Disclaimer: you know who's mine and not mine. Erica is defiantly mine.
Hope this chapter turns out well, please tell me what you think. The middle of this chapter is really funny(to me at least)!!!
Chapter 2
A rather bold move
"That's it! I give up!" Lupin howled as he was writing his semester paper.
James and Sirius had given up a long time ago and were now playing wizards chess.
"Man! I knew I would hate 5th year!" Peter groaned. He rubbed his head, "What's your topic Lupin? I bet ya it's not half as bad as mine."
"Really..." Lupin replied slyly, "How much?"
"5 sickles." Peter laughed, Lupin wasn't known for gambling.
"Centaurs! Ha! Now cough it up!" he said triumphantly as Peters face fell in disappointment.
"Naw..." Peter said slowly.
"What?! Hey I won, giv'em to me." He said annoyed, "Why?! What's your topic?" he said his hand still stretched out for the coins.
"Dragons." Peter replied sadly.
"What!" Sirius yelled in shock from the chess board, "Dragons?! That's the easiest one of all. Give me your topic if you don't want it." He asked hopefully.
"I want it," Peter said quietly, feeling as if they were all ganging up on him as usual, "But I don't know were to start." He nearly cried, brokenly.
"Don't know where to start! Honestly Wormtail! There's fire breath, talons, teeth, magical uses, magical resistence, size, habits, different types... " Lupin began to lecture.
"I know, I know! That's why I can't figure out where to start! There's so much to choose from!"
"He's got ya there." Moody said quietly. He watched as James moved his Rook which destroyed one of Sirius's Pawns. Sighing, Sirius made his counter attack.
"What do you guys have?" Peter asked after a long silence.
"Uh...Basilisk...I think" James said, half paying attention to Peter.
"And you?" Peter asked Moody and Sirius. "Trolls." Moody said with a grunt.
Peter laughed historically, when he stopped Sirius answered.
"Unicorns."
"Cool. Really?" asked peter who looked as if he was about to laugh again, but got a warning look from Sirius, "That's...uh...gonna be hard..." he coughed, trying to hide a smile.
"No, It'll be easy."
"I mean it's going to be hard to write about 6 to 7 pages on just unicorns."
"Oh...yeah I guess..." Sirius said half-heartedly. His Queen took one of James's Knights, leaving his King open for attack.
There was another long silence. The fire cracked, and the gusting winds outside blew snow everywhere. You couldn't see more than a few feet in front of the window.
"Oh shoot!" James mumbled as he realized a huge mistake in his defense. Sirius took his chance and took James's King, ending the game.
"Oh well, game over. Good that was starting to get boring!" he said as he stretched.
Sirius did the same and looked around the Gryffindor common room, and spotted Erica.
"Hey Prongs," he asked using James's nickname, "how old was you sister again?"
"Who? Erica? Oh...she's barley a half year younger that me...she's in our classes, remember? Why?"
Sirius shrugged, "Just wondering." He looked back at her.
Erica looked a lot like James, just prettier. Erica was about as tall as James and had really dark brown hair (with hazel highlights that she had put in a year before) like James. The only characteristics that were different was eye color, she had brilliant emerald green eyes and James had brownish eyes. The other differences were that her grades were a lot better than his. Unlike James she never got in trouble and her grades were all O's (outstanding) never anything lower.
Sirius couldn't even remember the last time he had taken interest in a girl, and not the other way around. Girls were always flirting around with him, then again Erica was different. She was friendly, smart(very), and didn't go looking for a guy and bug him.
He got up and walked over to her.
"Hey." He said calmly as he slid on top of the table looking real casual.
On the other side of the room Lupin poked everyone to attention to watch Sirius.
She looked up annoyed at first then happy when she realized who it was. "Hey, Black." She said as she set her quill down, "How's the paper going?" "You mean the nasty little 7 page one, on a creature that we'll probably never meet or have to worry about in this lifetime or the next?" Sirius asked innocently.
"That's the one." She laughed.
"Nope, never heard of it." He said smoothly.
"Oh come on, What's you topic?"
"Unicorns. And you?" he asked as he glanced down at her paper.
"Pegasus...wow that's strange. Aren't unicorns and Pegasus closely related?" she turned a few pages in her book on Pegasus, "Yup." She said after reading for a moment "knew it!"
"Cool." He said absently mindedly as he noticed his friends were watching him. He shook his fist at them while Erica was looking down at her book again. "Hey, actually I was wondering if you could help me on my paper...since our creatures are so closely related and everything..." he asked as about 13 second years came in from a fencing club.
"Sure, but I have a feeling it's about to get really noisily in here, so lets go to the library. We could also find some new books there. Go get your stuff." She said as she neatly put her things in her bag.
"Great! Meet ya at the porthole in a few minutes." He said excitedly.
"Well?!" James asked as Sirius ran back to their table and began randomly shoving things into his bag. "You ask her out yet or something? You've been wanting to..." he said with a sly grin.
"Nope, but I got the next best thing." He was about to run to the porthole but skidded to a stop. "It...It is ok with you right...?"
"Of course, but it's not really my choice...it's hers." James said, leaning far back on two legs of his chair. He said this thoughtfully, and stared outside.
Sirius readjusted his bag on his shoulder and ran towards the porthole and yelled back to them, "Your sisters the greatest!"
"I know..."James said quietly smiling, and hoped Sirius didn't screw up.
"Hey, here's one!" Erica whispered.
"Really? Let me see." He whispered back, he then took the book and examined it. He made sure he kept a hand on the stool Erica was standing on.
"Yeah, this is great." He said honestly. "It has a good chapter on dragons too, I'll bring this one back for Worm...I mean, Peter..." he said quickly correcting himself. "Why do you call him Wormtail?" she asked not missing a step in his mistake. "And why do you call James Prongs and Lupin Moony?" "Uhh...secret..." he said evasively, the others would kill him if he said anything.
"Really? James will tell me." She said confidently, she smiled at him as she took two rather large books from the top shelf and hopped down.
Sirius doubted that James would say anything, but remained silent. The names were for their Animagus forms. James a stag, Lupin a werewolf (not an animagus form), Peter the rat and he was a black dog. If anyone ever found out, they would get a lot worse then getting expelled...a lot worse...
"Can I call you Padfoot?"she asked, "or is it some kinda code that no one else can use...?"
Sirius's heart leaped, "Of...sure you can...it's not really a code name or anything..." he said flushing red. He felt bad lying to her, yet he had a twisted feeling that she knew more than she was letting on.
They sat down at their table where they had spread everything out. For the next 3 hours they worked seriously. Sirius finally began to loose his focus.
"How can you do this all day?" he asked leaning his chair back on two legs.
"Your gonna fall." She said calmly as she turned a page, "and I don't do this all day, but if you get into your work and like it...then it's easy."
Sirius thought about this for a minute then finally said, "How about a break, even you need those...right?"
"Sounds good." She stood and checked her silver wrist watch she was wearing. "Goodness it's almost time for dinner!"
Suddenly Sirius's chair tipped all the way back and both he and the chair clattered to the floor. He sat for a moment, dazed.
"Told ya." She laughed, giving him a hand up. Sirius's stomach growled furiously.
"Lets go eat, I'm starved!"
They left the library and started down the hall towards the dinning hall. Halfway down the hall they heard a trio of girls chant,
"Black and Potter sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes the baby in the baby carriage.
That's not all, that's not all I saw Black with another brat!"
They laughed hideously.
Sirius started towards them.
"Come on Sirius! Don't!" she begged. Why is she worried? She knows I'd never hex a girl! Sirius thought, not that these things are girls.
Then he found out why she was worried.
Snape and Malfoy stood behind the girls, wands drawn like swords.
Both of them struck him at the same time. He was flung into the air and with a crash hit the hard, cold floor.
"Sirius!" she shouted running to him. Sirius gagged and coughed and tried to stand, but the spell held him down. Erica was just 3 feet away from him when she was hit violently in the side with a stunning spell. She gasped and fell to the ground. After a few moments she picked herself up her face and body contorted in utter rage.
"So what do you think of Black now, Potter?" shrieked Marada Sillson, who didn't notice Erica's anger...at least not yet.
Erica stood to her full height (a little taller than most of the girls and Snape) her face was cold and unwelcoming. Then she abruptly relaxed and put her right hand on her hip. They had just messed with the bull and now here came the horns.
"Your just jealous!" she said simply raising her head proudly. She took a few steps to her left to stand directly in front of Sirius, protecting him from further threat.
Maranda and the other girls stopped laughing immediately.
Any girl would be jealous of Erica. Having one of the most handsome boys in school like you was every girls wish. Maranda swallowed hard, embarrassed.
"You'd go out with this git?!" Lucius Malfoy laughed, "then you're a mudblood, a filthy little mudblood to want to. He's been shunned by his own family. How pathetic! Not to mention his little twisted friends...little maggots, they are...no worse trolls. Not only are they as smart as one but they smell like one too!" Snape joined his laughter.
"Really...? Me? A mudblood?" looking both undaunted, but sad. "Oh well!" she said cheerily, then her face twister into a true storming rage. The hall abruptly got cold, a haunting breeze whistled.
"First of all," she hissed darkly, "you possess zero intimidation! I'm not bothered by your insults or crude remarks, but when you include other people...it's on!" she began to stalk forward wand in hand, "and if I'm what you impudent Slytherins call a mudblood then your are the most idiotic, hideous, vulgar piles of miserable excretions that ever have the privilege to be spat upon by every being of this world and the next! Second of all I'm a "pureblood" if that's what you call it, so your insults make absolutely no sense once so ever." Snape and Lucius were now backing away from her as she drew closer, the girls scattered like mice. "Third of all your intellectual IQ is that of a roach... wait, no that's insulting the roaches, ssssoooo your opinion is invalid and doesn't matter in the least! And..." she took a deep breath now( she had said this all very rapidly), "a cave troll could beat your bloody assess anytime, blindfolded and with both arms behind its back! Fourth of all, if Sirius is a git then he's my git! So go roast in turnips Lucius Malfoy, before I decide to use a certain rearranging charm that'll leave you begging for mercy!" she recoiled preparing to strike, but both Malfoy and Snape turned heel and ran as if their lives depended on it.
"Wow!" Sirius gasped as he was finally able to stand, "That was amazing...but I kinda lost ya in the middle of it all." He said sheepishly.
"Most do," she admitted "either that or I talk to fast."
"I think it was brilliant!" he said this as his stomach gave a huge grumble.
"Let's go eat!" Erica laughed.
"Excellent!" he exclaimed, but then he started to think about what she had said. After a few minutes he asked "Do you really think I'm a git?"
"Yeah...but think about it...you're my git." Erica laughed, after a second he started to laugh too.
"Man!" Peter moaned, as he sat at the long Gryffingor table in the Great Hall. He shoved some potatoes in his mouth and chewed miserably. "I only got one page done in 3 hours...how much longer do you think it will take?" he asked the others as he stirred his soup.
"Correction, half a page...not even half...more like ΒΌ." Lupin was 3 pages into his own paper, he had been watching Peter struggle for the past 3 hours and get nearly nothing done. He had the Phoenixes, which was easy...to him.
"Gee thanks." Peter mumbled sarcastically.
"Anytime."
"Hey look who's here!" James yelled as he half stood, waving his hands. Sirius caught sight of him and headed over.
"I wonder..." Lupin mused looking at Sirius's smile...and limp.
"Wonder what Lupin...? Hey Sirius, why are you limping? What happened?" Peter asked as Sirius sat down next to James.
"You know that 7th year guy, Malfoy?"
"Who doesn't?" James replied wryly.
"Well he and Snape attacked me in the hall by the library...with Erica..." Sirius explained.
"WHAT?!" James blazed, he was very protective of his sister like she was of him, "If he..." enraged, James stood but Sirius pulled him back down.
"Don't worry, they just attacked me..." Sirius lied, "I don't think your sister needed protecting Prongs. She can take care of herself...after what I saw she kinda scares me..." he laughed.
"Why?" Lupin asked curiously, "Not that I'm questioning a women's strength..." he corrected quickly as some girls sitting by them threw them dirty looks.
"Shoot!" Sirius laughed, "She scared the wits out of them and insulted them at the same time! It was kinda cool..."
"Sssooo how's the paper going...even though I doubt you were able to do much though all the kissing and stuff." James teased. He himself hadn't even started his paper. As usual he would do it last minute.
"Done... almost just a paragraph left to do." He said through a mouthful of stew.
"What?! Your done! You...Sirius Black...have finished your paper 3 days before it's even due?! And not 2 minutes before instead?!" Lupin said slowly and loudly, in complete shock. "James! We've lost Sirius to the Dark side!" Lupin pretended to sob.
"Nnnooo! Someone call St. Mungo's! It's the end of the world." James yelled in fake horror.
"Ooohhh stop!" Sirius growled in annoyance form all the stares they were getting.
James leaped into a funeral song.
"James, you git! I'm serious!" he said pulling him back down.
"Yes you are serious, Sirius! Ha, get it?!" James laughed. "Ow...O.K., ok...Jeez where's your sense of humor?" James hissed as he received a hard pinch from Sirius.
"Somewhere else right now." He said shrugging as he shifted to a more comfortable position. His back really hurt from his fall.
"It's actually kinda nice that I don't have to worry about homework now." He admitted.
"How about Erica, is she done?" Peter asked thoughtfully.
"Of course, she finished a few minutes after we got there. She was helping me most of the time."
"Well, what's her subject," Peter growled with jealously. "I bet ya it was easy!"
"No, not really...she had the Pegasus. How far are you Wormtail?"
"Half a page..." he began.
"Hmmm." Lupin mumbled in his drink.
"1/4 of a page!" Peter hissed the correction in annoyance.
Hope this chapter turns out well, please tell me what you think. The middle of this chapter is really funny(to me at least)!!!
Chapter 2
A rather bold move
"That's it! I give up!" Lupin howled as he was writing his semester paper.
James and Sirius had given up a long time ago and were now playing wizards chess.
"Man! I knew I would hate 5th year!" Peter groaned. He rubbed his head, "What's your topic Lupin? I bet ya it's not half as bad as mine."
"Really..." Lupin replied slyly, "How much?"
"5 sickles." Peter laughed, Lupin wasn't known for gambling.
"Centaurs! Ha! Now cough it up!" he said triumphantly as Peters face fell in disappointment.
"Naw..." Peter said slowly.
"What?! Hey I won, giv'em to me." He said annoyed, "Why?! What's your topic?" he said his hand still stretched out for the coins.
"Dragons." Peter replied sadly.
"What!" Sirius yelled in shock from the chess board, "Dragons?! That's the easiest one of all. Give me your topic if you don't want it." He asked hopefully.
"I want it," Peter said quietly, feeling as if they were all ganging up on him as usual, "But I don't know were to start." He nearly cried, brokenly.
"Don't know where to start! Honestly Wormtail! There's fire breath, talons, teeth, magical uses, magical resistence, size, habits, different types... " Lupin began to lecture.
"I know, I know! That's why I can't figure out where to start! There's so much to choose from!"
"He's got ya there." Moody said quietly. He watched as James moved his Rook which destroyed one of Sirius's Pawns. Sighing, Sirius made his counter attack.
"What do you guys have?" Peter asked after a long silence.
"Uh...Basilisk...I think" James said, half paying attention to Peter.
"And you?" Peter asked Moody and Sirius. "Trolls." Moody said with a grunt.
Peter laughed historically, when he stopped Sirius answered.
"Unicorns."
"Cool. Really?" asked peter who looked as if he was about to laugh again, but got a warning look from Sirius, "That's...uh...gonna be hard..." he coughed, trying to hide a smile.
"No, It'll be easy."
"I mean it's going to be hard to write about 6 to 7 pages on just unicorns."
"Oh...yeah I guess..." Sirius said half-heartedly. His Queen took one of James's Knights, leaving his King open for attack.
There was another long silence. The fire cracked, and the gusting winds outside blew snow everywhere. You couldn't see more than a few feet in front of the window.
"Oh shoot!" James mumbled as he realized a huge mistake in his defense. Sirius took his chance and took James's King, ending the game.
"Oh well, game over. Good that was starting to get boring!" he said as he stretched.
Sirius did the same and looked around the Gryffindor common room, and spotted Erica.
"Hey Prongs," he asked using James's nickname, "how old was you sister again?"
"Who? Erica? Oh...she's barley a half year younger that me...she's in our classes, remember? Why?"
Sirius shrugged, "Just wondering." He looked back at her.
Erica looked a lot like James, just prettier. Erica was about as tall as James and had really dark brown hair (with hazel highlights that she had put in a year before) like James. The only characteristics that were different was eye color, she had brilliant emerald green eyes and James had brownish eyes. The other differences were that her grades were a lot better than his. Unlike James she never got in trouble and her grades were all O's (outstanding) never anything lower.
Sirius couldn't even remember the last time he had taken interest in a girl, and not the other way around. Girls were always flirting around with him, then again Erica was different. She was friendly, smart(very), and didn't go looking for a guy and bug him.
He got up and walked over to her.
"Hey." He said calmly as he slid on top of the table looking real casual.
On the other side of the room Lupin poked everyone to attention to watch Sirius.
She looked up annoyed at first then happy when she realized who it was. "Hey, Black." She said as she set her quill down, "How's the paper going?" "You mean the nasty little 7 page one, on a creature that we'll probably never meet or have to worry about in this lifetime or the next?" Sirius asked innocently.
"That's the one." She laughed.
"Nope, never heard of it." He said smoothly.
"Oh come on, What's you topic?"
"Unicorns. And you?" he asked as he glanced down at her paper.
"Pegasus...wow that's strange. Aren't unicorns and Pegasus closely related?" she turned a few pages in her book on Pegasus, "Yup." She said after reading for a moment "knew it!"
"Cool." He said absently mindedly as he noticed his friends were watching him. He shook his fist at them while Erica was looking down at her book again. "Hey, actually I was wondering if you could help me on my paper...since our creatures are so closely related and everything..." he asked as about 13 second years came in from a fencing club.
"Sure, but I have a feeling it's about to get really noisily in here, so lets go to the library. We could also find some new books there. Go get your stuff." She said as she neatly put her things in her bag.
"Great! Meet ya at the porthole in a few minutes." He said excitedly.
"Well?!" James asked as Sirius ran back to their table and began randomly shoving things into his bag. "You ask her out yet or something? You've been wanting to..." he said with a sly grin.
"Nope, but I got the next best thing." He was about to run to the porthole but skidded to a stop. "It...It is ok with you right...?"
"Of course, but it's not really my choice...it's hers." James said, leaning far back on two legs of his chair. He said this thoughtfully, and stared outside.
Sirius readjusted his bag on his shoulder and ran towards the porthole and yelled back to them, "Your sisters the greatest!"
"I know..."James said quietly smiling, and hoped Sirius didn't screw up.
"Hey, here's one!" Erica whispered.
"Really? Let me see." He whispered back, he then took the book and examined it. He made sure he kept a hand on the stool Erica was standing on.
"Yeah, this is great." He said honestly. "It has a good chapter on dragons too, I'll bring this one back for Worm...I mean, Peter..." he said quickly correcting himself. "Why do you call him Wormtail?" she asked not missing a step in his mistake. "And why do you call James Prongs and Lupin Moony?" "Uhh...secret..." he said evasively, the others would kill him if he said anything.
"Really? James will tell me." She said confidently, she smiled at him as she took two rather large books from the top shelf and hopped down.
Sirius doubted that James would say anything, but remained silent. The names were for their Animagus forms. James a stag, Lupin a werewolf (not an animagus form), Peter the rat and he was a black dog. If anyone ever found out, they would get a lot worse then getting expelled...a lot worse...
"Can I call you Padfoot?"she asked, "or is it some kinda code that no one else can use...?"
Sirius's heart leaped, "Of...sure you can...it's not really a code name or anything..." he said flushing red. He felt bad lying to her, yet he had a twisted feeling that she knew more than she was letting on.
They sat down at their table where they had spread everything out. For the next 3 hours they worked seriously. Sirius finally began to loose his focus.
"How can you do this all day?" he asked leaning his chair back on two legs.
"Your gonna fall." She said calmly as she turned a page, "and I don't do this all day, but if you get into your work and like it...then it's easy."
Sirius thought about this for a minute then finally said, "How about a break, even you need those...right?"
"Sounds good." She stood and checked her silver wrist watch she was wearing. "Goodness it's almost time for dinner!"
Suddenly Sirius's chair tipped all the way back and both he and the chair clattered to the floor. He sat for a moment, dazed.
"Told ya." She laughed, giving him a hand up. Sirius's stomach growled furiously.
"Lets go eat, I'm starved!"
They left the library and started down the hall towards the dinning hall. Halfway down the hall they heard a trio of girls chant,
"Black and Potter sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love,
then comes marriage,
then comes the baby in the baby carriage.
That's not all, that's not all I saw Black with another brat!"
They laughed hideously.
Sirius started towards them.
"Come on Sirius! Don't!" she begged. Why is she worried? She knows I'd never hex a girl! Sirius thought, not that these things are girls.
Then he found out why she was worried.
Snape and Malfoy stood behind the girls, wands drawn like swords.
Both of them struck him at the same time. He was flung into the air and with a crash hit the hard, cold floor.
"Sirius!" she shouted running to him. Sirius gagged and coughed and tried to stand, but the spell held him down. Erica was just 3 feet away from him when she was hit violently in the side with a stunning spell. She gasped and fell to the ground. After a few moments she picked herself up her face and body contorted in utter rage.
"So what do you think of Black now, Potter?" shrieked Marada Sillson, who didn't notice Erica's anger...at least not yet.
Erica stood to her full height (a little taller than most of the girls and Snape) her face was cold and unwelcoming. Then she abruptly relaxed and put her right hand on her hip. They had just messed with the bull and now here came the horns.
"Your just jealous!" she said simply raising her head proudly. She took a few steps to her left to stand directly in front of Sirius, protecting him from further threat.
Maranda and the other girls stopped laughing immediately.
Any girl would be jealous of Erica. Having one of the most handsome boys in school like you was every girls wish. Maranda swallowed hard, embarrassed.
"You'd go out with this git?!" Lucius Malfoy laughed, "then you're a mudblood, a filthy little mudblood to want to. He's been shunned by his own family. How pathetic! Not to mention his little twisted friends...little maggots, they are...no worse trolls. Not only are they as smart as one but they smell like one too!" Snape joined his laughter.
"Really...? Me? A mudblood?" looking both undaunted, but sad. "Oh well!" she said cheerily, then her face twister into a true storming rage. The hall abruptly got cold, a haunting breeze whistled.
"First of all," she hissed darkly, "you possess zero intimidation! I'm not bothered by your insults or crude remarks, but when you include other people...it's on!" she began to stalk forward wand in hand, "and if I'm what you impudent Slytherins call a mudblood then your are the most idiotic, hideous, vulgar piles of miserable excretions that ever have the privilege to be spat upon by every being of this world and the next! Second of all I'm a "pureblood" if that's what you call it, so your insults make absolutely no sense once so ever." Snape and Lucius were now backing away from her as she drew closer, the girls scattered like mice. "Third of all your intellectual IQ is that of a roach... wait, no that's insulting the roaches, ssssoooo your opinion is invalid and doesn't matter in the least! And..." she took a deep breath now( she had said this all very rapidly), "a cave troll could beat your bloody assess anytime, blindfolded and with both arms behind its back! Fourth of all, if Sirius is a git then he's my git! So go roast in turnips Lucius Malfoy, before I decide to use a certain rearranging charm that'll leave you begging for mercy!" she recoiled preparing to strike, but both Malfoy and Snape turned heel and ran as if their lives depended on it.
"Wow!" Sirius gasped as he was finally able to stand, "That was amazing...but I kinda lost ya in the middle of it all." He said sheepishly.
"Most do," she admitted "either that or I talk to fast."
"I think it was brilliant!" he said this as his stomach gave a huge grumble.
"Let's go eat!" Erica laughed.
"Excellent!" he exclaimed, but then he started to think about what she had said. After a few minutes he asked "Do you really think I'm a git?"
"Yeah...but think about it...you're my git." Erica laughed, after a second he started to laugh too.
"Man!" Peter moaned, as he sat at the long Gryffingor table in the Great Hall. He shoved some potatoes in his mouth and chewed miserably. "I only got one page done in 3 hours...how much longer do you think it will take?" he asked the others as he stirred his soup.
"Correction, half a page...not even half...more like ΒΌ." Lupin was 3 pages into his own paper, he had been watching Peter struggle for the past 3 hours and get nearly nothing done. He had the Phoenixes, which was easy...to him.
"Gee thanks." Peter mumbled sarcastically.
"Anytime."
"Hey look who's here!" James yelled as he half stood, waving his hands. Sirius caught sight of him and headed over.
"I wonder..." Lupin mused looking at Sirius's smile...and limp.
"Wonder what Lupin...? Hey Sirius, why are you limping? What happened?" Peter asked as Sirius sat down next to James.
"You know that 7th year guy, Malfoy?"
"Who doesn't?" James replied wryly.
"Well he and Snape attacked me in the hall by the library...with Erica..." Sirius explained.
"WHAT?!" James blazed, he was very protective of his sister like she was of him, "If he..." enraged, James stood but Sirius pulled him back down.
"Don't worry, they just attacked me..." Sirius lied, "I don't think your sister needed protecting Prongs. She can take care of herself...after what I saw she kinda scares me..." he laughed.
"Why?" Lupin asked curiously, "Not that I'm questioning a women's strength..." he corrected quickly as some girls sitting by them threw them dirty looks.
"Shoot!" Sirius laughed, "She scared the wits out of them and insulted them at the same time! It was kinda cool..."
"Sssooo how's the paper going...even though I doubt you were able to do much though all the kissing and stuff." James teased. He himself hadn't even started his paper. As usual he would do it last minute.
"Done... almost just a paragraph left to do." He said through a mouthful of stew.
"What?! Your done! You...Sirius Black...have finished your paper 3 days before it's even due?! And not 2 minutes before instead?!" Lupin said slowly and loudly, in complete shock. "James! We've lost Sirius to the Dark side!" Lupin pretended to sob.
"Nnnooo! Someone call St. Mungo's! It's the end of the world." James yelled in fake horror.
"Ooohhh stop!" Sirius growled in annoyance form all the stares they were getting.
James leaped into a funeral song.
"James, you git! I'm serious!" he said pulling him back down.
"Yes you are serious, Sirius! Ha, get it?!" James laughed. "Ow...O.K., ok...Jeez where's your sense of humor?" James hissed as he received a hard pinch from Sirius.
"Somewhere else right now." He said shrugging as he shifted to a more comfortable position. His back really hurt from his fall.
"It's actually kinda nice that I don't have to worry about homework now." He admitted.
"How about Erica, is she done?" Peter asked thoughtfully.
"Of course, she finished a few minutes after we got there. She was helping me most of the time."
"Well, what's her subject," Peter growled with jealously. "I bet ya it was easy!"
"No, not really...she had the Pegasus. How far are you Wormtail?"
"Half a page..." he began.
"Hmmm." Lupin mumbled in his drink.
"1/4 of a page!" Peter hissed the correction in annoyance.