Chapter 8: O.W.L.s and the Second Incident

A/N Another drama-filled chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter characters or anything Harry Potter related. I do own the OC Jasmine and the plot of this story.

It had been a couple months since the first incident that the Marauders now referred to as the "prank." And Easter break had come and gone. The "prank" was almost all but forgotten by the four boys and Jasmine by now. It didn't matter anymore, especially with O.W.L.s coming up soon. Most of the fifth-year students were focusing on studying for those and the Marauders were no exception. Some of the Marauders (Remus) were studying more than the others but they were still studying.

Then came along an amazing assignment in Muggle Studies for them to complete over the summer. Sirius and Jasmine were sitting next to each other like they usually did in Muggle Studies. It was one of their last classes before O.W.L.s when the professor announced an extra credit assignment. She told them that they would get extra credit over the summer if they brought something Muggle in the next semester. The assignment produced a lot of chatter, and the professor allowed it since the class was over anyway.

After they were dismissed from class, Sirius turned to Jasmine and asked her, "Hey, Mare. Could you help me with the assignment? I know it is only extra credit, but I really want to do it." Sirius gave her his best puppy dog eyes. He had another reason other than his interest in Muggles to do the extra credit assignment. He wanted to spend more time with Jasmine, which is no surprise since he discovered that he liked the girl.

"Sure, no problem, Pads. You'll have to owl me when you want to do it since I still don't have an owl." Jasmine gave him a small smile, to which Sirius gave a big grin back in reply.

"Thanks so much, Mare. You're the best." He gave her a quick side hug. Then the both of them headed off back to Gryffindor Tower talking about what they could possibly bring in for the extra credit project.


Soon enough, OWLs were upon the fifth years. The stress was higher than it had been all year. It was just a tense time for the students of Hogwarts, especially those that counted on these OWLs to be able to get into the career that they wanted. So really the entire week was filled with last minute studying among other things for the Marauders.

The week of OWLs seemed to fly by, though, at least for Jasmine it did. By the end of the week, Jasmine had only one more OWL, while the boys and Lily were all finished with theirs. Jasmine was pissed that they got to relax before she did, but the OWL is for music, so Jasmine didn't mind entirely. Music was one of her absolute favorite classes after all. She knew she would do amazing on the OWL. So, at the end of the week, Jasmine sat down for her music OWL super confident with her abilities to get an Outstanding on this OWL.

While Jasmine was off taking her last OWL, the boys were relaxing. Peter was off who knows where. Remus was in his room packing a few more things, and after that, he had a book he was going to read. James and Sirius were lounging outside on the grounds of Hogwarts. James had nicked a snitch and was playing around with it. He and Sirius were talking, when Sirius said, "I'm bored."

This worried James. He knew Sirius was already not looking forward to going home. He knew what would be going on with his best friend when he finally got home. So, Sirius saying he was bored meant that he would start to think about all the horrors he was going home to. To distract Sirius, James looked around for something to do. Then James spotted Severus Snape, and before he even thought twice about it, he pointed Snape out to Sirius.

What happened next, James really wasn't all that sure of. It all happened so fast. One minute James was just pointing out Snape, the next minute he was on the ground and gagging on pink soap bubbles. Then Lily came in to defend the boy.

"Leave him alone." Lily's eyes were blazing. James knew he had really done it now. "He wasn't doing anything, and you just chose to pick on him. What the hell Potter?" She continued to berate them.

Meanwhile as Lily cursed the boys out, Snape managed to get his wand back that James had knocked out of his hand earlier. James was so focused on Lily that he didn't notice until Snape hit him with a cutting spell. This just pissed James the hell off, so he cast his own spell. Soon Snape was hanging upside down and his underpants were showing.

Lily came in to defend Snape again, which caused James to release him. Before Lily can do or say anything more, Snape says. "I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" Hearing what her so-called friend called her, Lily runs off toward the castle with tears threatening to fall. She couldn't believe he would call her that.

While Lily ran away, James turned Snape upside down again to defend Lily's honor. "Take it back," James threatened. His eyes were much darker than they had been only a few minutes ago. "Or I'll de-pants you." He was not in a joking mood.

During this whole thing, Sirius was off to the side, laughing. The whole thing was amusing to him. It was just what he needed right before he headed back to hell. He was so glad that he had a friend like James.

Jasmine had just finished her last OWL of the year. She was so glad to finally be done. It was an amazing feeling to finally be done. She was so relieved to finally be done. She could finally relax.

After she got out of the exam, Jasmine headed straight up to Gryffindor Tower. She was excited to finally be able to relax with the boys as well as Lily before they all had to go home for the summer. She figured she would find the boys or at least Lily in the Tower. When she reached the common room and saw none of them, she headed up to her dorm to see if Lily was in there. What she found broke Jasmine's heart. There in the dorm room was Lily. She was lying on her bed sobbing into her pillow. Jaz hated to see her cousin cry. When she found out who made her cry, she was going to make them pay. No one made her "sister" cry without suffering the consequences of Jasmine.

Jasmine walks up to Lily's bed and sits on the edge. Jasmine rubs circles around Lily's back, trying her best to comfort her cousin.

Lily feels this, so she stops her crying for a second to see who it is. She sat up and saw Jasmine, who gave her a reassuring smile. Then Lily clung to her cousin and started to cry into her shirt.

It took almost half an hour to calm down Lily enough so she could tell Jasmine what had happened and who made her cry. Lily told Jasmine everything. She even told her about the conversation she had with Severus after the incident, and how they weren't friends anymore. By the end of the story Lily was crying again and Jasmine was furious. Some people were going to pay. Jasmine would have to do it later though. Right now, her cousin needed her. It was an hour later that Lily had stopped crying and was now asleep. Jasmine laid her down on the bed and went to pack some of her stuff that she still needed to pack.

Once Jasmine was done with that, her fury came back in full force. She grabbed her wand and headed out of the dorm room. The look on her face showed just how pissed off she was. This was not the time to mess with her. The students that she passed in the common room were just glad that she wasn't heading for them with their anger. Some of them had some suspicion of who she was pissed off at, but no one dared to confirm their suspicion. Despite this, some of their suspicions were confirmed when she headed in the direction of the Marauders' dorm room.

Jasmine was determined to make James and Sirius pay. She was more than just angry with them, she was furious. She couldn't believe their stupidity. She knew they were still bullying Snape behind her back, but she thought she was getting to them about how bullying hurt other people. She couldn't even believe Sirius either. Jaz had thought he had learned from the last time, but apparently not.

Jaz reaches the door of the Marauders' dorm, and she slams it open. She doesn't even bother knocking. She is on a mission to make some boys pay and nothing is going to stand in her way.

Hearing the door slam open, the boys all jump at the noise. Besides Remus, who was too absorbed with his book, they all look to see who it is. Seeing Jasmine, James and Sirius smile at her. Then they both see the look on her face and immediately shrank back. The fear of God was now put into each of them. Sirius was reminded of the "prank" again, but this time Jasmine looked even madder. They could almost see the flames in her eyes. Both boys figured it was better if they kept quiet, which was the right move for now.

After several minutes of glaring at the boys, Jasmine started yelling at them. "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? WHY DO YOU ALWAYS FIND IT NECESSARY TO BULLY SNAPE? WHAT DID HE EVER DO TO YOU?" James thought now was a good time to speak up but was interrupted by Jasmine before he could get a word out. "NO DON'T ANSWER THAT BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOOD REASON TO BULLY ANYONE."

Sirius finally spoke up to defend himself. "Hey, it was James that did all that stuff to Snivellus. It was his idea, to begin with. All I said was that I was bored, and he pointed to Snivellus." Sirius would have kept defending himself, but Jasmine's glare shut him right up.

"Wait, wait, wait. WHAT? JAMES POTTER, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SUGGEST BULLYING SNAPE BECAUSE SIRIUS WAS BORED? That makes literally no sense." Jasmine was a bit confused now. She was sure that Sirius saying he was bored had instigated James. She wasn't sure why it had, but she knew they were linked in some way, especially since Lily had told Jaz that she and Severus had been minding their own business before James attacked Snape. They had both been out there for a good amount of time before the incident had occurred.

James stared at the girl. He wasn't sure what to say. Of course, he knew exactly why Sirius being bored led to him attacking Snape, but he couldn't betray his best friend's trust like that. "Well, um, you see, I had to, um… uh…," James stumbled. Then he came up with an answer. "I had to distract Sirius."

"DISTRACT HIM FROM WHAT? WHAT COULD HE POSSIBLY NEED TO BE DISTRACTED FROM?"

Before James could stumble with his response, Sirius spoke up. "Nothing. James is just making up an excuse to cover for me," Sirius lied to the girl easily.

James stared at his best friend. "Is he really about to tell Jazzy about his home life?" James asked himself.

Then Sirius said the exact opposite of what James thought he was going to save. "I'm bored is our code for let's prank Snivellus." Sirius had to say something even if it was a lie. He still wasn't about to tell Jasmine about his home life, especially now that he realized he liked her. He would rather have her be pissed off at him than have her find out. Plus, it was as much his fault that James pranked Snape as it was James's fault. If he hadn't said he was bored, James wouldn't have done anything. He couldn't help it. He really needed a distraction from the hell that was awaiting him when he got home. Sirius didn't think James would end up doing what he did, though, but Sirius in the end thought it was funny. Now he really didn't think it was all that funny.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? YOU HAVE A CODE FOR WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO BULLY SNAPE?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU BOTH? I AM SO DONE WITH BOTH OF YOU RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE ACTIONS RESULTED IN MY COUSIN IN TEARS. AND NO ONE MESSES WITH LILY WITHOUT GOING THROUGH ME FIRST." Jasmine took a deep breath to calm down a bit before continuing. "I have plenty of reasons to curse you both right here." That is exactly what she did. She cast several curses before putting them both in body bindings. "DON'T EVEN BOTHER TALKING TO ME FOR THE REST OF TERM." Then she left in a huff, slamming the door behind her.

Jasmine felt slightly guilty about leaving Remus to undo the curses, but they deserved it. Now Jasmine set out on a different mission. She was determined to find the other boy that had caused her cousin to shed tears. She was going to find Severus Snape today even if it took all day.

It ended up taking until dinner time. Apparently, Snape had heard that Jasmine was looking for him and that she was not happy. Several of the Slytherins that had warned him about the girl told him that she was scary mad. As Jaz had been looking for him, people were moving out of her way. They were even jumping out of the way. They also warned him about the rumors they had heard about what she did to James and Sirius already, as well as the other rumors about Jasmine's anger. She was not to be trifled with. It was even worse that Snape had messed with Lily.

So, Snape had been hiding out in the Slytherin common room to avoid the girl's rampage. He knew exactly what she was like after witnessing it over the summer once. It had been a scary thing. Snape actually felt a bit bad for the person who was on the receiving end. Now that he was on the receiving end, he was actually a bit scared of what Jasmine could do to him.

By the time dinner rolled around, Snape believed that the girl would have calmed down enough for him to chance venturing out for dinner. He was pretty hungry. Thankfully for him, he made it to dinner without seeing the girl. Unluckily, though, the girl cornered him after dinner. He had tried to sneak out without her seeing, but evidently, she saw.

Once Jasmine had cornered Snape, she dragged him to a nearby empty classroom. From there she proceeded to scream and yell at him for making her cousin cry. "HOW THE HELL COULD YOU DO THAT SNAPE? I THOUGHT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HER FRIEND. I AM SO DISGUSTED WITH YOU RIGHT NOW. HOW YOU COULD EVEN USE THAT WORD, IT IS DISGUSTING." With each word Jasmine yelled at him, Snape shrunk further back. He couldn't help it though, she was scary. "AND I CAN'T EVEN START WITH THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN MESSING AROUND WITH THE DARK ARTS. I KNEW THERE WAS A REASON THAT I COULDN'T TRUST YOU. I WISH I HAD TOLD LILY ABOUT MY FEELING OF UNEASINESS ABOUT YOU. MAYBE THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND HER CRYING IN THE DORM EARLIER."

Snape felt so guilty for hurting Lily. He hadn't meant to call her a mudblood. He loved her for god's sake. He loved her with everything, but he couldn't try to explain this to Jasmine. She would never approve of him dating her cousin, especially now that she knew he was messing around with the dark arts. It was terrible what he did and regretted it more than anything. He even tried to make it up to Lily, but she had turned him away. Now he and Lily weren't even friends anymore.

"One more thing before I let you go, Snape," Jasmine sneered. "DON'T YOU DARE GO ANYWHERE NEAR MY COUSIN AGAIN. I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU ANYWHERE NEAR HER AGAIN. IF I DO, THERE WILL BE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES. DON'T MAKE ME PUT THOSE INTO ACTION. I WILL END YOU." With that last threat, Jasmine stormed out of the classroom, leaving Snape to just watch her go.


As the school year came to a close, Jasmine was still pissed off at James and Sirius. She refused to look at them let alone sit with them. She wouldn't even acknowledge them whenever they came up to her to apologize for their actions. She would just continue to talk with whoever she was with, and more often than not she was with Lily. So, for the last days of the terms, Jasmine sat with Lily and her friends like she had when she was mad at Sirius earlier in the term. This time was worse though. She wasn't even talking to Remus or Peter. She didn't talk to the Marauders at all.

When the school year was finally over and they were all heading home on the train, Jasmine sat with the girls the entire way. Lily wasn't there for the first half of the trip, having patrol on the train with Remus. While on their patrol, Remus and Lily stopped by.

"Hey, girls," Lily greeted. "We thought we would stop by and say hi." Lily moved to the side to show that Remus was with her. He waved at the girls, but his focus was more on Jasmine than anything. He was worried the girl would still refuse to talk to him. He was surprised though.

"Hey, Lils, Remus," Jasmine said. Then to Remus, Jasmine apologized. "I'm sorry, Remus. I didn't mean to leave you to fix the mess that I did to you know who. I was just so pissed off that my anger blinded me. I felt bad about it afterward, but I didn't know how to get you alone to apologize."

"It's fine really, Jaz." Remus accepted her apology immediately. "They deserved it." After that was out of the way they all chatted for a little bit more before Lily and Remus had to head back to their rounds. Before they left though, Remus told Jasmine, "I hope to see you next term." Jasmine nodded in response and let them leave.

Remus was a bit relieved to leave. He was really trying his best not to mention James and Sirius, who he knew was sulking. That was all they seemed to have been doing since the incident with Snape. They couldn't stand not talking to Jasmine. Although, Jasmine seemed to be fine with the prospect. He could also tell that she was still pissed that they indirectly caused her cousin to cry, which Remus knew was never a good idea. It was a terrible idea to mess with Lily before Jasmine, but it was even worse now. Jaz didn't like anyone messing with her best friend and cousin. Anyone who did was in for a whole hell of a lot of trouble.

While Remus and Lily continued their rounds, James and Sirius were indeed sulking in their compartment. It was just them in there as Peter got sick of their sulking and left. They didn't really know where he went, nor did they really care. They were too busy sulking about Jasmine. They were sulking for different reasons though.

James was sulking at the fact that he managed to make Jasmine, the girl who was now a sister to him, mad at him. He hadn't done something as stupid as what he had done that made Jasmine as mad as she was at him right now. There was something else that James was sulking about too. He was sulking at the fact that he had indirectly made Lily, his love, cry. He didn't think that his bullying Snape would lead to what had happened. He didn't know how he would ever get Lily to like him now, but that was a problem he could solve later.

The thing that worried him the most was the fact that Sirius actually covered up the fact that it had been all James's fault. James could have tried to do something else to distract his best friend, and he wished he had. Then there was the fact that Sirius would rather have Jasmine be just as pissed at him than tell her what was going on at home. Really only James and Lily, unbeknownst to James, knew what really went on with Sirius and his parents. They were the only ones that knew about the abuse. Even Remus and Peter didn't know. Those two knew that Sirius's parents resented him after he got sorted into Gryffindor, but that was the extent of their knowledge. Sirius didn't trust many people to know or even understand what he was going through at home. If he knew that Jasmine would understand, Sirius might have told her, but even then, he might not have even told her. Time could only tell whether he would ever tell her the truth.

Sirius was sulking about Jasmine not talking to him as well, but for a different reason. Somehow, he had managed to piss Jasmine off twice within not just a school year but a term as well. This did not bode well for him, especially since he really likes Jasmine. How was he supposed to get her to like him if he couldn't even stop pissing her off? Also, he couldn't even be truthful with her. If he couldn't even tell Jaz about his parents, then what hope did he have for a relationship with her. So, Sirius decided that he wouldn't act on his feelings until after he was able to tell Jasmine the truth about his family and what happened at home.

Then there was the fact that he wasn't even going to be able to continuously apologize to her over the summer like he knew James would be doing via his owl. Sirius didn't have an owl of his own. He actually shared one with his brother, Regulus. Originally the owl had been only his, but then he got sorted into Gryffindor and everything went downhill from there. His parents had all but disowned him at this point. Sirius wasn't even sure sometimes why he still stayed but he did.

Sirius had already been dreading going home this summer knowing what was in store for him. Now, he was dreading it even more because Jaz was still going to be angry at him. He just knew that he would be thinking about her all summer, even when his parents were beating him. Sirius believed that this was going to be one of the worst summers ever for Sirius yet. Little did he know, his summer was going to be better than he anticipated it would be eventually.

A/N I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I really thought it would be longer than it turned out to be. Instead, it is much shorter than all the other chapters. Oh well, though. I'll make up for it in the next chapter. The next chapter will be super long and focused mainly on Jasmine eventually forgiving them as well as a large portion focused on Sirius. This is the summer before their 6th year.
Coming next: Chapter 9: Birthday Forgiveness

Until the Next Chapter, Knk6700