A/n: Really, really sorry guys. So much stuff going on. 'Tis craziness. Thank you to my faithful readers and reviewers. You guys rock my socks! Let's see, who gets cookies?

YOU ALL GET COOKIES! tosses out cookies to all her reviewers before slipping a couple extra to The Marauders3 and Merikins

For the movie, I am most looking forward to seeing Remus (duh). Have any of you seen movie stills of him? HE HAS A MOUSTACHE! rips the damned thing off Clean-shaven Remus.

Special cookies to Mer for writing the first part of this. Where would I be without you?

Slightly less insane.

But only slightly.

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James was in a particularly foul mood from the previous night. Professor McGonagall had given him a detention for the upcoming weekend, ruining his plans of trying to think up some brilliant plot against Sirius Black. He sat on his stool glaring in turn at Lily Evans for telling the Head Boy, at Sirius Black for existing, at Megan Jacobson for being related to the Head Boy, at Peter for not surrendering his essay quietly, the previous night, and back at Sirius. In other words, he was mad at everyone around him.

Lily and Sirius walked into the dungeon and took their seats moments before the bell rang, signaling for class to begin. The Slytherins were all already in their seats, relaxed for class while the Gryffindors sat nervously, occasionally glancing at the Slytherins as if they were about to do something dangerous.

BANG!

A door near the front of the classroom swung open and in swept Professor Arlington. She was an older woman, along the lines of eighty. Her curly, snow-white hair was clipped short and a veil of bangs fell into her violet eyes.

"Class, pull out your essays which were due today," she said, her voice crisp yet quiet. The room was soon filled with the sound of rustling parchment as each Gryffindor with the exception of James, pulled out their homework. The Slytherins sat, each with almost a bored expression upon their face, and waited for their teacher's next command as their essays were already out and ready to be passed in.

"Mr. Potter, where may I ask is your homework?" Professor Arlington asked in a cool voice.

"Don't have it," he responded moodily.

"You don't have it," the professor repeated. "And why not? I believe I clearly stated that these essays were due 'next Thursday', which coincidentally is today."

"I forgot," James said.

"I see... See me after class, Mr. Potter," Professor Arlington instructed before collecting the papers. "Class, today you will be working in groups to make the potion that is up on the board. The instructions are all there and ingredients are in the student cupboard. You should have no problem brewing this. I'm putting you in groups to so you can help each other and hopefully catch each other's mistakes before things get too out of hand," she said glancing at Peter. "You'll be put in groups of three. I'm only going to announce these groups once so listen up.

"Chen, Valencia, and Potter."

"Crabbe, Larson, and Wilson."

"Kilrain, Jacobson, and Pettigrew."

"Malfoy, Black, and Lupin."

"Snape, Evans, and Walker. That's all of you lot. Now get to work!"

A half an hour later the groups were not doing so well. Lucius and Sirius stood, practically nose-to-nose almost on the brink of yelling. The third member of their group, Remus sat and was actually still working on the potion, ignoring the other two. Rian Kilrain was sitting on his stool with a leering look on his face as he eyed his group mates, particularly Megan. Peter was no help to Megan as she tried to brew the potion and was literally trembling under Rian's glare.

"Peter, just ignore him. If he's not going to help us then ignore him and help me with the potion," Megan said softly. Peter didn't respond

Gwen and Melissa weren't even paying attention to their potion. They sat there gossiping about the latest trends and fashions. Simon Crabbe seemed to be listening to their conversation with slight interest.

"Listen Potter! We don't want to listen to you and your ego. So shut up about yourself and help with the potion!" Meredith Chen was yelling at James. His eyes bugged slightly at the thought of someone dared to speak to him in such a manner but the Slytherin continued before he could speak. "I don't care if you're the Minister of Magic himself, you need to shut up! Honestly, you've got an ego twice the size of this castle."

"A Slytherin dares to talk to me like that?!" James was outraged.

"That's right! A Slytherin! And I bet the fact that I'm a girl makes you even more pi-"

"Meredith," a low, steady voice broke in. The arguing pair looked over to their other partner, Nicole Valencia. "Just drop it. Obviously this prat must vent his moodiness upon someone. We're just the ones around instead of the usual pathetic group of Gryffindors."

James opened his mouth to respond but was interrupted by the noise of a cauldron hitting the stone floor. Sirius had gotten tired of Malfoy's talking and threw his cauldron at his head.

"Mr. Black!" the professor cried, storming over to the table. "What in Merlin's name did you do that for?" Sirius shrugged and lightly nudged the now-unconscious body of Lucius Malfoy with his foot.

"Boy's a git," he replied.

"TWENTY POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!" the professor roared. A few people gasped. Remus fell off his stool and Peter dropped the potion.

"Oh no," Megan mumbled, bending down and starting to clean it up. The professor grabbed Sirius by the ear and dragged him out of the class.

"I will not tolerate violence in my classroom," she said. She sat him outside the door of the classroom. "Stay here until the end of class. Then we will discuss your punishment." She strolled back into the classroom.

"Please forgive me for my outburst," Professor Arlington said, smoothing back a strand of hair. She spotted Megan and Peter on the floor frantically trying to clean up the contents of their potion. The professor waved her wand and it instantly cleaned up.

"No need to worry about that dears," she said. "We were just practicing today. It won't count for points." She sighed. "Everyone clean up! I must attend to Mr. Malfoy here." Lily quickly rinsed out her cauldron and gathered her things.

"Oh! Sorry!" she exclaimed after she bumped into her bespectacled roommate.

"It's okay," Megan replied, looking at the ground and adjusting her glasses.

"Hey!" a voice called. Megan and Lily turned to see the tall, burly, black-haired Slytherin boy. He stalked towards Megan. Megan's eyes widened to the size of saucers and she took a step back, trembling violently.

"You forgot this," Rian said softly, holding out a quill. Megan slowly reached out a hand and took it from him.

"T-t-thank you," she stuttered.

"Anytime," the boy replied, moving past the girls. Lily poked Megan.

"You can stop shaking now," she said. "He's gone." Megan squeaked and jumped at being poked.

"Oh . . . yes . . . sorry. I suppose I was just a little frightened," she mumbled, making her way past Lily and joining up with the brown haired boy Lily recognized as Remus.

"Strange girl," Lily said to herself before leaving the classroom.

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"FLYING!" someone screamed. Lily's head snapped to see James Potter staring wide-eyed at a piece of paper on the common room bulletin board. "WE'RE HAVING FLYING LESSONS!"

"No way!" Sirius cried, shoving James out of the way so he could look at the paper. "We are! I am the best flyer in the world!"

"You are not," James replied. "I am."

"Are not," Sirius retorted.

"Are too."

"Are not."

"Are too."

"Are not not not."

"Are too too too too."

"Are not not not not no-"

"Will you two please be quiet?" Lily cried. "Honestly, I can't even think with you two arguing."

"Sorry Lils," Sirius said. James merely rolled his eyes.

"Whatever. I'm still the best flyer," he said as he walked out of the room. Sirius narrowed his eyes and levitated a large book towards James.

"Sirius, you've already gotten detention for knocking out one person today," Lily said. "Do you really want another?" The book dropped with a loud clunk.

"Can you believe it?!" Sirius cried. "They're making me do my detention with Potter!" Lily raised an eyebrow.

"Wow Sirius, you two fight all the time. What reason could they possibly have for doing that?" Lily asked, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Shut up, Lily."

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A/n: Terribly short, I know. But at least it's something. Sorry for this taking AGES to do but it's the usual excuse: Homework, FFA, homework, choir, homework, tests, laziness, homework, lack of creativity, and did I mention . . . homework?

But as of right now, there are only 14 SCHOOL DAYS LEFT.

That's right: 14.

Anyway, the question for the reviewers, which will be in capital letters to attract your attention:

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOMENT IN THE BOOKS SO FAR? THIS CAN BE FROM ANY BOOK. LIST AS MANY AS YOU WANT. THE MORE YOU LIST, THE MORE I FEEL LIKE WRITING.

Anyway . . . who knows when the next one will come out? sighs I promise this'll get going eventually.