"Hey Prescott? What are you looking up? Didn't expect to find you in the library."

"The same goes for you James." She replied looking up at the two guys then back at the book. "And if you must know it's about transfiguring into animals."

"Oh. You trying to turn into an animagus or something?" Sirius asked grinning. Moria shrugged.

"Well I have another test from McGonagall coming up."

"I don't remember that being one of the things she recently taught us."

"I'm also trying to figure out how two students managed to turn into a dog and a stag." She said still looking into the book and not seeing the two boys stiffen.

"You're joking right?" James stammered out.

"Nope. Saw them last night. Well to be honest I didn't actually see them. I just saw the two walk into the courtyard, start turning back into humans before they vanished into the school. Do you two know anything...about…it?" She trailed off when she turned around she realized she was now the only one in that row. She stayed there throughout her free period until she sighed and looked at the time.

"Better get to potions. Those two are probably already there." She murmured and after collecting her books and placing the other books in the correct places, began to walk out.

It was later on as she passed the courtyard, coming from another class, when she heard loud yelling.

"Scourgify!" a voice she only knew that it was James called out. Laughter followed before a loud…angry yell.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Definitely Lily.

"Alright Evans." She heard James say. She rounded the corner and sighed.

"Again?" she hissed out. She then began to watch James and Lily begin to argue. Logic dictated that she should stay out of this. Lily had managed to do quite well before hand, besides the fact that Lily could be a rather nasty person to get on the wrong side of her wand. However her honor told her to get closer and make sure nothing happened. Honor won. She began to walk up and started to hear the argument a bit clearer.

"-arrogant bullying toerag Potter! Leave him alone!"

"I will if you go out with me Evans! Go on…go out with me and I'll never lay wand on old Snivelly again."

"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and a giant squid!" Lily responded cruelly and she smirked and heard Sirius chuckle.

"Bad luck Prongs…" he commented. Suddenly Moria saw Sirius's demeanor change.

"Oi!" he called out. "OI PRONGS!"

"Padfoot what-!" James began to ask but was cut off as a hex sliced his cheek. He glared at the perpetrator. Snape merely smirked at James. Moria withheld a groan. Couldn't people learn? James merely glared and before Snape could react he was turned over and floating in the air, revealing his gray underwear to the school. Despite herself Moria snickered slightly and saw to some amusement that Lily was also trying not to giggle. Quickly her angry demeanor returned.

"Put him down NOW, Potter!" she ordered.

"Certainly." James responded and flicked his wand and Severus fell into an ungraceful heap on the ground. Slowly he stood up and once again his wand was at the ready.

i"The guy doesn't learn does he?"/i Moria watched in boredom as Snape began to utter another hex. However a spell got to him first.

"LOCOMOTER MORTIS!" James rang out and Snape froze, his limbs snapping to his side. Moria looked at Evan's in astonishment as she pulled out her wand and aimed it at James.

"Leave…him…ALONE!" she called out.

"Aw Evan's…don't make me hex you." He sighed out.

"Take the curse off him then." She said pointing at Snape while her wand was still trained at James' nose. He pouted like a small child.

"Fine." And with that he flicked his wand at Snape. He sighed and walked up to the boy that was slowly regaining feeling back in his limbs. "There you go…you're lucky Evans was here Snivellus." James said in a bored tone. Moria saw fury in Snape's eyes as well as his face turning bright red.

"I don't NEED help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" he called out and in a second she saw red. How dare he? She began to storm towards him but stopped when Lily spoke up.

"Fine. I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash my pants if I were you…Snivellus." She called out, turning around about ready to go. James however was now angry. He grabbed Snape by the collar pointing his wand at him.

"Apologize to Evans!" he snarled out. Lily turned around.

"I don't want YOU to make him apologize!" You're as bad as he is."

"WHAT?! I'd never call you a…a…" he started to say but then trailed off trying to figure out how to say it. "…a you-know-what…." He said softly. She put her hands on her hips.

"Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you just got off your broomstick, showing off that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can… I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it." She hissed out glaring daggers at him.

"You…make…me…SICK…" she continued and then turned on her heel and began to walk away, James calling out to her. He stared at her form.

"Geez…what is it with her?" he asked. Moria wasn't sure who was more stupid at the moment. James for not getting the clue. Or Snape for essentially ending the friendship. Sirius walked up to him resting his arm on James's shoulder.

"Well reading in-between the lines…"he said thinking about it "I'd say she thinks you're a bit conceited mate." He said. Moria groaned. A bit? Reading in-between her line, Lily thought he was EXTREMELY conceited. James was silent for a moment.

"Right…" he said and then turned his attention back to Snape who was trying to escape. Moria groaned and then began to walk to Potions class. She didn't really care at this point about Severus. Even when she heard laughter she continued walking.

"And he said that to her?! Why that lousy prat!" Alice hissed out during lunch, glancing apologetically to Lily. "Don't listen to a word he said Lily. You don't deserve that name."

"It's not like it isn't true. I am a muggle-born."

"I am too Alice. We don't care if Slytherin's have a different opinion on us. We are who we are." Moria said. Lily looked at her confused.

"Wait. Slytherin's called you….that name?" she asked worriedly. Moria smirked.

"Well they added slut and bitch after that….but yes they have." She said shooting Alice a warning not to say anything else. Lily's eyes widened.

"Did Snape ever-?"

"Nope. He just normally glared at me. Lily it's okay. Honest." She said softly, Lily however looked furious.

"It is not okay Mori! That name is one thing! Adding those words to it after is quite another!" Lily hissed out. Mori shrugged.

"Lily…I promise you I'm used to being called names and such. Especially those names." She said softly and Lily looked at her in alarm, she noticed Alice stiffen as well.

"What?!"

"It's a long story."

"Well, start telling!" Lily hissed out. Moria shrugged.

"Let's just say my childhood wasn't really the happiest alright? I have most of my family nowadays, but there was one that never wanted me to be around." Moria replied trying to keep her mouth shut on all of it. She had gotten friends…finally. She didn't want to lose them. Not like last time. Lily and Alice clearly wanted to know more, but one look at Moria's now smooth and cold eyes told them that was all they were going to get. They sighed in resignation.

"Alright…that story is good enough…for now." Alice said. Moria sighed in relief and then continued eating her meal.

"Bloody hell Prongs! Do you think Prescott knows about…us?" Sirius hissed out as they glanced over at the table where Moria, Lily, and Alice were sitting.

"I hope not, mate! This won't end well if she does!"

"What are you two babbling about?" Remus asked as he stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth slowly, the pain of his newest scratches from the night before transformation evident.

"Moria saw us shifting." Sirius tried to say casually, however both Peter and Remus choked on their food.

"You're kidding!"

"No! Would we be glancing over at her nearly every minute if we were?"

"Well Lily is over there and you could easily be trying to go out with Moria or Alice and trying to observe them." Remus interjected earning a glare from both of them.

"Besides if she does know it's you two don't you think she would have said something…or asked about it? You two are only making yourselves look even more suspicious." Remus stated and glanced at Moria smirking as she finally noticed the stares and glanced over at them in confusion. She then blinked and looked a bit harder at them. Confused he turned around and saw that Peter was now munching on a biscuit looking more and more like a rat eating a crumb. Remus nudged him slightly. Peter blinked then stopped and began munching normally. Moria blinked and shook her head, undeniable confusion blatant on her face. He had to hold back on chuckling.

"Alice…does…does Moria ever tell you about her family?" Lily asked quietly as they watched Moria getting plants for herbology from the lake, working on their own homework. Alice glanced at Lily then sighed, shaking her head.

"To be honest…I've only ever heard her mention her uncles and aunt…I've never heard her mention her parents. Or why at some times she's so withdrawn and cold towards us. It's like her emotions don't know what to do at some times. And during those times it's…frightening." Alice concluded watching as Moria lifted a rock, and then with a look of disgust slowly put it back in its place.

"Alright…next question. When we were talking…about that name…Moria looked at you as though to say not to say a word. I'm missing something, aren't I?"

"Lily-!"

"No. Don't 'Lily' me. She's one of my best friends Alice." Lily hissed out. Alice sighed.

"You didn't hear this from me…you heard this from Slytherin's or somewhere else." Alice murmured. Her voice low. Lily nodded slightly then scooted over, pretending to look at Alice's notes.

"Malfoy…and his gang…it's always that group. I don't know why but Lucius seems to get some joy out of tormenting her, and I think it's also to impress Narcissa and Bellatrix. But Merlin, they've used her as a punching bag Lily." Alice hissed out and saw Lily stiffen. "When I was there and Moria saw them coming…she hid me. Told me not to make a sound or move a muscle. And I watched as Lucius slam her into a tree calling her all sorts of obscenities. She retorted something, I didn't quite hear it, and he slapped her. Hard. The rest were laughing. But I guess Moria's method of staying silent afterwads worked on them. They got bored pretty quickly and just left, like they had just been chatting with her." Alice remarked bitterly.

"Why didn't you two tell me?! Why didn't she tell anyone?! Bloody hell, Potter and Black are absolute gits but they wouldn't have let her go through that!"

"I told her that Lily. But she said she could handle it. I don't know if something similar happened in her home…but she didn't act fearful or shocked by it. She looked like she was used to it. And you've seen her scars on her back…do you think…" Alice trailed off not wanting to think of what Moria's family was capable of. Lily stared at her and then at Moria who was still searching for plants.

What was Moria hiding from them?

"Oi! Watch it mudblood!" a harsh voice called out as he slammed into Moria causing the books that were in her hands to splatter on the ground. Moria simply rolled her eyes and proceeded to pick them up. However as she reached for it, her Transfiguration textbook was stepped on and held on place to the ground by a black shoe. She sighed and stood up locking onto gray eyes.

"I'm sorry Malfoy. I didn't know your ego was so huge that it couldn't fit in the great hall." Moria drawled unimpressed. His eyes flashed in anger and she merely crossed her arms, one eyebrow raised as though begging him to do something in front of teachers and students. Instead he merely smirked.

"Well…you've got quite a sharp tongue for a putrid mudblood." He merely replied.

"And you've got platinum blonde hair that makes you look like girl. Not my problem." She responded cheerily. "I'm surprised people don't mistake you for a girl. Oh wait…first year they DID. Shocker. Doesn't really help that your two lackeys are girls." She continued shrugging nonchalantly.

"Listen you little mudblood whore-!"

"Ooohhh…another insult? I swear Malfoy, is that all you can do? Because if so can you kindly move? You're wasting my time." She said evenly. Lucius's lips curled making him look like an animal. She kept her gaze on his eyes him. Finally he sniffed at her and brushed past her, shoving her slightly as he walked away followed by the glaring sisters Bellatrix and Narcissa. Moria sighed and then picked up her book brushing off the dirt. She then proceeded to walk to her class. Unknown and unseen by her, a black dog had watched the entire scene.

And his grey eyes held incredible amount of fury before he vanished back into the shadows.