Hello again people. I have two reviews so far! Thanks guys! That means a lot to me! To everybody else, please review! I want to know if you like it or not! Any suggestions would be helpful! I know the chapters are short but I nearly gave up on the story to recover from my stupid vacation. Dear god, it was horrible! I fell in love with my best friend and she fell with a git I knew from last year. I tried to tell her he was bad news but she wouldn't believe, or should I say trust me so she went out with him anyway. Then I told her that I love her and she got mad at me for betraying her. I don't know a lot about women but what is my fault that I like her? Now we aren't friends anymore and when we do talk (only by yahoo messenger) we argue a lot and end up hating each other more. I don't even know if I liked her or I felt the need to protect her but after what she said to me I don't know if I want to be friends with her ever again. I guess I'm telling you this because I need to put it out of my system and to explain future update delays. I just need to be alone for a while with my thoughts you know? Anyway here's the chapter:

Chapter four: Classes and talks

Charms was exciting to say the least. The professor seemed to know that there were difficulties between the students and paired them up nicely. Sirius got to be with James and Peter with Remus. Then the professor started explaining the year's and general Charms. Then he put them to read the first chapter and went to do some "business" leaving the students to talk to each other.

"Hey Potter! What's with you and the professors?" Sirius asked.

James paled but quickly regained his composure "none of your damn business Black! Sorry but I have work now!"

But Sirius wasn't going to let James get out that easy "actually it is my damn business. All the professors seem to like you. I want to know if your family is trying to pull something."

That was true. Both the defense and charms professors smiled when they got to James and treated him like their son.

"Well then, good luck with your search! I'm not going to help you."

"I wasn't counting on that. I just want you to know that I'm not frightened by you. I can do some investigating and find out by myself. Don't say I didn't warn you!"

James laughed "AGAIN...good luck with your search. Tell me if you find out anything."

"You can count on that!"

Meanwhile Peter and Remus were having an interesting conversation of their own.

"So…Peter…had any good rewards recently?" Remus asked smirking.

"None of your damn business!" Peter replied angry.

"I don't know what's up with you Pettigrew but I don't like it. Why are you like this? Why do you care so much about yourself?"

Peter stuck out his tongue very childish "if you must know I have some very good friends that care for me"

"I'm glad Sirius gives a damn about you but again, you never said anything about you caring for him."

Peter gritted his teeth "I do care for him. You are you bugging me so much? Leave me alone! Bother someone else!"

Remus rolled his eyes "we're going to be staying in the same dorm for the next sever years. I think it's a good idea to know each other."

"Yeah well…your breath stinks!" Peter said triumphantly.

Remus smacked his own head at the stupidity and went back to reading.

Ten minutes were passed in silence before Flitwick (their professor) came.

"Sorry for the absence. We still have five minutes so what we'll do is learn basic wand movements."

Then he took out his wand and made a rotating gesture with it.

"This is what I call swish. You just need to do a perfect circle with it and end it in the exact point that you started for a well done job. Also try to keep the wand as far away as possible from the face. Many students swished their eye out trying to do a sonorous spell and never got it back."

Many students laughed at this but James saw that he wasn't joking.

"Now I want you all to try this and for next time I need you all to know to do it perfectly."

A groaning sound was heard from the muggleborns while the others cheered because either they knew how to do it or the concept was that simple.

Next they had Transfiguration. McGonagall kept her promise and treated James like the others. She even yelled at him when he came two minutes late because of a "toilet problem".

Unfortunately, Remus, who still wasn't talking to James, was sitting with a Hufflepuff James recognized as Dedalus Diggle. The only seat not taken was with Lily Evans.

James sighed and sat with her. They each eyed each other venomously as a greeting but other then that none seemed to notice the presence of the other.

McGonagall scanned the class once before continuing what seemed to be the subject presentation.

"Like I was saying before Mr. Potter here interrupted me" she glared at James "I expect my students to be in top form all the time. I will not care if the other professors give you a lot of homework. Transfiguration is as much important as the other subjects. Might I say more important in some cases." She added with a frown "this year we'll be studying simple transfiguration like transforming a needle into a match and vice versa. Next year we begin doing bigger objects and by the end of your seventh year I expect some of you to become animagi. Animagi if you didn't know is the ability to transform into an animal of your choice not using a wand. Let me demonstrate."

In two seconds their teacher began growing fur. Then she began to shrink. Next cat ears began to grow and her glasses disappeared. In no time the class was staring at a cat.

The cat began to patrol in the class and occasionally hissed at distracted students. She jumped at Peter's desk and nearly scratched him because he was laughing at some joke Sirius said.

After she completed her lap of the class, she went to her desk and transformed to normal. Even her glasses appeared on her nose like she never took them off. Everyone was gaping then they began to applause and cheer. McGonagall didn't seem to enjoy the attention because everyone suddenly lost their voice.

"I will not push the matter of animagi until sixth year when we do human transfiguration. Meanwhile you will learn, or should learn in some cases, other important spells that will be useful in your future job. Now I want you all to open your books at page five and read "the introduction to transfiguration". By next week I want a parchment page of your own opinions of how transfiguration is useful in life"

Everyone groaned at the thought of homework in the first day and opened their books. James for one got bored after the third sentence and dozed off. It took Lily five nudges to wake him up and get his attention.

"Why are you sleeping?"

"Because I don't give a damn about what the book says. And I already know this stuff."

"Don't be a showoff. Many don't have the same luck you have you know."

"Yeah but I do have my luck so I don't need to read that thing."

"At least don't sleep anymore. McGonagall will see me next to you and give both of us detention."

"Tell that to somebody who cares Evans." James said dryly.

"You don't know how it is to be me Potter. You have your perfect family and your perfect wizard life. I'm not like that. I come from a muggle family where we don't need to wave a stick and make everything better. We have to work for them and I want to learn as much as possible to help them."

James yawned "first of all Evans, my life is not that simple. Trust me if you would know what it is to be me you would be thankful for you life. Second of all," James didn't want to push the subject of his life to anyone, let alone Evans "we don't just wave a wand. Do you even know what it is to be a wizard? Things are not that simple you know! Sure work is so much better to do with a wand but we have other worries to you know!"

"Like what?" Lily asked interested.

James wasn't expecting that question "Well…um…wizards can Apparate from place to place. What if a wizard appears when you're naked or something?"

Lily raised an eyebrow.

"And…um…we have bad people who know black magic. They can kill you in an instant if you're not careful. I bet you aren't thinking of how cool it is that dishes do themselves when a killing curse comes to you."

Lily nodded but insisted "we have murderers too you know."

James snorted "yeah! Killing people with a small ball that can be taken out of their body anytime."

"But what if the bullet goes through someone heart? "

"Can't you take it out? We can!"

"Exactly!"

James realized than he just jumped in Lily's trap.

"And guns are not all muggles do. They stab you with a knife, they drawn you, they crush you with cannonballs; lately they invented a weapon that kills of entire cities without giving them a way to defend. The atomic bomb. I don't think even wizards can defend themselves against it. But what's worse, some sick, sick people take pleasure in it. They kill for pleasure. They take lives and they laugh. Some even take women or children, rip their clothes, force them to do horrible things, they don't care about their crying, their suffering, their hurt, and after they enjoyed themselves they kill the people they put to do those things. Slow, painful death."

James was shaking from fear. He didn't know muggles can be that horrible. For once he was glad that the killing curse was quick. Lily was shaking too. James didn't know why but he felt the need to comfort her. Sure, she's a pain to him but he got the feeling that Lily suffered a lot in her past and that made him forget all the dislike for her. Still being kids at the age and, James remembered, they were still in class, all he could do was pat her back. Lily turned to him and smiled. James felt something was flying in his stomach.

They stayed like that for a minute before Lily spoke "you know what Potter? You're ok!"

James grinned "not too bad yourself Evans!"

Lily laughed "I'm sorry I yelled at you yesterday. I thought all pure bloods were stuck-up gits. Guess I was wrong."

"Well, you were acting strangely."

"Yeah but you have to admit I couldn't know that you are different. Most like you think they are too good to look at me."

"But you shouldn't judge me for my blood. That would make you as worse as those guys."

"So you're comparing me to those gits? You think I'm anything like them? I guess I was right after all. You are an idiot!"

James sighed "here we go again!"

Lily looked at him "what did you say?" she asked bitterly.

"I don't like when we fight. Look, I'm sorry; I shouldn't compare you with them. They are scum and you're not."

"That's much better. I mean, you don't see me walking around like I own the place just because my parents have the dumb luck to be wizards."

James bit his lip "right. Are we friends?" he asked taking out his hand to shake hers.

Lily looked at him "I'll think about it…" turning back to read without even looking at his hand.

James groaned.

Remus didn't come to lunch or dinner so the only opportunity James had to talk to him was in their dorm. But when James came in Remus already packed his suitcases and was heading out.

"Woah! What are you doing Remus?" James asked.

Remus glared at him "None of your business Potter! Let me go!"

"So it's Potter now huh? So what we aren't friends anymore? Are you moving?"

Remus didn't like that he was interviewed "Move away from me Potter! No I'm not moving. I'm just going away for a few days to visit my mother. She's…sick."

James looked Remus in the eyes. He didn't believe a word Remus was saying but he felt he didn't need to push the subject further. He knew what was like to have secrets and he felt Remus had one now. He stepped aside but he still needed to know something.

"We still friends?"

Remus ignored him and went out the dorm.

"We still friends?" James repeated but he still didn't get an answer.

"You can be my friend!" a voice said behind him.

James turned to find Sirius grinning at him. He jumped startled because he didn't saw Sirius when he came in.

Sirius saw his movement and explained "I was under my bed searching for something when Lupin came in. It was too much of an opportunity to pass so I stayed there hoping he would talk while he was packing."

James hesitated to ask. "And?" he finally said.

"That boy is as silent as a dead man. Quite a rare specie. I myself talk a lot when I'm by myself or when there's someone else in the room."

James couldn't help to say "I noticed."

James was glad Remus was a quiet man. He thought what would have happened if Sirius heard his secret. James made a note to himself to not talk loudly to himself ever. It seems at Hogwarts walls DO have ears. Very big ones James noticed looking at Sirius.

"…and I always pay attention!" Sirius finished.

James looked at him strangely. Sirius had been talking the whole time and James didn't even notice. That was happening a lot lately. Luckily, Sirius didn't notice James wasn't listening to him so he went to his bed and started changing into his pajamas. James shrugged and went to change himself. Something was bothering him.

"Hey where's Pettigrew?" James asked realizing his absence.

Sirius looked around the room stupidly "Well, he's not in here. Maybe he forgot the password and can't come in."

James raised his eyebrow "and you're not at all worried?"

Sirius shrugged "neah! Pete's a capable guy. He can manage by himself. He always does."

James wondered if those two were really friends or not. Then again Sirius did receive a howler today from his parents so it was normal to not care about the others for a while and be alone. But still…

James fell asleep five minutes after, dreams of dark forests coming to him not letting him rest. Now a dark shadow was running with him. The shadow had claws and big teeth but its voice sounded like Remus's.

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