Then all at once James, Sirius, and Remus began arguing vehemently with her;
clearly, she had said the wrong thing and struck a nerve.
"Grow up, Jamie!" Mia cried. "You're holding onto a grudge you've had since you
were eleven because some stupid boy pushed your sister down. You're my brother, and I
love you, but Lily's right. You're so full of yourself sometimes."
"Mia.. ." Remus reached for her, but she pulled away from him.
"You are supposed to be the voice of reason. You're supposed to understand
why they shouldn't bully others!" She pointed at James and Sirius. "You are supposed to be
the smart one!"
"Hey!" Sirius said, offended.
At the sound of his voice, Mia turned on him. "Who started this today, Sirius?" She
asked him point-blank. James and Remus looked away, but Sirius held her stare. "You're
supposed to be a better man than this!"
"I am a better man! Better than him!" Sirius yelled, pointing after Snape.
"'If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his
inferiors, not his equals,'" Mia said sadly and turned away from James and Sirius both, tears
in her eyes.
Remus followed after her immediately. "Who said that?"
"A good man I once knew," Mia whispered, the image of an older Sirius burnt into
her mind as she walked away from them all.
June 16th, 1976Frank Longbottom should have counted himself a lucky man.
After the now-infamous story of what happened by the Black Lake spread like
Fiendfyre through the school, Frank was the only boy in Gryffindor Tower to whom any of
the girls would speak. Unfortunately, that meant when the Marauders failed to get either
Mia's or Lily's attention to beg forgiveness for their immature idiocy, Frank was sent as a
messenger to parley between the genders. Naturally, it did not work, and when Frank tried