The Dangers of a Marauder's Idea
Sirius Black was bored, and when Sirius Black was bored, bad things happened. He was sitting in his dormitory, brainstorming ideas for a new prank. His best friend, James Potter, was off stalking his crush, Lily Evans, and his other friends Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew were studying together at the library. Sirius, for one, thought studying was for nerds. Or losers. It was then that he had what he considered his best idea yet. He opened the Marauders map, located James, and ran off to find his best friend.
A quarter hour later, James and Sirius made their way to the library to look for books. James, Sirius and books are normally not words to be heard in a sentence together, but Sirius had an idea. His best idea. And he was going to do anything it took to make it work. James was grumpy, because apparently he had been getting some quality "Lily watching time" before Sirius had tore off his invisibility cloak, resulting in them having a few hexes thrown at them. Soon enough they reached the library, a place they had practically never been in except to pick up Remus or Peter. They took a few deep breaths, as though entering a library was a life-threatening task- to them perhaps it was- and stepped in. One of their other best friends, Remus glanced up at them and sighed exasperatedly.
'What is it now?' he asked.
' Actually, we aren't here for you, although once we find what we're looking for, we'll make sure to include you and Peter.' said Sirius.
Remus looked at them very suspiciously. For some reason, everyone seemed to think that the day James and Sirius went into a library with free will was the day they finally lost it. James snorted, and quickly opened and pulled Sirius under his invisibility cloak.
Remus let out an outraged shout: ' Where'dya think you're going?!' as they slipped into the restricted section.
'Ah Ha!' Sirius cried loundly, pulling out an old book called mysteries of time.
'What was that?' madame Pince, the librarian asked. Madame Pince was a thin and bony woman with many wrinkles and tight lines etched into her face. She was known for her extreame temper, throwing people out of the library for the smallest of reasons.
' Sorry, miss.' They heard Remus reply quickly. ' I just found what I've been looking for.'
Meanwhile, Sirius opened the book but was disapointed to find that it just contained strange history stories. Many more false alarms followed, until James eventually found 'rarest and strangest- anciant forgotten spells '
'Oooooooooh' said Sirius, flipping through it. ' Look!' he hissed excitedly. ' Time travel!' they had found what they were looking for.