Ice Skating
Summary: It's winter break at Hogwarts, and the Marauders decide to stay this time round. It is there fourth year and Remus has decided to teach the others to ice skate. But he may have bit off more than he could chew.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
Special Thanks to broken halleluiah (who is my friend in the real world, for helping me figure this story out while we were ice skating.)
"But why are we doing this Remus?" Sirius asked. The Marauders, who were in the middle of their fourth year, were walking down to the frozen lake, each with a pair of ice skates in hand.
"Because it is a lot of fun." Remus said.
"Ice Skating." James said. "I don't get it."
"It's a thing Muggles do. I have done it a few times." Remus said
"Why?" Peter asked. "If Muggles do it, why would you have done it?"
"My, mom is a Muggle." Remus said, rolling his eyes. He has mentioned that several times.
The four friends had finally made it to the lake, and Remus showed them how to put on the ice skates.
"It is a little hard to keep you balance at first, but you will get used to it." Remus said, getting on the ice. Even though he had done this several time he mostly can just skate without touching anything.
Peter took one step on the ice and fell on his butt. Sirius helped him up, still being on the shore.
Sirius got on the ice and started skating. He was doing a relatively good job. Only having some small issues here and there with stopping and turning.
"Great job Sirius." Remus said skating over. Remus noticed Peter had fallen over again, not making it one foot into the ice. James had yet to leave the shore.
"Come on James." Sirius said. James moved around Peter and started to skate.
"Hey this is easy." James said. Two seconds on the ice and he was already skating better than Remus. He was going backwards and doing tricks such as spinning and jumping.
"Easy for you to say." Peter said, falling on his butt for the third time in a minute.
Remus smirked and skated over to Peter. "Here Peter." he said he tried to get him up but it was rather hard to do while trying to keep his balance.
Remus started to skate away, only to hear Peter fall down again.
"Maybe I should just stop." Peter said. Crawling on his hands and knees to the shore.
"Hey, Remus," James said coming over and started to circle him. "I'm glad you showed me this."
"Yeah, looks like you are having fun." Remus said.
In total within the next half hour Remus fell down twice. James never fell down and did ten jumps, and Sirius, well Sirius.
"Dang it!" Sirius said, holding his ankle. He had attempted to do a jump like James and ended up wiping out and landed on his ankle wrong. It was most likely sprained if not broken.
Peter had turned to get Madam Pomfrey but forgot that he still had his skates on, and while walking like a drunken penguin, had fallen over and was now crying about his elbow.
Remus skated over the shore and started to take off his skates so he could help Peter, while James had bent down and picked Sirius up bridal style and carried him off the ice.
After all skates were off James continued to carry Sirius up to the castle and Remus was trying to make sure Peter didn't run into anything because he was still blubbering about his elbow.
Turns out, Sirius broke his ankle and Peter his elbow. Good thing Madam Pomfrey could heal them in seconds. But Remus learned a very important lesson: Never take a natural, an over confident and a fainting goat ice skating.
(If you are wondering James is of course a natural, Sirius was over confident and thought he could do a trick like James, and Peter is a fainting goat because their legs lock up and fall over."