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Hogwarts Second Years

Chapter Three – The Trouble With Being Blind

James was the second awake in his room. Carefully slipping out of his bed so as not to waken Sirius he met Remus in the bathroom. Not long later, Frank joined them still half asleep. In silence, they got themselves ready and then Frank stumbled down the stairs and met the girls, joining them for breakfast. Remus and James decided to waken Sirius first. He was always the hardest to waken. Grinning at Remus, James took the glass of water from beside his bed and carefully dumped it over his mate. Sirius just rolled over and pulled the pillow over his head. Remus removed it from his grip as James took the blankets. So Sirius curled up in himself shivering a little.

"Aha!" cried James, a manic glint in his hazel eyes. Remus nodded that James should do it himself. So with a wild smirk on his face, James Potter launched himself on Sirius and began to tickle him. At first all Sirius did was twitch then he shook then finally he was rolling around laughing and screaming and shouting at James to 'Stop!' Fortunately all this noise managed to wake up Peter and after they were both dressed foe the day the four boys went down for breakfast.

"Pass the honey please Peter" Remus asked reaching for a bit of toast.

"I wanna go to bed!" whined Sirius letting his head fall on James's shoulder.

"Food Sira!" James laughed madly shrugging his friend off.

"Muamflem!" Peter said eating his toast and passing the honey down the table.

This being a normal morning for the four boys.

Their first week started fine and ended with only Sirius and James having one detention. Halfway through the second week Remus got 'sick' and spent three days in the hospital wing. Not long after that Sirius had a relapse of his blindness. It was Thursday and Sirius woke in a panic from a bad dream. His panic only increased when he found he couldn't see. Jumping up he screamed and screamed. James was by his side in an instant, holding him and talking to him. But Sirius just kept on screaming until Remus took hold of him and shook him roughly.

"Good, now what are you panicking about?" asked Remus as Sirius stood there dumbly. For an answer Sirius rubbed at his eyes.

"Can't see again!" he mumbled looking down. Remus and James glanced at each other, making a quick decision. James came over and took one of Sirius's hands while Remus took the other. Sirius looked from one to the other with a lost look on his face. Poor Sirius relied so much on his sight.

"We are taking you to the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey may know what is wrong with you," James said calmly, though inside he felt like screaming and punching the person who had done this to his friend.

It took them a while but eventually they made it to the hospital wing, taking all the short cuts and less used corridors they could. Sirius had flat out refused to go along the paths that everyone used. On the way they ran into Melody Applewhite and Taryn Meadows. James and Remus tried hard to sneak past with Sirius who was tripping over every second step. But Melody spotted them.

"Hey what's wrong with Sirius?" she asked purposely blocking their path. Some days she just liked to annoy.

"Move Applewhite!" snapped James helping Sirius up for what seemed like the hundredth time. But Melody just smiled, she was a lot braver than most Hufflepuff's and she was no way scared of three Gryffindor boys. Taryn on the other hand wished for nothing better than the earth to swallow her whole. Her wish was denied.

"Look, we just need to get to the hospital wing, if you would kindly let us past please?" asked Remus kindly; he saw no reason to be mean to the girls. James sent him a horrified look which changed into a smirk.

"Come on Melody, I'm hungry!" Taryn said quietly, shooting nervous glances at James. Melody sighed and turned to go. But before they knew it, she had whipped around and stolen James glasses. James dropped Sirius and reached out for her wildly.

"Give them back Melody Applewhite!" he snarled.

"Or what? You'll go crying to your mummy?" teased Melody waving the glasses in his face. "Tell us what is wrong with Sirius!"

"Never!" James cried dramatically.

"James, help please!" groaned Remus as he tried to help Sirius walk by himself. Sirius was muttering under his breath foul and unsavoury words and not helping Remus at all.

"Come on Melody give him back his glasses and let's go!" Taryn cried softly. She didn't do anything to help James nor did she help Melody, preferring to stay out of fights. But Melody ignored her. Sometimes Melody got rather frustrated with her house mates, Arabella was the only one who dared to do anything out of the ordinary.

"Go eat if you want! You know the way!" snapped Melody turning her back on Taryn. Poor Taryn stared at Melody, tears welling up in her eyes. Then she turned and fled from the scene. Remus glared at Melody, as did James. Melody only smiled. But before anyone could do anything, two fifth years came across them. Affrica Finch and her friend Keynin Wood. Both were in Gryffindor.

"What is going on here?" asked Affrica. Remus noticed she was a Prefect and quickly placed a hand over Sirius's mouth.

"Oh, nothing really!" smiled James. Keynin smiled at him before whispering something to Affrica.

"James is it? Well I'm going to ask Lupin if he can tell me!" Affrica clearly did not trust James. Remus didn't blame her, last year, James and Sirius had turned her hair bright pink and then glued her hand to her twin brothers. Now both her and her brother Ackerly were Prefects.

"James and I are taking Sirius to the hospital wing and Melody took James glasses!" Remus said quickly. He saw Keynin grinning again. Affrica looked half shocked and half amused.

"Melody give the glasses back and hurry off to the Great Hall for breakfast," Affrica said with a half grin. She looked quickly at Keynin and saw him with a fist in his mouth. Remus began to smile and whispered quickly in Sirius's ear. He tried to describe what everyone looked like. James was standing on tip toe trying to reach his glasses which Melody, being a half head taller than him, was holding as high as she could. Keynin was almost doubled over in laughter and Affrica had one hand on her hip and the other running through her hair. Really, if you just walked across them you wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry. Remus could feel Sirius begin to smile under his hand.

Finally, after retrieving his glasses, James, Remus and Sirius made it to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey listened to what Sirius and Remus had to say and then sent for Professor Dumbledore. He sent Remus and James off to classes saying they could visit Sirius during breaks. Muttering under their breaths, the two boys stomped off to the Great Hall and sat down next to Peter and Frank. Neither boy really wanted to go to class if Sirius was not going to be there. Peter, to their surprise, was reading a book while eating. Remus glanced at James and raised one eye brow in surprise. James shrugged back and they both started to eat.

"Where is Sirius?" asked Lily Evans.

"Hospital Wing." James said shortly. Lily glanced at her friend Cortessa Boleyn. Cortessa shrugged and continued eating.

"Come on then, time for class!" Lily sounded eager to get going and only Alice Applewhite and Cortessa stood up with her. Frank gathered his things and went to join them but Lily was looking at the last two girls, Madelyn Queen and Mackenzie Troy. Giving a great sigh, Madelyn stood and looked questionably at Lily. Mackenzie ignored Lily's look and turned to James.

"Quiditch tryout's this Saturday, you going?" she asked. James brightened immediately.

"Why of course, there is three spots open right?" James questioned.

"Yep, Seeker and two Chasers. I'm trying for Chaser!" Mackenzie nodded. Lily meanwhile had given up on Mackenzie joining them and left to go to class.

"I don't mind either, Sirius wants to try out too, though I only hope he can see by Saturday!" James frowned at those last words.

But Sirius was not better by Saturday. In fact he didn't get out of the hospital wing until the following Saturday. He was rather upset about missing Quiditch try outs but dutifully congratulated Mackenzie and James for getting Chaser and he also congratulated the third year girl, Kennidi Quigley for getting Seeker. He groaned at the amount of homework he had to do but allowed Remus to sit him down and help him start. James came and joined them after a while. He had been talking to Mackenzie about Quiditch. Lily was helping Peter with all his homework and getting more frustrated by the minute.

"James, I think maybe you should go rescue Peter from Lily!" laughed Sirius as he rocked back on his chair. James looked over to where Peter was getting yelled at by Lily. Laughing himself, James got up and strolled slowly over to Peter and Lily.

"Arg, Sirius, how can you read this?" demanded Remus shoving some parchment under Sirius's nose. Sirius took the offending piece of parchment and glanced over it.

"Quiet easily Remmy dearest!" he smiled, "I wrote it!" He handed it back to Remus who glared at him.

"It looks like child's writing! And it's practically scribble!" Remus tried to explain. It fell on deaf ears for Sirius had started drawing on the side of his page. Remus groaned and snatched it away from him.

"Hey!" cried Sirius reaching for it, "I hadn't finished!"

"You have now!" snapped Remus, "Do. Your. Homework!"

"You're no fun," muttered Sirius as he obediently began to finish his homework. Remus only smiled, he was the only one to be able to get Sirius to actually concentrate and do something.

Much later that night, Remus and Sirius were still doing their homework. James and Peter had gone up to bed while Remus had volunteered to help Sirius finish so they could have a free day the next day. Yawning, James came down to see if they had finished. He stopped and started at what he saw. Remus was sitting doing Sirius's homework for him as Sirius was sleeping on his chair, head resting on Remus's lap. Smiling, James sat next to Remus and quietly took a piece of Sirius's homework that wasn't finished and began to do it. Remus gave James a grateful smile and read over what he had just written. Just as the boys were finishing, fifth year Prefect, Ackerly Finch came down to see why they were still up. He saw James and Remus packing away Sirius's homework and went over to help them. Seeing young Sirius fast asleep, he kindly picked him up and ushered the other two up to their room. James and Remus thanked Ackerly and crawled into their respective beds. It had been a long night, but what were friends for.

The next morning the four boys were awoken by Peter's excited shouts. Sitting up and rubbing his eyes, James glanced first at Sirius, who was trying to hide his head under his blankets. Unfortunately, during the night he had kicked about and managed to tangle them up in his legs. Giving up Sirius sat up and threw his pillow at Peter. It missed and hit Remus instead. Growling, Remus threw it back but got James. James laughed and threw one at Remus and the other at Frank. He got them both. Peter was still shouting about something but now the boys were having a pillow fight. Peter was pulled into the fight by a pillow to the head from Sirius who was laughing and trying to untangle himself as well as throw pillows at people.

Downstairs, the girls could hear the shouts and laughter from the Common Room. Mackenzie and Alice wanted to see what was happening. Lily didn't want to admit it but so did she. Cortessa decided for them and led the way up the boy's staircase. Cautiously opening the door, they peeked in. The room was a mess with feathers flying everywhere. Pillows and clothes were being thrown around the room and Sirius was lying in the middle tangled even worse in his sheets. Mackenzie couldn't help herself and started to laugh, falling on top of Madelyn who promptly fell into the messy room. The boys stopped and stared. There were the girls, each one laughing. Sirius sat up and glared at them.

"Mackenzie!" cried James in shock, "This is the boy's room!"

"Ha ha oh you guys look so funny!" Mackenzie laughed holding her sides because she was laughing so much. Madelyn hurriedly picked herself up and backed out of the room. Lily was frowning at the mess. Then Cortessa stopped laughing and pointed at Sirius.

"You look like you want to be a mermaid!" she said before laughing again. Sirius frowned at that and tried to stand, only to find himself flat on his face.

"Your room is a MESS!" shrieked Lily suddenly, effectively stopping the laughing and causing everyone to look at her. She even woke up two third year girls who crept up to see what was going on. Lily continued to rant and rave at the boys until her friends decided it was safer to move her away. The third year girls laughed as Cortessa and Alice pulled Lily away, the other two following. One of the third year girls stuck her head around the door. She smiled warmly at the five boys.

"Hey, I'm Hestia and that's Lucy, nice mess!" she said, he curly black hair bobbing as she spoke. James smiled and introduced each of the boys.

"We need to mess up the girl's room somehow!" moaned Sirius after Hestia had helped untangle him.

"Oh that's easy, lets start planning at lunch!" Lucy said with a grin.

"Yeah, cos we have something to do right now, so see you at lunch!" Hestia added mysteriously. After they had gone, the boys turned to Peter. He was after all the one who woke them up.

"So Peter, why all the shouting?" asked James casually.

"Oh yeah," said Peter, "I found out what was making Sirius go blind!"

"Oh goody, and did you find out how to fix it?" asked Sirius bouncing onto Peter's bed. Peter nodded and showed them a page of the book he had been reading. The boys gathered close and began to read it.