The first month of the school year had gone by and it was hard for them all. Third year meant new subjects, and new subjects meant more work.
The groups had chosen a wide range of subjects. Ginny, Peter and Sirius had all chosen to take Muggle Studies and Care of Magical Creatures. Amanda, Remus and Branwen had chosen to take Ancient Runes and Arithmancy.
Lily and Alice had both chosen Divination but Lily had taken Ancient Runes with it while Alice had chosen Care of Magical Creatures. Lastly James had taken Muggle Studies and with it, Arithmancy.
This meant that for the first time they weren't all in the same lessons together; not that it caused to much trouble because there was always at least one other person in their lessons, and to one girl's surprise she found that she was becoming closer to the boys because of the sitting arrangement of Muggle Studies.
Ginny had found herself sitting with Sirius during their Muggle Studies class, right behind Peter and James, and she found it wasn't too bad with them. This was an important factor in bringing them closer together.
Although the lessons brought a strain to them there was also the fact that Amanda was still in that funny mood. She was still clinging to Sirius a lot although she had now taken to grabbing one of the girls hands when she was nervous and he wasn't around.
The strain was shown in lessons the most. In Transfiguration, where they were assigned seats, Amanda was sat next to Remus and she had edged her seat as far away from him as possible. Then there was Potions where she was partnered with Snape; it was the same sort of thing, only she was worse as the Slytherins surrounded her.
Now that October had entered things were turning around and the things that people had been so sure of before changed instantly and with it everyone's understanding of the world around them.
Okay well this is just a filler chapter I thought it easier to show their subject choices this way as its straight to the point and when I need to check it's easy. So that means, as this is nothing really, you get two chapters today, I'm trying to be nice, is it working.
Oh and thanks to my lovely BETA Annie, you should all check out her new fic Blood in My eye there's a link to it on my author page
Kris