If only I was a Gryffindor! Then I probably wouldn't fear writing this! Ah well... Hufflepuffs can be brave too! I mean, just look at Cedric Diggory! Wait no, he ended up de- OH! HI. I'm Catherine, and this is my first little fic. Well, actually it's gonna be a bunch of Maurauder shorts, y'know? Little bit of comedy and whatnot. This first one was inspired by something I read on Pinterest. So, credit to whoever you are :) Enjoy~
It had just hit 1am at 'Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry'. Like it usually is at this time of the night, the lighting in the castle went unlit and the only sound which could be heard, was the snoring of some of the portraits in the school and depending on where you are in the castle, the meowing of the caretaker's cat. There wasn't a student in sight... however, in sound, the story was completely different.
The shuffling of feet against stone could be heard, along with the occasional whisper and rustling of parchment.
"Ouch! Bloody hell mate, watch where you're walking!"
"Sorry Sirius! It's a pretty cramped cloak!"
"Will you two be quiet? I swear, if you get me in trouble AGAIN, I'm not doing this anymore."
"Oh shut up Moony, you said that last time.."
"Prongs.. I'm here under bribery. You stole my chocolate and said the only way I'll get it back, is if I join you bunch of prats in whatever it is you're doing... we can all barely fit under this bloody cloak!"
"Guys, can we stop for a second? I need to take a look at the map, and I'd rather not do it with Wormtail bumping into me and Moony right infront of me. Plus, This cloak is making it difficult to breathe."
A sigh was heard and the shuffling of feet came to a stop. A whispered 'lumos' was heard and suddenly, the hallway wasn't as empty as it was thought to be. Within the light of a glowing wand, four teenage boys were stood lookng at a piece of parchment which one of the boys had a hold of. The tallest of the boys looked more unhappy compared to the other three, who were each wearing mischievious grins on their faces.
The boy who was holding the glowing wand and parchment smiled wider. He had long-ish dark hair, which had been tied into a small ponytail. He was tall, but not as tall as his unhappy looking friend. The parchment holder was the first to speak up;
"Wanna do the honours Prongsy?"
"You bet I do."
'Prongsy' smiled back at his friend and adjusted his round glasses and brushing his black hair out the way before taking it out his wand and tapping it against the piece of parchment, which his friend still had a hold of.
"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good."
The piece of parchment in the boys hand was no longer blank. Ink began to spread onto the sheet until the words on the front were visible. Three of the four boys beamed at the message that appeared.
"MESSERS MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT AND PRONGS PROUDLY PRESENT; THE MAURAUDERS MAP"
"Wicked. I can't believe we actually got it to work" whispered Prongs, putting his wand back in his pocket.
The shortest and pudgiest of the boys spoke up. He had a mop of curly, light brown hair on his head and his cheeks were chubby and red.
"Anyone about Sirius? Is Filch near us? I'm bloody sick of seeing that cat of his... gives me the utter creeps I tell you."
Sirius shook his head but looked unhappy. He sighed before looking up from the map.
"No, but Minnie's about. I don't know if shes in cat form or not so we need to watch out. She's not near us right now but it's best if we keep heading forward. I can't have another detention with her."
The tallest sighed and brought a hand up to his face, which had a number of large scars running across it. His light sandy hair was ruffled like he'd just gotten out of bed.
"Oh for Merlin's sake, McGonagall?! Are you serious?! Why can't we just head back? We're going to end up losing Gryffindor a tonne of points for being out of bed! I don't even know WHY we're out of bed!"
"Why Remus, you are correct. I AM Sirius, and we can't head back because if we do, there's a high chance we'll run right into Minnie... and we're out of bed because James and I had an amazing idea to switch around some of Sluggie's potion labels. We need you to help us with it because you're alot more smart than James, Peter and I."
Remus was about to speak up again until James cut him off and threw the invisability cloak over the group and insisted that they 'keep moving before they're transfigured into oblivion'.
They continued to shuffle slowly down the corridor. Whispering to eachother about their plans.
"I can't believe you guys dragged me into this... and all because you three are no smarter than Sirius' baby cousin.."
James snorted while Sirius just grumbled. They continued to shuffle in silence until Sirius gasped.
"Son of a Grindylow.. Minnie's around that corner infront of us!"
"Oh Merlin we're screwed..." Lupin mumbled to himself.
"I have an idea... Sirius, give the map to Peter or Remus. Peter and Lupin, both if you stay under the cloak. Sirius, you and I are going to become the dog and stag. She can't really send animals to detention can she..?"
Remus opened his mouth to protest but closed it and instead took both Sirius' wand and the map from Sirius himself. Remus looked down at the rumpled parchment in his hands. As Professor McGonagall's footsteps got closer to them on the map, him and Peter moved against the wall whilst under the cloak and watched both of their friends become their animagus forms; Sirius a dog and James a stag. As annoying as his friends were, he couldn't be mad at them when they used their animagus abilities, especially considering the reason they became animagi in the first place was to comfort him during his werewolf phase, during the full moon.
The footsteps of Minerva McGonagall came to a halt right infront of their icons on the map.
Minerva McGonagall make have looked old and fragile but she was far from it. The head of Gryffindor house was definitely on the list of teacher's that you don't want to cross.
Remus looked up from the map and at McGonagall, who wore an extremely confused facial expression. He watched her look around her surrounding area only for her to look back at the dog and stag who stood calmy infront of her.
Both Remus and Peter held their breath. There was no way they were getting in trouble for James and Sirius' antics.
Professor McGonagall pulled a stern face before talking;
"I have no clue what in Merlin's name is going on... but I know that somehow, Black and Potter have something to do with this."
The old professor then turned around and walked the way she came, mumbling to herself about finding students out of bed. Both Peter and Remus let out a breath and walked over to the stag and dog, as they both transformed into their human forms.
"Knew it would work! See Moony? Detention avoided. Though now, I'm starting to think we should go back... I don't fancy having Minnie finding me and James right now."
"Alas, Black is finally seeing sense! Let's go back.. and James, you may show me where you've hidden my chocolate."
About two decades later, Minerva McGonagall stood in shock, facing Albus Dumbledore. He'd just told her about how Sirius Black, assumed killer and follower of Voldemort, was in fact innocent after spending 12 years in Azkaban for a crime in which he was framed for by his 'friend' and assumed dead, Peter Pettigrew.
"So... he was really innocent... and he never betrayed Lily and James..."
"Indeed he was Minerva."
Minerva shook her head in disbelief before continuing on;
"And he was an unregistered animagus along with James and Peter... him a dog, James a stag and Peter a rat.. the same rat that Ronald Weasley kept as a pet..."
Albus nodded again; but something clicked in her head.
She remembered all those times in which she was looking for a student out of bed... only to find a stag, casually minding it's own business.
All those times she was looking for Sirius Black as to put him in detention...only to find a black dog, padding around the corridors, looking for food.
"...Son of a Grindylow..."
Welp... at least there was an attempt.
I hope you enjoyed this lil short!
Uhmm... uhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHH... thanks for reading if there are people reading this!