Ebony sat still through Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Today was a lecture, and it was almost as bad as History of Magic. Lazily, she scribbled down some notes on whatever they were talking about. She couldn't concentrate. Looking outside of the window, Ebony saw people strolling around the Lake. Grabbing the ends of her hair, she hit her head on the desk, begging for the class to be over.
No sooner that she thought it, the class was over. Slowly and carefully, she dragged herself out of class, with her books tucked under her arm. Ebony walked up to the Ravenclaw house, but on a corridor on the fifth floor, someone excitedly ran into her. The boy got up, muttered and apology and kept on his way. Ebony cursed her luck, no, lack of it, and began to pick up her books.
Remus Lupin stood against the wall, waiting for the other students to come running out of History of Magic earlier that day. He and Peter were eager waiting to see if Padfoot and Prong's trick was as spectacular as they said it would be.
Sure enough, it was funny to see everyone get bombarded with water balloons that he helped jinx a few days earlier, but he thought that were going to be used on the Slytherins, like all the other good pranks. Normally James unleashes his best on the Slytherins because they are stuck-up and they're all that, worse than James thinks of himself. Then when some people came walking out, he knew…
One of the Ravenclaws, Ebony was her name, he thought, had tried to listen in on their conversation and oddly enough, she got hit the hardest with the water balloons. He thought he should apologize, but when none of the others were around. The Slytherins deserved it, not her.
On his way to the common room, he decided to take a detour to the fifth floor where he was sure the girl would be. And there was where he found her, picking up her books. He quietly walked up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. Ebony whirled around to see no one was there and when she turned back, he was standing there, "Hello." He said to the speechless Ravenclaw with a small smile.
"I just wanted to say sorry to you Ebony," he paused, "my friends got a little carried away this time. We normally prank the Slytherins, but for some strange reason, they decided to prank your house today. And for that, I am really sorry…. is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" Being one of the nicer members of the quartet, he thought it would be a good thing to apologize. He thought of the Ravenclaws as equals, not really smart kids who always got good grades like his friends thought.
Sometimes the other three would laugh at him because of the fact he was the brightest, Sirius was next in line with brains…He didn't appreciate them pranking the Ravenclaws and wanted to do something to make Ebony feel better and less humiliated.
Ebony was still a little shocked. It wasn't the fact he scared her by tapping her on the shoulder, and not appearing there, it was the fact he was apologizing. Grinning sheepishly, after she noticed her jaw had gone a little slack, Ebony began to think of what Remus could do to apologize.
"Well?" ask Remus, "Did I say anything wrong? Why aren't you talking?"
"Oh, I was just thinking about what you could do as an apology. You know, Ravenclaws do quite a lot of thinking." Ebony answered jokingly, but without a smile. Remus started to feel a bit panicked about what Ebony was thinking of him. Without notice, Ebony smiled, and Remus looked noticeably more relaxed.
"Don't worry about it Remus," She said. Remus had been shocked by the use of his name, he was either 'Moony' or 'Lupin', but he was starting to like the use of his name. "You don't have to do anything after apologizing…unless you'd like a Ravenclaw friend?"
Remus smiled, "That would be wonderful, I need to get away from my core group of friends sometime." It was a good thing now that he had another friend besides James, Sirius, and Peter…someone to put his secrets into…but not yet…He didn't want his new friend to be petrified of him because of his special problem.