Chapter 3

The Violet Gaze

The caferteria was, as usual, crowded with chattering students. It was lunch time and everyone was sitted, eating away. There were a variety of foods found on the tables piping hot, steaming. The wonderful smells filled the room. Meanwhile, at the Gryffindor table, yells of anger were being expressed.

"I can't believe he's trying to steal my girl!" James said hot headily.

"James, news flash but if you haven't clued in yet Sirius isn't really our Sirius at the moment. He lost his memory. He has no idea about anything around here. As for Lily, technically, she was never your girl to begin with. You make fun of her and never really talk to her..." Remus pointed out, taking a bite of his chicken leg.

James turned to Remus. "I've talked to her plenty of times."

"Decently and with respect?" Remus asked.

James looked back to his plate of food. "I'll get back to you on that one."

"My point exactly." Remus said with a smirk.

Meanwhile, Peter was playing with his food. He held a chicken leg in each hand and motioned them as if they were running. "Ahh! Mr. Chicken is on a running rampage. What a cruel world! Peas, save your little selves!" Peter then moved the chicken legs into the mash potatoes. "Oh the horror... they didn't stand a chance..."

James and Remus had blank facial expressions, simply staring at Peter's odd act in bewilderment."

"What?" Peter said, finally when he had returned to reality.

"I honestly do not want to know what you do in you spare time." James looked at Peter awkwardly.

Just then, everyone turned in their seats and glanced at the entrance doors of the cafeteria. The doors opened and a group of six year students walked in. All was silent. It was an awkward silence. The group of six year students were hit by prying eyes. From the group, which was made up of mostly girls, came the well-known Sirius Black. The girls giggled and finally the Gryffindor table applauded for his return. Soon enough Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw joined in. However, most of Slytherin merely had smugged looks upon their faces. The applause and stares soon faded as the six year students joined their table.

"Smells good doesn't it?" Sirius spoke with a smile.

The girls who had entered with him nodded and started to get themselves some lunch. Sirius began to slowly get himself some food into his plate. Afterwards, he started chewing the food and savoured each piece.

"So Sirius, do you remember anything?" One of the girls asked.

Sirius looked up. "Not exactly. I do remember basic things, like my name and such."

"So...try to do any magic, lately?"

Sirius rose an eyebrow and his mouth dropped slightly. He had a confused look upon his face. "Magic?" He questioned.

"Ya, magic. You're a wizard, silly." The girl replied with a short laugh.

"A wizard?" Sirius echoed, even more baffled.

"Stop repeating me! Yes, you're a wizard. This is Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You're here to learn the ways of a wizard, Sirius."

Sirius had a blank look on his face and said nothing. It was hard to input the information he had heard with his own two ears.

"That's enough, Amanda. I think he's totally lost." Lily stated. She stood from her seat and patted Sirius on the shoulder. "C'mon Sirius, let's go for a walk. I believe you deserve a full explanation."

Sirius raised from his seat, nodded and exited the cafeteria with Lily.

James, Remus and Peter were all bewildered.

"Geeze, it worst then I thought. He completely doesn't know who he once was. It's as if he lost his sense of being a wizard and turned into a muggle." Remus pointed out.

James shook his head. "You can take the wizards from the boy but you can never take the wizard out of the boy."

Meanwhile, Lily and Sirius strode down the school hallways. At first, it was quiet and they just walked slowly, muttering nothing. They walked side by side in the deserted hallways. Finally, Sirius cleared his throat and was the first to speak up. "So, it's true, isn't?"

"Is what?" Lily asked, unprepared.

"This is really a school for wizards and witches."

"Yes." Lily nodded.

"So, tell me everything, Ms. Evans." He said sweetly. Sirius was still very infatuated by Lily, from the first time he saw her after waking from his unconsciousness.

"Please, just call me Lily." She said.

"As you wish, fair Angel." Sirius said with charm.

Lily's cheeks turned a soft pink but she soon got back on track and headed back into the motion of explaining things.

"Ok, I'll try to explain this to you as simply as possible. You are Sirius Black. You are from a pure wizard family, The Blacks. By age of eleven, you first came here to Hogwarts School to learn wizardry. This is now your sixth year. Here at school: we learn magic, potions, herbology and learn of creatures of this world and so forth. Do you follow along so far?" She waited for his answer.

Sirius nodded, as they continued to walk along, listening attentively.

"Good. Here at school, there are four houses. They are: Gryffindor; that's you, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. As for your friends, they are James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. You four are well-known for your childish pranks." Lily said.

"Pranks? Me?" Sirius said with a laugh. "Well, I assure you, I don't do pranks. I'm simply not the type."

"That's something I thought I'd never hear in all my years." Lily teased. Lily continued on with her explanation. She stopped at a lightly frosted window and pointed at the dark forest in the distance. "That, my dear friend, is the Forbidden Forest. No students are allowed to venture within it."

Sirius nodded once more.

"Well, I think that is it for now. I guess, if you have any other questions I'll help you along the way." She smiled gracefully.

Sirius faced her and gave her a simple but sweet smile. "Thank-you, dear Lily. It clears up some questions of mine." He leaned against the windowsill, eyeing Lily.

"Hold it, right there!" A voice echoed through the hallways.

At that Sirius withdrew and both, Sirius and Lily looked to see who called out. It was none other than James Potter.

Lily looked sternly at James. "What is the meaning of this?" She called out.

"He was hitting on you!" James shouted, finally reaching them. Remus and Peter were at his side and slightly out of breath.

"Oh, please." Lily rolled her eyes. "You are probably seeing things. You should really get those glasses checked."

James stood there aggravated. He glanced behind Lily and noticed Sirius grinning back at him. It was certain that was not the Sirius he once knew. James started to desperately want the old Sirius Black back. At that moment, James really wanted to slap Sirius silly to knock some sense into him. But with Lily around, it was hard to attempt such an act when she was already mad at him. So James held his tongue and turned to leave with Remus and Peter close behind. "C'mon boys, it's almost time for class..." He said dully with his head lowered, watching the ground as he picked up his feet as he retreated.

"Serves him right. He shouldn't make assumptions." Lily said. She turned to Sirius. "We better get going. Gryffindor has Transfiguration with Hufflepuff."

The Transfiguration class was filled with an echoing sound of non-stop talk from classmate to classmate. The latest gossip flew around quick and in no time the wanted news was told. But soon enough all went silent when the classroom door swung close and the teacher had walked in. The Transfiguration teacher was named Miss Lunelle. She had fair blonde hair that ran down her shoulders and twinkling dark blue eyes to match. Her figure was of that of an hourglass and she wore a simple but elegant dress of the shade violet. Miss Lunelle faced her class, giving them a warm, sweet smile. She spoke.

"Good afternoon class."

"Good afternoon, Miss Lunette!" The class replied in unison.

Miss Lunelle nodded her head and announced, "Today we shall be transforming simple parchment into doves. Since we are turning non-living objects into those that are living, I have decided as a treat we would attend this lessons outdoors. As well, it would allow our creations to have the freedom to move about. So if you please, get what you need and follow me out onto the grounds."

The whole class was ecstatic about the lesson and quickly retrieved their needed materials and headed outside. A few minutes passed and every single student had line-up facing the professor.

Miss Lunelle called out to her year six students, "The word that we shall be using today is Lucrious Dovous. Before we began, let us practise the pronunciation of the word. Say it with me. Lu-cri-ous Dov-ous . . ."

The students echoed in unison repeating the word over and over again until they had completely learned it. Finally, the Transfiguration professor smiled and said, "Well done. Now, that you have learned the word to transform your paper, I shall show you your end result before you begin."

Miss Lunette swished her wand to and through elegantly in a circular motion and then flickered her wand in the direction of her chosen parchment. In that moment, a glittering spark left her wand and touched the paper that laid before her. Beautifully, a white dove evolved and flew high into the air. The six year students were in awe. In no time, they tried it on their own. Most had difficulty. Some students had paper origami shaped birds meanwhile some had pieces of paper covered in feathers. The site of it all was comical. But after ten minutes had passed Lily had succeed in having her newly made dove take flight. Her classmates clapped as the dove flew high into the sky. As for Sirius, he was among the students having some troubles. He began to get frustrated. All of the sudden a heavy spark left his wand, having his parchment set on fire and spontaneously combustion in sight. All the students stopped what they were doing. Some were in mere shock meanwhile others had busted out laughing. Sirius had turned a mild shade of red and had lowed his head. However, Miss Lunelle was quick to notice this and silenced the class. She flicked her wand to kill the on-going flame. Afterwards, she respectfully called upon Lily.

"I believe that it would be best you show dear Mr. Black the basics before he should attempt such spells at this current level. Please report his progress to me afterwards."

Lily nodded and then headed in Sirius' direction. She gave him a short smile and spoke, "I think you may need some practise on a lower level before you have a chance to do a six year lesson."

"Well, watch out . . . I might set you on fire too." Sirius said sarcastically.

"I'll make sure you won't..." Lily said with a laugh. "Now first you need to know the basics. Take your wand and swish it like so." Lily moved her wand side to side in a constant momentum. "Afterwards, you would say the spell and then flick your wand."

Sirius followed her lead and learned how to hold his wand correctly.

"Ok, I think you've got the idea." She paused for a moment, pondering. She then placed her hand in her pocket and retrieved a piece of paper, placing it in front of Sirius.

"Repeat after me, Wingardium Leviosa..." She said slowly.

Sirius repeated her words.

Lily nodded. "Ok, now use the wand movements I taught you and say the spell at the piece of paper in front of you."

Sirius breathed in and spoke, "Wingardium Leviosa..."

In seconds, the parchment started to float into the air. Sirius gazed up and watching it float side to side, higher and higher. A large gust of wind passed and took the paper with it, leaving out of sight. Sirius looked back at Lily and smirked. Lily clapped.

"Well, done!" She cheered.

Sirius was very pleased.

"Got anymore?" he asked.

"Sure... I'll teaching you one more."

Lily flicked her wand as she said the word, "lumos."

Automatically, the end of her wand lit up with a small yet very bright light.

Sirius squinted.

"Oops...sorry." Lily said as she placed a hand in front of the light.

"S'right." Sirius said.

"Now you try."

Sirius repeated what she had done and had the same result.

In that moment, Miss Lunelle ended the lesson and told everyone that they could head back inside. The class headed back to the castle. Lily rose from her seat on the ground and let out a hand to help Sirius up. He willing took it and walked with her to the castle. Sirius soon stopped in his tracks. Lily looked puzzled at him.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Oh, just remembered I forgot my wand where we practised. You go ahead. I'll catch up."

Sirius ran back to where they were only a few moments ago and looked for his wand in the grass. He kneeled and moved a couple of leaves but had no luck. He grew aggravated and groaned. The sun was going down and the wind started to pick up, as it grew colder. Sirius cursed under his breath as he continued to search for his wand. But as luck should have it, he had found it after ten minutes. He rose and safely tucked it into his pocket. He had an odd feeling within him and glanced towards the Forbidden forest. He stared into it. Strangely, two pair of violet eyes flashed back at him. The mysterious eyes just staring at him for the longest time. Soon enough, he snapped out of it and rushed back into the castle in mere unnerved confusion.