This is my first story originally posted on Death-Curse.
A/N: This takes place in the Marauder's era from their fifth year until the year after grad.
Both Sides of Life
Chapter two: The Ravens
The four boys sat down at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall for dinner. They had barely touched their seats when Adrian LeFae, the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team walked over "Potter!" James looked up at him, he wasn't alone. Just behind him stood the Ravens, the lead girl's hair shone like spun gold and behind her stood...
"Isobel." Remus stared at her. She gave a slight wave and the lead girl gave her a look.
Adrian looked puzzled at them all "Anyways James we've got practice this Wednesday."
Sirius looked over at the Ravens "What's with the Ravenclaw chicks, LeFae?"
At that the lead girl walked over and slipped her arm around Adrian. "Um, Titania Morrigan is my girlfriend."
The blonde smiled "Nice to meet you but we really must be going. We'll be seeing you Wednesday's practice. Bye bye now." she kissed her boyfriend and led her pose off.
Sirius stared at their retreating forms "How'd you land the leader of The Ravens clique? He asked incredulously. "They are like the group. They don't just date anyone."
Adrian blushed slightly "Well, I guess being the captain of a 3 time cup champion team has made me hot commodity now. I think the whole team is in fact. Hey James maybe I can get Titania to hook you up with someone."
James shook his head "Nah, don't do that I can get a girl on my own."
Sirius laughed "Besides Jamesie here only has eyes for a certain redhead Prefect, right there boy." James blush furiously and look down the table at Lily who was talking animatedly with her friends. Adrian looked over at her then clapped James on the back," Well good luck with that one." and walked back to his seat.
James and his friends tromped down to the Quidditch pitch. Down at the pitch, Adrian stood with the other five members of the team. Up in the stands James saw that The Ravens had come to watch. "Are they going to watch?" he asked Adrian.
Adrian gave a wan smile "Yes, worried about them stealing our secrets to Ravenclaw?" Adrian clapped him on the shoulder "come on let's get changed and show the girls what we can do!"
The Gryffindor team zoomed around the pitch obviously trying to show off in front the most popular girls at Hogwarts. Titania turned to her group of friends. "Well, girls what are we going to do about Gryffindor's single males? Adrian was saying that the other 3 boys don't have girlfriends."
Isobel shook her head." No, no. Titania don't meddle. Don't get involved. Just leave them alone; can't you just leave well enough alone?"
Titania gave her a withering look "Don't worry Isobel. I'm not going to meddle...much. I'm just going to see if I can find someone they might like. Help people unite." she smiled slyly over at James Potter's friends. Isobel seemed to be sweet on that werewolf friend. "Well at least we can try to be friends with them."
A dark red haired girl, Medea, laughed "How pray tell do you plan on doing that?"
Titania turned to her "Well we'll invite them to one of our gatherings and see if we can't find their One." The girls kept talking and watching the Gryffindor team show off.
Remus, Sirius and Peter sat on the other side of the pitch watching the practice. At least the other two were, Remus staring over at Isobel with her friends. He caught himself,' Look at me I'm becoming as bad as James is with Lily.' He turned back to the game only to a few moments later look back at Isobel. Remus caught sight of more people coming up into the stands. "Uhoh, hey guys we've got company." he pointed over to where a gang of Slytherins were heading over to The Ravens. "Shall we go greet them?" Remus asked his friends.
The Ravens girls continued to chat about the various doings of the students at Hogwarts. Titania saw a shadow fall over the group. Not looking back she asked "Can I help you?"
"Yes, you can" came a drawling voice "You and your friends can accompany us on the next Hogsmeade trip. What do you say to that?" his friends chuckled softly. Isobel raised an eyebrow. Medea slowly turned her head while responding "I don't know ..." she saw who it was standing behind them. Lucius Malfoy along with his "little cronies" Crabbe and Goyle and the Lestrange brothers, Rodolphus and Rabastan. "Oh...you're Slytherin." she said like she really meant 'Oh ... you're an asshole.' "Sorry but I think we'll be unable to do that. We don't want to catch anything now would we?" Medea smirked.
"Are these boys bothering you?" Sirius asked loudly from behind the Slytherin boys. Malfoy turned and glared at him "Black. What's a disgrace like you doing here?"
"I'd go out with him before you, Malfoy. But I think my boyfriend might be bothered by that." Medea shot.
"Yeah, Rodolphus don't you have a girlfriend? Or did she finally snap out of your spell?" Titania cracked. Rodolphus narrowed his eyes at her "we're still going out. By our own free will thank you very much."
Titania gave a big smile "Even better. I wonder what she'll do when she hears you're cheating on her. And you Malfoy. Aren't you two dating sisters? They'll just love to hear this, don't you think so girls?" she turned to her friends, they all gave evil grins. Malfoy saw that the Gryffindor team had stopped playing." I'll see you later." he turned to storm off only to walk into Sirius and Remus.
"If I ever catch you bothering them again Malfoy. You'll have me to deal with." Remus growled at him. Sirius stood up beside him "And me too." The Slytherins stormed off.
"What's with the help?" Titania asked coyly.
Sirius glared at the retreating forms." I hate them!" he turned to them "You know their dating my cousins." he sneered.
Titania placed a hand on his shoulder bowed her head shaking. "I'm so sorry."
"Well, we only have to deal with Crabbe, Goyle and the older idiot for this year, seeing as it's their last. Then we're free, free as a bird." Isobel said mockingly sang.
"To have to put up with their bullshit of the rest of them." Added another Raven "Why can't they all graduate this year."
Titania looked scandalized "Don't say such a thing, Undine. I have quite a lot of fun teasing them. They fall for our tricks every time. I don't want them gone just yet." Medea clasped onto Titania's arm. "Yeah, who else are we going to bother? Not like there's anything else to do.
Sirius smiled at her "Aw, your a girl after my own heart." he placed his hand over his heart.
"Yeah, too bad about me having a boyfriend." she smiled back.
Isobel rolled her eyes "Oh you two please get a room!" Medea turned around and smacked Isobel in the arm. "Give me a break Isobel!" she turned back to Sirius and flashed him a coy smile. "Now where were we." she laughed. Sirius gave a huge grin "Oh ho, what about your boyfriend?" Titania gave a huff. "Come on girls, we'll miss dinner and it's getting cold out." all the other girls stood up. The Gryffindor team reached the girls. "Hey, leaving already? It's only..." Adrian looked at his watch "Wow, 6:30! We should be going in." He placed his arm around Titania. James looked over at his friends." What was with the Slytherin idiots?"
Remus glanced at the girls "Nothing the scum thought they'd be able to ask them out even with them having boyfriends."
Sirius laughed "Like they'd have a chance! But the boys don't seem to understand English any more. So we helped them understand."
James looked over at Adrian and the girls. "Wouldn't worry about the Slytherins I'd be more concerned about Titania. It seems she has this thing for setting people up... And ..." James said eyeing Remus "Not all of them have boyfriends. Come on let's go in for dinner now." Sirius and Peter perked up at this.
"Food?" Peter asked hopefully.
Sirius smirked "Yes, Peter that's usually what's served at dinner."