MARAUDERS.IN.MY.HEAR T! ♡♡

CHAPTER EIGHT UPLOADED!!!!!!!!

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GOD! I just realised in English the spelling is Marauders, whereas in French it's MareudeUrs. So, I changed the spelling everywhere in the story, but I can't change it in the adress... I'm so ashamed lol!

Before starting reading:

About the story:

Title: No idea yet!
Theme: Harry Potter, Marauder's time.
Main Characters: Lily Evans, Rebecca Watson, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrow, Chinoa Li, Mary Wood, Diggory Hawks, Severus Snape, Narcissa Black, Aidan Lynch and many parents of students in Harry's time! (Except Muggle born of course^^)...
Story: 7th year at Hogwarts for the marauders and their friends.



As you know, this is a fan-fiction I wrote about the maraudeur's 7th year at school. I'm one of the biggest Potter-maniac ever, so it was just a matter of time 'til I wrote my first fan-fic'.
Just to tell, you will easily see I am no professional writer. In fact, I'm French so there may be some English mistakes, even if I did my best to avoid it.
I also wanted to tell, even if I tell a bit about the main characters, I don't at all explain what Hogwarts is, neither loads of magical terms. So of course, it's better if you have read all the “Harry Potter” books before. Sorry again for the mistakes and I hope you'll enjoy reading my story!

Declaration: JK ROWLING owns everything! Except some of the characters I created... it's her art! (and I lovvvvvve it!)

Chapter 1 : Où est le point?

Rebecca Watson was sitting on a chair, in her bedroom, reading the letter she just had written, and she was quite satisfied. She looked at her owl, which was half sleeping in his cage.

“Wake up lazy! I've got a job for ya!” The owl, named Ditto looked at his owner, and came to her.

“Take that to Lily, okay?”.

The owl grabbed the letter, and flew out the window.
Just as Rebecca was sending Ditto, her mother knocked on the door.

“Breakfast's ready! Come on I don't want us to be late at the ministry!”.

Becky grumped, but followed her mum in the kitchen.

“It's okay mum. We won't be late. When do we have to be there?

- At 9 am.

- Hum... okay maybe I should get a bit quicker!”.

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Lily's house:

Lily Evans was already awake when she heard a loud tapping on her bedroom window. She got on her feet, and opened the window to let the owl in. She immediately recognized Ditto, her best friend's owl.
Lily, like Rebecca, was attending Hogwarts School for witchcraft and wizardry, but as they had both been travelling all the summer, they hadn't been able to see each-other, and Lily was very excited to see her friend had finally answered her letter. Becky wasn't really a writing kind of girl, and she didn't send much letter, so it was always a pleasure to receive one.

“Hi ditto! Glad to finally see you! Got some news, have you?”

She took the later from the owl and read it, while the owl was drinking in Lily's own owl's cage.

20. 08. 1977
Hey Lil'!
I came back from Tunisia yesterday! T'was great! Did you get my postcard?
I'm despaired, my dear mother is taking me to the ministry for a week, because she doesn't want me to stay at home while she's at work. Aha. I'm telling you, this woman is hoping I'll join the ministry one-day. She's so dreaming. How's your holiday? I got your postcard from France, Waa seams great! Maybe I'll go one day. Well, dad got his report in Tunis, so he's happy. And mum was able to work by owl. I actually like to go searching for information with dad. Sorry I'm just summering everything! I promise I'll tell you everything you wanna know. I'm going to Diagon Alley on the 28th to get my school stuff. Can you meet me there? Can't wait to see you!
I'm off to eat. Write back!
Love ya!
Becky.

Lily couldn't believe that Becky was complaining about having to spend a week at the ministry. Becky's mum worked at the magical justice department. She was so lucky! Lily remembered she had nothing specific to do, and was almost jealous. Both her parents were muggles: her Dad was an English teacher at university, and her Mum was a dentist. Nothing really exciting... She looked at Ditto.

“Wait 'til I write the answer okay?”

She quickly replied to Becky's letter, and sent it off with Ditto. Then, she went back on her bed, and continued to read “Compendium of Common Curses and Their Counter-Actions”, a book her dad had just bought her 3 days ago, but that she actually had almost finished. Lily was indeed what we can call a good student. She was, like Becky, entering her 7th, and last, year at school. She was very excited. Her favourite subject had always been Potions, but she had pretty good marks in all subjects, actually. But she had to work a lot to have those marks, in contrary, Becky always managed to have excellent marks without working at all, and Lily had to try hard not to be jealous.

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James' house:

James Potter was woken up at 10:00 am, which was much earlier than he'd have liked one summer morning. James groaned and tried to ignore the front-door bell. He put his pillow on his head to cover the noise. He managed to go back to sleep, but unfortunately, not for long. Indeed, someone knocked on his door about 15 minutes later. James groaned again.

“Go away! I'm asleep!”.

The door opened anyway. James turned aside to se who it was, expecting to see his mother. But the person standing in the middle of the room was definitely not Mrs. Potter. It was a young boy, approximately James' age, but a bit taller, black-haired, brown–eyed. He was wearing old Jeans, which had many holes in. James immediately recognized him, even if he was still sleepy. He jumped out of his bed.

“SIRIUS!”

Sirius Black was James' best friend, and they were also both going back to Hogwarts in a few days, entering their 7th year as well.

“What the hell are you doing here?”

-“Well, I couldn't stand it at home, and my dear mother was so annoying, I wanted to spend the rest of the summer at the leaky cauldron, looking for an apartment. But you mum just invited me to stay here until' I'm 17. Then I'll be in age to search a new home. Surprised?

-Duh! I knew you wouldn't stand the summer, but I never believed mum would accept to have you here!

-Your mum's cool. I'm staying in the spare bedroom. So how was your summer? Can't be worse than mine can it?

- Boring... I didn't do much... Mum's been trying all summer to set me on with one of her friends' daughter... actually that was kind of fun...

- hoho! So?

- Naa 't was just a 16 year old muggle, but not so pretty.

- Not pretty enough for you?

- Duh! I've got an all fan-club at Hogwarts, the fact that she's a muggle's okay...but the “not so pretty” kind of “not okay”!” James smiled in an “angel face” kind of way.

- “Well, can't be worse than me. I finished all my homework in a week, because I had nothing else to do.” He looked very serious.

“Okay... than this is very disturbing! Must have been horrible!

-Okay, stop making fun of me!

-Sorry!

It's okay... okay now enough chatting! Get dressed! We're off to the Quidditch pitch in 5 minutes! I haven't been able to practice all summer!”.

He looked seriously annoyed. James didn't notice it, because he was still thinking about the not-so-pretty muggle girl, or maybe it was that he couldn't imagine doing all his homework in a week.

“Thanks to my dear mother of course. I couldn't even get out the house. All I could do was not do anything! Anyway, is there anywhere to play quidditch near here? I mean, you know, you do live in the middle of nowhere!

-Yeah, I know thank you, anyway, there's a piece of waste ground with a muggle protection not too far and I don't think it will help, but I didn't practice as well. It's not funny to play alone. But let's go and have fun with my quaffle!”.

Sirius smiled. The two boys were in the gryffindor quidditch team. James was a chaser, and captain of the team, and Sirius was beater. He was a fair chasers as well, so they could do with a quaffle to play.

Sirius quitted the room, so James could put clothes on. 2 minutes later, they had left the house with their brooms: a shooting star and a nimbus 1000.

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Becky's house:

Becky ate her breakfast and had to listen to her mum's speech about how to behave in the ministry. When she went back to her bedroom to get dressed, Ditto was waiting on her bed.

“Hey! Back already?! Got an answer for me, have you?”

She took the letter, and started to read it.

Hi Becky!
I can't believe you're complaining about going to the ministry! Apart from summer boredom (yeah now I'm back from France I don't really know what to do...), I'm fine! France was amazing! Glad you enjoyed Tunis. Dumbledore sent me a letter while I was visiting Chambord (it's a muggle castle, so you may have heard of it – Hogwarts's much better by the way!) and guess what? I'm head girl!

Becky smiled, that was so not a surprise, Lily was responsible, hard-working, and put a lot in everything she did, what more could we ask for a prefect? She continued reading.

And guess who's head boy?! Potter! Can you believe it? I'm actually going to have to spend some time with him! Quel est le point? (That's French for “what's the point” – yeah I improved my French a bit as well)

Rebecca was choked. THAT was a surprise. James Potter was an arrogant troublemaker (who had actually been in love with Lily for the past 3 years, but he's way too arrogant for her). He was not responsible, not Hard-working, and put a lot only while organizing pranks. Him? Head Boy? Weird... Her eyes went back on her friend's letter.

I can't believe it. I have to be quick, I still have some homework to do, and I want to go through 5 or 6 more books about Potions that my mum gave me, but I'll tell you all you wanna know about France on the 28th (yes! I'll be meeting you in the leaky cauldron at 11 am, okay?) And you'll tell me everything about Tunis! So see you in a week (can't wait!).
Love you too sweetie!
Lily xoxox

“YEAH! Lily's meeting me in Diagon Alley!”

Becky was so excited; she had even forgotten the horrible day she was going to spend. She took gently Ditto under the wings and started to dance with him. She was also singing:

“♪ I'm gonna see Lilyyyy, I'm gonna see Lilyyy! ♪”

Her mum opened violently the door.

“Rebecca Amelia Jane Watson!” (It was a bad sign when her mum used all the names together) “We are to leave in 15 minutes! So STOP dancing and GET READY!”

Becky groaned, her mother slammed the door, and Becky put Ditto back in his cage, some clothes on, and went in the bathroom to get ready. She heard her mum stressing downstairs.

“10 MINUTES REBECCA! 10 MINUTES!”

2 minutes later, she was panicking and shouting they were going to be late. Rebecca was ready, and used the 5 minutes left to write on 2 different peaces of paper.

“Hey! Lily's head girl! Did she tell you? James' head boy, by the way! Can't write long, gotta go!
Big kisses! Becky”

She gave them to Ditto.

“Take one to Chinoa, and one to Mary, okay?”

They were too of Lily and Becky's very good friends. After that, Becky came down the stairs.

“Calm down mum. I'm ready. We are early, don't panic. How are we going anyway? Floo-ing? Or we could be apparating now I got my permit...

-No. We'll actually take the underground today, it's better for your first day.”

Becky groaned, but remained silent. She knew there was no point of arguing, especially now that her mum was on her nerves. She had already taken the underground, but didn't really like it. It was much longer than Floo-ing, put aside apparating. Becky's mum hated to apparate. They left the house.

Chapter 2 : Around the ministry.

They arrived at the ministry about an hour later.

“We'll use the visitor's entrance.” Mrs. Watson said. “To introduce you”. Becky sighed.

“Okay mum...”

Becky looked around. It was a dingy street. She could only see 3 or 4 offices, and a pub. Nothing that could possibly look like a ministry of magic. Her mum was going closer to a red telephone box.

“Mum! It says “out of order”. Who do you wanna call anyway?

-Just enter the cabin.”

Becky obeyed, and she entered after her mum in the red box. Her mum grabbed the phone, but didn't bring it close to her ear. She pressed the numbers 6-2-4-4-2.

“Mum, what are you...” but a voice interrupted her.

“Welcome to the ministry of magic. Please give names, and your visit's aim.”

Becky's mouth dropped. Her mother answered quickly.

“Mrs. Elaine Watson, working for the magical justice department, and daughter Rebecca Watson, visiting”.

-Pick-up your badges. You will go down to the Atrium, level 8 where you will register your wand”.

While the cabin was going down, Becky looked quite impressed. Two badges fell in the coins dropout.

“Mrs. Elaine Watson. “Miss Rebecca Watson
Magical Justice department.” Visitor”

Becky was starting to believe it could be fun. The box stopped, and Becky looked at the Atrium.
It was a large hall with fireplaces up and down both long walls. “To floo”, Becky thought. Their wands were registered, while Becky was looking at another smaller hall, beyond the gates, where there were many lifts. They took one of them, and went down to level two (Atrium was level 8, even if it was lower than the muggle street) where the department of magical law enforcement was. They just got out of the lift, when a man came to see them. He was a thin man, and big glasses covered his face. He was red-haired, and smiled to them.

“Hi Elaine!” He looked at Rebecca for a second. “OH! You must be Rebecca!

-You can call me Becky!” She answered, smiling. She was going to ask politely who he was, but her mum was quicker.

“Honey, this is Arthur Weasley, head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office. It's part of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement as well.” Becky smiled to him.

“Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Wesley.

-Pleasure to meet you too. You're half-muggle aren't you?”

He suddenly looked very excited.
Becky nodded. Mrs. Watson had a nervous giggle.

“Oh, not now Arthur! We have much to do!”.

Before Becky could even say anything, she was dragged away by her mum.

“Arthur is fascinated by muggles, once he's on with the subject, you can't stop him. He's nice, but really obsessed. Once I spent 45 minutes explaining how a micro-wave worked. We have no time to waste, today”.

She took her daughter around, to introduce her to everyone. Then, they went to Mrs. Watson's office.

“Honey, I have a meeting with Mrs. Black in about 2 minutes. Just stay here, and don't put any mess around. Just sit, and wait. I'll be back”.

She left.


While Becky was starting to be really bored, James and Sirius were having a lot of fun.
At 4 pm, they went back at James' house, exhausted and hungry. They ate, and went in James' bedroom. Sirius looked around the bedroom. He went near the shelf, where James' trophies were. Sirius had a look, and then suddenly shouted.

“BLOODY HELL!!

-What? What?”. James sounded worried.

“You true old git! You're HEAD BOY!”

James smiled with relief.

“Why didn't you tell me? And why you? Poor Dumby's going crazy!

-I didn't tell you because it's not important.” James answered with false modesty. He continued.

“And Dumbledore chose me, because, well I'm the best”. He smiled.

Sirius took a pillow, and threw it in James' head, laughing.

“Who's head girl anyway?

-Mmm... a girl called Lily Evans”. He said in a false I-don't-care way.

Sirius' mouth dropped.

“And you say it's NOT important? I'm telling you: you are bloody lucky!

- Yeah, I know”. He smiled again.

Sirius threw another pillow at James' face.

“Well, this year's gonna be innnnnteresting.” Sirius said. He winked.

“Oh shut up!” This time it was James who threw a pillow in Sirius' head.

James' mum called from downstairs.

“SIRIUS, CAN YOU COME DOWNSTAIRS FOR A SEC?”

Sirius and James joined Mrs. Potter in the living room.

“What's up Mum?

- I hope you two didn't have plans for tomorrow?!” She answered, looking at Sirius.

“Well, we were planning on playing quidditch all day. Why?

-Sirius, you have to go to the ministry tomorrow. Your mother wants to make sure that you officially don't live Grimmauld place anymore, and she heard that you were living here. She wants me to sign papers saying you live here, and you have to be there.

-um... okay. How long is it gonna take?

-Well, for you just a minute, but it'll take me an hour or two... you'll have to wait”

Sirius nodded. James added:

“At what time do we have to be there?

- No, no James you are not coming!

-But...

-No buts! Sirius and you, together, in the ministry... would be a disaster!

-But...

Mrs Potter gave her son a bad look.

-Oh, all right! I'll just stay here...

- Yes you will. Sirius, we have to leave at 9 am tomorrow, and James, we'll be back around 12:30.

- I thought you said an hour or two? That's three hours and a half, mum!

- You'll find something to do! You'll do your homework for a change! Okay now go back upstairs; come back at 6:30 to dress the table, okay?

James and Sirius both nodded, and went back upstairs, where they spent the two hours before dinner talking about school, homework, and girls they could flirt with when back at school (Lily being one of their favourite subjects!).

After a long and boring after-noon, Becky was finally back in the Atrium.

“Mum, please tell me we're floo-ing! I'm too tired to walk!

-Well, yes, we are aloud to floo.

-Oh thanks, mum!

They were in front of one of the fire places.

“Go first, honey. And be careful.

- Yes, mum, because of course it's the first time I'm floo-ing!” She said ironically.

She took a bit of Floo Powder, and went in the fireplace. She liked the warm sensation of being in the fire. She threw the powder in the fire.

“13 Rusthall avenue!”

The fire turned brilliant green, and Becky was gone. She arrived in her living room. Her mum followed. Becky went directly to her bedroom, to write to Lily, and she realized that Ditto was back, but that he was not the only owl in the room. A dark brown owl was waiting on her bed, a letter attached to his left paw. Ditto had also a letter.

“Hey! So do you have the girl's answers? Who comes first?”

Ditto flew to her, and she could remove the letter. It was Mary.

Hey Becky!
No, I didn't know but it's not really a surprise!
Thanks for this short letter.
I'm fine by the way! Thanks for asking!
I'm sure you had a good reason... you always have!
I'll see you at King's cross! I'm going to Noa's later, I'll be there if you wanna answer.
Mary.

The other one was from Chinoa.

Hello
I am not going to write you a long long letter,
considering the fact that yours contained barely 10 words^^
I'm okay. Have you told Mary for
Lil'? We miss both of you!
See you on September 1st!
Noa

She took 10 minutes to answer to Chinoa and Mary.

Hi Chinoa! (and Mary if you're there)
Sorry I didn't write much earlier, I had to go to the ministry with my mum.
I'm going to Diagon alley to buy books and stuff on the 28th,
and then we'll go shop in the muggle side.
Will you join us there?
Everything's fine! Tunisia was great: Can't wait to see both of you!
Love, Becky.
P.S: Mary, how was apparating test?

Mary was too young to pass the test in May, when Lily, 'Noa and Becky has passed it, so she had to take the exam during the summer.
Rebecca sent back Chinoa's owl with the answer.
Then she just laid on her bed, and was so tired she felt asleep. Her mum opened the door.

“Honey, wake up! Dinner's ready. And then you can go back to sleep. You'll need to be in great form for the ministry tomorrow.

- Mmmm... oh mum! I'm not going! It's boring!

- No, no. You'll come tomorrow. If it's really boring, I won't oblige you to come the rest of the week”

Becky groaned and put her head in her pillow.

“All right, All right. But I'm not hungry! See you tomorrow”.

Her mum sighed, but nodded.

“Okay... I'll wake you up at 8:00 am tomorrow.

She left the room.
When her mum woke Becky up, the next morning, Becky was feeling much better. She wasn't tired at all anymore, and it was really sunny outside. She was really sad to spend this good day at the ministry. That wasn't putting her in a good mood. She got dressed anyway, and went in the hall.

“Mum! We have to be there at 9! It's already 8:35! What are you doing?!”

Mrs. Watson came down 5 minutes later.

“Mum! We're gonna be late!

-Calm down! We don't need 20 minutes to floo!

-Oh, huh... I thought we were taking the underground again.

-No we are not. But I'm impressed about your punctuality! I didn't think it was that important for you!

-It's not. But it is for you. I'll go back in my room. We can leave in 20 minutes then!

-Oh no! Now that you're ready, let's go!

-Mumm! Oh all right! I'll go!

She went, grumping in the fire place, took some floo powder.

“Ministry of magic, London!”

She was transported in the Atrium. She waited for her mum, and they went into the elevators, and up to her mum's office.

“So! Like yesterday, I have to meet my boss for morning briefing, I'll see you later!”.

At the same moment, Sirius and Mrs. Potter entered the lifts.

“Okay, Sirius. Your mother's office is in the magical justice department. We have to meet her there”.

They went all the way to Mrs. Black's office.

“Hello, dearest mother”. Sirius said, sounding ironic.

“Do not talk to me. Mrs Potter.” She sounded forced to say hello.

“Pleasure to meet you Mrs Black”.

Mrs Black did not answer.

“Sign this paper, and then get out.” She said to Sirius. Mrs Watson was waiting in front of the office. A minute later, Sirius got out. He smiled to her.

“-Excuse me, do you know where I could sit down? I've got an hour to wait.

-My office is on the right, my daughter's waiting there, but there are some other chairs.

- Are you sure I won't be disturbing, or anything?

- Don't be silly! I'm sure Becky would love a bit of company!

- Becky? What is it short for?

- Rebecca. Come on! Go on!”

Sirius smiled and left. He walked down the corridor, and knocked on the office's door.

“- Come in!”

Rebecca was on a chair, with the feet on the desk, reading a quidditch magazine, when she saw Sirius, her feet went down, and she frowned.

“Hi! Sorry to bother you! My mum's in a meeting with your mum, and your mum told me to wait here. Am I bothering?”

- No! Not at all! I was beginning to get really bored.

- You're Rebecca Watson aren't you? Lily Evans' best friend?

- Hum...yeah... Nice to be remembered for that...

- Oh... no it's just that...”

Sirius blushed a bit, which wasn't something he was used to do. Rebecca laughed.

“It's okay! Don't worry. So how was your summer, Sirius?”

Rebecca felt a little weird; it was the first time she was actually talking to Sirius because Lily hated James, so the girls were always avoiding James and his friends. It didn't seem to bother Sirius.

“Horrible. Boring, and horrible. You?
-Mine was okay. I went to Tunisia with my Dad, 't was very cool!

- Tunisia? Wow! That's cool! What did you do there?

- My dad's a journalist, that's why we travel a lot, so he just did reports, and we visited a lot. It was cool. Very different, but cool.

- Cool then”.

He smiled.

“And how's Mrs. Evans? Good summer as well?

- Yeah. She went to France with her parents. Apparently it was cool. But she's really looking forward to going back to school, now she's head girl.

- Yeah I heard that. James is happy as well, but only coz he's gonna be able to spend more time with Lily.

- Why aren't I surprised?”

She laughed, and continued talking.

“Well I hope they'll go on better. I'm tired of their little war. I'm just waiting for James to be a little less arrogant, coz it's the only thing that she doesn't like on him. I'm sure she would LIKE him if he was a bit more natural with her.

- The problem is, he knows that, but can't change a thing. But you're probably right. He is the most arrogant person I've ever seen.”

Becky stared at him.

“What? Please tell me I'm less arrogant than him!!

- Mmm... only a bit... I suppose.”

She smiled.

“I'm just teasing you. You're a bit arrogant, but less than him I suppose. It's good Remus is there, he seems to be natural. Peter... just has nothing to be arrogant about, I suppose!”

Sirius and Becky laughed.

“We're so mean! Poor Peter!

Yeah, I know. Still, you're a bit right!”

They laughed again. It looked like the ministry could be less boring, after all...

“Hey, Becky? Do you play Quidditch? Coz we're gonna play tomorrow with James, wanna come?

-Yeah, I play chaser...and seeker but I've gotta see with my mum, if I can. Should be okay.”

Sirius smiled.

“It would be great!

- Is it gonna be okay with James? Don't you prefer staying just the two of you?

- No! You're fun! You're cool. I'd like to spend time with you!”

Becky blushed a bit, but Sirius didn't notice. They continued speaking about quidditch and their favourite teams, until' Mrs. Watson was back, and Sirius had to leave.

“Sirius! Wait! I still have to ask my mum!

-Oh! I'll wait outside. Tell me.”

He went out the room.

“Mum? Sirius invited me to play quidditch with him and James tomorrow. Can I please go? Please...

-Where does James live? And where are you gonna play quidditch?

- SIRIUS?”

Sirius came in. He explained where James lived, and told Becky's mum there was absolutely no problem, if Becky wanted to floo.

“All right, you can go!” Becky's mum finally said.

“Yeahhh! Thanks mum!

-Thanks Mrs. Watson!” Sirius looked happy, as well. Sirius kissed Becky on the cheek (she blushed) and left. Rebecca was quickly bored again...

Chapter 3: Quidditch and Diagon Alley.

On the next morning, Becky woke up happy; as she knew it was going to be a nice day. She ate her breakfast, and then got ready. She had told Sirius she would arrive at 11. She waited patiently time to go. At 10:45, she went up and put her quidditch equipment in her bag. She took her broomstick, and went down.

“Mum, I'm going! I'll be back around 7!

- Okay, be careful. And be nice to Mrs Potter. Be polite!

- Yes, Muuum!” She said ironically.

She took a bit of floo powder in her left hand, and climbed in the fire place. A second later, she opened her eyes in a big living room. James was waiting on the sofa.

“SIRIUS! REBECCA'S HERE! Hi!” He added nicely to Becky. Becky could here loud foot steps running down the stairs.

“Hey, Becky!”. Sirius smiled widely to her.

“Hi Sirius, Hi James. Hello Mrs Potter.”

James' mother had just entered the room.

“Hello Rebecca! Pleased to see you.”

Rebecca looked at her feet. A lot of ashes had gone out of the chimney.

“Oh! I'm really sorry for the mess...

- No problem dear.”

She took her wand out her cloak and flicked it. All the ashes disappeared at once.

“Sirius, James, take Becky upstairs. I'll call you for lunch.

- Okay, Mum! Come on.”

James went up the stairs, Sirius and Becky followed. When Becky entered James' room, she saw easily James' hobby. They were posters of quidditch everywhere.

“I can see you support the Tornados!

- Sirius told me you supported them as well!

- I do!! Sirius supports the wasps!

- I know! Such a betrayer!”

They laughed together. Sirius didn't. He looked at James and Becky and couldn't help being a bit jealous. Becky saw it because she smiled to Sirius, and sat next to him on the bed.

“Hey! We're joking! Ya know we are! Lily's not even interested in Quidditch!

- And?

- She's my best friend! It's a proof I just don't care about Quidditch teams!” She kissed Sirius on the cheek.

“No problem. Okay?”

Sirius smiled widely. James' eyebrows went up.

“What?” Sirius asked.

“Nothing...” James said, smiling.

Sirius looked at James and moved a bit away from Becky.

“So...we're gonna play Quidditch this afternoon hein?” Becky said.

“Yeah... Sirius told me you played Chaser and seeker.

- I usually play seeker, but I like playing chaser as well. But I'm telling you, I'm really not very good. So... may not be great, for both of you, to play with me...

- It's okay... we'll get to teach you!” Sirius said, smiling. “I'm sure you're just being modest and you're pretty... good.”

Becky laughed. “You'll see!”

They spent another half hour talking about quidditch, which Becky really enjoyed, because between Lily (who was absolutely not interested in quidditch) and her parents (with who she simply didn't want to talk) she didn't get to talk a lot about her favourite sport ever. They went down 30 minutes later, as Mrs Potter called them for lunch. After lunch, Becky chatted a bit with Mrs Potter, and James started to be really bored. After 10 minutes, he finally said.

“Hey Becky... can we go now?

- Oh, Euh yes of course. I just have to go and get my quidditch stuff. I enjoyed talkin' to you Mrs Potter”, she added, smiling. She went in James' bedroom, took her broom, and went back down, where Sirius and James waited with their own brooms...

“Girls...always waiting for them”. James said, smiling.

Becky smiled.

“It's okay, we can go.

-Hopefully!” Sirius added.

They left the house.

“Don't the muggles react, when they see we're wondering around with a broom?

- Pfff... it's okay. They do think it's weird but we don't care. Coz', we are weird when you think about it.” James answered to Becky.

James, Sirius and Becky continued talking about quidditch and muggles until they reached the area where they played quidditch. James didn't wait. He immediately threw his sweater on a stone wall, mounted his broom, and started to fly. Sirius didn't follow. He looked at Becky for quite a long time. She was looking at how James was flying. When she looked at him, he smiled, and said:

“Aren't you going?

- Oh. Euh... yeah, sure.”

She took her jumper of, and mounted her broom. She flew directly to James.

“So. Are we playing?

- Sure! Show me what you can do. HEY SIRI! COME UP HERE!”

Sirius joined them.

“So? How are we playing? First to 100 wins, and no teams. Okay? Becky, you get to go first.

- Hey, I don't want your pity!” She smiled. “But okay, I'll go.”

James threw the Quaffle. She caught it, and immediately went to the only ring there was on the pitch. By the time James and Sirius reacted, she had already scored.

Sirius got near James, and whispered.

“Didn't she say she sucked at Quidditch? Because that was pretty quick!

- Probably just luck....

It wasn't just luck. James won the game, of course, but when he reached 100 points, Becky already had 80, and Sirius was left behind with 60. Becky was smiling.

“Thank you so much for this game, boys. It's so good to finally play with good players.

- Yeah, and you are really good!” James added.

“Yeah, sure” Becky said sarcastically. Sirius looked at her.

“Seriously!”

She blushed, but didn't say anything.

Becky, James and Sirius went back to James' house around 6:30, after two more games (James won the 2 of them, and Sirius finished last each time). Before leaving, Becky asked the boys when they were going to Diagon Alley.

“We don't really know”. Sirius answered. “When are you going?

- I'm meeting Lily, Mary and Chinoa on the 28th.

- Oh, okay. What time and where?

- Leaky Cauldron, 11 am.

- Works for me. James?

- No problem. Is it gonna be okay with your little friends if we meet you there? I don't want to cause a scandal, but we were planning to go on the 28th or 29th anyway. The more we are the better it is, right?

- Sure! No problem. It's maybe gonna be a bit boring for you two, hearing us telling the others all we did during the holidays, but it would be great to see you there.

- We'll come” Sirius said.
“Okay, well I've gotta go now, but I'll meet you there!”

She smiled to Sirius, looked at James, took some Floo-powder, and left. Sirius stared at the fireplace, smiling, for another 20 seconds. James looked at Sirius.

“Good day, hein?” He asked him.

- Very good...” Sirius answered, still dreaming. He realized after what he had just said, stopped dreaming, and said more seriously:

“I mean... playing quidditch is always good!

- Pretty, hein?

- Yeah... what? Oh, I do not know what you are talking about.”

James laughed.


The next days were devoid of any thing exciting. Becky continued going to the ministry, to please her mum; Lily did more and more homework; and the boys played more quidditch.

Becky woke up very early on the 28th, even if she only had to leave at 10:20 (she had to use the underground, as there was a problem with the floo network in Diagon Alley). She got ready as soon as she woke up. When she came back in her bedroom, an owl she had never seen was waiting on her bed. She frowned, and took the letter. The writing was big, and dirty. She immediately had an idea, of who is could be.

Hey Beck!

This confirmed her ideas.

How R U? Good week? I know I'm gonna see you later on, so I won't be long. James' mother can't bring us to Diagon Alley today, so we've got to go with the underground (that's how it's called, right?). But we don't know where to go, and how to use the underground. So is it okay if we floo to your house, and then we go together? Or, were you planning to apparate? I'll turn 17 on the 30th, so I can't apparate yet. So, can we come at 10 and then go together? James doesn't know how he'll go yet.
Answer quickly! See ya! Sirius.
Ps: You know there's a problem with the floo network in Diagon Alley, don't you? I head it was an accident or something...

Becky knew already. She took a bit of parchment, and wrote back.

No problem. I'm aloud to apparate but my mum doesn't really want me to. “Just for emergencies” she says. Do you have muggle money? If not I'll give you enough to pay the underground, it's not expensive. See you at 10! XoXo ; ) BeckY

She smiled and sent the owl with the letter. It was 8:45.

“Plenty of time!” She thought. She went to see her mum in the kitchen.

“Mum! You have to give me enough money for my books. I've got the list in my bag. My robes still fit, we bought them last year.

- Here are enough for your books, the underground, and a bit more if you wanna buy a few things.”

She handled her a purse, looking quite full;

“Great! Thanks mum!”

She kissed her mum on the cheek, went back in her bedroom, and put muggle and wizard money in her bag.

“Hey Ditto! You don't need anything, do you?” The owl looked at her, and moved a bit.

“Do you wanna go out a bit? I forgot to let you out last night...”

As a response, the owl flew to the window, and landed on the window edge. Becky smiled, and opened the window.

“I'll be in Diagon Alley today. See ya later!”
Ditto flew away. Becky lay down on her bed, she was quite tired, now she thought about it... she closed slowly her eyes... She was woken up because she felt as her bed was strangely moving... It felt like someone had just violently sat on it. She opened the eyes...

“What the...”

Sirius and James were sitting at the end of her bed. She sat, and ran her hand through her hair, to brush them a bit. Sirius and James grinned.

“Hey, sleepy!” Sirius said.

“I'm sorry... I woke up early this morning...

- No problem, don't apology. We talked a bit with your mum, it's 10:15. Should we go?”

After Becky had finish brushing her hair, and put a bit of make up on, they could finally go.

“So, how was your week?” James asked, on the way to Turnham Green, the tube station.

- Boring, boring, and boring... Ministry.” She added.

“Oh. Not cool...

- You?

“We had fun...” Sirius answered. “Hein James? Quidditch, quidditch, and quidditch.” Sirius said, smiling.

“Let me guess, James won?”

James laughed but Sirius didn't.

“Hey! I am not a Chaser!”

James had a weird cough, sounding pretty much like “fortunately!” Sirius didn't say anything.

Becky smiled at him, and said as they got in the tube:

“Relax! You're an excellent beater! You can't be good at everything!”

He didn't smile, nor say anything.

“I'm sorry Siri.” She kissed him on the cheek, he grinned. James laughed.

“He would do anything for a kiss”. James said.

Becky didn't smile, she looked at Sirius.

“But, not from anyone!” Sirius added quickly. “Only nice and pretty girls.” He said softly.

Becky grinned, the tube stopped, and James got down first. Sirius was starting to get down, but Becky pulled his tee-shirt, he looked at her, she tiptoed, and kissed him on the cheek again.

“Anytime.” She said. The two of them were grinning when they got out of the tube.

They arrived in front of the leaky cauldron Five minutes later. Becky saw Lily, speaking with Chinoa and Mary. She ran and threw herself in Lily's arms.

“Hey Lil'!

- Hello, Mon petit camarade!”

Lily noticed James and Sirius. Becky was saying Hi to Chinoa and Mary. Lily took Rebecca aside.

“What is he doing here?

-I invited him.” Becky said calmly. “Calm down. We played quidditch together and it was cool, so I asked if he wanted to come with us. Stay cool. No problem. She looked at Sirius, he mouthed:

“Is everything okay?”

She smiled. Everything was okay. She embraced Lily, and went to Sirius.

“Everything's fine. No problem”. She smiled.

They were now two groups: Lily talking with Chinoa and Mary, and Sirius and James. Becky looked at Sirius.

“Come.”

They went to Chinoa, Mary and Lily.

“Girls, you know Sirius Black and James Potter I suppose. Boys, this is Mary, and Chinoa, and, you know Lily.” Lily and James' eyes met for a second, but Lily diverted the glance.

“Should we go?” Everyone nodded. Becky entered first in the leaky cauldron. They went to the back yard, and Becky tapped the wall with her wand. The wall opened.

“Nice to be here”. Becky said. So, where d'ya wanna go?” Everybody looked at each other.

“We should go to Flourish & Blotts' first, so that's done.” Lily said. James looked at her.

“But then we'd have to carry our books all day long. I reckon we should go last.

-Yeah, sorry Lil' but James is right. I don't wanna carry my books all day long. So?

- Quality Quidditch Supplies?” James asked.

“Yeah!” Becky and Sirius said at once. Lily, Chinoa and Mary were hesitating.

“I'd rather go to the magical instruments shop...” Lily said.

“Yeah, me too.

- Same” Mary and Chinoa added.

“It's okay, it's right next to each-other.”

Becky looked mitigated.

“What?” Sirius asked nicely.

“Well, I haven't seen Lily for nearly two month...and...

-Don't say more. It's okay. Go with her then.

- Becky? You know you can go to quidditch supplies if you want to, we'll have plenty of time to discuss later, don't matter about me.

-Okay Lil'.” She embraced her again. “I'm so glad to see ya!

-I am too. Go with them. I'll meet you her in an hour, okay? Then maybe we could go to muggle London to eat something...

-Great idea. See ya in an hour.” She smiled.

They all met an hour later, after they had all bought a few stuff. They went in a muggle fast-food (“fast-food??” Sirius asked), they ate, and went out.

“Lily?” Becky asked “D'ya wanna go now?”.

-Sure.

- Cool. Okay everyone. We have something to do in muggle London; we'll meet you in Diagon Alley in an hour, in front of Gringotts.

Nobody had time to answer, they were already gone. They all went to have a drink in the leaky cauldron, and then went back and waited for the girls near Gringotts. They finally arrived, smiling, 5 minutes late.

“So?” Mary asked.

“So what?” Becky answered.

“What did you do?

-This... is going to remain our secret.”

Mary looked at Chinoa, Sirius and James.

“Okay... where are we going now?

- Buy our books? It's already 4:00...” Lily proposed.

- Oh, ok, when d'ya have to be home?” Chinoa answered.

“Half past six” Lily, Becky, James and Sirius said at once.

-Oh... half past five for us... coz we have to baby-sit my sister after...

-It's okay. Let's buy our books now so it's done.”

They went to Flourish & Blotts, and bought 6 exemplars of the books, one for each. It took quite a long time for the bookseller to get all the books, by the time they got out, they only had time to wonder a bit in Diagon Alley before it was time for Mary and Chinoa to go.

“We'll see ya all on the Hogwarts Express, right? First one guards the compartment!

-As usual, Noa. Bye girls!”

After everyone had said bye, the girls left. Lily looked at Becky.

“So what do we do now?

- I don't know... what do you wanna do boys?

- No idea...

- Why don't we all go back at my house, wonder a bit just to be together, and then you floo whenever you wanna?

- Yeah! Why not?! James? Lily? Okay with that?

-Okay for me.

- Yeah no problem.

-Cool. Let's go. D'ya all have enough muggle money left?

-Yeah.

- Affirmative.

- Okay, let's go.”

They all left Diagon Alley, went back to the tube station, arrived in Turnham Green, and then finally at Becky's.

“Hey! Mum, I'm back! I'm with Lily, James and Sirius, we're going in my bedroom!”

They all went up.

“Sorry it's not very big, sit down if you wanna.”

Lily sat on the bed, James on a chair, and Becky and Sirius sat on the floor. Lilt and James hadn't exchange one sentence in the all day.

“So? Are you excited to go back?” Becky asked the others.

“I am” Sirius answered first “even if this summer's the best I ever had, thanks to the week at the Potters. Playing quidditch was also cool... meeting you as well...” They both smiled. They were doing it again: looking at each other, like everything else was dissolving around. After 10 seconds, James coughed.

“I'm very excited to go back as well, thanks for asking.” They laughed. “I wanna see everyone, and do pranks, and play quidditch, and go to the three broomsticks. That's life.

- You know we have our NEWTs this year don't you?!” Lily finally said. She was actually talking to him. Sirius and Becky exchanged looks.

-And? It won't stop me from having fun. I don't need to work a lot to have good marks. Natural intelligence.” He grinned. Lily looked up, but didn't say anything. Becky and Sirius exchanged nervous looks again, but didn't say anything either. To relax the atmosphere, Becky put one of her favorite CDs. The first track was called Love me do.

Love, love me do

You know I love you

That'll always be true

So pleaaaaase

Love me do
“Muggle music?” Sirius asked.

Lily looked scandalized.

“You DON'T know THE BEATLES?”

Sirius looked at her.

“I don't know any muggle music. My mum burnt the muggle books I had, and even muggle objects. She hates muggles. That's why she keeps me locked in all summer, to be sure I don't go wondering around.

-Oh. Sorry I didn't know. They are 4 boys from Liverpool: Paul Mc Cartney is my favorite, and then John Lennon Is Becky's favorite, and then you have Ringo Star and George Harrison.” As she was speaking, she was showing him who they were on one of the numerous posters. “Their music is really great. We love it”.

“Oh. Okay. Sounds cool to me.” He noticed the three guitars against the wall. “Do you play Guitar Becky?”

“I do, yes.

-You have 3?!

-No, the one on the right is actually a bass, I play bass as well.

-Cool...” He looked really impressed. “For how long have you played?

- Since I was...umm...9 I think. I really like it.

- Could you show me?

- Naaa... I'm not very good.”

Lily laughed and mouthed to Sirius “she's great”.

Sirius looked at her. “Yeah, like quidditch. You seem to think you're bad at many things, when you're actually quite good at it.

-Okay, okay... I'll play.”

She grabbed one of her guitars, and turned the music off.

“This is “Day tripper. The Beatles of course.” She added. “And I know a very good singer who's gonna sing while I play.” She said, looking very hardly at Lily.

“No way!” Lily said.

“Come on. I agreed to play.

-You're a good singer too, and you know the words. Sing with me.

- Oh all right, I'll sing the chorus with you.”

Becky played the first notes, it sounded really good, after a moment, Lily started to sing.

“Got a good reason for taking the easy way out
Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now”


Becky joined in each time Lily sang the chorus.

She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah
It took me so long to find out, I found out

She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there
She's a big teaser, she took me half the way there now

She was a day tripper, one way ticket yeah
It took me so long to find out, I found out

Tried to please her, she only played one night stands
Tried to please her, she only played one night stands now

She was a day tripper, Sunday driver yeah
It took me so long to find out, I found out

Day tripper
Day tripper yeah

Day tripper
Day tripper yeah...”

Lily smiled while Becky was playing the last notes.

“I did one or two mistakes”. She finally said.

“Girls, it was great!” Sirius said with admiration.

“It was pretty cool yeah.” James said, smiling.

“Do any of you play the guitar?” The boys said “no” together.

“Shame. Wanna try?

“No I think I will avoid that.

- For once, I agree with my dear Sirius.”

Becky and Lily laughed. They continued talking about the Beatles (a lot), and then Becky accompanied them down.

“It was nice to see you all! Nice after-noon”. Becky said smiling.

“It was. Thanks a lot Beck”.

“You're welcome Siri and stop calling me Beck, will you?

-No” He answered grinning. She gave him a false dirty look.

“Why don't you guys go first, I'd like a quick chat with Lil'.

-Okay.”

James smiled, said bye, and left.

“So, I suppose I'll go.

- I suppose you should, yes” Becky smiled.

Sirius stepped forward, and kissed her on the cheek.

“I'll see you two on the first! Bye!

- Bye Siri!

- Bye Sirius.”

He smiled, and left.

“You wanted to talk to me?” Lily asked.

“I just wanted to know if you weren't too mad at me for inviting James today.

- No, of course I'm not mad at you. It's just... rhh I just hate him, that's all.

- I think he's quite nice. He changed you know, he's less arrogant than before.

- I don't think so. You like Sirius hein? Or should I call him Siri?

- Oh, bugger of!” Becky said half laughing.

- Once you'll admit you like James, I'll admit I like Sirius.

- But I hate James!

- Sure you do. That's why you couldn't stop looking at him today.” Becky grinned.

- Rebecca Amelia Jane Watson, you are in so much trouble!”

She started to tickle her, Becky laughed.

“Don't – giggle – try – giggle – to avoid – giggle – this conversation!

- You are so wrong, my dear. I'm leaving now” She said smiling.

“Bye Beck!

- NOT YOU!”

She didn't have time to continue, Lily was already gone. Becky went in her room and lay down on her bed. She couldn't stop thinking about what Lily had said: “You like Sirius hein? Or should I call him Siri?”. Becky smiled. “Naa, of course I don't “Like” him.” She said as trying to convince herself.

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A/N: SORRY SORRY SORRY! Sorry it took so long! School, school, school... Hope this chapter was worth waiting!
=)

Chapter 4: Aboard the Hogwarts Express.

Rebecca arrived at King's cross around half past ten. She got passed the barrier, with her parents, and then said goodbye to her mum and dad.

“Don't cry mum, please! It's okay! I'll see you at Christmas, I think.

- It's okay –sniff- I'm all right. Work hard my dear, and have fun!

- Of course mum! Bye dad!”

She kissed her mum and dad, and got aboard the Hogwarts express. She looked for an empty compartment, as she thought she was the first aboard, but she found Mary and Chinoa sitting in a compartment. She entered.

“Hey girls!” She sat down by the window, facing Chinoa.

“I'm gonna go around see if I can find Lil', to tell her where we are.”

It was half true. She was also hoping to meet James and Sirius on the way.

She walked in the corridor of the train, said “hi” to a few people she knew, and finally found Lily.

“Lil! Glad to see you! We're in the 5th compartment!

- Okay! I'm coming! I saw James and Sirius on the platform, if you're looking for them.

- I was looking for you, but I'll go and say hi.”

She got down on the platform, and went to see James, Sirius, and Mrs. Potter.

“Hello Mrs. Potter! Hi James, hi Siri!

-Hi Beck!

- Hey Becky!

- Hello Rebecca!

“I'm not gonna disturb your goodbyes, I just wanted to say, we're in the 5th compartment, if you wanna join, there are 4 seats waiting for you.

- Cool! We'll come with Remus and Peter” Sirius said.

“See ya in a minute, bye Mrs. Potter!

- Bye Rebecca! Take care!

- I will! Bye!” She smiled, and got back in the train.

She got back in the compartment.

“Sirius, James, Remus and Peter are coming. Is it okay?”

Lily didn't say anything. She looked at Mary and Chinoa.

“Yeah, no problem.” Chinoa said, Mary agreed.

“Who will be the new DADA teacher, do you reckon?” Lily asked.

- No idea... Dumbledore will have found one though.”

James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus entered the compartment.

“Hello ladies”, James grinned. Mary and Lily were now sitting face to face by the window, Becky next to Lily and Chinoa next to Mary. Sirius sat next to Becky, and James next to Sirius. Peter sat next to Remus, who sat next to Mary.

“Girls” James said “this is Remus John Lupin, and this is Peter Pettigrew. Boys, these ladies are Rebecca White, Lily, that you already know, Chinoa Li, I think” Chinoa nodded “and Mary...

-Wood” Mary continued.

“All in Gryffondor?” Remus asked. The girls nodded.

The train started moving.

“Finally, we're going!” Becky said. “I was thinking about it, James, Aidan Lynch left last year, didn't he?

- Yeah, he was in seventh year. So we'll need a new seeker. Lisa Astean also left. We'll need a new chaser as well.

- Maybe I'll try out...

- No offence Becky, you're a very good flier, but you'll need to train with a quaffle you missed a few easy ones the other day. You're very good thought, need a bit of practice to get in that's what I mean.

- I wanna try out as a Seeker James, not as a chaser.

- Oh, okay, well we'll see. Mary? Chinoa? Do you play Quidditch?

- No, we love watching it though. But we're not good on a broom.

- Shame, well I hope we'll get to win the cup this year. We have to find good players for that, Adam and Lisa were good, and we did lose last year.

- And the 5 years before that” Remus added.

“How long have you been in the teem James?” Mary asked.

“I entered in third year” James answered.

“And you Siri” Becky asked.

“I entered in fourth year.” He answered.

“So James and Judy Towler are the Chasers, and the teem misses one now, Sirius and Will Belcker are the beaters, you have no seeker. Who's the keeper again?

-Jonathan Serkis. He's very good.

- Maybe I'll try out as a chaser” Remus vaguely said. “I played a lot with you, and I think I got quite good.

- True. You could try anyway.” James said, looking quite astonished.

“It would be cool if you managed to enter Becky” Sirius said smiling.

“Yeah, I would love it. Even if I'm not accepted I will play more often, I'm beginning to really like it.

- Cool. Well, you know what you have to do. Train, train and train until the try outs.

- I will. Lily will help me, hein Lil'?

- Yeah, sure!” Lily said sarcastically.

They laughed.

“Anything from the trolley?! Anything from the trolley?!”

The lady opened the compartment doors.

“Anything for you dears?”

Becky immediately stood up.

“Yeah! I'm starving! I'll have 3 cauldron cakes, 4 chocolate frogs, Bertie Bott's every flavor beans, and a licorice wand please.”

She paid and sat down. The others were staring at her.

“What? I didn't eat this morning!

“Anything else dears?

- I think we're okay thank you.”

The others nodded.

“How can you stay that skinny if you eat so much?” Sirius asked Becky.

“I am NOT skinny! I am thin. Just thin.

- She eats a lot.” Lily said.

“But I also do a lot of sport, and naturally I don't take weight, that's all.”

Sirius laughed. Becky started eating a cauldron cake.

“What did you do during the holidays?” Becky asked Remus and Peter.

“I went to Belgium with my mum” Peter answered “Really great. Loads of muggles, more than here. Great chocolate.

- I went to visit my family in Brighton.” Remus answered.

“Cool. Everyone had fun then! Did you work a lot?”

James and Sirius laughed.

“I did!” Peter said.

Remus nodded.

“Yeah I worked quite a lot as well” he said.

“Did you work a lot, Lily?” Peter asked nicely.

“Yeah, I did. I had nothing else to do anyway.”

Sirius smiled.

“As weird as it can be, I finished all my home-work after a week”.

Everybody stared at him.

“It's true” James said. “He told me already.”

Everybody stared even harder, nobody said a word.

“I had nothing else to do. My mother wouldn't let me out, I was getting really bored.”

Becky smiled.

“Poor little Siri!”

Sirius laughed.

“Yeah, well. The end of the holidays was cool anyway. Everything can't be perfect.”

- My holidays were really cool” Becky smiled.

“How did you two meet?” Remus asked Becky and Sirius.

“One of the only good things my dear mother did in my life. I had to go to the ministry for some procedures of something, I dunno what, but Beck was there with her mum.”

Rebecca gave him a dirty look when she heard “Beck”. But she smiled.

“Yeah, that's about it! Except it's BeckY!” She said, pretending to be angry.

The others laughed, and continued talking about their holidays. About an hour later, James looked at Remus, Sirius, and Peter, and said:

“Why don't we go and see how Snivellus's holidays were?” Lily looked at James.

“Why don't you leave him, for a change?

- Coz we don't wanna! He's an ugly git..

- An idiot...” Sirius added

- And he can't keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business." James finished.

- And I can't say anything so you'll leave him alone? I just don't wanna waste my time; I think you are a lost case, James Potter.

- Kiss me and I will leave him alone.” He grinned.

The others laughed, but not Lily.

“Your arrogance is killing me. And don't day-dream you already know the answer, and I really hope, you're joking, coz note that it's one thing I would never, ever, ever, do. Ish..”

She stood up, and left the compartment. First, everyone looked at James, not knowing what to do. James looked at Sirius, and smiled.

“She won't resist indefinitely. I won't give up.” He grinned, but Sirius saw he was still a bit disappointed, even if he knew she would never agree, she had been very clear...

“Okay let's go say “hi” to Snivellus.” He finally said.

Sirius nodded.

“Yeah, let's go.”

Becky, Mary and Chinoa stayed alone in the compartment.

“Tensed...” Becky said.

“Why did Lily react so much?” Mary asked.

“No idea...

- I mean... he was just being humoristic, wasn't he? Or d'ya think he really fancies her?

- Course he does... only since...3rd year or so..

- Really? I didn't know! And?

- Well, she says she hates him coz he's so arrogant, and mean and all, but I know her, and when she hates somebody normally she just ignores him. I suppose if he could be a little less arrogant, than it would be possible... coz I know she likes him...she just...doesn't know it yet” Becky grinned.

- We'll see anyway... By the way, Lily told us you liked Sirius?” Noa said.

“Lily...” Becky whispered. “I am not speaking about this to you two, who cannot keep a secret.” She grinned.

They laughed, and James and Sirius came back in the compartment, without Remus and Peter but with a (very cute) guy Becky had already seen at school, but had never talked to...

“Lily still not here, hein?” Sirius asked. “Girls, this is Diggory Hawks, he's captain and beater of the Ravenclaw quidditch team, he's entering 7th year, and he's single.” He grinned.

“Thanks Sirius for this very nice presentation” Diggory said, also grinning.

“Digg, this is Rebecca White, future Gryffindor seeker, 7th year, And Mary Wood and Chinoa Li, both 7th Year, don't play Quidditch.”

They all smiled.

“And don't ask me if they're taken or not, coz I have no idea.

- Really? It's the first thing you ask usually” He grinned.

“Haha” Sirius said. James and Diggory laughed. Becky smiled.

“You will be pleased to know we are all single” The girls grinned. Becky looked at Sirius slightly.

The boys sat down, and Lily came back in. She looked at Diggory for a moment, and sat down next to Becky.

“Digg, this is Lily” Sirius said.

“Lily? Just Lily? No long presentation as you did for the others?”

He smiled to her. Sirius looked at her.

“Lily Evans, doesn't play Quidditch, very bright, single, thinks James is too arrogant for her”.

Lily sighed. “That's me...” She said.

James looked at Lily for a moment, and then at Diggory, who laughed and said.

“Yeah, James' arrogance is very well known, I think he beats me. Sirius doesn't though^^ Siri's a bit more natural... but the thing is... when you really have got a reason to be arrogant... then it's not that important is it? I mean... James IS handsome, and bright, and funny... so it's not the most important he's proud of him” James grinned. Digg seamed serious, but smiled at her.

“Do whatever you want.” He smiled. She didn't say a thing, she just smiled at Diggory, and left.

“She's very good in avoiding conversations” Becky said. “Mostly when she knows she's wrong.”

Sirius looked at Becky and smiled. Remus entered the compartment.

“You should all change into your robes; we'll arrive in half an hour.”

25 minutes later, Becky looked through the window and finally saw the castle.

“Good to be back...”
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A/N: Hey! This was actually quite quick! chapter's not very long though, but I promess the next one will be much longer.
Thanks for the compliments I get, and don't be afraid to leave comments!! Hope you enjoyed the chapter anyway... I had fun writing it! (that's why it was so quick^^)
Thanks again! ;)