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After the ball Jade and Sirius walked back to the common room, hand in hand. It was only 1:30 a.m. and no one seemed very tired. So after half an hour of debating, and waiting for Lily and James to come back from their dates, everyone changed into their regular clothes and tip-toed through the school to the room of requirement.

"So, we need to party." Remus said stepping in the room.

"Clearly." James smiled. The room had food and drinks in it and many chairs and couches set out in a circle.

"It's too bad it's too cold to pay Quidditch." Jade said. "It's always more fun at night."

Everyone looked at her.

"You, know, that's not a bad idea." James said.

"Just that's it's snowing." Jade said, pointing to the window.

"All the more fun." Remus joked.

All three girls looked at each other apprehensively.

"Let's wait until its warmer out." Lily suggested.

"Aww." The boys whined.

"Fine, we'll make you a deal." Jade put in. "We will play Quidditch with you guys twice at midnight, before the end of the year. Once when it's snowing, and once when it's hot out. Just not tonight."

"Fine." James answered. And so it was that they spent many hours chatting, eating, drinking, and generally having fun until 4:00 in the morning when they went back to the tower.

"Hey..." Remus said, yawning. "How do you know that playing quidditch is more fun at midnight?" He turned to Jade. Everyone else did too.

"Good night Remus!" she said, and walked up the spiral staircase to her dormitory.

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Now that Christmas was over the Gryffindor sixth years had to really get started on their homework. Jade was happy she tackled most of her homework before the ball, but she still needed to finish potions and transfiguration, her two weakest subjects. Still, she didn't have to worry about the essay on dementors that everyone else was working on.

As it turned out, Lily and James' dates to the ball weren't all that fun; Shane just wanted to keep dancing so everyone could see him and he never shut up about himself. "Candy" just wanted to leave to ball so she and James could have some 'real fun' and when he ignored her, she left him and danced with just about every other boy there.

Ophelia and Remus were now labeled ''the sweetest couple" as they never left each other's side and were very cozy with each other. This seemed completely out of Remus' character and Sirius and James were having a lot of fun teasing him about it.

The girls kept to their word and on the second last night of Holidays, Lily, Ophelia, and Jade all got dressed in sweaters, hats, and scarves and met the boys in the common room just before midnight.

"Aww, you're so cute." Sirius said, laughing as he flicked a pom-pom that dangled from a string of Jade's hooded sweater. Jade smiled nastily and shoved him.

"And matching mittens!" Remus said, joining in the fun; for Jade did, have mittens that matched her scarf.

The pitch was completely black when they got there.

"We can't play like this." Peter squeaked.

"What are you talking about? I can see fine." Remus said. "And I can see you, Sirius and James, rolling your eyes at me."

"If everyone just gives it a minute, your eyes will adjust to the darkness." Ophelia put in. She was right. After about two minutes everyone could see well enough to play, and after ten minutes, the moon came out, providing them with more light.

"Almost a full moon." Sirius muttered to himself after he landed. Jade, who landed beside him, heard this.

"What does that matter?" She asked.

"Um- it doesn't." Sirius said in a very non-convincing voice. He never told Jade where he, Remus, James, and Peter go each month.

"Sirius, don't think I haven't noticed that you and the boys go somewhere with the map each month, on a full moon, I'm not that stupid. You guys have been doing it since halfway through third year." Jade looked up into Sirius' eyes. "I know that Remus is a werewolf. He used to go off by himself first and second year. Don't you think we would have figured it out? You call him Moony for goodness sakes." Sirius was shocked, then recovered himself.

"Jade, I wanted to tell you, but its Remus' secret, not mine. I didn't know how you would take it. However... now that we're on secrets... I should probably tell you- wait a minute! What did you mean by we would have figured it out?" Sirius asked. Jade rolled her eyes.

"Hello! Lily and Ophelia aren't stupid either." Sirius slapped himself on the head.

"Damn it! How long has Ophelia know for?"

"Sirius. We figured it out at the beginning of last year." Then Jade smiled. "She doesn't care if he's a werewolf. She's mad about him." Jade's smile faded and then she said: "What secret do you have to tell me?"

Sirius gulped. He knew almost everything about Jade and he never bothered to tell her that he was an Animagus.

"Well... you see, ok, here's the thing;" Sirius said, taking in a deep breath. "When James, Peter, and I found out that Remus was a werewolf we decided that we had to be there for him- while he was transformed- to show our support. It took us a very long time, but in the end, we all managed to become Animagus'. I can transform into a black dog, Peter into a rat, and James into a stag."

Jade did not look very surprised, instead she smiled wider than before.

"Not stupid, Sirius, not stupid. After we figured out why you were leaving every month we realized that you, James, and Peter could not possibly be going in human form. We thought you might be taking a potion or something, but then you boys gave yourselves away." Jade looked around, everyone else was having a snowball fight. "Padfoot? Prongs? Wormtail? Come on now- we realized that all of your nicknames must have something to do with the art of Animagi. Now here's a secret you don't know: Lily and Ophelia are animagus' too. Lily's a cat and Ophelia's a Raven."

"What?!" Sirius said, a bit loudly. "You're joking?"

"Not really, no." Jade looked as if she was going to burst into a fit of laughter.

"Wow. You girls are good."

"We know." Sirius and Jade smiled at each other. Both leaned in to kiss the other. Just as their lips met a snowball hit each of them in the head. They turned to see Remus and James standing a few feet away, laughing. Sirius and Jade looked at each other and smirked. On queue, both picked up some snow and patted it into a ball, getting ready to attack. The Snowball War had started!