A/N: thanks Kate for your marvellous reviews, they were very entertaining! Lol! Evil things should happen soon! Lol! Now on with the story! Oh yeah, and Remus not going back to lessons: if you were a swot tell me, seriously, would you actually want to go back to lessons given the choice? The answer is a resounding NO!

Disclaimer: nope don't own it!

Chapter 13

Halloween was drawing near and all the first years had heard about the fantastic feast that was planned. Everyone was excited, as the holiday was a big celebration in the wizarding world.

Sirius had been wildly dreaming of all the food that there could possibly be whilst James had been reading the Quibbler. It was better than the Daily Prophet was because it wasn't as serious and the articles were funny, even if they were unintentionally so!

One of the articles that had struck him was one written by the new and highly acclaimed Cat Star. She had only been writing for about six months but already she was getting undercover reports and on the spot news coverage.

The article he was reading at the moment was about Puddlemere United's downfalls. He found it intriguing how she could find faults in such a fantastic team. Why did she have to put fans down? But it did make him think about whether he actually supported them.

She had a knack for trying to convince people that they were in the wrong. And it seemed to work. Only last week there had been a report telling people that Bertie Bott's Beans were poisonous and that people should switch to her own brand of jelly beans. It worked. Sirius actually stopped buying his regular sweets and switched to her product.

James wasn't as easily fooled by marketing campaigns as Sirius was. He knew not to believe everything that you read but he was awfully tempted and, thinking about it, he hadn't had any Bertie Bott's in weeks!

All the girls had been following her massive campaign to get make-up testing on house elves abolished. Lots of people didn't even know that they tested make-up on house elves so were shocked and well informed at the same time. That's the reason why everyone loved Cat Star.

James hated astronomy. It was one of the subjects he was hopeless at. It involved the muggle subject, maths and so anyone from a muggle background or who were fascinated with muggles, or in one case physics, were naturally great at it.

Sirius, for some weird and unknown reason, was actually good at it. He could map the stars and name them with ease as well as knowing lots about the formation of the universe. He was a bit of a swot at it actually. He knew what Betelgeuse was and Andromeda as well as describing the stages of a star from birth to death. James thought it was scary.

Lupin was good at astronomy too. He could calculate the orbital speeds of planets and the diameter of their orbit in seconds. He liked physics and especially space. He wanted to boldly go where no wizard had gone before, but not before getting the highest possible marks on his OWLs and NEWTs and becoming a prefect and head boy and everything he felt he needed to do at school.

The school meals were always fun. There was always some immature third or fifth year that thought it would be funny to shove things up their nose or throw something at someone. Lily had done this, thrown food that is, at James plenty of times, and vice versa of course. A meal wasn't complete without Lily and James being horrible to each other.

At the Halloween feast Lily had found herself sitting right next to James. She hadn't wanted to by any means but Gemini had wanted to sit with her brother for a change so Lily had joined her, unaware of what would come of it.

"And then I said 'What's your name again? SNIVELLUS?'" laughed James. Sirius burst into laughter too. "Snivellus," he sighed, "that's a good one!"

"I didn't think it was particularly ingenious," said Lily who was determined to have her say after being forced to sit next to her worst nightmare.

James turned around. It was her! She seemed to be everywhere he looked and she always had her say at everything. Even if she was completely wrong, which, it has to be said, wasn't very often, she would still argue to the end.

"What do you want carrotface?" he asked with disgust.

"I'm sitting with my friend and talking. I'm sorry, I didn't realise there was a rule against that!" she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Well it's against the rules when you sit near me and do it. You know, I find you and your disturbing red hair quite offensive" he said, mock seriously. Sirius snorted with laughter and Gemini nudged him.

"Well I find you and your four eyes offensive too! As well as your cocky attitude, your huge ego and your stupid, stupid sticky out hair!" she said turning red.

"Calm down guys. Stop fighting! You both have some fair points. Yes James, she does seem to join into all of your conversations, no offence Lils and yes Lily, Snivellus is a pathetic nickname for someone!" Gemini said. She sat down in between them and Sirius on the other side of James.

"Gemini! I so do not! Why would I want to join into one of their conversations?" she asked with disgust.

"Yeah! And Snivellus is a good name, Gemini!" James said.

"Snivellus isn't even a word!" Lily shouted at him.

"Well is now!" James shouted back. At this time the teachers started to notice that something was going on and started whispering between one another trying to decided what to do.

"You can't just make new words up speccy four eyes!" Lily said as Professor Kondola came down from the teachers' table to sort the problem out.

"I can and I will tomato head!" James yelled. Sirius was trying to restrain him but failing quite badly.

"You are such an arrogant………idiot!" Lily screamed. The rest of the hall was completely silent and staring at the two of them. Lily got embarrassed and only just noticed Professor Kondola.

"Right, you two. Detention for the both of you. You will be notified of the time and place." He said nastily. "Oh and Potter, if I ever hear you calling anyone Snivellus I will personally see that you get at least a month of detentions." And with that he turned and left the hall, his cloak billowing behind him.

Lily was terrified and had to fight back the tears. She didn't like being told off, especially by teachers, she liked to stay in teachers' good books, it was always useful. She started to walk out of the hall so that she could be alone when Gemini came and told her to sit back down.

James on the other hand merely shrugged and went back to laughing with Sirius.

"Amazing" sighed Sarah Chadwick from the other side of Gemini. "How do boys do that?"

"Do what?" asked Andrew Wood who was sat beside her.

"Well, be so unemotional about real life issues, like that there where James just sat back down and pretended none of that happened even though he got so worked up about it at the time. But then they get so carried away and wrapped up in their own world when it comes to Quidditch!" she continued.

"That's not true!" he said, surprised.

"Yes it is. Boys seem to eat, sleep, drink and virtually live Quidditch!" she said sternly.

"Well I like Quidditch as much as the next guy and I don't see it like that. Quidditch is a hobby. A thing that we support and follow but we're kind and sensitive too." Andrew said. Then he blushed slightly and looked at the ground. "If…if you go out with me…I'll show you" he managed to stammer out.

"Yeah ok!" grinned Sarah. The biggest of big smiles was now plastered across her face. She nudged Gemini and told her and Lily and Andrew went back to talking about who would win the league this year with his friends.

When the feast was over Lily, Gemini and Sarah made their way back up to the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Well I think that its perfectly horri……" Lily started but something made her stop dead in her tracks, as well as everyone else on the busy corridor.

James, Sirius, Katie and Remus stayed behind. They were planning a prank to turn Snape and Malfoy's robes pink. So far they had the spell all they needed now was Snape and Malfoy. The hall was clearing and there was a huge snake of people streaming out of the door. It was impossible to find anyone, even if you were stood right next to them.

Then they saw them. Malfoy had left a piece of paper, probably a letter from his mummy Sirius joked, at the table and had to go back for it. Naturally the rest of Slytherin first year waited for him.

"Fermata" James and Sirius shouted pointing their wands at the two Slytherins.

"Girare rosa" shouted Katie and Remus to complete the spell.

"Scintilla" added Katie. Making the robes glittery to add to the effect. Then they ran away, not wanting to be caught by ten angry Slytherins.

They made it all the way up to the Transfiguration corridor when something made them, and everyone around them, stop dead in their tracks. The candles flickered and then blew themselves out. The corridor was pitch black.

"Dumbledore will die" came a voice through the air. It was a woman's voice. Sickly sweet and high but also dangerous and evil. "Soon. It will happen soon!" There was a flash of lightning and then everything was back to normal. The candles lit themselves again.

Pupils were scared and stayed where they were. Elaine Tang ran off to find a teacher. She found Professor Dreamstone making her way towards the Gryffindor corridor.

"There is nothing to be afraid of" she informed them. "It is a silly, childish prank. Once we find the culprits then they will be severely punished. Let this be a warning to them."

Something about the situation, maybe it was the candles, or the lightning or just the whole thing let everyone know that it most likely wasn't a childish prank. No matter what the teachers did to cover it up. It was a serious message from a powerful witch. The only problem was; who?

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