A Paradox
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Chapter 2 – Day 1 – Of 'wake up calls from hell' and Bets
"Ahhhh!" Golden cried jumping up right in bed "What the hell did you do that for!" Golden screamed at Emrys who was currently on the floor with his hand around his waist laughing.
"To… Wake… You… Up! As… if … you… don't… get… a… move… on… we'll… be… late…!" Emrys managed to gasp out
"And a normal shake of the shoulders wasn't okay?"
"This… way … was… so… much…better!"
"For you maybe!" Golden huffed before he turned around gathered his things and went into the bathroom.
By the time he came out Emrys had calmed down and they went down to the common room where they where meet by Naomi and another girl.
"Hi I'm Natasha Greensfield." The girl said shyly, she was fairly short with golden locks that fell to her shoulders and blue eyes.
"Hi I'm Emrys d'Lyes." Emrys said
"So Golden finally managed to get up on time" Naomi said as they reached the great hall
"Didn't have much of a chose!" Golden growled glaring at Emrys who smirked
"Oh?" Naomi asked looking between them
"Yes this prat dumped a whole bucket full of icy water on me!" Golden said angrily
This time Naomi and Natasha joined Emrys in laughter, though this time they didn't end up on the floor.
"Its not funny!" Golden growled and swiftly left them for the table increasing their laughter and attracting more attention.
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"Wonder what's going on" James asked as the Marauders, short one, watched the scene-taking place by the doors of the great hall.
"The new kid tipped a bucket of icy water over his dorm mate to wake him up this morning." Remus said as he slipped into the seat the other Marauders had saved for him.
"Ah he has a sense of humour even better" Sirius said staring dreamy eyed at 'his' Angel who hat managed to get in control again and help the two girls with him over to the Hufflepuff table.
James snorted at Sirius and asked "So when you going to ask him out?"
"Well I have to find out if his straight or not first don't I" Sirius said pulling his eyes away from his Angel
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"Sorry Golden, but it was hilarious especially the look on your face" Emrys said chuckling in amusement
"Hmp, well I'd like to see how amusing you find it when it happens to you"
"Oh don't worry it use to happen to me all the time when I was home schooled," Emrys said
"Oh look here comes Professor Sprout our head of house and Herbology teacher, with our timetables" Naomi said
"Hello dears" Professor Sprout said happily "and you must be Emrys d'Lyes, please feel free to come to me if you need anything or are having any trouble or even if you just need to talk okay dear?" she said
"Okay Professor, thank you" Emrys said giving her a sweet and innocent smile
"Well here are your timetables," she said before moving up the table.
"What do you all have first?" Emrys asked after looking over his timetable
"Double Muggle-studies" Natasha said quietly
"Double Potions" Naomi said
"Same." Golden said "How 'bout you?"
"Potions"
"Well we better get going we don't want to be late." Golden said
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They where one of the first to arrive and took there seats in the middle on the right.
"So who's the Professor and what is he/she like?" Emrys asked
"Professor Kent, and his biased towards anyone not a potion geniuses or Slytherin; his there head of house."
"Yeah but he doesn't like the Marauders even though they are great at making potions, but that's because Slytherin's are the Marauders favourite prank targets."
The class slowly began to trickle in, and Emrys noted that they where the only Hufflepuff's in the class. As the bell rang to signal the start of lesson one the Marauders entered along with the teacher.
"Take your seat!" the man hissed at them
"Now today we will be learning a mild truth serum to make sure you haven't forgotten everything I've taught you. The instructions are on the board now pair up and get to work."
Naomi and Golden where sitting next to each other so they paired up while Emrys turned to see who had sat down next to him and fond to his surprise Sirius.
"Hi my names Emrys d'Lyes" Emrys introduced himself
"Sirius Black at your serves" Sirius said with a tilt of his head
"Pleasure" Emrys said
"Oh no the pleasures all mine" Sirius said with a smile on his face that made Emrys extremely nervous.
"Umm, well we better get to work" Emrys said "I'll just go and get the ingredients and you can set up the cauldron, okay?"
The class went fairly well, Sirius was a great at potions though not quite in Emrys' league, the Potions Professor was very impressed with Emrys an spent quite a bit of time quizzing him in which Emrys got them all correct.
"Okay everyone should be done by now" the Professor called out "how about we test some of these out? Only asking questions agreed upon before hand, if I hear any question other then the agreed upon question used there will be serious trouble. Understood?"
"Yes Professor!"
"Good, there are antidotes on my desk, you may began"
After collecting the antidote Sirius and Emrys returned to there seats "So what question do you want to ask me?" Emrys asked
Sirius smirked "I sure I can think of something, how about you?"
Emrys raised an eyebrow at Sirius' reply "I dunno really…hmm…I know what prank are you planning to pull on the first years" Emrys said "is that okay?"
"Okay if I can ask you if you straight, Bi or gay" Sirius said smirking slightly
Emrys blinked at that, why the hell did Sirius want to know that for "Ah…Okay"
Emrys said deciding he really didn't care and it was better than many of the other things he could have asked, like things that would revile that he was from the future.
Sirius was shocked 'Okay' that's it? It was that easy? "I'll go first shall I?"
Emrys nodded and Sirius took the potion, "What prank are you planning to pull on the first years?" Sirius answered and then it was Emrys' turn (A/N: you didn't think I would actually tell you the prank now did you?)
"Are you straight, Bi or Gay?"
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"Hey Emrys what did you and Sirius ask each other?" Naomi asked at Lunch
"Well I asked what prank his planning to pull on the first years"
"And what did he ask you?"
"He asked me whether I was straight, Bi or gay" Emrys said shrugging
Naomi and Golden stared at him for a moment "You let him ask that?"
"Yeah, why not? It's no big deal"
"I suppose not. So what… you know… what did you say?"
"The truth of course it was a truth serum"
"And the truth is if you don't mind answering?" Golden asked
"Not at all and I'm glad you remembered how to state you questions correctly. I told him that I'm…" here he paused for a second as he noted many paying attention "Bi."
Emrys noted relived looks on many girls and guys faces at that, but shrugged it off as imagining it.
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"So, Padfoot how'd Potions go?" James asked smirking
"Great! Very productive" Sirius said grinning
"Yeah I got that from the fact you haven't stopped grinning since we left Potions" Remus said "So what you ask him?"
"Whether he is straight, Bi or gay"
Remus looked slightly shocked "He let you ask him that?"
"Yes"
"So Padfoot what he say? Obviously it was good" James asked
"He's Bi!" Sirius said happily and looked over at his Angel only to see others looking at him, growling he stood up a walked over to his Angel
"Hello Emrys" Sirius said
Emrys turned and saw Sirius sitting next to him "Oh, hello Sirius. What can I do for you?" Emrys ask slightly confused as to why Sirius was sitting next to him
Sirius was fully aware of the eyes on him, and not only the student eyes but also the Professors "It's not what you can do for me but what I can do for you" Sirius said arrogantly
"Oh and what's that?" Emrys asked getting a bad feeling as he heard the arrogant tone in Sirius' voice
"Go out with you" Sirius said arrogantly knowing no one has ever said no to him
Emrys raised an eyebrow 'Who the hell does he think I am?' "Um, no thanks"
Emrys said
"That's… What?" Sirius said as Emrys' answer sunk in
"I said No I don't particularly want to go out with you" Emrys said slowly
"But…but"
"Come on Padfoot" James said as he pulled Sirius away
"Prongs did I just get turned down?" Sirius said still slightly shocked
"Yes I believe you did. Now you know how I feel when Lily turns me down"
"Well I'll get him." Sirius said strongly "There's no way he can resist me" Sirius said
Remus sighed heavily shacking his head "What?" Sirius asked
"Now there are two off you!" Remus said
"What do you mean two of us?" Sirius demanded
"You and James; Emrys and Lily."
"Oh… But I'll get him before James gets Lily" Sirius said
"Will not!" James cried
"Will too!"
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"Guys SHUT UP!" Remus cried but they ignored him so he walked quicker and sat next to Lily in Transfigurations while James and Sirius continued arguing as they took a seat in there usual place at the back of the room.
"What are they arguing about this time?" Lily asked curiously
"Well Sirius said he'd be able to get the new kid to go out with him before James could get you to go out with him, and James disagrees."
"I'm on James' side. Can I sit here?" Emrys asked pointing to the free chair next to Remus, who nodded.
"I bet you are" Lily said "I'm Lily Evens and the Head girl so if you ever need anything you can come to me."
"Thanks I'm Emrys d'Lyes."
"And I'm Remus Lupin, an unfortunate acquaintance of both James and Sirius."
Just then Naomi and Golden rushed in and dropped into the seats next to Emrys "Sorry we took so long but this dunder head couldn't find his book." Naomi said
"That's okay I was just making the acquaintance of this fine Lady who suffers a fate similar to mine and this poor and unfortunate gentleman."
Naomi and Golden looked confused while Remus and Lily chuckled.
"Okay is it just me or are we missing something?" Golden asked Naomi
"Nope I defiantly think where missing something"
Emrys quickly explained the situation to them before turning to Lily "So as you're the one with the most experience of this situation is there anything I should know?"
"Hmm, well your unlikely to be asked out as there isn't many who would risk angering Sirius by going out with you, you'll be classified as Sirius' now until he gets over you if that ever happens. Umm he'll bug you a lot but you're lucky you're not in the same house as him so it should be easier to get away from him. Good things, you won't get pranked."
"Hmm, well I recon he'll get over me pretty soon, a couple of weeks at the most."
Emrys said
Remus and Lily exchanged looks "I wouldn't count on it" Remus said
"Well if he doesn't I can always pretend Lily and I are going out. Wonder what they'd do?"
"Oh god no, I have to shear a dorm with them, but I do think the result would be rather… explosive" Remus said and they all shared a look before exploding into laughter.
Their laughter caught everyone's attention including to young men who were sitting up the back.
James and Sirius looked over and were surprised to see that the people that where laughing where there 'destined partners' there best friend and two others who where sitting next to Emrys.
"I wonder what that's all about." James muttered
Sirius nodded before his eyes narrowed slightly "Why is Remus sitting between Lily and Emrys?" Sirius asked
"Don't no" James said frowning slightly
Before anything more could be said the bell went and Professor McGonagall entered.
"Good afternoon class, welcome back to another year of Transfiguration, this year you have your NEWT's exams so I will not tolerate any foolishness." Prof. McGonagall said looking at James and Sirius pointedly "Now for this lesson we will be going over what we've already learnt, you all have a list of things you are to transfigure the pebble in front of you into, so get to work."
The lesson passed relatively quickly as Emrys sped through the list with only James being able to keep up with him, by the end of class James and he were the only ones to have finished everything on the list.
"Well done everybody twenty points to Mr. Potter and Mr. d'Lyes for completing the list. For the rest of you I want the list completed. Mr. d'Lyes if you would stay behind, class dismissed."
As the class quickly filed out of the room Emrys walked slowly up to Prof. McGonagalls desk "Yes Professor?"
"I must say Mr. d'Lyes that I was worried that you wouldn't be up to scratch even though the Headmaster said you would be fine, but after Today's performance I see you are up to par if not beyond it with the rest of the class. I am still slightly worried about your ability to stay at this level with your extra classes and the fact that you will be missing some of these lessons to do them. If you're having any trouble at all keeping up with the class please come to speak with me."
"Of course Professor, but I doubt I'll have much trouble as I had more then this amount of classes when I was home schooled." Emrys said smiling at her. "Is that all Professor?"
"Yes you may go" 'There was something about that boy,' Minerva thought to herself as she watched the boy leave the room 'that made you want to protect him.'
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"What did Prof. McGonagall want?" Golden asked as they all sat down for dinner
"Oh just wanted to tell me to come and see her if I was having any trouble in class."
"You! Why would she say that, I mean you and Potter where the only ones that actually finished the list." Naomi said
"Yeah but I'm going to miss some of the classes due to my extremely full timetable."
"Extremely full timetable?"
"Yeah I'm taking thirteen different classes"
"Thirteen!" Golden cried "Why are you taking so many and how the hell are you going to fit them all in?"
"I've been taking more then twelve when I was home schooled some of which aren't taught here but I decided I wanted to continue most of the ones I can here. As for how I'll fit them in, I have classes on the weekend as well."
"On the weekend! When are you going to relax?"
"Don't worry, this isn't nearly as bad as my timetable was when I was home schooled and even then I found time to enjoy myself."
"Okay what ever you say." Naomi said looking highly doubtful
"So anyone got Care of Magic Creatures next?"
"Nope" Golden said
"Nah sorry" Naomi said shaking her head
"How about you Natasha?" Emrys asked
"Yeah I've got it," she said smiling shyly
"Cool" Emrys said smiling at her "We best head down then it's nearly class time."
Emrys followed Natasha down to some fields on the edge of the forbidden forest, where the rest of the class was waiting.
"Hi Natasha!" two girls called out, Emrys admedianly recognised one as Lily but wasn't sure who the other girl was, only that she was in Gryffindor and looked to be close to Lily.
"Hi Lily, Alice" Natasha said smiling at the two girls
"Oh hello Emrys didn't see you there" Lily said as Natasha and he reached them
"Hey Lily"
"This is Alice Perwert, Alice this is Emrys d'Lyes."
"Hello Alice it's nice to meet you."
"Hello Emrys it's nice to meet you to I've heard so much about you." She said, as she looked him up and down "Yes I can see why Sirius likes you, oh don't worry I've got a boyfriend and am completely loyal to him and anyway your Sirius' just as Lily's James'."
Lily rolled her eyes "Don't listen to her Emrys, she's a bit of her rocker"
"Hey!" Alice cried and Natasha giggled.
"Alright Class listen up" the Care of Magical Creatures Professor said "See those lights over there," he said pointing to some lights on the other side of the paddock closer to the forbidden forest "I wont you all to go over there as I have a surprise for you as this is the first day back. Go on then"
The class quickly made there way over "So what's the Professors name?" Emrys asked
"Prof. Maxsys." A voice behind them said, turning around Emrys saw James, Sirius and Peter.
"Thanks" Emrys said before turning his attention back to his friends.
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"So what's the Professors name?" Sirius' Angel asked
"Prof. Maxsys." Sirius said and watched as his Angel turned to face him.
"Thanks" His Angel said in his amazing angelic voice before turning away.
"Well," Sirius said to James once his Angel was out of hearing range "at least he doesn't hate me, unlike Lily and you."
"Hey I resent that! She loves me she's just in denial!" James said pouting
"Just keep telling yourself that." Sirius said, and Peter sniggered.
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"Alright class listen up!" Prof. Maxsys said "Today we will be studying Hippogriffs, has anyone ever seen one before?"
Emrys raised his hand much to the Professors and the rest of the class's surprise.
"You've seen a Hippogriff before?" the Professor asked
"Yeah we had one at home."
"You owned one?"
"No, not really we were looking after it and when we could finally let it go it decided it liked us so he stayed. Of its own free will of course." Emrys said lazily
"Well you will be able to help me with this class then" Prof. Maxsys said before starting the class.
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"Wow that was a cool class!" Peter said as they walked back up to the Gryffindor common room.
"Yeah it was awesome!" Sirius said
"Yeah! Can you imagine having one of those at home? It would be amazing!" James said eyes sparkling with the thought.
"So you guys had a good class?" Remus asked as they joined him in the common room
"Yep it was fantastic!" Sirius said eyes dreamily, in which Remus looked to James for an explanation
"Emrys was in the class and as he used to own a Hippogriff, what we were learning about, he helped out,"
"Ahh," Remus said as if this explained everything, which it did
"Hey Remus," Sirius said all of a sudden "what where you doing in transfigurations?" James whipped around to look at Remus also wanting to know; Remus just looked confused "You know sitting in-between Emrys and Lily…" Sirius said eyes narrowing slightly
"I was talking to them, as you two wouldn't stop arguing I decided to sit with them instead, they happen to be nice people that could make good friends." Remus said before getting his homework out of his bag and beginning on it ignoring the others
A/N: Hey guys thanks for all those wonderful reviews! To answer a questions: yes this will be a Sirius Black/Harry Potter fanfic so if you don't like those types I suggest you don't read! Anyway please review this chapter I need at LEST 5 reviews before I will update again. Thanks!