A/N
I've been on holiday, and whilst there I did something very useful. I watched
The Lion King. Which is what this story is based upon. I wrote it whilst
gaining a suntan on Whitecliff Bay Beach (Isle of Wight).
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Introduction
Sirius Black, Remus
Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter, voted most likely to stay friends
after graduation by the majority of Hogwarts. They had been as close as close
can be all throughout Hogwarts, since their very first train ride, and this
wasn't likely to be halted by a "little thing called Graduation."
It's these wise words
from Sirius Black that our story comes about, for Graduation didn't halt their
friendship, oh no. The thing that seemed most likely to break them up was
something so pure and so good, it didn't seem possible for it to
happen. But it did. So behold fellow reader, a story that tests friendship to
the limit, a story of love and a story of comical jokes from Sirius Black. For
this is…
…The Tale of Four Friends
A cold night in mid
December is where our tale begins, in a cosy warm pub called The Three
Broomsticks. This is where we meet our four hero's, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black,
James Potter and Peter Pettigrew.
At this precise moment
they are gathered around an oak table, large mugs of Butterbeer clutched in
their hands, laughing at something Sirius had just said. It had been two years
since they had graduated from Hogwarts and true to their word they had stuck
together.
Sirius, who had perhaps
had more Butterbeers than would normally be advised stood up onto a chair and
called the attention of the pub.
"'Scuse me! Could I
have your attention please!" the pub continued to buzz with chatter.
"'Scuse me! I would like your attention please!"
Sirius shouted again.
The hubbub of talk subsided
and eventually ended with every pair of eyes in the room upon Sirius, many of
them looking at him disbelievingly as if they were asking "What the hell
are you doing standing on a chair in the middle of a crowded pub at ten o'clock
at night?"
Once Sirius had got the
attention of everyone, he began a speech.
"'Ello, my name's
Sirius. These are my friends," he gestured to the three grinning people
sitting below him. "I just wanted to let you all know that we are the
greatest of friends and that nothing will ever break us up."
Once again the people in
the pub looked at him disbelievingly, but this time as if to say "Okay, as
soon as I've finished my drink, I'm going to go and owl the men in white
coats."
Sirius bowed, then
stepped down off the chair, and slowly everyone went back to what they were
doing.
James, Remus and Peter
decided that Sirius had had enough Butterbeer for that night and they dragged
him outside into the cold night air.
About five minutes later
when Sirius was dancing around in the snow, a voice behind him made him jump.
"Was there an actual
point to your little speech back there Sirius?"
He turned around to find
himself facing a girl with sparkling green eyes and short red hair.
"Um, yes?" he
said, then, "who are you?"
"You don't know me?
And I thought my memory was bad!" the girl chuckled as James, Remus and
Peter came creeping up behind Sirius.
"I'm sorry, but I
still don't know who you are." Sirius said bewilderedly.
"I'll give you three
guesses." said the girl her green eyes twinkling with laughter.
"Lily Evans?"
came James's voice from behind Sirius, and the girl nodded, "little Lily
Evans from two years below us?"
"Yup. That's me. But
I'm not quite so little any more, huh?"
James shook his head
blinking.
"I can't believe it!
Is it really you?"
"Who else would it
be?" she replied.
"Oh my God!"
James hugged Lily and
when they pulled apart they found Peter, Remus and Sirius looking at them very
strangely.
"What's going on
here?" Remus demanded.
"Remus, this is Lily
Evans!" James waited for some sort of reaction from any of his friends but
there was none.
"I'm still
lost." Peter said.
"Lily was two years
below us at Hogwarts. She was in Ravenclaw. I'm guessing that she's just
graduated from Hogwarts."
Lily nodded. "Well,
I graduated last Summer to be exact."
"You always were the
perfectionist." James said grinning.
"Okay," said
Peter, "but how do you two know each other so well? I mean, when we were
at Hogwarts we never really had much to do with the younger students, did
we?"
"No, but do you
remember that Summer Camp thing I had to go on, the summer after we graduated?
My parents thought it would make me "a better Wizarding person",
anyway, Lily was there too, and as she was the only person there who was remotely
near my age, all the others were ten and eleven years old, we became really
good friends, but lost touch after the summer because Lil had to go back to
Hogwarts."
"Oh, right."
his three friends chorused.
"Come on Lily, let's
go over here and do some catching up." James led Lily over to a bench on
the other side of the street, leaving Sirius, Remus and Peter gaping after him.
"He sure works
fast." Peter commented.
"This stinks"
said Sirius.
"Oh sorry,"
Peter said, looking embarrassed.
"Not you! Them! Him,
her, alone!" Sirius practically shouted.
"What's wrong with
that?" Remus asked, looking puzzled.
Sirius put on a woeful
face, leaped up onto a snow covered wall and began to sing in a doleful, sad
voice, putting on a sorrowful, yet comical face.
"I can see what's happening,
And they don't have a clue,
They fall in love and here's the bottom
line,
Our quartet's down to three,
The sweet caress of love,
There's magic everywhere,
And with all this romantic atmosphere,
Disaster's in the
air!"
Sitting on the wall
watching Lily and James talk quietly, not a word was passed between Sirius,
Remus and Peter.
There's a calm
surrender
To the rush of day
When the heat of the rolling world
Can be turned away
They watched as Lily
threw back her head and laughed, most probably at some cheesy joke James had
just told her.
An enchanted moment
And it sees me through
It's enough for this restless warrior
Just to be with you
Sirius sighed as he saw
James put his arm around Lily. It was official, James had lost his mind.
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far
Remus smiled. Love was
definitely in the air tonight. He glanced across at Sirius and saw hime
frowning. He wasn't going to cause trouble for James and Lily was he?
And can you feel the love tonight
How it's laid to rest
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds
Believe the very best
Peter watched James as he
leaned in to kiss Lily. He laughed when she moved away at the last moment,
causing James to kiss the air.
There's a time for everyone
If they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope
Moves us all in turn
James looked at Lily,
relishing her beauty. He didn't know what was happening to him, only that he
wanted to spend the rest of his life in the company of this girl. And then it
occurred to him. Was he falling in love?
There's a rhyme and reason
To the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager
Beats in time with yours
Lily's heart was beating
twice as fast as it normally would. She hadn't ever felt like this before. What
was it?
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far
Hesitantly, James once more
leaned in to kiss Lily, and this time she didn't pull away. Sirius made a face
and then once more stood up onto the wall. He put on the sorrowful face once
more, and began to sing again.
"And if they fall in love tonight,
It can be assumed,
These carefree days with us are
history,
In short our pal is
doomed!"
The last quivering note
of the song resounded around the snow covered street and caused a mound of
heavy, wet, cold snow to fall from the branch of a tree onto Sirius. This, in
turn caused Sirius to fall off the wall into the deep snow below.
By now, James and Lily
had come over to the wall. As soon as they saw Sirius, they began to laugh, and
they were shortly joined in their guffaws by Peter and Remus, and then finally
Sirius. And then they knew, that although James had indeed fallen in love with
a girl, it was for the better and not the worse.
A/N Wow! I actually
finished this! I love that song. Review please!
DISCLAIMER
Nothing belongs to me.
The characters from Harry Potter belong to J.K. Rowling, the song, "Can
You Feel the Love Tonight" belongs to Elton John. The plot sort of belongs
to me and sort of belongs to The Lion King. Oh, yeah, one more thing: the
little bits that Sirius sings belong to Timone the Mere Cat and Pumba the Pig.
