the_debt_of_time

"Reading between the lines, I'd say she thinks you're a bit conceited, mate," Sirius
said. There was another flash of light, and Snape was once again hanging upside-down in
the air.
"Liberacorpus!"
Snape fell back to the ground.
James and Sirius spun on their heels and looked immediately past Mia at Remus
who shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
"How could you?" Mia demanded of James, shaking her head in disappointment.
"Did you hear what he called Evans?" James snapped at her.
"You are a Gryffindor!" She smacked him on the back of the head. "Act like it!"
"No one asked you―" Snape began, glaring daggers at Mia.
She turned on him immediately, actually feeling it when her eyes flashed amber with
anger as she pointed her wand at him. "You! You threatened my friends, called Lily a
Mudblood, and you made my brother bleed. Go back to the castle, Snape, before I decide
to pay you back in kind."
"I look forward to the day when you try, Potter" he sneered at her as he stood,
turning and making his way toward a group of Slytherins who had stood by to watch the
whole ordeal with amused expressions on their faces. Mia could just imagine how pleased
they were to see Snape lose his Muggle-born friend so publicly.
"I am officially done." Mia put her wand back in her robes, shaking her head in
disappointment. "I would have thought what happened back in March would have given
the four of you some perspective, but clearly, I was wrong."
"Oh, c'mon, Mia, just because I don't want the greasy git dead doesn't mean that
I'm going to jump at the chance to be his best mate," James said. "I took it easy on him.
After what he said about Remus? You would have hexed him too! Never mind that he was
laughing after―"
"The Carrows called me a whore?" Mia guessed.
Both James and Sirius turned and glared at Remus, knowing immediately that he
was the one who told her what had happened.
"No one talks about my sister that way," James snapped.
"I am not yours to protect!" Mia yelled.