Chapter 4
So the lessons started. Some wizened old witch who looked like she had been left behind in the sixties taught defence against the dark arts. Professor Finnegan was obsessed with every one loving each other. And even (To James, Sirius and Remus' horror) took her guitar out at the end of their Friday lesson, as it was last thing, and began to sing making every one else join in and hold hands.
The three of them had run out screaming at the second verse of 'Kum By Ya' (A/N: spelling?) This led them to have detention with Professor McGonagal who taught Transfiguration. She was a fair but strict woman and demanded respect for her and all of the teachers. Hence the detention. At the beginning of her first lesson she had given them all a right talking to, she told them not to mess around in her class, this of course made Sirius want to actually mess around, and McGonagal actually turned her desk into a pig.
James was very chuffed when at the beginning of the second week, she said that he had a natural talent for Transfiguration, Sirius glared at him, and stabbed James with his needle (that was previously a matchstick) in the arm.
"Ow!" He yelled rubbing at his arm. "What did you do that for?" Silently Sirius pointed to a redheaded girl in the front row who McGonagal was talking to. "So?" James asked. Sirius smiled wickedly.
So when they went to tidy up Sirius went right up to the girl, James behind him, and 'accidentally' dropped his quill. "Oops," he said. "Sorry about that. I'm Sirius." He put his hand out to shake hers. Hesitantly she did so.
"Lily."
"This is James." James waved his hand.
"Please excuse my friend, you see," James said, "unlike you and I, he's an idiot." James shot a glare in Sirius' direction, which didn't look too happy.
"Also, unlike you and I," Sirius said talking to Lily, but glaring at James. "James is just an ugly mug." (A/N: I have no idea why I wrote 'ugly mug' oh well.)
"But. I can speak three different languages. Unlike Si here, who pretends he can." Remus was now coming into the picture. "I won't accidentally ask people to sleep with me, as it's all I know and want to show off." He bent down and brought her hand to his lips "Cherie."
"Guys!" Lily said standing up just as the three boys were about to fight other her. "Leave it.stop degrading each other." Then when the bell went, she left.
"Well," Remus said, "That went well." Sirius and James merely glared at him.
Their detention was on Thursday night and at eight o'clock the three of them went to McGonagal's room and waited. Then she entered and gave them all a stern look. "As it was not my class you ran out on, I shall not be taking your detention tonight."
"Hello, chaps." It was Finnegan with her guitar.
"I want to go home." Sirius mumbled crouching lower in his seat. McGonagal left.
"Ok, boys, lets all get in a circle." They did so and the teacher began playing her guitar.
//Kum By ya, my lord, kum by ya.// (A/N: And so on and so forth.)
They spent an hour and half learning about love, truth and freedom. Holding hands and praying to God to let the trees live and to give every one happiness, so non-of them should have to suffer. Then they had another round of Kum by Ya. And Professor Finnegan didn't believe in punishing children for their mistakes.
So it was at ten o'clock they went to the common room almost crying by the torture that just been imposed upon them.
"I'm never getting caught again." Sirius vowed, and James agreed with him.
"So, no more rule breaking for you lot." That was Lily, sitting at her desk doing her potions homework.
"You miss understood me." Sirius told her. "There is a big different of getting caught and actually doing it."
"You sly fox you." Lily said. "I on the other hand are planning on keeping to the rails. I just had a study date with that Slytherin boy Severus something."
"Date!" Sirius yelled horrified. "You went on a date with //that// slimeball?"
"For starters //study// date-meaning we studied. And secondly. He's not slimy!"
"Lily and Snape in a tree." Remus started to sing. "Doing things the shouldn't be. First comes." He trailed off. "Did any one else just get a disturbing image of a naked Snape?"
"Yeah." the other two boys said, looking ill and James was definitely feeling it.
"Just checking" Remus said, then he added. "Lily, he is. I've known him since.forever. And he always has been slimy."
"It's not his fault. He's really nice."
"Yeah, and I'm Mickey mouse." Sirius said. They all just looked at him, except Lily who just rolled her eyes.
"I just know him from a different angle. He has layers."
"I just think he's trying to get through the layers and into you knickers." James laughed.
Lily scowled at him. "Well." She said getting up and going to her dorm. "At least he has a more polite way of doing it."
That shut them all up.
Impressing Lily Evans was going to prove difficult. And it seemed that Sirius was absolutely obsessed with it. He didn't seem to be the kind of person who relented in any way. It was quite clear, even though Sirius refused to admit it, he was jealous of the slimeball.
James on the other hand didn't really care. To him it looked like they was never going to get along, so there was just no point trying. She was going to end up going out with Snape, and it was nothing that they could do about it. Even though Sirius and Remus for that matter seemed to think that there was.
On a different level. Peter, the boy that they had met on the train had been following them. He was a scared timid little boy and didn't have much on the way of friends. Also Snape had started to bully him. It seemed that the slimy git went out of his way to make Peters life as miserable as he could possibly make it.
Sirius constantly used this as an excuse to Lily saying how awful Snape was. Lily seemed, just as determined as Sirius was. She refused point blank what Si was telling her and kept on saying that he had layers and really he was a very nice caring boy, and like her, liked to study. Sirius now thought Snape to be an alien pile of slime if he like to study and he kept comparing himself to Mickey Mouse, whoever //that// was.
So now Sirius Black had taken a different approach. An approach that James had decided not to take part in. Sirius was going to try and make a complete fool of Snape. He was using more muggle techniques rather than magic ones, as Snape being a pure blood wizard would not know anything that was muggle related.
This meant that the most simple of Sirius' ideas worked. Water balloons. Snape had walked into Potions that day absolutely soaking wet and as James had been laughing he had blamed both James and Sirius. This gained James another detention, which he was not at all happy with. His mother was going to kill him. He'd only been here just over a month and already he had got two detentions. This didn't seem important to Sirius and he practically laughed when James told him his problem.
Time at Hogwarts was beginning to pass very fast and before James knew it, it was already Halloween. In the evening of that day there was a feast. This included a feast and this year a reconstruction of Nearly Headless Nick's (Gryffidors ghost, who died from being nearly beheaded with a blunt axe) botched beheading. James was truly enjoying himself until.
"Well, well, well, Hogwarts School." James looked up and standing there in the doorway, was a man who looked too familiar. His dark hair and Pale skin was not what James wanted to see at all.
It was Tom Riddle.
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So the lessons started. Some wizened old witch who looked like she had been left behind in the sixties taught defence against the dark arts. Professor Finnegan was obsessed with every one loving each other. And even (To James, Sirius and Remus' horror) took her guitar out at the end of their Friday lesson, as it was last thing, and began to sing making every one else join in and hold hands.
The three of them had run out screaming at the second verse of 'Kum By Ya' (A/N: spelling?) This led them to have detention with Professor McGonagal who taught Transfiguration. She was a fair but strict woman and demanded respect for her and all of the teachers. Hence the detention. At the beginning of her first lesson she had given them all a right talking to, she told them not to mess around in her class, this of course made Sirius want to actually mess around, and McGonagal actually turned her desk into a pig.
James was very chuffed when at the beginning of the second week, she said that he had a natural talent for Transfiguration, Sirius glared at him, and stabbed James with his needle (that was previously a matchstick) in the arm.
"Ow!" He yelled rubbing at his arm. "What did you do that for?" Silently Sirius pointed to a redheaded girl in the front row who McGonagal was talking to. "So?" James asked. Sirius smiled wickedly.
So when they went to tidy up Sirius went right up to the girl, James behind him, and 'accidentally' dropped his quill. "Oops," he said. "Sorry about that. I'm Sirius." He put his hand out to shake hers. Hesitantly she did so.
"Lily."
"This is James." James waved his hand.
"Please excuse my friend, you see," James said, "unlike you and I, he's an idiot." James shot a glare in Sirius' direction, which didn't look too happy.
"Also, unlike you and I," Sirius said talking to Lily, but glaring at James. "James is just an ugly mug." (A/N: I have no idea why I wrote 'ugly mug' oh well.)
"But. I can speak three different languages. Unlike Si here, who pretends he can." Remus was now coming into the picture. "I won't accidentally ask people to sleep with me, as it's all I know and want to show off." He bent down and brought her hand to his lips "Cherie."
"Guys!" Lily said standing up just as the three boys were about to fight other her. "Leave it.stop degrading each other." Then when the bell went, she left.
"Well," Remus said, "That went well." Sirius and James merely glared at him.
Their detention was on Thursday night and at eight o'clock the three of them went to McGonagal's room and waited. Then she entered and gave them all a stern look. "As it was not my class you ran out on, I shall not be taking your detention tonight."
"Hello, chaps." It was Finnegan with her guitar.
"I want to go home." Sirius mumbled crouching lower in his seat. McGonagal left.
"Ok, boys, lets all get in a circle." They did so and the teacher began playing her guitar.
//Kum By ya, my lord, kum by ya.// (A/N: And so on and so forth.)
They spent an hour and half learning about love, truth and freedom. Holding hands and praying to God to let the trees live and to give every one happiness, so non-of them should have to suffer. Then they had another round of Kum by Ya. And Professor Finnegan didn't believe in punishing children for their mistakes.
So it was at ten o'clock they went to the common room almost crying by the torture that just been imposed upon them.
"I'm never getting caught again." Sirius vowed, and James agreed with him.
"So, no more rule breaking for you lot." That was Lily, sitting at her desk doing her potions homework.
"You miss understood me." Sirius told her. "There is a big different of getting caught and actually doing it."
"You sly fox you." Lily said. "I on the other hand are planning on keeping to the rails. I just had a study date with that Slytherin boy Severus something."
"Date!" Sirius yelled horrified. "You went on a date with //that// slimeball?"
"For starters //study// date-meaning we studied. And secondly. He's not slimy!"
"Lily and Snape in a tree." Remus started to sing. "Doing things the shouldn't be. First comes." He trailed off. "Did any one else just get a disturbing image of a naked Snape?"
"Yeah." the other two boys said, looking ill and James was definitely feeling it.
"Just checking" Remus said, then he added. "Lily, he is. I've known him since.forever. And he always has been slimy."
"It's not his fault. He's really nice."
"Yeah, and I'm Mickey mouse." Sirius said. They all just looked at him, except Lily who just rolled her eyes.
"I just know him from a different angle. He has layers."
"I just think he's trying to get through the layers and into you knickers." James laughed.
Lily scowled at him. "Well." She said getting up and going to her dorm. "At least he has a more polite way of doing it."
That shut them all up.
Impressing Lily Evans was going to prove difficult. And it seemed that Sirius was absolutely obsessed with it. He didn't seem to be the kind of person who relented in any way. It was quite clear, even though Sirius refused to admit it, he was jealous of the slimeball.
James on the other hand didn't really care. To him it looked like they was never going to get along, so there was just no point trying. She was going to end up going out with Snape, and it was nothing that they could do about it. Even though Sirius and Remus for that matter seemed to think that there was.
On a different level. Peter, the boy that they had met on the train had been following them. He was a scared timid little boy and didn't have much on the way of friends. Also Snape had started to bully him. It seemed that the slimy git went out of his way to make Peters life as miserable as he could possibly make it.
Sirius constantly used this as an excuse to Lily saying how awful Snape was. Lily seemed, just as determined as Sirius was. She refused point blank what Si was telling her and kept on saying that he had layers and really he was a very nice caring boy, and like her, liked to study. Sirius now thought Snape to be an alien pile of slime if he like to study and he kept comparing himself to Mickey Mouse, whoever //that// was.
So now Sirius Black had taken a different approach. An approach that James had decided not to take part in. Sirius was going to try and make a complete fool of Snape. He was using more muggle techniques rather than magic ones, as Snape being a pure blood wizard would not know anything that was muggle related.
This meant that the most simple of Sirius' ideas worked. Water balloons. Snape had walked into Potions that day absolutely soaking wet and as James had been laughing he had blamed both James and Sirius. This gained James another detention, which he was not at all happy with. His mother was going to kill him. He'd only been here just over a month and already he had got two detentions. This didn't seem important to Sirius and he practically laughed when James told him his problem.
Time at Hogwarts was beginning to pass very fast and before James knew it, it was already Halloween. In the evening of that day there was a feast. This included a feast and this year a reconstruction of Nearly Headless Nick's (Gryffidors ghost, who died from being nearly beheaded with a blunt axe) botched beheading. James was truly enjoying himself until.
"Well, well, well, Hogwarts School." James looked up and standing there in the doorway, was a man who looked too familiar. His dark hair and Pale skin was not what James wanted to see at all.
It was Tom Riddle.
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