Peter's Prattle:
Year 1972, 1st Year:
Quote of the Day:A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be
The start of the New Year saw Remus, Sirius, James and I becoming very good friends. Well we had been very good friends before the New Year but over the whole year we had been there for each other, we shared nearly every lesson together, slept in the same dormitory and ate at the same table every day, so it was inevitable that we'd become close friends. I felt that with Remus and James especially I was becoming good friends. Remus and I shared a close friendship as James and Sirius were almost always together and they suited one another very well, and they nearly always paired together and whilst James and Sirius were spending so much time together Remus and I developed our own friendship. I also had a great friendship with James. I saw him as everything that I aspired to be, he was good at flying, good at almost every class like Transfiguration, Defence and Charms, and he was genuinely a great person.
Sirius and I were also friends but I felt that one of the sole reasons why we were friends was because we both had close friendships with James and Remus, and the fact that we shared a dormitory together. Other than that though it felt like we didn't have much in common except our love of mischief and pranks. Where Sirius was impulsive I was more careful. Where Sirius was loud and outspoken I was quiet and shy. We both were very different in almost every aspect. But we were all good friends and I loved having friends that I could rely on whenever I needed them. People who could watch over me if need be.
And so the months flew by with winter turning into spring and the flowers and gardens of Hogwarts in bloom and the hills surrounding the castle turning into a rich shade of emerald green. The cold month of February ended and March started and grew into April, when spring really started. The spring months were my favourite time of the year as it was the first good weather after the cold winter months. Even though it drizzled and was mild I still loved spring much more than winter.
With the blooming of spring Professor Sprout seemed very happy and she began to teach us about more advanced plants in Herbology. Herbology was my favourite subject, as I loved nature and plants and the months of spring, which saw the growth of new plants. I loved learning about different plants and their properties and found it very interesting. Sprout was also a great teacher and she seemed to encourage my love of Herbology, which I appreciated. Herbology was one of the few subjects that I was truly good at and I think it was because I liked it so much so I was good at it.
It was a mild spring day in April and James, Sirius, Remus and I was walking down to the greenhouses for the start of our Herbology lesson. James and Sirius were discussing Quidditch.
"What perfect weather to play Quidditch!" James commented as he looked longingly down at the lush green Quidditch pitch.
Sirius agreed. "It would be good to start flying again." Personally, whatever the weather, I knew I wouldn't be getting on a broomstick anytime soon. Not after what happened last time.
"Wouldn't it though? I mean its perfect weather. I wish they'd let first years play Quidditch!" James said. "I want to play!"
"Well you can't, so stop complaining" Remus said, though he was smiling.
"Yes Remus," James drawled.
"I wonder what we'll do in Herbology today," I said.
"Something got to do with plants," Sirius said blatantly, sounding as if the thought bored him. Sirius never really took to Herbology.
"Oh really?" Remus asked sarcastically, "I thought we might learn about horses."
"Horses?" Sirius grinned at Remus, "Well aren't you silly then?" he said grinning.
"Yes, silly me," Remus said sarcastically.
As we walked closer to our greenhouse strange honking noises could be heard coming from inside.
"What the heck is that noise?" James asked, eyeing the greenhouse.
"I don't know, but it sounds potentially dangerous," Sirius commented.
"Since when are you scared of anything being potentially dangerous anyway?" I asked Sirius.
"I'm not, it's just that I don't fancy being bitten by some stupid plant again," Sirius replied.
"That's why you should have worn your gloves when Professor Sprout told you to," Remus said, laughing at him.
"Yes Professor Remus," Sirius said rolling his eyes at Remus.
Remus didn't comment however, as at that moment we had entered the greenhouse to see trays and trays of small numbered pots holding bright, yellow, orange and white flowering daffodils. These daffodils looked ordinary enough, but they definitely didn't sound ordinary. No, we were surprised to note that the strange honking noise was coming from the daffodils themselves.
"Typical," Sirius cried over the incessant honking, "Couldn't she just show us the ordinary kind?"
James agreed. I however, thought the daffodils were great, even if they did make strange noises. Sirius covered his ears whilst Professor Sprout told the class, who had by now gathered around their desks, to put on earmuffs if the sound was getting too annoying for them. About half the class, Sirius and James included, reached for a pair of earmuffs.
"Today seeing as it's a lovely day I thought we'd have a bit of a break from the hard plants so we'll start of by fertilizing and watering these daffodils. The daffodils are the same as the normal type of flower, except this type of daffodil are special because they emit a honking noise, especially at spring time when they are in bloom," Professor Sprout told us.
"Do they honk for a reason?" Alinda Hazel, a blonde haired Hufflepuff asked over the noise of the daffodils.
"Well they honk to express their emotions, if they're happy, they emit a loud, high-pitched honk, but now, because they're in need of water and fertilizer they honk differently. They are a very unique type of plant." Professor Sprout told Alinda. "Right, the fertilizer and water are on your desks, now get to work," she told the class.
We set to work by fertilizing and watering the daffodils. Usually in Herbology we went in pairs or groups of four, and usually I paired with Remus and James and Sirius paired together, today it was the same and Remus and I set about fertilizing and watering one honking orange daffodil.
"They are quite cute in their own way," I said to Remus, looking down at the small daffodil, which seemed to have a mind and personality of its own.
Remus agreed as he watered the plant. I looked over to Sirius and James who had been neglecting their plant. Sirius was holding the watering can temptingly over the daffodil, which seemed to be stretching out as far as it could to get a bit of water. Then just as Sirius was about to pour water on the plant, he whipped the watering can behind his back and laughed at the daffodil.
I scowled at Sirius, he always neglected plants.
Then suddenly, as Sirius did this again, the daffodil let out a deafening honk and Sirius, in shock, fell over and landed on the watering can that he had dropped in his astonishment. James rolled about laughing, as did the rest of the class including Remus and I.
"Mr. Black! Stop playing games and do your work!" Professor Sprout said.
"It's not my fault! The daffodil's out to get me! It wants to blow my eardrums out!" Sirius said, half jokingly, whilst scowling at the daffodil.
"Mr. Black, if you don't take this class seriously then you will have to serve detention," Professor Sprout told Sirius.
"But I didn't do anything! The daffodil honked at me!" Sirius retorted.
"Right, I'm sorry Mr. Black but I have to give you detention," Professor Sprout said.
"What?! What for? I didn't do anything!"
"I don't tolerate lying in my class, nor do I tolerate you not looking after my plants properly, talking back or not taking the class seriously," Professor Sprout said.
"What?! I didn't lie!" Sirius said.
"That's another lie Mr. Black," Professor Sprout reminded him. "Now get back to work please."
Sirius, having no other choice, went back to work, scowling at the honking daffodil, which emitted a loud, happy sounding honk, which made Sirius even more irritated.
Remus and I watched all this with great amusement.
"He's always digging himself deeper, is Sirius," Remus laughed. I laughed and nodded as we finished fertilizing and watering our plant.
For the rest of the lesson we fertilized and watered more daffodils until the signal went for the end of the lesson.
Professor Sprout called Sirius to her desk to discuss detention and Remus, James and I filed outside to wait for Sirius.
"Honking daffodils… I'd never thought I'd see the day," James said as he wiped dirt from his hands.
"Well I liked them," I replied.
James and Remus smiled. Then Sirius came out of the greenhouse doorway, with a scowl on his face. In his hands he was holding none other than the honking daffodil plant that supposedly tried to blow his eardrums out before and a bag of fertilizer and a watering can.
"You know what she's making me do?!" Sirius cried loudly as he walked over to us.
Remus, James and I started laughing.
"What the hell are you all laughing at?" Sirius asked vociferously.
"Sirius," Remus cried, "You've still got your earmuffs on!" he said loudly, pointing to Sirius' ears.
"Oh," Sirius said in realization, and then he pulled his earmuffs off and walked back into the greenhouse before emerging seconds later.
"You idiot," James laughed as we made our way back to the castle.
"You know what Sprout's making me do?!" Sirius said again, ignoring James' comment.
"What?" I asked.
"She's making me look after this stupid plant for the rest of the week! And if I kill it or get rid of it then I get detention and points taken away!" Sirius said, sounding outraged.
We all laughed as the daffodil, as if knowing that Sirius had called it stupid, honked extra loud.
"Shut up you stupid plant!" Sirius said, only making it honk louder.
"Well at least you don't have to serve detention." I said to Sirius brightly. I quite liked the idea of having the daffodil in our dormitory.
"Believe me, I'd much rather serve a detention than look after this annoying thing," Sirius replied, looking at the plant in disgust.
"It won't be that bad though, it's not hard to look after a daffodil," I told Sirius.
"For you maybe," Sirius replied, looking at me, "But this thing hates me, I can tell."
"Wonder why." Remus snorted derisively, as we entered the castle once again.
We walked through the corridors talking and laughing as we made our way to the Gryffindor tower. When we got to our dormitory Sirius instantly dumped the daffodil roughly onto the ground, the daffodil let out another honk.
"It's already getting on my nerves!" Sirius complained.
"Well if you put it on your bedside table or the windowsill maybe it wouldn't honk so much," I told him.
Sirius rolled his eyes, "No, it's staying on the floor. No way is it going on my bedside table."
Nevertheless I plucked up the abandoned plant and placed it on the windowsill.
"Don't put it there! It'll keep me up all night! And it's right next to my bed!" Sirius complained.
"But it needs sunlight," I replied.
"Fine then. But if it makes any noise tonight it won't be there in the morning," Sirius warned.
"Remember what Professor Sprout said Sirius, you've got to look after the plant, not kill it," Remus said with a grin on his face. He, along with James, seemed to find the whole thing amusing.
"I don't care what she says. I need my beauty sleep you know," Sirius replied, running a hand through his hair.
James scoffed, "You? Beauty sleep? Sirius, I'm sorry to tell you this, but no amount of sleep is going to make you look any better," he said jokingly.
"What's wrong with the way I look? I'm dashingly handsome." Sirius waggled his eyebrow, "At least I don't have hair that looks like a birds nest," he laughed.
At that moment James jumped onto Sirius' bed, where Sirius was sitting, and started to punch him playfully. The two spent another five minutes scuffling.
"Say my hair does not look like a birds nest," James had Sirius in a headlock and was muffling his hair.
"All right! All right! You hair does not look like a birds nest…" Sirius said, and just as James said "That's better" and let go of him, Sirius said, "No, it looks more like a hedgehogs bum," Sirius laughed.
"That's it Black!" James cried, and began to punch Sirius again. They scuffled for a further five minutes.
"If you've quite finished," Remus said to the two who were still scuffling, "I think it's nearly time for dinner," he said.
Instantly, at the mention of dinner, the two stopped, stood up, and straightened their robes.
"Dinner time already?" James asked.
"No, I just said that so you'd stop being idiots," Remus replied.
"I think Remus is asking for it, don't you James?" Sirius said, looking sidelong at James.
"I think so," James agreed. Then all of a sudden the two jumped on Remus' bed and started to attack Remus.
"Peter! Help me!" Remus cried out in between giggles. Yes giggles.
Not wanting to leave Remus to the subjections of two crazy maniacs I jumped atop the bed and tried to help Remus.
Of course it didn't work and the four of us attacked anyone we could whilst laughing wildly. After a while we stopped and lay atop Remus' bed.
Remus checked his watch, "Now it really is time for dinner," he said, standing up.
"Good, I was getting hungry," I replied.
"Me too," Sirius agreed.
"You two are always hungry," James said.
"Yeah whatever," Sirius said, standing up and filing out the door behind Remus.
Dinner went by uneventfully and soon enough we were all tired so we went up to bed.
As we opened the dormitory door we heard the daffodil honking loudly.
"Sirius, you forgot to water that daffodil," Remus said, as we entered the dorm.
"How much does it bloody drink?! I thought you only had to water plants once a day – or less," he said, as he picked up the watering can and poured water on the plant.
"Yes, but this one you have to water at least three times a day," I told him.
"Three times a day?! How greedy," Sirius replied, putting down the watering can.
"Well you eat three times a day don't you?" I said.
"Yes, but I need it, I'm a growing boy."
"Yes, and the plant is growing as well," I replied.
"Yeah, but I'm bigger than a plant".
Knowing this argument wasn't going anywhere I didn't reply.
We all got ready for bed and soon I climbed into my warm bed after saying goodnight to Remus, Sirius and James. The daffodil, for once, was quiet. I felt myself slipping into a peaceful sleep.
After what felt like only five minutes, I was awoken by a loud honking noise and someone cursing. I sat up and peered into the darkness. I made out the figure of Sirius standing near the windowsill.
"Shut up you stupid daffodil! I'm trying to sleep! Be quiet!" Sirius said, brandishing his fist at the plant.
"What's all the noise?" James too had been woken up. Remus, I noticed, was still asleep. He was a very deep sleeper. I, however was a light sleeper, so was James. Sirius was usually a deep sleeper as well.
"It's this daffodil! It won't shut up!" Sirius replied.
"Well give it some water or something!" James said.
"I already did! But it's still honking!" Sirius said.
"Well you better shut it up or the prefects will be in here," James said, over the noise.
"Hey Pete! Come over here," Sirius said, noticing that I had been awoken also, "you're good at Herbology. You should know what to do!"
I scrambled out of bed and over to the windowsill to inspect the plant. I put my hand in the pot and felt around, instantly knowing the problem, "Sirius! You've over watered it!"
"What?! But you said it needed water three times a day!" Sirius replied.
"Yes, but not the whole watering can!" I said, picking up the pot.
"Well it needed water so I gave it bloody water!" Sirius replied.
I shook my head. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and someone outside yelled, "What's all this noise! Open the door!" I recognized the voice to be that of Thomas Weatherly, the Gryffindor prefect.
"Great!" Sirius said sarcastically as James scrambled out of his bed to open the door to reveal a very annoyed looking, and tired, prefect.
"What's all this noise?! People are trying to sleep!" Weatherly said as he strode into the room.
"It's this honking daffodil, it won't shut up!" Sirius said, pointing at the daffodil.
"Why have you got a daffodil in your dormitory anyway Black?!" Weatherly said, irritated.
"Because Professor Sprout is making me look after it for detention," Sirius said, sounding as if he thought that it was none of Weatherly's business.
"Well shut it up! We are trying to sleep! If it isn't quiet in five minutes you'll be sleeping with it outside!" Weatherly said, and then he marched out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
"Stupid bloody prat!" Sirius scowled after him.
I took the daffodil into the bathroom to drain the plant. After a while, it finally stopped honking. I took it back into the dormitory.
"There," I said as I placed it softly on the windowsill.
"Thanks a lot Pete," Sirius said, smiling at me. I think that was the first time that Sirius had ever thanked me for anything.
I looked over at James' bed and saw that he had already fallen asleep again, sprawled out on top of his blankets. I looked up at Sirius and smiled back.
"That's all right," I replied.
"Now we better get some sleep or we'll be dead on our feet tomorrow," Sirius said, as he slapped me on the back and walked back over to his bed. I nodded and made my way over to my bed and climbed under the warm covers where I fell into a deep sleep.
The next few days went by without much action, Sirius tried to look after the honking daffodil as best he could, but he was always doing something wrong, such as not giving it enough water (he wasn't game to over water it since what happened last time), putting too much fertilizer on it, or forgetting about it.
I was just glad that Sirius did not have a pet to look after, and found it no surprise that his family's owl – Zade – hated him. I was surprised that the daffodil had actually survived four days under Sirius' care, partly; the only reason why the daffodil had survived was that I had tended to it after Sirius made a mistake with it. I watered it when Sirius under watered it, I fertilized it when Sirius forgot and I put it in the sun when Sirius left it in the corner. I didn't want to the plant to die because Sirius forgot about it. So that's how it got through the week under Sirius' care.
It was a Sunday and I was walking back to the Gryffindor tower from my walk around the grounds. Today was the last day that Sirius would have to look after the daffodil, he had to return it tomorrow morning to Professor Sprout, and if it was in good condition, his detention was served. If it weren't, however, then he'd have to serve actual detentions. I knew that this wouldn't happen though, as the daffodil was still in good condition, no thanks to Sirius though. He really had no idea how to look after plants properly.
When I arrived at the common room I found no sign of Remus, Sirius or James. Thinking that they must be in our dormitory, I made my way up the stairs towards our room. When I got near to the door I could hear someone talking. It was Sirius, but I wasn't sure who he was talking to exactly. I listened carefully.
"You've been quite annoying, you know, nearly made me get more detentions than I have already, which is something I don't really need right now, even if mine and James' bet is still on. I've still got those detentions with Crevan as well. The stupid prat. Ah well," Sirius trailed off. I wondered who he could be talking to. If it were James or Remus they would have said something by now.
I decided to make my presence known, so I pushed open the door and stood in the doorway. Sirius, who had been sitting on his bed and looking at the daffodil on the windowsill (had he been talking to the daffodil?), got such a shock that he jumped off his bed and ran a hand through his hair, looking sheepishly at me as if he was guilty of something.
"Peter! You scared the hell out of me! Don't sneak around like that! I could have been doing something private you know!" Sirius said.
"Sorry," I said genuinely.
"It doesn't matter. Just don't do it ever again," Sirius replied, sitting back down on his bed slowly and looking around.
I sat on my bed silently. We sat there in an awkward silence for a while. I scratched my nose, and then finally asked quietly, "Were you talking to the plant?"
Sirius ran a hand through his hair again, and looked at me strangely, "Well, I wasn't like having a conversation with it, if that's what you're asking…"
"Is that because it can't talk back?" I asked slowly, a grin forming on my lips.
"You- what, see, it wasn't like that, I was-"
"Talking to a plant?"
"No! Well, yes, but I'm not mad you know," Sirius said quickly, "I was just, you know," Sirius looked around awkwardly.
"Sirius, it's okay. I do it all the time," I replied.
Sirius looked at me, "You do?"
"Yes, well, plants are alive aren't they? It's just like when James talks to his owl," I said.
"Yeah, you're right," Sirius grinned at me, "though I suppose I sounded like a bit of an idiot."
"Well, we all do sometimes," I said quietly.
"True." Sirius replied, "Hey, listen Peter, I wanted to give you this," Sirius turned to the windowsill and held the daffodil towards me.
"The plant? What? But it's not yours to give," I said, surprised.
"No it's all right. I went to see Professor Sprout today and with my gorgeous face and boyish charms I convinced her to let me give it to you, and she said yes," Sirius grinned.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yeah,"
"But don't you want to keep it?"
"No, well, I've grown to like it this past week but it would die if I kept it, besides, you deserve it more than me, I couldn't have kept it alive if you didn't care for it after I over watered it and under watered it. Take it," Sirius said as he held out the plant towards me.
I took the daffodil into my hands. "Thanks Sirius," I said genuinely.
"You deserve it Pete," Sirius replied.
"Could I put it on the windowsill?" I asked, "It seems to like it there."
"Sure," Sirius said smiling.
"Thanks," I said, placing the daffodil on the windowsill, where it basked in the spring sunshine.
"So where are James and Remus?" I asked as I sat back down on my bed.
"Remus went to the Owlery and James went to watch the Gryffindor team train," Sirius replied.
"Why didn't you go with James?" I asked.
"I had to go see Sprout, plus I didn't feel like watching them today," Sirius replied.
"Oh," I said. I realized at that moment that Sirius and I had never really been alone together for more than ten minutes, Remus or James had always been with us and we'd talk as a threesome or foursome. I also realized that we had never really had a proper conversation together either, about important stuff like family, where we lived, or other things. I knew only so much that I'd seen about Sirius' family, I knew that they were quite horrible, as Sirius' Howlers had more than indicated. But I didn't know that much else about him than that, and he probably knew less about me.
"So, what do you feel like doing?" Sirius asked.
"Well, I don't know really…" I replied, casting around in my mind for an idea, anything to do, or something to say.
Sirius let out a short laugh.
"What?" I asked. What could possibly be funny?
"Well, it's just that, we've never really talked, have we? I mean, properly talked, heck, I don't know the first thing about you and we've been living in the same dorm for months." Sirius answered.
"Yeah…" I couldn't think of anything to say to that. "Well, we've never really had the chance to, you know, Remus or James are always around, or, you know. We don't really have that much in common…" I said.
"Except Remus and James. We're both good friends with them. Pete, you don't need things in common to be friends with someone; it's preferable, but not essential. And we're friends, aren't we?" Sirius raised his eyebrow at me.
"Yes, of course." I replied.
"So why can't we talk then? Why does this feel so bloody… weird?" Sirius said, running a hand through his hair and stating the obvious.
"I don't know." I replied unhelpfully.
At that moment the daffodil plant let out a particularly deafening honk. Sirius and I both jumped about ten feet in the air in shock. We traded a quick glance and in an instant I couldn't hold it in any longer, both Sirius and I started laughing, and once we started we couldn't stop, it was like a never-ending cycle of vicious laughter. I felt my whole body shake and the laughter rise from the very pit of my stomach.
We howled and shook with laughter, we laughed our heads off, (not literally), our faces were wet with tears of laughter, and I slapped my fists on the bed and laughed as hard as I could. It was the most I'd ever laughed in a while. The funny thing was that I wasn't even sure of exactly what we were laughing at, and neither, it appeared, did Sirius. It was a mixture of things I think, the combined situation of awkwardness between Sirius and I, and then the daffodil honk, and then both of us jumping about ten feet in the air at the sudden and loud noise. And when you think about it, the concept of a daffodil honking is rather hilarious. Especially if you look at it from a Muggle point of view. It seems absurd.
And hilariously funny.
We were still laughing when James and Remus returned to the dormitory. Upon entering they looked at us as if we had both lost our minds.
"Um, are you two okay?" James asked with amusement.
"It was… It was…" Sirius tried to explain in between bursts of laughter, "The daffodil, it honked – so loud! And it was hilarious… so funny!" he said, then proceeded to laugh again. I joined him.
"Er. Okaaaaayy. Normal…" Remus said, staring at us both.
"No… you had to be here… it's so funny… right Pete?" Sirius asked me, chortling. I nodded as Sirius proceeded to tell the hilarious story which didn't seem that hilarious to James and Remus when he finished.
"So, let me get this straight," Remus said when Sirius had finished explaining, "You two were sitting here and all of a sudden the daffodil honked very loudly and that's what you find so amusing?"
At that we both started laughing again.
"Remus," James and Remus looked at each other with raised eyebrows and then gazed back at us, "I think a trip to St. Mungo's is in order. Don't you?"
"Definitely James…" Remus grinned, "Most certainly," he added.
And that just made the four of us start laughing insanely again.
Author's Notes: Look, I've updated twice in the same month! Haha. New record. And seeing as I did, I would really love you forever if you reviewed! :)
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Brenngt14- Thanks very much!:) I used to think everyone liked Sirius the best as well, but there are a huge no. of Remus lovers out there as well. Ah, its so hard to choose with those two! They're both awesome. Yep, Malfoy definitely is a slimy bug, hehe. Yes, the seventh years aren't that stupid really, once Sirius showed them how awesome he really is.
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Thehpgang- Yeah, I know it was pretty soon, I couldn't help it! Hehe. I loved Sirius curse Malfoy as well, he deserved every minute of it! Hehe. I love when Sirius & James get together, they are very funny together, its one of the funnest things to write about besides Remus & Sirius together- that's fun to write about too. Glad you like it, thanks again!
Erica- Thanks very much! I'm glad you liked the chapter, it was just a nice Christmassy chappie. Yes I agree that Peter was part of the Marauders and deserves to be written about because they wouldn't have included him on the map if he wasn't their friend. Thanks again!
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JanetLily- Hehe, yes it was pretty fast- wasn't it? I thought I'd update a bit quicker this time. Well I wanted James to stay back for Sirius for Christmas – Sirius certainly wouldn't have gone back home and James thought it would be a nice thing to do, and it gave me a chance to write about their friendship on their own. I'm glad you liked it. Thanks very much again! :)
Beansie- Yes, it was funny, haha, you read it at school – well they'll just have to get over you laughing, wont they? Heh. It's a free country. I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, it was a bit like The Silly Season, but I can just imagine Sirius plucking tinsel from somewhere and covering someone in it – much to their chagrin. Hehe. I'm glad you think Sirius getting a camera is true blue Marauderism – I love the idea of Sirius having a camera, actually I wrote about it in one of my other stories (I haven't posted that one) and its got a whole thing about his camera and photo's, and well, I might inject it into this story somehow, it would certainly be fun and I can imagine Sirius doing it. You're totally right about Remus & the full moon chapters, I hadn't really realized it until you told me, but you're very much right, and don't worry I already have the next chap written and it's written by Remus and its not a full moon chapter- its about 43 pages long though!!!! Haha. So I won't post it all together.About the Jocunda Sykes thing, no I don't mind, she's not my character I just used her name & what little we know about her - I'm quite sure that they'll (our Jocunda Sykes') have totally different characters anyway! Thanks again! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and bug-Malfoy!!
Anarane- That's fine about not reviewing chap 21! Just glad you reviewed this one :)Glad you liked the dream thing. Yes, I admire James; he's really great like that, doing things like that for Sirius when he could have easily gone home. Wow, I'm glad you love the endings! I can't help but end a chapter in a nice and final way, it may seem to get repetitive but I cant help it! And they teach you something as well so that's great to know. I'm glad you like my endings! Yay! Someone likes my endings! Hehe. Thanks again!
Vivianpottergirl- Thanks very very much! J grins I really don't know what to say to that! I loved your review, it made my day, I really do appreciate your words.'This Memoir is beautifully written, enveloped together by simplicity and the beauty of thought and humour.' That is just wow!! Beautiful. Thank you very very much! It sounds like the reviews from the blurb of a book- that is a great thing by the way! squees Thanks!! :)
MoNiKa BaTcH- Thanks very much! I'm really glad you like it and find it interesting! Keep reading! :)