Harry Potter and The Lightning Curse

Chapter 1

Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew rushed to the hospital wing as soon as they could. Upon entering they found Sirius Black, Lilly Evans and James Potter had been assigned a bed each. Lilly had a bandaged wrapped around her arm, Sirius was desperately clutching his sides and James was holding an ice pack to his jaw.

"What happened?" Remus eyed each one of them individually

"Hold on" Peter picked up a clipboard and began reading from it "James Potter, broken jaw from being hit with a massive book. Lilly Evans, strained bicep from throwing a massive book."

"Well done" Remus looked at Lilly with pride, ignoring the bandaged arm "what about Padfoot?"

"Give us a sec, oh, apparently he kept going on about a busted gut from laughing, then James actually punched him in the gut"

"Well done" Remus spoke in an all too familiar combination of pride and amusement.

"Why did you throw a book at him anyway?" Peter asked Lilly

"Well" Lilly began "we were doing some homework and then we all started talking, about random things like classes and going out and what to do over the holidays. Then we ended up talking about our relationship, like what we would do if we had kids, then we got to talking about what our first kid would be like."

"Okay" Remus nodded, wondering where this was going. Wormtail however was less patient.

"So you threw a book at him because he talked about kids?"

"No" Lilly sighed "we had got to discussing what we would do if we had a boy. It started off talking about what he would look like, we then discussed who we'd make godparents and then we discussed what he'd probably be good at. I predicted he'd be a good cook, Potter over there, decided to remind me that only 'girls' are good at cooking."

"So? It's true ain't it?" Peter spoke, confused by the glare Lilly was now giving him.

"Here you go" Remus handed Lilly a copy of his transfiguration book, Lilly was confused temporarily before getting the joke. A smile forced itself upon her face, with that she slowly stood up and gifted Remus with a one armed hug which he returned.

"If it's any consolation I was joking Lil" James interrupted

"It wasn't funny" Lilly replied

"I thought it was" Sirius giggled

A short while later the five of them had gathered in the common room, they then subtracted themselves to four when Peter went up to sleep.

"Do any of you know what the headmaster had put in the third floor corridor?" James asked "all I know is nobody is allowed to go near it"

"No idea" Remus admitted "but it does seem important, Filch gave some Ravenclaws detention for just walking near it"

"I say we investigate" Sirius exclaimed in a childlike manner

"Well I don't" Lilly cut in, ignoring Padfoots groan "what if you get caught or what if it's dangerous?"

"Like 'The grand wizard of the light' is going to put something dangerous in a school full of children, that'd be stupid"