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Chapter 4
Janet Regnald sat down in the Great Hall, next to her boyfriend, Frank Longbottom. "You'll never guess what I heard…" It took nearly all 'Frank's self control to not sigh at this point. Why was he dating her again? Oh yeah, cause Alice set them up. And he'd do anything for her. Even date this bore.
He turned back to the girl. "… And then Lily Evan's agreed to go to the ball with … get this … Severus Snape!" Well that was worth tuning in for, Frank thought as he half-listened to Janet tell him she was off to Divination. Very worth while.
Frank bumped into Remus outside Arithmancy. "Hey Remus, how's your mum?" Remus had been off last lesson to visit his sick mother, poor thing.
"Much better," Remus replied, feeling slightly guilty that he had to lie to so many people.
"Listen," Frank was putting his bag in the desk next to Remus'. They had no other friends in the class so they generally stuck together. "You know I'm dating Janet Regnold…"
"Why on Earth are you dating her?" Remus knew of the Hogwarts rumour mill. He'd been on a date with her once, Sirius thought Remus needed a date, and he'd never wish the experience on anyone else.
"Alice," was Frank's lovelorn response.
"Ahh," grinned Remus knowingly. "You do realise that if she asked you to jump off a cliff you'd do it?"
"Look," Frank blushed. "That's beside the point. Any way, this morning she was going on about who's taking who to the ball, and guess who she said is going together… Snape and Evans!"
Remus paled. "Severus Snape and Lily Evans?" At Frank's nod he paled even more. "James is going to flip."
Sirius was waiting for Remus outside Muggle Studies. All four marauders had originally taken the class, but Peter had to drop it because of problems he was having with the homework. James then dropped it when Lily did, at the end of the fourth year.
Remus finally appeared, looking decidedly pale and sickly. "What the hell happened mate?" Sirius was worried. Remus had only looked like this once before, when he'd thought the guys were going to abandon him because they found out he was a werewolf.
"Snape … Evans … ball … partners … James" After that Remus let out an impressive string of curse words, half of which Sirius didn't even know!
"What!"
"Snape is taking Evans to the ball." And with that, Remus fainted. Sirius soon followed suit.
They were found several minutes later by a shocked Professor McGonagall who levitated them to the hospital wing.
A couple of hours later, James and Peter turned up, curios as to why the two had suddenly ended up in the hospital wing from fainting. They were both presently asleep, but a quick Aguamenti soon fixed that.
After a lot of spluttering and curses, a surprising amount coming from the 'sensible' marauder, they got to the point of the matter.
"So why did you faint?" Peter asked curious as anything (A/N I won't make him appear too much, so when he does, I won't make him appear too bad.)
"Evans has a date for the ball," Remus finally managed to get out.
"And?" James pushed. Surely it wasn't that surprising. He had a date with a Ravenclaw called Amelia Bones. Nice girl, but a bit boring he felt.
"It's Snape!" Sirius yelled, causing the other two marauders to faint. All four marauders were in the hospital wing that night.