My dividers didn't work again! I guess a bunch of x's will be the dividers ok? Sorry about that.

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Chapter 3- Snowball Fights

"Gryffindor!" the hat called.

James sighed in relief as he took a seat beside Sirius at the Gryffindor table. The rest of the sorting went by quickly, at which time Professor Dumbledore stood up, his long silvery beard as long as his hair. He wore violently purple robes and half moon glasses on a very crooked nose.

"Welcome newcomers! And to all you oldies, welcome back! I would like to announce that the Forbidden Forest is indeed forbidden," he said glancing at the Ravenclaw table, where two boys were attempting, and failing to put on an innocent face. "Mr. Filch has also asked me to remind you that a list of illegal things in corridors is posted on his door. Dungbombs and Filibuster Fireworks have been added. If you would like to see anything else please check the list on his door," he said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Other than that, dig in."

All kinds of foods suddenly appeared in bowls and plates. Sirius' eyes were as large as plates as he inhaled all the food in front of him.

Lexi, who was sitting beside him, looked at him in disgust.

"Black, would you mind not eating like that in front of people who do not want to see or hear it?" she asked.

Sirius let out a sort of muffled protest then realized the mouthful he had taken was a little to big for him and spit out half of it on his plate.

"Excuse me while I go throw up," Lexi said.

Sirius shrugged, swallowed and started wolfing down even more food.

James chuckled and followed suit. He was hungry, and after all Sirius had eaten all the food on the train! James felt he deserved a reward. He immediately took all the food in his reach and started to gobble it down.

After the amazing dinner, dessert appeared on the table. Sirius, if possible, was still hungry and started inhaling all the dessert he could. As the last remains of treacle tart vanished off the plates, Dumbledore stood up.

"Finished Black?" Lexi asked disgusted.

Sirius nodded contentedly then settled down to listen to Dumbledore's speech.

"First years please follow your house Prefects to your dormitories. I ask that you do not get lost on the way, as you probably will not be found for a while. On a lighter note, will the Head Girl and Boy to stay here afterwards for further instruction please. Timetables will be delivered tomorrow morning. Good night."

There was an eruption of seats moving back and people gossiping about their summer.

A blond girl was beckoning all the first years towards her.

"Hello everyone. I'm Jen. I'm a prefect of the Gryffindor house. If you ever need anything just ask Cam or me ok?" she said gesturing to herself and a boy with brown hair standing beside her.

"We'll lead you to your dormitories. You'll find all your things are already there," Cam said.

The first years followed the two Prefects up many flights of stairs and past many moving portraits.

James and Sirius only half listened to Lily who was marveling at how one of the more handsome portraits had bowed and said 'good day' to her. They finally came to one portrait of a very fat lady in a pink satin dress.

"Password?" she asked.

Jen turned to the group.

"Now, you can't forget the password or else you won't be able to enter the tower. The password is Merlin's Beard." Jen said and the picture of the fat lady swung open to reveal a cozy round room. Squashy armchairs sat by a crackling fire. Rickety old tables and chairs dotted the room. Two huge staircases went to the left and right.

"Boys dormitories are to your left and girls to your right," Cam said.

James, Sirius and Remus sprinted up to their dormitory, and jumped on their four poster beds. The room had five beds and little night tables beside each one. The boys' trunks were sitting at the end of their beds, and a water jug was placed in one of the corners by a huge window that looked out onto the lake.

"This year is gonna be sweet!" Sirius said to his pillow.

"Right you are Sirius," James said.

The boys waited quietly for the other two boys in their dormitory to enter. Finally, two boys entered. One had black hair and a sort of pudgy face, and the other messy blond hair and watery blue eyes.

"Hi, I'm Sirius. This is James and Remus," Sirius introduced everyone.

"I'm Frank," said the black haired boy.

"Peter" said the other one.

Sirius smiled and turned back to his friends. Losing interest in the newcomers, he said, "So Jamesie. Who is the lucky gal?"

James was about to say nobody when emerald green eyes and auburn hair popped into his memory.

"Well, Lily Evans kinda I guess," he answered.

Sirius nodded. 'Yeah, you've liked her since the first day. I could tell."

"So what about my buddy Sirius. Who does he dig?" James teased.

"If you must know I quite enjoy the company of Jade," he answered. What about ol' Remus?"

Remus if possible, became even paler.

"Come on man, there's got to be someone!" James coaxed.

"O think it's funny how you guys like girls already because you don't even know them yet. I don't like anyone," remus said, turning away.

"Come on Remus, you do the same thing. I can tell by the way you look at whats her face…le something or other."

"Lexi," Remus barely whispered.

"Sorry who? I seem to have missed that one buddy. Could you speak up?" James asked, cupping his hands over his ears although he could hear perfectly fine.

"Lexi, ok?" Remus yelled.

Sirius looked a bit taken aback then said "Ah, thought so."

James nodded. "I thought you two would like each other. Oh you guys, do I ever have plans for this summer! But even better Christmas!" James said.

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Timetables were distributed the next morning at breakfast. Sirius, James and Remus were looking at them, when Lily, Jade and Lexi sat across from them.

"Charms, Potions, then Double Transfiguration," Lily said, looking over Remus' shoulder at his timetable.

"Potions sounds like a load of crap to me," Sirius said.

James nodded.

"Your face looks like a load of crap to me," Lexi said.

James snorted into his cereal and Sirius looked genuinely hurt.

"Ooh, here is our first prankee," he whispered to James.

The first years made their way to the Charms classroom after a delightful breakfast. Tiny Professor Flitwick stood on a pile of books.

"Hello class," he squeaked. "Today we will be learning about the levitation charm. Please open your books to Chapter One, Wingardium Leviosa, and begin reading."

Every first year except for three opened their books. Sirius, James and Remus were huddled in the back talking about how they could prank Lexi.

"…Yeah, and then her armpit hair will grow and her teeth'll sprout out!…"

"…We could also give her octopus legs…"

"…No that would make her look nicer…"

"Sirius that's not very nice! We'll give her jelly legs. I've got a book on curses and jinxes. I'll master the charm," Remus said.

"Practice it on the Slytherins!" James suggested.

"Yeah, it'll be like a two in one!" Sirius said.

"Ooh, practice on Jade too! Please, I owe her one after this summer..." James said.

Before they could go more in depth with their prank, the bell rang.

"Argh, Potions," Sirius groaned.

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The three boys found it quite hard to pull any pranks, or even learn the Jelly Legs Jinx, due to their heavy amount of homework. As Sirius put it 'my imagination will soon die if I don't pull a prank!' James couldn't agree anymore, yet he had noticed Remus being quieter than usual. When he had confronted Remus, he had said he was worried because his mother was sick, and he wanted her to feel better.

Winter had ruined almost all of the boys' free time, as they liked to spend it outside, and the weather was unbearable. The real treat came as they came upon a weekend without any homework. The weather had warmed up a little, so it was now possible for them all to go outside. Just as they were getting ready, James found his owl tapping on their window with a note clutched in its beak.

Remus grabbed it and read it aloud.

Hey boys,

You up for a snowball fight?

Meet us outside as soon as you can!

XoX

Lily, Jade, and Lexi.

"Finally!" Sirius cried. "Some excitement!" The boys hurried to get their cloaks and mittens on. They rushed down the marble staircase, into the Entrance Hall. The moment they stepped outside the great oak doors, they were bombarded with snowballs.

"Argh!" Sirius cried as a particularly large snowball hit him in the face.

"Oh, it's on!" laughed Remus, grabbing a huge hunk of snow and aiming at Lexi.

Lily threw an overlarge snowball at James, who ducked, then sent one pummeling at her. Lily laughed as the snowball hit her in the arm.

"You're in for it!" she yelled at James.

A sudden war cry burst out of Sirius' mouth as he charged at Jade. Surprised. Jade just stood there gaping, until Sirius ran right into her and pummeled her into a snow bank. Jade screamed, as Sirius stuffed snow down the back of her robes and into her face. Taking advantage of the confusion, James and Remus attacked Lily and Lexi from behind. A muffled 'oof' came from Lily as she landed.

"James Potter! I will be killing you!" she yelled as she got up. Her auburn hair was dripping with snow and her emerald eyes gleamed with revenge.

James ran away as fast as he could, but Lily was faster.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" she yelled, and James started floating in midair. Sirius and Remus laughed very hard as Lily turned James around and around, then plopped him in a snow bank. By this time, Sirius was howling with laughter, so Jade took her chance to pay him back by stuffing a huge snowball in his mouth. Sirius spluttered, then looked up at Jade evilly.

"T-t-that w-w-wasn't v-v-very f-funny!" He chattered. Remus, who was leaning on a tree laughing, was surprised a moment later by Lexi who had thrown a huge piece of ice at him. Right before it hit him in the face he grabbed it with lightning fast reflexes. James and Sirius gaped.

"Wow, dude that was amazing! It was so close to your face, then you just…caught it you know?"

Remus smiled. "Thanks, lucky catch," he said.

"Dude, you have to teach me how to do that! It would be great for Seeker training. I'm trying out for the team next year!" James said.

"Come on guys! Let's go warm up in the castle by the fire," Lily suggested.

As they headed back to the castle, chatting and laughing, none of them noticed a small rat faced boy staring after them in jealousy.

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The fire was crackling warmly, and drops of snow were quickly melting, sliding down the hair of the six friends. James, Sirius, Remus, Lily, Jade, and Lexi were all huddling by the fire wrapped in blankets.

"It's only November, and I'm overworked," Sirius said distraught.

"Sirius, you never want to work," Remus answered.

Sirius shrugged and started humming to himself.

Remus rolled his eyes at James and said, "seriously Sirius. You have to attention span of a gnat."

Sirius looked offended, then said, "ah, yes but its me all the chicks dig," (The three girls distinctly rolled their eyes) "So I guess my attention span is ok."

James laughed. "I wouldn't be so sure," he said.

In the girls' dorm room that night, Jade was brushing her hair, as Lily sat on her bed reading a book. They had spent a wonderful day with James, Sirius and Remus. Lily found herself being distracted by a smiling face of a boy with messy hair, and lovely hazel eyes.

"Lily?" Lexi called, snapping her friend out of her reverie.

"Wha?" Lily said, caught off guard.

"Do you think Sirius likes me? I mean he practically flirted with me that whole snowball fight and I really do like him. He's so handsome and dreamy. The way his perfect black hair falls over his face and his eyes. He's so charming," Jade raved.

Lexi rolled her eyes at Lily.

"Yes Jade, I'm sure he does like you! And you know what would be nice? If you could help me with my Potions essay!" she said.

"Potions, yeah stupid class, but I'm totally pro at it," Jade boasted.

"Yes, thanks Jade. That would be why I'm asking you. You can be so dim sometimes. I mean really," Lexi ranted.

Jade, who seemed to have lost interest of what Lexi was saying, turned on Lily.

"So Lily, who are you day dreaming about?" she asked.

'N-no one" Lily stuttered.

"Right Lils, you know I can always tell when someone is lying to me. Please tell me! Pretty please?" Jade begged.

"Well, he has dark messy" Lily started, but was interrupted by her friends shout of triumph.

"Oh! Sirius!" Jade exclaimed.

"No you dolt! James!" Lexi answered.
"Oh, I get it! Don't you think 'Jade Black' sounds good?" Jade asked.

Lily and Lexi exchanged exasperated looks. Their poor love struck friend.

"Jade, you really could use a Calming Drought right about now," Lexi said, chuckling.

Jade just looked in the mirror dreamily and kept brushing her hair.

Review Thank Yous:

xRazberryGurlx: Thanks for reading! I love getting reviews. Your story is so popular, do you think you could recommend mine? Lol…and Sirius and James are ssoo mine! Haha

Phoenix Plume: Thanks so much for reviewing! I know James is a Chaser, but I like him better as a seeker, I don't really want to change it. It may come in handy, or I could stick in a little twist with it…I'm still thinking about what to do with James and Lily's relationship, but I think it'll be fine!

A/N. The next Chapter will be long ( 8 pages on word, I'm proud of myself!) so I may not be posting it for a while, but I hate not being able to post my story so you never know! Thanks to my reviewers!

Next Chapter: three new characters will step into the picture. Herbology lesson.