How It All Began

How It All Began: Chapter Four

A Fight

A/N: Thank you all for your reviews of the first three chapters. Since this has already been up on ff.net, some stuff might be confusing, but hopefully not too much so! Anyway, enjoy!

Recap:

With that, Lily sealed it up and gave it to her owl.

“This is for Prongs,” she whispered, “although I imagine you already knew that.”

Meanwhile, down the table, Remus Lupin was whispering to his friends.

“I don't think this is a good idea, James. What if she thinks you're a dark wizard or something and sends you a curse?” Sirius shook his head in mock sympathy towards Remus.

“Remus, Remus, Remus. We've been sitting here watching her reply to James' letter. It seems long, she doesn't have an angry face AND her wand isn't out, so how could she curse it? No, my friend, I think Jamsey here has scored a winner.” James grimaced at the nickname, and Peter proceeded to laugh hysterically. The other three gave him weird glances until finally Sirius coughed meaningfully, causing Peter to stop.

“Anyway James,” said Sirius, turning to him, and pretending nothing had just happened, “what's this I here about you having Head duties Hogsmeade weekend?”

“Oh yeah, sorry guys, I have to decorate the Great Hall for Halloween with Evans,” James said ruefully.

“It's okay, we can just go Sunday. We know you wouldn't want to miss a date with Evans.” James turned red and Remus gave them a warning look.

“Mates—,” he started.

“Remus, let poor James have some fun.”

“But what if you get caught?” Remus argued.

“Yeah, what if you get caught?” piped up Peter. Sirius rolled his eyes.

“How many times have we gone to Hogsmeade illegally, Remus?” said Sirius, “And have we ever gotten caught?”

“It makes it even more likely that you will this time. And James will lose his Head's badge.”

“Oh yes, and that's just SUCH a terrible thing,” said James.

“Well,” said Remus, “What about Lily?” James shrugged.

“It's not as if she talks to me anyway.” Sirius glanced down at his watch.

“Potions time!” he said with false cheerfulness.

“Make-fun-of-Snape time, you mean,” replied James, grinning. James, Sirius and Remus were all in NEWT level potions, but Peter wasn't, so he headed upstairs to his divination class while the others headed for the dungeons.

They were sitting in potions later, and Sirius was flicking salamander tails at Snape's head, who was, coincidentally, paired with Lily. As much as Lily hated being paired with Snape, she hated it more when Sirius missed and flicked the tails onto her instead.

“Sorry,” he said as a tail hit Lily in the head for the fourth time, and she turned around to glare at him. She turned back to making her potion, trying to ignore Snape while he stirred his potion with his nose a centimeter away from its contents. Involuntarily, she gave a shudder when he sniffed a piece of rat dung. He heard and glared at her with his beady eyes and whispered,

“Be careful how you act around me, Evans. I have powerful friends, and it just might be the last thing you do.” She stared back, shocked, unaware that behind her, Sirius and James had heard the whole thing. They glanced at each other with troubled expressions.

“What do you reckon that was all about, Si?” James asked his friend.

“Dunno, but you better keep an eye on Evans, and Snape for that matter.” For once, Sirius looked serious.

“Yeah,” James barked, “That is, if she ever looks at me without scowling.”

“James, my man, she'll be head over heels for you by the end of this year, mark my words.”

“Sure, sure,” James replied, then went back to his potion.

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A/N: Well, there we are then. Have a good winter break!

I'll get another chapter up soon. (It's very useful when they're already written!)

~Wwindmilller