Summery: Sirius decides to write a book for Lily and James' wedding present. It is a book of the first time different things happened to them, such as the first meeting between them.
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Warning: Mild, mild swearing.
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Author's Note: I'm sorry I haven't updated in so long! I've been incredibly busy, with schoolwork, traveling and preparing for a competition. Anyways, here's the chapter:
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Well I hope you all survived the horrible part of the last chapter that was not written by me. Luckily I, Sirius Black, will be writing the whole chapter this time. Have you ever noticed that if there is ONE person in an entire class that you don't want to be partnered with, you will inevitably end up with them? It seemed like throughout our whole school years, Lily and James always ended up partnered with each other. In the beginning, they both despised being partnered with each other but when James fell in love with Lily, he loved it and Lily hated it even more. Anyways, Lily and James managed to survive the first week and a half without being partnered together until that fateful Potions class.
First Partnering
The Gryffindor and Slytherin first years were all seated in Slughorn's classroom waiting anxiously. After a week and a half of taking notes on the theory of potions, we would finally make our own. Lily and Alice were sitting together at a table behind Remus, Peter and James who had decided to try to squeeze together at a two-person table. Tejal was in the hospital wing, a result of being hit by a stray spell set off by Gerald Abbot of Hufflepuff in Charms yesterday. I was sitting alone in a corner by the Gryffindors, not the Slytherins.
Professor Horace Slughorn, the Potions Master entered the room proceeded by his large stomach. He smiled around at the students in the room.
"Well here is the day you've all been waiting for!" he beamed. "A chance to brew some potions. You will be making a simple potion to cure boils."
Slughorn tapped the board with his wand and the instructions appeared. "You will be partnered for this potion as it is your first one."
He surveyed the classroom. "Your partner will be the one you are sitting next to." His gaze fell on Peter, Remus, Lily, Alice and James. "However I will ask Miss Evans to partner Mr. Potter as he still seems confused on the theory and Miss Evans seems to have a concise knowledge of it." He beamed at Lily who seemed caught between disgust at partnering James and happiness at being praised by a teacher.
"Misters Lupin and Pettigrew please move to the table behind Miss Evans and Miss Clowen and Miss Clowen will partner-" he scanned the room again-"Mr. Black."
I was glad about partnering Alice. Both Alice and Tejal were friendly towards me, probably as a result of being close friends with Lily. I slipped into the seat next to her and grinned at her and at Lily who was sitting in front of us, next to James.
Alice smiled at me. "This room probably won't exist by the time this class is over with Lily and Potter being partnered together."
"You're right. Lily will probably end up jinxing him straight to the Hospital Wing."
"And then Tejal will hex him to St. Mungo's," Alice added.
In front of us, Lily and James were laying out their ingredients.
"You better not do anything stupid, Potter, or you'll be sorry."
"When have I ever done anything stupid?"
"Every day when you talk to Sirius."
"What the hell do you mean?"
Lily began to pour some ingredients into the cauldron. "Despite the fact that he has never done anything Slytherinly you still treat him like dirt."
James grabbed the lacewing flies. "He's a Slytherin."
"No, you idiot, lacewing flies are last! Can't you read the damn directions? And he's a Gryffindor. You were there at his sorting."
"He is a Black, Evans."
Lily measured out some liquid. "Does this look like ¾ of a cup?" she asked Alice.
"Hey! Why didn't you ask me? I'm your partner, not Clowen."
"Oh, sorry didn't know you could read measuring cups, Potter."
"Yeah, looks good," Alice said.
"Hey, Clowen, stay out of this!" James snapped.
Alice shrugged and went back to stirring our neon blue potion that was supposed to be red with a frown on her face.
"Why'd you ask her?" James queried. "She can't even make her own potion right!"
"Ignore him," Alice muttered to me when I began to open my mouth.
"I'm sorry, I just didn't think your brain could handle it." Lily said sweetly.
James glared at her and started to push the chopped caterpillars into the potion.
"NO!" Lily yelled. "Don't you remember the theory sheet Professor Slughorn made us do?" She paused at began talking as if James was two. "If you add caterpillars to a potion right after you add blood of a newt, the potion will work oppositely. If it is supposed to cure boils, it will CREATE them."
"Oh, my bad." James said.
No one noticed that Lily hadn't caught James in time. A few pieces of caterpillar had fallen into the potion.
They worked silently for a few moments. Then Lily said, "You should make up with Sirius."
"What?" James looked shocked. "I am a Potter. Potters are true, through and through Gryffindors. I will besmirch my name if I talk civilly to a Black, a true Slytherin."
"Well, news flash, Sirius is a GRYFFINDOR."
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
"That saying doesn't apply to this context, Potter," Lily snapped grabbing his wrist to stop him from adding spider legs. "You idiot! You need to stir five times first!"
James grabbed the spoon and began to stir violently.
"You're going to have to share a dorm with him for seven years. You might as well be friends."
"He's a Black."
I began to notice, now, how James didn't really seem to believe what he was saying. He didn't believe his own argument. What I had said to him that day, "I am not a Slytherin. I hate my family. I have never, ever called anyone a Mudblood. My parents hate me for what I believe but it doesn't stop me. I hate them too." seemed to have made an impact on him. Now that I thought about it, he hadn't seemed to be as cruel to me after that.
"That is the crappiest argument ever."
James looked really cross by then. He grabbed some random ingredient off of the table and threw it in to the potion.
"James! You idiot!" Lily began to yell but the potion exploded all over her, covering her with massive boils.
"Professor Slughorn!" Alice and I yelled, but he had heard the noise and was already hurrying over.
James was cracking up at the sight of Lily covered with boils. Slughorn sent him a glare and said, "Miss Clowen, please give Lily this basic antidote and then escort her to the Hospital Wing where Madame Gryers will be able to vanish them completely."
When the class let out, I started to head out of the dungeons toward the Hospital Wing to check on Lily.
"Hey Black!"
I turned around to see James running towards me.
"What?"
He looked nervous.
"Um, well I just wanted to say, I guess you were right."
"About what?"
"I guess you are a Black sheep. I mean your name is Black and you look kind of like a sheep."
I raised my eyebrows. James squinted at me.
"Okay, maybe you don't look all that much like a sheep…" his voice trailed off.
"Hey, you tried," I grinned. "Friends?"
James looked relieved and stuck out his hand which I shook.
"Hello, my name is James Potter."
"My name is Sirius Black."
"Nice to meet you."
And so began a long friendship.
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