The Marauders sat behind Lily, Tinkerbelle and Summer in History of Magic, and were amazed to see that they were actually paying attention and taking notes.

'How can they?' asked Sirius. 'It's inhuman.'

'They're in Ravenclaw, aren't they? Look, all the other Ravenclaws are taking notes too.' replied Remus

'Crazy house.' said James. Lily twisted her hand around behind her back, and gave him the finger, never stopping her writing. 'How the hell does she pay attention, write notes, and listen to our conversation at the same time?' he asked his friends.

Sirius shrugged. They spent the rest of the lesson practically asleep.

After the class, Remus went up to Lily, and said, 'Can we have a copy of the poem? Please?'

'No.'

'But we want to embarrass Snape.' said James, as he and Sirius walked up.

'And me?'

'No. Just Snape. Where did you come into it?' said Sirius confused.

'It's embarrassing to think that the guys I attract write this shit and are like Snape. It would be mortifying. So, no, you can't have the poem. Now I have to get to Ancient Runes. Nice talking to you.' she walked off, and Summer and Tinkerbelle followed her.

'I didn't think of that.' said Remus.

'It IS pretty embarrassing to be liked by Snape.' said James.

'Maybe we could just put up the poem, not saying we it was for.' suggested Sirius.

'The school's not stupid. Not many people are muggleborn, have red hair, green eyes, pretty and have Snape staring a them.' said James.

'Oh. So we should like apologise.'

'Yeah, we will, later.'

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After lunch, Remus decided since they had two free hours before Potions, they should go and apologise.

'But we don't know where they are.' said Sirius.

'Are you really that stupid, or a re you pretending?' asked Remus. 'They are RAVENCLAWS. Where would one usually find a RAVENCLAW?'

'Studying?'

'Very good.' said James, coming into the conversation. 'And where do they study?'

'The library!'

'Ok, let's go.'

(Sirius isn't stupid, he just has other things on his mind. really, he's not stupid)

They walked up to the library, and sure enough, the girls were in there, sitting at a table with a lot of books.

'What's with all the books?' asked James.

'We're trying to read the whole library before Christmas.' said Lily sarcastically, looking up from 'Hieroglyphics: The Formation' by Gurtrude F. Gringle. Then she went back to reading.

'But why on earth would anybody do that? asked Sirius.

Summer rolled her eyes. 'We're in fifth year! We have O.W.L.s this year! We're obviously studying!'

'But it's the first day, and they aren't till the end of the year.' said Remus. He liked reading, and sure they were in Ravenclaw, but on the first day?

'I know!' said Tinkerbelle. 'We should have started studying last year!

The three boys realised that the girls were completely serious, a fact which they found very scary. Summer seemed to have a moment of inspiration, and started scribbling madly on a piece of paper, which was already covered in her tiny writing.

'So, er, watcha doing?' Sirius asked her.

'Summary of today's history of magic class.' she replied without taking her eyes off her paper.

'But you were paying attention and taking notes.'

'Notes which I won't understand at the end of the year.'

'Speaking of which, at the end of the year, can we borrow your notes?'

'Hey.' said a girl behind them. They all looked up and saw a Ravenclaw girl called Stephanie that was in the year above them. 'I talked to them once.' she said to Lily, Tinkerbelle and Summer. 'You'll need this.' she handed them a piece of parchment, and walked off. The girls looked at it, and started laughing. 'You really, really need to work on your reputation.' said Tinkerbelle.

James grabbed the parchment.

Counter Curses

For hair colour change…

Remus groaned. 'I'm surprised anybody ever talks to us.'

'Yeah, especially if they're trying to study.' said Tinkerbelle.

'Somebody's got PMS.' said Sirius. Tinkerbelle chucked a book she had finished with at him. 'Ow! Ok, we're leaving, Jesus Christ!' He dragged James and Remus out of the library.

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They all made up and stayed friends, and sometimes the Marauders ate at the Ravenclaw table, and the girls ate at the Gryffindor table. And sometimes they both just ate at their own tables. James had a moment of inspiration and changed the hair and eye colour in Snape's poem, then copied it out onto the wall of the great hall. Snape just blushed, then sneered at everyone, and made sarcastic remarks.

Romeo and Juliette were still the most famed couple at Hogwarts, and many people actually read the play so they could quote stuff at them. 'It's not ALL bad.' insisted Juliette. 'What other way is there to get anybody not in Ravenclaw to read Shakespeare?' They walked down corridors hand-in-hand, and kissed occasionally, but slowly the excitement died away.

Tahlia and John were friends, starting from when Romeo and Juliette had ditched them, and all their friends tried to get out of them if they were a couple. They insisted they weren't but nobody believed them. John got so sick of this that one day he stood up in the common room, and yelled at them. 'We ARE only friends, but holy shit, if you want it THAT BLOODY BAD, fine! Anything to get you to SHUT UP!' He grabbed Tahlia and kissed her, but they had refused to give any details about the subject, so nobody knew anything.