As James’ younger sibling, you had always been jammed between his friends over the holiday seasons. Be it Christmas and new years, summer holidays or even the occasional national holiday.

It was fun, of course, spending the seasons with them. But you always felt a little bit overshadowed by the group. After all, a bunch of boisterous Gryffindor lads was no easy feat. Especially when you add James’ girlfriend Lily into the mix.

Lily was lovely, and of course she doted on you, so you had some company at that point. However one night as the lot of them were sipping on bottles of firewhiskey ( which your parents had forbidden you from until your eighteenth birthday ) Lily had accidentally slipped that you were inviting a special someone over for the final week.

It was chaos to say the least. James and Sirius were both shouting, voices indistinguishable through the commotion. Needless to say James was not pleased, and he looked positively ready to explode when you had told him who it was.

”say that again?” He grumbled, sliding the bottle over to Sirius, who had bowed out of the conversation due to the grim expression on his best friends face