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Chapter 2: Betrayed for Snogging
James and the group (fully robed in the school uniform) hopped out of the horseless carriage and ascended the steps up to the main entrance into the castle. They talked loudly and joked around as they entered the Great Hall.
The floating candles and high ceiling was a welcoming sight for everyone. The four tables lining the room were quickly filling up. They all sat down at the Gryffindor table and continued to laugh and talk with each other.
James noticed that Snape sat down at the Slytherin table all by himself. He scowled at the back of Snape's greasy head and continued talking with Lily who was resting her head on his shoulder once more.
Sirius was flirting with the pretty girl sitting next to him while Remus, who was sitting across the table from James and Sirius, rested his chin on his hands and flipped the pages of his book and occasionally laughed at Sirius and James's jokes. Peter on the other hand was staring absent mindedly at the vaulted ceiling that imitated the sky outside.
Once the Great Hall was filled to the brim with noise, Professor McGonagall (the Transfiguration teacher) brought out the Sorting Hat. Things quieted down almost immediately and James had to flick Sirius in the back of the head to make him stop talking to the girl.
The doors to the Great Hall opened and the first years filed in. Sirius began talking with the girl again and made her giggle in a high pitched squeal, "Oh you!"
After the song and the sorting everything was settling back down as Professor Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, stood up.
"Welcome, students, to another fine year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," Dumbledore said with an air of great excitement. "Now, before I let you dive into this wonderful feast prepared for you, I have a few announcements to make. Let me introduce to you, Professor Horace Cope who will be taking over the position of Divination teacher."
There was a polite amount of clapping for the lanky wizard who was sitting at the end of the table. The top of his pointed hat had a star sitting on top of it.
"And also we have Professor Pam Perd who will be filling in the position for Defense Against the Dark Arts," Dumbledore said, indicating to a witch three seats down from himself.
Now, James and the others could sense that this one was going to be quite a handful. She looked down her long pointed nose to the students with the utmost attitude of a snob, they could almost feel it. Her blonde hair was tied into a bun so tightly, it seemed to stretch the skin on her face so tight it was giving her a facelift.
Her pale skin and lots of make-up stood out from the usual clash of casual wear the other teachers were donning.
Her long, red nails gleamed in the candle light and her cold eyes observed the students. Perd's lips were puckered into a permanent look of something sour in her mouth.
Sirius leaned over to James and muttered, "B-I-T-C-H warning."
James smirked and nodded in agreement. Remus silently laughed but stopped once Professor Dumbledore began to speak again.
"Now! Before I keep you any longer, your feast!"
The golden plates in front of them filled magically and their goblets full of pumpkin juice.
The Great Hall burst into a fit of loud talking and laughing as people began to relax back into the rhythm of being back at school.
"Hey, Remus," Sirius said, through a mouthful of pie that the girl just fed him from her own fork, "You're not talking much. You feeling alright?"
"Not really," Remus said, shuffling his mashed potatoes around his plate. "It's almost time."
Immediately, they all knew what he meant. "Oh right," said Sirius swallowing.
"Hey, Lily?" James asked. "Can you go see what Professor McGonagall wants us to do for the first week? I know that she always has stuff for us to do." James and Lily were both Head Boy and Girl.
"Right," said Lily suspiciously. She got up and left the group to talk with each other.
Sirius pushed the girl's fork away and leaned in to Remus, "How long?"
"Four days," Remus said, closing his book.
"Excellent!" Sirius said, grinning.
"Yeah, for you maybe," Remus shot back.
"Sorry," Sirius replied.
"Nah, it's alright. I'll see you guys upstairs, alright? I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight." Remus got up and headed out of the Great Hall with a silent wave.
James watched after him and said, "He does look sick…. I'll probably sneak out tonight and grab him a Butterbeer or something. Maybe even some Chocolate Frogs."
"Yeah, I'll come too. I need to stock up on some Sugar Quills while we're there," Sirius added. "You coming too, Wormtail?"
"Not tonight, I think I'll go to bed too. I'm pretty sure I forgot some things at home… I need to write to Mum to fly them out," Peter said.
"Are you sure you're not just sneaking out to snog some broad from Manchester! Eh? Eh?" Sirius asked, poking him in the arm from across the table.
"I'm not!" Peter said, growing red in the face.
"You are!" Sirius said, his eyes gleaming. "You dog!"
Peter slowly grinned and said, "Well, there is this one girl…"
"HA! I knew it!" Sirius said, slamming his fist into the table, making his spoon fly into the air.
Lily came back to the table and sat next to James again, catching Sirius's spoon in her hand.
James smiled and waved his hand nonchalantly at Peter, "Well, fine. Go. Snog your girlfriend. Betray your friends when you're needed most."
Peter flushed again, "I'd never do that! You guys know that!"
"What? Peter's got a girlfriend?" Lily asked, grinning.
"Yeah! And he's leaving his friends to go over to the Dark Side!" Sirius called, pointing his finger accusingly at him.
Peter rolled his eyes and said, "I'm going up, too. See you guys later."
Sirius cuffed his hands around his mouth and called after Peter, "Make sure you say hi to snooky for us, will you!"
Once Peter had disappeared into the Entrance Hall, Lily asked, "So that was the reason why you made me conveniently miss out on your little secret society conversation?"
"No, it's just… It's a secret," James whispered.
"Right, secret…" Lily said slowly, eyebrows raised.
Sirius turned to his bench buddy (a.k.a. the girl sitting next to him) and said, "Now. Where were we?"
Sometime after Dumbledore made his final speech and sent everyone off to bed, Lily, James and Sirius walked back up to the Gryffindor common room. James and Lily held hands as Sirius rested his own on top of his head looking satisfied.
"That was good," Sirius said, stretching.
"What dinner? Or the fact that you're planning to go snogging that girl after classes tomorrow?"
"Both," Sirius said with a sly grin.
Suddenly, Nearly Headless Nick came floating through a door which Sirius was walking past and fazed right through him.
Yelling and jumping out of the way, Sirius whipped around, "Holy—chocolate starfish!" Sirius caught himself from swearing in front of Lily. "Nice to see you though, Nick!"
"As well to you, Black," Nick said, bowing his head slightly.
They continued their trek up to the common room and through the Fat Lady portrait.
Lily and James stopped at the base of the dormitory stairs to kiss each other good night as Sirius took the stairs two at a time.
"No more secrets from now on, right?" asked Lily. She kissed him and then peeled away again, "Right?"
"Right," said James, smiling down at her. "G'night."
James watched Lily walk up the stairs to her dorm and heard Sirius come down their own with a silvery thing in hand. "Got the invisibility cloak. Ready to go?"
James nodded, smiling and the both ducked underneath the cloak, the Marauder's Map in hand.
Sirius is quickly becoming my favorite character even more than before! Remember, the more you review, the more I write! Come on people! Work with me here! Once I get some free time from school and soccer, I'll try and get more chapters up.