Disclaimer: You know the drill I don't own Harry Potter or its characters, etc.

Author's note: Just in case you didn't read the 5th book(Shame on you!) I have a summary of what went on before we plunge in. This is basically copied exactly for the first couple paragraphs, then I add my own Flair. Please R&R!

WARNING: Spoilers for a certain part of OoP! If you didn't read it, It won't give away the whole story, just my favorite part that isn't directly related…

ENJOY!

James sits bored staring with his hazel eyes fixedly on a golden snitch on which he has stolen from the Quidditch cabinet. He keeps ruffling his hair and fixing his glasses, as he keeps gives quick glances to a group of girls sitting down by the lake dipping there feet over the edge, chattering noisily. Peter is sitting down excitingly watching James catch the snitch, and every time he does, he let's out a happy little shriek of joy. Sirius trys to ignore it, his black hair sitting untidily (yet handsome) on his face. Finally, after he has had enough, he tells them to knock it off. Remus, who is busy reading a book, doesn't say anything. James smiles as he points to a boy with greasy black hair and a crooked nose and tells Sirius to come and have some fun with him. They get up and face the boy, James still giving quick glances to the group of girls.

"All right, Snivellus" said James loudly. The boy, Severus Snape, acted as though he was expecting an attack. Dropping his bag, he plunged his hand inside his robes and his wand was halfway into the air when James shouted, "Expelliarmus!"

Snape's wand flew twelve feet into the air and landed with a thud on the grass behind him. Sirius let out a bark of laughter.

"Impedimenta!" he said, pointing his wand at Snape, who was knocked off his feet, halfway through a dive toward his own fallen wand.

Students all around had turned to watch. Some of them had gotten to their feet and were edging nearer to watch. Some looked apprehensive, others entertained.

Snape lay panting on the ground. James and Sirius advanced on him, wands up, James glancing over his shoulder to the group as girls at the water's edge as he went. Wormtail, otherwise known as Peter, was on his feet now, watching hungrily, edging around Lupin to get a better view.

"How'd the exam go, Snivelly?" said James,

"I was watching him, his nose was touching the parchment," said Sirius Viciously. "There'll be great grease marks all over it, they won't be able to read a word."

Several people watching laughed; Snape was clearly unpopular. Wormtail sniggered shrilly. Snape was trying to get up, but the jinx was still operating on him; he was struggling, as though bound by invisible ropes.

"You---wait," he panted, staring up at James with of expression of purest loathing. "You---wait…."

"Wait for what?" said Sirius coolly. "What are you going to do Snivelly, wipe your nose with us?"

Snape let out a stream of mixed swearwords and hexes, but his wand being ten feet away from him, nothing happened.

"Wash out your mouth," said James coldly. "Scourgify!"

Pink soap bubbles streamed from Snape's mouth at once; the froth was covering his lips, making him gag, and choke---

"Leave him ALONE!"

James and Sirius looked around. James's free hand went up to his hair, ruffling it again.

It was two of the girls from the lake edge. One of them had thick, dark red hair that fell to her shoulders and startlingly green almond-shaped eyes. The other had dark brown hair tied back into a tight ponytail (that reached her elbow) and shining grey eyes.

"All right, Evans?" said James to the Red head, the tone of his voice suddenly pleasant, deeper, more mature.

"Leave him alone," Lily repeated. She was looking at James with every sign of great dislike. "What's he done to you?"

"Well," said James, appearing to deliberate the point, "it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean…."

Many of the surrounding watchers laughed, Sirius and Wormtail included,

but Lupin, still apparently intent on his book, didn't, and neither did Lily or the other girl.

"You think your funny,' she said coldly. "But you're just an arrogant, bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."

"I will if you go out with me, Evans," said James quickly. "Go on… go out with me, and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again."

Behind him, the Impediment jinx was wearing off. Snape was beginning to inch toward his fallen wand, spitting out soapsuds as he crawled along.

"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between and the giant squid," said Lily.

"Bad luck, Prongs," said Sirius briskly turning back to Snape. "OY!"

But too late; Snape had directed his wand straight at James; there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on the side of James face, spatting his robes with blood. James whirled; a second flash of light later, Snape was hanging upside down with his robes hanging over his head to reveal skinny pallid legs and a pair of graying underpants.

Many people in the crowd cheered. Sirius, James, and Worm tail roared with laughter.

Lily, whose furious expression had twitched for an instant as though she was going to smile, said, "Let him down!"

"Certainly," said James as he jerked his wand upward. Snape fell to the ground in a crumpled heap on the ground. The girl with the Lavender eyes went over to him and helped him up. Snape looked at her awkwardly, then turned, wand up. Sirius raised his wand again, but the girl stepped in front of Snape.

"Excuse me," Sirius said, "I seemed to have forgotten your name."

"That's Katherine Xiang," said Lily proudly, obviously happy to see that someone had started to help her.

"Thank you," said Sirius. "Xiang, mind if you move out of the way? I'm kinda in the middle of something." To his surprise, she didn't. She merely shook her head.

"What, little Snivelly can't fight for himself?" said one of the voices from the crowd. There was a roar of laughter. Red faced he stepped in front of Katherine. Just as he did it, Sirius yelled " Locomotor Mortis!" and Snape keeled over again, rigid as a board.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Lily and Katherine yelled together so loud, you could hezr it echo. Lily had her own wand out. James and Sirius eyed her wearily.

"Ah Evans, don't make me hex you," said James earnestly.

"Take the curse of him then!" yelled Katherine, sourly. Snape shot her another weird look then looked back at James.

James sighed deeply, then muttered the counter curse.

"There you go," he said, as Snape struggled to his feet, "You're lucky Evans was here Snivellus---"

"I don't need help from her!"

Lily blinked. "Fine she said coolly. "I won't bother you again. And I'd wash my pants if I were you, Snivellus."

"Apologize to Evans!" James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.

"I don't want you to make him apologize," Lily shouted, rounding on James. "You as bad as he is…"

"What?!" yelped James.

"You are too…" said Katherine softly to Lily, so that James and Sirius could barely hear her. "Hypocrite.,"

"I don't mess up my hair because I think it's cool to look like I've just got off my broomstick, show off with that stupid snitch, or walk down the corridors jinxing anyone who annoys me just because I can--- I'm surprised that broomstick he rides can even get off the ground with that bloated head of his, he makes me SICK. "

Katherine said something else softly, then Lily nodded her head.

"I guess your right," she said as though no one else was there, "but he still makes me sick." She turned on her heel and they both hurried away into the castle.

"Evans!" James shouted after her, "Hey, EVANS!"

She didn't look back and neither did Katherine.

"What is it with her?" said James, trying and failing to look as though it were a throwaway question with no real importance to him.

"Reading between the lines I'd say she think you're a bit conceited, mate." said Sirius.

"Right," said James now furious, "right---"

Snape had taken the advantage to sneak away, and was halfway across the lawn when there was another flash of light and Snape was again hanging upside down in the air.

"Who want to see me take off Snivelly's pants?"

Suddenly, Katherine, who had come back outside to grab her cloak, had pointed her wand at James.

"Put him down."

James slowly muttered the counter curse again.

"What is it with girls trying to ruin people's fun?" he said coolly.

Suddenly there was a flash of light and James was hanging upside down, his robes over his head. Katherine left without so much as a backward glance.

Over the next couple of days, James and his friends had tried very hard to avoid Lily and Katherine. James wasn't pleased at what had happened, but he was one of the only ones. The whole school had heard about the event and most of them were now giving Katherine words of praise. Even Sirius had laughed at James (which did NOT make him happy), and Lupin had cracked a small smile, which no one but a mortified Wormtail had seen. Wormtail was on James's side about things. Lily and Katherine, who were best friends, could always been seen together, which made James even madder.

One day, James walked into the Gryffindor common room and saw dark red hair from in one of the chairs with his back to him, and since he saw that there was no one else with her, he walk up and got the surprise of his life. Katherine was sitting in the chair, her hair the same exact type as Lily's. She smiled as he came up.

"Hello James!" she said in her normal, soft voice. He tried to hang a left very quickly (for she was sitting at a round table on the right of the common room), but she took his arm and made him sit in the chair across from her.

"I want to say I'm sorry for what I did to you a couple days ago," she said, her voice sounding genuinely sincere. James was taken aback by these words. She looked deeply into his round Hazel eyes.

"Lily and I are both very sorry…" she smiled, "she's been telling me for three days how she was sorry that she said that about you even though you were trying to help. At that moment Lily started to come down the girls' dormitory steps.

"Don't tell her what I said," Katherine said smiling, violet eyes glowing, "she would be very mad if she knew I told you." she gave him a wink. He got up from the chair. Lily sat down and (once she saw Katherine was) smiled at James. He started to walk away when heard Lily ask:

"What was that all about?"

"Oh, he just wanted to say he was sorry"

"That was nice of him! I guess he's not such a bad person after all!"

James looked back at her and Katherine smiled. He left, his heart happily lighter.

He ran off down the hall, just realizing he had an appointment to catch. He ran straight into Snape; They were both knocked on the ground. Snape quickly pulled is wand out, but before he could do anything James stood up and pulled his own wand out.

"JAMES!"

James turned around to see Katherine running toward him, panting.

"You---forgot---your---BOOK!" She looked up and realized that Snape was standing there. She flashed him a quick smile.

"Hello Severus!"

Snape was taken aback. He wasn't used to people calling him by his REAL name.

"Err…hello," he said oddly, "Must be going now!" and he shuffled away past them in a hurry.

Katherine looked down at her watch.

"Don't you have to be going now," she said, "You don't want to keep them waiting do you?"

James put his wand back into his pocket and took the book from her,

"Thank you….umm….."

"Kat." she said quickly, then she walked back up the hall and out the door, to join Lily under the beech. James stared at them for a moment from out of the window, smiling. He then realized how late he was, and he ran to the library where he could see Sirius, Remus and Peter waiting.

"What took you so long, Prongs?" said Sirius.

"Well, first off, I forgot," said James.

"You forgot?" said Remus, "Did you decide to ditch us?"

"Obviously no," James said a little frustrated, "Or else I wouldn't be here. I actually ran into Katherine."

"What did she have to say?" said Sirius, a broad smile appearing on his face. James started on the whole story; about how she apologized, how he ran into Snape, and how she brought him his book.

"Her new nickname's Kat now, huh?" said Sirius laughably.

"Well I like it and I'm gonna start calling her that!" said Peter happily. Sirius snorted.

"I think I'll call her, Xiang" he said smiling. He looked over at Remus, who looked very serious.

"What's the matter with you, Moony?" James said who seemed to have noticed as well.

"Don't you think it's weird," he said, he voice slowly turning into a whisper, "That she knew which book to bring to you, and what time you were going to meet us? I mean we only talked about this in…." his voice trailed off. James didn't need him to finish the sentence, he knew. It had been in their hide-out, the shrieking shack that could only be accessed by a tunnel guarded by the Whomping Willow.

"Well," said Wormtail quietly, "Do you think she could have followed us?"

"Get real, Wormtail!" said Sirius laughing.

"But Padfoot," said Remus, "What if she was using an invisibility cloak?"

"Yeah, sure!" said Sirius laughing harder, "Do you really think anyone in this school has one of those other then Prongs?"

Moony stopped, looking at the possibility of it.

"Even so," said Sirius, "Do you think she would be able to get past the Whomping Willow?"

Moony thought about this for a second, opened his mouth as if he was going to argue, then closed it again, defeated.

"She has shifty grey eyes," said Wormtail, as if he was thinking out loud.

"What are you talking about?" said James," her eyes aren't Lavender OR shifty! They're purple."

They argued the color of her eyes for about five minutes until Moony stepped in.

"Are you finished, or are you going to argue about Katherine's ("Kat!" Wormtail squeaked) eye color? Can we start?" They both fell silent and Sirius (Who had been leaning back in his chair, smiling and listening to their conversation) sat up they started.

So, how'd you like it? This was my first HP fanfic. Any suggestions? I know that this first chapter was a little slow, but I'm halfway through the 2nd chapter, where it picks up. I just didn't want to make this too long.

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