Chapter 2

I was sitting in Potions next to Claudia and Ellie. Jess was next to Katherine and Emma was sitting with Cameron and his Ravenclaw friends.

Behind me where the Marauders. Laughing at their latest idea to sabotage Snape's life. Sometimes I felt sorry for him.

'What is it m'dear?' Slughorn asked me, I had my hand up, ready to ask a question about Veritaserum.

'Why do we make it?' I asked. People sniggered around me, especially the people behind me.

'What do you mean? It's so people tell the truth,' he answered.

'Yes but isn't it an invasion of our privacy? Why don't they trust us?'

'Oh, they don't use it here, in the castle. We use it on criminals and people like that who we want the truth from,' he explained.

I nodded. The subtle laughing had worn off and people had gone back to making their potions.

'Bye Cameron,' Emma said happily to her boyfriend, he had brown hair and green eyes. He was in Ravenclaw and was the seeker.

He kissed her goodbye and we went our separate ways to different common rooms.

'Watch out, a green Snivelly is coming this way!' James shouted, warning us.

'It's the boogie monster,' we heard Sirius yell from downstairs, people laughed.

'Go to go,' he shouted, Snape was probably catching up to him.

When we first saw him it took me a while to realise what they had done. Green slime covered him from head to toe and a permanent sign saying "Run, I sneezed and all this came out, can you help wipe it off?"

I burst out laughing, so did everyone else, it was so the best one yet, well maybe not. Maybe for this year it's their best, and considering it's the first one, it has to be.

'Quidditch try-out's on Saturday,' James told us.

I made a weird noise that sounded like "yeah right."

'Come on Lils, you should try out, you could make a great beater,' said James.

'Yeah, right,' I said.

He got up, completely ignoring the comment I made.

Jesse sped into the room, knocking over a couple of second years. 'I'm trying out!' she shouted.

'Well of course you are, you're my best player, why would I knock you off the team?'

Jess laughed, 'thanks.'

Sirius coughed loudly and James turned around. 'Yes?'

'The best player?'

'The best female player,' explained James. He turned around and winked at Jesse.

I ate my breakfast while listening to Emma and Jesse argue, again.

'No! Hamish is really cute, you don't understand,' Emma argued.

'Just as cute as Gary?'

'You could say . . . hey! Don't be rude to Gary and Hamish.'

'I'm so sorry, please forgive me.'

'And next year Hamish is going to be on Rove,' she said excitedly.

'That definitely settles it,' Jesse said, trying to be serious, and she would have succeeded if she didn't have a certain tone in her voice. 'Hamish must be cute if he's on Rove.'

I chocked on my cereal. You should never eat something while Jess is talking.

'You're so mean,' Emma said.

'No, I was being serious,' she coughed.

'Haha, very funny. You've never seen him.'

'I am muggle born, he's a muggle too, you know,' she said.

'Right . . . then do you listen to him on radio?'

'Yeah . . . sure,' she said uneasily.

'See! You don't know who I'm talking about.'

'Wait, this isn't Hamish Blake is it? And he's a comedian.'

'Yeah, why?'

'He's on Spicks and Specks,' Jess said.

'Yeah! Do you watch it?'

'Yes, do you?'

'No.'

'Oh,' said Jess. 'He's really old.'

'He's only eight years older than me,' she said happily.

'You know, you're right. You two should get married.'

She giggled excitedly and blushed.

'Note the sarcasm, Em,' she laughed.

James and Sirius sat down next to Emma.

I laughed at Sirius and he just mouthed something at me, I couldn't work out what it was.

'What happened to your face?' Jesse asked, she was about to have a field day.

'Permanent lip stick,' he said.

'That colour really suits you,' Jess said.

I had just taken a bite of my cereal again, but it didn't stay in my mouth long.

'Eww,' said James, trying to get off the cereal on his face.

'Lipstick man and cereal boy. You guys can be on our TV show.'

Lucky I hadn't taken another bite.

Cameron had come over to see what happened.

'You guys look . . . really weird,' he said.

'Thanks Cameron, take Emma and go.'

'Have it your way,' he said, taking her hand and pulling her away.

Ellie went over to the Hufflepuff table to find her boyfriend, Charlie Taylor. A seventh year, who had black hair and blue eyes. He was exceptionally good at Divination. Jess always gave her a hard time about that.

I watched, while Claudia was talking to me, about Gildy. But I didn't want to listen so I watched Ellie, trust me, it was better than watching Sirius get more permanent lipstick on his face and listening to Claudia talk about the best boyfriend in the history of the world. (In her little word he might be.)

Why is she wearing that horrible shade of pink on her lips? She's making Sirius look like, I don't know, a bright pink umbrella?

Anyway, back to Ellie. Yeah, she has a boyfriend, Charlie. Right now we all have boyfriends except me and Jess. She wants to become a great Quidditch player. She never says it in front of Emma though. She doesn't want her to think that she just likes her because of her dad being famous for playing Quidditch.

Emma knows though, she totally understands. She doesn't really talk about her dad. It's more about her family, like the children. It's so sweet; she'll get them ready for their dates and help them with their homework. She'll do anything for them. Even the older ones.

Her oldest sister is Annie and she's the beauty editor in Witch Weekly. So she gets lots of free beauty products.

Her oldest brother is an Auror. He heads the department in looking for wanted criminals. She's very proud of him. Then she has two twin brothers. Nick and Alex. After that she only had younger brothers and sisters.

Her youngest sister is Victoria, then Andrew, then twins: Lauren and Alexandra. Lauren is a prefect and Alexandra is on the Quidditch team.

Jesse, Ellie and I are muggleborn and the rest of us are pure blood. But no one in Gryffindor cares.

Ok, Claudia has finally realised that I was listening to her and is going on about how good friends listen.

'But I don't want to listen to you talking about Gildy,' I explained.

She made a clicking sound with her tongue. That really annoyed me.

'Claud! Stop!' I shouted.

She turned around and started to talk to James, who was already in conversation with Peter about how to get Gretel to notice him.

Claudia turned back around when she realised that he was not going to talk to her.

'Who is Gretel?' she asked me.

'Some girl Peter likes in Hufflepuff,' I explained, trying not to laugh. Jess was the person who told me. She caught him writing her a letter, she said she tried not to laugh at him and point out all his mistakes. She said she was proud of herself when she resisted temptation.

Of course she told everyone she could. Including James and he was now explaining to Peter how to get Gretel to notice him.

'Who was that girl?' Emma asked when Sirius came into the Common Room later that night.

'Which one?' he asked. 'The one from this morning or the one I just did then,' he said happily.

She shook her head. 'Why?' she asked.

'Fun,' he said grinning at her. 'Do you want to have a taste of that fun?'

'Eww, that was the cheesiest pick up line anyone has ever used on me,' she said.

He pretended to be shocked, 'how dare you insult the great Sirius Black.'

'I am sorry your Highness,' she said and bowed.

'I do not forgive easily,' he told her in a posh voice.

'I am terribly sorry for upsetting you,' she said.

He looked at her, thinking what to do. I already thought that they could become good actors but this proved my point.

'You must kiss me,' he said. I laughed and he rephrased it. 'You must kiss me on the cheek.'

She walked up to him, bowing before she left her place and kissed him, on the cheek.

'That's better. Your wish of being forgiven has been granted.'

Jesse had walked in, just in time to hear this comment.

'Good, I really wanted to be forgiven,' she said sarcastically.

'Is any comment you make not sarcastic?' asked Sirius.

'How bout this,' she said, 'when something isn't sarcastic, I'll let you know.'

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