Okay so, I've decided to continue even though I didn't like the last one I did and I didn't feel very confident with the whole thing. But I do love Harry Potter, so I think I'll keep going Just to say, I've decided to mess with canon a teensy bit and have Louise be a teacher at Hogwarts while Harry and co are there.

This ficlet is set while Sirius and the gang are in exam season in their seventh year, so doing their NEWTs It's also slightly more adult but nothing explicit, just adultish themes. So don't read this chapter if it bothers you, but it's nothing serious.

As if having a load of exams wasn't bad enough, Sirius Black was becoming increasingly stressed out by all the whispering going on in a certain corner of the Gryffindor common room that seemed to contain a lot more giggling girls than could actually fit into one space. Maybe they were getting hysterical and in a minute, they'd all keel over and faint so he could do his work in peace, he reasoned. After half an hour, when it appeared that this wasn't the case, Sirius got up from his chair and his Defence Against The Dark Arts essay and headed out to the grounds, hoping to be left in peace. He stretched out on the ground, shaded by a leafy tree. Closing his eyes, he thought to himself 'just five minutes rest'…

When he woke up, it was nearly dark and he found himself very disconcerted by his dream. Aside from having missed what must have been nearly two hours of revision for his NEWTs, he'd had an astonishingly erotic dream… about Louise McKinnon. It's not that dreaming or thinking about that sort of thing was unusual for Sirius, it's just that he'd been dreaming about- well, about making love to her. Which was definitely not something he entered into often. Tenderness was not his strong point. Especially with McKinnon, someone he would swear on the Sorting Hat he was not attracted to at all. Deep down, he knew that was a total lie but having declared so far and wide for so long, there was no way he could ever back down on that stance.

And, more practically speaking, he had a definitely noticeable tent in his trousers. He couldn't walk back up to Gryffindor Tower like this, he thought. So, he waited under the tree for what seemed like another hour, although it could only have been a few minutes. Yawning, he looked around the pretty much deserted grounds to see two shadowy figures walking towards him. As they came closer, he could hear low girlish laughter and a boy's deep chuckle. He rolled his eyes at what were apparently two love birds, squinting to try and identify them in the dark. Suddenly they came into clear perspective and Sirius got the shock of his life. Moony, his best friend Moony, was walking altogether too close to Louise McKinnon, his- his what? He sighed, realising he had absolutely no claim over her and having pretended to loathe her for seven years, now had absolutely no chance. Craning his neck towards them, he tried to eavesdrop into their conversation.

'God, it was stifling in there. I don't know why most of my sex thinks that its attractive to giggle like a banshee when anyone speaks to them but I for one was getting earache' he heard Louise's dry, witty voice and could imagine, although he couldn't quite see, her tossing her hair.

'I agree. I think it's much more sensible for a girl to be able to have an intelligent conversation' that was Remus's low voice 'And I know others think so too. Sirius, for example' Sirius wasn't sure if he was imagining it but he thought there was something too over-casual about the way his friend dropped his name into the conversation.

'Black? Darling, I think you've misheard him. All he's interested in is breasts, certainly not intelligence. He's a pig' Louise scoffed and Sirius's heart sank ever so slightly.

'You judge him too quickly, Lou' Remus's voice was amused and Sirius could just see him patting Louise's shoulder.

'I don't know why all you 'Marauders' are so obsessed with getting me to like Sirius. I'm perfectly convinced that it's some big seven year spanning practical joke because you all want me to get my heart broken' Sirius chuckled at that, as in their first year that actually had been their plan. His laugh made Louise whip round, looking for someone. He realised she'd spotted him when he could practically feel the heat coming from her glare.

'It's incredibly rude to listen in to other people's conversations, Sirius. But' she glanced down with a smirk 'I see you've got enough problems so I'll leave you with your good friend here and your little friend there' she gave a tinkling laugh and leaned over to kiss Remus's cheek before flouncing off in the direction of the castle. Sirius looked up sheepishly to see Remus shaking his head before the two Marauders burst into laughter and Remus flopped down next to Sirius, prepared to spend an hour with his friend til the trouble had passed.

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