Remus walked into the common room, still talking to Dolphin. James, and Peter looked up from where they were chatting round the fire.

"Remus? Who's this?" asked James, interestedly.

"Her name's Dolphin, Dolphin Stebbs," replied Remus. "She's new here. Where's Sirius?" he asked. Dol looked at him sharply, catching the faint smile that always happened when he said that name. Sirius. Just then the man himself walked through the door, talking to -

"Wyverna?" yelped Dol. "I've been looking for you! Well, kinda. I went to the library..." she faltered, and broke off.

"And you expected me to be there?" asked Wyverna, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, no, but..."

"I looked for you too," said Wyverna. "I-I started by looking on the roofs of the towers. Well, I looked on the roof of one tower, and then I got kind of stuck..." Now it was her turn to falter, and break off. The two girls looked at each other, and started laughing.

"So, how close are you to Dolphin?" Sirius asked Remus, with a wicked glint in his eye.

"I just met her today," said Remus. "It was when I was doing my Potions essay. Remember the one?" he added, meaningfully. "The one that's got to be in in two days?"

"Damn!" swore Sirius, jumping up. "Can I copy yours, Remus?" he asked, with a puppy dog look. Remus glanced at Dol, and they both remembered what Remus had said earlier. "I decided to do mine now, as my friends will probably copy off me." They started laughing, leaving James, Sirius, Peter and Wyverna with confused looks on their faces.

The six of them sat around the fire until about ten o'clock, when they decided to go to bed. Wyverna and Dolphin went up to the girls' dormitory, and luckily their beds were next to each other. They changed into their pj's, which were there, and started talking.

"So by wonderful coincidence I'm friends with Padfoot and you're friends with Moony, and we're both in Gryffindor, and... and..."

"Yeah," agreed Dol with a smile, "I know what you mean."

The next day was Saturday, and it was time for Hogsmeade! Sirius, Remus, James, Peter, Wyverna and Dolphin were all going in one big group, and even though James had asked Lily to go with him countless times, she was still turning him down. They went into Hogsmeade, and Wyverna immediately wanted to go to Zonko's. It was near full moon, and Remus was looking a bit peaky.

"Is it ok if we just go to The Three Broomsticks?" he asked petulantly. "Only I really don't feel too good." Concern flashed in Sirius's eyes.

"Are you sure you're ok, Moony?" he asked. Dol could see the hope on Remus's face. "Only I don't want my best mate getting sick," added Sirius.Remus's face fell as soon as Sirius mentioned those words. Best mate.

"I'm fine," Remus replied, passing a hand over his forehead. "Really. Just can we go have a Butterbeer, or something?"

"I hate to say this Moony," said James, "and I'm really sorry, but I can't come. Me and Peter have to go to Dervish and Bangs." He looked genuinely sorry, as he started to walk off.

"Sorry, Moony," added Peter, before hurrying after James.

"What about you, Sirius?" asked the young werewolf, with a pleading look. "You will come, won't you?" Sirius bit his lip.

"Sorry, but I've got to go to Zonko's, with 'Verna. Only we've got this really good prank planned! Listen – first we get one of Filibuster's fireworks -"

"No, no," Wyverna interrupted. "We'll get some Spellotape, and a gnome, and then we get the firework!" Dolphin and Remus could still hear them arguing as they hurried off to Zonko's joke shop.

"Well, how about that Butterbeer?" asked Dol, brightly. Remus sighed. "Hey, what's up?"

"I-I like Sirius. Like, like like him," said Remus, staring down at the ground. Dol's heart immediately went out to the young werewolf, he looked so forlorn standing there.

"Why don't we go have a quiet drink in The Three Broomsticks, and you can tell me all about it," she said comfortingly. Remus nodded silently, and taking his arm Dol led him to The Three Broomsticks.

Much later Wyverna and Sirius made their way up the through the grounds, still arguing. The dark-haired boy pushed his hair out of his eyes every so often, while the wind whipped Wyverna's black hair everywhere.

"I just think it'll be better if we use the gnome first!" said Sirius, in the tone of voice that suggested he wasn't going to give up.

"No! I told you, if a gnome blows up then it's going to be way too hard to explain!" shot back Wyverna. The pair were in the castle by this time, and just heading up the stairs.

"No, listen to me -" started Sirius.

"No, you listen!" replied Wyverna, pushing him good-naturedly. Sirius, of course, pushed back and Wyverna retaliated. Sirius pushed open the door to the Gryffindor Common Room, not expecting Wyverna to push him at that point. He fell over, grabbing her wrist as he fell and pulling her over with him. The two landed in a heap in the middle of the common room. Looking up, Wyverna realised that they were the centre of everyone's attention, the whole of Gryffindor's in fact. James, Peter, Dolphin, Remus, Lily... they were all there.

"Get off me!" she said, pushing him off her. She tried to get up, but he was still holding her wrists. "Sirius!" she hissed. "Everyone's looking!"

"Let's give them something to look at, then," replied Sirius casually, and pulling her closer, he kissed her.