I'm trying to make it most like each character thinking as I tell it, so now we get to see things through James' eyes. He is in love with Lily Evans, and very narrow and to the point. He's actually quite a bit like Riley, which gets funnier later on. I promise. ;) Enjoy.

Disclaimer : I own nothing but the two transfer girls and plot.

Part Three (Revenge)

"Man. This sucks!!" Sirius whined from across the car, yet again, as he slammed his head back against the seat. It was a really annoying habit that he had when he got frustrated.

"Padfoot, shut up about it already! You're pissing me off!" He had talked about nothing but the girls for the whole ride here. Not even bringing up Quidditch could get him away from the topic for more then a minute or two.

Remus had kept pointing out that we hadn't given them a fair shot. They deserved a chance to defend themselves.

To which I pointed out that they didn't at the time.

Well we never gave them a fair chance to.

Yeah, we had had the argument so many times already that I could recite it in my head. I had never seen Sirius so worked up about something though. Sure, she was hot, but he barely knew the broad. He would find another chick to drool over. No questions asked. Remus hadn't taken it too hard though, he insisted that he would talk to them later, and Peter said the same before slipping off into his journal that he kept. He never was without the thing actually.

"But James, you don't..."

Remus stood up and interrupted Sirius before the conversation repeated itself again. "It's time to change into our robes."

The guys changed in silence, all of them deep in thought. Peter was done first; the guy was amazingly quick at damn near everything he did. It fit with his animagus form on that sense, and in the sense that Peter liked to be left alone, and get away quickly whenever he could, but James had never liked or understood its negative implications.

The dog fit Sirius perfectly. Big, loyal, loving, rather shaggy, and quite frankly he would probably play fetch if it was for the right treat. Even the negative aspects were spot on. Sirius was a dog. He loved women. And he loved chasing after them. The stag fit himself perfectly as well. Wild, athletic, easily excitable and proud. Even the negative aspects fit perfectly. He would admit that he liked to be part of the herd, and was also easily anger-able. But how Peter was a rat, just did not make any sense at all.

My musings were interrupted as the door to the compartment was slammed open with a bang. I jumped and turned to see a petite blond leaning against the door frame, arms crossed with an evil sneer on her face. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Remus dart behind Sirius and wrench his rob on to cover the obvious effects of his last cycle as a werewolf. It always left a huge physical impression on his body for days afterwards. I stepped closer to Sirius to create a better shield as quickly as possible/

"Riley!" I yelped as I hurriedly tried to close my unbuttoned shirt. "Get out!!"

"No." she stated clearly. "I don't listen to people who jump to unfathomable, offensive conclusions about strangers."

My jaw dropped as Sirius opened his mouth to reply. "What do you..."

"Shut you mouth!" The small girl stated with such command that Sirius was just left gapping as well.

"Now, I don't take kindly to rudeness. And I sure don't take kindly to unfounded accusations on any normal day." She calmly stated as she pushed herself off the door frame and started slowly walking towards us. It was actually quite menacing. "But accusing someone of being a Death Eater in this day and age is just plain stupid."

She was pretty close at this point and Remus, now fully covered, had the sense to get out of the way as we backed up. Obviously Sirius and I were the only victims of her tirade, for both Remus and Peter got to watch from the sidelines.

"You know, today was supposed to be a good day." She grinned, overly innocently. Almost like we were the children and she was explaining something quite simple. "But wouldn't you know it, I get shoved over twice, called a Death Eater by the only people I know at all, and chased out of a compartment with jinxes and hexes by furious real Death Eaters for cavorting with a non-pure blooded witch"

"Well the first time you fell was your fault," I dumbly stated, not even cluing into the rest of what she had said. The entire compartment was silent and I heard Sirius suck in a breath of air between his teeth. Dumb move James. I closed my eyes and mentally slapped myself. She stopped and sighed with another slow chastising grin, before shoving me and Sirius forcefully back into our seats and looming over us.

"Just because you're an idiot who only takes things at face value, doesn't mean you have to be a rude jackass too." She was quite angry now, getting right in our faces and snarling at us. She was scarier than my mother. I heard Melody laugh at this, obviously this was a regular thing for Riley.

"Now, to set the record straight, neither I, nor my lovely friend, are Death Eaters. Nor do we practice in dark magic at all. But if you two weren't so narrow minded and inconsiderate, you might have actually given us the chance to explain that to you instead of running off like little girls to enjoy a meaningless victory." She leaned back away from us at this point and smiled.

"You two," she continued in a much calmer voice, "are quite possibly the rudest people I have ever met." Then she got almost chipper and excited. "I hope you rot in hell." She smiled the biggest most sincere smile I have ever seen in my life, and promptly turned on her heels and walked away.

"Wait, Riley!" Sirius stood up to grabbed her wrist. "Let us explain."

SLAP

The sound echoed in the room as Sirius stumbled. Impressive. The girl barely topped five feet and yet somehow managed to over balance Sirius; one of the tallest people I had ever met. All with a slap...good thing it hadn't been myself to go after them. Even though Sirius had only beat him by a second.

"You don't get to give me an explanation. We never got to give you one." She was merely grinning at him. "Now, I believe I told you to rot in hell. Oh, and put a shirt on you hairy lug. It's not attractive." With that, she was gone. Melody smiled at us, gave a little wave, and skipped off after the girl.

Before the door could shut behind them, he heard Melody say "That was one of your best yet girl!" with a laugh.

The compartment was left in total silence. Sirius just stood there holding his cheek and staring at the door in shock. Remus and Peter were actually grinning, though they were shocked grins. I slowly stood up and finished buttoning up my shirt as Remus and Peter started to talk about what had just happened. I didn't hear much of it though as I thought about what she had said.

She was right. And Remus was right, I begrudgingly admitted. I had no right to get as angry as I did. And really, I could imagine if someone had called me a Death Eater. I would have the same reaction myself. I slowly slid my tie on and did it up as I resolved to apologize to the new girls. No matter what house the ended up in. Only when the train started to rumble to a stop seconds later did I remember what Riley had said about being chased and jinxed by the Slytherins. We could start with that.

Gathering up my wand and school robes I smacked Sirius on the back of the head. "I know you're shocked mate, but lets start fixing it." He grinned, immediately knowing what I meant and pulled his shirt on. Buttoning it on the wrong buttons and putting his tie on with an actual knot instead of a tie knot, he grabbed his wand and robes and we raced out of the compartment leaving a grinning Peter and Remus behind.

I hopped off the train before it came to a complete stop and went to stand by the entrance to the horseless carriages. If we waited, then there was no way we could miss them. So Sirius and I stood, stock still, and waited. And Waited. And Waited. The train was taking forever to stop, and I was getting bored quite quickly.

"You know," Sirius said quietly, just as I was about to scream in frustrated boredom, "I just might have screwed everything up with this girl." I nodded." But damn if that wasn't one of the hottest thing I have ever witnessed in my life!" He grinned wildly and I couldn't help but laugh. Trust Sirius to still be thinking about the girl.

Finally people started to pour out of the train and make their way over to us. I watched through the crowd for any of the slimy Slytherins. Over the sound of the students making their way up to the school, first years screaming, and Hagrid yelling "Firs' Years, Transfer Students This Way" over it all, I was defiantly wondering if I was gonna go deaf before the night was over. I kept scanning the crowd though as Sirius did the same beside me. Bloody blokes attention was grabbed when he saw Riley though and he watched her walk over to Hagrid. I grinned as I noticed Riley gesturing vividly about the size distance between herself and Hagrid before I turned back to looking for the Slytherins.

Finally I spotted a disgustingly blond head of hair moving towards us and he nudged Sirius in the side. We ducked and edged back into the foliage behind us and grinned at each other, already knowing what we were going to do. As the group shoved past waiting students and got into the first carriage Sirius pointed his wand at Malfoy and whispered 'distraho'. Immediately his hair stood on end and his skin started to turn a sickly colour of pink.

When everyone was staring at him, I jumped out and yelled 'vulgus excipio'. He and the rest of the students watching laughed wildly as the Slytherins were lifted up into the air and suspended by their ankles.

I grinned at the now pink faced Malfoy as Sirius yelled, "Serves you right, you useless wankers!"

"Don't ever hex our friends again." James added with a cheerful grin before Sirius and I stepped into the carriage and began our ride up to the castle, leaving the Slytherins hanging from nothing behind us.

(In the castle)

"Funny though it was, I doubt it will do much good mate," Remus told us after laughing. "I doubt they were watching. And they might even think it was childish."

"It was worth a shot though right?" Peter grinned. "They are gonna get you back something fierce now though."

Sirius just smiled, "She was watching. I guarantee it." He stretched lazily as he waggled his eyebrows.

"Whatever, once they get sorted, first thing we do is apologize to them. And I don't care if they get put in Slytherin. We need to Apologize." It was the only thing I could think of. I felt like a jerk for saying what I did. And I knew that Sirius did too. Even Remus and Peter felt bad for just walking away, though the girls obviously weren't mad at them.

"I actually wonder if that Melody chick is even angry," Sirius mused. I was just amused that he could think of anyone but the blond spitfire we had met only a day ago.

"Oh I bet she is, but she just decided to allow Riley to express it...you heard her yelling back at the station." Remus mused. God, this must be what I looked like when I thought of Lily. Ah Lily. My eyes scanned the table for her. I could not wait to see her again. She probably looked more gorgeous then ever this year. Damn...I guess I was as bad as them.

"Ugh! I'm hungry!!" Sirius growled, and seconds later the great hall doors opened as the First years, Melody and Riley were ushered in. Alright...almost time to fix things.

The sorting hat was placed on a stool in front of the school and sang some song about accepting people no matter their house. Something about Unity. All that hogwash. Same as always, but Remus actually paid attention this year, nodding and clapping along when it was done. I looked over at the girls knowing they would be sorted last and had to stifle a laugh at the looks on their faces.

Sirius, Peter and Remus all looked over and gave about the same reaction that I had. Melody's jaw was hanging open in blatant disgust and she was unconsciously smoothing her hair. Riley was shaking her head with her hands thrown up as if to say 'that thing is not going to touch my head.'

The ceremony began as the first student was called up to the hat.

'Jake Adams.' Poor kid was shaking. Barely a moment after the hat was placed on his head the hat opened the brim in its side and yelled out,

"HUFFLEPUFF"

The Hufflepuff table stood up and cheered as the boy raced to sit down. And so it went for the next half hour. Student after student. All different houses. It was the same thing every year. Finally the last First year was called.

"William Weasley"

The hat was placed on the head of a boy with shockingly red hair. James grinned as the hat yelled out,

"GRYFFINDOR"

"Fantastic! Eight new first years! Bloody brilliant mate!" Sirius chortled in pleasure while standing up with the rest of the table to cheer the new arrival.

"And now the good part." I grinned in excitement.

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