The Scariness of Two in a Set of Triplets

James Tristen Potter was nervous. James, Sirius and Peter were waiting for Rose and Lily to arrive and James was nervous.

"You're making me dizzy," Sirius told him. James looked down at the rut he had made in the floor from his pacing.

"Fine Apeth. I'm just nervous," James replied. Sirius coughed and it sounded vaguely like understatement and all to cock. "What? I mean, how do we tell her about Remus? And how do we know she won't rat us out?"

"She is Rose's sister you know," Sirius assured him.

"I guess, I have to trust Rose's judgement. But how do we know that Remus didn't want her to know? Isn't it unfair to him?"

"My question is how did Rose figure it out before us," Sirius pondered. "How are we going to tell Lily?"

"How do you think I figured it out, Lily told me," Rose told them as she came into the room followed by Lily. "Lily figured it out in first year and told me over the summer."

"See! She didn't figure it out before us!" Sirius exclaimed jumping up. He started to jump around the room knocking over everything in his path.

"I don't Adam and Eve it! What kind of Potions room is this?" Rose asked looking around the unorganized place. Things were thrown about randomly. "All the ingredients are all over the shop! You can't find anything." At this, Lily started to snicker and everyone remembered she was in the room. "What is it?" Rose asked her.

"Nothing, sister of mine, but who are you to be lecturing on cleanliness?" Lily countered.

"Like you're neat!"

"I am neater than you!"

"I have to wade knee deep in stuff to get to my bed!"

"That proves my point. So what are you making?" Lily asked the confused and terrified onlookers.

"Um, an Animagnus potion," Peter stammered.

"Well it's obviously not very good," Rose told them looking from the book to the potion.

"You were supposed to harm the Monkshed to dissolve. It doesn't work properly if you don't," Lily commented as she too peered at the book.

"And this was supposed to sit for a week. Did you even add tarragon?" Rose inquired.

"No," Sirius stuttered. "It doesn't say tarragon in there." Sirius pointed to the ingredients list which didn't contain tarragon on it.

"Of course it doesn't…" Lily exclaimed.

"Even a first year would know when you add bistort you need to add tarragon!" Rose finished Lily's sentence.

"They're anorak," Sirius whispered to James.

"Please don't do that again," James pleaded. He was cowering a bit.

"Fine, but you will need to start over," Rose told them.

"Damn," Peter muttered.

"What was that?" Rose asked.

"Nothing," Peter stammered.

"Ok, James, where do you keep your Sandalwood?" Lily asked.

"Look around," he replied. Rose and Lily sent him a look that sent him scrabbling around looking for the specified herb.

"I think we will need to label everything," Rose sighed.

"Do we have to?" Sirius whined.

"Do you want to become an Animagnus? Yes? Then let us work!" Lily and Rose said together.

"They're scary," James half whispered to Sirius who nodded.

"Peter, clean out this cauldron!" Rose commanded. He scurried to obey.

"What are you doing?" James asked Lily as she studied a book.

"I'm thinking of the charm that will keep the cauldron from becoming hot on the outside and the one that will keep it from tipping over. It would look a bit suspicious if we came into Madame Pompfrey's office with fingers covered in this stuff," she replied. James looked at his hands and remembered all the looks he had gotten from the nurse about the source of the liquid on his fingers. Lily smiled at him. "I take it you have already been to see her in the past over this?"

"Yeah," James said sheepishly.

"So we can't let it happen again. How's it going Rose?" She called over to her sister.

"We're doing ok, but we're all out of some ingredients that will be a bit hard to get," Rose called back. Lily looked over the ingredients that they needed.

"I get to work in the third greenhouse once in a while. They grow some of those, I should be able to take them. I have no idea where to get Powered hen's teeth though. And a hair of Hippogriff is not going to be easy. You're going to have to get some blood from Remus. We need werewolf's blood," Lily sighed. "I don't know how you're going to get it from him."

"That should be easy," James told her. "But the powdered hen's teeth will be a problem. Do you think Kindle will have some in his private store?"

"He might, but it will be hard getting some. Rose, you and James take Care of Magical Creatures, right? Tell the professor you want to study Hippogriffs. He probably will get some for you guys to study," Sirius said.

"So I'm on the greenhouse herbs, James and Rose are on the hippogriffs and why don't you get the herbs from Professor Kindle with Peter," Lily said.

"So we'll meet back here in a week, break!" Sirius shouted. Everyone gave him a look. "It's football!" Again they all looked at him. "American football."

"Whatever," Lily said. "See you, Rose. You do know you owe me for helping you, right?"

"Yeah, I'll be civil to Petunia over the next break I see her or at least for the first week," Rose muttered.

"Good," Lily told her and gave her a quick hug before exiting the room. Rose also said her good-byes and made her way up to the Griffindor common room and proceeded to work on her homework.

"Lily's hot," Sirius commented. James nodded his agreement. In his thoughts later, he would realize that he didn't think Lily was hot so much as pretty. Not knowing where these thoughts were coming from, he would dismiss them.

Likewise, Lily spent sometime that night wondering why she felt a bit funny around James. She too dismissed these thoughts as nothing.

A/N I apologize for all the incorrectly used obscure English phrases. I'm a stupid American. I finally got off my arse and looked some up and now I'm becoming obsessed. What can I say, I'm an anorak. Should I continue trying to use the obscure English phrases? If there are any English readers out there who are offended. I'm really sorry and please tell me how to use the phrases correctly.