• Sirius makes you pinky promise you something you would’ve have expected…
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You and Sirius are the least likely friends, you’re the quiet type who would rather stick your nose in a book and study whereas he would rather be doing anything but that. But here you are, six years into school and your friendship is still as strong as the day it begun.
“Okay Sirius, you are absolutely terrible at this,” you sigh, pressing your forehead against the desk in frustration, “Please, just focus on me and not trying to balance a pencil on your nose!”
You exclaim, snatching the pencil from between his fingers as you look up at him.
“Jesus, so uptight Y/N, yknow you need to let lose for a bit,” he suggests, swinging backwards on his chair.
“Alright, I’ll relax after we finish this muggle studies essay okay?” you reply, trying to compromise.
“How about…” he pauses for a second, putting his hand on his chin faking a thinking face. “You come to the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw party tomorrow?”
“No way!” You smack Sirius’s arm, “That is not happening!”
“I pinky promise I’ll come to every revision session you put on, IF! You come to this party.” He raised his pinky in the air, gesturing it out to you.
“Oh I hate you,” you lock your pinky against his, and shake. A few little sparks fly from your hands, the promise sealed, you pull your hand away from his, flipping the page of the book and pointing at the top line. “So, you need to memorise this, it’s that sentence that’ll help you pass!”
“Okay so. How am I going to remember this?” he asks, leaning into your shoulder, “I have no idea how to revise!”
“Read it like one hundred times and i think that’ll do it,” you reply, “That’s what I do anyway.”
“Right okay.”
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“Oh Alice please come to the party with me!” You beg, she lays on her bed, parchment and quill in hand, leaning upon her largest text book. Scattered around the room was loose sheets of parchment, clothes and socks.
“For the last time Y/N no way! I have better things to do that go to parties, i don’t even understand why you agreed to go with Black anyway?!” she retorts, throwing a crumpled up ball of paper at you.
“Oi! Don’t throw stuff at me Alice,” you laughed, throwing it back at her. “And he pinky promised that he’d come revise with me so!”
“Well…Good luck, I need to write to my parents about next weeks quidditch tournament! They wanted to watch Gryffindor play but I need to ask Dumbledore about it.”
“Well, you’ll need luck with that aswell!” you replied. “Are you sure you won’t come?”
“Positive.” she said, scribbling onto her parchment. “You look nice though! Have fun, and relax.”
You were wearing a simple pair of ripped denim jeans that sat just on your hips, a tank top that was quite old and a pair of converse that were probably older than you passed on from your mother. “Thanks, i think it’s kinda plain but, oh well.”
As you walked from your dorm you heard her shout “Please relax!”
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As you walked down the almost silent hallway, the peace was disturbed from loud music blaring from down the hallway, coming from the Ravenclaw common room.
‘Right c’mon Y/N, you can do this!’ you thought to yourself as you stepped a step closer to the painting. There was a Ravenclaw prefect stood by the painting holding it open for people as you had to solve a riddle to get through.
“Hi.” he stated, flatly.
“Hiya!” you said as you walked through the portrait into the loudness.
You practically swam through the crowd, searching for a certain curly headed boy but to no luck, he was no where to be found as far as you were aware.After about twenty minutes you were sat with a group of Ravenclaws you’ve never spoken to, downing fire-whiskey shots like there’s no tomorrow, by now you we’re definitely drunk, your vision split into two as you stood up, one of the girls had to steady you as you stood.
“Hey Y/N, I’ve been looking for you- Are you drunk?”
Since today is 24 years since the battle of hogwarts, and since we lost the final marauder. I’m going to write for you guys…some angst. Where you and Remus (now older ) after losing your friends, have a touching yet upsetting moment with each other.
• Word count: 796
• Warnings: angst, swearing
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Rain. Rain pattered down on the pavement as you slowly walked to the funeral home, the hallways of funeral homes haunted you. Every time you stepped foot inside left you feeling empty, letting tear droplets fall down onto your cheeks, staining your shirt and handkerchief. You held your umbrella above your head as you walked, eyes cascading onto the ground. It had been three weeks since you left Britain on a mission from the Ministry of Magic, you had come back specifically for the funeral after hearing what happened in the Hall of Prophecies. You never wanted to leave Remus’s side, no matter what happened, you wanted to stay but you couldn’t, there was no possibility of you staying so leaving his side was such a horrible situation.
The somber music echoed outside as you entered through the doors, tears already welling up in your eyes, you wiped them away quickly as you walked into the large hall. The coffin sat atop a podium, placed gently on a white cloak. Your eyes scanned the room, you recognised people from your school days, their families and friends who had met Sirius a few times and then you saw him there. Remus.
“Remus…” You mumbled, you walked quickly towards him, “Moony.” You said as you got closer, this was the first time seeing him in 21 days…he turned to face you as you walked into his arms, you held him close to you, he squeezed you back, not letting go. You didn’t want to let go, you couldn’t let go, not now. Not here, you had to be strong for everyone. As one of the marauders, being so close to them all then having them taken away from you hurt, it cut you deep down. It shattered your heart as you held him.
“Hey…” he said, holding your head against his chest as he felt you shaking slightly. Trying to compose yourself was difficult, being in a room of your old classmates, friends, family. “It’s okay…we’re okay…we’re being strong today yeah?”
“It’s hard…” you whispered, as you breathed, it became harder and harder to keep yourself together, you could feel yourself cracking, the sorrow pushed itself onto your shoulders, chipping away at your composed demeanour. You felt your eyes fill with tears as tears slipped from your eyes, running down your cheeks, dripping onto the creased material of Remus’s shirt.
“I know my Love…I know it’s hard…” He sniffed, holding his composure as he tried to collect your pieces and put them back together. He stroked your hair, holding you close to his body, “I know you miss him really fucking badly…and I know that it’s not going to be easy, but I’m here…I’m here for you Sweetheart.”
“I’m scared…I miss him so much, I can’t imagine how you feel…” you mumbled into him, your eyes began pouring tears, like a faucet, spilling onto him, he felt you start shaking more, loosen your grip on him and sniffle.
“My Love, you’re brave…You can do this…”
Throughout the ceremony in front of everyone he ever knew if his family. Which though they disowned him, showed up in tears were shed from the cold empty eyes as you spoke. You looked down fiddling with the loose stitches on your blazer, “Sirius Black… Where do I begin? He was a fierce friend, a fighter, a jokester, the most important thing a loyal companion. Now I was not there on the night he was murdered, however I heard from a few people who witnessed his passing that he thought valiantly in the name of justice and I feel so proud of him. To lose padfoot struck me hard, my heart was shattered when I found out the news and I just know that his final moments he would’ve been thinking about either his friends, or how he will be joining a fallen Angels, Lily, James and Regulus. Whether you were the closest of friends with pads or you’re passing by in the hallway, I think each and everyone of you for coming today and respecting him as he pass it on to the afterlife.” After you had finished, you looked up and met eyes with your fiancé, he was pinching his nose, holding back his tears. You walked to him, sitting down and pulling him into the warmest, softest hug.
“When did you get so good with words?” He asked, his words muffling into your neck as he held you close to him, “You are so brave my Love...So brave.”
“Not as brave as you Sweetheart, I am so happy i can call you mine...forever,” you replied as you relaxed slightly into his arms, You listened to your old classmates telling stories about his jokes, you listened to his old coworkers telling stories about his short time in work before he was sent to Azkaban. At the end of the ceremony you took Remus’s hand softly and rubbed your thumb against his as you walked slowly
“I didn’t even say anything at my bloody best friend’s funeral…” he said, sighing whilst shaking his head, “You said everything I was thinking.”
“Well…If Padfoot is watching, I think he knows that I said everything you were thinking, after all…I always did didn't i?”
“Yeah you did Darling,” he squeezed your hand, smiling at you, “ Thank you for being my shoulder to lean on today.”
“Of course, I’m going to marry you one day, I want to be your support,” you kissed him lightly on the cheek.
As you stepped outside, the cold winter air nipped at you, the sky was dark and stars decorated the darkness, “The moon is beautiful, isn’t it?” Remus said
“Remus…” You started, “Thank you…I love you more.”
A/N - Yahoo! Back again for 2019! Happy new year! So, here’s another lovely request that I really really enjoyed writing from the wonderful @winchestergirl907 . I hope you guys enjoy it! Moose :)
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“So guys,” Benny began as yourself and Dan settled into the chairs in front of the famous ‘Fine Bros’ scenery, “I know you’ve been and done this before for a couple of videos but I’ll just do a quick rundown so you know what’s going to happen. So, what we’re going to do is ask you a couple of questions about yourselves and your relationship etc etc and then we’re going to show you some clips. Act as naturally as possible and we’ll guide you in the direction we need you to go. Once we’ve shown all the clips we have for you we’ll ask you a couple more questions about the clips and what you thought and then the whole sign off thing. Sound ok with you guys?”
“Sounds awesome” you replied, smiling and nodding as you sorted out your hair.
“Received” Dan added, cringing slightly after realising what he had just said.
“Ah-shit. Just got to talk to Rafi about something. I’ll be two seconds. Sorry guys”
“Oh no,” you reassured, “don’t worry. No rush”
As Benny left, Dan leant into your shoulder and whined in your ear, “can you sort out my hair?”
“It’s fine” you replied, not even looking at him as you checked your phone.
“Y/N!”
“Stop it, Dan. It’s fine” you chuckled, lifting your hand to stroke his head.
“You just messed it up. Fix it!”
Sighing, you put your phone down and turned towards him, placing his curls in random places just to keep him happy.
“Are you okay by the way? You seem…nervous”
“Nervous?”
“Yeah. Quiet and just fidgety. It’s not like you haven’t filmed a collab video before”
“Yeah. No. I’m fine. I’m just really tired that’s all. Jet-lagged”
“Well sorry you had to come back to MY country to see MY family for Christmas, even though I live in YOUR shitty, rainy, boring old country”
Dan looked at you blankly, “Don’t be racist”
Laughing, you finished off ‘fixing’ his hair.
“Better?”
“Much” he smiled, kissing you quickly before returning to the position he was just in as Benny walked back onto set.
“Sorry about that guys, we’re ready to start when you are”
“Ready!”
“Ok. I’m gonna do the intro and then we’re into it. Just act natural”
Severus wishes on stars. That's it that's the headcanon. When he was a student at hogwarts, he would wish on stars every time he would pass by a window and see one gleam just a bit brighter than the rest. He digs his nails into his hand and wishes on that star as hard as he can. His wish? That someone, someday would love him for him and all that he is. Even now he has never broken the habit. He sits by a window or in the astronomy tower and wishes on stars. Still keeping that hope in his heart. It's what kept him going.
The embers of the fire spat onto the stone heath, you tossed in your sleep on the couch as the sun rose. The orange of the sun shone through the glass windows of the common room, the pigment of the sun shone onto your eyelids, and you opened your eyes then closed them once again immediately as the sun hit your retinas.
“Jesus,” you mumbled, bringing your blankets over your head, as you tugged you met some resistance. you opened your eyes as you saw Marlene sitting next to you, asleep with her head draped over the back of the couch. “Marlene!” You jolted your foot into her side and she woke with a start
“Well good morning to you too Honey,” she said sleepily, laughing. “So I’m guessing you fell asleep waiting for Remus?”
“Yeah I did…” you admitted, “I think I fell asleep before they got back though,”
You glanced down to see your project scattered across the floor dangerously closely to the fire, “Shit.”
She looked in the same direction as you “It’s fine, it’s not burned,” she stood up and picked all your papers up, straightening them out and then handing them to you. “C’mon, get up and go talk to Remus okay?”
“Alright fine,” you swung your legs off the couch and dragged your blanket as you walked groggily to your dorm room, you pushed the door open softly and dropped your blanket onto your bed. You changed into your school uniform and fumbled with your shirt buttons and struggled with your tie as you walked into the common room. By the time you were down there it was bustling with students from every year, cramming themselves into groups and other students just trying to squeeze themselves through the thick crowd and out of the common room. You were gently tapped by a hand and pulled softly to one side. It was Remus
“Let me help with with your tie…” he reached forwards and started property fastening your tie, “How don’t you still know how to tie your tie,” he laughed
“Well…I can never figure it out, thanks for this Moony,” you laughed back. He stopped and looked at you, you noticed from the blood on his shirt that he had a cut on his shoulder.
“Remus…You need to stop getting hurt like this!!” You pointed towards the gash and he moved his hand to cover it up. “Can I talk to you about something?”
“Sure you can…Want to go somewhere quieter?” he asked, you nodded and took his free hand and pulled him out of the common room to a silent corridor.
“So…I think I’ve figured something out…” You started your sentence, struggling on how to phrase it. “You’re a werewolf, aren’t you?”
He froze, fear deeper into his body, “H-How did you find it out?!”
“Well…I know you disappear every full moon, I’ve seen McGonagall give you wolfsbane and you’re always coming back injuries,” you said, “I didn’t know how to ask, but I need you to know that I’m not going to tell anyone, your secret is safe with me because…”
“Because?” He asked, “I know you won’t tell anyone, I wish I’d just told you so you weren’t worried about me.”
“I love you.” you didn’t dare look him in the eye, you were scared he was going to tell you that he didn’t feel the same way, he stayed silent. “I’m sorry i shouldn’t have said anything, it was stupid to say and…”
“Y/n- you cut him again
“I’m sorry! I know you probably don’t feel the same way and it’s gonna be super awkward now…”
“Y/N.” he said a bit louder.
“God I feel really stupid i shouldn’t have said anything!!” tears started to bubble in your eyes, you wouldn’t let them spill but they were there.
“Y/N!!” He grabbed your shoulders, “I love you too…I have done for a while, I admire how smart you are and how you prioritize your school work whilst managing your friends, and I love you.” You stepped close to him, your noses were touching, “Can i kiss you?”
“Yes, yes you can…” you trailed off as his lips locked with yours, it was sweet, soft and passionate at the same time, you held his waist as he held yours, holding you close to each other. “Thank you Moony.”
“Of course darling…You’re such an amazing person, I cannot wait to explore our relationship…”
After being friends with Remus Lupin, you had wondered for months where he disappeared to every so often. You never noticed it in your first, second or third year, but as time passed, you started becoming more and more intrigued. When he would disappear, his friend group would also mysteriously go missing as well, playing it off the next day as they were busy revising when you knew for a fact that they never revised.
You began keeping track of his behaviour around the time he would disappear. You were sat in the library with Marlene Mckinnon revising for Astronomy. “Mary?” You popped your head up from the book you were reading. “Do you know where Remus goes every month?”
“Moony?” She replied, she had two piles of books, one for books she had read and the other was books she had to read. Closing her book and dropping it onto the small pile on her left, “I haven’t a clue, but he seems to disappear on full moons? Could be a coincidence.”
“Really?” You furrowed your brows, flipping the page and scanned the page with your eyes. “Well, I wanna find out where he goes!”
“Don’t go digging in business that isn’t yours honey.” She used that nickname often, you liked it. She was like your mum, but younger and less stress inducing.
“I need to know, it’s like…I’ve been friends with him for six years and he’s been disappearing every month for those years?” you started, bashing your pencil on your forehead “And it’s been years, I might just ask him.”
“Good idea.” She replied before picking up another book, ‘Moon Magic - The complete guide to harnessing the mystical energy of the Moon’
“Can i have that?” You asked pointing at the boom i. her hand, “Please?”
“C’mon!! I just got that one out!!” she whined. You outstretched your hand asking for it, reluctantly she handed it over.
“I swear i just need it for like…two days and you can have it back i promise!!!” You swore to her, “Thank you so much Mary!!”
“Any time Honey.” she said as you quickly shoved everything into your leather satchel and walked out of the library, making a break for the Gryffindor. common room.
You walked through the common room door, letting it shut softly behind you. You found a plush chair and sat down, dropping your bag and opening ‘Moon Magic’ your eyes scanned the page, reading the words silently in your head.
‘As the Moon orbits the Earth, the portion of illuminated Moon that we see changes – giving rise to the phases of the Moon. A full Moon occurs when the Moon appears as a complete circle in the sky. We see it as a full orb because the whole of the side of the Moon facing the Earth is lit up by the Sun's rays. The Moon produces no visible light of its own, so we can only see the parts of the Moon that are lit up by other objects. The Moon takes about one month to orbit Earth but thirty days to change from New Moon to New Moon.’
You learned about the moon cycle, you didn’t really pay attention to when Remus disappeared but now, you were more curious than ever. You recognised
“Hey Lily…” You said quietly, she was sat behind you, you spun on your chair and started facing her.
“What’s up Y/N?” She replied. You had no idea how to ask the question without sounding suspicious. So you asked about James…”Where does James go when he just like…disappears?”
“Apparently He goes to study with Remus, Peter and Sirius,” She responded, “Why?”
“Oh I just wanted to study with them!” you lied, it wasn’t a bad lie, you did like revising with them. “When do they normally go?”
“Well…They’re going in two days! You could just go with them then?” She said, smiling at you.
“Yeah! Thank you!!” You turned back around and kept working.
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Time: 1:46
Location: Great Hall
2 Days until the full moon…
“See!! I told you she’d show up!” James hollered from the table, pointing at you. “C’mon sit with us L/N!”
You sat down next to Peter, grabbing a sandwich. “Hey Peter, How’re you finding Care of Magical Creatures?”
“It’s going really good!” He replied, for the rest of lunch, you sat talking to the Marauders, laughing, crying, hollering. You looked at Remus for the first time properly. He had been looking the opposite direction the entire time so when he looked at you, you noticed a cut on his cheek.
“Remus!! What happened?! Are you okay?” You said, concerned.
“I’m fine Y/N, it was just an accident, I got scratched in Defense against the Dark arts a few days ago.” Remus replied, leaning on his palm, wincing physically slightly.
“Have you been to Madam Pomfrey? That looks really deep!!” You replied standing up. “You need to go see her!”
“No it’s okay! I’ve already been to her, I promise it’s okay! I was just waiting until it started to scab over so I could take the bandage off, I swear it’s okay!!”
“Alright…Well, I’m gonna go, I need to do something,” You stood up and hurried off, to your common room.
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Time: 7:32
Location: Astronomy Tower
1 Day until the full moon…
“Mary!” You whisper shouted to Marlene sitting two feet away from you, she was looking through her telescope admiring the stars every so often she would look back at her text book and jot down notes about the stars onto the margins. You were sat with your telescope, half paying attention. You’d been waiting all day to see Marlene to tell her, the only lesson you have with Marlene is Astronomy so you had to wait a while.
“What?” she whispered back.
“I think I’ve figured where Remus and the other guys go!” You whispered, you looked away from your telescope. You shuffled close to her ear and began speaking.
“I think Remus is a werewolf,” you started, Marlene looked towards you, with this ‘are you being serious?’ look on her face
“Don’t be ridiculous! Why do you think that?” she asked
“Well…Remus and the rest of his friends disappear the same day every month, which is tomorrow, and then obviously they come back. Remus is obviously covered in scars, I mean he’s hot and the scars look really good however, last time he disappeared which was last month he came back with a cut on his cheek, he said it was an accident but it looked really bad!!” you continued talking, her mouth was agape, struggling for words. “Oh and one time, I was studying in the common room, and Mcgonagall came in with this goblet and discreetly handed it to Remus, I don’t think anyone else saw it but I did. I think it was Wolfsbane but I honestly have no idea!”
“Well…Even if he is a werewolf, why should it matter? You should support him no matter if he’s a six eyed alien monster,” she smiled at you, “Oh and I didn’t ignore your comment of finding him hot,” she smirked at you in the dark.
“Hey!! Don’t tell anyone okay?” You asked, “And of course I’m going to support him!!”
“Talk to him after the full moon okay? Don’t stress him out before hand!”
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Time: 8:36
Location: Gryffindor Common Room
Night of the full moon…
You had been waiting all day for night time, by the time the clock showed 8 pm, you were ready to sit for hours and hours waiting for the guys to come back. You stood on the steps to the girls dormitory adorning your plain sheep’s wool pajama pants, the Gryffindor Quidditch team hoodie and a pair of fluffy socks. Your blanket draped over your shoulders as you quietly observing the four boys as they left through the portrait hole. After about a minute, just in case they came back, you walked slowly down the cold stone steps, and got comfortable on the settee in front of the fire. The red embers flickered and fluttered as the flames started to relight themselves.
For what felt like years but in reality was only about 5 you sat in front of the fire. Curled under your blanket, working on your Astronomy project which you had named ‘Constellation Cards and How the stars can change your life’ for the most of the time.
By the time the Marauders had returned you were asleep on the couch, blanket half covering you, your papers were scattered across the floor and your quill was falling out of your hand. The Gryffindor portrait opened quietly, James and Sirius were carrying Remus by the shoulders, he was grading his feet on the ground, too weak to lift himself properly so his friends were supporting his fragile frame. Peter was opening and closing the door silently. The four boys were exhausted, they were all basically shuffling to the stairs when Peter whispered, “What’s she doing here?” He pointed to your sleeping figure, they boys were walking towards the stairs when they turned around and saw you, lying peacefully.
“She’s normally up late, I heard she has insomnia,” James said quietly.
“Who is it?” Remus murmured, he couldn’t lift his head for long enough for his eyes to focus in the dimly lit common room.
“It’s Y/N,” Sirius whispered, lifting up Remus’s head long enough for him to see you.
“…She was probably up late studying again, that girl doesn’t know what’s good for her,” he replied softly, “She’s getting full marks in most of her classes, she’s really smart and really amazing, and…” Remus was breathing heavily, shattered.
“Hey Moony, just relax okay?” Peter said, “She really is amazing though.”
“I think I love her,” Remus said quietly.
“That’s nice mate…You should got for her.” James whispered. “You need to get some rest…That gash on your shoulder is really bad, I’ll help you treat it tomorrow yeah?”
“Sev!!” you announced to the the dark haired boy before placing your hands on his shoulders and giving him a light shove, he had his head down, hair falling in front of his face “Where have you been? Are you okay?”
“Nowhere. I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he replied quickly. He increased his pace but you quickened yours to match his.
“Severus, please don’t ignore my question,” you tried to reach for his hand but he yanked it away, “Fine. be like that.”
“Y/N I don’t know why you care so much about me…” He said, stopping in place. You walked in front of him and grabbed his chin, forcing him to look at you. Forming on his left eye was a bruise, a deep purple bruise that covered at least a quarter of his face, you stopped, gently running your finger over it.
“What happened?” You asked, concern laced in your voice. “Who did this to you?”
“Take a guess,” he replied, the first person who came to your head was James.
“That foul git.” You snapped out harshly, “Who the fuck does he think he is?”
“Y/N just leave it,” he muttered. “It’ll only make things worse.”
“After this, he won’t ever mess with you again,” You scowled, eyebrows furrowing as rage built in your body, ready to bubble over the edge at any moment.
You walked quickly through the hallways, with Severus in tow. Turning corner after corner to find the Gryffindor common room. You bashed your hand on the painting violently as the Fat Lady screamed at you.
“Just what do you think you’re doing? Bringing a slytherin here?”
“Oh shut up old hag, open the fucking door.” You spat, venom laced in your voice singeing the air as you spoke.
“Fine fine if it gets you to stop bashing on my wonderfully painted trees.” she replied as she swung her door open.
You dragged Severus down the short hallway before stopping at the entrance. Your eyes scanned the room looking for a certain dickhead Gryffindor. He was sat in the corner with his friends laughing. You strode up to him, confidently.
“James. Potter.” You spoke, “What the fuck. Do you think. You’re doing. To my friends?”
He turned to look at you; anger seeping off of you as Severus hung his head low in embarrassment. “What do you mean Y/N?”
“What do you mean? Look at his fucking eye.” You pointed directly at Severus, he gulped.
“Cmon. He deserves it.” James replied. You didn’t even think, you grabbed the back of his head and lurched him backwards before smashing his head into the table in front of him, your fingers twisting and pulling on his hair. He tried to grab your arm to stop you, but it didn’t work, you were now bashing his head against the mahogany table, over and over. His nose began to bleed as you heard a crunch with the final blow.
“Don’t fucking touch him, ever again. Got it?” He just silently nodded at you. Everyone was now staring at you in the common room, whispering as you walked out angrily with Severus following quickly afterwards.
“Why did she do that?”
“Bro…She’s gotta be strong to overpower Mr Quidditch like that…”
“How long have you wanted to do that?”
“Forever ago.”
You pulled Severus into an empty classroom, sitting yourself on one of the desks, he slid the adjacent desk next to it and sat next to you.
“You didn’t have to do that,” he said after a brief period of time.
“Well, now he’s not going to fuck with you again?” you replied sheepishly. “Why’d he do it anyway?”
“Well uh…He saw me walking give you those daisies the other day, and he found it really embarrassing, and he “needed to show me that i was embarrassing” even though you liked it?”
“Well, James Potter is a dickhead, and I hate him.” You smiled at Severus, “Do you need some ice?”
“Probably, but i don’t want to go to Madam Pomfrey,” he sighed, “She’s probably sick of seeing me.”
“Well, I’ll help you!” you pulled out your wand, undid your tie and muttered “Glacius,” pointing it towards your tie. Your tie cooled down and froze as you pressed it against his swollen eye. “There…it should calm down in a bit,”
“Thank you for this Y/N, you really are so nice to me, why?”
“You’re always safe with me!!” You replied, swinging your legs under the table, “Well it’s because…”
You hadn’t admitted it to yourself, you didn’t think you ever could but…You were in love with Severus. You wanted to spend every second of every day with him, you wanted him to be the first and last face you saw before waking up and going to sleep.
“It’s because…I’m…” You started again, “It’s because I’m going to be a good friend!”
“Well…Thank you, I appreciate it.” he said, looking at you, still pressing your tie against his eye. “You’re honestly the best person i could ever want.”
“Severus…You’re really so kind,” you sat in silence for about five minutes as you treated his eye to the best of your ability, “Okay…It’s nearly decreased from swelling.”
“Thank you again.” The two of you stood up and walked out of the classroom.
“Come to the Slytherins common room this Friday yeah?” Severus said out of nowhere.
“Why? What’s happening on Friday?” You asked.
“It’s Narcissa’s birthday and…she told me to invite someone. so you’re my someone, please just be there.”
“Don’t worry Sev I will!!” You smiled at him, walking slowly, your hand inched your way to his, conjoining your pinky with his, you smiled to yourself at the small point of contact and kept walking with your head held up high.
“James!” You said, running up to him. You had been away for two weeks due to an issue with your grandma, she had been sent to St Mungo’s hospital after being attacked by a deranged escapee from Azkaban, “I’ve missed you so much!”
“I’ve missed you too my love,” He replied, pulling you into a warm and passionate kiss. You held onto his shoulders as he lifted you up by the waist. The two of you had been dating since that day in Hogsmeade. Everyday you thought back on that moment whist you were away from the castle...
It was really romantic actually, He had taken you out to Hogsmeade for the day, you went to The Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer, then he lead you away from the village into an empty-ish field. He had laid out a red checkered picnic blanket with a little picnic basket and candles.
“Oh James...” You stood , awe-struck holding his hand, he squeezed your hand and carefully tugged you along to sit down. “This is so cute, You’re honestly the best!”
For a few hours, you relaxed with him. Cloud-gazing, watching the sunset then star gazing. It was nice to relax of once. With N.EW.T.S, you were always stressed so him doing this was especially nice.
“Y/N...” James looked at you. He felt that you were reading his eyes, searching for the words that were going to come out of his mouth next. “Would you...want to be my girlfriend?”
“James...” You were smiling brightly at him, “I would love to be your girlfriend!” you threw yourself into his arms, squeezing his as if he was going to get ripped away from you at any moment.
“Is everything okay now?” He asked, “I mean if your Grandma okay?”
“She’s going to recover, she took some right nasty blows but, she’s safe in St Mungo’s now,” You replied. You loved how he cared about your family, when your mum would get sick, he would send her some flowers as a get well soon gift. So you really appreciated him checking that you Grandma was okay. “Can we stop talking about her now before I start crying again?”
“Of course we can Darling,” He picked you up and threw you over his shoulder, “Now you’re coming with me.”
“James! Put me down!” You laughed as he carried you up the stairs to his dorm that he shared with the rest of his dickhead friends, Sirius, Peter and Lupin. After all this time at Hogwarts you had grown to like them but you’d never admit that to them. “The guys have missed having you around, y’know?”
“Really?” You asked as James kicked the door open.
“Guess who’s back?” He dropped you onto the floor on your feet “I caught her as she came through the portrait!”
“Y/N!!” Peter exclaimed, “I’ve missed your jokes thank god you’re back now!”
“Its nice to see you’re okay Y/N,” Remus chimed in.
“Prongs you brought her into your room eh?” Sirius wiggled his eyebrows at him, “The second you want us out were gone, got it?”
“Oh zip it Pads, I don’t see you with a girlfriend do I?” James retorted, “They all wanted to play against you in Gobstones, They’ve been pestering me about it all week!”
“Well...Who’s up first?” You asked, you reached into your pocket and pulled out a Gobstones marble, your lucky marble. “I always carry this bad boy around.”
“Well, I want to go first!” Sirius said, practically throwing himself onto the floor in front of you. He reached under James’s bed and pulled out his old Gobstones set. After setting it you played three rounds against Sirius, every round you’d win.
“Fuck off!! How are you so good at this?” He dropped backwards onto the floor in defeat, “I want to beat you some time this year!”
“Well Padfoot my dear friend that is not going to happen! practice makes perfect,” Was your response.
“Right, boys. Out.” James said, “Enough chit-chat you three can catch up with Y/N later, right now...I want her all to myself.” You were still sat on the floor, looking up at him. You began to blush, a hot flush engulfing your body as you thought about James’s body...The boys cleared out, kicking the Gobstones set back under the bed and shutting the door behind them.
“You want me all to yourself huh? What does that mean?” You stood up in front of James, pulling him in by his belt, there was a smug smile pulling on your lips as him looked down on you for a second. Before speaking...
“It means...my love. That I want you. I want your lips. I want your body,” he grabbed your hips and pressed you against him, kissing you hungrily. For the two weeks you had been gone, he had been yearning for your touch, for your lips, for your body against his. You kissed him back, he gently tipped you backwards onto his bed, allowing him to get on top of you. Your hands found their way up his shirt, tugging on it. He allowed you to take it off for him then he began trailing kisses down your neck biting and sucking leaving deep noticeable hickeys. “F-fuck...” you breathed out, his lips on your neck felt so good. You slowly unbuttoned your blouse for him. You had completely forgotten what his kisses felt like, your hands tangled into his hair and you pushed him further down to your collar bones for him to bite there.
There was a creak from what seemed like outside of the dorm room door, “Did you hear that?” you asked, James shot up and the two of you went silent for a solid thirty seconds.
“I don’t think so, this castle is old so its probably just falling apart.”
“That sounds reassuring,” you laughed softly, sitting up and pressing your forehead against his, “I love you Sweetheart.”
“I love you too Darling,” you replied quietly, You kissed him again, softly, moving down to his jaw then his neck. Biting softly, leaving him some love bites to cover up later. “Wow...” He let out, he was pressing your body close to him. This was the most intimate the two of you had been in a while and the buzz was still there, it felt like your first time again and it was electrifying. “You’d better make these easy to cover up...”
“Too late,” He felt you smile into his neck, “I’ll help you though.”
“Cheeky git,” He laughed, the creak was there again, then the door was pushed open quickly. There stood two fourth years agape. “What the fuck?” James scowled at the pair.
“It’s true! Potter and L/N are hooking up!” He shouted down the stairs, the cheers of the 7th years could be heard, Sirius’s was definitely the loudest.
“Go on Prongs!!” He yelled, extremely loudly which caused you to cover your face embarrassed. James stood up, told you that he’d “be back in a few minutes love.” And walked out of his dorm, dragging the two fourth years by their ears.
• You, James and Lily go to the Autumn Fête in Hogsmeade, Lily leaves you alone for a while to go with Marlene and you learn a little bit more about James as you go
• Word Count: 1,774
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“James! Hurry up! Get off the carriage and let’s go!!” You shouted, jogging ahead from everyone else who was walking. “I’m so ready for this fête!”
“Is she always this hyper for this Fête?” He asked sighing at your energy.
“Yes. Every year we’ve been going to this Fête, and she’s still as excited as she was first year,” Lily commented, “Give the girl some slack, she loves this festival.” Lily’s eyes focused on you in the distance, you were wearing a dark green scarf, a coat that was burying you and thick winter boots.
“I can tell.” He replied
“You.” She jabbed him with her finger in the chest, “You need to experience this Fête for the first time with someone as excitable as her, I’ll leave you two to be alone today. And besides…” she stopped for a second, “I heard you might have some feelings for Missus Y/N L/N.”
“Well I guess you heard correctly,” his cheeks tinted slightly pink, “Don’t tell her yeah? I want it to be special when I tell her okay?”
“I wouldn’t dream of ruining that for you or her, have fun today okay?” She said, patting his shoulder and walking off to find Marlene Mckinnon.
“Y/N!” James shouted jogging to catch up to you, “Lily’s gone with Marlene today so I can experience the Fête with you for the first time!”
You were walking next to each other down the gravel path past the battered Hogsmeade sign decorated in jars of glowing orbs and bunting
“You’re going to love it!! It’s covered in fairy lights and lanterns and bunting and it’s all so pretty!!” You exclaimed counting on your hand. “It’s one of my favourite Fêtes in the world!”
“Okay now I really want to see what’s good about this Fête!” James replied as you cheerily walked through arch way to Hogsmeade.
Lining the narrow streets was different types of stalls; toy stalls, food stalls from all over the wizarding world, trinket stalls, game stalls, jewellery stalls, anything you can think of, there was a stall for it. All the shops were closed for the Fête except for the pub, The Three Broomsticks. But today there was an empty shop that had be renovated specially for the free beverages.
“Okay James, what do you want to do first?” You asked, pulling him to one side so you weren’t blocking the path.
“How about…We go get free drinks, then make our way back up the stalls?” He suggested.
“That sounds like a brilliant idea Potter! God who knew you were so smart?” He grabbed your hand and you looked up to him, slightly going red at the bold move, “W-What’re you doing?”
“I’m making sure i don’t get lost, have you seen that crowd?” and with that the two of you began squeezing through the packed crowd with James in tow behind you closely. “Okay yeah you would get lost in here trust me, Me and Lils got split up last year and it took me half an hour to find her again!”
“Well then, I guess I’m going to stay holding onto you then huh?” He replied, smiling at you but you couldn’t see as you were making a b-line for the free drinks. After 15 minutes of pushing and shoving through the thick crowd you reached the shop. A draped cloth sign read “Near and Far Baristas”
“It changes every year, Me and Lily like the coffee this one has to offer though! It’s not too bitter and not too sweet so I’d recommend it! Come on!”
“I’ll have a try of it then,” James replied to what you had said then you walked through the door holding it open for him, the bell chiming as you entered.
“Hello welcome!” The barista said, she was an aged woman with long, thick grey curly hair, large rimmed spectacles and a crooked nose. “Oh it’s you!”
“Hi Miss Lucille!! It’s so nice to see you again!” You smiled at her, James leant down and began to speak quietly in your ear.
“Who is she?” he whispered, “How does she know who you are?”
“You don’t need to whisper goodness, she worked here the first year i came to the Fête, and the third year but she hasn’t catered for it in two years.” You replied.
“Is that your boyfriend?” She asked bluntly. You looked at each other and you felt your cheeks heat up in the cold air.
“No! He’s- No he’s not my boyfriend!” you said quickly, moving your thick scarf to cover your cheeks.
“Darling…” She sighed, she glanced between the two of you. From her perspective; you were blushing like crazy, he was stood, looking away from you his cheeks painted with a pink tinge. The two of you were holding hands, you had forgot you were holding his hand but when he squeezed it. You remembered and smiled to yourself under the thickness of your scarf. “Anyway what’ll it be?”
“Two coffees please!” you said, stepping forwards to the counter to grab them.
“Is that what you want?” she was talking to James. “Y/N has the habit of talking for other people,”
“Hey that it not true!” you replied pressing your hands against the counter.
“Yes it is Ma’am, she suggested I have it since it’s my first time at this festival so because she has been here for every year since 1st year, I’d go with her recommendation.” James replied, putting his hands into his pockets and stepping forwards to the counter. She placed two large cups of coffee on the counter that were steaming through the lid
“Here you are, don’t burn yourself okay?” She said, sliding the cups towards you two.
“Thank you Miss Lucille! Are you catering next year?”
“It’s your final year at school isn’t it? I’ll definitely be catering for it!” She replied cheerily. “I’ll see you next year!”
“Can’t wait to see it!” As you were walking out she stopped you. James was already outside so you were left alone with her.
“Y/N, I can tell you like him, You two look like me and my husband when we were your age. He’s a good one okay?” She said, smiling softly at you, “Keep him close.”
“I will…Don’t you worry,” You said before smiling and leaving.
“What was that about?” He asked before you started slowly walking up to the first stall.
“Oh it was nothing don’t worry!” You reassured, grabbing his hand, “Just making sure we don’t get lost.”
For about an hour you worked your way from stall to stall, playing games like competitive gobstones against James and some muggle games you especially enjoyed playing ‘Hook-a-duck’ it had always been your favourite.
“You’re really good at gobstones Y/N, I didn’t realise you were so competitive!” James complimented, playfully pushing your shoulder.
“What can i say? I love competition!” You rolled your eyes at him, smiling at him. “Look!” you were pointing towards a jewelry stall, “I swear that woman has the best necklaces, can we go look?”
“Sure we can! I want to look at that stall over there afterwards though.” He pointed towards a quidditch stall. "That'll be 5 galleons please,” You reached into your pocket and pulled out your purse handing her 5 galleons “Come back next year!”
“Sure!” You walked over to the jewelry stall and were looking closely at the necklaces. “Hiya! we’re just browsing.”
“That’s okay, take your time.” The lady said, she had been there ever since your first year at the Fête and you had bought something from her every year.
You picked up two necklaces, the first: a clear quartz secured in a wire cage twisted to look like vines on a short chain. And the second was a heart shaped locket on a long chain. “Okay, James. Give me your opinion, which one would look better?”
He stood for a second, reaching forwards to each of them and holding them between his fingers, twisting them around to see what they looked like from all angles. Then he popped open the locket, there was a space for a phot to go in. “I think you should get the locket, you can put a picture in it so I think you should get that one.”
“Alright!” You placed the smaller necklace back down and handed the locket to the woman. “Just this please.” She put it into a bag and handed it to you.
“I will do!” you placed the locket and your purse into your pocket. “Time for the quidditch stall!”
“Yeah!! I need new gloves so that’s what I’ll be looking for.” He replied, you spent about 10 minutes at looking different types of gloves moleskin, dragonhide. But in the end he ended up getting some dragonhide gloves and a new set of goggles.
You two sat on a bench away from the bustle of the Fête, the sun had gone down about 2 hours ago and you were finishing your drinks before getting a carriage back to the castle. The air was cold, the sky was filled with a celestial dream, the moon shone brightly down on the town and your breath came out as cloud in the air.
“I had a really good time today,” he admitted.
“I’m glad you came along with me!” you replied, “I knew you’d have a great time!!”
“Thank you for convincing me to come, it’s nice to hang around with someone who isn’t my dickhead set of friends.”
“Well, i’m glad I make good company!” you smiled.
“You make the best company,” he mumbled to himself.
“I do?” you questioned, “well, do you want to hang around with me more?”
“Is that your way of asking me on a date?” he smiled, looking at you and taking your hand.
“Yes, yes it is. So would you?” You looked at him, getting closer to him.
“Of course i would.” He placed his coffee down on the floor. His left hand cupping your cheek and his right holding yours. He connected his lips with yours, it felt like a thousand bolts of electricity through your whole body, bliss washed over you as you kissed him back. You moved your coffee to next to yourself as you slid closer to him, your hand finding his hair, tangling your fingers in it and pulling the kiss to a more passionate and sweet one. He paused for a second, pulling back from you. “You’re a good kisser.”
“Oh shut up,” you laughed. “We need to get back to the castle soon…maybe we could have some more fun there?”
It was late on a Saturday evening in Autumn, everyone in the common room was wearing thick knit jumpers either handmade by their grand mother or bought fresh from the seamstresses for the colder weather. Woolly hats adorned people’s heads and gloves covered their fingers. All around the castle was people wearing scarves of their house colours showing of their pride. Today, a lot of people were going to Hogsmeade to celebrate the Autumn Fête that was in the town at the moment.
You were sat on the couch in front of the fire with Lily sat on the ground, her hair in your hands as you were braiding it for her. You had split her hair down the middle and were giving her double braids because that’s how she thought it was best, and besides with her hat on, having a braid on each shoulder would be cute.
“Lily, can you pass me that hair tie around your worst please?” You asked, you had finished one braid and needed to tie it off.
“Sure!” she removed one of the black bands from her wrist and handed it back to you, you wrapped it around the bottom of her hair and let go of it, placing it onto her left shoulder.
“Okay first side done,” you said, “onto the next side! If I’m tugging on your hair please tell me okay?”
“I will don’t worry!” She replied as you started on the second side.
Behind you, James was sat watching carefully. After learning magic for 5 years, you’d think watching someone braid hair was normal, but to him it was like some peculiar type of magic. “Y/N? How’re you doing that?” he asked
“Doing what?” You replied, turning away from Lily’s hair, still holding onto it. “Braiding?”
“Yeah! Can you teach me?” he asked, walking over behind you and leaning on the couch.
“Sure!” You said happily, “Lily can you hold onto this section of hair for me?”
“Sure I can!” She took half of her hair and held onto it so no strands would get mixed up. You took your [hair colour] out of a loose ponytail and handed him the hair tie.
“Okay so,” You took the hair back from Lily and began slowly braiding, showing James what to do. “Basically, you need to separate the hair into 3 sections, and cross them over one and other alternating each time,” you demonstrated what to do to James and he copied you to the best of his ability.
“Okay I think i’m fucking this up,” He said huffing. “This doesn’t look like yours at all!”
“That’s because I’ve been braiding hair for like 3 years! It takes practice but I’m sure it looks great!” You responded. “Now just keep doing that alternating motion until you reach the end of my hair and then tie it off, you just take the hair tie and wrap it around the end, leave about an inch of hair below the hair tie though so it doesn’t look weird.”
You were doing Lily’s hair quite quickly as you wanted to go to the Fête as quickly as possible, and then you remembered that James was still doing your hair so you slowed down.
“Lils, can you pass me the other hair tie?”
“Yeah, here you go.” She replied passing you the other one, you held it between your teeth briefly before tying her hair off, pulling on the braids to check if they were even. You placed the braids onto her shoulders
“I’m finished Lily!” she stood up and thanked me before going back to our dorm to grab her scarf and gloves.
You were having casual conversation with James about what you were going to be doing at the Fête, he told you that, “I don’t think I’m going to go, my friends aren’t really festival type people,”
“Oh come on! Just come with me and Lils! It’ll be fun I promise. There’s going to be a lot of different stalls selling all types of things, there’s free hot drinks as well! And you can explore different cultures as there’s people from all over the world!” You responded. “I know you have a crush on her so…”
“Okay that was last year, I don’t like her like that anymore!” He exclaimed, “I like someone else now.”
“Oh my god who!?” You exclaimed turning slightly to face him.
“Don’t turn around! You’re throwing me off!” He rolled his eyes and turned your head back to where it was first with his free hand.
You heard Remus come up to James and say “What are you doing?”
He replied with “She taught me how to braid hair so i’m braiding her hair.”
“Can you teach me?” Remus leaned over the couch so you could see him.
“No she can’t she’s busy.” James said flatly, shoving his shoulder. “Go away I’m focusing right now.”
“Fine fine, But you’d better teach me later Y/N!” Remus said as he walked away.
“I will do!” You shouted to him.
“Alright…” He stood leant over for a good five minutes concentrating. “Okay i think i’m done!”
You stood up and looked into the mirror above the fireplace, he hadn’t done a bad job to be honest. It wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst either. “You did really well James! Well done!”
“Thank you L/N I’m quite proud of my work.” He responded. “I’ll come to the Fête with you!”
“Really? That’s awesome!! Me and Lily are going at 5:30 so you’d better be reassured by then because we won’t be waiting long for you.”
• After a prank gone too far, you begin to ignore Sirius and his attempts to apologise to you. You wanted to forgive him but you couldn’t; it hurt you. But in the end you end up telling a certain black dog how you fell.
• Set in 6th year!
• Word Count: 1,641
• Warnings: Swearing
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“Y/N! It was just a prank!” Sirius shouted at you as you stood completely still in the hallway. James was stifling a laugh behind him and Remus was snickering to himself, Peter rolling around on the floor with laughter.
Just moments before you were perfectly fine, you were walking with your friends to the great hall for lunch, holding a scroll of your Transfiguration thesis. Then out of no where, there was a green, thick, sticky liquid dripping from your head, shoulders and arms. You looked down at your hands, the thesis was ruined. Rage was bubbling in your body, you had worked for months on your thesis and now it had been ruined you felt like you could kill Sirius.
“I fucking hate you guys.” Was all you said before speed walking off to the girls bathroom. They had never gone this far. Not only were you humiliated in front of all your friends, but you had told the boys time and time again that you didn’t find their pranks funny. Especially the ones on you. Sure you found the ones on the teachers absolutely hilarious but on you, when you were holding something extremely important. You didn’t exactly appreciate it.
“Stupid boys, stupid pranks.” You mumbled to yourself, scraping off the green liquid from your shoulders. You reached into your robes and pulled out your wand, “Aguamenti.” Water shot from your wand in a stream, you aimed the water at your head as you washed the green liquid out of your hair and off your clothes. You were left with slightly stained clothes and soggy hair for the next few hours.
You had ignored Sirius and the rest of his friends in every class you had together. You could not look him in the eye after that prank. It didn’t feel like a prank, but you knew deep down that it was.
Time: 4:47pm
Location: Gryffindor Common room
After them ruining your essay, you were sat on a couch opposite the fireplace rewriting it. There was a quiet chatter from everyone else sat there studying, relaxing or playing gobstones or wizards chess. That was quickly ruined when the resident, self proclaimed ‘Marauders’ came bursting through the painting. Cheering, shouting, punching each other.
“You did well on that one padfoot,” James shouted, slapping Sirius on the back hard. “He looked like he was going to rip your face off!”
“Oh I saw, bit risky but I’m still here and not in detention again so worth it!” Sirius replied. Usually when you were in the common room, you’d run over to him all excited and ask him what they’d done this time, he looked at you expectantly. But you didn’t budge, you just stared at him expressionless. Then got back to writing.
“Still ignoring you is she?” Remus asked him.
“Yeah she is,” he replied, looking over his shoulder at him, sighing. “I knew that prank was too far.”
“She was carrying her Transfigurations thesis, I heard her talking to Lily about it in Potions,” Peter chimes in.
“Oh shit really?” James said.
“Fuck.” Sirius felt guilty, he didn’t mean to ruin your thesis but he had done. “I should apologise,”
“Yeah you should mate,” James shoved his shoulder forcing him in your direction.
He walked over, hands in his pockets and sat next to you on the other end of the couch. Slowly he scooted closer to you. “Hey Y/N…” he started.
You looked up at him, placing your quill back into the ink pot. “What.”
“Cheers Moony, I think i’m gonna need all the luck i can get.”
“I’m sorry about the prank earlier i didn’t mean to…” You stood up, grabbed your things and walked up the stairs and into your dorm to finish what you had been writing there.
“Oh pads, you fucked up.” Remus said, leaning against the fireplace, James sat next to him and Peter sat on the floor. “Good luck with that one.”
Time: 7:18
Location: School Grounds
You had left the common room about an hour ago to get away from everyone; Lily, Marlene, Sirius, James and you were now sat on the hill down to Ogg’s hut [the gamekeeper] just enjoying the serenity of hogwarts. Since first year, you w sat down and truly admired how beautiful it is.
‘I’ve been here for 6 years…and I still can’t get over how gorgeous this castle it…’ you thought to yourself, “next year i’ll be leaving…going off into the wizarding world for the first time as an adult. I hope i can be a magizoologist…’
Leaves behind you rustled and the grass crunched behind you softly, “Go away Sirius, I don’t want to talk to you!” when you turned around instead of seeing the tall, haughty, curly haired young man. You saw a large black dog, groomed perfectly, snout snuffling at the ground then it looked up at you.
“Oh hello little guy,” you said, patting the grass next to you, “I don’t bite, okay wait hang on, don’t bite me please.”
The dog sat next to you as you began to stroke its head. “What’re you doing here?” you asked.
‘I wonder if…’ you thought to yourself
He tilted his head, almost in response. “Well…I’m just blowing off steam from the castle life i guess, I think i’m in love with someone, but today he was a right twat to me and I feel like I shouldn’t be in love with him y’know? Like he’s a twat to people, but…He’s only joking he’s actually really sweet, and he helps me when i’m struggling in classes. I just don’t know what to do,”
You looked at the dog as if he was going to respond, “I just…don’t know what to do,” you sighed looking back to the ground.
“Y/N!” Your name was called from the doorway, Lily was stood there, holding a jacket. “It’s really cold Y/N why are you out here?”
“It’s really relaxing!! I swear it’s okay and I’m not cold,” you said to her jumping up.
“Just come back inside, I don’t want you catching a cold…” she sighed, “Take this jacket and come with me.”
“But i don’t want to…” She stopped you talking by throwing the jacket around your shoulders and dragging you through the castle. “Why are you like this Lils?”
“Oh sorry I care about you and don’t want you catching hypothermia,” she replied, “God I’m like your mother.”
“You’re much nicer than my mother so.” You laughed, she was pulling you the longest way back to the common room. “Why are we going this way?”
“Because why not, You’re the one who was out after curfew, I just don’t want us to get caught!” she explained, finally reaching the common room once more. When the warmth of the fire hit your skin you smiled, James was sat on the table in the corner with Sirius on one of the chairs and Lupin on the other.
“Where’s Pettigrew?” you whispered to Lily.
“Oh he went to bed, him and James got into a heated argument and he stormed off,” she replied, “Sirius is sorry by the way,” she added
“Well, until he makes it up to me somehow, I don’t care,” you responded
“Y/N you are so stubborn,” she laughs, “Just…Give him a chance to talk,”
“Maybe, I’ll think about it.” You said, “Can i go up to bed now, I’m kinda tired.”
“Go to sleep if you’re tired, Get a good night sleep and then wake up fresh!!” She encouraged.
“Okay, Goodnight Lils,” you said, walked passed her and towards the stairs.
“Goodnight Y/N.”
You glanced at Sirius as you walked, he seemed to be looking at you but you didn’t know if he was or he was just looking around
Time: 8:41 am
Location: Great Hall
“Good morning Lils,” you greeted sitting down with her on the Gryffindor Table.
“Morning Y/N, you refreshed today?” She asked, handing you a tray of toast, offering you a slice. You took two slices and dropped them onto your plate.
“Yeah’! I’m feeling much better,” you replied. Sirius walked up to you, and tapped you on the shoulder.
“Hey Y/N, can i talk to you?” He asked. You glanced over at Lily and remember what she said to you, her words echoing in your ears…
“Just…Give him a chance to talk,”
“Alright,” You followed Sirius to outside the great hall. The hallways were pretty empty due to it being breakfast. “What do you want to say to me?”
“I really am sorry Y/N i didn’t mean to ruin your thesis because i know how long you’ve been working on it and I ruined that with my stupid joke, I am really sorry!” He started, he didn’t make eye contact with you as he appeared to be embarrassed. “And I really am sorry about it…I over heard that you think you’re in love…”
You started a sentence, cutting him off “I know it was you last night Sirius, I know you’re an animagi, and I know it was you as a dog, I’m not stupid.”
“Oh so…” He didn’t know what to say next.
“I’m in love with you…But you really fucking hurt me yesterday by fucking up my essay,” You said, looking up at him. He raised his head and made direct eye contact with you.
“Well, I’m in love with you too, I just didn’t know how to tell you.” He replied, you smiled at him, you stood on your tiptoes and kissed him lightly on the lips then you pulled away.
“Does this mean we’re- You were cut off by him pulling you in for a more passionate kiss, he was holding your waist as he leant over to kiss you.
“Yes. We’re together Y/N, I thought you were smart!”
• When Severus forgets your birthday...and you get annoyed at him because he forgot it. But he makes up for it in the end!!!
• Warnings: Slightest bit of angst.
• Word count: 1,587
• (part 2/4)
It had been 3 months since you and Severus had become friends, every day after classes ended the two of you would walk around the Hogwarts grounds exploring what little you had, enjoying each others company. He told you that “you weren’t as annoying as i thought,” which was good. You would study together, eat lunch together, and you didn’t really care what the students thought about you hanging out with him because he was sweet!
and now it’s your birthday! You were turning 15 today, that was scary!
‘One year closer to leaving Hogwarts,’ you’d think to yourself. You walked into the main aera of the [your house] common room. Surprisingly, there was a shy blonde girl waiting for you. You learnt her name to be Sarah Abbot. She was in the year below you and she was extremely friendly, but she brought me a little box, “Happy Birthday Y/N! I know we aren’t close, but I like getting everyone a birthday present!”
“Wow! Thank you so much Sarah, you’re so sweet!” you said taking the box from her, you pulled off the bow and removed the lid. Inside there was a chocolate frog, the latest copy of a herbology book. you’d was reading and a birthday card that sung the Muggle song happy birthday, “This is so nice of you! Thank you so much!”
“It’s really no problem,” She said before walking to her dorm room. You left the common room with book in hand and walked to the Great Hall for breakfast.
You spotted James, Sirius and Remus sat at the Gryffindor table and Severus sat alone reading at the Slytherin table. You walked over to Severus and sat next to him. “Good morning Sev!”
“Morning Y/N,” He replied, “You sound extra chipper this morning.”
“Do I?” you replied, “Guess what day it is.”
“Its Tuesday?” He said, looking up at you.
“C’mon…You know what today is!” you said, internally deflating. You knew he knew about your birthday because about two weeks ago you had been bouncing all over the place telling him every second that it was your birthday
“Oh shit do we have an assignment due in today?” He asked nervously.
“No…Y’know what, forget it.” you stood up and walked away from him, ‘how could he forget my birthday…’ you thought to yourself, why do you even bother sometimes?
Instead, today you sat with the Gryffindors. You don’t know how you befriended them but one day you all started hanging out and since then you’ve been friends.
“Morning L/N,”
“Mornin’”
“Good Morning Y/N,” you sat next to Remus and grabbed a slice of jammed-toast from the center of the table.
“Happy Birthday,” Remus said quietly.
“You remembered?” you asked, mouth full of toast a smile tugging on the sides of your mouth.
“Of course, I remembered. It’s all James has been talking about.” Remus replied
“Now that is not true, I mentioned it once!!” James exclaimed at Peter, “He’s been talking about it and besides! It’s your big fourteenth! What have you got planned? Anything with Snivellus?”
“Don’t call him that.” you replied harshly. “You’re so fucking horrible to him for no reason.”
“I don’t like him. He’s a creep. But you didn’t answer my question.”
“He forgot.” you replied quickly, biting into my toast.
“How could he forget the greasy bugger!” Sirius said, scowling over at him.
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Potions
- You WERE sat next to Snape. He lost all ‘Sev’ permission. He forgot your fucking birthday and you were so pissed at him
“Alright students, get out your textbooks and open them to page 127, today were going to be continuing brewing the potions we started last lesson.” Slughorn announced to the whole class, you saw the self-proclaimed ‘Marauders’ across the room all perk up and Remus look at them all.
You stood up and walked over to them, ignoring Snape’s plea to stay with him.
“Hello Birthday Girl, what brings you over here?” Sirius asked me, tying his dark curls back into a ponytail.
“Can I work with one of you? I’m fucked off at Snape right now and…I don’t want to have to work with him on this.” you replied, tossing my robes into the corner
“Lost the Sev title, has he?” James asked
“Yes.” you replied flatly, “Please?”
“You can work with me if you’d like?” Remus suggested
“I would love that, thank you Remus.” I said, smiling at him, “I’ll get the ingredients and you get the cauldron set up? Last time I did this I melted mine…”
“Sure, I don’t want my cauldron to melt…I’ll set it up,” He replied.
You quickly scribbled the ingredients down on a piece of parchment and walked over to the shelves of ingredient jars, opposite Snape’s table.
- Giant moonwort
- Myrrh, pickled in carrow spider ichor
- Beans (??)
After popping open the necessary jars, you carefully carried all the ingredients back. Grinding the giant moonwort in a Pestle and Mortar and then slowing adding it into the cauldron, and the rest of the ingredients.
Remus began trying to cut up the mystery beans, but it kept pinging away from him. “Hey, try crushing it instead, it’ll be easier to crush than to cut,” He placed the blade of the knife against the aconite and pressed down, it pinged away from him again. He sighed in annoyance. “Here, let me help you,”
You took the knife out of Remus’ had and pressed the blade against the bean softly, slowly crushing the bean
“Thanks, where did you learn that?” He asked, smiling at me. you shuffled passed him and put the beans into the cauldron.
“Just a friend,” Severus overheard what I said, he was disappointed in himself. He knew he had forgotten something, but he didn’t know what he’d forgotten. And he was mentally kicking himself over it.
“I think this potion is going to fail, I’m working on it and I can never do a potion correctly,” you huffed leaning over the table, staring into the cauldrons contents.
“Oh come on now…Have some confidence in yourself, I know we can do this.” Remus responded, “I, uhh…I got you a birthday present, I know it isn’t much but,” He reached into his robe pocket and pulled out a small box about the size of my palm.
“Oh Rem…You didn’t have to,” you opened it. Inside there was a badge. It was sparkly gold with stars surrounding the word ‘Y/N,’ “Remus, its gorgeous. I love it thank you!” you threw your arms around him, engulfing him in a warm, loving hug.
“Its not a problem, Do you want me to put it on you?” He asked letting go of me.
“Yes please! Can you put it at the top of my tie please?” you asked in response.
“Of course, I can,” He grabbed the top of your tie and carefully pinned the badge to it. “Done.”
“Thank you!” you said once more. For the rest of class, you and Remus talked as we let out potion sit on a simmer.
Without your knowledge, James and Sirius were mocking Snape, those twats…
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Transfiguration
[3rd person POV]
- Severus was now worried; she hadn’t spoken to him since this morning which was VERY unusual. He was asking everyone around him what was wrong with HER and why today was so special.
“Narcissa!” He whisper-yelled to the girl in front of him. She was also a Slytherin but the two rarely ever spoke.
“Dude,” She replied, “It’s Y/N’s birthday, what did you get her?” She asked, Narcissa had spoken to Y/N very briefly that morning before Potions, she wished her a happy birthday and gave her a box of ‘Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans’ he sat in his seat, horrified. How the fuck had he forgotten her birthday?
“Shit.” Was all he said. When class had gotten into session properly and Y/N was sat with Remus, Sirius, and Peter [James had opted out of Transfigurations for Quidditch]
He watched her through the lesson, laughing over the failed transfiguration attempts, Remus fell off his chair which cause Y/N to burst out laughing. He could not keep watching…What if he lost her to the ‘Marauders’? He couldn’t risk it.
Time: 4:26
Location: Library
[1st person POV]
I sat, reading my new herbology book in the corner of one on the empty spaces between the bookcases.
“I’m sorry.” I heard a voice say. I peer over the top of my book and see Snape stood there holding a bag and a bouquet of flowers. “I’m really sorry I forgot it was today…I’ve had this stuff prepared for a while but I forgot it was your birthday today…I’m really sorry…”
“Sev…” I replied, speechless. He had forgotten it was today…but he had my stuff prepared. He was holding daisies…my favourite flower…he was listening to my rant on the hill about daisies. “Thank you,” I said quietly. “Thank you so much Sev…”
“Happy Birthday Y/N,” He smiled handing everything to me. In the bag was:
- Cauldron Cakes
- A new quill set
- Sugar quills
- A jumper I had been wanting for a while that we saw one weekend in Hogsmeade
“Sev…when did you get time to get all of this?” I ask, tears brimming my eyes. I don’t think I’ve ever been this happy. I threw myself into his arms, holding him close to me, I thought that if I let go now, he’d be taken away from me instantly. I’ve missed him all day. I’ve missed the way he smells of grass and how the air smells after its rained. I’ve missed how gentle he is with me. I’ve missed how he guides me in potions to do the right things. I’ve missed him.
“I’ve missed you Sev, I did.” I said, still hugging him. His holding me close to him, not letting me go for the world.
• You meeting Severus for the first time, Correction: You TALKING to Severus for the first time in 4 years. You had always avoided him but now..
• Warnings: None
• Word Count: 906
(part 1/4)
The cauldron in front of you bubbled, you sat on the stool stirring the spoon around with your wand. Your hair sat frizzing up due to the humidity of the room. You were bored to say the least, in your boredom you scanned the room when your eyes met a pair the room. They were a deep brown from where you were sitting, at first it didn’t register who you were looking at but then a second later it clicked in your head. These illustrious eyes belonged to Severus Snape, a boy your age with long, thick, black hair that swooped in front of his face when he looked down. He had a large, hooked nose and thin lips. Yeah, he was attractive to you, but you’ never talk to him! You’re complete opposites! You realised you had been staring for too long because your potion began bubbling over the side and was now green instead of dark umber.
“Shit,” you said out loud, pushing all your books away from the spillage and stepping backwards, the cauldron began melting before your eyes, “What did I do?” you asked out loud, there was a small group of girls around you. A ravenclaw girl seemed to be crying over your potion which you didn’t understand why, Her Gryffindor friend was talking to you, “It’s okay Y/N! Mistakes happen and they can usually be fixed but…I don’t know if your cauldron is going to survive this one honey,”
“Oh its fine, I’d rather everyone else be safe that have a cauldron,” You levitated the cauldron away from the table and into the ‘scrap corner’ as your class all liked to call it. You had to get a new cauldron from over behind Severus which was going to be fun. You walked over, hair frizzed up, robes on the floor by my table in a heap; you were nervous cause you knew you’d have to speak to him.
“Hi Severus,” you said awkwardly, crouching down to rummage for a new cauldron in the huge shelving unit behind where he was sat.
“You stirred it too much,” he said quickly. “You were only meant to stir it 8 times, you stirred it 9,”
“I didn’t exactly mean to, I left my book in my dorm, so I was just looking around and copying everyone else, I guess I should’ve been copying you huh?”
“That’s not what I’m saying at all, I’m just saying, you stirred it wrong.” He turned around to look down at you, his hair falling in front of his deep eyes. You looked back at him, looking into his eyes.
“Then help me,” were the words that followed what he had said, you didn’t mean to say it, but it happened. You didn’t regret what you had said because you wanted to talk to Severus now more than ever.
“Fine,” He replied sharply, “Get the cauldron at the back, its one of the best.”
“Thank you,” you replied, reaching all the way to the back and grabbing onto it, yanking it out and placing it on the table, “So, brainiac, where do I start?”
“Crush up the beans and put them into the cauldron, I’ll fill it with water and put it on the flame to boil.” He instructed, I pressed the edge of the blade against the beans one by one, crushing them as Severus put water in the cauldron.
“Aguamenti,” He said, water shot from his wand into the cauldron as it sat above the flame. “Okay now put those in and start adding in slowly the lacewing flies,”
“Like that?” you asked dropping in the beans and slowing tapping the lacewing fly bottle against the rim of the cauldron, fluttering in slowly.
“Yes,” He grabbed a wooden spoon and stirred the mixture anti clockwise 3 times. “You know, earlier you might not have gotten so distracted if you weren’t staring at me, why were you staring at me?” He asked.
“Well…You’re interesting, you don’t seem to have many friends and I want to know why, you’re a pretty nice person.”
“I do have friends!” He said, stopping what he was doing and jerking his head towards me. “I’m friends with Lily Evans! She’s my friend, so don’t just make assumptions, I just like being by myself,” Was his next reply
“I know! But you just seem to like being alone and I thought well…You might like some company?” you asked, smiling at him, “I promise I’m quiet! You won’t even know I’m there half of the time, I promise! You’re just really interesting and I’d quite like to be your friend!”
He sat in silence thinking for a minute or two, looking at me. It felt like he was inspecting you, weighing up your pros and cons. As far as you were aware you didn’t have many cons.
Pros: Cons:
- you try to be nice to everyone - you’re you…
- you have a pet toad
- you are quite smart
- you are good company
Okay maybe there are a few cons, BUT you still had hope in yourself. You’re a smart [your house]. Who wouldn’t love me?
“Alright fine,” He eventually replied, “Just don’t annoy me, or you’re gone, got it?”
“Mhm!!” you hummed happily “Thank you Severus! I won’t let you down!”
“Yeah yeah, shush,” He sighed, oh boy was he in for a treat for the next 4 years at Hogwarts…
• When the reader gets invited to a small study group, they see their long term crush, Remus Lupin, and have to study with him for 3 hours. Unbeknownst to them, Remus is also harboring feelings for Y/N
• Word count: 1,453
“Y/N!” a girl in your class shouted to you, The girl in question was Mariah, you’d known her since 1st year. You were already walking down the hallway to your next class, so you stopped for a moment and turned to her. “Come to the study group later yeah?”
“Why?” You asked, you had no intention of seeing other people later, you were just going to go back to the [your house] common room and sit in your dorm until you fell asleep.
“Cause O.W.L.S are around the corner, and I know you’re horrific in school,” she said flatly, she didn’t mean any harm by what she said. You knew she was joking.
“Wow, harsh,” you joked at her, “Fine, I’ll be there. But only because you asked.”
“It’s in the library at 4!” she shouted as you walked away to your next class. Transfiguration
Honestly, you hated it and you regretted picking it, but you’re semi decent at it so you really don’t care. You sat down in your seat just waiting for the day to be over already. Next to you usually was Peter Pettigrew, a short boy who didn’t really fit in but he had a small friend group. The Marauders.
You wouldn’t admit to yourself that the Marauders were cool, because they weren’t in any way, shape or form. However you admired their courage to prank anyone, including both teachers and students alike. Amongst the chaos of boys in their group there was one who seemed different from the rest. Remus Lupin. He was the quiet, bookish boy of the group but he was nice, and every time you’d talk to him, he was extra polite and calm. When he was with his friends he was completely different, you knew for a fact that he was the one planning all their pranks as no boy in that group could come up with anything as elaborate as he could. Remus was incredibly smart for his age, he always knew the answers in class and he was always acing all his tests. He was almost a genius and that was why you liked him. Not JUST because of how smart he was because he was the ideal guy anyone would want to have and yet, no one was chasing him. They all wanted Sirius or James.
You liked Remus. Because of house smart he was but not JUST because of how smart but because of how sweet and nice he is. And how polite he is. And you can tell when he’s listening to you, it makes you feel seen when he’s listening because he’s looking intently at you, listening to every word you let slip past your lips. ‘snap out of it Y/N! you need to focus!’ you told yourself, pulling out your your quill and ink, scrawling down what Professor McGonagall was writing on the chalk board on a piece of crinkled up parchment.
The final hour of school ticked down, and you were let out to get changed for the study group in an hour. When you got back to the [your house] common room and into your dorm, instead of flopping onto your bed like usual, you changed into something comfortable yet cute and folded your uniform up gently, leaving it at the bottom of your bed. You grabbed a quill and ink, your textbooks and a notebook and left the common room quickly.
‘Why am I so early oh my god,’ You thought to yourself, ‘No it’s fine! I can go slowly, it’s fine!! no need to rush there.’
So you walked through the hallways of Hogwarts, being slightly creeped out my the eerie silence around the castle in some places. Eventually after a slow walk of twenty minutes, you reached the library and walked in. To your left and right there was circle tables, surrounded by plush chairs from all over the library. On the table to the left was a tea pot, a small jug of milk, a bowl of sugar cubes and several assorted teacups each decorated completely different and on the right was a selection of biscuits and cakes provided by the house elves.
“Y/N! You made it!” Mariah greeted, she was dressed in a large pink jumper with blue jeans that hung passed her ankles and her beaten up converse. “There’s about 15 people coming tonight so I’m glad you got here early! It’s good to be early, you get the best seats!”
You sat down in the furthest chair away from the door, the quietest one as well. You placed your books on the table and gently put your ink next to them. You reached into your pocket for your wand and waved it at the kettle, it lifted itself into the air and poured its piping hot content into one of the cups, then the milk, then the sugar then floated its way over to you. You grabbed it gently out of the air and blew on the tea to cool it down. “You will have to teach me how to do that Y/N,” Mariah chimes in having been watching you.
“It’s pretty simply, I’m sure even James Potter could do it,” you took a small sip from the tea, then placed it on the table. About 10 minutes later everyone else arrived, the volume wasn’t too loud, everyone was being pretty chill so everything was perfect. You saw Remus walk in and you could feel yourself smiling, just the sight of that boy made you happy. You walked over to him, holding back your smile.
“Hey Remus, i didn’t expect to see you here!” You said, he was smart, as stated before so you didn’t realise that he needed to be here.
“Oh hello Y/N, yeah I’m here to help, I- uhm…I might of came because I knew you were going to be here tonight,” He said quietly, looking sheepishly at you.
“Remus! You didn’t have to, but- I’m happy you’re here!” You responded, smiling at him, “can you help me? I’m really struggling in potions and I know you’re quite good!”
“Sure I can help you, what is it?”
For the next 3 hours you and Remus sat with one and other, studying, talking, laughing, getting to know him more. The more you listened to him talk, the more you fell in love.
“Remus…I’m still struggling, could we go somewhere quieter? I’m struggling to focus with the noise,” You said quietly, you knew there was a couple of tables free scattered around the library so the two of you told Mariah that you were going to a quieter section of the library which she responded with:
“Okay but don’t make a mess! I have to clean up after this so don’t make my job harder!”
You sat down at a table across from him, and plopped down your textbook, opening the page to where you had left it earlier and pointed to a certain section for him to help explain fully. He because talking, explaining, writing and showing examples of what you were struggling with. To be honest you just wanted to be alone with Remus, you had to tell him how you felt tonight. You just had to, it had been building up for a year now and it had to be tonight or you’d hate yourself forever.
“Remus…I didn’t just ask you to come somewhere quiet for you to explain this to me. Yes I needed you to so thank you for that but…” you paused. You stood up, and turned away from him, he stood up and put his hand on your shoulder.
“Is everything okay Y/N?” he asked, sincerity laced in his voice.
“okay…” You muttered to yourself. “I like you Remus, I like how you listen, I like how you explain things thoroughly, I like how you’re smart and I like how you’re polite, I like you, a lot,” you said, turning to him. Your face was turning pink, he stood in silence staring at you but he said nothing.
‘fuck…’
“It’s okay if you don’t feel the same!! I promise, I don’t want things to become awkward between us…” Before you could finish your sentence you were stopped by his lips connecting with yours, his hands on your back, yours found their way to his neck, you melted into him. You had been waiting for this for a year and he did not disappoint.
“You have no idea how happy that makes me…” He said pulling away from the kiss, “I’ve never had the courage to tell you, but i feel the same way, i have for a while and I’m so glad you said something.”
