One the outside looking in The Slytherin Skittles were some of the meanest of the mean in Hogwarts. But, when you finally get on the inside? You learn quickly how incredibly wrong everyone is about them; that’s what James learned. It took him months to weasel his way in, to get Regulus to trust him. James kicks it with both groups, but it’s clear to his own and Regulus’s friends that James is so helplessly in love with Regulus.