A/N: Sorry for the wait, it took me ages to come up with this because I'm having a complete mental block and I'm back at school again (Last year though, so thats alright!), so if you have any ideas there welcome and I promise to give you credit if I use the ideas.

Sorry for any spelling, grammar ect. mistakes.

Chapter 11

Meet my brother

(A/N: I'm changing this slightly so that Lily ran out of the portrait hole in the last chapter rather then up the stairs)

"What did I do?" James repeated quietly.

"James" Sirius said softly. "You are a complete idiot! A bar of soap! What were you thinking?"

"But I only just-"

"You could have pretended you got her the necklace. That was the whole point" Remus added.

"You could have told me!"

"We could have" Peter said in a small voice, earning a glare from Sirius.

Everyone went quiet as James began to blink back tears. He picked up the soap that Lily had thrown at him and slipped it into his pocket. "I was only trying to be nice"

"Trying to be nice! Trying to be nice!" Tasha spat, she turned on her heel and walking towards the portrait hole "I'm going to see if Lily's alright"

"WELL I DON'T CARE!" James bellowed after her, spinning around and charging up the boy's staircase.

Sirius, Remus, Peter and Travis followed James while Emma, Sally and Hannah followed Tasha. Sirius opened the door slowly and walked right into something.

"OW!"

"OW!"

"James? Where are you going?"

"I left my shoe downstairs, it fell off"

Everyone chuckled as James blushed and collected his shoe. He was about to go back upstairs when Remus stopped him.

"Come on, we've got to go to the library."

"Why?" Sirius, Travis, Peter and James asked together.

"Potions homework, it's got to be tomorrow"

"But it's my birthday!" Sirius groaned.

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"Oh great" Peter muttered "Snape the slime balls here"

After a combination of great persuasion techniques, blackmail (Involving Sirius and a fluffy pink blanket that was hidden under his pillow) and promises of sweets, Remus managed to get the four boys into the library and searching the selves for books that would help them with their potions essay. Peter had just removed a book and through the gap he saw the large nosed, greasy haired Slytherin.

"Where?" James and Sirius asked together.

"There" Peter answered, pointing through the space. "He's with… hey, this book looks good, lets grab a table and get to work".

Peter grabbed the book, took James by the neck of his shirt and dragged him to the nearest table. Remus, on the other hand, looked though the gap before following them. Snape was leaning over his work, his greasy hair brushing the parchment. Next to him was a girl with flaming red hair and emerald eyes. Lily.

"What is it Remus?" Sirius asked, shoving the smaller boy out of the way. "Is that… is that who I think it is?"

Remus tried to look serious but the horrified look on Sirius' face was very funny. "Umm, yeah. Just don't tell James."

Sirius nodded and collected the books they had gotten for their homework just as the librarian swooped down on them.

"Out now, the five of you. You first years really need to be taught how to tell the time!"

James sighed, picking up his parchment and stuffing it carelessly into his bag. He, Peter, Sirius and Travis waited as Remus checked out the books. Remus got into the queue behind Lily and Snape, desperately trying to hide them from James, but it didn't work.

"Is that Snape? What's he doing with Lily? I'LL KILL HIM!"

"James! Calm down!" Sirius muttered as he grabbed hold of the black-haired boy's robes to stop him from pouncing on the Slytherin.

Unfortunately, Lily had heard James' out burst. She grinned at him, showing all her sparkly white teeth, before turning back and kissing Snape on the cheek (A/N: runs to the toilet and throws up. Sorry about that, but its all part of the story) Everyone gaped at her; Remus actually dropped the pile of books on his foot. After they were thrown out of the library, the five boys ran (or in Remus' case, hobbled) to catch up with Lily, who was wiping her mouth in discussed.

"What were you thinking?" James demanded as soon as her caught up with her.

"Not about you that's for sure." Lily retorted.

"But Snape! He's a Slytherin!"

"So?"

"He doesn't wash!"

"You don't have to wash for me to… kiss you on the cheek." Lily said, looking sick as she said the last five words.

"Don't give James any ideas" Sirius mumbled

"You're… your fraternising with the enemy!"

"Fraternising with the enemy!" Lily repeated, laughing. "Potter, it's none of your business who Slughorn wants me to help with their Potions work. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed."

Lily stormed off, muttering under her breath. James stared after her with his mouth hanging open. Sirius laughed.

"Snape needs help with potions! 'The greatest potions student Hogwarts has ever seen', as he says, needs help with potions! He's never going to live that down!"

"Come on, we've really got to get back to the common room and finish our essays." Remus said, pulling James with him to Gryffindor tower.

After having to shout the password to the Fat Lady (Sirius was still laughing, James was moaning about Lily and Peter was trying to recite all the Quidditch teams he knew to Travis) then being told off by McGonagall because 'anyone could have heard you and break into Gryffindor common room, WILL YOU BE QUIET MR BLACK!', Remus collapsed in a chair at the table at the back of the room. He set his books down then took out a piece of parchment, a quill and some ink. He tried to concentrate on the task but the others were talking louder than ever.

"… Snape's so stupid, what an idiot…"

"… I can't believe Lily even touched that… that thing! …"

"… Appleby Arrows, Quiberon Quafflepunchers, Fitchburg Finches, Puddlemere United -"

"SHUT UP YOU GUYS!"

James froze (He'd been pacing up and down), Sirius stopped laughing immediately and choked, but Peter screwed up his face in concentration.

"Thanks Remus, you made me forget where I was!"

"Who care Peter?" Remus snapped "We've got to finish this essay by tomorrow, so are you going to do it or not?"

Sirius let out a low whistle "someone needs a nap"

"Shut up Black."

"Oh, we're using last names now. Well, Lupin, if it makes you feel better, we'll do our work."

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It was three o'clock in the morning when the boys finally got to bed. Sirius had collapsed on his bed, fully clothed, and started snoring as soon as his head hit the pillow. Remus changed in the bathroom but fell asleep while brushing his teeth, his head resting against the cold bathroom mirror. James had been searching for some clean pyjamas in his trunk, had fallen in somehow and started snoring louder than Sirius. Peter and Travis were the only ones who had managed to stay awake long enough to get changed and get into bed. They all slept over the alarm clock, mainly because it only woke Remus up, but he couldn't hear it in the bathroom. There was a loud band on the door that woke up the four boys in the dorm.

"POTTER! BLACK! TOWERS! LUPIN! PETTIGREW! IF YOU DO NOT GET OUT HERE AND EXPLAIN YOURSELVES THIS INSTANT, I PROMISE YOU DETENTION FOR THE REST OF YOUR SCHOOL LIVES" McGonagall's voice shouted through the dormitory door.

"Sorry Professor!" Travis called, scrabbling to his feet and opening the door a bit to see his Professors red face "We… we stayed up late doing homework."

McGonagall glared at him for a second before saying "Make sure it doesn't happen again, but if you are not ready and in my classroom in five minutes…"

"Thanks Professor" they muttered as she walked away.

"When she said 'don't let it happen again'" James mumbled, trying to climb out of his trunk "Does she mean we don't have to do homework again?"

"Hopefully" Sirius yawned "where's Remus?"

"Must be in here" Travis said, trying the locked bathroom door. "REMUS, WAKE UP BUDDY, WE'VE GOTTA GOT TO CLASS!"

The lock clicked open and Remus stumbled out, his eyes were bloodshot and there was a red mark on his forehead where he'd been leaning against the mirror.

"I 'eard, I 'eard!" He mumbled, stifling a yawn.

"Well hurry because we've got about four minutes left before McGonagall kills us" groaned Peter.

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"Aaaah, boys, glad to see you've decided to join us" Professor McGonagall said.

Peter and Remus staggered in followed by Sirius and Travis, who were carrying James because his legs were still asleep. Travis dropped James in his seat at the back of the class before joining his Ravenclaw friends at the front.

"As I was saying" McGonagall continued, "Professor Dumbledore would like some first year students to sing at the Halloween feast tonight. Anyone who wishes to take part will write their name on this piece of parchment"- she waved her wand and some parchment appeared in her other hand- "and see me at lunch time in my office. Now carry on with your work"

"Halloween feasts are meant to be awesome!" Sirius whispered, taking put his Beginners guide to Transfiguration "Rumour has it, Dumbledore's got a werewolf booked for tonight"

"He can't, it's not a full moon until Thursday." Remus said promptly, earning a scared look from Peter.

The piece of parchment being passed around was given to James. He grinned when he saw Lily's named signed neatly in the middle of the list. James put his quill down and passed the list to Sirius, who put it at the end of the row just as McGonagall was walking past.

"Thank you Mr Black, I'm pleased to see you and your friends have written you names on the list" She gave a rare smile at Sirius' shocked face "Incidentally, your detentions will begin tomorrow and end next Monday, five o'clock, my office."

She turned away and headed to the front of the class to Travis.

"Our names our on the list!" Sirius whispered furiously once he was sure it was safe. "How did that happen?"

"Lily-" James started.

"Should have guessed!" Sirius hissed "Give it a rest James, why do we have to do this stupid singing thing if Lily's doing it"

"I'd look like an idiot on my own" James whispered back.

"You always look like an idiot"

They didn't stop arguing for the rest of the lesson, even when they went down to their favourite tree they were still at each others throats.

"Maybe Lily would like me again if I do this" James said angrily.

"She hates you, you have no chance!"

"How do you know?" James growled.

"Well, you did ruin her birthday yesterday" injected Peter, who was nodding off by the tree.

"Thanks Pete, that really cheered me up"

"Anytime."

"Don't you two start!" Remus said irritably.

James opened his mouth to retort but was distracted by an owl swooping down onto his shoulder.

"Hello Benji!" James said cheerfully, stroking his owl "What have you got for me?"

The snowy owl dropped a large, lumpy package into James' outstretched arms. Benji then stuck his leg out, waiting patiently for someone to remove the small scroll of parchment from his leg.

"Here you go Jamesy" Sirius grinned, handing over the scroll.

James sat down on the grass as Benji took flight to the Owlery. He unrolled his letter and read it aloud to his friends.

'Dear James,
I've just got back to work, I'm taking a break from training so I ca prepare for the Concealment and Disguise part. Anyway, hope your doing well at Hogwarts and have caused loads of trouble 'cause you've got a lot to live up to! In the parcel is all the joke stuff I could get my hands on before the boss spotted me and loads of sweets to treat you and your friends with. Good luck.
May-be -seeing-you-sooner-than-you-think

Harry.'

"What's he mean 'maybe seeing you sooner than you think'?" Peter questioned sleepily.

"Dunno" James muttered, ripping open the package excitedly.

Out fell tons of different, brightly coloured objects. There were Dung bombs, Acid pops, and Stink pellets, Honey-flavoured toffees, Belch power, Fizzing Whizzbees, hiccough sweets, Jelly slugs and many more.

"James, you dropped your wand" Remus said as he looked at the items in admiration.

"Thanks" James grinned, taking the wand from Remus. There was a loud 'pop' and the wand in James' hand turned into a large, rubber snake.

"Wow" Sirius said softly, taking the snake "imagine the fun we could have with all of these."

"What's this?" asked Peter, picking up a tiny red sweet.

"Try it Peter, their delicious." James said, trying to keep a straight face while Sirius sniggered behind his hand.

Not realising he was being laughed at, Peter popped the sweet into his mouth. He chewed it happily for a second before his eyes began to water, steam poured out of his ears and his tongue burned painfully. James, Remus and Sirius were rolling on the floor laughing as Peter hopped up and down, breathing deeply through his mouth. Sirius recovered long enough to throw a small, white sweet into Peter's open mouth.

"There you go, that should cool you down."

Peter swallowed the sweet and immediately began to shiver.

"W…w…what w…was t…t…t…th…that?" He stuttered through his chattering teeth, but the others were to busy laughing to answer.

Finally, the bell rang. James gathered up his things and crammed them into his bag. He laughed again when he saw Sirius smack Peter around the head with the rubber snake as they proceeded to their lesson.

80)

The rest of the day went quickly. James and Sirius had decided to have a dragon dung fight during Herbology (their last lesson) and were told to have showers as soon as they got back to the castle. Once they were clean and changed into some clean clothes, James, Sirius, Peter and Remus made their way down to the Halloween feast to get ready to sing. They had just turned into the entrance hall when they saw a figure approach them.

"James! James, I've been looking all over for you!" called an older, taller version of James, apart from the fact that his eyes were blue and he didn't have glasses.

"Harry?" James said, with a smile on his face to match his brothers. "what are you doing here?"

"Zonko's business" Harry answered. "Dumbledore's kindly letting me stay for a couple of weeks to do a survey of what Hogwarts kids are looking for in prank items."

"Cool!"

"So, who are your friends?"

"oh yeah" James muttered. "I forgot-"

"You forgot about us!" Sirius said in mock outrage. He turned to Harry and stuck out his hand for him to shake. "I'm Sirius. That's Remus Lupin" -he pointed to Remus, who nodded his head- "and that's Peter Pettigrew"

"Hello" Peter squeaked.

"Please to meet you all" Harry smiled "So, how's Hogwarts been so far James? James?"

James shook his head and turned his attention away from the stairs, where Lily was waiting. As he watched, Severus Snape had walked out to meet her, his hair was combed and looked slightly less greasy than usual.

"Yeah, yeah, I am looking forward to Christmas." James mumbled, staring over his brother's shoulder at the Slytherin and reaching for his wand.

Remus noticed all of this and stepped forward to stop James, extracted his wand just in case.

"He's not worth it" He whispered.

"Whos not worth what?" Harry asked loudly, causing Lily and Snape to turn around to find the source of the noise.

"Two Potters?" Lily asked, perplexed, while Snape's hand shot in and out of his pocket in a flash, his wand now clutched in his hand.

James mimicked Snape and started walking towards him. Remus, Sirius and Peter all grabbed the back of James' robes to hold him back while being watched by a bewildered Harry. Lily whispered something to Snape which made him stuff his wand back into his pocket angrily and stride off to the Great Hall.

"That's right, you walk away!" James shouted at Snape's retreating back.

"POTTER!" Lily yelled, marching towards the small group.

"Yes?" both Harry and James asked politely.

Lily ignored everyone else and pushed her way to James, prodding him in the chest.

"I've told you before I'm only helping Snape with potions, nothing more! Do you really think I want to go out with that slime ball?" she snarled "Besides, I'll never go out with you either so LAY OFF!" she turned on her heel and stomped off.

Harry watched his brothers face turn from angry to miserable in a split second as the red haired girl walked away.

"She really doesn't like you" He said, earning a glare form James. Harry continued quickly "Listen, I've got a plan"

A/N: Mwahahahahaha! cliffy! and I won't update unless I get at lest five good reviews.

And for anyone wondering, the first sweet Peter had was a Pepper Imp and the second was an Ice Mice thingy.