Authors Note : Did you ever wonder what happened to James after Lily had abused him at the lake? Well... In my story, Snape has gotten away because James was somewhat distracted by Lily having just ripped into him... And this is the rest of their story...

"But why would she think I'm conceited?" James asked surprised, still watching after Lily Evans walking back into the castle.

Remus and Sirius laughed at this, but Peter just sat there as if he'd be the one insulted and not James. "Probably 'cause you are a bit Prongs" Remus replied still laughing.

"But that just cause you've got lots to be conceited about" Peter said eagerly. It was as it Peter didn't want to risk James getting upset, and he would say anything to please him again.

"Don't say things like that Peter" Sirius complained with casualness to his voice which still cut straight to the point, "You'll only add to the problem."

"I still say I'm not arrogant" James complained, "And that was damn rude of her to say so"

Sirius and Remus simply looked at each other and shook their heads. Both knew that it would take nothing short of a miracle for James to see to some people he was arrogant. But they knew things about life that James didn't. James' life had always been relatively easy. He came from a wealthy family, who weren't into the Dark Arts, and genuinely loved their son. Everything came easily to him, and he never realised that this wasn't the way for other people.

All the same, the 4 boys were the best of friends. Their one common feature was their sense of humour and their loyalty towards their friends. This was somewhat of legendary around Hogwarts and many said they would be remembered for generations.

The other common factor was that they all had certain areas of magic which they excelled at. Well in truth James and Sirius excelled at most things, but they did each have their special class. For James it was Transfiguation, for Sirius it was Charms, Remus was the best in their year in Defence Against the Dark Arts, and for Peter his best subject was Potions.

James walked back into the castle, not noticing whether or not his friends were behind him. Lily Evans had just embarrassed him in front of most of the school, and worse; in front of his worst enemy, Severous Snape. He'd had a crush of Lily since their 3rd year, and it was somewhat common knowledge, but no girl was worth it. Particular if she could stomp on a guys pride the way she just had his. "I'm over her" he thought to himself as he walked into the Gryffindor common room, "She's too arrogant". James' laughed slightly to himself as he realised that this was what she'd said about him. He realised that he wasn't over her, and he suspected that he wouldn't be for quiet a long time.

Luckily for James, they had nearly finished their OWLS, and the end of year break was only a matter of days away. This meant that there wouldn't be too much time for people to tease him about what Lily had said. It also meant that they all had the break to forget about it, so the following year wouldn't be too painful for him.

This break would also leave time for James to think about what it was about him that came off as being arrogant to Lily. It was this that James was thinking while he was storming around his dorm room throwing random things at the wall. Lupin walked in, and had to duck away from a shoe that had been aimed above the door he'd walked through.

"Bit upset Prongs?" he laughed.

"Wouldn't you be?" James exploded, "She said she'd prefer to go out with the giant squid than me!"

"Obviously she's not afraid of dates that are all arms" Remus gibed.

"It's not funny Moony!" James sulked as he sat back down on his bed. Remus went to his own bed, and started to gather up James things that had been thrown there. There were books, quills and shoes all through out the room. Remus gathered it all with a simple charm, and placed it all back in James' area.

"And apparently she didn't think what you and Padfoot were doing to Snape was funny" Remus replied reasonably.

"But it was just harmless fun"

"Not if you were in Snape's shoes"

"Prongs wouldn't be able to wear Snape's shoes; he'd slip out of them." Sirius said on entering the room, quickly followed by Peter, "Seriously, there's so much grease in that guys hair, his whole body is slippery"

"Even so" Remus said raising his eye brows in suppressed laughter, "Lily obviously didn't think Snape deserved it"

"But she doesn't know what Snape's done to James" Peter said defensively.

"Do you know what he's done to James?" Remus enquired, "Cause I'm still not too sure what he's done"

"He's always hexing and cursing me" James protested.

"Usually in payback for something you've done to him" Remus laughed.

"Not always" Sirius grinned, "Sometimes it's for what I've done to him"

"But he called her a mudblood" James exploded, "Surely she realises what that means!"

Lupin's eyebrows rose again, "That he uses foul language?"

"That he's a you-know-who supporter!"

Lupin sighed, "That's not what it means Prongs. Not everyone who swears like that is a 'you-know-who' supporter"

"But I bet you he is" Sirius added.

Remus shook his head in defeat, there was no way he'd ever be able to convince his friends that Snape wasn't evil, mostly because he wasn't fully convinced of it himself. In fact Remus had his own hatred of Severous Snape, going back to the night that Snape had discovered that he was a werewolf. Even so, Remus didn't enjoy seeing his friends humiliate anyone the way that they just had Snape. It reminded him too much of the stories that he read in the Daily Prophet about muggle-tortures.

"So are you going to forget all about Miss Evans?" Sirius teased James, "I'll bet you're not smart enough to do that"

James quickly drew his wand, and made one of his shoe's fly at Sirius' head. "I'm smarter than you Padfoot!"

"I've never been shot down like that Prongs" Sirius laughed.

"Only because you don't even notice girls" James said aiming the other shoe at Sirius in quick succession to the other. He managed to hit Sirius with the second one, as he was too busy dodging the first to notice the other one.

"Oww!" Sirius complained, "That hurt"

"Stop it you two" Remus said firmly but still friendly, "We've still got Charms tomorrow, and we'd better get studying"

Sirius and James mumbled some sort of complaint, but it was inaudible to anyone but themselves. They knew that Remus was right, so they gathered up their Charms notes and textbook, and went down to the common room to study. Peter took more time as his area was so messy he had trouble finding anything. The only thing that James thought about as he walked down the stairs was how Lily was great at Charms.