A/n Thanks to my new beta *grins* and also to those who reviewed. I made a mistake on the last chapter and instead of putting chapter 3 I put 2 I am sorry for that mistake it was my fault. One more thing, Peter makes an appearance in this chappie but don't think that I am going back on what I said before. Peter will not be a marauder but he will be mentioned and will be an acquaintance much like Seamus and Dean are to Harry and Ron. Okay fine this is the last thing; their will be a Sirius flashback in this chapter it also wont be a pleasant one so for those of you who don't like torture skip the part with the flashback line. Please R/R!!! On with my ficlet!

Chapter 4


The next morning the boys overslept a little and had to bring their supplies down to the Great Hall with them. Somehow they managed to find their way down without any help. When they arrived, they were among the last people to eat. Hurriedly they gobbled down bacon, eggs, and some toast along with some fruit juice then ran to their first class of the day; History of Magic.

They were five minutes late when they walked through the black board to enter the room but the teacher didn't seem to notice. James, Sirius and Remus took the seats at the back of the classrooms which hadn't been filled yet.

Trying to make up for the five minutes they had lost, Remus asked the girl next to him, who happened to be Lily Evans, if he could see her notes so far. She agreed and handed them over after the ghost professor finished talking.


"His name is Professor Binns." Lily whispered to Remus and he nodded back in thanks.

Once Professor Binns finished talking, he assigned them homework to start on in class. Remus copied Lily's notes while James and Sirius fooled around.

"Sirius we need something to do in this class." James whined.

Sirius nodded "I know it is so boring!" Sirius agreed.


"Would you two shut up? You're going to get us into trouble!" Lily whispered angrily.

"Oh bug off Evans, cant you see the old ghost doesn't know what is going on?" Sirius said, annoyed.


"I don't want Gryffindor to lose any house points and neither should you!" she snapped.

James was getting annoyed as well he thought the girl was pretty but she was too much of a 'goody-two-shoes' for his liking.

"Sirius is right Evans just mind your own business what we do is no concern of yours." James told her.


Lily glared at him "You are so arrogant! Don't you care about our house?! I don't want to lose the house cup just because you keep talking during a lesson!" she snapped


"Would you bug off?! It is only the second day of school, it doesn't matter right now! Stop being 'Little Miss Perfect!" James snapped, he may fancy the girls looks, but she was too annoying.


Lily turned around with a "Humph" and went back to her work.

Sirius grinned at James "You told her mate!" James just laughed at the grin on Sirius's face.


After an hour or so the class ended and they group headed up to the tower for an Astronomy lesson. When they arrived they met Professor Fridan who was an old woman yet sharp as a tack, a little like McGonagall.


Remus, James and Sirius found this lesson to be a little more exciting than History of Magic; which was saying a lot because it was so boring. They spent most of the lesson learning about the planets and the sun which bored the boys to death. They were quite excited when the bell rang for lunch.


"James you and Sirius really should give Lily Evans a chance you know." Remus told them while they headed down for lunch. "She just cares about her grades and classes."


Sirius and James nodded.

"Yes, well, so do we. We might not show it, but our grades concern us as well you know." James told him

"Besides that Evans girl is just too annoying. You probably care about your grades more than she does but you don't mind a bit of fun." Sirius said with a lopsided grin.


Remus sighed; his little chat with his friends wasn't going over too well. "Yeah, alright you two."


James rolled his eyes. "Come on let's go get something to eat." And with that they began to gobble down cheese sandwiches with pumpkin juice.

Once they finished eating, they headed down to the dungeons for potions this was once of the classes they were least looking forward to since they had it with the Slytherins. They walked into the class and sat down near the middle next to a fat boy in their house. They hadn't talked to him yet since he wasn't in the dormitory.


"Hello, I am Remus Lupin. What's your name?" Remus asked, trying to sound friendly.


"P-Peter Pettigrew" The boy squeaked out quickly.


James, Sirius, and Remus nodded. They had heard about this boy from Erik Caloon. Apparently Peter was a leech and would attach himself to anyone who was stronger or more powerful than himself.

"It's nice to meet you Peter." Remus replied kindly.

"Yo-you too." He said barely above a whisper. It seemed this boy was more than a little shy.


James and Sirius exchanged a glace. They didn't really mind this boy; he looked like the kind of person who needed a few friends. They didn't really want him bugging them though. They would stay on friendly terms but they didn't want to be constantly followed by Peter. They took their seats and the Slytherins soon walked into the room grinning from ear to ear.


"What's got them so happy?" James asked.


"The professor for this class is their Head of House," Remus told him. "She apparently favors her students."


James nodded. "Oh, so that means that this class won't be much fun." He sighed; he had been looking forward to his class with the Slytherins just as much as he had been dreading it. He had wanted to find a way to get Snape into trouble.


Sirius looked at James having almost the same thoughts going through his head. Only instead of pranking, his thoughts were full of revenge. Revenge for all the times when they had been little, for all the times that Snivellus had gotten him into trouble, but most of all for telling Sirius's father that he had been playing with Muggle children, and making him watch while his father tortured the Muggle family.

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Sirius walked down the stairs from his bed room with Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and his own younger brother Regulus, in tow. It was another Friday, which meant that Sirius's mother was having another one of her fancy dinner parties for a few of their Pure Blood friends. They walked into the kitchen where Malfoy tripped Sirius making him get grease down his new robe.

Malfoy grinned at Sirius. "Looks like you're going to have to go change into Mudblood clothing, seeing as how your other robes are dirty." Malfoy's mouth twisted into an evil smile when Sirius protested that he had more clean robes. "No you don't, Severus and I made sure of that."

Sirius eyes widened in horror, if he didn't have any robes to wear his parents would kill him. He looked at his younger brother who just shrugged; he didn't want Malfoy pranking him. Sirius shook his head, next year around this time Malfoy would be at Hogwarts since he had turned ten eight months ago and he would be gone from Sirius's life for one year.


"Better hurry up Little Dog Star." Malfoy taunted him.

"Shut up Malfoy, what's your problem anyways?" Sirius asked glaring and trying to wipe the oven grease from the front of his robe.

"You are," he hissed.


Sirius glared at him and ran up to his brothers room to get one of his robes. Regulus was only a little younger than Sirius and his robes were around the same size. Sirius grabbed one and pulled it on. He sighed in relief to find it was just the right size.

"SIRIUS ORION BLACK, GET DOWN HERE!!!" His mother was screaming at him, annoyed that he wasn't down yet but all of his 'little friends' were. She glared at him when he came running down the stairs "Finally!" she snapped at him.

"Sorry mother." He said to her.

"Sirius, why don't you and your little friends go out and play in the front yard?" It was more of a command than a question. When they turned to leave his mother grabbed his robe. "If you play with those Mudbloods again, even God won't save you Sirius." She snarled into his ear. He gulped and ran to follow his 'little friends'.


When they reached the yard Malfoy and Snape told Sirius to go away which he did happily. They went to get brooms to play with while Sirius walked off the grounds of, Grimauld Place. He pulled off his robes and showed his Muggle clothing that he wore underneath. He looked across the street and saw two Muggle children playing football. He hadn't ever heard of let alone seen a football match before so, he walked over to them.
"Can I play please?" he asked nicely

What looked like the oldest nodded. "Sure. Since we can't play football with three people let's just kick the ball to each other. Oh and what's your name? I am Sara and this is my brother Tim." She said to him smiling. "I am twelve he is seven. Where do you go to school? We go there." She pointed at the pale blue building about a block away.


"I am Sirius." Sirius told her "I am nine and my mum schools me and my younger brother." He smiled back at Sara and Tim.

"Ok, well let's play." She kicked the ball to Tim who kicked it to Sirius.

They continued their game for about forty five minutes and were having a good time, too, until Snape came over to Sirius.


"Ooooo Sirius you're going to be in trouble. They aren't our kind. your mum and dad are going to be furious." He had a nasty grin on his face and he turned and ran back into Sirius's house.

"I er. have to go. Sorry Sara. sorry Tim." He said and ran back towards the house not far behind Snape.

He was too late though; Snape had told his father and now they were both marching out of the house. Snape had an awful look on his face while his father looked too angry for words. They walked over to where Sara and Tim were still playing. Mr. Black grabbed Sirius by the back of his shirt and dragged him.

"What have I told you about playing with Mudbloods?!" his father demanded

"But dad." he began

"But nothing!" his father roared and pulled out his wand aiming it for Sirius. He muttered something Sirius couldn't hear and ropes wrapped around Sirius. "Now you watch boy. This might teach you what being a Black is all about." His father aimed his wand at Sara and Tim who were too frightened to speak and muttered, "Crucio"

Sirius watched horrified while his new friends screamed in pain and rolled on the ground crying. "STOP IT!!!" he screamed at his father "STOP IT YOU'RE GOING TO KILL THEM!" his father turned a twisted smile towards Sirius. Sirius started to cry "Please dad, please stop," he whispered. All he could do was watch. He felt so helpless and he started to cry again.

His father stopped abruptly and turned to Sirius. "I hope you learned your lesson Sirius." His father unbound him from the ropes and walked back into the house.

Snape turned to look at Sirius "He should have killed them; all Mudbloods deserve to die." Snape too, turned and ran into the house.

Sirius walked over to Sara and Tim who were still crying. "Are you alright?" he asked knowing full well that they were in pain. They were lucky though that his father hadn't hurt them too badly.

Sara looked up at Sirius with fear in her eyes as she stopped crying "What are you?" she asked. "Some sort of monster?" she grabbed Tim's arm and they ran into their house.

Sirius fell to the pavement and began to cry. He wasn't a monster! It was his family. His family were the monsters and he had learned that day that just being related made people think that he too was a monster.

"One day I will be better than them I will never hurt Muggles or Muggle Borns. I am not like my family and I never will be." He swore. He knew he was different. knew that he could never do what his father had done to Sara and Tim and he also knew that he never would.

He picked himself off the ground and headed back to his house. He hated Snape more than he had ever hated him before; hated the fact that he had gotten pleasure out of the pain of others. He thought of his father, his mother, and the rest of his family; they were evil but just because he was related didn't mean he was the same. Blood was nothing, it didn't matter; that was the lesson he had learned from his father; not that they were better than Muggles because they had magic, for he knew that had been the lesson his father had been trying to teach him. He had gotten a different message from the torture he had gotten a good message and he knew that was what separated him from his family.

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Sirius shuddered at the memory hoping that he wouldn't have to witness anything like that ever again. He looked over at James who was watching the Slytherins come into the room and sit down.

"Stupid Slytherins! Why couldn't we have lessons with the Ravenclaws or the Hufflepuffs?" James moaned


Sirius smiled slightly his thoughts still directed at his memory. He shook himself out of it and looked at James. "Oh look there's the teacher." He said

A short witch walked into the room smiling. "I am Professor Zork and I will be your substitute for today and tomorrow because Professor Hould is feeling a bit ill." She smiled around the class. "Please take out your quills and some parchment and begin to copy down what you see on the board."

The Gryffindors sighed happy that they didn't have to meet Professor Hould yet, but they were dreading her return. They spent the rest of the lessons copying down notes and after an hour left to go to their Charms class.

They headed down a hall and behind a tapestry and soon found their classroom. They went inside and sat down. Peter had followed them but had to sit on the other side of the class room because all the chairs in the back were taken.

Sirius sighed in relief. "That kid got on my nerves," He muttered to James.

James nodded. "Yeah, I think Erik was right Peter is a leech."

Remus gave them a reproving glance. "You will be nice to him though, won't you?" he asked

They nodded.

"Yes, Remy, we will be nice." Sirius said with a grin


Remus rolled his eyes and started copying down everything Professor Flitwick had to say. James and Sirius sighed and began to do the same. When the class finally ended, they walked up to the Common Room and dropped their stuff off in their dormitories.

James flopped onto his bed and sighed "I wonder when we will be starting flying lessons. I am looking forward to those almost as much as our next Transfiguration lesson."

Sirius made a face. "Transfiguration may be your thing, mate, but it sure isn't mine." He said making James and Remus laugh.


"Sirius what are you talking about? You're good at Transfiguration, how can you not like it?" James asked confused.

"Just because I am good at a class doesn't mean I have to like it." Sirius replied.

Remus rolled his eyes and pulled out a book to read while Sirius and James talked about everything from Lily Evans to Quidditch.

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The next few weeks followed in much the same way, until on their way up from Herbology one day, they saw a notice had been posted which said that instead of Potions last period on Thursdays, they would be having Flying lessons with one Madam Hooch.

Sirius turned to James and grinned. "Guess your wish finally came true and we get to have flying tomorrow!" Sirius said with a smile.

James grinned back at Sirius. "Yep, cant wait!"

Remus rolled his eyes and pulled them off to Transfiguration.

The next morning James was ecstatic which made Lily Evans annoyed because she had been assigned to work with him in Charms class.

"Concentrate James!" She snapped about every five seconds.

James looked at her. "Evans, we aren't doing anything but make a feather hover in the air!" he replied annoyed that he had been woken up from his daydream.

Lily glared at him. "Shut UP, Potter!" She said loud enough that the whole class turned their heads to look at them. Lily sank in her chair feeling embarrassed. "Well if you're so smart, you do it! I've already shown that I can, so now it's your turn."

James rolled his eyes muttered the spell and the feather floated up into the air. James made it move around a bit then let it float back to the table. "There, you see? I can do it too. Now leave me alone, Evans."

Lily glared and turned back to the feather. After what seemed an eternity to both Lily and James, the bell rang signaling for lunch.

James walked over to Remus and Sirius feeling angry. "Why couldn't you have been assigned to work with Evans, Remus? You two get along!"

Remus only looked annoyed and Sirius grinned.

"Well, you better start trying to get along with her James, she is in our house," Remus snapped and grabbed his stuff and walked from the room.

James and Sirius watched him leave confused.

"What's wrong with him?" James asked



"Oh, he said he was feeling ill and that if he snapped, he was sorry. He must get a temper when he feels bad." Sirius told him

James just nodded. "Oh alright."

"Come on mate lets head down to the Great Hall or else we'll miss lunch!" Sirius said grinning. James nodded and they both headed down to get something to eat.

After lunch, Remus came over and apologized to James for being rude.

"Hey, it's not a problem. Sirius told me you weren't feeling well," James replied, shrugging it off.

Remus nodded. "Yeah, sorry, I am just tired and not feeling too well."

"Why don't you go up to the Hospital Wing Remus?" Sirius suggested "We will tell Madam Hooch that you didn't feel well."

Remus nodded feeling grateful "That would be great, thanks," he told them and headed up towards the infirmary.

Sirius grinned at James "Come on! Let's go learn to fly!" And they headed off to the field, not wanting to miss a thing.

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Remus reached the Hospital Wing where he was greeted by Madam Pomfrey.

"Not feeling well Remus? Oh well I wouldn't expect you to since tonight is the night of the full moon." She said looking sadly down at Remus. Remus moaned and followed her to a bed. "Just rest here for a little you can go down to the Great Hall for dinner with your friends but I will come and get you afterwards so that we can head down for your transformation.
Remus looked at her terrified but nodded. "Alright, I will just sleep a little now."

She nodded and went back to work when she was sure that Remus was resting.

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When James and Sirius got down to the field, they saw that they were having this class with their own house and grinned. They went and stood by a broom like the rest of the class was doing and waited for their teacher to arrive.


Madam Hooch came out wearing a whistle around her neck and carrying her broom. She was very young, with light hair and eyes like a hawk. "Good day class! Now, everyone stand by a broom, and say 'UP'!"

Soon you could hear many people shouting 'UP' and a few brooms jumped into their hands. Sirius and James got their broom up on the first try but most of their classmates had barely succeeded in making their broom do more than roll over.

"Those of you who haven't managed to make your broom jump up, just pick them up," Madam Hooch said.

The class continued from their and went rather well. James was told he flew very well and Sirius was given five points to Gryffindor for answering a question; something he rarely ever did.

They left the lesson feeling as though the day had gone well and headed to Gryffindor Tower for a nap.

End Chapter 4

A/n I think this went pretty well. The next chappie will include Remus's transformation. Poor little Remy. Thanks to the Reviewers please review again!

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