Chapter 7

Library

"Guys my mum is sick again." Remus showed them a letter he faked in his father's handwriting.

"Aww. Does that mean your going away again?" Sirius whined. They were sitting in the common room. James was taking up three froths of the couch, Remus and Peter were sitting in two armchairs next to the couch and Sirius was sitting upside-down on the last forth of the couch.

"Ya, I have to go this Friday." They moaned, it had been extremely boring last time Remus left, and they didn't want to have a repeat. Remus decided to change the subject. "Has anyone managed to find that spell we need to measure the outside of the school?"

"No. Apparently they don't expect any of us to be carpenters after we graduate." James answered. "We should probably go back and look, huh." He made no move to get up.

"Ya, lets go, the blood is rushing to my head anyway." Sirius swung himself around, almost kicking James in the face and stood up. After James half yelled at Sirius for a minute they set off for the library.

Remus was starting to think that no argument in the world could split those two up. In the past month they had gotten in so many arguments that it made his head spin. They were in one at least twice a day, but they got over it so quickly. One second they'd be about ready to rip each others heads off and the next second they would be trying to figure out the easiest way to make one of the Slytherins cry. (Which much to their amusement has happened multiple times.) There was no make up period in between the fights the friendship. Remus had never had a brother, but seeing those two made him understand what it felt like. He had never seen two people that were closer than they were.

Remus also noticed a few other things. Peter was beginning to open up a bit. He talked to them more as time passed. One time he had even tried to play a joke on Sirius. He failed of course. There was no man alive that could play a prank on Sirius, and many had tried. People had started to automatically assume any prank was Sirius' doing. More than 90 percent of the time they were right of course. Many of the victims, mostly Slytherins but a few from other houses too, tried to get revenge. It never worked. Sirius always saw though them.

The biggest thing he noticed though was a bit more unpleasant. As time progressed Sirius started disliking his family more and more. He slowly figured out that some of the he never thought twice about was extremely wrong. One of the most notable was the word Mud blood. He had unknowingly called Evans one when she nagged on them that they should be doing their homework. He hadn't understood why the entire room went dead silent when he said it, or why Evans had started crying and ran back up to her dormitory. They dragged him back up to their room and tried to explain. He didn't completely understand though until he saw Evans again though. He immediately apologize and had tried his best ever since to keep from saying it, but he wasn't perfect so it still slipped out sometimes.

As soon as they got to the library they began looking for anything that would help them with the map. It was a Saturday so they had plenty of time. After three hours they began to give up.

"Shoot, I'm an idiot." Remus said and smacked himself in the forehead.

"What? What did you do?" James asked a little worried.

"Why don't we just ask the librarian if anyone would know where we can find it is her?" Sirius and James started laughing.

"You know, that is a good idea." They continued laughing as Remus went to talk to the librarian. He gave them thumbs up when she led him to the exact section they would need. Sirius, James, and Peter fallowed.

"You have got to be kidding me." Sirius said before the librarian could tell him to shush. "We have been looking for this for three hours, and it was all right here."

"Shush, or we will have to leave." Remus said quietly looking at the librarian who was glaring at them. They began to look through the books, placing any of them that were helpful on a table beside them. Now that they knew where to look there was a lot of useful information, not just for measuring but some of it was for the actually drawing of the map. Like a charm could make the quill only make a line as long as you told it to? After that the ink would stop flowing. So you didn't have to measure the line you were drawing. Also a spell that made them able to do any of the math needed to make the map perfectly scale in their head. All in all it was a very helpful day. After Remus took notes of everything they needed to work on the left.

"Awesome! Can we start drawing the map now?" Sirius asked. He was starting to get very excited.

"I think so." Remus was actually starting to get kind of hopeful. They had found so much information that it seemed like it would be easy.

"Sweet, we should start at the Gryffindor tower!"

"Not yet." Remus said and Sirius sighed. "We need to start on the outside first. That way we know what our outer limits are." Sirius thought for half a second

"Oh that makes sense." Sirius jogged outside.

"Wow he is excited isn't he?" Remus laughed. "It's only a map."

James smiled. "It isn't just a map to him anymore. Everyone is telling him it can't be done. It isn't making the map that has him excited; it's taking on the challenge that has been presented to him. He is determined to prove them wrong." Remus thought about this, and understood what James was saying. This was further proof of the powerful bond that James and Sirius had. It was extremely hard to believe just a month ago they hated each other.

"Let's go, before Sirius gets impatient." James joked and followed after Sirius. Remus laughed and he and Peter ran after them.

A/N: I am so sorry it took so long to update. I have been distracted. I will try to update more often, but it will take a long time. I plan on doing all 7 years of their schooling, but I'm not going to write every second of my time. Please be patient with me. I should have finished writing it before I posted it on the internet. I'm sorry.

BTW: I have a reason for Sirius to be so obsessed with how he looks, but you have to wait to find out what it is. ^_^ Ha I'm evil.

Thanks to all my reviewers and everyone that are reading my stories.

Special thanks for The giant purple squirrel and Becca S for the prank ideas. I have every intention to use them. ^_^