Hey, this is really quick: Thanks so much for the great reviews! Especially the advice. Your right, I need to describe more. I hope this chapter is better! Tell me if it's not!
(the events in the chapter suck, but I describe much more!)
CHAPTER 3
It was mid-October and by now Sirius, James and Remus had become accustom to Hogwarts life. Fall was the natural favorite season of most students, especially for Sirius.
He loved to look outside, watch the trees, animals, and because it was colder now, people weren't there to ruin his view. His favorite thing was to watch animals gathering food for the winter. At the moment, he had his eye on a little grey squirrel. It would climb down a tall, dark oak, check if the coast was clear, and then run like mad to seeds and nuts that fell on the ground. Once it grabbed the item, it would run up the tree again into the shelter of the thick, dry leaves.
Except for the evergreens, all trees he saw had their leaves turn to brilliant shades of orange, brown, and yellow. And at the slightest disturbance, those leaves would plummet to the ground creating a colorful ring around the base of the tree.
"Mr. Black."
Sirius snapped out of his trance. Professor Hollingsworth, the History of Magic teacher, took her wand and forcefully slapped his hand. Her thin, pale face looked annoyed and frustrated, because for the past half hour, she was enthusiastically explaining the cruel measures Muggles would take to rid their towns of magic folk. And for Sirius Black to ignore her like this, she instantly considered it a personal insult. She peered down at the student, "Tell me what I was just talking about?"
Her tall, petite body, tightly pulled back hair, and the positioning of her eyebrows made Professor Hollingsworth constantly look angry. This time, however, she made a special effort to look even more angry than normal.
"Uh," Sirius was thrown off by her appearance. "I, uh-I really don't know." He felt obligated to be honest with her. Standing over him as she did made her look like ten feet of a furious woman. (Although she was only around five and a half feet tall) Frankly, this frightened Sirius some.
Regardless of her fury, the Professor just gave him a warning. To her knowledge, he hadn't done this before and she always believed in second chances. "Do that again and you'll have a detention." She turned and walked back to the front of the class.
Although his confrontation with the professor was only a few minuets, Sirius felt as if it was a few hours. He felt his face turn red with embarrassment. He crossed his arms and sunk into his chair. He felt as if every one was watching him; laughing and judging him. Oh, how he wished he could become invisible; Remus could probably find a potion or spell for that…
After class, the embarrassment began to vanish. It was lunch now, he was thankful that he didn't have to endure another class for at least the next hour.
"Hey, Sirius? What were you looking at anyways?" James, one of his two best friends, asked.
Sirius didn't want anybody to know that he was the nature loving type, not even James. "I thought I saw something in the Forbidden Forest, that's all."
"Really? What do you think it was?" Remus, his other best friend, looked intrigued. Remus was much different than Sirius and James. He wasn't loud, outgoing, or nearly as playful as the other two. He also loved reading, a trait his other two friends never believed they would ever acquire. The one trait they all had in common though, was they were all exceptionally talented with their wands.
This trait allowed them to do well in Transfiguration, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts (a favorite of James and Sirius)
The three were walking down a corridor on the second floor when they heard a shriek of some sort coming from around an upcoming corner. Following James' lead, they went to investigate the noise.
They saw Lucious Malfoy, and Sirius' cousin, Narcissa with their wands out pointing at a small, first year boy. This boy was recognized as Peter Pettigrew, a fellow Gryffindor.
"Narcissa, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Sirius asked in a very blunt manner.
"Why should it concern you?" Narcissa glared at her cousin. Peter Pettigrew gave a quick whimper; Narcissa hit him across the face.
"He just so happens to be a Gryffindor, which gives us a legitimate reason to be concerned." Remus said matter-of-factly
"Really? Lucious, darling, what do you think?" Narcissa looked at him fondly. To the best of Sirius' knowledge, Narcissa and Lucious Malfoy were an item, which made Sirius sick.
"That just gives us the perfect reason to have fun with him." Lucious smirked.
"My thought exactly!" Narcissa raised her wand, about to jinx the frightened Peter Pettigrew. Before she was able to complete the first word of the jinx, however, James knocked her wand out of her hand. Narcissa looked shocked. Since when does a first year know how to do that! She looked a Lucious; he too, had his wand knocked from him.
Sirius smiled widely, his wand was pointed straight at his cousin. "You now have a choice, my dear cousin: either peacefully leave, or have us jinx you away. Either way is fine with me!"
"I recommend the second choice. That's more fun for us!" James too, had his wand pointed.
Realizing they couldn't win, the two Slytherin students picked up their wands and walked away.
"That's it?" Sirius looked disappointed, "I was just having fun! Wanna go after them?" He smiled at James.
"Yeah! It'll be fu-"
"NO!" Remus interrupted James. "We'll be just as bad as them! It's not right anyways; and what about Peter?" Remus' attention turned to the boy huddling in the corner. "Are you alright? Did they hurt you?"
Peter's rat-like face was pail. He looked at Remus and felt relif flood throughout his body. What if they didn't come? Peter didn't want to think of it, all that matters is they DID come. "I-I'm ok, I guess. They didn't jinx me." He stuttered a little, he reckoned his body didn't do well with adrenalin.
"That's good. You need any help?" Remus watched the clumsy little boy try to get to his feet.
"N-No, that's ok, thinks." Peter didn't want those three to think he needed complete help, he wanted to prove to them he could at least get off the ground. But his efforts had no results except him falling on his large backside again.
Remus laughed and smiled warmly, "Here," He offered his hand. Peter grabbed it and tried to pull himself up. But instead of rising, he pulled Remus down.
James and Sirius were talking about the event that just took place. They both herd Remus being pulled down. Being the immature, eleven year old boys they were, they had to laugh hysterically.
Peter just felt worse. He felt a sensation behind his eyes and nose that made him feel like he would cry at any given moment. "W-W-Why are y-you guys laughing?" he felt his voice quiver. His eyes turned red and tears began to fall down his cheeks. His large face was buried in his meaty hands.
James and Sirius instantly stopped laughing. Not only was this Peter boy crying, people were passing through the corridor; including other teachers. To their luck, no one noticed… except another Gryffindor girl, being closely followed by her friends.
She looked at Peter, then looked at the two boys. With out saying anything, her friends went to Peter trying to calm him down. He seemed to like the attention. But as for the girl, she walked over to James and Sirius.
James new who she was, Lilly Evans, another first year; until now, though, he never really looked at her. She had some what frizzy red hair that sat on top of a freckled face; he thought she had unusually good features: a proportionate nose, and thank Merlyn she didn't try to make her lips look bigger, like most first year girls did; they thought it made them look older, but it really didn't. What he noticed first out of all these was her eyes. They were an intense green, not a solid color, but layered with different shades ranging from light to forest green. For the next seven years, that was all he looked at and nothing else.
She didn't look pleasant though, she looked disappointed, but not only disappointed, she looked like she really didn't want to be talking to them. "Did you do this?" she pointed to Peter. She didn't wait for an answer, "Why? Wait, no, don't tell me. You two should be ashamed of yourselves! You are Gryffindors, aren't you? You should have more pride than this! Making another boy cry? You make me sick!" she walked away towards Peter.
Sirius and James didn't really know what to say. James tried to say something, but all that came out was 'Bu-'. He left his mouth open, staring at the scene that lay before him: Peter still crying, about five girls crowding around him, (he seemed to like the attention) and Remus being yelled at by Lilly Evans.
Sirius gulped, but then laughed to himself at seeing James' mouth hang open, he soon closed it for his friend.
Later that night in the Gryffindor Common Room, Remus, James, and Sirius were up late doing homework (it was actually just James and Sirius doing homework, Remus was already done)
"Hey, Sirius? Do you think that Evans girl hates me now?" James looked worried.
"Of course she does!" Sirius said playfully.
"No! I'm serious! Do you think she hates me?" James tossed a quill at Sirius.
"If you were serious, then you'd be me! Remember?"
"Sirius, just answer the question." Remus said without even looking up from his book.
"Heh, but yeah, James, she does hate you." He couldn't help but smirk.
"Fine, be that way." James looked disappointed.
"H-hey, guys?"
James and Sirius both snapped their heads around to look at Peter Pettigrew.
"What d' you want?" James sounded harsh.
"I-I just wanted to apologize for earlier, th-that's all." Peter looked at the ground.
"You know something James? I don't think I've ever seen any one cry like that since I was seven!" at Sirius saying this, both James and Sirius started to laugh hysterically.
"Sirius! James! Shut up, can't you see that he's really sorry? Look at him." Remus pointed to Peter. He looked like he would cry again, if it wasn't for Remus' interference. "Now, what do you say?"
"Sorry." James and Sirius looked dull.
Ever since, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew were in-separable.
