It's A Marauder's Thing
Chapter two: From Diagon Alley to Hogwarts
A/N: Hey! OK, so the rest of the chapters will not be like chapter one. That was just to introduce some of the main characters.
Also, I changed James' sister's name to Devon from Aura. And the former Devon is now Ashley. Sorry! You'll see that the changes have been made on chapter one.
Oh yes, once again, this is not beta'd so try to ignore any mistakes. Thanks!
It was two weeks until the Hogwarts Express would be leaving Platform 9 ¾. Witches and wizards were arriving in Diagon Alley every minute to buy their school supplies for the upcoming school year. Friends would meet up and the Marauders were no exception.
"So how'd you get away from those parents of your, mate?" James asked Sirius as they walked down the cobbled path to the apothecary.
"Well, I swiped some gold off my father as soon as we flooed here," Sirius said, smirking. "I can't stand being around my family more than necessary."
"Yeah, I know how you feel," James muttered, remembering what his dad did this morning.
"What are you talking about? You always say how much you love your family," Sirius said, stopping and looking at James.
"Yeah, well, when your father tells you that a certain someone is sitting downstairs waiting for you, just so you get out of bed, and they're not really there, you tend to get a bit pissed," James said sardonically.
Sirius burst out laughing. "Your father ... is ... hilarious!"
"Shove off, Black," James said angrily as he walked off, leaving Sirius laughing manically.
"So who was this 'certain someone'? Oh, wait, I know ... Lily Evans!" Sirius said with a whoop, catching up to James.
"What happened now?" said an amused voice from behind the two Marauders.
"Moony!"
Remus laughed. "Yeah, that's me. So, you going to tell me what's going on?"
To James' extreme annoyance, Sirius relayed all the facts to Remus about James' morning. By the end of it, Remus was smiling serenely at James, a huge grin tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"Oh bugger off you two!" James said.
After Remus eventually cracked and started laughing along with Sirius, the three Marauders walked down to the apothecary, picking up, much to Sirius' dislike, Peter Pettigrew. Peter was a short, stumpy-looking boy of 16. He was always following him, James, and Remus around school; watching their pranks from behind the safety of a concealed tapestry. Sirius never really would warm up to Peter. There was always something strange beneath that nervous, fidgety persona.
"So, Pete, how was your summer?" Remus asked.
"Eh, well, you know," he said, wringing his hands, "nothing really eventful."
The three other boys looked at each other, exchanging significant looks, before continuing to Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions to pick up their new robes. Dress robes had been listed among the many things they had to get for 6th year.
Sirius insisted on trying on the Halloween Costumes, which caused an almighty uproar of laughing from the three other Marauder's. Madam Malkin eventually had to tell them off for being too loud. As they walked out of the shop, James initiated one of Sirius' favorite topics: girls.
"So, who have you got your eye on this year, mate?" James asked.
Sirius thought about it. The first girl that popped into his head was James' twin sister: Devon. He had always thought she was beautiful. Not to mention she was an excellent Chaser, just like her brother. Unlike the other girls he's fancied, James' sister liked her share of pranks. But that was it. Sirius always referred to Devon as 'James' sister' or 'hey, James, how's your sister?'. He thought that that had to stop if he wanted to consider having a relationship with her. Sirius could think of many reasons why he really liked Devon, but couldn't bring himself to say them all to James. The likely result of which would be a severe pummeling, courtesy of James. No matter what James said, he was extremely protective over his sister even though she was born 10 minutes before he was, making her the older of the two. This made him laugh.
"What's so funny?" James asked, staring at Sirius.
Sirius mentally kicked himself, before turning to James.
"Nothing, I was just thinking about getting Lily and Devon's best friend Ashley to go out with me," Sirius smirked.
"Ha! Good luck! She's as tough as Lily and Devon are about guys!" Remus said with a laugh.
"Hey Devon?"
"Mmm?"
"What do you think James will say once he finds out you've been going out with that Diggory fellow?"
"He'll probably be raving mad. Amos is a year older than me after all!" Devon laughed as she zipped up her dress robes that she was trying on. She walked out of the dressing room to look at herself in the mirror. Her dark brown hair shone in the light, falling lightly on the shimmering baby blue dress robes she had on. To her right, Lily, one of her best friend's came out of the other dressing room. Lily had on green dress robes that accentuated her dark red hair and sparkling green eyes.
"How do I look?" Lily said hesitantly.
"Well, why don't you step in front of the mirror, silly, and find out for yourself?" Devon said, smiling.
"Wow!"
Lily looked in the mirror to see Madam Malkin standing behind her, smiling.
"I just made that dress robe yesterday, dear! There was something telling me I should make a bright green dress robe and here is the reason why!" she said, clapping her hands together, smiling widely, before walking away to tell off some loud boys.
Devon and Lily soon left the store, trying to find Marissa, their fellow Gryffindor 6th year. No sooner had they left the store than the bleach blonde came running up the path, yelling their names.
"Marissa!" squealed Lily, walking up to her and hugging her. "How was your summer?"
"Eh, the usual. The family was horrible," Marissa mumbled.
"Sorry. I know something that will cheer you up: how about you girls spend the rest of summer with me?" Devon asked. "I know it's only 2 weeks, but still, we'd have a great time."
"That sounds like fun!" Marissa said.
"I'd love to –"Lily started.
"-But you have something else to do?" Devon finished.
"Uh, yeah," Lily said, looking down.
"Which means, you don't want to be around James. Am I right?" Devon asked, looking at Lily. She didn't say anything.
"Oh come ON Lily. You don't have to hang around him. Besides, he won't be around much - - He has a Quidditch camp that he's been wanting to go to," Devon said, rolling her eyes.
"Oh alright," Lily said, sighing, wondering what on earth she was getting herself into.
As soon as Lily had gotten home with her parents, she started to pack her trunk to leave that night. She would be apparating for the first time since she took the test a week ago. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were a little worried about watching their younger daughter disappear out of thin air and not knowing where she'd end up.
"Are you sure you'll be okay, Lil?" Mrs. Evans said, popping her head into Lily's room.
Lily heaved a heavy sigh and turned to her mother, "Yes, I'll be fine, mum!"
Lily and her father dragged her trunk downstairs so she could apparate from the living room.
"I'll see you at Christmas!" Lily said waving, then disappearing with a tiny pop!
"Ooof!"
Lily stood up to look at her surroundings, wondering where on earth she had apparated to. It was a dark room, with dust floating in the air, and a small ray of light was shining through a crack to her right. Then she realized,
"I apparated in her attic!"
Lily sighed as she pushed the attic door down. She was climbing down the stairs when she lost her footing. Lily fell a good 3 feet onto something soft - - and alive!
"Hey! Geroff!"
Lily jumped up with a quick 'sorry!' to help up who she had landed on. As soon as she dusted herself off, she came face-to-face with James Potter. As always he had that annoyingly cute arrogant look on his face whenever he was around her. She could see a smile playing at his lips when she blushed.
"What were you doing up in our attic, Evans?" he said, looking down at her.
She rolled her eyes, "Not that it matters to you, but I apparated a bit off course."
James smirked as he walked passed her towards what she could only guess was his room. She breathed an enormous growl under her breath as she walked down the hall to find Devon's room. It was usually the one with music blazing loudly.
She knocked on the door, not really expecting Devon to hear. She was about to knock again when the door opened and a very windswept Devon appeared.
"Hullo!" Devon breathed as she stepped aside to let Lily in. "Um, Lil?"
"Mmm?"
"Where's your trunk?" she asked.
"What? Oh! It's up in the attic. I accidentally apparated up there," Lily said sheepishly.
"I see," Devon said, suppressing a laugh, "Well, I'll just have Lory get it in a few."
"Lory?"
"Our new house-elf, of course!" Devon said, waving a dismissive hand. "She's really sweet."
After listening to the Beatles for another thirty minutes, the girls made their way downstairs to wait for Marissa, and for dinner to be served. Lily always loved being at the Potter's mansion. Mr. and Mrs. Potter were always exceptionally nice to her and were constantly telling Lily, "maybe you can knock some sense into our boy James here". Marissa arrived shortly and dinner was served. It was marvelous, according to Lily. It was one of the most delicious turkey dinners Lily had ever eaten before.
As Lily, Devon, Marissa, and James spent ore time together, they became closer. Lily had never really warmed up to James before. But now it seemed he had changed; even if only a little. That night, Devon, Lily, and Marissa were talking on Devon's bed.
"It's weird, I've never seen him be this nice before," Lily commented, sipping her hot chocolate.
"It's definitely weird," Devon admitted, "I've never seen my brother open doors for a girl before." Marissa and Lily laughed.
"But then again he's always been head over heels for Lily," Marissa added, sending a pointed look at Lily.
Lily scoffed. "If he's so 'head over heels' for me, then why does he continue to do the thing that he KNOWS irritates me most?"
"What? Torture Snape?" Devon laughed.
"It's not funny, Dev!" Lily said, throwing a pillow at her.
"Okay, okay! I know it's not," Devon agreed. "But in my dear little brother's messed up head, he wants to impress you."
"By doing the thing I hate most? Torturing helpless people?" Lily cried.
"Whoa, wait a minute!" Marissa said, holding up her hands. "Snape isn't exactly the most helpless kid in the world. He's up to his neck in the Dark Arts and you know it Lil."
Lily sighed in surrender. "Okay, fine. But he could do with not attacking him every chance he gets. Oh and being less arrogant."
"Well, you can tell that to my brother tomorrow," Devon sighed. "My original point was: I think James is finally maturing. He's never opened doors for a girl, but he's doing it now for you, Lil. He's also stopped showing off in front of you. Remember all those summers when you came over and James would always play Quidditch in the backyard, just to show off? He doesn't do that anymore."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Lily reluctantly agreed. "Stop making me feel like a horrible person."
The next day, a surprise landed on their doorstep: Sirius. He told the girls that he was just staying with them for the rest of the summer. But what they heard that night, changed that excuse. Marissa, Lily, and Devon were walking back down the hall from getting ready for bed when they heard James and Sirius talking.
"You ran away?" James asked incredulously.
"Why not? I can't stand that pureblood family of mine. It's pureblood this and mudblood that. It's torture! I can't spend one day with them without them telling me I'm a blood traitor or that Regulus is their favorite!" Sirius fumed, banging his fist on what the girls suspected to be James' nightstand.
"Well, my parents won't mind you staying with us long-term Padfoot! They've always though you were 'such a nice young-man'," James said, mimicking his mother's high-pitched voice. Both boys laughed as their conversation soon turned to Quidditch.
Lily and Marissa looked sympathetically at Devon as they walked back to her room.
The next morning, everything was in chaos. Everyone had woken up late and now, at 10:30, they were still getting ready. Finally, at 10:50, ten minutes before the train was to leave, they arrived at King's Cross. The girls separated into their own group while the boys went off to find Remus and Peter. Lily, Devon, and Marissa found their own compartment and started to shove their trunks into the overhead storage. Breathing heavily, the girls sat down and waited for the train to depart.
"I'm starving. I wonder when the lady with the trolley is coming?" Devon said, as her stomach growled.
Lily laughed, "When she always does, 15 minutes after the train has left."
Marissa snorted behind her Witch Weekly magazine, while Devon stuck her tongue out at her.
"So how're this things with Amos?" Marissa prodded.
Devon was about to answer her when the compartment door slid open.
"Hey girls!"
They turned to see the Marauder's standing on the threshold of the compartment. James was in the front with Sirius, while Remus and Peter were in the back.
"Come on in," Devon said as she turned back to change their topic of discussion because of the new arrivals.
"So? I mean, you've been going out with him for almost four months!" Marissa said mindlessly, ignoring the 'shut up' looks she was getting from Lily and Devon.
James stopped talking to Sirius and Remus when he heard this.
"Who're you going out with, Dev?" James said suddenly.
"No one," Devon snapped, giving Marissa a very dirty look. Marissa had the decency to blush.
"No, seriously, who?" James said, more earnestly now.
"Oh, fine! Amos Diggory!" she said waspishly, looking out the window. When she did look back, what she saw made her silently laugh. James was sitting with his mouth open, with drool threatening to come out; Remus looked highly amused, as always; Peter looked confused, scratching what little hair he had left (early balding ... hehe); and Sirius, well, Sirius was a bit unreadable. He sat there looking like he was fighting between a look of indifference and a look of disappointment. She shook it off as she turned back to Marissa and Lily.
"How come you didn't tell me?" James said, narrowing his eyes.
Devon sighed, not looking at her brother. "Because I knew this is exactly how you would act! Overprotective ... AS ALWAYS!"
James opened his mouth to say something, when the train stopped, announcing their arrival to Hogwarts. Devon quickly jumped out of her seat and walked out of the compartment, with Lily and Marissa not far behind.
"Honestly, I knew something was going on between them," James said, trying to convince himself that he knew this all along.
Sirius snapped out of his trance as he heard this, laughing his bark-like laugh, "No, you didn't. If you knew about them, you would've tried to beat him up as soon as word was breathed to you. And I stress the word: tried!"
A/N: Sooo ... That's my second chapter! It's pretty long, compared to what I'm used to writing. So, how was it? Good? Bad? Absolutely horrible? Review! Constructive criticism is always welcome! :o) I'll try to have the third chapter out within the next week. I have to watch my little brother during the summer, so my hands are full at the moment!
Chapter two: From Diagon Alley to Hogwarts
A/N: Hey! OK, so the rest of the chapters will not be like chapter one. That was just to introduce some of the main characters.
Also, I changed James' sister's name to Devon from Aura. And the former Devon is now Ashley. Sorry! You'll see that the changes have been made on chapter one.
Oh yes, once again, this is not beta'd so try to ignore any mistakes. Thanks!
It was two weeks until the Hogwarts Express would be leaving Platform 9 ¾. Witches and wizards were arriving in Diagon Alley every minute to buy their school supplies for the upcoming school year. Friends would meet up and the Marauders were no exception.
"So how'd you get away from those parents of your, mate?" James asked Sirius as they walked down the cobbled path to the apothecary.
"Well, I swiped some gold off my father as soon as we flooed here," Sirius said, smirking. "I can't stand being around my family more than necessary."
"Yeah, I know how you feel," James muttered, remembering what his dad did this morning.
"What are you talking about? You always say how much you love your family," Sirius said, stopping and looking at James.
"Yeah, well, when your father tells you that a certain someone is sitting downstairs waiting for you, just so you get out of bed, and they're not really there, you tend to get a bit pissed," James said sardonically.
Sirius burst out laughing. "Your father ... is ... hilarious!"
"Shove off, Black," James said angrily as he walked off, leaving Sirius laughing manically.
"So who was this 'certain someone'? Oh, wait, I know ... Lily Evans!" Sirius said with a whoop, catching up to James.
"What happened now?" said an amused voice from behind the two Marauders.
"Moony!"
Remus laughed. "Yeah, that's me. So, you going to tell me what's going on?"
To James' extreme annoyance, Sirius relayed all the facts to Remus about James' morning. By the end of it, Remus was smiling serenely at James, a huge grin tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"Oh bugger off you two!" James said.
After Remus eventually cracked and started laughing along with Sirius, the three Marauders walked down to the apothecary, picking up, much to Sirius' dislike, Peter Pettigrew. Peter was a short, stumpy-looking boy of 16. He was always following him, James, and Remus around school; watching their pranks from behind the safety of a concealed tapestry. Sirius never really would warm up to Peter. There was always something strange beneath that nervous, fidgety persona.
"So, Pete, how was your summer?" Remus asked.
"Eh, well, you know," he said, wringing his hands, "nothing really eventful."
The three other boys looked at each other, exchanging significant looks, before continuing to Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions to pick up their new robes. Dress robes had been listed among the many things they had to get for 6th year.
Sirius insisted on trying on the Halloween Costumes, which caused an almighty uproar of laughing from the three other Marauder's. Madam Malkin eventually had to tell them off for being too loud. As they walked out of the shop, James initiated one of Sirius' favorite topics: girls.
"So, who have you got your eye on this year, mate?" James asked.
Sirius thought about it. The first girl that popped into his head was James' twin sister: Devon. He had always thought she was beautiful. Not to mention she was an excellent Chaser, just like her brother. Unlike the other girls he's fancied, James' sister liked her share of pranks. But that was it. Sirius always referred to Devon as 'James' sister' or 'hey, James, how's your sister?'. He thought that that had to stop if he wanted to consider having a relationship with her. Sirius could think of many reasons why he really liked Devon, but couldn't bring himself to say them all to James. The likely result of which would be a severe pummeling, courtesy of James. No matter what James said, he was extremely protective over his sister even though she was born 10 minutes before he was, making her the older of the two. This made him laugh.
"What's so funny?" James asked, staring at Sirius.
Sirius mentally kicked himself, before turning to James.
"Nothing, I was just thinking about getting Lily and Devon's best friend Ashley to go out with me," Sirius smirked.
"Ha! Good luck! She's as tough as Lily and Devon are about guys!" Remus said with a laugh.
"Hey Devon?"
"Mmm?"
"What do you think James will say once he finds out you've been going out with that Diggory fellow?"
"He'll probably be raving mad. Amos is a year older than me after all!" Devon laughed as she zipped up her dress robes that she was trying on. She walked out of the dressing room to look at herself in the mirror. Her dark brown hair shone in the light, falling lightly on the shimmering baby blue dress robes she had on. To her right, Lily, one of her best friend's came out of the other dressing room. Lily had on green dress robes that accentuated her dark red hair and sparkling green eyes.
"How do I look?" Lily said hesitantly.
"Well, why don't you step in front of the mirror, silly, and find out for yourself?" Devon said, smiling.
"Wow!"
Lily looked in the mirror to see Madam Malkin standing behind her, smiling.
"I just made that dress robe yesterday, dear! There was something telling me I should make a bright green dress robe and here is the reason why!" she said, clapping her hands together, smiling widely, before walking away to tell off some loud boys.
Devon and Lily soon left the store, trying to find Marissa, their fellow Gryffindor 6th year. No sooner had they left the store than the bleach blonde came running up the path, yelling their names.
"Marissa!" squealed Lily, walking up to her and hugging her. "How was your summer?"
"Eh, the usual. The family was horrible," Marissa mumbled.
"Sorry. I know something that will cheer you up: how about you girls spend the rest of summer with me?" Devon asked. "I know it's only 2 weeks, but still, we'd have a great time."
"That sounds like fun!" Marissa said.
"I'd love to –"Lily started.
"-But you have something else to do?" Devon finished.
"Uh, yeah," Lily said, looking down.
"Which means, you don't want to be around James. Am I right?" Devon asked, looking at Lily. She didn't say anything.
"Oh come ON Lily. You don't have to hang around him. Besides, he won't be around much - - He has a Quidditch camp that he's been wanting to go to," Devon said, rolling her eyes.
"Oh alright," Lily said, sighing, wondering what on earth she was getting herself into.
As soon as Lily had gotten home with her parents, she started to pack her trunk to leave that night. She would be apparating for the first time since she took the test a week ago. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were a little worried about watching their younger daughter disappear out of thin air and not knowing where she'd end up.
"Are you sure you'll be okay, Lil?" Mrs. Evans said, popping her head into Lily's room.
Lily heaved a heavy sigh and turned to her mother, "Yes, I'll be fine, mum!"
Lily and her father dragged her trunk downstairs so she could apparate from the living room.
"I'll see you at Christmas!" Lily said waving, then disappearing with a tiny pop!
"Ooof!"
Lily stood up to look at her surroundings, wondering where on earth she had apparated to. It was a dark room, with dust floating in the air, and a small ray of light was shining through a crack to her right. Then she realized,
"I apparated in her attic!"
Lily sighed as she pushed the attic door down. She was climbing down the stairs when she lost her footing. Lily fell a good 3 feet onto something soft - - and alive!
"Hey! Geroff!"
Lily jumped up with a quick 'sorry!' to help up who she had landed on. As soon as she dusted herself off, she came face-to-face with James Potter. As always he had that annoyingly cute arrogant look on his face whenever he was around her. She could see a smile playing at his lips when she blushed.
"What were you doing up in our attic, Evans?" he said, looking down at her.
She rolled her eyes, "Not that it matters to you, but I apparated a bit off course."
James smirked as he walked passed her towards what she could only guess was his room. She breathed an enormous growl under her breath as she walked down the hall to find Devon's room. It was usually the one with music blazing loudly.
She knocked on the door, not really expecting Devon to hear. She was about to knock again when the door opened and a very windswept Devon appeared.
"Hullo!" Devon breathed as she stepped aside to let Lily in. "Um, Lil?"
"Mmm?"
"Where's your trunk?" she asked.
"What? Oh! It's up in the attic. I accidentally apparated up there," Lily said sheepishly.
"I see," Devon said, suppressing a laugh, "Well, I'll just have Lory get it in a few."
"Lory?"
"Our new house-elf, of course!" Devon said, waving a dismissive hand. "She's really sweet."
After listening to the Beatles for another thirty minutes, the girls made their way downstairs to wait for Marissa, and for dinner to be served. Lily always loved being at the Potter's mansion. Mr. and Mrs. Potter were always exceptionally nice to her and were constantly telling Lily, "maybe you can knock some sense into our boy James here". Marissa arrived shortly and dinner was served. It was marvelous, according to Lily. It was one of the most delicious turkey dinners Lily had ever eaten before.
As Lily, Devon, Marissa, and James spent ore time together, they became closer. Lily had never really warmed up to James before. But now it seemed he had changed; even if only a little. That night, Devon, Lily, and Marissa were talking on Devon's bed.
"It's weird, I've never seen him be this nice before," Lily commented, sipping her hot chocolate.
"It's definitely weird," Devon admitted, "I've never seen my brother open doors for a girl before." Marissa and Lily laughed.
"But then again he's always been head over heels for Lily," Marissa added, sending a pointed look at Lily.
Lily scoffed. "If he's so 'head over heels' for me, then why does he continue to do the thing that he KNOWS irritates me most?"
"What? Torture Snape?" Devon laughed.
"It's not funny, Dev!" Lily said, throwing a pillow at her.
"Okay, okay! I know it's not," Devon agreed. "But in my dear little brother's messed up head, he wants to impress you."
"By doing the thing I hate most? Torturing helpless people?" Lily cried.
"Whoa, wait a minute!" Marissa said, holding up her hands. "Snape isn't exactly the most helpless kid in the world. He's up to his neck in the Dark Arts and you know it Lil."
Lily sighed in surrender. "Okay, fine. But he could do with not attacking him every chance he gets. Oh and being less arrogant."
"Well, you can tell that to my brother tomorrow," Devon sighed. "My original point was: I think James is finally maturing. He's never opened doors for a girl, but he's doing it now for you, Lil. He's also stopped showing off in front of you. Remember all those summers when you came over and James would always play Quidditch in the backyard, just to show off? He doesn't do that anymore."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Lily reluctantly agreed. "Stop making me feel like a horrible person."
The next day, a surprise landed on their doorstep: Sirius. He told the girls that he was just staying with them for the rest of the summer. But what they heard that night, changed that excuse. Marissa, Lily, and Devon were walking back down the hall from getting ready for bed when they heard James and Sirius talking.
"You ran away?" James asked incredulously.
"Why not? I can't stand that pureblood family of mine. It's pureblood this and mudblood that. It's torture! I can't spend one day with them without them telling me I'm a blood traitor or that Regulus is their favorite!" Sirius fumed, banging his fist on what the girls suspected to be James' nightstand.
"Well, my parents won't mind you staying with us long-term Padfoot! They've always though you were 'such a nice young-man'," James said, mimicking his mother's high-pitched voice. Both boys laughed as their conversation soon turned to Quidditch.
Lily and Marissa looked sympathetically at Devon as they walked back to her room.
The next morning, everything was in chaos. Everyone had woken up late and now, at 10:30, they were still getting ready. Finally, at 10:50, ten minutes before the train was to leave, they arrived at King's Cross. The girls separated into their own group while the boys went off to find Remus and Peter. Lily, Devon, and Marissa found their own compartment and started to shove their trunks into the overhead storage. Breathing heavily, the girls sat down and waited for the train to depart.
"I'm starving. I wonder when the lady with the trolley is coming?" Devon said, as her stomach growled.
Lily laughed, "When she always does, 15 minutes after the train has left."
Marissa snorted behind her Witch Weekly magazine, while Devon stuck her tongue out at her.
"So how're this things with Amos?" Marissa prodded.
Devon was about to answer her when the compartment door slid open.
"Hey girls!"
They turned to see the Marauder's standing on the threshold of the compartment. James was in the front with Sirius, while Remus and Peter were in the back.
"Come on in," Devon said as she turned back to change their topic of discussion because of the new arrivals.
"So? I mean, you've been going out with him for almost four months!" Marissa said mindlessly, ignoring the 'shut up' looks she was getting from Lily and Devon.
James stopped talking to Sirius and Remus when he heard this.
"Who're you going out with, Dev?" James said suddenly.
"No one," Devon snapped, giving Marissa a very dirty look. Marissa had the decency to blush.
"No, seriously, who?" James said, more earnestly now.
"Oh, fine! Amos Diggory!" she said waspishly, looking out the window. When she did look back, what she saw made her silently laugh. James was sitting with his mouth open, with drool threatening to come out; Remus looked highly amused, as always; Peter looked confused, scratching what little hair he had left (early balding ... hehe); and Sirius, well, Sirius was a bit unreadable. He sat there looking like he was fighting between a look of indifference and a look of disappointment. She shook it off as she turned back to Marissa and Lily.
"How come you didn't tell me?" James said, narrowing his eyes.
Devon sighed, not looking at her brother. "Because I knew this is exactly how you would act! Overprotective ... AS ALWAYS!"
James opened his mouth to say something, when the train stopped, announcing their arrival to Hogwarts. Devon quickly jumped out of her seat and walked out of the compartment, with Lily and Marissa not far behind.
"Honestly, I knew something was going on between them," James said, trying to convince himself that he knew this all along.
Sirius snapped out of his trance as he heard this, laughing his bark-like laugh, "No, you didn't. If you knew about them, you would've tried to beat him up as soon as word was breathed to you. And I stress the word: tried!"
A/N: Sooo ... That's my second chapter! It's pretty long, compared to what I'm used to writing. So, how was it? Good? Bad? Absolutely horrible? Review! Constructive criticism is always welcome! :o) I'll try to have the third chapter out within the next week. I have to watch my little brother during the summer, so my hands are full at the moment!