the_debt_of_time

"That's different," Remus insisted and lowered his voice despite the fact that they
were not standing within hearing range of anyone except the little nogtails and nifflers.
"She's naive if she thinks that she can talk me out of being dangerous."
"Get over yourself, mate," James said reprovingly. "Everyone's dangerous."
Remus growled. "Not like me."
"No, not like you," James agreed. "Mia's dangerous because she's too smart. Girl
knows hexes and charms that we're not supposed to even learn until N.E.W.T. levels.
Evans is the same. Sirius is dangerous because his temper's too short. The second years
have a pool going around to see how many fights he gets into this year. It's a ten Galleon
buy in, if you want."
Remus shook his head.
"I'm dangerous because I don't let people know how good I am at what I do," James
went on as if he were a professor in his own class. "Everyone thinks it's ego and that I'm
overcompensating. I'm not."
Remus understood. He, James, and Sirius had practise duelled a time or two the
previous years, and James always dominated the two by speed alone.
"Peter's probably the only one of us who's not a danger," James laughed, trying to
break up the tense moment.
"Peter's dangerous. He's too unsuspecting not to be," Remus said with a chuckle,
and James followed suit.
"Hey!" Sirius ran over to them with a grin. "Did you guys know that chimaeras purr
if you scratch their belly? And they make the same noise when they're eating human flesh."
They all looked back to Professor Kettleburn who was absently scratching his arm
stump again.
Just before class ended, Mia returned, and without a word to Remus, she wound
her hand back and hit Sirius over the back of the head. He let out a small yelp and turned
to face her while James and Remus laughed behind his back.
"I must really be a Seer. I predicted that you'd be hit by a girl today."