This is just something I wrote to keep me entertained for a while...I'm horrible at names so I usually just use the same ones over and over. So if you've read my other fic, I apologize for my lack of originality. I'm sorry if this is lame.
Chapter One
"Very well everybody, you're free to go!" Professor Flitwick called to the many students sitting at tiny tables in the Great Hall. They had just finished their Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L exams. Lisa jumped up from her table so quickly she almost knocked over her chair. Flushing a little she carefully packed her quill and ink into her bag and started towards the door with the rest of the students.
She was soon joined by her friend Lily, who was smiling.
"I'm so glad that is over!" She said, whipping her long red hair behind her.
They walked into the entrance hall heading towards the open, fresh air that was tempting them outside of the castle.
"I hope I did alright..." Lisa said.
"I'm sure you'll get an Outstanding! You've always been good at Defense Against the Dark Arts!" Lily assured her.
As she said this a few of her other friends from Gryffindor joined them and Lily began to laugh and giggle with them.
Lisa withdrew herself from the conversation. She looked up and in front of her was James, Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"Did you like question ten, Moony?" She heard Sirius say.
"Loved it," Remus answered, "'Give five signs that identify the werewolf.' Excellent question."
"Feel like sitting with us at the lake?" Lily asked her, breaking her focus on the group of boys.
"Sure." She said and she followed the group across the lawn to the lake.
They reached the bank and Lily and her other friends pulled off their shoes and socks and dipped their feet into the water. Being afraid of the Giant Squid, Lisa simply sat beside them, listening to their talk of the examination.
Her eyes wandered around the courtyard. James, Sirius, Remus and Peter has settled themselves under the shade of a near by beech tree. Sirius was lounging, looking bored and handsome (Sirius was quite good looking). Remus sat with a book in his lap and James was over exciting Peter by playing with a Snitch (no doubt stolen from the Quidditch pitch).
She sighed and laid back on the grass. It was cool and slightly damp beneath her, comforting against the sun. She lay there listening to all the sounds around her. She heard Lily and her other friends talking, a distant call from a bird somewhere in the forest, and suddenly she heard laughter.
"That Potter!" She heard Lily yell. Lisa sat up in time to see Lily storming off towards James and Sirius who had hexed and disarmed Snape.
"Leave him ALONE!" She heard Lily shout. She and James argued a bit before there was a great flash of light. Lisa saw that Snape had gotten his wand and wounded James. She got up and slowly made her way towards the tree where Remus and Peter were still sitting, watching the scene.
She reached the tree in time to hear Snape shout to Lily.
"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!"
Lisa's mouth dropped in shock at the rudeness of Snape's comment to Lily, who had been trying to help. James had screamed for Snape to apologize. Lily told James that she didn't need for him to make Snape apologize to her.
"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing any who annoys you just because you can -- I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK."
After Lily had a go at James she stormed off and hurried back towards her friends at the lake, with James calling her back.
"What is it with her?" said James, trying and failing to look like he didn't care.
"Reading between the lines, I'd say she thinks you're a bit conceited, mate," Sirius said.
Lisa turned and watched Lily go back and sit with her friends, looking slightly flushed with anger. She turned back around to see Snape hanging upside down with his graying underpants showing. She now stood next to Remus, who was hiding his face with his book.
"Who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?" James had said.
"Oh Remus, make him stop!" Lisa pleaded.
Remus looked up from his book at the scene his two friends had created.
"They'd never listen to me, not with the mood James's is in," he said solemnly, looking up at her with pale eyes.
"I'm going to go study for Transfiguration in the library, would you like to come with me?" She asked fleetingly, wanting to get away from the scene.
With a quick glance at the spectacle James and Sirius were creating, Remus sighed a breath of relief and got up quickly to go with her. She retrieved her bag from the bank of the lake. Then her and Remus walked to the library. They seated themselves in a quiet corner where armchairs were set instead of desks. This was a usual meeting place of theirs, as they quite often would get together to finish homework and study for exams. Though she knew very little about the other three of Remus's group, her and Remus got along very well.
"I'm so nervous about Transfiguration!" She told him, "I keep having dreams that I accidentally transfigure my exam instructor."
He laughed, "I honestly doubt that will happen. You're excellent at Transfiguration." He reassured her.
"It is my favorite subject." She said sheepishly.
"Thank you for getting me away from James and Sirius." He said earnestly. "Sometimes I'm rather ashamed that they're my friends. Nothing I say to them ever sinks in though. I should have done something though...I am a Prefect."
"I'm sure they'll grow out of it sooner or later." She said with a smile.
Remus chuckled. He then held out his book to her, "Here, you can quiz me. I need it."
They sat in the library for an hour reviewing wand movements and incantations. They were then interrupted by each of their growling stomachs. It was clearly time for dinner. They gathered their bags and headed out of the library towards the Great Hall. When they got inside Lily came up to Lisa.
"Where have you been? I've been looking for you!" Lily exclaimed.
"I was in the library studying." Lisa told her.
Remus nudged her lightly, indicating that he was going to go join his friends. He left with a smile and sat with James, Sirius, and Peter who were already digging into their plates. They had only just realized that he was missing when he sat down next to Sirius, who was sitting across from James.
"Where have you been?" Sirius asked him, looking over a spoonful of food, eyebrows raised.
"Studying in the library." Remus replied.
James snorted. "Studying, that's a likely excuse. I saw you sneak off earlier with Lisa." He said giving Remus a suggestive look.
"Stuff it Prongs," he said kicking him under the table, "We were studying for Transfiguration."
"Just studying?" Sirius asked him as if it were very serious matter.
"Yes! Nothing more. We study together all the time."
"You do?" Sirius said seemingly very interested.
But Remus didn't answer him. He was busy filling his plate with food.
Further down the table Lisa and Lily we discussing their plans for the Hogsmeade visit that was approaching during the coming weekend.
"I think I could do with a new quill." Lisa was saying as they finished their food and were making their way to the doorway. They reached the door the same time as James, Sirius, Remus and Peter.
"After you Miss Evans," James said sweetly, gesturing for her to walk through the door.
Throwing a dirty look at him, she took off through the door as fast as she could.
James, looking hurt and insulted, looked at Lisa and said, "I was just trying to be a gentlemen."
Lisa shrugged, "I expect she's still sour from this afternoon. She just needs to cool down."
"So...er...you ready for the Transfiguration exam tomorrow?" Sirius asked her as she started through the door. He caught up to her and was now walking beside her, with James, Remus and Peter close behind.
"I think so. I've been going over everything all day. I'm hoping for an E maybe," she replied.
"I think you'll manage an O. You're pretty good in Transfiguration. Not as good as me...but then again no one is," Sirius said sticking out his chest.
Lisa rolled her eyes but smiled at him.
"Actually, Sirius I do think she is better than you." Remus told him. Sirius shot a look to Remus, eyebrows raised in non agreement.
"I think so too," Peter said. "Would you mind helping me? Remus has been too impatient with me lately." He asked her, shooting an accusing look at Remus.
"Well I do get tired going over the same trivial things over and over again." Remus retorted.
"Sure Peter, I'll help you." Lisa said.
"Wish Lily was as nice as you are," James said bitterly. "You didn't go off on Sirius for saying that he's better than you."
"That's because he's not better. I just let him think he is," She said with a wink at Sirius. "Lily was just upset over you're bullying of Snape. The reason she went off on you was because she was upset about the Mudblood comment, I think." She tried to assure him.
"Well the slimy git deserves it." James said as they reached the Gryffindor common room.
"Let me go get my books." Peter said as he went off towards the boys dormitory. Lisa sat down on a fluffy couch to wait for him. James sat down on the other side of the couch. Peter returned shortly with his Transfiguration book in hand. He was pulling up a chair when Lily walked by. She was determined not to look at the group but she looked up surprised when she saw that Lisa was sitting next to James. With a disgusted look she went to the other side of the room to join her other friends.
"Looks like you're on her bad side now." James said. "Reckon she'll never talk to you again just for sitting next to me."
"She might not talk to me for the rest of the night but I'll talk some sense into her," she said to him, trying to reassure herself in the process.
She began reviewing basic wand movements with Peter. Remus had pulled up another chair and was reading his own Transfiguration book while Sirius and James were arguing over whether they should play Wizard's Chess or Exploding Snap. They finally decided on Chess after Remus's suggestion that Exploding Snap would be very distracting.
Lisa had moved Peter on to a slightly more difficult spell. While he was practicing it she absentmindedly began reviewing things in her head, muttering spells and turning her book bag into various objects. Suddenly, she felt the urge to be mischievous. Looking over at James and Sirius, she smirked. Why not, she thought, they might get a kick out of it. While James was in deep concentration, trying to decide his next move, Lisa slyly pointed her wand at him and muttered a spell.
There was a small glittering flash. Sirius looked up from the board to see a large red parrot wearing James's glasses. He broke out into a large fit of bark-like laughter. Remus and Peter looked up and began laughing as well. Lisa tried hard to hide her smile. With a quick wave of her wand James was once again his normal self. Looking at Sirius laughing heartily at the shocked, stupefied look on James's face she couldn't contain her laughter any more and let out a few giggles.
James turned to her accusingly. She cleared her throat and wiped her face of the smile.
"Sorry, it slipped." She told him innocently.
He looked at her with a cocked eyebrow. "Slipped huh?"
She giggled, no longer able to keep a straight face because Sirius had started laughing once again, so much that he had fallen off his chair.
"I think red is a good color for you Prongs." Sirius said with mock sincerity pulling himself off the floor.
James laughed. "You know for a minute there I thought Wormtail there had actually gotten a spell right."
Peter snorted indignantly and scowled at James.
Lisa smiled. "Well I think I should get up to bed. I need to make sure Lily is going to forgive me. Peter, I'll help you some more on that spell in the morning. Night guys." She said as she took up her bag and went up the girls dormitory stairs.
James was picking red feathers out of his robe. "Who knew she had a good sense of humor," he said.
Sirius smirked and blew at a feather that had floated towards him.
