Smirking Severus raises his wand. Ramona follows with raising her wand also. Ramona quickly ducks to avoid Severus's spell. Without the crowd both Ramona and Severus have no fear in showing their skills. Just like before it's hard for either to get the upper hand. Both start to get frustrated at not winning.

"You really thought this was going to be easy, didn't you," teases Ramona.

Severus grins in amusement but doesn't allow Ramona to distract and sends a stunning curse. Ramona blocks and sends a curse back.

After a while Severus did end up getting a curse in, the Levicorpus. After a scream of surprise Ramona finds herself dangling upside down with her wand on the floor out of reach. Ramona grumbles annoyed.

"Alright you win, do the counter."

Doing the counter doesn't even enter Severus's mind and he grins triumphantly as he leaves the classroom. Ramona yells to be found and tries doing the counter without a wand, she is not successful. Hanging upside starts to hurts Ramona's head and boredom starts to creep in and the sun slowly starts to set. After hearing the door open Ramona calls out to the person.

"Remy what in merlin's name happened?"

Ramona sighs in relief, wanting to get down because being upside down for hours has been physically draining for her. After Sirius did the counter Ramona then picks up her wand.

"Well Remy?"

Ramona groans, "I dueled Snape."

"Snivellus? .. how dare .."

Ramona snorts interrupting, "Save it Siri, I challenged him. He is a good duelist. Besides wasn't it you who left James dangling not that long ago?"

Sirius gapes a bit then finds his voice, "THAT's different, James declared a prank war on me! .. AND YOU, how. YOU'RE insane, doing a duel without witnesses or second! That is the most idiotic thing I have heard of. You may be from a Ravenclaw household but that .. that was so dumb. Never do that again."

"Alright alright, quit sounding like my father," mumbles Ramona in reply.

"Why do you want to practice with him anyway?"

Ramona sighs and pinches her nose, "You know why I need the practice. There is no point practicing with other Gryffs, they suck when it comes to pushing limits."

Black detests the negativity and promises to help Ramona practice and insists that she didn't need to stoop to practicing with Snivellus.

The rest of the Yule break Ramona and Sirius practiced dueling. When the students arrive back in the castle Ramona is glad for she misses her other friends.

"JAMES!"

Ramona runs and crash tackle hugs her friend. "Save me! Siri is being mean!"

Chuckling James returns the hug. The four being back together after the Yule break is something the four of them love. James and Peter being the only child meant they missed Hogwarts and being a part of the marauder's. The marauder's decides now is the time to take dueling practice more seriously, so the four them use their knowledge of Hogwarts to practice dueling in abandoned classrooms.

The pranks quieting down has a lot students becoming smug and happy and the school students sneer that the marauder's have left and thank Merlin for that. The Slytherin's are not as convinced and believe the pranks are going to come back with a vengeance.

Weak, tired and angry and so overcome with emotions Ramona walks into the common room. Seeing her three friends waiting for her brings her to tears and she can't stop the sobs that come. Sirius rushes over and helps Ramona take a seat and Peter hands a mug of hot chocolate.

After a while James gets frustrated, "THIS is just so unfair! There has to be something we can do about your furry little problem."

When Sirius was six years old he got extremely angry at his father and in his anger his magic changed him into a big snarling grim like dog, Sirius for a while unknown to the others has been looking into becoming animagus. Sirius decides now due from the horror of Ramona's transformations to look more into it and perhaps he can keep Ramona's wolf company.

"What have you boys done to Ramona now? .. Were you at the hospital again last night Ramona?" asks Lily.

Ramona giggles at Lily's words. If it weren't for her friends her life would be in chaos, their approval and friendship is the only good thing in her world.

"I am just sick Lily, they've done nothing wrong and yes I was at the hospital."

Lily smirks triumphantly, "YOU liar! You weren't there for Mary was and she stated you weren't there. Where do you go? The four of you are going back to pranks, aren't you?"

"Now now Lils, why would you accuse us of such things? We're innocent angels," reply James, with an pompous smirk on his face.

Lily laughs in amusement, "Like I believe that."

James and Lily start bickering with each other about the innocence of pranks, the other marauders realise what James is doing and lets James distract Lily from finding out Ramona's condition.