After the Yule Ball, everything started to get dull and monotonous for the three couples. Except for the Marauder's pranks, which the girls sometimes helped with, life was the same, day after day after day. Finally, about three days before Valentine's Day, something exciting happened. Well, maybe not exciting, but at least a break from the dull lives the students had been living for the past month and a half.

That morning, Jessie overslept. Beth and Lilly had a terrible time waking her up, since she was such a heavy sleeper. Lilly finally grabbed her wand, frusterated, and shot water into Jessie's snoring face.

"AH!! Huh? What happened?!" She jumped out of bed—soaked to the skin—and looked around. "LILLY!" She moaned, her teeth chattering. Lilly and Beth laughed and pushed her quickly towards the showers. She showered, dressed, did her makeup and hair in less than 20 minutes, which is quiet a big feat for a girl of her age. The three girls grabbed their bookbags and ran downstairs, where the boys were supposed to meet them. When they reached the end of the staircase, Remus and Sirius were waiting. Lilly looked over their shoulders, behind her, and up the boy' staircase, expecting James to come running down apologizing:

"Sorry I'm late!" But there was no apology—in fact, there was no James.

"James must have already gone down to the Great Hall," Remus said, as though he were reading her thoughts. "He wasn't in our room when we woke up this morning." Lilly nodded and followed Sirius, Jessie, Remus and Beth to the Great Hall, feeling lonelier than she ever had. Why didn't James wait for me? Did I do something wrong? Is he angry? What's going on? He always waits for me....

Soon her thoughts were interrupted though by the sound of voices in the foyer outside the Great Hall.
"...Yeah, we got him. He's upstairs. No, don't worry about it, he's perfectly fine—won't shut up in fact—"Narcissa Black, a Slytherin 6th year, was saying to a 7th year named Lucus Flint. When he saw Lilly and the rest approaching, he slapped his hand over Narcissa's mouth and sneered at them.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Black, Lupin, and their whores..." Flint hissed as Narcissa turned around to face the group. Remus threw out an arm to keep an angry Sirius from attacking the stupid Slytherin. Jessie and Beth grabbed onto both his arms and threw all their weight into keeping him away from Lucus.

"You're a disgrace to the family name—a disgrace to the name 'wizard'. Hanging around with these stupid Mudbloods and muggle-lovers..." Narcissa moved closer, as if to taunt Sirius. Beth's jaw dropped at the use of the word Mudblood, and Jessie's jaw tightened, since both were Muggle born.

"We have a different idea of what disgraces the name 'wizard', dear cousin." Sirius spat out, relaxing a bit. Remus stepped between Sirius and Narcissa, who were glaring at each other, hissing rude remarks between them.
"Filthy bitch...."

"Mudblood lover—I bet if you had the chance you'd let Mudbloods rule the wizarding world..."

"All you care about is your damn money, your stupid family image...well you keep your damn ideas about Muggles to yourself, bitch..." Sirius was turning red from the strain against Jessie and Beth. Narcissa took a step back and folded her arms across her chest, smirking. She turned and walked away. She stopped in front of Lilly, looking her up and down.

"Where's Potter?" She asked mockingly, "I'm so used to you being his stupid little slut. It's weird seeing you with one of these—Mudblood lovers. Well I'm sorry Evans, but James is all—tied—up at the moment, I'm afraid he's to busy for you." Lilly turned away and faced the wall. Remus came over and put his arm around her, gently nudging her over to where Sirius, Jessie, and Beth were standing.

"Narcissa, that's 30 points from Slytherin, for picking a fight with the Gryffindors." Narcissa grinned wickedly and rolled her eyes.

"Why don't you just take your Mudblood whore and do us all a favor—shoot her." She hissed. In an instant, Jessie let go of Sirius and lunged at Narcissa, Sirius went after Flint, Lilly jumped on top of Narcissa, pulling her hair and scratching at her while Jessie punched at her, and Remus ran over to Beth, who was on the floor in a dead faint. He turned around, fury slashed across his face, and raised his wand. He fired to shots into the air and raised his voice loudly—something so uncommon for Remus, it caused everyone to stop.

"QUIET!" He yelled. They all stopped, stared, frozen where they were. Flint, on the floor, being pounded by Sirius, had blood pouring from his face. Narcissa was holding her nose and about to hit Lilly, Jessie was against the wall, nursing a broken wrist and a huge gash running down her arm from Narcissa's ring. Remus walked between them all, picking Flint and Narcissa up off the floor, throwing them towards the corridor to their common room and saying in a dangerously low voice:

"Get back to your common rooms. Sixty points deducted from Slytherin for starting a fight—"

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT—"Flint hollered.

"FIFTY MORE FOR TALKING BACK TO THE HEAD BOY—"Remus yelled louder. Flint glared at him, and then grabbed Narcissa's arm and they disappeared from sight.