Year 1972, Beginning of 2nd Year:

Peter's Prattle:

Reminder to Sirius: Sirius is the brightest star in the sky only second to the sun! As Remus so fervently reminds you – (that last part was written by Remus)…

The day that we were due to board the Hogwarts Express for our second year came quickly and I was quite ready to get back on it, although I would also miss my home and family.

"Well, make sure you write," my mother said after she hugged me.

We were standing on platform 9 ¾ saying our goodbyes.

"I will," I said as I gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Bye Gabbi," I said to my new sister and kissed her on the cheek before handing her back to my mother.

"Have fun Pete," my father said, hugging me quickly.

"And try not to get into any trouble," my mother added as she straightened my collar.

"Yes mum," I replied with a grin.

With a final goodbye to my parents I boarded the train and begun to look for the compartment that Sirius, James and Peter were in.

I slid open a compartment door, thinking that it might be my friends, but it was a group of Slytherins.

"What do you want rat?" Snape sneered at me.

"N-nothing, I was looking for my friends," I said.

"Friends? Is that what you call friends?" Rabastan Lestrange, a fifth year said, "Those bunch of louts that don't even care about you Pettigrew?" he said, a malicious glint in his eye.

"They care about me!" I said. I didn't want to spend another minute in here.

"No they don't. They pretend to, but they don't," Sirius' cousin, Bellatrix, (who was now in her fourth year) said, "Sirius told me he doesn't even like you," she sneered.

"Sirius wouldn't say that!"

"Oh wouldn't he?" Narcissa hissed.

"No, he wouldn't!" I replied, though a small seed of doubt was planted in my stomach at that moment.

"And where are your little friends now, Pettigrew? They're not saving you now, are they?" Snape said.

"They're probably looking for me now!" I replied.

"Peter?" I heard a voice behind me and turned around to see James standing there.

"What are you doing?" he asked, eyeing the Slytherins.

"I was – I was looking for you, and I thought you might be in here, but you weren't," I said.

"We're at the end of the train," James replied, looking at the Slytherins with contempt.

"See, he didn't even tell you where they were," Bellatrix said.

"Bite me Bellatrix," James said as Sirius came up behind him.

"No thanks, I don't particularly want your filthy disease," Bellatrix replied haughtily.

"Come on, let's go," James said, turning around.

"Yeah, get lost you filthy brats," Rabastan Lestrange snarled.

"Gladly, you rotten prats," Sirius said with a smirk and then slid their compartment door shut with a bang.

"I was kind of hoping not to see them first thing," James said as we walked to the end of the train.

Sirius snorted, "I've had to put up with Bellatrix and Narcissa for the past two weeks so consider yourself lucky," he said as we entered the compartment. I took a seat next to Remus who was hanging out the window and talking to his parents. He greeted me with a grin.

As James and Sirius sat down there was a loud whistle and steam started billowing from the train as it started to move. I went to the window and waved to my parents as the train caught speed.

Then we rounded a bend and the platform and my family was out of sight.

"What were those Slytherins saying to you?" James asked, as Remus sat down next to me.

"They were… just being stupid, it was nothing," I said. I didn't particularly want to tell any of them what the Slytherins had said. That my friends didn't care about me. That Sirius had told Bellatrix that he didn't like me. It couldn't be true, I thought as I looked at James and Sirius, who were both staring me.

Or could it? A voice questioned in my head.

"If you say so," James replied, and then he pulled out his exploding snap deck.

Sirius however, kept on watching me as if he didn't believe me. It was almost as if he was looking through me.

"What did they say to you Peter?" Sirius asked.

"Sirius, let it go," Remus warned, "I'm sure it was just what they normally say. Insults, that kind of stuff. What the Slytherins are best known for. Right, Peter?" Remus looked at me.

"Yeah, just insults," I said, avoiding his gaze.

Sirius gave me one last look and then joined James in a game of snap.

The rest of the journey to Hogwarts went by uneventfully, we talked, played snap, ate a lot of food from the trolley, and told stories about what we did all summer.

"You know," Sirius sat chewing on a chocolate frog, "You'd be surprised at how many pranks you can do without magic," Sirius said as he related the story of how he had put a nest of doxies in his cousins' beds.

"You should have seen their faces!" Sirius laughed after he had told us the story.

James chortled, "That is a good one!"

"Isn't it!" Sirius replied.

For the rest of the journey we listened to how Sirius pranked his cousins over the summer, and we were still listening as the train slowed down and stopped.

"Well, we're here!" Sirius said excitedly.

"I'm glad we're in second year this year," Remus said as he stood up.

"Why?" I asked.

"So we don't have to take another boat ride across that dratted lake," Remus replied.

I remembered that boat ride quite well. It was when I first met Sirius, Remus and James. It was a very windy and wet night and more than half the first years ended up in the lake. I had helped pull Remus, James and Sirius out of the lake, and that was when we first became friends.

"Oh but the boat ride was fun!" Sirius said.

"Fun for you maybe," Remus replied.

"Well it looks like they've got it easier this year," James said as we stepped off the train and into the dark night. It was only lightly raining and not windy at all, very different to the weather last year.

"Pity," Sirius snorted, "I would've liked to see them all drowned out like rats," he chuckled.

Remus shook his head at Sirius.

After we greeted Hagrid we followed the rest of the students along a rough mud track to where about a hundred stagecoaches waited to take us to the school. They were pulled by something invisible. James, Sirius, Remus and I climbed into one of the awaiting coaches and it set off.

"I wonder what pulls these things," Sirius said as he settled in his seat.

"Something invisible." James pointed out.

"Really? I thought they were pulled by pink horses," Sirius replied.

"Well aren't you silly?" James replied.

"Yes, silly me, I should have realised," Sirius said.

After a while the coach pulled to a halt and we scrambled out to join the mass of students fighting their way to the large oak entrance doors. We were pushed into the Great Hall and we all sat down at the Gryffindor table, waiting for the Sorting to begin.

My stomach soon began to rumble, I was pretty hungry, as lollies don't fill you up unless you eat a lot of them.

"I wish they'd hurry up," I said to James, Remus and Sirius, "I'm starving."

"Yeah me too," Sirius agreed, rubbing his stomach.

"You two are always hungry, it wouldn't matter if you'd just finished a whole boar, you'd still be hungry," James chuckled.

But before either of us could retort a loud tremor suddenly shook the hall and everyone- including me, jumped about twenty feet into the air in shock. The tremor, it seemed, had come from the direction of the small room off the hall where first years gathered before the Sorting. I could hear screaming coming from inside the little room.

"What the heck was that?" Remus asked aloud after getting over his initial shock. Many people were wondering the same thing as they looked cautiously at the little room off the hall. People were still screaming from inside it.

Instantly, Sirius' eyes went wide, "I know exactly what it was!" he said with a look of glee.

But before he could explain any further the small door to the side of the hall flung open with a BANG! and about forty first years came pouring out of it screaming in distress and wide-eyed with horror and shock. McGonagall came running out after them. Hurtling after her came a fluorescent pink Catherine wheel which was yelling 'wheeeeeeeeeeeeee' as it hurtled across the first year's heads and around the hall. All the students jumped up and screamed as the Catherine wheel zoomed towards them. We must have left a firework in the hall last year when we did a prank for Sirius' birthday last year!

Sirius and James were both laughing their heads off as people screamed. Dumbledore quickly whipped out his wand and aimed it at the firework; it exploded into a shower of sparks and another loud bang, which made more people scream.

"I can't believe it! We must have left a firework in there last year!" James said, laughing.

Even Remus was smiling despite himself. "Those poor first years," he said.

"Well this is a whole lot more amusing then them falling in the lake!" Sirius chuckled as he looked at the distressed first years.

"Quiet please!" Dumbledore said loudly and instantly the students stopped screaming.

McGonagall looked furious.

And she was looking right in our direction.

Obviously she had worked it out that it was us who had left the fireworks there. Either that or she thought we had put them there on purpose. How we could have managed that in such a short time I don't know.

"Well, that was quite an entrance," Dumbledore commented looking at the frazzled first years. Some of them had tinged eyebrows. Which was funny, if you think about it. I was just glad I wasn't in their shoes.

"Either way, we'll get on with it. First years, please line up now," Dumbledore instructed and McGonagall led the horrified first years to the top of the hall. By now the students had settled down. Some of them were even laughing at the whole event. Including Sirius, James and I.

I looked along the staff table, Professor Crevan, the Potions teacher, seemed to be missing; James, Sirius and Remus had noticed it as well.

"Where's Crevan?" James whispered as McGonagall put a stool on the ground before the first years and placed the Sorting Hat on it and before any of us could answer the hat began to sing its song. When it had finished the Great Hall rang with applause and then McGonagall was unrolling a large scroll of parchment as she told the first years what to do when their name was called. Combined with their initial nervousness and the shock and distress of setting off a blazing Catherine wheel the first years seemed to be visibly shaking.

They even seemed more nervous than I had been when I was sorted last year, and that was saying something.

"Aldren, Martha!" McGonagall read and a small brown haired girl who was shivering from head to toe went up and sat on the stool, the hat was placed on her head. The hat sat for a while, and then,

"Ravenclaw!" The hat shouted as Martha Aldren ran to the Ravenclaw table where they applauded her.

"Banister, Joe!"

"Hufflepuff!" The hat shouted and Joe Banister went to join the applauding Hufflepuffs. I looked over at the Hufflepuff table where I spotted Alinda Hazel who was applauding along with her friends; I caught her eye and smiled shyly. She smiled back.

"Collins, Jane!"

"Gryffindor!" The hat shouted and I applauded along with the rest of the Gryffindors.

The Sorting continued as the terrified first years were sorted into the different houses.

Finally, after the last first year was sorted into Slytherin, the feast began.

It was a usual grand Hogwarts style feast with plates and plates of food, including potatoes, roast chicken, beef, pork and everything else you could think of. It also had delicious desserts and puddings.

As soon as the feast had finished and Dumbledore had made some announcements McGonagall came marching up to us, an angry look on her face.

"You four come with me at once!" she said. We had no choice but to follow her out of the hall and into her office.

"I am appalled at your behaviour!" she said as soon as she had closed her office door, "Leaving fireworks in the hall on purpose just before the feast!"

"Er- Professor McGonagall… we didn't leave them there…" Sirius said, "…on purpose," he added.

"Don't lie to me Mr. Black! I've had quite enough for one night!"

"No! It's the truth," Remus said, "we were in just as much shock as you when that firework went off."

McGonagall eyed him, "So you're saying you had nothing to do with that firework?"

"Well… not entirely," James said, "…see…we must have accidentally left it there last year…" he said slowly.

"I knew it!"

"But we didn't mean for it to happen! We didn't mean to forget it!" I said.

McGonagall rounded on me, I grimaced, "I don't care if you meant it or not, it happened nevertheless and I hold you four responsible whether it was left there on purpose or not," she said.

"But we didn't mean it!" Sirius retorted.

"You'll have detention tomorrow evening, 7 o'clock with Mr. Filch," McGonagall said loudly, ignoring Sirius, "Don't be late," she said and then opened her door to lead us out.

And so we received our first detentions for the year without even meaning to and without even planning anything.

Later that night as I lay in my warm bed after the wonderful feast, I thought about what happened at the feast and then the prank we played for Sirius' birthday. I thought about our first year at Hogwarts.

And what the second one would bring…

The next morning in Transfiguration McGonagall was still acting frostily towards us, as if it had been our entire fault that we had scared the wits out of the first years. Well, okay, so we did accidentally leave a firework behind, but was that our fault? No, it was an accident, especially since we weren't the ones who actually let it off in the first place.

When the bell went for the end of class we were very relieved to escape the clutches and cold stares of McGonagall.

"Well I'm glad that's over," Sirius said once we were well away from the Transfiguration classroom, "see the looks she was throwing us- like it was our fault!" Sirius said, trudging along.

"Yeah, I know," James replied.

"So what's now?" Sirius asked.

"Um, Potions, I think," Remus said.

Sirius groaned, "Argh. It's too early for McGonagall and Crevan in a row!" he complained, "I only just managed to avoid him at Grimmauld Place!"

Sirius complained about Crevan the whole way down to the dungeons.

When we entered the Potions dungeon however, Crevan wasn't standing in his usual spot at the front of the room.

Instead there was a strange man leaning on the desk stiffly, his arms crossed whilst he surveyed the class as we entered with a disdainful stare. I looked at the man at the front of the room. He had shoulder length wavy blonde hair, he looked to be around his mid thirties, and he sat tall and proud, with a haughty look on his face. He wore elegant robes of deep red and looked quite handsome despite his arrogant exterior. Well, the girls thought so anyway, as they giggled and started whispering as soon as they took their seats.

"He's cute!" A Slytherin girl, Lavida Veck whispered loudly to a couple of giggling Slytherin girls.

"Who the hell is that?" Sirius said, looking at the man curiously. He was very happy that Crevan wasn't here. So, it seemed, was Remus.

"Be quiet!" the man snapped suddenly as the class grew louder. The class silenced.

"I am Professor Slade-" 'Slade'… that name sounded vaguely familiar for some reason… "-and I will be taking your classes for the next couple of weeks," he informed us, gazing around at the class with a look of disdain. I could tell instantly that I wasn't going to like this man.

"Where's Professor Crevan?" James asked.

"You will put your hand up to ask a question!" he barked.

James rolled his eyes and put his hand up.

"You," Professor Slade pointed at James, "What's your name?" he asked tersely.

"James Potter," James replied.

"Well Mr. Potter, where I come from people have etiquette," he said, "you will address me as Sir!"

"Yes Sir," James said, "Sir, where is Professor Crevan, Sir?" James replied smartly.

"I don't like you already Mr. Potter," Slade answered. James let out a sound of indignation as Slade continued, "The whereabouts of Professor Crevan is none of your business Mr. Potter, so keep your nose out of things that don't concern you," he finished.

James glared at him but didn't say anything.

"When's he coming back?" Sirius asked, probably hoping that Slade would reply 'never'.

"What's your name?" Slade regarded Sirius through slanted eyes.

"Sirius Black Sir," Sirius replied.

"It appears that the whole lot of you are insolent brats!-" there was a gasp of indignation from the class "-Mr. Black - you will address me with Sir at all times!" he said, "and it is none of your concern when Professor Crevan comes back so keep your nose out of it as I've already told Mr. Potter." he finished. Sirius then glared at him, irritated that he seemed to be just as bad – if not worse – than Crevan.

"Now," he looked around at the rest of the class, "the instructions for the potion you will be brewing today are on the blackboard. Get to work!" he snarled and the class jumped to work.

"What a git!" James muttered fiercely as Professor Slade worked around the room, inspecting what people were doing, "I wish Crevan was back!" he said, shredding his root of asphodel.

"I'd rather not have any of them teach us," Sirius replied.

"At least Crevan doesn't bark at us all the time like that prat does," James pointed out.

"He may not bark at you, but he lectures me every five minutes," Sirius replied.

"I wonder where Crevan is though," Remus said, sliding his ingredients into his cauldron.

"Maybe he's sick," I suggested.

Sirius snorted, "I seen him only a couple of weeks ago and he seemed fine to me," he replied, "unfortunately," he added.

"He's probably having an extended holiday," James said.

"I hope he stays there," Sirius replied bitterly.

"I'd much rather have Crevan than this prat," James said.

"You four!" Professor Slade had noticed us talking and had come walking over to us, "Separate! I will not tolerate constant chatting in my class!" he said, then addressed James, "You! Over there!" he pointed to the table where Snape sat. James glowered and picked up his cauldron violently and sat down at Snape's table, who glared at him. "You!" Crevan pointed at Sirius, "Over there!" he moved his hand to where two Slytherins- Biddick and Mayson- sat and Sirius moved over to their table, slamming his cauldron down with a bang, "You!" he then pointed to Remus, "Over there!" he pointed to the table where a bunch of Slytherin girls sat, chattering. They all looked coldly at Remus as he sat down at their table. "You stay here." he said, looking at me in contempt.

I hadn't even done or said anything to him yet and he was being nasty to me! I started to wish that Crevan was back already so that Slade would get lost. I dreaded the rest of the time that he would be teaching us; I hoped it would not be too long.

The rest of the lesson went by uneventfully; Slade treated the whole class with contempt and barked if someone so much as whispered. I don't know how he had managed to secure a job as a teacher as he seemed to loathe kids.

Finally when the bell rang everyone practically ran for the door, trying to get away from Slade as quickly as possibly after he had criticized almost everyone's potions, telling the whole class that our potion making skills were sloppy. He even told Lily Evans, whose potion had been perfect, that it was the 'wrong consistency', when everyone knew that it was a perfect consistency.

"What an insufferable prat!" James said as we walked along the dungeon corridors, "I can't believe him! He practically called the whole class stupid! And he made me sit with bloody Snivellus! The prat!" he said angrily.

And it was not just James complaining, no, all the Gryffindors – even Lily – were objecting to Slade. Even some of the Slytherins were angry at him. Which was amazing as usually the Slytherins all loved the Potions teachers as they were their Head of House and usually favoured the Slytherins. Slade however, did not favour anyone it seemed.

"I'd have rather sat with Snape than those stupid stuck up Slytherin girls," Remus replied.

"Be my guest," James said as we entered the Entrance Hall.

"I wonder where Crevan is though," I wondered aloud as we made our way into the Great Hall for lunch and sat down at the Gryffindor table.

"Who gives a toss?" Sirius said as he bit into a chicken drumstick.

"Well I'd rather Crevan than Slade any day," James said.

"Hmm," Sirius said, "getting lectured on pureblood mania or being barked at by Slade," Sirius held out both his palms as if weighing them against one another, "Lectured or barked," he said, "Such a hard decision…" he laughed and bit into his drumstick again.

"Well I'd rather Crevan," I said, agreeing with James. At least Crevan didn't separate us.

"Crevan – Slade," Sirius said, "what's the difference? They're both slimy gits," he said.

"They sure are." Remus agreed as he cut up his potato and chewed it.

"Where's my star chart?" Sirius asked as he rummaged through his trunk for his star chart.

It was about fifteen minutes to midnight and it was time for our Astronomy lesson. Sirius loosing his star chart was a frequent occurrence so we were used to it by now, in fact, Sirius had lost his star chart before his very first Astronomy lesson in first year and he had to borrow James'.

Which was also a frequent occurrence.

Remus groaned, "You always loose that bloody thing!" he said, gathering his Astronomy gear together, "If you loose it one more time I swear I'll stick it permanently to your forehead," he threatened.

"Found it!" Sirius grinned, ignoring Remus and pulling his star chart out from under his bed, "How it got there I have no idea, I haven't even used it yet," he said, "one of you are probably hiding it from me on purpose."

"You probably left it there last year." James snorted.

Sirius rolled his eyes at him.

"Let's go then." Remus said and opened the door. We followed after him and made our way through the common room and out the portrait hole.

We walked all the way up to the Astronomy tower without talking and settled ourselves on the usual beanbags that Professor Philomena laid out for us every Astronomy lesson.

"Good to see you all again," Professor Philomena said once the class had settled down into their beanbags. That's a first, I thought, a teacher actually being pleased to see us after the summer break.

"This year we'll be studying the stars and constellations of the heavens more closely," Professor Philomena said, "Tonight we'll be observing the constellation of Canis Major," she said and then went on to describe the features of Canis Major.

"So, where do you think this Slade comes from?" Sirius whispered, as Philomena continued talking.

"I don't know," James replied.

"I bet you a hundred Galleons that he's a dark wizard, he looks exactly like the type even if he is a pretty boy, stupid git, and he isn't even that old either…" Sirius rambled on about Slade.

"Mr. Black," Professor Philomena had stopped talking about Canis Major and her eyes landed on Sirius, "kindly tell us one feature of Canis Major," she said, raising her eyebrow at Sirius.

"Er- it's in the sky?" Sirius said. The class laughed.

"Yes Mr. Black, it is indeed in the sky," Professor Philomena said, "And – if you had been listening - you'd be interested to note that it also contains the brightest star in the sky which incidentally is called Sirius-"

"You're joking!" Sirius said.

"No, I am not joking, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky at night," Philomena said.

Sirius jumped up from his beanbag excitedly, "Wow! Hear that James? Remus? Pete? Sirius is the brightest star in the sky! That's so awesome! I knew I was named after a star but I didn't know it was the brightest!" Sirius said, "Sirius is the brightest star in the sky! Look! There! There it is!" Sirius pointed to a particularly bright star in the sky.

"Mr. Black, kindly sit down," Professor Philomena said watching in amusement as Sirius danced around, excited at this newfound piece of information.

I knew we'd never hear the end of it.

Sirius sat down, but kept on talking about the star Sirius.

"Sirius is the brightest star in the sky!" Sirius repeated later that lesson for the umpteenth time. "The brightest! Sirius is the brightest! Hear that? The brightest! Brighter than Regulus! Brighter than all stars! I'm so glad the star Sirius has the same name as me!" he said gleefully.

Remus rolled his eyes and looked up from his star chart, "Sirius, I'm sure you were named after the star and not the other way around unless you're a billion years old – in which case congratulations on hiding it so well -" James and I sniggered, "and Sirius is only the brightest star in the sky after the sun." Remus said matter-of-factly.

Sirius scratched his chin as he considered this for a moment, then he started trilling again "I'm the brightest star in the sk-yyyy!" with a broad grin.

Remus groaned and picked up his star chart again as Sirius chanted 'Sirius is the brightest star in the skyyyy! Sirius is the brightest star in the skyyyy!' and James hit him over the head with his star chart and I laughed.

Nope, I knew – just like we'd never hear the end of how he had beat James in a bet that he could make Lily laugh in first year - that we'd definitely never hear the end of this one no matter how many times Remus reminded him that it was the brightest star only after the sun.

No, we wouldn't hear the end of this, not for a long long time.

Author's Notes: Sirius is the brightest star in the sk-yyyyy! Heh. Gotta love 'im! Anyway. 20 more reviews to go and it'll be 500! Wow. I never thought I'd even get that far. Once again thank you all for your continued support and reviews, they make my day and I appreciate them very much! Mwa! And you know the drill; whoever hits 500 gets a special treat. I think. Anyway, I'll contact whoever hits the 500 mark when it happens.

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WolfieThanks so much for your awesome review! 2 chaps left, means two chaps until Remus' secret revealed. Of course I wouldn't end it, heheh! Thanks again!

JanetLilyThanks so much! I'm glad you liked the Sirius-James thing, yes I think Sirius would compare his own family to James', I mean, a lot of people do it when they're feeling particularly rotten about their own family. Glad you commented on the two way mirror, well there is a bit more of it, but actually not that much in second year, unless I add a bit more on it. I don't know. Yes, theres something fishy about Remus and they're beginning to notice! About time! Heh. Thanks again!

Naru Lovely: You're very welcome, it took ages to write all that I wanted to, but I'm glad you appreciated it! As to the birthday question, well so far its only a Sirius thing, I mean, there might be other instances of the other's birthdays, but so far it's a Sirius tradition, I don't know why really. No, its not his official birthday, I made it up. But I'll tell you something very strange and awesome and very true about someone's birthday. J.K updated on her site that Remus' birthday was on March the 10th and you know, I'd written all of their birthdays down somewhere a fair while ago and so I went back to check what I'd written after reading Remus' real b'day, and for Remus' birthday I'd written March the 10th! I still cant believe it, is that psychic or what!

Glad you liked the Sirius & James convincing Remus to go outside & then Remus not wanting to go back inside. Yay!

Itching powder: I don't know where he got the itching powder from. You know Sirius, always having pranking items handy for emergency situations!

I'm glad you think the story is believable, and you can see it actually happening, and you like the pranks. I find it very hard to come up with pranks as well.

The DADA exam: well as to who supervised the test, I think its any teacher who's not got a class at that time would be supervising, Flitwick probably didn't have a class so he was free to supervise whereas Bones would have been busy, at least that's how they did it at my school, but maybe sometimes Bones would poke his head in to see how they were all going.

Sirius' summer: Yes, unfortunately parents' treatment of their children isn't always fictional, I don't get why some parents are so mean to their children. But at least its stopped for your friends and Sirius has now escaped Grimmauld place.

Sirius' view on the Potter's: Yes, I get what you're trying to say very much. I think at one point everyone views other families enviously if theyre going through a bad time with their own. Sirius will see one day that all families have their problems and aren't all happy as larry as he thinks.

Andromeda & Ted: Yep, -grins-, the other plot is kicking in. Glad you liked the cameo. Yep, well, my beta gave me the idea for Ted being a prankster.

Second year: Yep, now its all on. Heh. Well it was on before, but now things are starting to happen. I hope my version of the confrontation doesn't let you down either. I'm somewhat anxious of posting it cause everyone has their own version and may not like mine. But I guess, this is my story and I tell it how I want to tell it, I just hope everyone likes it.

Writing beyond Hogwarts: Er………… Well, I've considered it, it is a long way off, but sometimes I find myself finding good ideas for the war and then I think 'But I'm not going to write about the war'! I guess it all depends on how I feel like when I get to the end of the seven years. I was always just going to write a bit about the war like at certain intervals, not in detail as I'm doing now, but I don't know. I guess we'll just wait and see what happens!

Your writing: Wow! I'm so glad you took my advice and started writing. You should just continue. Try not to think of it as a huge saga and take it one step at a time (I'm such a hypocrite though, cause I always think, 'oh crap, I still have ages to go till 7th year, however am I going to finish it!), I'd love to read it if you do post it!

Again, thanks so much for your awesome review!