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James was bored. He had never enjoyed things like this. It was too easy to lose the people he actually wanted to spend time with and he was expected to act in a certain way. It was even worse now that he was there as a Ministry worker and yet his boss wasn’t the person who seemed to have the closest eye on him. He was relieved to see Remus and he joined him by the buffet table. “Moony! McGonagall is giving me that ‘I’m-looking-for-a-reason-to-give-you-detention’ glare and I need you to prank Padfoot, because I’m never going to win if she keeps watching me like that.” He frowned and put a couple of chocolate peanuts in his mouth before adding, “I don’t know what her deal is. It’s not like she’s our teacher any more and putting gigglewater in the wine was a public service. I mean look at them,” He tugged on Remus’ arm to turn him to look in the direction of a group of snobby-looking Ministry officials who had just taken glasses of the tainted wine. “They really need to smile.”