Two weeks had passed since that first day and still everything was the same. James was getting his heart broken by Lily on a daily basis, Sirius was eating back the pounds he'd lost during the summer, Molly was desperately trying to do well in potions by following Professor Slughorn around all day asking for tips, Remus had read through 5 of the 20 books he'd brought with him, and Peter, well… Peter had not been seen much during these past two weeks.

Peter had been seen to secretly slip of when everyone else were distracted or he'd just use phrases such as "I need to go to the bathroom" or "I need to go to the library".

Molly Peter

"Hey I'll go with you" Molly stood up from the couch and picked up her bag "I need to finish my dementor essay anyway"

"Um…I…on second thought…" Peter started.

"Come on lets go" Molly linked arms with Peter and pulled him out of the portrait hole.

As they walked down the familiar path to the library, Molly turned to Peter and asked:

"So, how far have you gotten?"

"I…um…I haven't started yet" mumbled Peter.

"Great! Me neither!" smiled Molly, she was actually proud of how well she was doing in Defense against the Dark Arts.

When they arrived at the library Peter told Molly that he would catch up with her inside because he needed to go to the bathroom.

Molly Regulus

As Molly was sitting in there waiting for Peter, she was watching the other students who were spending their Saturday morning in the library. There was Denny Cleave, the 4th year who absolutely envied the Marauders; he had gotten to the habit of hanging out in the library. At the book shelf closes to Molly, Stanley Cutte was reading a book on werewolves and at the table farthest from hers Lucius and Narcissa was sitting, studying. At the table across from hers, a group of 5th year girls, including Joan Villings, Katti Finglsley and Daniela Pedron, were whispering hastily and giggling. At this Molly smiled, she had too been like that in her 2nd year, before she had met Lily.

It was during a potions lesson in her 3rd year. She had been called to the front of the class because she had accidentally knocked over her cauldron causing the potion inside to burn a hole in the wooden desk. As Slughorn had been scolding her and Molly had been so close to breaking down and crying before the whole class when Lily had stood up and had taken the blame for her. Usually he would yell at the student but because Lily was Slughorn's favorite student he had said:

"That's alright dear, it's a one time mistake" Slughorn smiled at Lily and then turned back to face Molly again and said "Now you'll clean up Lily's mess, right?"

"Yes Professor" mumbled Molly whose eyes were still filled with tears.

After class when Molly had finished cleaning up her mess, she left the potions room, outside which Lily had been waiting for her and ever since they had been best friends.

When Molly had been sitting in the library for over 30 minutes she was getting annoyed with Peter. She gathered up all her parchments and her books and stuffed them in her bag and started walking towards the exit. As she turned the corner of one of the bookshelves she accidentally bumped into someone coming from the other direction. She dropped all her books and slowly bent down to pick them up. At the same time the dark figure of Regulus Black bent down to help her.

"I'm so sorry" he mumbled.

"It's ok Sirius" whispered Molly.

"Oh…I'm not Sirius" Molly looked up. Her face was inches away from Regulus' and as he looked her deep in the eyes he started blushing and hurriedly looked back down again.

"Oh I'm sorry" Molly said as she stood up quickly almost bumping into Regulus once more.

"Here you go" he said as he handed her books back to her. Molly took the books and quickly mumbled a short apology and hurried from the scene.

Regulus was left staring at the back of her head as she walked out the library doors. He shook it off and walked back to the table he came from where Lucius was sitting staring at him with those cold grey eyes.

"Is there something you'd like to tell me?"

Sirius James

Sirius and James were sitting outside under the big oak tree by the lake, James was playing with his stolen snitch and Sirius was lying on the ground braiding his own hair.

"You know what I thought about?" James held the snitch tightly in his fist as he turned to Sirius who had stopped braiding his hair.

"What mate?" said James.

"You know that Voldemort?" the expression on Sirius' face showed fear.

"Of course I know 'that Voldemort', he's the guy my parents are fighting against…anyway, what about him?" said James looking at Sirius with a serious expression on his face.

"Aren't you scared something might happen to your parents?"

"Mate, they're the best damn aurors except for Moody who, face it, is a little bit crazy…you can't seriously think that something is going to happen to them?" James laughed at the thought.

"So you never…worry?" Sirius looked oddly serious.

"Mate, you don't need to worry" James went back to playing with his snitch and making glances at Lily who was sitting with Remus, working on their dementor essay. Sirius lay back down and started braiding his hair at a new.

What they didn't know that in the distance, a black owl, was making its way towards two untroubled 6th years boys under the big oak tree.