Wolfstar Oneshots

Is Asking You Out Like This Illegal?

7th year

"As I was saying, Mr. Black, veritaserum is an extremely difficult potion. As you are all 7th years, I expect you all to do well on making this advanced potion. One lunar phase must be completed in order for the potion to be full effect. Please open your books and turn to page 237, and begin brewing. No further instructions are needed, so please, get to it. Partners only!" Addressed Slughorn. James and Sirius, Peter and Alice, and Remus and Lily partnered up. "Sir, what are we going to do with the potion next month when it's completed?" One short, dark haired girl asked curiously. "We will test it of course! We will place your potion in pumpkin juice and ask a few obvious questions such as 'Who is Headmaster of Hogwarts?' in front of the classroom. Those who answer incorrectly will not receive full credit because as you know, veritaserum forces you to tell the whole, entire truth." Remus and Lily started brewing immediately, while Peter struggled to properly crush his wormwood. Sirius and James fooled around, but still at least had the right ingredients in front of them. "Mate, when we leave the classroom is the potion still going to be in effect?" Sirius half complained half genuinely asked. Remus over heard him and responded, "No, if Slughorn didn't give us an anidote before leaving the class, it'd be illegal."

After spending quite some time preparing the potion, class was dismissed and everyone put their materials away. Potions was the last class of the day, so the Marauders and Lily headed up to the common room. Alice and Marlene went to the owlery. "So, what do you guys want to do until dinner?" Lily asked, sitting on the couch with James. "Well, we could go down to the quidditch field and play tag on brooms." Suggested Sirius, yawning. "Tired?" Remus commented. "Just a bit." "Me too, I'm going up to the dorms. See you guys at dinner!" "Poor guy, the full moon is in a few days." Lily sympathized, looking up at Sirius as if to tell him to after him. "That makes two of us, see ya!" He said, taking in the hint.

"Moooony, you okay? Want some chocolate?" "No and yes," he groaned. Sirius sat next to him on his bed. "What's wrong? You aren't really tired, are you?" "No." Remus took a bite of chocolate. "I'm just being stupid, it's fine." "Mhm, Moony what's wrong? You've been acting weird for the past three days." Remus sat up and leaned into Sirius, resting his head on his shoulder. "Okay, so let's think of this hypothetically. There's Person A who likes Person B and Person C knows, and wants Person A to ask out Person B. But Person B can never like Person A because of a certain something, so they don't want to ask out Person B. Person A has fancied them for the past four years, and Person C is getting annoyed at them for not doing anything about it yet. Person D jokingly says Person A and B should get together. Person C somehow tolerates Person D, and is dating them even if they are kind of a jerk. That's why Person A should listen to Person C but they don't want to because they don't want to mess things up with Person B. Get it?" Sirius looked at him with no expression. "Person C sounds smart." "Person C is indeed very smart." Remus cuddled his head into Sirius even more so he couldn't see his blush. "Person A should listen to Person C, ask out Person B, and er insult Person D?" Remus laughed, "If only it were that easy. I dunno, Person C is bright, but I just don't know what they have in mind, ya know?" "I get it. Just two questions. 1. Are you Person A? and 2. How does Person A know Person B doesn't like them?" Sirius gently brought Remus' chin up so he could look him in the eye. "I'm Person A and I just know, because...erm...well I-I just know." "Well, anybody would be lucky to have such an amazing guy." He continued after handing Remus more chocolate, "I'm sure of that, ok?" "Whatever." "Moony?" "Yes Padfoot?" Mumbled Remus who was leaning into Sirius again. "Promise me you'll talk to Person B about it within the next month." "No promises." "Or no chocolate from me for three months!" Remus whinned. "Fiiiine."

The two of them sat together, quietly talking for the remainder of the time before heading down to dinner. James seemed to be telling an over-exaggerated version of the time he dodged three bludgers at once, caught the snitch, and kicked a quaffle into the hoop. What actually happened? James Potter fell off his broom dodging the bludgers, flailing his arms around which miraculously caught the golden snitch, and accidentally kicked a quaffle into the hoop when he freaked out from seeing how close to the ground he was. Yeah. Impressive, right? Remus and Sirius sat down across from James and began eating. "Better after sleeping?" He asked them. "Yeah. Much." Remus said smiling. Sirius just nodded. "Well, you two missed the best game of Exploding Snap. Lily put a charm on the cards so not only did they explode sporadically, but they also revealed something embarrassing about the last person to touch the card! It was hilarious, right Pete?" Peter looked at him and shook his head. He still wasn't over his second card exploding on him and shouting "Peter Pettigrew has never kissed someone at Hogwarts!" Thanks, Lily.