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Chapter Two
The Hogsmeade Trip
"All right."
Rather moodily, Megan handed Professor Dumbledore the note. She half expected him to tear it up into tiny pieces. She knew note passing was not allowed.
I'm so stupid!
"No need to be so testy!" Professor Dumbledore laughed. The look on Megan's face gave him a hint. Professor Dumbledore chuckled as he read the note. Megan was practically in tears.
Mom's gonna kill me, she thought. I'm not allowed to date until I'm sixteen. Wait, mom's pretending to be a muggle for work, so that means Dumbledore would Owl Aunt Kitty about it.That's worse!
"Megan!" Megan spun on her heel and saw Remus running towards her.
"Hi," said Megan practically falling to pieces.
Remus pulled his bag further onto his shoulder.
"Um.I wanted to ask you-"
"This is a very interesting letter, Megan," said Professor Dumbledore. She turned back to face him. Remus looked over her shoulder at him.
"Is that the letter from Sirius?" he asked shakily.
Megan squeaked in reply.
"You two do have a conflict. Here you go." He handed the letter back to Megan. "Make sure not to write letters to each other, especially in detention, if you don't want teachers meddling. Of course, we've had to meddle a lot lately and know about practically the whole school's love lives." He walked away muttering to himself.
Remus and Megan watched him walk away for a minute. He suddenly grabbed Megan's arm and pulled her into an empty classroom (At least he thought it was an empty classroom. James had snuck his Invisibility Cloak into detention and was in there with Sirius, knowing Remus would take Megan into an empty classroom. The door had been open so no one noticed.).
Megan sat on the edge of a desk.
"What? What is it?"
"I don't know," said Remus. "Never mind." He left.
"ARGH!" Sirius yelled ripping off the cloak.
"What are you two doing in here?" Megan gasped. "You have an Invisibility Cloak? Wow!"
"Good one, Sirius," said James sarcastically kicking Sirius. He sat down in the chair at the desk Megan was sitting on. Sirius sat next to Megan.
"He is never going to ask you out," Sirius sighed. Megan got all the way onto the desk and crossed her legs, facing James. Both of them suddenly looked at each other, then at Megan.
"What? Huh? No! No, no, no! I'm not asking Remus out!"
Sirius turned Megan so she was facing him.
"If you really meant that letter, you'll ask him out!"
The door opened and Professor Dumbledore came in. Megan spun around.
"Still haven't solved your problem yet? You really should."
***
Megan was up late doing homework. She told Sirius she'd try to ask Remus out, but made no guarantees. Remus was in a corner "reading" a book. But it about midnight he was still reading the same word again. That's when he sat down next to Megan, who was on the couch doing her homework. Well, actually, she had fallen asleep a half-hour again in the middle of an Herbology Essay. Remus managed to pull it out from underneath her sleeping head and slipped it into her bag. Megan snored lightly.
"Megan," he whispered prodding her awake. Remus would have sworn he heard a small snicker from a corner of the Common Room. "Megan."
"Venomous Tentacula!" Megan gasped as she woke from sleeping. "It has-huh.?" She rubber her eyes and looked over at Remus. "Was I just asleep?"
Remus nodded.
"You were practically finished with your Herbology essay."
"My Herbology essay! That's right! I need to finish it!" Remus stopped her from grabbing it and threw her bag several feet away.
"Take a break, you've been up hours, not to mention you lost homework time during detention. You need to stop stressing. You'll do fine!"
"You're right," Megan yawned stretching her arms. "I'll finish it Sunday night or something."
Remus smiled.
"Come on, one of you brainiacs ask," James whispered from the corner. Sirius covered his mouth to stop him from talking.
"So," said Remus trying to be nonchalant (but failing miserably). "Um-er."
Megan smiled weakly and leaned up against his shoulder, very tired. Remus's eyes were the widest they'd ever been. Megan tried to make conversation. Sirius made a sort of gesture as if to punch the air.
"I haven't got much sleep lately, so homework's been really hard."
"Yeah?" said Remus nervously. "Listen." Megan sat up. "Do you.want to go with me to Hogsmeade tomorrow?"
Megan smiled brightly. James and Sirius exchanged looks of joy.
"Okay."
Remus had a huge grin plastered onto his face.
"Now kiss her," Sirius whispered. James covered his mouth.
Remus scratched his head.
"C-C-"
Megan cocked her head.
"What?"
"Just kiss her," said Sirius through gritted teeth.
"Don't make me hex you," said James a little too loudly.
"What was that?" Megan asked turning her head and looking straight at where James and Sirius were standing.
"Nothing!" Remus said too quickly turning her head to face him again. "Can I kiss you?"
"A guy's never asked me that before," said Megan.
"Sirius never asked?"
"Do you know Sirius or do you know Sirius?"
"I know Sirius," said Remus glancing over Megan's shoulder.
"Is there something back there?"
"No!" Remus turned Megan to face him again.
"Okay," said Megan. "In answer to your question."
"Oh."
Remus got a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach and kissed her. James and Sirius could no longer hold in their laughter and rolled around on the floor laughing. Megan turned around and Remus smacked his hand to his forehead.
"Is that who wasn't behind me?" Megan asked, a huge grin on her face, as she turned back to Remus.
"Yes," said Remus. "They aren't there." He winked.
"Oh, I'm sure!" Megan laughed sarcastically.
***
Remus practically danced down to the Common Room that morning. He didn't see Megan, so, went with the rest of the Marauders down to breakfast.
"You should've woken me up!" Peter moaned when they told him about the previous night's events. Lily, Katie, and Megan went into the Great Hall, never having smiled that much and immediately sat down at the Gryffindor Table.
When they were queued up in the line to Hogsmeade, Remus grabbed Megan's hand and squeezed it. Megan smiled. When they got to the front of the queue none other than Professor Dumbledore was standing there, checking off who could and couldn't go.
"Solved your little problem then, have we?" he asked brightly.
"C'mon, let's go!" Megan cried dragging Remus out of the castle and onto the grounds.
"He's gotta be insane," said Remus. Megan was about to say something when two people that they didn't want to see appeared.
"Nice choice of boy friends, Cunnington!" Bellatrix Black, a cousin of Sirius' whom he loathed, laughed. She was walking with a Slytherin boy. "At least my cousin was good looking!" They walked away laughing.
"Ignore them," said Megan as Remus looked at her. "They're just stupid and ignorant."
"Where do you wanna go first? Huh? Huh? HUH?"
"Sirius, stop yelling," Lily replied. "How 'bout we go visit the Shrieking Shack? I've heard there are ghouls there worse than the Bloody Baron!"
"Yeah, okay! That's a good idea!"
Sirius practically carried Lily up the hill to the Shrieking Shack. The Shrieking Shack was a house that was haunted, at the least that's what was in the rumors. Once a month, a howling could be hear from coming inside. It wasn't a coincidence that this happened every full moon.
Lily stood right in front of the high Iron Gate blocking it. There was a padlock attached to it, at the very top of the gate, making it practically impossible to get in.
"I wish we could use magic outside of school."
"I use magic outside of school at least once every summer," said Sirius. "Don't worry," he added hastily at the look on Lily's face. "It's just little spells. They only care about big things like Patronuses and stuff like that, or Unforgivable Curses. I only do it to get out of my house."
"Why would you wanna get out of your house?"
"My family's all Dark Wizards," he said. "Except a few of us. My mom'll probably be burning me off the Family Tapestry any time now.Whenever a family house elf can't work for us anymore, its head is cut off and put on the wall."
"That's gross." "Yeah, I try to avoid them as much as possible. If you're in my family, it's like you're practically royalty." Sirius sighed. "One day, I swear, I'm gonna leave and never come back." He smiled. "But the Potters' always welcome me for Sunday dinner."
Lily smiled.
"That's nice of them."
"James isn't all bad."
"Oh, sure. Hexing people in the corridors isn't that bad," said Lily sarcastically.
Sirius shook his head.
"C'mon, let's go get a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks."
"All right."
"Why don't we go to the Shrieking Shack?" Katie suggested. "I've never actually seen it up close."
"We're already there," James laughed. Katie suddenly realized that the Shrieking Shack was about ten feet away from them.
"Hi, Lily," said Katie. "Hey, Sirius."
"Hey, guys," said Sirius. "How's it going?"
"Fine."
"Wanna go see the Shrieking Shack?" Megan asked.
Remus didn't know what to say; he was in there once a month, in his werewolf form.
"Um, okay."
"Look! James, Sirius, Katie, and Lily are already there!"
"What-oh!" He was about to suggest they go somewhere else, but they were already there.
"Hey," said Remus smiling.
"James and I were gonna go to the Three Broomsticks, wanna come?" Katie asked.
"Sure," said Sirius and Lily.
"I hate that place. I'm claustrophobic and it's always packed," said Megan.
"I heard that there's this little coffee shop near the Hog's Head," Lily said. "See you guys later."
Remus and Megan were left standing there.
Remus said, "Wanna check the place out?"
"Sure," Megan answered. "Unless you'd rather go to the Three Broomsticks."
"I'm claustrophobic, too, and I hate the smoke in there."
"All right."
"Going to the coffee shop, then? It's a cute place, for couples," said a voice. Remus and Megan spun around and saw Professor Dumbledore standing there.
Megan glared.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was just seeing the Shrieking Shack," he said nonchalantly. "The better question is what are you two standing around here for?"
"No reason," said Remus slowly. "Come on."
They left Professor Dumbledore standing on the hill. Both of them were getting very annoyed with his meddling. Actually, everyone in the second year and up was getting tired of his meddling (first years just didn't understand).
"I'm gonna kill Lily," Megan muttered through gritted teeth. The coffee shop was not what they had expected. Confetti was falling from the ceiling, covering them. The only people in there were couples. Bertha Jorkins and some other boy in her house had their lips locked (making both Remus and Megan very uncomfortable).
Remus shook his head and the confetti fell from his head, just to be replaced by more. A waitress came over.
"What would you like?"
"Just some water," said Remus smiling. The waitress left.
"Hey, look! There's a burn mark on this table," Megan whispered running her finger along a thing burn mark. She looked up at Remus, and they laughed at her joke. "Well, there is."
The waitress brought them water. Megan drummed her fingers on the table, very interested in the "decoration" (as she called it) of the coffee shop. Remus felt like it was a cover-up of her nervousness (which it was). He wanted to grasp her hand, but as his hand flew out grabbed some sugar instead.
Why did I get us water?
He drained his glass quickly. Bertha and the other boy were really making them nervous.
"Why don't we go to Zonko's or something?" he suggested.
"Okay, but do you mind if we go to the bookstore first?" Megan asked as Remus put a couple of sickles on the table. "There's this book I've been wanting to pick up."
"Really? What book?" he asked as they left.
"The Theory of Alchemy. Have you heard of it?"
"I've been wanting that book for ages!"
"Typical," said Sirius shaking his head as he saw Remus and Megan go into the bookstore. He looked back at Lily. "I like that idea, though, getting them to go to the coffee shop."
"I went there once with Joshua Lane," said Lily. " It was terrible. Confetti was flying everywhere and it's filled with nothing but couples. I just had to do that to Megan. She's been in a bad mood all week. You can only guess why."
"I don't think there's anything more typical than them going to the bookstore," said Katie as they left the Three Broomsticks to go to Zonko's. "Megan's been wanting some book about Alchemy for ages."
"Remus, too," James chuckled. "They're both smart, love to read, get too many non-fiction books, and never look at Comic Books."
"I always read the Mad Muggle Comic Books," Katie explained.
James smirked.
"They carry those in the bookstore Remus and Megan are in."
Remus searched the lined shelves of books in the empty store (called the Twelve Books, owned by a very strange man). James and Katie came in, and rushed straight at the Comic Books. Megan was standing on a ladder, looking for the book she wanted.
"I found it!" Megan tossed him a copy, which he missed and it was about an inch away from hitting his foot. "Sorry."
"No problem." Remus picked up the book. "I can't catch for beans."
"I can catch pretty good," said Megan climbing down the ladder the book she wanted tucked under her arm.
James sighed as he watched Remus and Megan leave.
"They didn't even notice."
Katie snorted and bit her lower lip to keep from laughing.
"Probably to absorbed in talking about books."
"Are you gonna pay for those?"
James and Katie looked up at an old man with a balding head with very little gray hair. He was very thin and looked as if he was suffering from a bad case of arthritis.
"Are you gonna pay for those?" he repeated in hoarse voice.
"Uh, yeah," said James slowly walking up to the counter. "I'll buy 'em, Katie."
"Thanks," Katie said brightly. The man put them in a bag.
"One galleon, please," he said gruffly.
James handed the man the galleon and they left.
"Talk about expensive. A galleon for two Comic Books."
It started pouring rain.
"This is good," said Katie sarcastically. "Real good."
"Race you to the Entrance Hall," James challenged.
"You're on!" Katie cried running off.
"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!"
"And I stink at running!" Katie called over her shoulder.
"I like rain," said Lily as she and Sirius left the Three Broomsticks. She spun around in a circle as it poured on her.
"I think it's raining a little too hard!" Sirius yelled through the sheet of rain pouring down. It was also lightning and thundering. "And there's a lot of thunder! We should get back to Hogwarts!"
Lily yelled back to him, "Good idea! Let's go!"
She held out her hand and Sirius took it and they walked (power- walked, really) back to the castle.
Megan glared out the clouds outside. Remus was just finishing buying some food from Honeydukes.
"Great, it's raining. How pleasant."
"I say, we run as fast as we can till we get into the Entrance Hall," said Remus.
"Okay," said Megan. "GO!"
They burst from Honeydukes and ran as fast as they could to Hogwarts.
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Chapter Two
The Hogsmeade Trip
"All right."
Rather moodily, Megan handed Professor Dumbledore the note. She half expected him to tear it up into tiny pieces. She knew note passing was not allowed.
I'm so stupid!
"No need to be so testy!" Professor Dumbledore laughed. The look on Megan's face gave him a hint. Professor Dumbledore chuckled as he read the note. Megan was practically in tears.
Mom's gonna kill me, she thought. I'm not allowed to date until I'm sixteen. Wait, mom's pretending to be a muggle for work, so that means Dumbledore would Owl Aunt Kitty about it.That's worse!
"Megan!" Megan spun on her heel and saw Remus running towards her.
"Hi," said Megan practically falling to pieces.
Remus pulled his bag further onto his shoulder.
"Um.I wanted to ask you-"
"This is a very interesting letter, Megan," said Professor Dumbledore. She turned back to face him. Remus looked over her shoulder at him.
"Is that the letter from Sirius?" he asked shakily.
Megan squeaked in reply.
"You two do have a conflict. Here you go." He handed the letter back to Megan. "Make sure not to write letters to each other, especially in detention, if you don't want teachers meddling. Of course, we've had to meddle a lot lately and know about practically the whole school's love lives." He walked away muttering to himself.
Remus and Megan watched him walk away for a minute. He suddenly grabbed Megan's arm and pulled her into an empty classroom (At least he thought it was an empty classroom. James had snuck his Invisibility Cloak into detention and was in there with Sirius, knowing Remus would take Megan into an empty classroom. The door had been open so no one noticed.).
Megan sat on the edge of a desk.
"What? What is it?"
"I don't know," said Remus. "Never mind." He left.
"ARGH!" Sirius yelled ripping off the cloak.
"What are you two doing in here?" Megan gasped. "You have an Invisibility Cloak? Wow!"
"Good one, Sirius," said James sarcastically kicking Sirius. He sat down in the chair at the desk Megan was sitting on. Sirius sat next to Megan.
"He is never going to ask you out," Sirius sighed. Megan got all the way onto the desk and crossed her legs, facing James. Both of them suddenly looked at each other, then at Megan.
"What? Huh? No! No, no, no! I'm not asking Remus out!"
Sirius turned Megan so she was facing him.
"If you really meant that letter, you'll ask him out!"
The door opened and Professor Dumbledore came in. Megan spun around.
"Still haven't solved your problem yet? You really should."
***
Megan was up late doing homework. She told Sirius she'd try to ask Remus out, but made no guarantees. Remus was in a corner "reading" a book. But it about midnight he was still reading the same word again. That's when he sat down next to Megan, who was on the couch doing her homework. Well, actually, she had fallen asleep a half-hour again in the middle of an Herbology Essay. Remus managed to pull it out from underneath her sleeping head and slipped it into her bag. Megan snored lightly.
"Megan," he whispered prodding her awake. Remus would have sworn he heard a small snicker from a corner of the Common Room. "Megan."
"Venomous Tentacula!" Megan gasped as she woke from sleeping. "It has-huh.?" She rubber her eyes and looked over at Remus. "Was I just asleep?"
Remus nodded.
"You were practically finished with your Herbology essay."
"My Herbology essay! That's right! I need to finish it!" Remus stopped her from grabbing it and threw her bag several feet away.
"Take a break, you've been up hours, not to mention you lost homework time during detention. You need to stop stressing. You'll do fine!"
"You're right," Megan yawned stretching her arms. "I'll finish it Sunday night or something."
Remus smiled.
"Come on, one of you brainiacs ask," James whispered from the corner. Sirius covered his mouth to stop him from talking.
"So," said Remus trying to be nonchalant (but failing miserably). "Um-er."
Megan smiled weakly and leaned up against his shoulder, very tired. Remus's eyes were the widest they'd ever been. Megan tried to make conversation. Sirius made a sort of gesture as if to punch the air.
"I haven't got much sleep lately, so homework's been really hard."
"Yeah?" said Remus nervously. "Listen." Megan sat up. "Do you.want to go with me to Hogsmeade tomorrow?"
Megan smiled brightly. James and Sirius exchanged looks of joy.
"Okay."
Remus had a huge grin plastered onto his face.
"Now kiss her," Sirius whispered. James covered his mouth.
Remus scratched his head.
"C-C-"
Megan cocked her head.
"What?"
"Just kiss her," said Sirius through gritted teeth.
"Don't make me hex you," said James a little too loudly.
"What was that?" Megan asked turning her head and looking straight at where James and Sirius were standing.
"Nothing!" Remus said too quickly turning her head to face him again. "Can I kiss you?"
"A guy's never asked me that before," said Megan.
"Sirius never asked?"
"Do you know Sirius or do you know Sirius?"
"I know Sirius," said Remus glancing over Megan's shoulder.
"Is there something back there?"
"No!" Remus turned Megan to face him again.
"Okay," said Megan. "In answer to your question."
"Oh."
Remus got a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach and kissed her. James and Sirius could no longer hold in their laughter and rolled around on the floor laughing. Megan turned around and Remus smacked his hand to his forehead.
"Is that who wasn't behind me?" Megan asked, a huge grin on her face, as she turned back to Remus.
"Yes," said Remus. "They aren't there." He winked.
"Oh, I'm sure!" Megan laughed sarcastically.
***
Remus practically danced down to the Common Room that morning. He didn't see Megan, so, went with the rest of the Marauders down to breakfast.
"You should've woken me up!" Peter moaned when they told him about the previous night's events. Lily, Katie, and Megan went into the Great Hall, never having smiled that much and immediately sat down at the Gryffindor Table.
When they were queued up in the line to Hogsmeade, Remus grabbed Megan's hand and squeezed it. Megan smiled. When they got to the front of the queue none other than Professor Dumbledore was standing there, checking off who could and couldn't go.
"Solved your little problem then, have we?" he asked brightly.
"C'mon, let's go!" Megan cried dragging Remus out of the castle and onto the grounds.
"He's gotta be insane," said Remus. Megan was about to say something when two people that they didn't want to see appeared.
"Nice choice of boy friends, Cunnington!" Bellatrix Black, a cousin of Sirius' whom he loathed, laughed. She was walking with a Slytherin boy. "At least my cousin was good looking!" They walked away laughing.
"Ignore them," said Megan as Remus looked at her. "They're just stupid and ignorant."
"Where do you wanna go first? Huh? Huh? HUH?"
"Sirius, stop yelling," Lily replied. "How 'bout we go visit the Shrieking Shack? I've heard there are ghouls there worse than the Bloody Baron!"
"Yeah, okay! That's a good idea!"
Sirius practically carried Lily up the hill to the Shrieking Shack. The Shrieking Shack was a house that was haunted, at the least that's what was in the rumors. Once a month, a howling could be hear from coming inside. It wasn't a coincidence that this happened every full moon.
Lily stood right in front of the high Iron Gate blocking it. There was a padlock attached to it, at the very top of the gate, making it practically impossible to get in.
"I wish we could use magic outside of school."
"I use magic outside of school at least once every summer," said Sirius. "Don't worry," he added hastily at the look on Lily's face. "It's just little spells. They only care about big things like Patronuses and stuff like that, or Unforgivable Curses. I only do it to get out of my house."
"Why would you wanna get out of your house?"
"My family's all Dark Wizards," he said. "Except a few of us. My mom'll probably be burning me off the Family Tapestry any time now.Whenever a family house elf can't work for us anymore, its head is cut off and put on the wall."
"That's gross." "Yeah, I try to avoid them as much as possible. If you're in my family, it's like you're practically royalty." Sirius sighed. "One day, I swear, I'm gonna leave and never come back." He smiled. "But the Potters' always welcome me for Sunday dinner."
Lily smiled.
"That's nice of them."
"James isn't all bad."
"Oh, sure. Hexing people in the corridors isn't that bad," said Lily sarcastically.
Sirius shook his head.
"C'mon, let's go get a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks."
"All right."
"Why don't we go to the Shrieking Shack?" Katie suggested. "I've never actually seen it up close."
"We're already there," James laughed. Katie suddenly realized that the Shrieking Shack was about ten feet away from them.
"Hi, Lily," said Katie. "Hey, Sirius."
"Hey, guys," said Sirius. "How's it going?"
"Fine."
"Wanna go see the Shrieking Shack?" Megan asked.
Remus didn't know what to say; he was in there once a month, in his werewolf form.
"Um, okay."
"Look! James, Sirius, Katie, and Lily are already there!"
"What-oh!" He was about to suggest they go somewhere else, but they were already there.
"Hey," said Remus smiling.
"James and I were gonna go to the Three Broomsticks, wanna come?" Katie asked.
"Sure," said Sirius and Lily.
"I hate that place. I'm claustrophobic and it's always packed," said Megan.
"I heard that there's this little coffee shop near the Hog's Head," Lily said. "See you guys later."
Remus and Megan were left standing there.
Remus said, "Wanna check the place out?"
"Sure," Megan answered. "Unless you'd rather go to the Three Broomsticks."
"I'm claustrophobic, too, and I hate the smoke in there."
"All right."
"Going to the coffee shop, then? It's a cute place, for couples," said a voice. Remus and Megan spun around and saw Professor Dumbledore standing there.
Megan glared.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was just seeing the Shrieking Shack," he said nonchalantly. "The better question is what are you two standing around here for?"
"No reason," said Remus slowly. "Come on."
They left Professor Dumbledore standing on the hill. Both of them were getting very annoyed with his meddling. Actually, everyone in the second year and up was getting tired of his meddling (first years just didn't understand).
"I'm gonna kill Lily," Megan muttered through gritted teeth. The coffee shop was not what they had expected. Confetti was falling from the ceiling, covering them. The only people in there were couples. Bertha Jorkins and some other boy in her house had their lips locked (making both Remus and Megan very uncomfortable).
Remus shook his head and the confetti fell from his head, just to be replaced by more. A waitress came over.
"What would you like?"
"Just some water," said Remus smiling. The waitress left.
"Hey, look! There's a burn mark on this table," Megan whispered running her finger along a thing burn mark. She looked up at Remus, and they laughed at her joke. "Well, there is."
The waitress brought them water. Megan drummed her fingers on the table, very interested in the "decoration" (as she called it) of the coffee shop. Remus felt like it was a cover-up of her nervousness (which it was). He wanted to grasp her hand, but as his hand flew out grabbed some sugar instead.
Why did I get us water?
He drained his glass quickly. Bertha and the other boy were really making them nervous.
"Why don't we go to Zonko's or something?" he suggested.
"Okay, but do you mind if we go to the bookstore first?" Megan asked as Remus put a couple of sickles on the table. "There's this book I've been wanting to pick up."
"Really? What book?" he asked as they left.
"The Theory of Alchemy. Have you heard of it?"
"I've been wanting that book for ages!"
"Typical," said Sirius shaking his head as he saw Remus and Megan go into the bookstore. He looked back at Lily. "I like that idea, though, getting them to go to the coffee shop."
"I went there once with Joshua Lane," said Lily. " It was terrible. Confetti was flying everywhere and it's filled with nothing but couples. I just had to do that to Megan. She's been in a bad mood all week. You can only guess why."
"I don't think there's anything more typical than them going to the bookstore," said Katie as they left the Three Broomsticks to go to Zonko's. "Megan's been wanting some book about Alchemy for ages."
"Remus, too," James chuckled. "They're both smart, love to read, get too many non-fiction books, and never look at Comic Books."
"I always read the Mad Muggle Comic Books," Katie explained.
James smirked.
"They carry those in the bookstore Remus and Megan are in."
Remus searched the lined shelves of books in the empty store (called the Twelve Books, owned by a very strange man). James and Katie came in, and rushed straight at the Comic Books. Megan was standing on a ladder, looking for the book she wanted.
"I found it!" Megan tossed him a copy, which he missed and it was about an inch away from hitting his foot. "Sorry."
"No problem." Remus picked up the book. "I can't catch for beans."
"I can catch pretty good," said Megan climbing down the ladder the book she wanted tucked under her arm.
James sighed as he watched Remus and Megan leave.
"They didn't even notice."
Katie snorted and bit her lower lip to keep from laughing.
"Probably to absorbed in talking about books."
"Are you gonna pay for those?"
James and Katie looked up at an old man with a balding head with very little gray hair. He was very thin and looked as if he was suffering from a bad case of arthritis.
"Are you gonna pay for those?" he repeated in hoarse voice.
"Uh, yeah," said James slowly walking up to the counter. "I'll buy 'em, Katie."
"Thanks," Katie said brightly. The man put them in a bag.
"One galleon, please," he said gruffly.
James handed the man the galleon and they left.
"Talk about expensive. A galleon for two Comic Books."
It started pouring rain.
"This is good," said Katie sarcastically. "Real good."
"Race you to the Entrance Hall," James challenged.
"You're on!" Katie cried running off.
"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!"
"And I stink at running!" Katie called over her shoulder.
"I like rain," said Lily as she and Sirius left the Three Broomsticks. She spun around in a circle as it poured on her.
"I think it's raining a little too hard!" Sirius yelled through the sheet of rain pouring down. It was also lightning and thundering. "And there's a lot of thunder! We should get back to Hogwarts!"
Lily yelled back to him, "Good idea! Let's go!"
She held out her hand and Sirius took it and they walked (power- walked, really) back to the castle.
Megan glared out the clouds outside. Remus was just finishing buying some food from Honeydukes.
"Great, it's raining. How pleasant."
"I say, we run as fast as we can till we get into the Entrance Hall," said Remus.
"Okay," said Megan. "GO!"
They burst from Honeydukes and ran as fast as they could to Hogwarts.