed up.

In a funny way.

I have to hand it to the Slytherins – they know how to pull a prank.

It all started today at breakfast.

So we were just sitting there eating breakfast, talking about my totally awesome presents and minding our own business when there was a BANG!

We (meaning the Marauders) were flung to the ground and the whole table shook.

'Ow!' Sirius said and I turned.

'You ok Sirius?' I asked.

He looked confused. 'Siri...?' He said as he looked up, and when he caught sight of Remus, started staring at himwith a shocked expression on his face.

'Sirius?' I said again more firmly. 'Are you ok?'

'Yea.' Said Remus, then froze and started back at Sirius with the same expression.

'Guys!' I said, louder this time. 'Are you ok?'

'Ye-yeah.' Sirius said hesitantly. 'I just need to talk to... Remus for a minute.'

'Definitely' Remus agreed and they practically sprinted out of the hall.

I looked at Peter.

'What was that about?' I asked.

'No idea' he replied, shaking his head and continuing eating.

I ate too, but as I sipped on my pumpkin juice I stopped thinking about what Sirius and Remus were doing and started thinking more about Sirius.

Just Sirius in general.

Then I had an epiphany (and don't judge me until the end of the story!).

I realized... that I was in love with Sirius.

How could I have not seen it before?

He is the most amazing, talented, beautiful person I had ever met.

Peter must have notices the changed in my expression because he said,

'James, are you ok?'

I blinked and turned to face him.

'I love Sirius.'

'What!' Peter half spat out his pumpkin juice.

'I love Sirius.' I replied, my smile growing.

'I LOVE SIRIUS!' I yelled to the entire hall and raced out of the hall to find him.

Everyone (except a group of Slytherins who were laughing their slimy heads off) was staring at me, but I didn't care.

I had to find Sirius.

I ran halfway over the castle, not caring about how long I was running around for in my need to find him, before I spied him and Remus walking out of Dumbledore's office, talking quietly to each other.

'Sirius!' I cried and Remus looked up.

I sprinted towards Sirius, needing to tell him out I felt.

'Sirius!' I said again before enveloping him in a giant bear hug.

Sirius took a couple of steps back in shock, and I thought I heard him say,

'Wha...?'

I pulled away and held his face between my hands (with him looked extremely confused).

'I love you.' I whispered to him, staring adoringly into his chocolate brown eyes, which widened in bewilderment.

'What?' He said, trying to back away but I wouldn't let him.

'I love you.' I repeated and leant forward.

'AHHHHHH!' He screamed and pushed me away.

Remus grabbed me so I couldn't get any further towards Sirius, who was scrambling backwards on the floor, trying to get away from me.

'James, what is going on?' Remus asked me.

'I love Sirius.' I repeated for the fifth time today.

Sirius shakily stood up, leaning heavily on the gargoyle.

'Get Dumbledore.' Remus told him and Sirius nodded, backing away slowly.

I realized that he was about to leave.

'No! Come back! I love you!' I yelled.

With that Sirius turned around and sprinted up the stairs to Dumbledore's office.

I struggled against Remus but he wouldn't let me go.

'So... why do you love Sirius?' He asked, seeming uncomfortable.

I sighed. 'Well this morning I just realized. He's so amazing...' I sighed again.

Remus looked uncomfortable and I managed to get free from his grip and I raced towards the stairs.

But before I got there, Dumbledore did.

I crashed into him before I even realized he was there.

'Ah, Mister Potter!' Just the man I wanted to see!' He said.

I spied Sirius hiding behind him and I stopped listening, struggling to get around Dumbledore (who is a lot stronger than he looks).

'Mister Potter, if you please, come with me to see Professor Slughorn. This way now.' He started nudging me down the hall but I wouldn't go.

'But Professor, I have to see Sirius!'

If he thought that was in any way weird, he didn't show it.

'Of course, Mister Potter, I completely understand. Mister Black will indeed be coming with us to see Professor Slughorn. Hurry up now.'

I smiled.

'Well, if Sirius is coming, then of course I'll come!'

I still tried to get around Dumbledore to Sirius, but he still wouldn't let me.

'Mister Potter, if you stand on my left, Mister Black can stand on my right we'll be able to head off.'

I pouted. 'But I want to stand with Sirius!' I protested and both Remus and Sirius flinched a little.

'Well, when you get to Slughorn's office, you can sit next to him, ok?' Dumbledore told me, like explaining something to a 3 year old.

'Hmmm... Ok' I decided and started running down the hall to Slughorn's office.

I burst through his door and ran to sit down on the couch.

'Mister Potter!' Slughorn cried. 'What is the meaning of this!'

'Well you see Professor.' I rambled. "Professor Dumbledore said that I could sit with Sirius when I got down here.'

He looked at me with a mixture of surprise and concern.

'And can't you sit with Mr Black elsewhere? And why do you need to anyway?'

'Well Dumbledore said I needed to come down, and Sirius agreed so I came. And I love him.'

I said again for about the 6th time that day.

'You-you what?' he asked, utterly confused.

'I love Sirius!' I told him eagerly, needing to express my love to everyone.

'I see... and Dumbledore sent you down here did he?

I nodded. 'Oh yes, he should be coming soon. With Sirius...'

I sighed.

Slughorn nodded. 'Well, I think I have just the thing for you.'

He started rummaging around through various bottles.

I sighed again. 'Isn't Sirius so amazing?' I asked.

'Oh, yes.' He replied, only half listening.

'He's the most gorgeous person in the whole wide world.' I said again earnestly.

'Of course.' He replied.

At that point Dumbledore walked into the room.

'Sirius!' I cried and towards him, hoping that he'd be behind Dumbledore.

'Now, now Mister Potter. 'Dumbledore protested calmly. 'I have a strict policy in my school about such things. You and Mister Black are not allowed within one meter of each other at all times.'

My face fell and I didn't notice the thankful look Sirius was shooting towards Dumbledore.

'But I love him!' I complained, as if it would change something.

'I understand that Mister Potter, but those are the rules. Now you can stay there and Sirius and Remus can sit over here, ok?'

I nodded hesitantly, pouting, and Dumbledore went to talk to Slughorn.

Sirius and Remus went to sit down opposite me, looking extremely uncomfortable, and I entertained myself by gazing at him.

Then Dumbledore returned with a vial of a clear liquid that looked like jelly (yes, a liquid that looked like jelly. You didn't misread.)

'If you could just drink this Mister Potter.'

I took the vial and almost gagged at the smell.

'I don't want to drink this!' I protested.

Dumbledore sighed impatiently and looked over at Sirius.

Very uncomfortably, he spoke.

'Uh, please James. Um... could you drink it?'

I smiled, excited that my beloved had asked me to do something for him.

'Of course Sirius, if you want me to.'

I ignored the smell and drank the whole thing in one go.

I smiled at Sirius proudly and went back to gazing at him.

Sirius frowned. 'Um, Professor?' He said. 'Shouldn't it have... um...?'

Dumbledore sighed impatiently again.

'It seems that we are out of the immediate potion.' He explained. 'That one will cause it to wear off twice as fast. He'll be fine again in under an hour.'

Sirius opened his mouth to protest but Dumbledore spoke again.

'However, I am perfectly able to put a shield charm around you until the effects wear off.'

Sirius nodded, and Dumbledore pulled out his wand.

It was then, when my true love was being confronted with a wand that I tuned in.

'What are you doing to Sirius?' I demanded, standing between them.

'N-no James its ok. I want him to.' Sirius said.

'Oh.' I sat back down. 'Ok!'

Then-

Oh, the boys are back!

I have to go.

James.

Lily's Diary 1:32pm 30th March 1973

What was going on with the Marauders the other day?

They were acting all weird after breakfast.

There was an explosion where they were sitting, then Sirius and Remus ran out.

Then, out of the blue, James exclaims that he's fallen in love with Sirius and runs out of the Great Hall too.

Then, if we skip forward about an hour later, in the common room, Sirius and Remus walked looking in looking extremely confused and awkward, with James following adoringly.

I assumed they were just coming in so James could ask me out again, like he has every day ever since Valentine's Day (just to get back at Sev for saying he couldn't I suppose).

Then Sirius sits down on the couch and James tried to sit next to him but can't.

'Um, James?' Sirius asked awkwardly. 'Maybe you should change your shirt. You've still got pumpkin juice on it.'

Of course, James didn't have anything on his shirt, but leapt up off the couch.

'I should... get changed?' He asked again.

'Oh yes, definitely.'

Sirius nodded.

'I'll be back in two seconds!' He promised as he sprinted up the stairs.

The moment he was out of sight Sirius ran up to me and the girls.

'Lily, hide me!'

I turned, half angry that he had dared to me but half curious.

'Why should I help you, Black?'

Sirius looked slightly confused for a moment, but quickly said,

'James has been given a love potion and is now in love with me!'

There was silence for a while.

'Ha!' we (meaning me, Kelsey, Sav and Bee) suddenly started laughing all at the same time.

'Well someone would certainly need a love potion to like you, Black!' Kelsey managed to get out between bursts of laughter.

I saw Remus flinch a little, but Sirius insisted,

'It's the truth!'

We were about to start laughing again but Remus spoke.

'Please? I need to hide too! Come on Lils!'

I ignored the fact that he called me Lils (only Sirius does that).

'Wait, it's actually true?'

I asked and he nodded.

We all looked at each other, then burst out laughing again.

'I'm coming Sirius!' James yelled from the top of the stairs and I waved Sirius and Remus towards the door.

'G-go!' I choked out, still laughing. 'We'll cover f-for you!'

They sprinted out of the common room without a second glance and the portrait closed just as James came down the stairs.

'Sirius, I'm-'

He stopped running and looked around.

'Back?' he finished, then turned and looked at me.

I figured the potion probably made him forget that we hated each other so I stepped forward.

'Where'd he go?' James asked.

He looked crestfallen.

'James.' I said, trying to ignore the giggling coming from behind me. 'We need to have a little chat.'

He frowned.

'I'm not doing anything until Sirius comes back!' he insisted, which invoked more giggling.

'Oh, but Sirius is coming back soon.' Kelsey said.

'Yeah, and he asked us to have a little chat with you until he did.' Sav added.

James looked suspicious.

'Really?' he asked.

We all nodded.

'Definitely' Bee said. 'He said it was very important.'

James blinked, then smiled.

'Ok!' he said happily, skipping over and sitting on the couch. 'So what was it that Sirius wants you to talk to me about?' He asked.

We all sat down around him.

'James.' I said slowly. 'This is going to be difficult for you to understand, so you have to listen. The thing is, well, you don't actually love Sirius.'

He looked horrified. 'Of course I do!' he shouted. 'How dare you suggest that!'

'James.' I tried again. 'You've had a love potion that made you fall in love with him. You don't actually love him and he doesn't love you. It's all-'

'Wait!' He interrupted. 'Sirius doesn't love me back?'

'Pretty much.' Sav cut in unhelpfully, and James looked upset for a moment.

Then he turned angry.

'No, you're lying!' he shouted, covering his ears. 'I love Sirius and he loves me to and we're going to live happily ever after! We are! I know we are!' He said that over and over again and we all exchanged looks, trying to contain laughter.

Finally he stopped and looked up at me with puppy-dog eyes.

'He-he does love me, right?' He asked.

I bit my bottom hip hesitantly and then shook my head.

James looked horrified again, and then heartbroken.

Then to my (and everyone else's) surprise, his eyes welled up with tears.

He snuggled into my shoulder and started crying.

'James!' I cried in shock. Then, lowering my voice, I said, 'its ok, really it is.'

I patted his shoulder awkwardly but he shook his head.

'No, no it's not!' He sobbed 'I love Sirius so much and he doesn't love me back!' He wrapped his arms around my waist and sobbed harder.

I looked pleadingly at my friends to get him off me but they were all too busy laughing.

Then Sirius and Remus walked in.

'Is he gone yet?' asked Sirius, and then he stopped and took in the sight of James sobbing into my shoulder.

At the sound of his voice, James looked up and smiled.

'He does love me! See? He came back for me! I knew he would never leave me!' He ran across the room to get to Sirius (who was frantically searching for his wand) but halfway he stopped and looked dazed.

He touched the tears on his cheeks, and took in my tear-stained shirt and Sirius' horrified expression.

After a moment of confusion, his eyes widened.

'AHHHHHH!' He screamed and scrambled backwards. 'MERLIN!' He shouted. 'Did I actually do... all of that?'

He glanced back at me and the girls and we all started laughing again.

He looked sheepishly at Sirius.

'Is... Sorry, good enough?'

Sirius looked relieved.

'Only if you don't try to kiss me again.'

At that the girls laughed harder and James cringed.

'Whoops.' He said, and looked even more stupid. 'Man hug?' he suggested and Sirius grinned.

'I can deal with that.' He said, and they did that cool (no one tell anyone that I called it cool) handshake/hug thing that guys do.

Then James seemed to think. 'Now that I'm here,' He said, and turned to me. 'Evans, go out with me?'

I rolled my eyes, and he switched back from James to Potter. 'No way Potter. You know, I liked you better when you were drugged and in love with Sirius. Maybe you should work on that.'

With that all the girls stood up at the same time (we perfected that move the first 10 times we had to do it) and walked upstairs to our room so we could start our traditional hour of 'Grrr at Potter' time.

And to be perfectly honest, although I do get really mad at Potter for asking me out repeatedly for no reason, I'm mainly disappointed.

I mean, I really thought our friendship would last.

He promised.

He promised that he wouldn't hurt me.

And he knew that hurting Sev hurts me.

But he just let his ego get in the way of what's important, and I can't forgive him for intentionally hurting me.

Not for, what, the fourth time in two years?

And I'm sad that it happened.

I would've loved to remained friends, hopefully for all of school.

But he screwed it and I'm not taking him back.

No matter how many times he asks me out.

And if I didn't have to go, I'd explain about Kelsey's new 'friend' ;)

Well, they're not dating... yet.

But I and the girls know that it's only a matter of time.

He obviously likes her.

And I know Kelsey enough to know that she has feelings for him too.

But I'll explain later.

Love, Lily.

Sirius' Diary 1:32pm 30th March 1973

James' birthday was honestly the weirdest day of my entire life.

But I'll say it all in chronological order (yes, I actually know what that means)

It all started at breakfast, where my day started off...slightly sadly (for me that is).

So as we walked in and sat down at our table (yes, OUR table. We have our own 'Marauder Part' of the table. Once a group of first years tried to sit there. Let's just say it didn't end well.)

So we were just talking and I couldn't help noticing movement from the corner of my eye.

So I turn and find a certain Max Byers, as in, Max Byers who is the Keeper of the Ravenclaw team, walking over to the Gryffindor table.

At first I just thought, well maybe he's seeing a friend in Gryffindor.

Having friends in other houses is very common, so I wasn't too worried.

Until he stopped, right next to Kelsey.

Kelsey.

And he stopped.

And started talking to her.

And she talked back.

And it wasn't a 'Hi, I'm Max Byers, who are you?' type talk.

It was a 'Hi Kelsey, how are you going I haven't seen you in a while.' type talk.

As in, they knew each other.

And I don't know why it annoyed me so much.

It was just seeing my Kelsey (I can't believe I just wrote that) with him.

And he was laughing!

In a totally flirting way!

And she's laughing too!

Are they flirting?

No way.

Kelsey doesn't flirt... does she?

No she doesn't.

But she's got a hand on her hip!

And laughing!

And – grrr.

And I was about a second away from getting up and storming over there when the table exploded.

Really, all the food went like everywhere and the chairs flipped over and suddenly I was on the other side of the table, even though I have no idea how I got there.

I heard murmuring from the other side of the table, and then the question, 'Sirius, are you ok?' became audible.

'Yeah.' I said, and then froze.

It wasn't me that James was looking at.

It was – me?

I was staring across the table at myself – who was staring back at me.

I looked down.

Those aren't my hands! I thought frantically, and then I realized.

I was Remus, and Remus was me.

What the hell was going on?

'I just need to talk to... Remus.' Said... (Who said it? My body or Remus' mind?) Remus and I quickly nodded.

'Definitely' I agreed and we both sprinted out of the Great Hall.

We ran down one of the Charms corridors until we found an unlocked classroom (at least, one that wasn't already... occupied) and stepped inside.

We stood there in silence for a while until we both tried to speak at the same time.

'What the hell-'

'Do you know what-'

We both stopped and waited for each other to speak.

'Sirius I don't-'

'What's going-'

We tried to speak again.

Remus (in my body – ok for the rest of this I'm going to refer to the person whose mind it is) took a deep breath.

'You go first' he said, so I went.

'What the hell is going on? Why am I you? Why are you me? How did it happen? How do we un-do it?'

I sounded a lot more frantic than I wanted to, but Remus didn't care.

Remus put his face in his hands (my face in my hands?) and shook his head.

'I-I don't know. I feel so weird in your body... How am I going to shower!'

I would've laughed if I hadn't been so confused as to what was going on.

'Well, I suggest we both go see Dumbledore.' I said, more firmly than before. 'He'll be able to fix it.'

Remus half smiled. 'I think that is the smartest thing I have ever heard you say. It must be because you're inhabiting my body.'

I started laughing, and once I started I couldn't stop.

The whole situation was just so idiotically unbelievable.

Remus and I managed to stop laughing and be both rushed over to the gargoyle that guards (?) the entrance to Dumbledore's office.

'So, what's the password?' I asked Remus, who shrugged.

'How would I know? I figured you'd know, since you're being sent up here so often. Do you have any guesses?'

'Ummm... Dumbledore?' I suggested. 'Hogwarts? Gryffindor is awesome? Slytherin Sucks?'

We heard a chuckle from behind us.

'Liquorice Wand' said the voice belonging to the chuckle and we turned around to find Dumbledore standing there smiling.

'Problem, Mister Lupin, Mister Black?'

'Yes.' Said Remus and I in unison, and Dumbledore nodded.

'I see. Well, the hallway isn't the best place to discuss problems. Let's head up into my office.'

When we were all sitting down, Dumbledore asked, 'So, what is the problem?'

'I'm Sirius' I said, exactly the same time that Remus said, 'I'm Remus.'

Dumbledore raised one eyebrow (I SO have to learn to do that) and Remus cleared his throat.

'What we mean, sir, is that we have seemed to have switched bodies. I'm actually Remus, and he's Sirius!'

Dumbledore made no move to suggest that he was surprised.

'I see... so this happened at Breakfast I assume?'

We nodded, and he started stroking his beard (yes, people actually do that) and staring off into space.

After a few minutes Remus and I were still sitting there and Dumbledore hadn't come out of his 'deep thought trance thingy'

'Sir?' Remus asked, and Dumbledore blinked and looked at him.

'Well, after thinking about it I have assumed that must have been a student. And so, I'm assuming they used a switching spell. As switching spells are quite complex, especially being used on people, I have decided that it will most likely wear off by itself. Trying to switch you back myself could make matters even worse. However, if in 24 hours it does not wear off, I will see what I can do. Although I will notify all the teachers, I urge you to keep this just between yourselves. It would not do for gossip of this to be spread around the school, I know how exaggerated these stories can get.'

(He's not wrong. A rumour went around that this girl in the year above us was pregnant, but really it was her older sister who was out of Hogwarts. That and the fact that she'd put on a few kilos helped one of the girls in her dorm start the rumour)

Knowing that arguing was pointless, we sighed.

'Thanks professor.' We murmured, and walked out of his office.

But that's barely half the story.

We reached the bottom of the stairs and were halfway down the corridor when we heard the shout,

'Sirius!' I looked (forgetting for a while that I wasn't Sirius) to see James sprinting towards us.

'Sirius!' He shouted again, and I braced myself for him crashing into me – he didn't look like he was planning on stopping anytime soon.

As he thundered past me and wrapped his arms around Remus, I remembered.

Then James took Remus' face in his hands and whispered something that I couldn't hear, but made Remus' eyes (well, my eyes) widen in what seemed like horror, and he struggled (in vain) to get away.

James spoke again, but this time I could hear him.

'I love you.'

Remus screamed and pushed him off, in the process falling onto the ground.

I grabbed James before he could try and get to Remus again, and told Remus to go get Dumbledore.

I don't really want to go into any more detail about the whole thing, except for one thing.

It was before James went normal again, while he was upstairs getting changed.

We were begging Lily and her friends to hide us and explaining what happened when Kelsey said, 'Someone would certainly need a love potion to like you, Black!'

Which hurt a lot more than I'm willing to admit.

And I know that I'm only in second year, and I'm really young and stuff, but I really like her.

I don't know why, or how I can like her so much when I'm like 13, but I really do.

Yea but James got back to normal, Remus and I were switched back in the night (it was a hard time working out why I was in Remus' bed when I woke up) and life is back to normal.

Well, as normal as you can get at Hogwarts.

Sirius.

A/N: Words can not express how sorry i am for not updating in ages. I am so very very sorry and i hope you all forgive me enough to review?