It would be a lie to say that all Gryffindors hate Slytherins. Sheila didn't. She, along with Emma, Lily and Gabriella, were good friends with one Narcissa Black. It would also to be a lie to say that all fifth years' in that house despised Severus Snape, all though most of them did. Sheila Longbottom happened to have the largest crush imaginable on Severus, even while she was going out with Sirius last year... (This was part of the reason they broke up.) This, also, was probably why she was the only Gryffie not dreading the Double Potions with them. Emma wouldn't have minded it, but this new war against Slytherin had nearly driven her batty... "How soon until things die down?" She asked in her whisper to Sheila.

"Not soon enough to save us from the wrath of Cri Cri."

Cri Cri's head shot up into the air when she heard this and looked violently around. "I heard that Sheila Honora Longbottom!"

"How did you know my middle name!"

"My secret." There was an evil sort of smile on Cri Cri's face as she glared coolly at Sheila, only to hear her friend laughing at her.

"Don't tell me, you're my stalker... I've been trying to figure out who that person is..."

"I AM NOT!"

"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you fancied us Gryffindor girls. You are that sort of person..." Cri Cri stood up, speechless in rage, ready to strangle the Sheila. (Lucky for Sheila, the Marauders where in-between the two off them and Cri Cri didn't exactly fancy getting into a fight with them... well, one on one with Sirius wouldn't be too bad, she completely slaughtered him last summer when they got into a duel... and it was not as if Sirius wouldn't have minded Sheila loosing a limb or a head anyways. Well, as long as it was taken off by a Gryffindor...) "That might explain why it's Malfoy you're marrying, we aren't to sure of his gender." Sheila ran all of this so calmly and in control that it almost made Cri Cri burst. Not to mention the rest of the Slytherins... Severus especially.

"What did you say, mud-blood lover?" Bronwen Darner asked as she pushed her way through the desks.

"Is that the best insult you can come up with?" Sheila shook her head. "Poor, poor excuse for a witch."

''You're a poor excuse for a Hogwarts student to be hanging around people like that Evans girl." Bronwen snarled as she turned around to get approval from her fellow Slytherins. Severus was smirking quite happily (it was hard to tell if this was at the comment or at the way Sheila did her hair, after all, it was a very approving smirk...), but Cri Cri, well... Lily didn't even need to stand up for herself with Narcissa by her side.

''Insult Sheila, that turncoat, all you want..." Cri Cri started, picking up a nice sized lionfish off of Nott's desk.

"Turncoat!" Bronwen laughed maliciously at what Cri Cri just said, "Turncoat. You, girl, should know what a turncoat is, or should I say blood-traitor?'' (''Looks like I'm not the only on in the family…'') ''If you are to be a Malfoy, you'd better start acting like one instead of sticking up for your little mud-blood friends. Otherwise Lucius might go ahead and find someone better to marry. The year you and your lovely little cousin here was born must've been a sad time for the Black family." James and Remus grabbed Sirius and tried to wrestle him back from the ranting Bronwen. Unfortunately (or well, fortunately if you were in Gryffindor) there was no one to hold Cri Cri back. Lily, even though she was sharing a couldron with her, had no want to. Narcissa tossed the lionfish playfully in the air, a look of murder in her eyes as she caught it and dived at the Slytherin girl. Bronwen screamed with pain as the fish's spikes dug into her skin.

"I love you for that Cri Cri!" Sheila laughed darkly as the room around her turned to chaos. Sirius struggled free of his friends' grasps. Emma had sunk into a corner. Peter was nowhere to be seen. Severus leaped up to aid Bronwen (who had both Cri Cri and Lily beating her up), but, not quick enough, James pounced down on him, knocking him head first into a cauldron, leaving his feet sticking out. Remus rushed over and pushed the rest of him in. As he turned around, a Slytherin boy stuck his leg, tripping Sirius. The entire classroom turned into a giant battleground. Potions ingredients went flying and cauldrons were bashed. Wands. Curses. Blood. Everywhere.

"QUIET ALL OF YOU!" Professor McGonagall appeared at the door, Peter at her tail. She stared into the empty classroom with a look of grave disappointment in her eyes. How ever angry she sounded then, it was fair to say they hadn't seen the full extant of her wrath yet. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING? DESTROYING A CLASSROOM LIKE THIS AND TURNING IT INTO A GIANT BRAWL! YOU'RE CIVILIZED FIFTH YEARS NOW STOP ACTING LIKE ANIMALS! WHERE WAS PROFESSOR NOTT! THAT'S 200 POINTS FROM BOTH OF YOU'RE HOUSES!"

''But..." Sirius started.

"PER STUDENT, MR. BLACK!" She glared down at him, as he shrunk lower to the floor. "I want to see ALL of You in My Office, IMMEDIATELY. Pettigrew, 15 points for Gryffindor for you telling me about this." McGonagall then looked over all the students. Shaking her head she said, "First go to the Hospital wing, it looks as if we have some pretty bad injuries here..."

''God, I've never seen McGonagall so mad before..." Sirius whispered to Remus and James as they filed out in near silence.

"She has a right to be, we were acting like animals." Remus gave out a depressed sigh and shook his head.

"Still..."

"Sirius, not everything is a game. No matter how you'd like to think of it."

James was the only one who did not walk with his head down, or feet dragging, he still to held his unchangeable confidant stance. It was almost if he knew what he was doing was wrong, but still, knew that he was on the right side of things. "I can't believe we did that." He raised his eyebrows still dazed by what happened, studding the ceiling looking for answers. "What if all of life is like this?"

"James, take your head out of the clouds." Remus hissed into his ear.

Sirius rolled his eyes, laughing silently at that comment. "What I can't believe is that Peter ratted on the class..."

"If he didn't we would have been dead."

James shook his head. ''I'm more amazed that ol'Padfoot here stood up for Cri Cri.''

''No I didn't. Darner insulted both of us. ''

''Still... ''

''Okay, I was a tad irked by the fact that she had to bring up that whole marriage thing. Cri Cri deserves better than Malfoy. Besides, Darner was grinding Evans'" ("Hey! I have a first name, too!") "name into the dirt. Typical Slytherin.'' Sirius spat.