A/N: I am determined to finish all my fanfics this holiday and THEN start that french homework!

Chapter 24

The sun outside was shining brightly on the crisp June morning, birds danced merrily in the sky, warbling tuneful praises to the day. The students of Hogwarts school bustled around, finding friends from other houses and counting their money, today was the last Hogsmeade trip of the year and it was going to be worth it.

"It's not fair!" sighed Sirius, slumping on the floor in the Gryffindor Common Room, as there were no seats available. "Why don't we get to go to Hogsmeade? I want to spend all my money!"

"You could have asked someone to buy stuff for you," said Remus in a know-it-all voice from the sofa.

"Where's the fun in that?" asked Sirius, disbelievingly, "I need to get out of this building, it's doing my head in!"

"Do you want to go outside, Siri? And play Quidditch?" James asked from next to Remus, he too was bored out of his skull.

"Yeh ok," said Sirius, jumping up and heading towards his dormitory to collect his broom.

"Hang on," said Katie, "How are you going to play Quidditch with two people?"

Sirius and James looked at each other before turning back to Katie, "Penalty Shoot out Quidditch" grinned James, "Best game in the world!" added Sirius.

"OK, if you say so" said Katie, turning back to her game of noughts and crosses with Gemini, "We'll be out in a bit after I just beat…..oh my god Gemini Black! How did you manage that? Can you believe it, she's beaten me again!" Remus watched on and smiled to himself, he watched the whole game where Gemini had been jinxing the game but he wasn't going to say anything, it was a trait you picked up after being friends with James Potter and Sirius Black.

James and Sirius collected their brooms and scrambled through the portrait hall. They ran down the stairs, eager to get out into the fresh air but the stairs took an unexpected turning and landed the boys on an unknown corridor.

"Where are we?" said Sirius but was quickly silenced by James.

"Shhh for a minute will you?" James whispered to his friend, "I can hear voices!" The two boys tiptoed down the corridor, being careful to stick near the walls, they looked round the corner and sure enough there were two boys, most likely seventh years judging by the size of them, talking by a rather unusual statue.

"Billy, don't you think we better show someone where this passage is?" the smaller of the two boys whispered to the other.

"No! Why should we?" the other boy whispered back.

"Well if we keep this to ourselves, no one is ever going to find it ever again! We were told in our first year so surely we should pass the message on?" the first boy whispered getting quite insistent.

James and Sirius turned to face each other, they were both curious as to where the passage lead and were determined to find out, they looked back around the corner.

"Judd we can't just go telling anyone you know! What if they went and told Dumbledore or something? We'd be in so much trouble!" the second boy whispered, his voice getting slightly louder.

"James," Sirius whispered poking his friend in the back, "James, I've got to sneeze, really badly! What do I do?"

"Hold it in, we'll be gone soon, I just need to find out where this passageway goes to!" James whispered back, shrugging off his friend's arm.

"We'll find someone Billy I promise! But we really should do it soon, we have to show up in Hogsmeade you know!" the first boy said.

"James, James I really have to sneeze, I can't hold it in much longer. James my eyes are watering!" Sirius whispered.

"Hogsmeade Siri! This passage goes to Hogsmeade!" James whispered back, ignoring the urgency of his friend.

"James I think I'm going to explode if I don't AAAAAAAAAATICHOOOOOOOOO!" Sirius sneezed really loudly and it echoed off the walls and ricocheted off the ceiling.

"SIRIUS!" James whispered.

"Who's there?" the first boy said. It was the first time James had seen the boy's faces and now he recognised them. They were seventh year Ravenclaws, well known for their attitudes, they were forever in trouble with some teacher or another.

"Sirius, what do we do now?" James whispered.

"Show yourselves!" demanded the second boy.

"Let's just do what they say!" said Sirius marching out from around the corner, dragging James alongside him. "Hi! I'm Sirius Black and this is James Potter, we were just on our way to play Quidditch when the staircase brought us here!"

"How much of it did you hear?" asked the second boy.

"Quite a lot of it I'm afraid" admitted James "We know that somewhere round here is a secret passageway to Hogsmeade and that you need to tell someone about it."

"Wait," said the first boy, "are you the two boys that nearly got old Kondola fired?"

"Yeah!" beamed Sirius, "That would be us!"

The two older boys whispered among themselves for a minute before turning back to the two first years.

"Well boys, today is your lucky day!" said the first boy, "I'm Judd and this is Billy and we're going to show you how to get into Hogsmeade without having to pass any teachers!"

"It's easy," said Billy, "All you do it find your way here to the statue of the one eyed witch, tap her hunchback and say 'dissendium' like this…" the boy gave a demonstration and at once the hump opened up and revealed a fairly narrow passageway. "Follow this passageway and you'll find yourselves in the cellar at Honeyduke's and then you're free to roam around as you please!"

"You can come with us now if you want," added Judd. James and Sirius agreed with wide eyes and gobsmacked faces. This was a dream come true and they weren't going to miss anything.

Several hours later James and Sirius strolled back into the Gryffindor Common Room with overflowing bags of sweets, they settled themselves down on either arm of the chair which Gemini and Katie were squashed into.

"And where have you two been?" demanded Katie, helping herself to a Bertie Bott's Bean. There was a moments pause before she added, "and where on Earth did you get all these sweets?"

"We've been to Honeyduke's" stated Sirius, shoving sweets into his mouth, not caring what they were.

"No you haven't," said Gemini breaking off a piece of Sirius' chocolate bar.

"Yes we have!" insisted James. "We found a secret passageway!"

"But we're not saying where!" added Sirius.

"Good idea mate!" grinned James, "We don't want everyone knowing!"

"Tell me! Please tell me! I want to know!" pleaded Katie as she wanted to be part of the fun and didn't like feeling left out.

"Erm, let me think….no!" said Sirius laughing.

"Maybe when you're older," said James, patting Katie on the head in a patronising manner.

"Fine! But I will find out one day!" said Katie, stealing James' bag of sweets and running out of the Common Room.

"Bye guys!" said James, "Just going to get my sweets back," he added climbing through the portrait hole, "shan't be a minute!"

Sirius slid into the chair next to Gemini as they laughed and stuffed their faces with sweets.

A/N: go on, who knows where the names Billy and Judd are from! They're from a book, which apparently ALL yorkshire people should have read! lol