Hey everyone. This story was written for the Fortnightly Challenges Thread's Build a Monster Workshop. I wrote for Legs: and the prompt was the Transfiguration classroom. I hope you all enjoy Finding Animagus.
I looked around the Transfiguration classroom to make sure that no one was there before motioning the others into the room. I knew this had to be done for our friend. It was the right thing to do. But I also knew that if caught we could probably get more than just a detention for what we were about to attempt to do.
"Prongs," whisper yelled Sirius, "where are you? Take off the cloak."
I ripped off the invisibility cloak making my presence known. I looked at both Sirius and Peter who both looked excited and grave at the same time. Running a hand through my messy black hair making it look even messier I sighed.
"Where do you think, McGongall, put the book we took from the library on Animagi?" I asked looking around. It had to be somewhere around here because I for one wasn't going to sneak into the room of a Professor. Let alone McGonagall. She scared me that much.
"Maybe check the desk drawers," suggested Peter.
"That's to obvious, Wormy," Sirius sighed rolling his eyes at Peter's suggestion.
"But where else would it be?"
"You check the drawers of her desk," I told him to stop the fight before it even got started. "Me and Sirius will go check in the closet. Alright?" I looked between the two of them for confirmation that they agreed with the plan.
Peter nodded and wandered over to the desk to begin his search. Sirius sighed and followed me over to the closet closest to us. I looked at him as though to say "he's trying to help us".
"I know," he whispered as he opened the door. His face went into a look of shock at what was inside the closet. It looked like an old school Quidditch uniform for Gryffindor. "McGonagall was a Quidditch player?"
"I guess so," I said as we searched ever square inch of the closet only finding old text books, some novels, and more Quidditch paraphernalia.
"Who knew? McGonagall was actually cool at one point."
"Yeah."
"Let's move on to that closet over there," Sirius pointed to the one near the desk and Peter.
I nodded as we headed over in that direction. I looked over to see Peter going through a stack of tests that were sitting on McGongall's desk. I shook my head at him as though to say "don't make it look like anyone was here". I heard him sigh as stopped what he was doing. That kid really didn't like to not get good grades. I knew for sure if we ever had to do this again it'd just be Sirius and me. Wormy was turning into more of a liability than anything.
"Guys," Peter whisper hissed, "I think I found it." He held up a book.
We snuck back over to him to find that he had indeed found it.
"Good work, Wormy," I told him pulling out a similar looking book. "Put this in it's place." I took the book from him and hand over the fake one. "Come on, boys. We have a lot to learn in a little bit of time."
We quietly made our way down the hall back to the Gryffindor Common Room. We'd begin to learn how to become Animagus tomorrow tonight we'd do what the Marauders did best. Prank someone.
I hope you all enjoyed Finding Animagus. I can totally see the Marauders pulling something like this. And also I can totally see Professor McGonagall not only being on the Quidditch team during her school years but also hiding her old Quidditch uniform in her Transfiguration classroom closet.