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James and Sirius headed out of their compartment, discussing forms of attack on Snape.

"What about Tantallegra?" suggested James. (for those of you who don't know, it is the tickling curse)

"Naah! Too soft. I think we should stun him and then dissolution him," replied Sirius.

"But his friends. No actually, cronies would help him get out of that spot. The reverse charm is so easy that even his block headed cronies could help him get out of that spot."

"I wish the imperious curse was legal."

"Padfoot, you know you don't mean that."

Stories and rumours had been circling around about Voldermort getting power, there was no official evidence or reports in the Daily Prophet but there were rumours of odd disappearances, strange killings and dead families. Even Sirius and James, normally cooped up in their own world could sense that something was going wrong, that something was coming, something very bad.

As Sirius and James walked along the corridor, both lost in thoughts about Voldermort, James suddenly ducked.

"Hide me! Hide me!" he shrieked.

In the compartment next to them, you could just make out a large figure of an old man with an enormous stomach, covered by a waistcoat whose buttons looked like they would fall off. Most of the space was taken up by the stomach and in the corners, a few Hogwarts students could be made out, squashed against the walls.

It was Professor Slughorn, often known as old sluggy.

James had the misfortune of being in the Slug Club. Although it meant some privileges and good food (mainly leftover crystallized pineapples), a lot of his time was wasted listening to Slughorn rave on about his talents on the Quidditch field and in the classroom. Valuable time which Sirius and him could spend playing pranks, sometimes with the help of Wormtail and (very rarely but sometimes) Moony.

Another reason why James hated the Slug Club was because of Lily. Lily was Slughorn's favourite potions student, but that had an origin. Lily was amazing at the subject, all her potions were correct and Snivelly was often left the 2nd place, no wonder she was in the Club. James had a crush on Lily for years, not one that disappears, but a long lasting one. But he knew he was wasting his time. Lily Evans, top student, wanted nothing to do with him unless it was smirking at him or cursing him. James had just about given up.

At the moment James was trying to get behind the tall figure of his friend. Thankfully for him Sirius had grown tall enough to hide behind and Sirius wasn't in the Slug Club. Most of the people in Hogwarts were very surprised that Sirius, a person in the legendary, but evil, line of the blacks, wasn't a member. Sluggy had invited Sirius one day but Sirius had caused too much trouble. Slughorn had had enough of having his waistcoat buttons popping off and for having his crystallized pineapples dancing out of his reach. When Sirius's brother, Regulus, had joined the school, Slughorn was much to busy with him to bother about Sirius. Sirius however was not too bothered about it.

"It's soooooo boring. Who in their right minds would want to spend their evenings under the eye of a Walrus who natters on about history?" James thought that he had a fair point but unfortunately, his Dads companionship with Sluggy made it close to impossible for him to leave.

James inched along the corridor with Sirius infront of him. As they reached the next compartment, James breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was close. Imagine if he had seen me, the whole afternoon wasted, listening to him drown on about the Holyhead Harpies." exclaimed James. "Sirius?"

Sirius had already fallen into a daydream. Typical.

Sorry that nothing that BIG happened, I promise that there'll be some action in the next chapter!