Alice Corry and her 3 friends were troublemakers and were pretty popular around the school, they were in their 7th year at Hogwarts. Of course the teachers didn't like the stunts they pull and never took much interest in them until the new D.A.D.A professor. They reminded him of his old friends and couldn't help but notice. Alice reminded him of Sirius Black, Maddie Grigg reminded him of James Potter, Natalie Newton reminded him of Peter Pettigrew (a good one of course), and Sylvia Jinx reminded him of himself. He took an interest in Alice out of all of them. She wasn't exactly like Sirius but some of her ways of doing things sure reminded him on Black.