"I dunno Prongs this Algernon bloke doesn't seem to be the right fit for me. too many lines. Can't I be Lane?"
James looked at his mate, blinked several times and then spoke. "What did you just say?"
Sirius cocked his head to the side. "Can I be Lane instead?"
"No, before that."
"I don't want this many lines."
James huffed. "Say the characters name."
"Algernon."
James mouth fell open and he just stared at Sirius in a mild kind of shock.
This is when Remus stepped in. "Sirius, it's pronounced Algernon not Algernon. Jah...like James and jam."
Sirius looked from one to the other. "Nooooo…It's spelt with a G. Like gingerbread and ginormous."
James and Remus both shook their heads.
Sirius sat down on the corner of his bed, eyebrow creased. "I need to rethink my life."
"How the fuck could you not know how to pronounce Algernon? It's the name of my cat!"
Sirius shrugged. "I never heard you call it by it's name."
Remus sighed. "That is statistically impossible. I could make a chart about how improbable that is but it would be a waste of my charting abilities."
Sirius just stared at them. "Are you sure that…"
"YES!" They both replied.
"Huh." Sirius replied and went back to reading his script. "I still want to be Lane."
For fetchalgernon (cgner) on the day that she found out no one knew how to say that name.