This is my first story originally posted on Death-Curse.

A/N: I think that chapter three might say chapter two still but it IS chapter three just forgot to change the heading.

Both Sides of Life

Chapter Six: Hogsmeade

Saturday dawned bright and blue over Hogwarts. Isobel awoke within a curtain of pale blonde hair. "Ugh!" she groaned, pushing her hair out of the way.
Titania, Medea, Undine and Ursula stirred also in their beds as the sun shone through the window.
"What time is it?"
"Do we have to get up yet?"
"What day is it?"
The others yawned out.
Titania's eyes flew open again "It's Saturday! Isobel's date! We've got to get Polaris all ready!" and she jumped out of bed.
Isobel groaned again as Titania pranced about the room "You must have had a good night last night." She said peering at her with one eye.
Titania stopped dead in her tracks and spun around quickly to look at her. "Oh come on Titania! We all know it's not like it's a big secret what you two are doing."
Titania kept looking at her for a minute before relaxing "We haven't done that yet."
Isobel finally rolled out of bed.
"Come on let's go down for breakfast then we can plan our.... Plan of attack for the day." Chimed in Ursula.
The girls ate their breakfast while most of the school still slept on. Then they spent most of the morning getting ready to set out for Hogsmeade. At 11 o'clock the girls trooped down to the Entrance Hall to meet up with other they'd be going with. Isobel headed over to where the Marauders sat waiting for the line to shrink. "Hey there." She said quietly.
The boys looked up at her "Hey." Remus breathed back. "You look..." he gaped "Wonderful." The others gave a small snort. "Wanna get going?" he asked, Isobel gave a small shrug "OK."

They walked down to Hogsmeade, talking along the way "My God! My friends get into sooo much trouble! Last summer they thought it would be funny if they put a rattlesnake in Medea's brother, Theasus' bed. Suffice to say he was not pleased. I'm the one who has to keep them in check, which is near impossible because they don't like to listen."
Remus shook his head "I know what you mean. The guys won't listen to me either."
She shrugged "Maybe that's the problem. Us telling them off spurs them on. Oh well. What do you think of Professor Cadabra?"
Remus squirmed "Well he's alright I guess. I don't know."
'Amazing we both can't say why we hate Professor Cadabra.' "I think he takes the whole Dark Creature too far. It's like anything that's not human is an evil creature."
He looked at her 'Wow! She understands how it feels to be outcasted by wizards but... She couldn't be a werewolf, could she?' Remus shook his head 'No she can't be, she would transform too but I've never seen her. And there is the silver; hey she's not wearing it.' He now noticed that she didn't have her rings on.
Isobel batted her eyes coyly "What ya thinking?" she asked 'Too bad I can't tell you the real reason why I hate Professor Cadabra.' She clasped her hands around his arm.
"It seems we have a lot in common." He said.
'More than you think, more than you think. And a lot less.' She mussed.
They soon arrived in Hogsmeade "Where should we go?" Remus asked looking over at Isobel.
Other students ran about the street the two stood.
"Dunno, where do you want to go?"
Remus ran his hand nervously through her hair "How bout the Three Broomsticks? My friends won't have arrived there yet so we'll be alone for... about two minutes." He smiled.
Isobel laughed, "Sounds good. Hopefully mine will stay out too. But I doubt it."
They headed into the crowded pub and took a seat at a table at the back. Madam Rosmerta, the young woman who owned the bar came over.
"Remus! Isobel! Quite the surprise to see you two away from your groups. Had a falling out?" she joked know full well what was going on.
Both teens blushed "Well we're on a... um date, sorta." Remus went beet red. "But my friends will likely be in any moment now."
Isobel piped up "Yeah, mine too. They'd definitely not miss the chance."
Madam Rosmerta smiled at them "Well have a good time and I'll be back with your drinks." The two turned back towards each other, but the crash of the door opening caused them to look up.
"Oh no."
"Damn!"
Both sets of friends had walked in, together! And were making their way through the crowd.
"I knew that they'd wouldn't be able to leave me alone." They said in unison. The two groups seemed to have finally caught sight of the pair, they giggled slight to one another before heading over to the new couple.
"So this is where you guys decided to hid." Titania remarked
"Why can't you leave my alone!" Isobel bemoaned.
"Awww, Does little Remus not like us interrupting his date." Sirius mocked in a little baby voice.
"Cut it out guys! I'd leave you alone." Remus snarled.
The boys just laughed and went over to order their drinks.
The Ravens said good-bye.
By the end of the day Remus and Isobel were closer than ever. They walked back up to the castle holding hands. "I had a great time today with you , Remus." Isobel smiled up at Remus as they stopped at the intersection in the third floor corridor where they had to part.
He smiled back "So did I."
Isobel brought her face close to Remus "Well..." she said coyly.
"So..." he answered placing his arms around her waist. She leaned in closer. They kissed sweetly for a few minutes before pulling apart.
Isobel smiled slightly "I'll see you at dinner." With that she turned and headed back up to Ravenclaw Tower. Remus just stood there in a daze. 'Wow! What a girl. And she's like me! Me!' He actually skipped back to Gryffindor Tower. When he entered the common room James, Sirius and Peter immediately came over to him.
"So... how did it go?" James asked.
'Well how bout I play with their minds.' "What couldn't you hear from your seats?" he retorted.
Sirius jerked back slightly at that "Whoa! Don't need to bite our heads off about it. If it didn't go well that's cool."
Remus smiled "That's nice, Padfoot but it didn't go bad. In fact it was good."
Sirius broke into a wide grin "See I knew you could do it. You've just landed on e of the most popular girls in the school. Oh man, every guy is going to be jealous!"
That sentence brought Remus back to reality. Isobel was a Raven. 'What does she see in me? She could have anyone.' He let out a breath.
"What's wrong?" Peter asked.
"Oh nothing." He said waving them off. He then turned back around "What does she see in me?! She could have anyone at this school, yet she chose me. Why?!"
James gestured for Remus to calm down as his outburst had caused others to look. "Hey she picked you like you said. You've gotta have something if Isobel, a Raven, wants to go out with you. Don't knock it."

Isobel tried to sneak into the Ravenclaw common room but no such luck. The rebuilt Ravenclaw Tower had a very open common room and to get to the girls stairs you had to walk straight through the room. She tiptoed through the quiet room. A couple first years were asleep by the fire. She slipped around the circular stairs to the girls' side, in the back around the potions counter stood her friends and roommates. "Hey your back!" shouted both groups as one.
"So how'd your date with Remus go?" asked Ursula.
"Yeah give us all the details about Hogwarts resident werewolf." Chimed in Undine. The other girls looked at her.
"Undine we're not supposed to know that!" hissed Medea.

Undine blushed.
"We're not supposed to know half the stuff we do!" Titania spat.
Isobel step up between them "Hey, it's alright just a slip up. Do you want to hear about my date or not?" The girls nodded "Well... it was wonderful! We have so much in common. Ohh, I can't wait to go out again!" Isobel collapsed into a chair.
"So did he tell you anything about his friends?" Titania asked.
Isobel rolled her eyes "Yes, James is obsessed with Lily Evens. Sirius and Peter, well Peter doesn't count, don't have eyes on anyone."
Titania rubbed her hands together. "This is good, very good! Well the next step is to get James and Lily together!" she thrust her hand into the air.
Medea and Isobel exchanged looks. 'Here we go again!' she decided to change the subject. "So Titania what are you going to do about all these complaints we've been having? Everybody has been screaming about Professor Cadabra teaching Faeries as dark creatures."
Titania let out a frustrated sigh. "I don't know. I can't go up to him and complain, the teachers don't know about Faeries being at the school. Maybe I'll talk to Dumbledore about it. Maybe he can do something."