Chapter three

Chapter Three

After the epic show that Narcissa preformed, the sixth years began to slowly filter out of the great hall, having to make the long journey to the transfiguration classroom. In class I couldn't concentrate at all and accidentally turned my mouse into a grey ear warmer instead of a pair of socks like I was supposed to.

The reason I couldn't focus was because my mind kept wandering off to the tall blonde I'd be spending the majority of my weekend with. Why had she asked me to go anyway? I know for a fact that she prefers Slytherins to Gryffindors, and I was about as Gryffindorish as they came. So what made me so special?

So with these thoughts running through my head the morning went by slowly and rather clumsily. Until lunch that is, when things picked up and got a good deal more interesting. Sitting in our usual seats near the head of the Gryffindor table Remus, Sirius and I, along with Peter were talking about our latest planned prank which was scheduled for tomorrow at breakfast, when a tall blonde walked by and caught her foot on the rug, falling flat on her face, her arms which were full of books flew up, and the books in turn flew everywhere, including the back of Remus' head, giving him a faceful of soup.

"Oh," she said when she saw Remus' face, "I'm so sorry, I didn't watch were I was going, and well, you know what happened."

"Don't worry about it, I'll be fine," he said, grabbing a napkin.

I continued listening to their conversation from the floor where I was gathering her books, I reached for one which lay open and something caught my attention, scribbled in the top corner of page 145 of her History of Magic text was

October 3, 77 Narcissa Maltaser is the first to snatch up James E Potter in Hogwarts history, boy is Lily jealous.

Just then the blonde chose to look down and saw the book in my hand, "That's personal; you're not supposed to read that!" She grabbed the book from my hands along with the others I had gathered and stormed off in a fit of rage, what a strange girl.

I took my seat and voiced my thoughts to my friends, "Okay, who was that weird chick? And who the heck is Lily?"

"She wasn't weird, she was nice," Remus objected; well know I know who to bug him about.

"That," Sirius said pointing his thumb in the direction the girl had stormed off in, "Was Dasani Radcliff, she's in our year, Gryffindor, she usually hangs out with Piper Morgan, and Lily Evans."

Remus looked baffled, "I swear if girls were a subject at Hogwarts, Sirius wouldn't just ace it; he'd probably teach it. Now how come you can't be like that with your classes?" he smiled and shook his head in disbelief as we walked out of the great hall after lunch.

In potions, the last class of the day, I let my mind settle on the blonde girl who had dropped her books, Dasani, Sirius had called her, why had she been so protective of a history book, it's not like anyone actually likes that class, or did it have an alternate use, maybe the little blurb about Narcissa and I wasn't the only thing that she had written. – My thoughts wee interrupted by my bubbling cauldron as the purple solution overflowed onto the floor. Stupid burner, I must have turned it up to high. By the time I finished cleaning up the mess, class was over, so I headed by to my common room, thoughts of the history book replaced with how useless dragons potion was; I mean come on, who's stupid enough to get that close to a dragon and feed it potion?

In the common room, I found Remus, doing his homework, on a round table set on the edge of the round room; Sirius had disappeared like he was known to do, with some girl who had waved to him between classes. So I set my stuff down beside Remus and sat down next to him, "Stupid potions." I mumbled still angry about the mishap.

Well maybe if you could keep your mind on one topic at a time, you would be so clumsy, now shut up I have a ton of Ancient Runes homework to finish," he scolded me. Sometimes he's worse tan my father, 'do this, get that, shut up' jeez.

But he didn't get much work finished, for as soon as I had shut up, a short red head came into the room, and immediately went over to the fire, where her friends were, at first they were whispering loudly, and then they all began squealing happily. Remus hated people like that, so he looked at me impatiently like I was supposed to do something about it, I raised my eyebrows, and put my hands up, I wanted nothing to do with this, girls are girls, but you don't want to piss them off; I knew that from personal experience.

So alone Remus stood up, and flicked his wand; ten little white mice shot out of it and scurried towards the girls, who in reaction screamed and jumped onto the furniture. It was hysterical, if only I had a camera. But the screaming had gotten louder, so I took it into my own hand to shut them up.

Getting up and walking over to them, I got my wand ready to blast some mice. Once they were all gone, and the girls had stopped screaming for long enough to sit down, I noticed that one of them happened to be Dasani Radcliff, the girl with the book, "Hey its book girl."

She glared at me, "Yeah, that's me, books, books, books. And we all know who you are." I think she knew who I was.

"So this James Potter, up close and personal, eh?" the girl who had spoke was tall, thin, and had brown hair, a nice combination, but not my type.

"Yep that's my name, don't wear it out, so what were you three screaming about?" I asked, smiling.

"The mice?" the brunette replied sarcastically.

"I mean before that," I retorted, wiping the smile off my face and replacing it with a sneer, I hate sarcasm.

"Oh, you mean before your friend so willingly tried to kill us?" she remarked pointing to Remus who had gone back to his homework, "Nothing important."

The Dasani seemed to think otherwise and obviously wasn't used to keeping her thoughts to herself, "Lily dating Corey Gruber is important, he's THE hottest guy in school."

Corey Gruber, the captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, chaser, we had been enemies since second year, he was the only one who could stop my passes, he really got on my nerves, "Corey? You're dating him? Why would you do that? He's an idiot."

"He is not," Lily said finally making her known, "At least I'm not going out with Narcissa Maltaser."

"What's wrong with Narcissa?" I asked the three.

They just burst out into giggles, girls.