Location: Gryffindor Common Room, November 1974
The infamous quartet of Hogwarts, more commonly known as 'The Marauders', were gathered around a flickering fireplace. Remus Lupin was reading a very heavy looking book, James Potter was doing homework, Peter Pettigrew was trying to do homework and Sirius was balancing three quills on his nose.
"What are the properties of adder venom?" asked Peter, scowling at his parchment, "I have alkaline, purple-black. . ."
"Catalyst" responded Remus, not bothering to look up.
"Finnished!" announced James, slamming his Charms book shut, startling Sirius and made Peter upset his ink all over his essay.
"Good for you, Prongsie!" exclaimed Sirius sarcastically, "Can we do something now?"
"I can't" whined Peter, "I have three essays to finish, tutoring with Rickman and detention with Slughorn."
James frowned in confusion, "Detention for what?"
"Singeing Slughorn's eyebrows." Replied Remus, turning a page.
Sirius looked sharply at Remus, quills falling off his nose in the process, "When did this happen?"
"Wednesday, when you and Prongs had concussion"
"We miss everything good" grumbled James, packing up all of his work
"Hel-loo!" said Sirius, waving one of his quills, "Back to marvellous me! Can we actually do something?"
Remus sighed and put his book down, "Like what?"
"Umm, replace the Head Table with jelly?"
"Did that last year" pointed out Peter, "It was yum"
"Oh yeah, what about charming the armour to do the cancan?"
"We're still doing the detention for that," reminded James.
"Really? Uh, give Minnie catnip?"
Remus replied, "Done that three times this year alone."
"Gah!" huffed Sirius, throwing himself into a chair, "There's nothing to do then!"
"Well, we are in a school for magic," said Remus logically, "There's got to be something."