Chapter 9-

Suddenly October was more the half way over. Lars and Remus had tried to convince James and Sirius to call the fight off.

"Don't fight!" Remus asked James and Sirius. "They will outnumber you!" James and Sirius laughed.

"Like their first year friend is better than me!" James laughed, which had Sirius comment.

"He isn't weak!" Sirius yelled back. "Our family is very talented!" Sirius saw James eye Sirius widely.

"What can he do?" James questioned Sirius. "He is a first year!" Sirius tried to convince James to understand that.

"He won't seem like it!" Sirius eventually had James agree. Though their proposed fight was a couple days away, the work had piled on.

Slughorn's Potions classes had toughened, the same said for Transfiguration and Charms. Montague stayed true to Charms, as Lars did the same for Transfiguration.

Their added class, History of Magic was dull and hard. Defense Against the Dark Arts was indeed difficult but Professor Denstrom was very impressed with Lars' work in that class.

For Severus and Regulus, the work was all the same. All solid grades for Severus, as Regulus had done well as well.

James and Sirius had been stopped many times from confronting Severus by either Lars, or Remus. Peter always sat around, admiring the others, and how the others acted.

The night before the fight Montague grabbed Regulus after Regulus's last class, and walked Regulus downstairs silently. Montague went to question him.

"I need to talk," Montague said to Regulus as they made it down to the Slytherin common room, totally un noticed.

"What do you want?" Regulus asked Montague. "For me to fight for you?" Montague shook his head no.

"I want you to tell me about your family!" Montague addressed Regulus to let Montague know everything, since Severus slipped a little.

"What do you want to know?" Regulus asked Montague.

"Your brothers, parents, cousins! "Montague hoped for a good answer.

"Well, Sirius is my brother!" Regulus said loudly, as Severus walked in, Severus just sat on the couch and listened in, clearly not wanting Regulus to stop.

"Besides that," Montague asked. "Any more family?" Montague wanted answers soon, because as time had went on, Montague had found out more about Regulus than expected.

"We have my cousin Bellatrix," Regulus said, only now calming down. Montague had calmed down as well, finally sitting down. "She is always around!" Montague and Severus were both listening. Regulus spoke of her as if she was a powerful wizard.

"What is she capable of?" Montague asked Regulus. "Your family is very talented," Montague said. "I want to know as much as possible!"

Montague was interrupted by the sound of footsteps. Avery had come back down, carrying a book.

"What is that?" Montague asked Avery, it was an empty book, but seemed very large. There was some writing in it already.

"Stole it from the storage room," Avery laughed, but Montague took it from him, and read the book. The book had no cover, it was older and had some directions in it, it seemed meant to be changed.

Montague and Regulus spent the rest of the night staring at it, Severus stayed very quiet that night, and Montague knew he was hiding more then he should be.

Back in the Gryffindor common room, Lars was sitting with Sirius, Sirius and Lars hadn't talked much.

"Please Sirius," Lars begged Sirius. "I don't want you guys in trouble!" Sirius just smiled.

"Don't worry," Sirius laughed. "We won't be defeated," Sirius saw Lars sigh as Remus came back from the Great Hall.

"Slughorn has announced the newest Slug Club!" Remus yelled, grabbing Lars attention, even Lily who had started to talk more looked up.

"When?" Lars asked. "I don't know when it is," Remus had a letter.

"He wanted me to give this to you!" Remus gave Lars the letter, addressed to Lars, and Lily.

The Slug Club had been set for the first week of November, tons of returning students. There will be a Thanksgiving feast and tons of events again.

James snorted. "Who cares about those?" Lily beamed back at James.

"James, watch your mouth!" Lily yelled, as James laughed.

"You won't be saying that after our duel!" James laughed. "I'm bringing Snivellius down!" Lily had gotten up by this point, Lars and Anna sat back and watched Lily point her wand at James.

"Last time," Lily yelled, as Remus came over to calm her down, though Sirius didn't help anything by supporting James. Lars noticed Peter in the corner watching.

"Peter!" Lars yelled to grab everyone's attention. "Do you have an opinion on the matter?" Peter shrugged and came closer.

"I don't know," Peter quietly said. "I wouldn't support or encourage!" Peter tried to escape, but Lars brought him back.

"Stop following people," Lars said to Peter. "You can only be better by becoming your own person," Peter just nodded his head yes, and walked off.

By that time everyone was settled, though James and Sirius were still heading off. Lars had heard of some students gossiping about the fight, maybe drawing attention to Professor's.