CHAPTER 7: Charms Class

Evilly smiling to herself, Isabella made her way to her next class: Charms. Though she didn't mind charms class too much, she was in an even happier mood due to Sirius' sensitive family subject. She walked into the classroom and stopped dead in her tracks. The Marauders were sitting in the center-back table talking amongst each other.

"Oh HELL no!" Isabella said out loud. The Marauders turned and were taken aback. Sirius shot straight up out of his seat.

"SIR, I cannot have this SCUM in this class because her presence will affect my learning," Sirius confidently told Professor Slughorn. Professor Slughorn was busy having a staring contest with Peter before he responded to Sirius' comment.

"Oh, uh, Mr. Black, deal with it," Slughorn casually said as he made faces at Peter. Peter blushed and started making faces back.

"Trust me, Black, I would put flesh-eating slugs down your pants if it meant you got out of my sight," Isabella said with a half-smile.

"Yeah, you would like that wouldn't you," Sirius cockily said.

"KIDS. ROOM. NOW," James was getting frustrated with the gross flirting. Melanie and Ashley, who happened to also be in that class, immediately gave Isabella dirty, jealous looks.

"Shut up, Potter," Lily murmured from behind.

"Anything for you, babe," James winked at Lily, who shuddered and turned away. Isabella watched with a strange look on her face and turned to walk to the back of the class. She caught a slight glance of Remus, who was smiling happily at Isabella.

"Yeah, that's right bitch. Go to the back of the class where you bELLOOONNNGGG!" Sirius high-fived James as they burst out in laughter.

"Sirius! James! Stop it right now!" Remus tried to shut the boys up. Isabella rolled her eyes and took her regular spot at the back of the class. She noticed a few Slytherins smirking between her and Sirius. Professor Slughorn clapped his hands to commence the class.

"Alright everyone, take your seats! Today, we are going to talk about your first assignment, due next Friday. I will assign groups, and you will have to pick a spell/charm. Research it, demonstrate it, present it & divide the work up equally as this is a collective mark. Now, for the first group, we'll have Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, Mr. Goyle, Mr. Snape and Miss Olson. The next group will be Mr. Black, Miss Clarke, Miss Jones (Whitney), Mr. Pettigrew hehe and Mr. Lupin. The next group is…" Slughorn went on to assign groups. James had the biggest smile on his face; Isabella smacked her head on the desk; Sirius put his face in his hands; Whitney started squealing as Remus was in her group; Lily looked disgusted, but happy to have Severus in her group; Remus beamed happily. The class shifted so each group was sitting with each other. "Now, I will give you each 10 minutes to decide your group topic," Slughorn instructed.

"Oh-kay group, we are going to do what I choose, and I choose Quidditch!" James abruptly said.

"No, Potter. Plus, we have to pick a CHARM, idiot. I think we should all throw some ideas out there," Lily said.

"Anything you decide, sweetheart, I'm happy to do," James beamed at Lily, who gave him a bitchy look back.

"Severus, what do you think?" Lily kindly asked Snape, who was sitting quietly.

"WHAT? We're going to let this slimy, greasy-haired git pick our topic? Hell no," James refused. Lily looked furious.

"SHUT UP POTTER!" She began to yell at him. Snape found that quite funny.

"Thank you, Lily. I find the Polyjuice Potion to be quite interesting, does everyone agree?" Snape asked the group. Goyle was staring somewhere else and the other group member was uninterested. "I take that as a yes then," Snape said to himself.

"I agree. Polyjuice Potion it is! For the demonstration, Severus, I feel that you and I can do it- we can transform into each other!" Lily excitedly said to Severus.

"NO, NO I DISAGREE. SNIVELLUS, NO FRATENIZING WITH MY GIRLFRIEND!" James roared.

"YOU ARE NOT MY BOYFRIEND YOU ASS!" Lily screamed right back. Sirius sighed and smiled.

What beautiful lovebirds, he thought to himself. He looked back to his group and his smiled disappeared.

"Alright group, what's our topic?" Remus excitedly said.

"Uhhhhmmmm, anything you want Remus!" Whitney playfully hit Remus on the shoulder.

"But that's not fair! We have to let everyone have their say in ideas," Remus sensibly pointed out. "Uhh, Isabella, what do you think?"

"Don't know, don't care," Isabella said with a monotone voice. Sirius snickered.

"Someone pick a shit easy spell/charm so that we can all get good, aight?" Sirius suggested.

"Um, I think we can do-," Peter started to say.

"NO suggestions from you, fatass," Sirius interrupted. Peter blushed and looked at his feet.

"I'm happy to vote with the majority," Remus voiced in.

"ME TOO!" Whitney copied. Both Sirius and Isabella knew the argument was going to be between them, since Peter's voice didn't count.

Goddamnit it, Isabella thought. 10 minutes past, and both hadn't put any ideas in. Remus could feel the awkward tension, and sighed a silent breath of relief when Slughorn came over.

"Have you all picked a topic yet?" He asked. They all shook their head no. "Right then, I will pick a topic for you. Let's see, what hasn't been taken…ah this one, yes! You guys will be doing…the love potion."