Chapter Fifty-Six
Amortentia
It's not a walk in the park
To love each other
But when our fingers interlock,
Can't deny, can't deny you're worth it
'Cause after all this time I'm still into you
(Still Into You - Paramore)September 8th, 1976Mia's week had not been the best.
After learning about her secret sex life with Remus and Sirius, James could scarcely
look her in the eye. The three Marauders involved were back on speaking terms at last,
especially after joining forces to literally beat the truth out of Peter. He admitted to having
once walked in on Remus and Mia in the dorm room, and then overhearing Sirius talking
to Remus about their one-night affair over the summer. Peter walked away with a black
eye and a three-month ban on the Shrieking Shack. In addition, Sirius threatened him into
supplying the common room with as much butterbeer as they could sneak in through the
Honeydukes passage.
James was quiet around Mia—mostly due to embarrassment over his own
behaviour—but Sirius and Remus were behaving differently as well, and that she had not
expected. Both knew of her relationship with the other, but something must have
happened the night James found out, and each was acting strangely in her presence because
of it.
Sirius was oddly quiet and constantly looking between Mia and Remus as though
he were searching for something important. Remus, on the other hand, was wildly
distracted by whatever occupied his thoughts. For the first time in five years, he forgot
how Mia took her tea, and accidentally put raspberries instead of blueberries on her
porridge—something that the entire table noticed with wide eyes and loud gasps as though
someone had just shouted a Killing Curse.