A/N: Here's Chapter 15! Getting super close to finishing Year 1 and moving on to Year 2! Exciting things are coming! Until then, make sure to follow and favorite this story if you like it to be notified about story updates! Please leave any ideas/comments/questions in the review section if you have any! Thank you guys so much! You are amazing!

Chapter 15: What happened to Gryffindor?

Early February 1972

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Lily hurried towards the Great Hall for breakfast, her small legs scurrying past the older kids gathered in the corridor, which was loud with gossip.

Lily was already behind her schedule, having to meet up with her friends for breakfast late rather than normally walking with them every morning. As she rounded the turn into the Great Hall, commotion more than usual filled her ears, not helping her morning drowsiness.

"Lily!" Marlene exclaimed as Lily swung her leg over the bunch and dropped her face into her hands.

"What?" Lily asked, although her tone made it sound more like a statement than a question.

"You won't believe it, Lils!" What Marlene said should've sounded like something good, but Marlene's tone indicated quite the opposite.

"What?" Lily asked again, picking a biscuit off a plate. It really was the perfect start to her day, wasn't it?

"Our points are all-"

"Gone!" Gwenog finished for Marlene, exasperated.

"Well, alright then," Marlene said. "Could've said it myself, you know."

"Yes, I know," Gwenog answered dismissively. "Anyways, can you believe it? Gone! We're at zero points!"

"What? Impossible!" Lily said in denial. "What could we have done? Let me see the hour glass!"

Marlene placed her hand on Lily's head like a bird claw, and twisted Lily's head towards the hourglass.

Lily stared as she processed the empty hourglass. How was it even possible for a House to lose the entirety of their House points?

The other girls watched in amusement as Lily's brows furrowed together. "Potter."

"What?" The other girls all asked in unison to Lily's random declaration.

"Potter. And Black."

The girls all glanced at each other, shrugging as each of them looked to one another for an answer, but they were all left bewildered.

"It was Potter and Black!" Lily suddenly shrieked, and the girls all ducked, putting their hands protectively over their ears.

"What was Sirius and I, Evans?" A chirpy voice sang.

Lily whipped her head around in annoyance. "Tell me what you did, Potter."

"What are you talking about, Evans?" Sirius asked in confusion.

"Let Potter speak for himself."

"I'm with Sirius, Evans. What are you on about?"

"Have you not seen our hourglass, you dimwits?"

The boys simultaneously looked over at the hourglasses and their smiles faltered for a moment, before picking right back up.

"Explain yourselves!"

"Woah, aren't you being a little too quick to blame? Who ever even told you it was us?"

"Ha! So you confess! It was you two!"

"That's not what I meant! I was trying to say, 'why would you automatically assume it was us?'"

"You know why, Potter!"

"Fine. But it couldn't have all been us. Why don't you consider that some other people might have drained a few of the points?"

"Because nobody else is as idiotic as you two!"

"Ouch, Evans," James and Sirius said at the same time.

Sirius put a hand over his heart. "You're really very hurtful, Evans."

"Shut up, Black. Now tell me what you two did."

"Nothing."

"Oh, please, Potter. You know that isn't going to get you anywhere," Gwenog grumbled as she chewed on a biscuit.

"Fine," Sirius stood up straighter. "We just went out on a small nighttime adventure, and Professor McGonagall caught us a few times and over exaggerated the entire thing. That's all."

Lily narrowed her eyes. "A nighttime adventure cost around 700 points?"

James and Sirius' eyes both flickered around.

"Come off it, Evans. We already told you, McGonagall exaggerated. She wasn't in her finest state when she caught us."

"You're hiding something," Lily said simply.

"Tell us, Black," Marlene sighed as she toyed with her food, looking unentertained. "It's not that hard to spit out something stupid."

"Ouch, McKinnon. You should really stop hanging around Evans so often. It's taking quite a negative effect on your attitude."

"Shut it, Black, and tell us what you two did already. We're the embarrassment of the school right now, all thanks to you idiots. Oh, the lecture we'll get from Henry Fawley. The last thing we want is to listen to our Head Boy punish us all for something the two of you did. So, come on, now, and own up to it."

James wrinkled his nose in annoyance. "Ok, so we met someone during our midnight stroll. We just had a chat and Minnie was over-reactive. Must've had a bad day."

"Oh, yes," Sirius agreed. "D'you see her hair? 'Twas all frizzled," Sirius hovered his hands next to his head, demonstrating an afro.

Lily ignored him as her eyes were now slits so that only a sliver of green was beaming through. "Was that certain someone named Severus Snape and did that certain chat happen to involve more wand command talk than friendly talk?"

"Well, if you ask me, Evans. Wand commands are quite friendly. Great for practice."

"You are making no sense of your logic, right now! Now answer me! Am I right?!"

"Possibly."

Alice groaned. "Just tell us, boys. Don't think we won't find out anyways."

"Fine," Sirius said. "Since you girls seem to care about us so much…"

"Oh, shove it, Black. As if we care about you! What we care about is where all our house points went!"

"Well, you see, it's a little thing called magic…"

The girls are erupted in groans and snappy comments.

"Okay, jeez. So we hexed Snivel-"

"Wasn't it a curse?"

"Fine, Sirius. So we cursed Snivellus a little bit."

Lily's cheeks flamed red with anger. "I knew it. Why can't you two just leave him alone for one day? One day! That's all I ask! But no, you two just have to go bully him to the point that you hunt him down at night! At. Night. How ridiculous are you two?"

"We didn't hunt him down!"

Lily clearly did not seem to hear this as her cheeks began to match her hair. "What has he ever done to you? Nothing, is the answer. Absolutely nothing. Just let that sink into your miniscule heads for a second, will you? You are both just two little, useless, careless, childish, immature prats!"

With a dramatic gesture, Lily picked up her bag, swung herself over the bench and stormed out.

As she left the Great Hall, their eyes all followed her back in silence.

"Where's she off to, you reckon?" James asked.

"Snivelly, of course. She's gonna go rat us out."

"You stupid prat, Black! How's he gonna rat you out if he already knows you cursed him?"

"No need to be so angry like Evans, McKinnon."

"Honestly, though, boys," Mary said, her voice in all seriousness. "Just stop with the hexing. Maybe it seemed funny to you guys early, but now you're just shaming our entire house at the cost of your fun."

Mary walked out towards class, and the other girls followed suit, giving half-smiles of sympathy and shrugs to the boys.

By dinnertime, news of Gryffindor's, or perhaps, Sirius and James', drainage of House of points had spread rapidly through the school.

"What happened to Gryffindor?" One would ask in the hall.

And without having to ask what they meant, another would answer "Potter and Black."

And the person who asked would just stifle a laugh and simply say "Ah."

As James and Sirius walked through the corridors, they felt all their schoolmates' eyes on them, some looking sympathetic, some looking amused, and others giggling or laughing.

James rolled his eyes. "They're just jealous because they couldn't lose this many points."

Remus cleared his throat. "Er...James, I wouldn't quite call it jealousy."

"Tsk, looks as if you're getting a bit jealous, too, mate," Sirius said.

"How would I be jealous, Sirius? You just lost all of Gryffindor's House Points!"

"Hey, James was part of it too…"

Remus ignored him or didn't hear him. "Do you know how embarrassing this is? We look horrible! This is certainly the last thing you should be proud of! What were you thinking, going out at night and attacking Snape? Going out at night is enough when McGonagall first found you and took off one hundred points each! Was that not enough to make you two turn back? But no, you had to go and attack Snape! Attacking Snape! At night as well, for goodness sake. Who even knew it was possible to lose all House points so quickly. Where did you think attacking Snape was going to take you? Because if you were thinking more house points, you must be as stupid as Evans thinks you are."

"Woah! Calm down, Remus. And there's no need to insult us now," James said in a rather sharp tone.

"I don't care! I'll insult you all I want! For goodness sake, you lost ALL OF OUR HOUSE POINTS!"

"Keep it down, will you?" Peter hissed as students in the corridor all turned and looked at the boys.

"Oh, you too, now, huh?" Remus went on. "All you do is support those two. You never see any wrong in what they're doing! As long as you three get attention you're satisfied. How selfish you really are!"

"Oh, come on, Remus...Bugger off, we told you already it was an accident so stop making it seem like we intentionally tried to lose all our house points."

"Really, Sirius? Think about it again, and maybe you'll find it really was intentional." With that, Remus stormed off to the Great Hall.

"Man, someone's moody today," James grunted.

"Yeah, that's certainly one way to see it," Sirius scoffed.

"Should we go talk to him?"

"I suppose."

"I reckon we really have destroyed our reputations already as first years."

"It's fine, James. We're still the top of the class! Or, at least, you are," Sirius corrected himself with a careless shrug.

As Peter and Sirius complained about Remus' endless lectures and complex attitudes, James quietly thought about what Remus had said to him.

James was starting to get annoyed by how easily Remus was getting set off. It was always close to whenever he came back from his monthly visits to his mother. James felt a twinge of guilt. Poor Remus, James figured he shouldn't be too mean to him with his mother's situation.

He thought about Remus' question. Did James intentionally try to dock points? After all, he knew there'd be a consequence. Didn't he? Was he really as stupid as Remus and...James cringed, Lily believed? James felt a tingle of annoyance creep up at Lily. Why couldn't she just relax a bit? Why did she have to be so tense and yell at him all the time? Now Remus was beginning to act like her, James sulked. James felt like his first year at Hogwarts hadn't been at such a low point before. He really was starting to soak in the humiliation he'd brought his House.

A/N: Okay, a few things to clear up. Yes, it is possible to lose all the House points with people like young James and Sirius, so don't me. Secondly, I know the vocabulary is a little blunt right now, but you have to remember that they were only 11 during their first year, so it's not like they really used big words on a regular basis. Anyways, thank you so much for reading! You have no idea how much I appreciate it!