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Quick note: I'd like to apologize for the long wait, you see, not only did I break my ankle, and get a slight case of writers block, but I also got a bad reveiw, and it really hurt, and you know what, It was about Sabrina, they didn't like the charachter, well "Dawn" dearie, if you're reading this, that charachter was the creation of a tenyear old girl who, when she turned twelve, started looking at her old notebooks and started to write this story, so you basically squished my writing flame for a bit there. But I'm all good now, and I realize people who say things like that aren't worth the time of day, but you guys needed an explanation, and you deserve it so I'm giving it to you now.
PS: I'd like to thank Val for bringing me up when I was upset about that review, and just being an all around great person, I just feel like I need to say this now, because she's just awesome.

Chapter 16: The 'M' Word

Every one had gotten back from Christmas break a few weeks earlier, and their schedules were slowly getting back to normal.

Sirius had been lying around the common room all day on this particular Sunday, complaining of his bordem for the past fifteen minutes, an eerie silence had struck the room until, that is, Sirius broke it. "James…"

"What Sirius?" James said, sighing.

"I'm bored…"

Remus sighed and rolled his eyes "We know you're board Sirius, you don't need to tell us another sixty times."

"I believe that was directed at James." Sirius said indignantly.

"Fine then," James said "We know you're bored, and we don't need you telling us another sixty times."

Sirius glared at him "Well there's nothing to do."

Remus looked up at his friend "You could always do your homework." Sirius and James, on the other hand, simply responded with a few moments of staring as if Remus was speaking a foreign language, before they broke out in laughter.

"Remus, I may be bored, but I'm not desperate!" Sirius said through his fits of laughter.

Sabrina shook her head at him "Fine, when Dirus finds out that you didn't do your essay, it's your funeral." She said, shrugging. "Ah well," she hopped out of her seat "I'm off for a stroll around the castle, anyone want to join me?"

"I'm in." James said jumping out of his chair.

Sirius shrugged "It's something to do."

As the other three hopped out the portrait hole Remus smiled at himself "Finally, now I can study in peace."

Out in the halls they really weren't paying attention as they moved along.

"Sirius, why didn't you go home for Christmas?" Sabrina asked, breaking the silence.

"I just didn't want to." He shrugged. "Why?"

"Well I was ju-" Sabrina was cut off by the boy she had just bumped into, and she knocked over various rolls of parchment and stacks of books "Oh Snape I'm so sorry!" She immediately bent over to help him pick up his books.

He, on the other hand simply gave her a disgusted look and snarled at her "I don't need any help from filthy mudbloods such as yourself."

James glared at him "Back off, you great grease ball, you have no reason to be throwing around nasty names, considering there is only one of us here that needs a shower."

"What's a mudblood?" She raised her eyebrows.

"You should ask one of your friends, I have no time to answer your stupid questions." Snape said as if he was growing tired of being in her presence.

"You're no better than anyone else here you great bigot!" Sirius snapped at him, as Snape walked off, ignoring him.

"Now, again, I shall ask you. What. Is. A. Mud-Blood?" She was getting rather tired of being ignored.

"It's just a really nasty name, for someone who's muggle born. Ignore him though, you know his brain has been contaminated from all that grease on his skull." James said.

For the next few weeks everything had been pretty boring, classes went on and the winter months slowly turned to the warmer months of Spring, and as it turned to April, and it appeared as if the pressures of end-of-term exams were starting.

Lily was probably studious than anyone else. She sat in her favorite chair and was constantly reading every page of every text book she had.

Sabrina placed her book down, then she looked from Lily to Jane "She's gone mad. She already knows everything. Why is she studying so much?"

"Because," Lily said, not looking up from her book "I may have forgotten something, or missed something."

Jane laughed "what could you have missed?"

Lily was still reading "Anything, so I'm making sure I didn't."

Sabrina shook her head and walked over to the boys. "Whatcha upto?" She said casually.

"Studying…" Remus said "you should really at least look over your notes." I think I may have lied, Remus may have been the most studious student in the Gryffindor common room.

"I did, I actually just finished a few moments ago." She slid down in her chair. "What about you guys?" She directed this question to James, Sirius, and Peter, who were immersed in conversation.

"Okay…" James said, clearly not listening to her "Sounds great 'Brina."

"Mmhmmm yeah…" Sirius said, in the same tone.

Peter, sat up and smiled at her "Plotting."

Her eyes lit up and she slid over across the floor and sat on her knees by the group of boys. "Ooh! What?"

As Peter was about to answer Jane said to her "Hey, help me get bookworm here outside, she needs a break, I'm afraid if she doesn't get one she will then she'll pitch a spaz."

"Ah… damn."

"Well, we're gonna be in the hallway, setting up in about a half an hour…" Peter said.

"Oh. Well, see you there! Thanks Pete!"

"Lily, come on, it's nice out!" Sabrina said, trying to coax her friend out onto the grounds.

"I really should be studying-"

"Lily, you're a nutcase." Jane said.

"Okay then let me back to my books."

"Nope… you need a break."

"Fine… but only for an hour."

"Okay, at least you're outside…" Jane said rolling her eyes.

For the next hour Lily asked her friends several questions, quizzing them, which, in turn, annoyed them considering they were out her for a break.

Sabrina ran inside and saw Sirius, James, and Peter all laughing at a suit of armor, which, to her, seemed really odd. She ran over, smiling, and asked "What's so funny?"

Sirius then doubled over with laughter as did James, Peter, who was merely giggling said to her "We locked Snape in the suit of armor."

Her smile suddenly turned into a look of disgusted surprise "You could hurt him!"

"Wasn't that the point?" James asked giving her a strange look.

She picked up the helmet and held it over his head as she said "Oh are you okay? I'm so sorry for my idiotic friends.

Snape simply said "I need no help from you, mudblood."

She gave him a hateful disgusting look as she dropped the helmet back on his head with a large CLANG noise, it must have echoed in the helmet because you could have sworn you heard a muffled 'Ouch' from the inside of the suit of armor, if you had been there. "You all saw me, I tried to be nice, I really did." She threw her hands up in the air and started to walk away, as Sirius and James nearly fell to the ground laughing.

"Hey!" A girl from Ravenclaw with long brown hair yelled at Sabrina "that wasn't very nice!"

"Who are you?" She asked

"Brittany, but that's beside the point! You should try to be a little bit nicer to people, I mean, just because he's not as 'cool' as you think you are."

Sabrina walked over to this Brittany girl "One, I am nice, you didn't see the whole thing-"

"Yes I did, you dropped that helmet on him!"

"Please let me finish, you didn't see the whole thing. I am usually unbelievably nice to people, except for when they provoke me. And, honestly, I do not think of myself as 'cool, groovy' or anything else, I think of myself as an eleven year old blue eyed blond Gryffindor with about six close friends and a larger circle of friends that aren't close."

"But you still-"

"No I didn't, you see, my idiots" she gestured to the trio over there "here trapped him inside, and I attempted to get the great grease-ball out-"

"Hey!"

She ignored her "and when I asked him if he was okay, he simply stated that he did not need nor want my help because I, apparently, am a mudblood, thus inferior to him. Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go back to the common room. Nice meeting you, Brittany." She shook her hand and strode off down the corridor, barely keeping her composure any longer, as she muttered to herself "Stupid people, butting in when they have no idea what's going on."

A/N: I would like to say, right now that: I AM SO SORRY!
I can't believe that this is the first time I've updated since January 8th! If you want my list for not updating, please e-mail me at now keep in mind, that it is just for kicks, laughs for the most part. You see, I broke my ankle, did not get to see kat on the bus every morning and afternoon, thus had a Kat-withdrawl, resulting in not just writers block, but so much writers block it may have been confused for The Great Wall of China. I would love to thank Kat, for coming up with the whole suit of armor thing, if you would like me to start doing revewer thank-you's, then please state it in your review! Sorry for the long wait, again!

Thanks to:

the muggle marauder: yeah I know, I'm gonna do that soon, and the italics, well, my laptop was being a spaz.

abilars: yep, kat is my best friend/beta/person whom got me out of this writing slump.

WoW-Girl: you're pausitive reaction makes me smile and all warm and fuzzy inside!

Kirbycakes: Your review made me happy beyond all bounds. Thank you so much for your words of kindness!

CrazyGirl: Hmm... who could this be? Certainly not Kat, I mean, Kat would never torture snape, I mean, come on, she definantly didn't give me the suit of armor idea... Hehe, thanks so much, non-kat.

EyesofEmerald: Val, you are completely awesome, and I'd like to thank you for bringing up my spirit when I was down, you are truly a great friend and role modelD

meganegreer21: thanks! I'm certain you're a good writer too!

Raven A. Star: Thanks! I'm glad you like my writing so much!

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