First Year

In her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry it was Klarissa Admete Sterrling's extreme misfortune to fall in love. Well, it wasn't so much the falling in love part that was misfortunate, more whom it was she had fallen in love with. And truly, she hadn't even started her first year, it was her first ride on the Hogwarts Express.

Perhaps if someone else had told the third years harassing her to 'shut their fat gobs' she would not have been infatuated with Sirius Black. But as fate had it, it was and has sure no matter what she soon have fallen for the handsome boy.

Fate would also have it that half the female population would swoon over him, so Rissa decided right on her first day at Hogwarts that fate sucked. After coming to this well conceived conclusion she decided to stay as far as humanly possible from Black.

This proved harder than she had guessed as both her and Black were sorted into Gryffindor. All hope was not lost though when she became fast friends with Lily Evans, a girl whom had taken an immediate dislike to a boy named James Potter, also incidentally a boy whom she had spent a great deal of time with growing up, the son of family friends. Who, conveniently, became best friends with the Black boy. She simply stuck close to Lily and if the group of boys came close, they ignored them.

Second Year

Rissa was naturally shy, it was simply the way she functioned, and Lily understood that, just as Rissa understood Lily to be outgoing and confident. Not all people, it seemed, understood Rissa's quiet nature, namely the group of four 12-year old boys. Unfortunately this group consisted of James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Remus Lupin, who is a decent boy mixed up in a mischievous group.

The four of them had resorted to calling her 'Lily's Little Mouse', supposively because she never talked. Though Rissa suspected that they simply couldn't remember her name, and James enjoyed bugging her.

Third Year

The boys had now given themselves the name of the 'Marauders' and had proved themselves to be among the biggest trouble makers Hogwarts had yet seen. James was known to them as Prongs, Sirius was Padfoot, Peter was 'blessed' with the name Wormtail, and Remus with Moony. How her dear adoptive cousin came up with such strange names she did not know.

It was getting harder to avoid the Marauders as they grew older and James's infatuation with Lily grew. Rissa found herself sympathizing with James; he wasn't the only one who had fallen for someone he couldn't have.

To make matters worse Lily had chosen not to take Divination or Care of Magical Creatures, where as both Rissa and the Marauders had. Imagine peoples surprise to see Lily's Little Mouse without Lily. In the end the shy girl suffered the use of her nickname for extra classes the entire year.

Fourth Year

It wasn't until fourth year that Sirius Black discovered the power he held over the female race. That was also the year Rissa's klutz genes kicked in. Her father had always been clumsy, but up until then Rissa herself had been fairly coordinated. Now she could hardly walk down the hall without tripping over her own feet.

As fourth year turned out to be the year of woe, it was also then that several Slytherin boys decided that the Sterrlings were 'blood traders' and took to stalking her down hallways when Lily wasn't around. James deciding that no one had the right to harass his dear cousin besides him, did not take well to this. It resulted in more Slytherins than usual being sent to the Hospital Wing looking dismembered.

Fifth Year

Fifth year brought upon a large change for Rissa. Her mother had been experimenting with spells when something went horribly wrong, resulting in Admete Sterrling's permanent spell damage to the brain and was permanently checked in to St. Mungo's. Rissa took a great blow from this, now living alone with her auror father who was not often home.

She resolved to no longer be the shy, quiet girl. Though she still didn't talk much she began fighting her own battles, instead of leaving to newly made prefect Lily, or Over-protective James. Though most of the battles were against James and his mates.

Sirius Black had taken to snogging whatever girl was nearest to a spare classroom or broom closet. Rissa never took part in these activities, not only because she was neither long legged or overly curvy, she was actually rather curve-less and short, but also because she didn't rush to put herself conveniently in front of a broom closet when Black strode past. True, she had been inconvinced to fall in love with him, but she wasn't a ditzy slut.

Sixth Year

By this point in time the only people calling Rissa 'Lily's little Mouse' were the marauders, even if it no longer fit her. Though, it usually was just 'Little Mouse' or in James' case 'Mousey'. All in all, since her first year at Hogwarts when she promised herself to stay away from Black, she had, so far, failed miserably.

She blamed this on, who else's fault could it be, James Potter. He seeked her out to drive her mad, though not just her, a certain Evans as well. And where James was Black followed. She still got a wriggly feeling in her stomach when she saw him, and felt an ugly monster inside her rear its head when she saw him snogging girls in the hall.

She had long since realized Lily's 'hate' for James had turned to something else, though she didn't badger her best friend about it. Lily would never admit to falling for the Marauder.

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Author's Note

I'm a horrible person, I know! I haven't updated my other story, and I have one on hold, and here I am creating a new one. I am irresponsible and bad. Also a procrastinater. This was only the Prolouge, giving a backround on Rissa, the following chapters, which I have already written, will be in from her point of view, and in her Seventh and Final year at Hogwarts. Arg. I have noticed that Rissa's real name is in fact my pen name with a 'L' added on. Dang it. Oh well.

Let me know what you think!

Karissa M.