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AN: Thank you for all the great reviews. We are already halfway through with the next chapter so it should be up fairly soon (-hopes-). Here's an excerpt from the last chapter to get us back on track. Oh, and one more thing… You may want to reread this chapter when your done with it, because there are some parts that are very confusing with so many characters and so much dialogue (and some time lapses).

!PREVIOUS CHAPTER: SNAPE!

"Was there anything else you wanted to address?" Black asked.

Severus looked at the convict, curiously, "Not particularly, no. I suppose I'll leave now."

As he turned, his cloak billowing after him, he added, "By the way, your trial will be held in almost a week."

Black choked and coughed, "W-what?"

But Severus had already swept from the passageway, pleased with his achievement.

!SIRIUS!

"Did he just say trial?"

'Yup. That's what I heard,' James told Sirius.

"I'm gonna get a trial! Now!"

'I'm guessing that Lupin had something to do with it.'

"Well, I'll just not get my hopes up quite yet."

'Er… I'm going to find Remus… just a moment…'

The picture in the puddle cleared and showed the figure of Remus Lupin pacing the halls of Hogwarts.

As James pulled the picture closer, he and Sirius heard Remus say, "…that I have any idea! If he's not in their holding cell, then I don't know where he is!"

There was a pause.

"Well, neither do I."

'Who is he talking to?' James wondered.

"Apparently, it's the same person he was talking to before," Sirius replied.

Remus spoke again, "No, they aren't! Not even the Ministry is helping!"

"The Ministry?" wondered Sirius, "Do you think this has anything to do with his condition?"

'Nah, probably not.'

"Well then, what is he talking about? And to Lily, or who!"

'That is the question, isn't it, Sirius?' James replied, "Only with better grammar, you know. Whom, isn't it?"

"No, I can't, Lily, Dumbledore told me not to do anything rash. As if I would go gallivanting off chasing phantoms."

James and Sirius were silent, waiting for Remus to speak again.

"I know, Lily… it's an expression!" Remus snapped, "I know phantoms only live in towns inhabited by vampires!

"Now, stop that right now! You're beginning to sound like Sirius," Remus told himself.

"Hey, I resemble that remark!"

'I don't think he meant that he was going insane, Padfoot.'

"Did I say that I thought that he thought that he was going insane? No!"

'Now, stop that before either one of us ends up more confused than Gertrude Abbott.'

"Aww, James, she wasn't that bad!"

The puddle spit a shoot of water at Sirius.

Remus let out a laugh that startled both James and Sirius, "I don't know what to do with myself, Lily!"

There was silence.

'D-did Mooney just say… Lily?'

Sirius didn't answer.

'I mean, I wasn't imagining it before, was I?'

"Nope. Don't think so, Prongs. I think Snape was right."

'For once. Bloody Hell.'

"I am not going to talk to Dumbledore a third time, Lily. He can't do anything for me. Only for Sirius."

Said convict felt hope raze his mind.

!HARRY!

The entire first-year boys' dormitory awoke a few days later to the sound of Oliver Wood's loud voice.

"POTTER!"

Harry, remembering that the first Quidditch game was today, couldn't help but groan. Why were Quidditch games so early in the morning?

Uh-oh! Harry sat straight up in bed. Quidditch game?

He had forgotten that part! First Quidditch game of the year and the first Quidditch game of his life.

Dashing from the warmth and comfort of his bed, Harry pulled on his Quidditch robes.

!SIRIUS AND JAMES!

"Quidditch, eh?"

'Of course, Sirius, what'd you expect him to do, sit in the stands?'

"Well, he is only a first-year, just now."

'But he's my son!'

"Yes. And in our first year, you sat in the stands, along with everybody else!"

'See, I told you that Lily couldn't be all bad at Quidditch!'

"Alright, fine," Sirius yielded as they watched Harry fidget nervously in the locker room.

!LILY AND REMUS!

'You know, I wasn't really bad at quidditch myself,' said Lily's voice inside Remus' head.

Remus chuckled, 'I wonder what James and Sirius would say if you told them that. All through school you acted as if you hated the game.'

'Well, I thought it quite pointless and rather dangerous when I was younger. Eventually I grew to like it, but I continued to act as if I hated it because James liked it so much.'

Remus laughed again as he watched Harry do a sort of loop-the-loop when some Gryffindor chaser made a goal.

!SIRIUS AND JAMES!

"Dodge it! Dodge it! Get out of the way, Harry!" Sirius yelled, as a bludger came pelting Harry's way.

'Just lean a bit to the side, Harry! It'll go right past you!' James advised, attentively.

Harry inadvertently took James's advise.

"Yes! Nice save, there. Those twins are bloody brilliant!"

A while later, Sirius and James still shouting advise to every Gryffindor player on the field, Harry got to do something more interesting than watch the air. Sirius and James fell silent as an elated look grew on Harry's face.

'Ha, he's spotted the snitch!' James said, triumphantly.

"Go Harry, you can do it!" Sirius called as Harry sped through the air. Before getting too close to the snitch, Harry got a startled look. James recognized what was happening right away.

'The broom's gone haywire: it's been tampered with. Brooms like that don't just decide that they don't like their riders… particularly not my son!'

"What is going on!" Sirius yelled in outrage.

'I don't know, but Remus had better do something about it!'

!REMUS AND LILY!

'What should I do, Lily!' Remus asked, frantically.

'Well, it's obviously a jinx,' Lily replied quickly, yet somehow calmly.

'Yes and you were the one who knew this stuff best back in school… I don't pretend to have learned all that much more!' Remus thought.

'Yes, but I'm not sure just what jinx this is!' Lily replied desperately, 'It looks like something that I read about once, but…' Lily let out a frustrated, mental-scream, which Remus would later wonder about.

'Is it a Dark one or just a really powerful one… with a powerful caster…?' Remus wondered, trying to prompt Lily's memory.

'Erm… I don't think it's very well known, so probably the only people who know it are into the Dark Arts,' Lily guessed, 'As I said, it isn't something that we learned in the basics of any of the classes I took.'

'Well, do you know the counter-curse?' Remus asked hysterically.

'No! I… can't remem-' Lily was cut off when there was a sharp pain in the small of Remus' back and said werewolf went flying forward and hit the ground painfully, before losing consciousness.

!JAMES & SIRIUS!

James had somehow managed to move the view in the puddle to such an angle that he and Sirius could see both Remus and Harry at once. Both prisoners, for that's what they were despite their interesting and thrilling stay in the prison, watched anxiously as Harry got closer to the ground and lost his grip on the broom. He was now holding on by one hand.

Suddenly, a streak of brown hair shot across their puddle. An elbow caught Remus in the small of his back, and he was propelled off the bench and onto the ground with a hard smash. Sirius saw a small trickle of blood appear from his head.

"WHO DID THAT!" Sirius roared in outrage. "FIND THAT GIRL, PRONGS!"

James followed that girl and, seeing that Hermione was on her way to do something dangerous with that wand of hers, quickly spun around until he got an angle where they could see who she was planning on attacking.

"Snape? Why that evil, vile, despicable, wicked, malevolent, degraded," Sirius ranted, "He's trying to kill your kid!"

'Sirius,' James scolded, 'Snape isn't evil. You should know that.'

"So! I still hate the guy! Curse him, Hermione!"

'Sirius, Snape is the only one keeping Harry from hitting the ground!'

"Oh, Merlin, you're right!" Sirius realized, "NO, HERMIONE, DON'T DO IT!"

Unfortunately, Hermione did it. Blue fire sprung from the end of her wand and settled itself on Snape's robes. Sirius and James held their breath, but Snape didn't notice the fire until half a minute had gone by. When he did notice, Hermione scooped up the fire and started to run back to her seat. Harry's broom started to buck harder without the help of Snape's counter curse.

Harry desperately struggled to gain control of the broom while hanging underneath it, but didn't manage a thing. As Hermione was passing Professor Sinistra, she looked up and saw what was happening. She gasped and looked back at Professor Snape. He was no longer muttering, but he was looking intently at Harry.

Hermione suddenly realized her mistake: Snape hadn't been trying to kill Harry… someone else had been.

Searching around wildly, Hermione only spotted worried teachers. She doubled back and looked on the other side of Snape. To her surprise, she saw Remus Lupin sitting on the ground, grumbling to himself and holding his sleeve to his head where it was bleeding.

Seeing nothing else to do, she slipped under the seats and stood next to Lupin.

"Did I knock you down?" she asked, worriedly.

"Oh, you may have," Remus replied dismissively, levering himself up and searching frantically across the field.

Hermione glanced back at her Potion's Professor and saw that he had resumed his counter-jinx. She looked at Remus Lupin and found that he too had started chanting.

She was unable to make out the words, but he sounded eerie.

!END CHAPTER!

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