A/N: Again, I'd like to thank all that reviewed, I think it was only one, Hermonie (thank you!!! You win a prize for being the only one to review!!!! j/k, even tho I'd like to give you one.) Where is all the constructive criticism? Anyway, maybe it's cause I uploaded this right before ff.net screwed up . I sure hope so! Oh, and one more thing, you might want to refresh your memory by reading the last lil' bit of part 3, because this begins where that left off... and...yeah...
Disclaimer: (I know I forgot this in the last fic.) All characters mentioned belong to the wonderful and much praised J. K . Rowling, not to the beautiful and amazing LiLi (aren't I the modest one? You know I'm just kidding, don't ya?) If you've ever read Harry Potter you know this, and if you haven't then I suggest you do, because this fic will make no sense to you if you have not . Ummm.... and fruitopia belongs to..fruitopia I guess... ummm... not to me anyhow . And the cherry flavour is copy right Sirius and Remus inc. *grin* .
ANOTHER GOLDEN YEAR
Harry turned, immediately to Ron, as he was used to doing, but then, remembering that James would not turn to a complete stranger for help, and more likely to Sirius or Remus instead . So he turned in the opposite direction, and tapped Sirius on the shoulder .
"Cherry Fruitopia? Who thought muggles would have such odd drinks!" Black was saying . He hadn't noticed Harry's shoulder tap and was still holding a conversation with Lupin .
Harry tapped him on the shoulder again, this time much harder .
"OW!" Sirius yelped, and he and Remus turned to Harry .
"Look at this!" He thrust the envelope into Sirius' hands .
Black and Lupin read the note and then turned back to Harry, Remus with an "Oh my god, we're screwed!" look on his face, and Sirius, oddly enough, laughing!
"What are we going to do?" Lupin asked, concerned . He shot a confused glance at Sirius, who was still laughing hysterically . "C'mon Sirius! This is... well, serious!"
This did nothing to stop him laughing, despite the situation, Harry and Lupin began to laugh as well .
After about five minutes, they all stopped and Harry and Lupin regained their senses of "Oh no.. we're gonna die" .
"It's okay guys!" Sirius said, noticing the still worried expressions on their faces . "Like we said before, no one will believe Snape's insane story!!"
"But what about this Avery guy?" Harry asked, still unsure .
"He's Snape's friend! they'll think it was some kind of set up to get us in trouble! It'll all be okay!" Sirius leaned back in his chair .
Harry and Remus looked at each other, uncertain glances upon their faces, despite Sirius' reassurance .
Harry was aching to tell Ron and Hermione about the letter but had no chance . He waited all day until his last class, potions in the Slytherin dungeons, with (here his heart leap with sarcastic joy) the Slytherins .
They were split into groups of three, and by some miracle they found they (Harry, Hermione and Ron) were all together, Harry suspected Dumbledore had wanted them all in the same group .
Sirius and Remus were with Avery, who turned out to be the short, fat Slytherin boy, who looked like Goyle . Lily and Pettigrew were with a Slytherin girl, Wilkes . Harry had no inclination as to her first name .
While they were mincing and dicing their ingredients, Harry told them all about the letter . Hermione looked extremely grim .
"We have to do something quickly!" she said, decisively . "They're going to escape sooner or later, and then all three of us will be in..."
"Supergigantic shit?" Ron put in .
"Supergigantic isn't a word, Ron! And watch your language!" Hermione scolded .Ron laughed . "Ron!! This is serious!!!"
"Hmmmm... Hermione's right!" Harry said.
"No one's ever gonna believe him!" Ron assured . "If he tells them they're all gonna laugh and say, "yeah right!" . Just like Sirius said! It's no big deal!"
Harry and Hermione didn't cheer up . There was nothing what so ever that they could do without getting in "Supergigantic shit" .
Suddenly a table was knocked over . Potions ingredients spilled all over the cold, stone floor . Sirius and Avery were fist fighting . Sirius threw a punch at Avery's eye, but he, being much bigger, acted like he hadn't noticed anything . Avery made to trip Sirius, he was half successful . Sirius realized, at the last moment , what Avery was doing and tried to stop him . The result was that Sirius avoided Avery's foot, but slipped in some of the potion ingredients that had been spilled and fell to face first on the floor . He got up . Lily, Pettigrew and Remus ran over and tried to hold Sirius back from Avery . In an instant, Harry, Hermione and Ron were there too, pulling him away .
"He's not worth it, Sirius!" 'James' tried to discourage him . "Not now, anyway!"
Remus and Lily were telling him similar things . Hermione was yelling for the teacher, who finally noticed something other than her paperwork, and was across the room in two, angry strides .
Soon, the two were pulled off to the hospital wing .
"What was that all about?" Ron asked Lupin .
"I really don't know... one minute Avery was threatening him," Hermione gasped . "He didn't seem to mind." He assured her, "But then... he jumped at him, apparently for no reason! I'm not actually sure what did happen!"
This outburst in potions made no one at all feel better, least of all, Harry and Hermione .
* * *
"Black!"
Professor McGonagall stormed in through the hospital wing doors, with pursed lips and flared nostrils .
"This is the second time this week you have attacked a fellow student!"
Fellow student? What fellow student? Sirius had the urged to say, but resisted .
"First Mr. Snape, and now Mr. Avery! Must I tell you how very disappointed I am with you?" She practically screamed.
It wasn't a question at all . She was telling him she was on the break of strangling the guts out of him .
"I'm sorry Professor!" Sirius said, "He insulted me, and my friends! I have dignity you know! I'm not just going to sit and let it happen!"
Professor McGonagall looked as if she was about to take all that she had said back, but then decided better of it and snapped, "You had absolutely no good reason to attack either of them! I think a week's detention is in order!"
Sirius stammered and stuttered and gaped, but McGonagall didn't say another word about it . Soon enough she was shooed out by an angry Madam Pomfrey .
"Really! Yelling at patients! What is the world coming to? How are they supposed to heal if everyone's screaming their heads off?"
Sirius was quite relieved that McGonagall was gone, on his part .
Later that day, Hermione, Ron, Harry, Remus, Pettigrew and Lily all came to visit Sirius in the hospital wing . There, he told them the whole story of his attacking Avery, full of nasty comments on what McGonagall had said (or rather yelled) .
Apparently, Avery had been threatening and insulting Sirius and Remus . Sirius had eventually lost his temper and leapt at Avery . It struck Harry as exactly what Ron would do in that situation .
They talked with Sirius for about 20 minutes before they were set away by Madam Pomfrey, she still muttering things about "disturbing the patients" .
Harry, Ron and Hermione went to the library after this, to work out how to get Snape and James out . Hermione worked out that the best way to do it was to freeze the tree and let them get out themselves .
The only problem was that they would be seen, either by Snape, James or someone else .
They thought for a long while about just letting Remus and Sirius set them free, but that wouldn't work either, because they'd find the second James and compare him to the first James (Harry) and they'd find that James number 1 was the real James, and for all they knew, Harry was Professor Flitwick in disguise .
They thought for a very long time, but nothing came, better than their first idea so they made their way up to the great hall for super .
Matters only got worse from there . Over super, a note was mysteriously dropped into his bowl of pudding. . Harry wasn't at all surprised to find that it was from Avery . It read:
Potter,
I now know exactly what happened, your idiotic friend Black made the small mistake of letting it slip . Tomorrow night, I am going to let Snape out, and all will be blamed on you! I wish you luck in trying to explain this to McGonagall, and avoiding expulsion.
The same untidy signature as was scrawled at the bottom as was on the first note he had received that day .
"Damn it!" Harry swore . "Sirius! You told him!! " He crumpled the letter .
"Told who? What?" He spluttered, spitting his mouthful of pumpkin juice back into his goblet .
"Avery!"
"No... I never, James, you're talking nonsense."
"Oh, well read this and see if I am!" Harry thrust the letter into Sirius' face .
Sirius read the letter, and re-crumpled it .
"Damn it is right!" said Sirius, seriously . "What are we going to do, James?"
A/N: And thus ends this chapter . I had 1 review for the last thing!!! ONE!!!! Okay, if you're reading this now, please know that I'll love you forever (In a non-gross way) if you review . Now be a responsible reader!!! ^_^