She stormed off, tears brimming. She knew that James could be cruel but she didn't know that he could be so heartless! She ran into the Great Hall and sat down and she turned to Carolyn and snapped.

"You can do it yourself."

"What happened?" They asked

Hannah shook her head; she didn't even want to think about what he had just said without explaining.

"He's a heartless so of a b----!" She muttered to herself.

Sirius, Remus and Peter had just noticed that she was there and they saw that she had tears trickling down her face.

"What's James said?" Sirius asked

She sniffed

"How do you know that it has anything to do with James?" She asked

"Don't take a genius to work it out."

"You do realise that you just called yourself an idiot." Lily laughed

Sirius blushed slightly but shrugged it off.

"What did he say?" Sirius repeated

"I don't want to say." She muttered

"That bad?" Sirius asked, "Cause you never not say anything unless it's really, really bad."

"It's nothing." Hannah said

"You're a bad liar you know that Han." Lily and Clare said "Now what did he say?"

Tears fell down her face.

"Don't make me use magic on you." Remus muttered

"You wouldn't?"

"I would, if you don't tell."

Hannah sighed

"I asked him if he would ask Carolyn out and he said he'd do it on one of two conditions."

What were they?"

"Either I split up with Remus or I stopped Lily and Sirius from going out together."

Sirius looked like he would explode

"Where is he?" He bellowed

"Don't go after him Sirius!" She warned, "I can fight my own battles!"

The whole school had gone quiet and someone dared to whisper "Lovers tiff.".

There were a few giggles, Sirius had his fists clenched – the joke about him and Hannah being "an item" had gone on long enough. He hated people would still think it after four or five years. The other three girls and the marauders knew that it wasn't true but none of them could escape the giggling, the whispers and the questions asked and the comments remarked.

"Don't rise to it." Lily whispered to Sirius "It'll only make it worse."

One Slytherin walked past commented

"Having another little tiff are we?"

There was anger written all over Sirius' face, he desperately wanted to hit him but he did what Lily told him to do and didn't rise to it. And anyway he was on the Slytherin Quidditch team so there was always then to take revenge out.

He added

"Well if you don't want her then I'll have her."

Bam

Sirius punched him. The hall went quiet for a few moments and then everyone erupted into whispers. He left almost at once. He couldn't take it anymore. The hall was still immense with whispering. The others didn't know what to think of the events few moments previously.

"Why have I got a bad feeling about this?" Lily asked

"I don't know." Clare and Hannah muttered in reply "But so do I."

"You wouldn't have done it would you?" Remus asked Hannah

"Do what?"

"Do what James asked." Remus said

"Of course not!" Hannah retorted, "What do you take me for?"

"I just had to ask." He explained

"Well I wouldn't!" Hannah said "I mean Lily is my best friend, Sirius is… y'know," (She didn't want anyone else apart from the marauders, Clare, Carolyn and Lily to know) "and you're my fiancé and I love you."

"Come on." Lily said, after a few moments of an awkward silence "We got lessons."

"Why give us lessons on the first day back?" Peter asked

"Because they're evil that's why." Carolyn said, "What have we got anyway?"

"Double potions!" Remus answered looking at his timetable. "With Slytherin!"

"This day just gets better and better doesn't it?" Hannah sighed

"You'd of thought they would have learned not to give us double potions with the Slytherin's by now wouldn't you?" Clare stated.

They all sighed heavily.

"We got that new Potions teacher anyway." Hannah said "He might actually teach us something."

Everyone looked at her

"Compared to last year." She added

They all shook their heads. Last year had been a total disaster as far as Potions was concerned. They had had a new teacher that year and he had hardly taught them a thing. He had been a pushover and you basically did what you wanted to in the lesson – which included on pranking and almost torturing the poor man.

"Oh that was a fun year!" Lily laughed "Remember when he caught you and Remus kissing at the back of the class and threatened to send you to McGonagoll and you retorted with some weird but hilarious comment?"

"Oh my god, yeah."

"When did this happen?" Peter asked

"You were in the hospital wing." Remus said

"Oh right."

"I hope Sirius hasn't done something he's gonna regret." Lily said suddenly

"Me too."

"Me three!"

They arrived at the dungeon and saw their new potions teacher who was no other than…