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The next day, James walked grimly out of his dormitory. He still wasn't satisfied. Remus' plan had not really worked the way he planned, not at all.
"Remus! Your plan didn't work," said James when he saw Remus later that day in history of magic.
"Huh?" said Remus, looking up from his notes. Remus was one of the only students who actually took notes in that class.
"Your brilliant plan, your 'lets be friends, Lily' plan, it didn't work," said James.
"Really?" said Remus, slightly surprised. "What did she say?"
"She said, were not friends, were neutral!" said James disgustedly.
"Oh, well, then it did work!" said Remus, happily.
"What is that supposed to mean?" said James.
"What it means," said Remus prodding a snoring Sirius, "Is that now that she has agreed not to hate your guts, you have a chance to become friends, and therefore a chance to become more."
"Well, I didn't think of it that way…" said James, feeling rather stupid.
"Apparently not," said Remus. "Oh, come on wake up Sirius, your drooling all over my notes." Remus returned to prodding Sirius with his wand. Sirius, in response, snored louder and drooled more.
"What does neutral mean, anyway?" said James anxiously.
"It means your making way too big a deal out of this,"said Remus, now shoving Sirius' shoulder, in a vain attempt to awaken him. "She doesn't hate you, be grateful at least for that."
"Your probably right," said James, pointing his wand into Sirius' mouth "Aquasti!" he whispered. A small amount of water poured out of his wand and dispensed into Sirius' mouth.
"Phoosh! Huh?" said Sirius sputtering out water. He looked at his watch. "There's still fifteen min. left, why'd you wake me up?"
"You were drooling on my notes," said Remus.
"Hey, Padfoot, what does neutral mean?" said James, now that Sirius was awake.
"Huh? Oh, um," Sirius straightened up. "Neutral, adj. without taking sides, without distinctive qualities."
James narrowed his eyes and glared at Sirius. "That's not what I meant…but wait, do you think Lily might think that I have no distinctive qualities?"
"O.K. James! This I believe is the very def. of over analyzing something someone says, honestly. Just be grateful that's she's talking to you at all," said Remus.
"And believe me, you have distinctive qualities," said Sirius, smiling slightly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" said James raising his head slightly.
"Just that, your hardly, well bland, so stop moaning about Lily and get over yourself, really." Sirius said.
Soon after Sirius said this, the bell signaling the end of class rung. James, Remus, Peter and Sirius exited the classroom, Remus busy trying to dry his notes from Sirius' drool.
"What's our next class?" said Sirius, eager to get away from the rather boring subject of History of Magic.
"Divination," said Remus, automatically.
Later, as the marauders shuffled into Divination, they saw their teacher. She was short, with short hair, and well, the only thing large about her was her rather large beak nose.
"So, this is our new Divination teacher," said Remus, indifferent.
"Yeah, she looks like a nice old bird," said Sirius sniggering.
"Ok, class, please take your seats… Today we shall begin the year with an introduction to palm reading, you will learn about life expectancy, love, obstacles and happiness. Please select a partner and begin reading pg. 15, an introduction to palm reading. When you are done reading the chapter, you may begin reading palms," she said.
As with nearly all of their classes that involved partner work, Sirius inched toward James while Peter pathetically crawled to Remus. As they took their seats, Sirius looked at the large book with tiny little font and long chapters and groaned. Sirius wasn't really much of a reader.
While Remus and Peter read the chapter silently, and Sirius and James pretended, the professor passed out the course expectancies.
After about 20 min of reading, the class began to read each other's palms.
"I'll start," said Sirius, whom was often bored in Divination. "Ok," he said pretending to look intently at James's palm, "Lets see, your going to die tomorrow, your love life shall be non existent, you'll have to battle trolls and giants, and yet you shall die happy," finished Sirius with a flourish.
"Wow, all that and I'm dying tomorrow," said James sarcastically.
"Oh, well, yeah, whatever,"said Sirius, realizing the mistake he made. "You have quite an exciting life…"
After James read Sirius' palm, which involved Sirius fighting a banshee, becoming a famous singer and being sat on by a giant, class was over.
As they walked down the spiral staircase to go to lunch, Sirius noticed a small, greasy, disgusting object sneaking carefully past them, trying to go unnoticed.
"Hello, Snivellus," said Sirius grinning.
Snape looked up, and held up his wand, still shaking.
"Claudicavi!" shouted Sirius.
Snape, receiving the curse, fell to the ground, limp as a noodle.
"Hey, the day isn't wasted after all," said Sirius, looking at the boneless Snape with approval.
"James Potter!" Lily began to run down the hallway, at the sight of the limp Snape. "I can not believe that you just did that! Your supposed to be Head Boy!" she shrieked.
"I didn't curse him," said James, jerking his thumb at Sirius.
"I know, but I can't believe you didn't try to stop him! You're HEAD BOY!" Lily continued to yell.
"Alright, fine. Sirius, I mean Mr. Black, umm, because you cursed another student, I'm forced to give you a warning," James finished lamely, not wanting to give his friend detention. Sirius smiled, happy.
"What! A WARNING! This is unbelievable!" said Lily.
"Yes, but you see, I was the Head who actually witnessed the crime, so I determine the punishment," said James, winking.
Lily sighed. "Fine, but at least help me get him to the hospital wing."
James agreed, and conjured a stretcher out of nowhere.
As they entered the hospital wing, the Nurse took one look at the boneless student and shouted "Who did this?"
"No one, we erm, found him that way," said Lily, not knowing why she had lied.
James looked at Lily, grateful and shocked. He was relieved that his friend wasn't going to get into trouble, but he didn't know why she would lie.
"Very well," said the Nurse, looking at Snape. "I'm going to need Skelgro. Lots and lots of Skelgro."
A/N: Moonarcher: Thanks for taking the time to review. I will review your new chapter of seeing the past present and future. I really like it, and I can't wait to find out more about that little girl.
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P.S. I made my own curse, I know a little bit of latin. Claudicavi means limp, to be limp in a certaindeclension and it sounds more like a curse in that declension then in others.