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James felt awful about what he had done. He had always hated and envied Snivelly. The most popular boy in school was jealous of one of the least liked or least known boys in school. James was jealous of that grease-ball and he didn't like it a bit. He hated how Snivelly was best friends with someone as wonderful as her, he hated that she would look at him with a kind face and when she looked at James, her eyes held nothing but loathing. But most of all, James was disturbed by the fact that she would always choose that sodding git over him.
Although he had managed to humiliate him in front of several students, he had also broken the heart of the one girl he had ever liked. Sure there had been others, but he had never felt this strongly towards any of them. They had been there for fun, never too serious and if they got clingy he would simply move on. This time it was different. No matter how hard he tried, every time he closed his eyes he would see her smiling face. It was like a picture of the beautiful red-head was plastered to his eyelids.
That evening he had tried to talk to Lily to make things right when she was brought up by Alice, but Alice didn't even let him near her. Guilt was eating him up from the inside and he began feeling hollow to the extent that he didn't even want to attend the party in the common room the next day where everyone would be celebrating the end of the examinations.
He was set on taking revenge from Snivellus. How dare that slimy insolent brat insult some one? He tried formulating many plans with the other Marauders but he wasn't sure whether he should pull them off or not. Moony insisted that if he took revenge on Snape, he would make things worse and that would make Lily even more mad than she already was (as if that was possible).
Finally they came up with the cleverest idea.
"What if we threaten him, and just don't do anything?" asked Moony one lazy afternoon.
"What? How is that going to work?" asked James, obviously very confused.
"We could threaten him, pretend that we're going to attack very soon and just never do anything. That way, we'll have him on his toes for the remaining of the term and hopefully even till next year. The coward that he is, he'll do anything to save himself. It'll drive him crazy knowing that we are going to strike and he'll keep waiting but nothing will ever happen," explained Moony. "We'll manage to get our revenge on him and we won't even make Lily mad."
Sirius' face lit up as he processed the brilliance of Moony's plan. He jumped up and kissed him on the head.
"You're brilliant!" he said, voicing his thoughts as Remus began wiping his head furiously. James felt his mouth curve into his famous smirk, something he hadn't felt for the last couple of days.
Later that day they planted a note in Snape's bag and watched the fun unfold. Everytime they saw him after that, he seemed very edgy and he jumped at the slightest of sounds. Dark circles were forming under his eyes and he looked extremely tired. What was even better was that every time he saw the marauders approaching, he would immediately turn and walk as fast as he could in the other direction and would than vanish from sight.