13th January 1976
All the Gryffindor 5th years were sat at breakfast in the great hall. Rachele looked immaculate as usual. Her now long curls pinned up in a traditionally with hair pins. Not a crease on her school uniform. Sirius however looked like he had been thoroughly shagged. His hair was a mess the buttons on his school uniform weren't done up correctly and he had a hicky peeking out of his shirt. Combined with the very dazed expression he was wearing, Rachele felt very proud of herself for putting that expression on his face.
They had met briefly before breakfast in the hidey hole behind the tapestry of 'Serina the seer' on the 3rd floor for a 'quick hello' before breakfast. The quick hello however had escalated into a full-blown romp.
"Mate what happened to you?" James knew from sharing a dorm that Sirius was sexually active. He had been watching since the middle of last year as Sirius disappeared off and then came back looking thoroughly snogged. This however was the first time he has seen his best mate and brother had looking such a mess at the breakfast table.
"Sirius Black you look a right state" Lily Evans told him smirking "Can't you even dress yourself?" she continued as she raised her wand to rebutton his shirt properly.
"thanks Evans" Sirius told her with a flirtatious smile and a wink. Back to his normal self as he tucked into breakfast.
"You're a creep black" she replied laughing.
"How many girls will that make this term Sirius?" Remus caught his eye a wolf like grin on his face.
"Err well" Sirius struggled.
"Merlin Black you're such a man whore" McKinnon said laughing "you can't even remember how many girls you've shagged this week"
Rachele was almost invisible to the rest of them during this. She had never been fully integrated into the ranks of Gryffindor, consequently the only people she really spoke with other than Sirius were Remus and Lily almost entirely for the purpose of their study group. Not that she had any problem with that. Rachele thought she would much rather have a couple of friends than loads of them. The problem was only really Remus was her fiend, Lily just turned up to their study group and left again. They rarely studied together when Remus was off causing trouble. It had been drilled into her before she started at Hogwarts that the less attention she could bring to herself, the more she would be underestimated. The only issue with that way of thinking was that Sirius couldn't help but be the centre of attention, and James was just as bad.
Remus had told her the year before last that the boys were trying to become Animagus for him. She had spent the entire term researching the process to look for ways to help them achieve their goal faster. She found one book in the Hogwarts library after months of searching that detailed tips and tricks to help ease the process. She had given it to Sirius and two years later they were so close they could almost taste it he had told her. They had even given each other nicknames based on their animal, and then a collective name. The Marauders.