Hello Everyone! Merry Christmassho ho ho!:) I'm here with your present lol.
Here is chapter 4 and Remus too at last! I wasn't planning for him to appear just yet but then some of you asked me were Remus was and I was missing him too so I couldn't resist and made him appear in this chapter which was very difficult to finish by the way as I spenttwo whole days in an airplane, I'm on vacation at my aunt's, it's christmass,all of my aunts and unclestalking and going out fussing about and stuff I haven't had much time or chanceto get tothe computerso I apologyse for not updating in so long time. Oh and almost forgot, please forgive any spelling errors, I did my best not to have them but I know I'm not a 100 expert in english at all and I don't have a spelling corrector in my aun's computer... Sorry!
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Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter.. bummers
Difficult Morning
"Ring!" Was the first sound of next morning.
"Ring!" Sirius groaned.
"You are late!" Someone or rather something shouted, Sirius groaned again.
"Get your ass out of bed!"
"Fuck you" An angry Sirius replied drowsily trying to sleep, he muttered something about his mother.
"Sirius stop fighting with your stupid watch and get up" Came James' voice as he bottoned his shirt, Sirius just groaned again, he turned off his watch before it could say anything else and threw it on a far conner of the room.
"Ok I suppose you would miss breakfeast then" James sang "Don't worry I'll eat for you"
"What? No!" Sirius imidiately got up to dress.
"You never change do you?" James laughed.
"Nope, I'll always love food!" Sirius said, James smiled.
As they finished putting on their robes, they both ran down from the dormitory slamming the door shut.
On the way down to the great hall they found Lily heading to the same place.
"Hi Lily! Are you going for breakfeast?" Sirius said to her as she turned her head to him surprised.
"Um.. To breakfeast? Yeah that's where I'm going"
"We are too! Aren't we James?" Said Sirius the last words from a conner of his mouth, but James was very distracted looking at Lily's emerald green eyes which stood out amazingly with her red hair and Gryffindor tie, Sirius hit him with his elbow hard on the ribs.
"What? Oh we— Oh yeah! We are going to Dinne- I mean to breakfeast too! Care to join us?"
"Sure, why not?" Lily smiled as the three walked jumped and fought the long and tricky stairs to get to the Great Hall.
They sat on the Gryffindor table with everybody else who were busy reading the new schedules.
"What do we have now?" Sirius asked a few minutes later with his mouth full of toasts and pancake.
"Potions" Lily answered putting down her schedule to drink some water.
"Urgh, this is the first day of our first year on September and I'm already thinking about our Christmass vacations" Sirius said gloomily.
"Yeah I know" James said in the same tone.
"Why don't you play one of those pranks you were talking about yesterday, maybe that will cheer the day up a bit" Lily suggested.
"Yeah, I guess that we'll do"
James answered as people began to leave to their first class.
"We should be leaving, we don't want to be late" Lily said taking her bag.
"Yeah. Potions class is down in the dungeons, our cauldrons are stored down there as well right?" James asked Lily.
"Yup" Lily said waving to her friend Jess who was just leaving with her large group of Ravenclaw friends to Charms.
Lily had been a little bit worried about Jess being in a different house from hers, but Lily saw she was happy with her new friends, after all Jess never had difficulties at making friends, so she felt more calm now.
"Hello Ann" Sirius said suddenly as they stood up. Annabelle was just passing by to leave the hall, she jerked her head towards him without a glimpse of sweetness in her cold light blue eyes, she raised an eyebrow to him and turned her head back straight again making her long cape of chocolate brown hair fly with her as she walked, Sirius just followed her with his gray stare confused, Lily giggled.
"You're lucky, I tried 'Annie' last night and she slapped me, it was scary" Came a trembling voice nearby from a chubby a short blond boy.
"Who are you anyway?" Sirius said as he saw who was speaking in a rather cruel way as he scowled at the boy.
"Peter, Peter Pettigrew y-you?" He answered scared, there was no reply from Sirius.
"Well nice to meet you Peter! I'm James and this are Lily and Sirius" James replied instead breaking the ice cheerfully reaching for Peter's hand shaking it vigorously making his round black glasses fall.
"I'll get them" Lily said as she knealed down to get them, so did James distracted and without meaning to they touched hands sending chills up them both.
They blushed furiously and immidiately stood up again.
Looking away from him, Lily handed him the glasses with the tip of her fingers still blushing, James took them, carefully not touching her hand blushing as well.
"Shall we go now?" Sirius said rolling his eyes.
"Yeah" Lily said taking the lead as Sirius followed.
"You can come with us Peter if you like" James said to Peter.
"Sure!" Peter said happily. James ran to catch up with Sirius and Lily.
"C'mon!" James said to Peter as he joined them.
They walked down to the cold and creepy dungeons as they finally knocked on the scary door and entered the classroom. Most of the seats were occupied by the Slytherin and Gryffindor first year students looking intently to the Potions Professor who now turned to them.
"Sorry we are late... Professor" Lily apologysed nervously.
"Not to worry! I'll let you pass as it's your first day of class, but I suppose it won't happen again right?" The professor asked with a stern voice as the four Gryffindors nodded.
The potions Professor was very pretty, she was a curvaceous thin young woman around her early twenties, she had deep violet eyes with long eyelashes, she had white skin and neat wavy black long hair falling down to the back of her long Black robes.
"Yes Proffesor" They said and just as they took their seats on the third line of desks in the Gryffindor side there was a second knock on the door. Proffesor Dumbledore came in with a skinny sandy haired boy with kind lovely light brown eyes, though he looked extremely pale and tired.
"Good morning young ones" Dumbledore said smiling at the class, his blue eyes twinkling.
"Good morning Proffesor" Everyone answered as Dumbledore smiled and nodded at the strange boy who walked silently over to sit on the only empty desk between Sirius and a Slytherin boy called Severus Snape who had greasy black hair (disgustingto Sirius' opinion) and black eyes which bored expressionless into the black board.
Meanwhile Dumbledore was whispering something into the potions professor's ear as she leaned closer to listen better.
Suddenly the Slytherin side started whispering silently to one another looking at the sandy haired boy who pursed his lips, he tried not to pay any attention.
"He looks like he hasn't slept in ages"
"I thought he was a ghost he is so pale"
"I bet they don't give him food in his house"
"He is so skinny"
"Yeah skinny boy"
"Hey! You!" Lucius Malfoy who was just a few desks away called barely above a whisper.
"Skinny boy!" Sirius' cousin Narcissa Black who was sitting next to Lucius called the boy too as quietly as possible, he turned around.
"I happen to have a name and it's Remus Lupin, use it. Well that's If it isn't too much for your brain you know." Said the boy rather agressively, Sirius laughed.
"Like she had one" He said in a low voice laughing so the teachers wouldn't hear. Everyone turned to look at Lucius and Narcissa intently, no one wanted to miss the fight. Peter looked scare and didn't dare make a sound.
"Shut the fuck up Black don't get into people's conversations no one called you" Lucius said to Sirius throwing him dirty looks.
"Sirius gets into any conversation he likes" James joined in.
"Says who? The mighty Potter?" Narcissa laughed.
"Yeah, says the mighty Potter" Lily replied.
"Leave the idiots alone" Said Alice Redmond.
"Yeah let them talk on their own, there are loads of idiots in the world that are worthier to argue with than these two" Remus concluded.
Before Narcissa or Lucius could reply, Dumbledore was finished whispering to the proffesor who looked at him with her violet eyes in a very sorry way as she shook her head no.
Dumbledore gave a lastweak smile at her, nodded at the class and left.
"Well, Sorry for the interruptions" The professor said pointing her wand at the door knob as it gave a cliking sound, it was locked now.
"My name is Christine Vane, Proffesor Vane I'm the head house of Slytherin and I will be teaching you Potions, please I'm not a very patient woman so I ask you to please cooperate with me because I won't think twice about taking off house points even if it's from my own house. Malfoy what was I saying? 15 points from Slytherin" Proffesor Vane said angrily.
"But why? Proffesor! I wasn't doing anything!"
"Precisely, you weren't doing anything therefore you weren't listening to me"
"But-"
"50 more points from Slytherin" Proffesor Vane said calmly and continued talking as Lucius looked incredously at her, James smirked.
"God she is mean" Sirius whispered smirking too, Peter nodded. All the Slytherins threw nasty looks at Lucius but Severus Snape, his boredom seemed to have dissapeared as he looked brightly with his black eyes at professor Vane with admiration.
"...I suppose you all looked a bit through the potions book that was on your Hogwarts list over the summer and know a bit about what Potions are and have at least an idea of what we'll be learning this year. Potions are very useful and I want you to understand that its knowledge is much as important as a wand's is..." Proffesor Vane said, passed the list of the names of the students and trailed on with her speech as every student was now listening intently at her words.
Suddenly Sirius and James had silent fits of laughter, Peter looked confused and Remus looked at the two with a frown, James pointed the Slytherin boy Snape with his finger to Remus, he looked at the boy beside him and saw that he had his mouth openned almost droodling as he listened to Proffesor Vane.
Remus looked at Sirius and James in an annoying way but smiled all the same, this boys were so funny, they seemed to have the great sense of humor he had always wished to have, they looked so unworried about everything, why couldn't he just be like them?
Later when Professor Vane finished they prepared a potion to cure colds. Goyle, Crabbe and poor Alice were the only ones who made a mess in their cauldrons everyone else did acceptable and some very good job, James' and Snape's potions were perfect.
"Your name is Severus Snape right?" Proffesor Vane asked as she checked his potion, Snape nodded nervously, James and Sirius were trying not to laugh. "This is perfect Mr. Snape, I see you like potions because you held all the ingridients the propper way and knew just exactly when to use your globes and when not to, that is not studied yet untill second year and you controlled your hands perfectly and with confidence in every move, you are very talented and good indeed" She said and for the first time in the morning she smiled a sweet smile at Snape who blushed. James and Sirius exchanged looks and were about to fall to the floor and explode with laughter but Remus threw them a look that told them to control themselves.
"Th-thanks" hestuttered.
"Well it's time to leave! Please read chapter one of your book One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi and write an essay about it for me to be handed next class" She said as everyone stood up and walked out to their next class.
They had Transfiguration next, Lily, Sirius, James, Peter and Remus walked together heading to the north tower.
"Oh My God Sirius! Proffesor Vane smiled at Snape and not at me! My potion was as perfect as his, how could that have happened!?" James said dramatically in a baby voice loudly so Snape could hear.
"Yeah! Tell us your secret Severus! Is it the new slimy shampoo you are using?" Sirius mocked a he and James exploded in laughter, Lily rolled her eyes as Remus shook his head, Snape just pretended not to be listening.
"That's not very nice you know?" Lily said to them, James shrugged.
"Who cares! What's the idea? Anyway he's a Slytherin" Sirius said.
"So?" Lily asked.
"So? He must be just like Malfoy, you know, lover of the dark arts and number one discriminators of muggles"
"Well then you are behaving the same way the Slytherins are, you can't discriminate people without no reason just because they are Slytherins" Lily said seriously and that shut Sirius up.
"She's right you know" Peter said, Sirius just looked at James but he didn't dare say a word and disagree with Lily.
"James what have you got to say about that?" Sirius asked but James did not say a word. "Oh great! Thanks James for sticking up for me! If those are my friends I don't wanna think about my enemies!" Sirius said sarcastically, James laughed.
"Sorry mate! But you know my resons!"
"Yeah right, because you-" But James didn't let him finish his sentence as he covered his mouth with his hands, Remus laughed.
"Because you what?" Remus asked James as Lily looked curiously at Sirius who was making signs at her with his hands.
"Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies" Said James still covering Sirius's mouth who was pointing with his finger at James then at Lily, nodded smiling as he winked several times, Lily laughed perplexed.
"Sirius!" James shouted as he noticed what he was doing and uncovered his mouth as Sirius looked with puppy eyes at James who wore a theatening expression.
"Ok....Sorry" He had still with puppy eyes.
"Lets hurry up, if we don't we might be late for transfiguration too" Said Peter worried.
"Who cares!" Said Sirius walking exaggeratedly slow.
"Oh I do! Professor McGonagall is the Transfiguration's teacher"
"Yeah she's right, professor McGonagall is very strict" Remus stated.
"How do you know?" Sirius asked curiously.
"W-well she.. Err.. Looks like it"
"Speaking of, how come you didn't show up yesterday at the sorting? When did you get sorted?" Sirius asked but Remus didn't answer he pretended he hadn't heard.
"Come on Sirius! Let's race! The last one to get to Transfiguration is a slimy blast-ended-shrewt!" Said James excited "one.."
"What's a glass-mended-screwt?" Lily asked frowning.
"Blast-ended-shrewt" Remus corrected. "That's a..."
"Come on Re.. Err what wa-?" James asked.
"Remus" Remus said at once.
"Yeah, Remus lets race!" Sirius said.
"Yeah you two too! Lily, Peter" James said.
"Yeah ok but-" Lily was about to ask again but she was interrupted by James and Sirius.
"One!"
"What is a blast-ended-shrewt?"
"Two! ...Th- Hey Sirius you little cheater!" James shouted running behind Sirius who had ran just as James had pronounced the word two. James was very annoyed, Sirius was laughing maniacally Remus and Peter ran behind catching up leaving Lily far behind.
"Wait for me!" Lily groaned.
"Lily!" Someone called from behind, Lily turned around it was the curly red head Jess running towards her.
"Hi Jess!" Lily smiled.
"Hi! God. Finnaly! I got away from those freaky girls!" Jess said panting.
"Aren't they your new friends?"
"Yeah I suppose but they are so tiresome! They are always talking about boys." Jess said gaining composure again, Lily laughed.
"Well you are going to transfiguration right? You can seat with me along the boys so that they won't have seats near your desks." Lily said and then winked.
"Yeah that would be great! Lets hurry up! They are looking for me" Jess said Lily rolled her eyes.
"At least you are loved, as you can see my friends left me behind"
"Yup lets go or you'll never catch up" Jess laughed "I have an idea!"
"What?"
"This is a little trick I learned in my charms book" Jess said as she waved her wand around their feet. "Now we should be able to run faster!"
"Awesome Jess!" Lily said excited as she tried running and was now amzingly farder feets away than she had intended to run. "Come on!"
Jess ran too catching up with Lily in a moment and they both ran to the Transfiguration's class.
"By the way who's the boy that was with you a few moments ago? I don't remember seeing him yesterday at the sorting, is he your friend?" Jess asked.
"Yes I suppose he's my friend, his name is Remus, I don't know why wasn't he yesterday here. Maybe he couldn't come yesterday, why do you ask?"
"Because my friends were talking about him, they say he's cute"
"Ohh" Was Lily's reply, she was wondering why Jess was asking about a boy she had barely seen, it was weird on her, did she like the boy? "Do you like him?"
"Me? Oh no no. Just asking."
"Hey Lily! You are the slimy blast-ended-shrewt!" Sirius said laughing, Lily frowned and crossed her arms.
"Well I can say I don't care because I don't know what the hell is a glass-mended-screwt as any of you had the decency of answering my question!"
"I'm sorry Lils, don't be mad at us" James said.
"Ok" She said smiling, James smiled back.
"Yup I'm sorry too Evans, won't happen again. By the way I want to thank you all for sticking up for me at potions" Remus said smiling.
"No problem Remmy, oh! I think I'm gonna cry" Sirius said sniffing James laughed and Jess rolled her eyes.
"Hi Jess didn't notice you!" James said.
"Don't worry I've had enough notice for one morning, how are you?" Jess said sarcastically.
"Fine untill you arrived!" Sirius said.
"Here we go again" Lily said.
"I asked James not you!" Jess snapped.
"Why did you bring her Lily!?" Sirius asked.
"Well at least she didn't leave me there behind all alone like you guys did!"
"Are you planning to get to class young ladies and gentlemans?" Came a stern voice behind them all, they turned around only to see professor McGonagall standing there at the classroom's door looking serious. "Well?"
"Yes professor McGonagall" They said taking deep sighs as they got in the classroom and took their seats.
To Annabelle's disgrace Sirius sat just on the desk at her left, he winked at her, she scowled at him in return and bumped her head against her desk. This had to be a nightmare.
Professor McGonagall passed the list of names and gave a long speech much like Professor Vane's but about Transfiguration and started with her class. She talked on and on and on about changing objects appearance and... Other things.
Sirius looked drowsily at Annabelle with his head laying on the desk, his cheek against his crossed arms, she was paying hard attention to McGonagall, her hand was on her cheek to support her head, her chocolate straight brown hair fell gently on her back, her watery blue eyes reflecting the light that came through the window.
Even if it was a simple sight she made it seem so briliant and soothing to Sirius.
He decided to turn around to his left where James was. As McGonagall spoke he was scribbling down notes with his quill in green and red ink. Wait... GREEN and RED ink???
"James why are you writing with green ink?" Sirius asked alarmed. "You always wrote with gray ink remember? It's your favorite color" He hissed.
"It was my favorite color since I saw you know who" James replied still much concentrated on his notes.
"Who did you see?" Sirius asked confused scowling "Mr. Tomato head?"
"No!" James whispered trying not to laugh "Lily you nutter"
"Huh?
"You know green eyes and red hair?"
"Ohhhhh" Sirius understood.
"Mr. Tomato head" James snorted as he continued writing.
Sirius took a look at his quill then at his bottle of black ink, then turned again to Annabelle looking closely at her brown hair and blue eyes.
"Have you lost something?" She asked sarcastically and annoyed at last looking at him not able to ignore him any longer.
"Nope, sorry Ann" Sirius said smiling sweetly as he turned to his bag instead and placed in the bottle of black ink and got out a bottle of blue one.
"Hey James" Sirius hissed.
"Hm?"
"Remind me to buy some brown ink" Hewhispered as he started to write notes of what McGonagall was saying with the blue ink, James stared at him confused.