Now, to be honest, as one grows older most things don't change drastically between years at school. Especially just the shift from first to second. The only difference upon returning to Hogwarts for the second time that wasn't there from the first was that: one, I had to find my friends on the platform then get a compartment with them; two, we took a carriage up to the castle from Hogsmeade rather than the boats that we had taken our first year; three, we watched the sorting as established Gryffindors rather than participating; and four, we knew our way around the castle already. Other than those things, it was pretty much the same thing. But, there were a few things that did change, and the things that did change were both small, but would eventually come to be something bigger, and one that was simply life changing.

One of the small things was the arrival of the new first years. No, no other year had the arrival of first years meant anything to me. But, this year, there was something different, or rather someone different. Of course, through the entirety of the sorting I had to put up with Sirius's scowling over his younger brother Regulus now attending school. And, just as Sirius predicted he was sorted right away into Slytherin, which only caused more griping from Sirius.

"That little twit, now he's really gonna think he's the better one," Sirius muttered during the feast as he practically stabbed his food. "But, you know what. I don't care. Nope, I don't care," he said still mashing up his food even more now. Even if Sirius said it didn't bother him, I could always tell it did that his family thought higher of his younger brother than they did of him.

Around halfway through the feast, several of the first years got up, heading over to meet up with their prefects. Of course, being the "little twit" that he was, Regulus had to start something. He went over to some innocent girl and yanked hard on her ponytail. Sirius of course jumped up out of his seat, and crawled over the table to get his brother away from her. James and I got up right after to go help.

Sirius tackled his younger brother down to the ground, a crowd of both Slytherins and Gryffindors gathering around to watch the Black boys wrestling on the floor of the Great Hall. "What the bloody hell did you go and do that for!" Sirius shouted as he hit his younger brother rather hard over the head with his hand.

"She's a filthy mudblood!" Regulus shot back. "Don't tell me you've on and become a mudblood lover, because I'm sure mother and father would love that," he said with a smirk. Sirius lost it at that and the two kept fighting on the floor, soon James joining in to help his friend. I on the other hand went over to make sure the girl that he had harassed was ok.

I went over to her, and she just looked rather confused on everything, like she didn't quite understand what had happened. "Hey, are you ok?" I asked her rather calmly.

She nodded her head and held on to her ponytail made of a lovely brown hairs. There were a few tears in her eyes, seeing as Regulus had pulled on her hair rather hard. "Yeah, why did he do that though? I didn't do anything to him."

I sighed and quick glanced over to see that Sirius and Regulus were still fighting, no one really bothering to do anything about it either. "Well, see that one there, with the shorter hair," I said pointing at the two boys fighting. "That's Regulus Black. Pureblood. He doesn't exactly think highly of people who come here with muggle parents."

The girl just looked over and nodded understanding. "Is that what mud…"

"Don't say that," I said cutting her off. "It's a really nasty term for someone like yourself. Not everyone here is like that, just the stupid one's like Regulus."

"Oh, so I guess you're one of the good ones then?" she asked me with a small smile.

I found myself blushing slightly, and nodding. "I guess you could say that."

The girl kept smiling at me still. "Well, does this good guy have a name?"

I laughed slightly and nodded. "Yeah, his name would be Remus Lupin. He's a second year in Gryffindor," I said holding my hand out to her.

The girl, who seemed to be smiling a lot for someone who just got their ponytail practically yanked off her head and called a mudblood. "Well, I'm Rebecca Holmes, just sorted into Gryffindor," she said as she shook my hand. Just then, the prefect was calling for the first years from Gryffindor to follow him. "Well, see you around," she said waving back at me as she followed the crowd.

"Yeah, see you around," I said with a nod as I watched her go. I may have never said it then, or for years later at that matter, but from that moment on, I was completely caught up in everything about that girl. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, whether it was her beautiful brown hair or her big brown eyes, or her sweet smile. I don't know what it was, but whatever it was, I was hooked.

So that was one little thing that changed, I now knew Rebecca Holmes, and she….wow. You know, no matter how hard I tried, I could never really say everything that I thought and felt about her. There's just too much to say at this time. As I keep going on, you're bound to start to piece together how exactly I feel about her.

But, another thing that started to change was another relationship. You see a couple days after Regulus's assault on Rebecca after the feast things were a little tense between the Slytherins and the Gryffindors. Of course, who other than Serverus Snape was in Slytherin. Of course, he was never fond of anyone in Gryffindor, in fact, I'm not sure if he was ever fond of anyone at all come to think of it. Anyway, he was not fond of Gryffindors, but at this point, his status with James was neutral. Of course, that was destined to change.

One day, while in Professor Slughorn's potion class, of course, we were all hard at work. Some of us were definitely better at the class than others. Both Snape and Lily were some of those people you wanted to be when it came to potion making. They were the top two in our year. I don't think either of them ever messed up on a potion. Of course, Snape wasn't too fond of being outdone by some girl of muggle descent. It just wasn't right in his mind.

So, he came up with some master plan and must have slipped something into Lily's cauldron while she went to get something for her potion. Needless to say, it wasn't something meant to be in her potion and reacted. Lily came back to find her potion ultimately destroyed and boy was she mad. Unfortunately, just at that moment, Sirius had told James a joke, which of course made him break out into a hysteric fit of laughter. And Lily seeing James laughing, she automatically thinks that he must have been the culprit who destroyed her perfect potion.

"Potter! How could you!" Lily shouted at him from across the room. "You ruined it you idiot!"

James just looked over completely bewildered at why he was being yelled at. "What in the world are you talking about Evans? My potion is fine."

"I wasn't talking about your potion you prat! I was talking about how you ruined mine!" Lily said as she crossed her arms. By this time Professor Slughorn had heard the shouting match and came over and inspected Lily's potion.

"Yes, this has indeed been tainted," he said with a nod. "Potter, detention tonight."

James's jaw just dropped. He couldn't believe it. He hadn't done anything at all yet he was getting the blame. He then looked over and saw Snape snickering to himself about the whole scene. James just squinted his eyes and gave him the death stare. Snape was definitely going to pay for that little mistake.

After class is really when the real drama started. Everyone was packing up, and James went a tad bit slower than normal, watching Snape. The rest of us, Sirius, Peter and myself waited for him.

"Come on James," Sirius groaned. "I wanna get out of here today!"

"Just hold on, I have some things I need to sort out," he said glancing at Snape who was on his way out. After he walked out James grabbed his things. "Ok, we can go," he said hurrying out, us following behind him. James was walking rather fast down the hall to catch up with Snape. "Hey! You there!" he said pointing his wand at him.

Snape turned around and looked at him. "What do you want?" he asked.

"You ruined Evan's potion today didn't you?" James asked walking up to him.

"She asked for it, little mudblood thinks she's better than all of us," Snape scowled.

"Hey there, don't you be talking about her like that," James said poking him with his wand.

"Or else what?" Snape asked him, crossing his arms.

"You don't want to know," James said glaring at him. "Just don't mess with Evans again."

"I'll do what I want, you can't stop me," Snape said turning and walking.

"Oh yeah!" James said. "Well…I can to!" he said. James then said something, but either way it made Snape's feet stick to floor. Sirius just laughed as James had a satisfied smirk on his face. "Told you I could."

Snape glared at him, not too happy with his state of immobility at the moment. "You're going to pay for this Potter." Snape pulled his wand out and shot a spell right at James. Next thing we knew James had a nice set of antlers poking out of his head.

"You know Potter, normally I would say you look stupid, but that wouldn't mean much considering you normally do," Snape said with a smirk.

James was starting to get upset, and raises his wand again, but Sirius stepped in. He smiled at James. "Actually, I think they look right sharp on you there Jamesie."

I caught on to what he was getting at and nodded. "Yeah, plus, how many guys have antlers? I bet the girls will love it," I said smiling at James as well. Snape just looked at us, trying hard to free his legs from their stuck position.

"You know, I bet you two are right. Come on, we've got better things do to than staying here," James said leading the way down the hall, leaving Snape stuck to the floor. As we left we could hear Snape muttering a few insults mixed in with words of profanity directed at all four of us. We just shrugged it off. James may have one that battle, but I knew it was only the start of a much bigger war. There was no way Snape was going to just let that slide and forget about it.

In fact as the year went on, my theory of that little battle becoming a bigger war was proven correctly. Snape and James were caught fighting several times in the hallways over the year. Sometimes the attack was provoked, others it wasn't. But either way, something happened and someone shot a hex, curse, jinx, something like that at the other person. Often it was James to strike first. Towards the end of the year he was proving himself to be a little wand happy when it came to dealing with a problem. It was this that often got him an evening in detention.

It was also second year when James gave Snape is little nickname. You see, one day when they were in the midst of fighting, they both got caught in the act. Snape got off by whimpering to the professor, James got an evening in detention, as usual. So, James started calling him "Snivellus" because he went and whined his way out of trouble every time.

So, once again, another relationship pattern that would affect the rest of our years at Hogwarts, and for some of us, ultimately the rest of our lives was all started one day in second year. But, like I said, that wasn't all that happened that really changed things. After all, I still had my secret, which was bound to get out sooner or later. It was really only just a matter of time…