disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. All rights go to J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. The only person I own in this story is Hero Anise and her relatives.

"I need to get another potion," Hero just so happened to be saying to herself when the Marauders walked by.

"And what would you do with one of those? Get high?" Sirius asked her and James laughed.

Hero let go all of her frustration on them. "Yes, in fact, I am! I would ask if you would want to join me, but it looks like you're already late for your snogging session with some girl whose name you don't even know." She snapped at him and left for Madame Pomfrey's.

Hero was a 6th year Gryffindor. She had no friends, but she was okay with that. Her motto was "Who needs friends when you have books." She had deep brown eyes, a small nose, and soft features. When she smiled her face was enchanting. She had cut her once long, straight, black hair short to cover the scar left from Fenrir Greyback on her neck. It was cut so it covered the back of her neck and got longer towards the front. She had dyed the tips of her hair brown. If asked, most boys in the school would say that she was one of the hottest girls in the school, and, to Sirius' shame, she was also the only girl he couldn't get.

She didn't hate all the Marauders, just Sirius. James, she viewed as a bit of a snob; Sirius as a manslut. Hero thought that Remus was cute with his chocolate hair and eyes, but she questioned anyone who hung out with Sirius. Peter was a bit odd. That's her overall impression of the Marauders.

Sirius and James were a bit confused by her reaction. In fact, everyone that heard was. Hero was usually shy and just shrugged off any teasing, and this was very unusual for her.

"Hello? Madame Pomfrey? Are you there?" she asked what seemed to be the empty hospital wing.

"Hello, Hero. Another pain potion?" Madame Pomfrey seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"Yes, please."

She gratefully took the potion that was handed to her. The full moon was finally gone, but she was still feeling the effects of it.

"Had a bad summer?" a kind, male voice stopped her before she ran into the voice's owner.

"Wha-" she realized that the potion was still in her hands and clearly labeled, so, putting it behind her back in a vain attempt to hide it, she looked up to see who was talking to her."Um, your name's Remus right?" she said, trying to avoid the question.

It was only the second day back, and the full moon was luckily over before the school year began, but barely. During the full moon, instead of hurting others, she usually hurt herself and needed the pain potion. However, she didn't want to explain this to anyone.

"Yes, that's my name. Are you going to answer my question?"

"Which one? If it's the first one, no. If it's the second, I believe I already answered it."

Remus smiled. "Why don't you knock back that potion and come to class with me? If we don't leave soon, we'll be late," He told her kindly.

Hero's reply was to drink the potion and smile. They walked to class in mutual silence. Before they reached the classroom, she began to walk to the dorms.

"Sorry, I have to go get something I forgot."

"Like what?"

"Like my books. I can't go to transfiguration without them." She teased gently and left to go get her books.

Remus was met by Sirius, Peter, and James before he got to class and was assaulted by questions. The first he was able to answer was Sirius'.

"Were you walking with Hero?"

"Yes." Everyone but Sirius stopped asking questions.

"Did you figure out what was wrong with her?"

"There's nothing wrong with her. You know how when you usually pick on someone, and they don't like it? They reply like that."

"But she's never acted like that before!"

"Maybe she's tired of it!"

"Ooh looks like Remus has a crush." James cut in.

"What? Moony? Nah… that's impossible," Sirius said.

"Is not! He can totally have a crush!" James countered, and Remus left without them noticing.

"Yeah, on one of his books."

"Umm, you know he left, right?" Peter cut in.

"What?" they said in unison.

They rushed into transfiguration and were followed by a slightly out of breath Hero. When she entered, the only seats open were one by Sirius, one by Remus and one by a Slytherin guy. She most definitely didn't want to sit next to Sirius or the Slytherin guy. She didn't want to sit next to Remus, if he asked her question she didn't want to answer. Remus, however, was the better choice of the three, so she sat next to him before the professor got mad at her.

When Professor McGonagall said that the person they were sitting next to would be their partner for the rest of the year, Hero put her head on the desk. She did all she could not to groan out loud.

"Don't worry, I'm not bad at transfiguration." Remus told her kindly. "It could be worse."

"It can. It could have been Sirius. I don't think I could imagine that."

"I can. I see Sirius, and then I see you getting really mad at him and….. Now he's a toad. Wow, you look mad! Professor McGonagall is trying to turn him back and… oh my, now you have turned her into a... Goblet. Now everyone's running around and screaming…"

She smiled and pleaded for him to stop. Eventually he did, but only because Professor McGonagall had started the lecture. In the end, she had turned everyone into something.

At the end of class, everyone had free time to talk as long as they didn't leave their seats.

"You know, I only have one problem with your 'vision,'" she hand quoted vision, "of Sirius and I being partners."

"What would that be?"

"What would I turn you into?"

"That's your question? You're not denying that you would transfigure me? Wow. I don't know the answer to that one. Why don't you answer it?"

"Well I think I would turn you into…." She said the first thing she thought of. "Chocolate."

"Chocolate? Why chocolate?"

"That's for me to know and you never to find out." he raised his eyebrow at her comment as Hero grinned evilly..

He was about to say something when the bells in the tower rung, releasing them from class. Hero was gone before he could even get out one word.

She was extremely embarrassed by her reply. "Chocolate. Really, Hero? Is that the best you can do?" she berated herself in her mind. "Maybe he won't figure out why you said that. There's no way he can know that you were thinking about his deep, brown eyes, or his brown hair that reminds me of chocolate and how... Stop it!" She was now yelling at herself. Hero continued walking to her next class without letting her face show what she was feeling inside. Meanwhile, the Marauders had met up again and were teasing Remus.

"Well, well, well. Congratulations Moony.," Sirius told him as James came up behind him.

"I almost was convinced by Padfoot that you couldn't do it." Remus jumped at the sound of James' voice, not noticing that he had come up behind him.

"What are you guys talking about?" he asked as he tried to get past Sirius but failed.

"It's obvious isn't it? You and Hero..." James drew out her name in a tone of voice that almost sounded like he was singing.

"How did you do it? How did you get the one hot girl that I couldn't?"

"I didn't get anyone!" Remus finally pushed past Sirius.

"Then what do you call Hero coming to sit down next to you?"

"Well considering her choices, I don't blame her." Remus turned around to talk to them now.

"What options?" Sirius asked getting back into the conversation.

"It was sit next to a Slytherin, you, or me. I think she chose the best option. You don't even want to know what would happen if she was partnered with you," He said with an evil smile and walked away.

"What would happen?" Sirius yelled at him, but it was useless because Remus simply ignored him.