Hiii! I'm finally back for another chapter. Sorry it took so long. Anyways, enjoy!
Padfoot's POV:
"James get up!" I yell at the sleeping figure. Every day of every year it's the same thing. I'm an early riser so I usually get stuck with the task of waking up James when Remus and Peter are in the showers.
"Go away," he mutters sinking further under the covers, bringing his pillow down with him. I sigh. I walk away from his bed, grab my wand, and walk back over to James. As I do Remus emerges from the bathroom fully dressed and I motion for him to be quiet. I slowly pull back the cover so it reveals James' sleeping face and then I take action.
"Aguamenti," I say under my breath and a jet of ice cold water emerges from my wand and hit James squarely in the face.
"You git!" he yells as he untangles himself from his sheets and chases after me with his pillow brandished as a weapon. I laugh and try to jump over my trunk in order to get away in style but my foot gets tangled in the nettings around my bed and I trip. As I make contact with the floor, the pillow makes contact with my head multiple times. "Never do that again!" James shouts over the sound of Remus' laughter, hitting me with the pillow as he says every word. When he finishes he moves away, grabs his towel and heads over to the showers muttering profanities and curses under his breath.
"You're gonna do that tomorrow as well aren't you?" Remus said, having finally overcome his fit of laughter and moving over to his bed to grab his bag.
"Too right, Moony," I say getting up from the floor and going over to my bed to pack my bag. It's the first day of school today and as well as I am looking forward to pranking people, and acing all my lessons (as it comes naturally), I'm not looking forward to seeing that slime rag Snape. All I did was tease him a bit as we came off the train and then he goes and throws a dungbomb at me as the Gryffindors made our way to our common room last night. I'll get him back and I'm sure he knows I will.
"What do you think about ruining Snivellus' potion in Potions?" I ask Remus whilst putting The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 5 in my black bag.
"Sounds good," he smirks.
*breakfast*
"Boys- your timetables," McGonagall said handing us all a sheet of parchment. I say thanks and take mine and study it carefully as she walks off to people further down the Gryffindor table.
I hear James groan next to me, "why do we have to have Transfiguration with the stupid Slytherins?!" Across the table from me Peter makes some noises and it looks like he is trying to speak to us but he has food in his mouth so we can't understand a single word.
"I'm not sure but I think it's trying to communicate," Remus says, tilting his head to the side and staring at Peter.
"We mean no harm," James then says playing along, pronouncing every syllable clearly to annoy Peter even further.
"Please take our humble offering," I joke, bowing my head down and holding out a slice of toast to Peter whose face has turned red. I look up again and make eye contact with Remus and James and we all burst out laughing. Peter finishes what's in his mouth and then scowls at us.
"You guys are annoying as hell," he says irritated, but as he watches us laugh his scowl disappears and he joins in. "What I mean to say was: why are we still taking Divination." I sigh in frustration. On the bright side though after our O.W.L's we can drop it once and for all.
We continue to eat and chat until the owls arrive. I didn't bother look up knowing that my family didn't care enough about me to use their precious time to write to their own child, so instead I became instantly transfixed with my cornflakes. As I predicted, letters fell in front of James, Remus, and Peter. I'm used to the feeling of abandonment and being neglected so I am no longer bothered about letters from home, unlike when I was in my first year.
*flashback*
"Damn, is that a Howler already?!" James said staring at the red envelope in front of me. "You better get out of here and fast," he said as the envelope began vibrating. I said bye to James, Peter, and Remus and ran with the letter to my dorm. I slammed the door shut just as the letter exploded and my father's voice rang through the dorm. I moved to sit on the bed.
"IS WHAT I'VE BEEN HEARING TRUE?! ARE YOU IN GRYFFINDOR?! IF THAT'S THE CASE DON'T BOTHER COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, NO ONE WANTS A LION IN THEIR HOME! YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE FAMILY NAME AND YOU ARE LUCKY REGULUS PURSUADED ME TO LET YOU STAY OVER FOR SUMMER OR ELSE YOU WOULD BE ON THE STREETS!" and with that the letter tore itself up and fell on the floor in pieces.
I started to sob into my pillow. My parents have always been abusive and never really cared much for Regulus and I, but I was always accepted in the house and as part of the family. However now I'm a "disgrace" who deserved to be living on the streets because I was sorted into a house of the wrong colour and nature.
I heard footsteps coming up the stairs and so I quickly dried my eyes and sat up and pretended to be searching through my trunk. It was James, Peter, and Remus.
"What was that all about?" Remus asked.
"Ah, it was nothing. Regulus just wanted to know what house I was sorted into."
*End of flashback*
"What did they say?" I asked James who was reading the letter.
"Nothing really interesting," he said folding the letter and putting it in his pocket. He fixed his hair and then looked at his watch, "Damn, we should get going." And with that we all stood up and headed out for our first lesson, History of Magic. "Perfect lesson to put me back to sleep..." James said and we laughed as we walked down the corridor.
"Oh yeah, Sirius and I were planning to ruin Snivellus' potion today, you want to join?" Remus said to James and he agreed as he was about to open the door to history of magic. "Wait!" Remus whispered reminding us all hat we are late. Remus opened the door slightly and saw the Professor Binns back was to us so we could walk in undetected. Remus turned back around to us. "Okay walk into the classroom backwards so when he turns around it looks like we are leaving, then he will tell us to go back to our seats and then we don't get caught." We nod and open the door, close it quietly and start walking backwards. As we do I notice James winking at Lily and her blushing and turning away to talk to her friend who was hurriedly taking notes.
"Where do you think you're going?" Binns asks and he sends us to our seats. I give Remus a low five under the table and then we get our stuff out and get ready to take notes.
I see Snivellus with his hand up, "I bet he is going to snitch on us," I think to myself and I nudge James and point subtly to Snape. He nods and gets his wand out. "Professor?" Snape said and then as Binns turns around Snivellus turns around to smirk at us marauders.
"Yes Severus?" he says annoyed at having to stop his lesson twice now.
"James, Sirius, Peter, and Re-" he started but then the legs of his chair mysteriously vanished and he plummeted down to the floor. The whole class erupted into laughter and James did too quickly putting his wand back into his pocket. Lily was the only one who stayed silent and she rushed over to Snape and helped him up. She fixed his chair with her wand and went back to her seat and sent a glare over to the marauders who were doing their best to blend in with the rest by laughing.
"Okay everyone settle down." Binns said and the class reluctantly became quiet again. "Now then The Goblins Revolt was led by-" he tried to say but was interrupted by James hitting his head off the table as he tried to get to sleep once again. The class started laughing once again but Binns looked furious. "Mr Potter, what are you doing?!"
"Trying to sleep, sir," James said honestly.
"Well, do it quietly!" Binns said, obviously not hearing James's response properly.
"Will do sir," James said yawning and laid his head back down on his table and fell asleep. Binns turned back to the blackboard and continued writing down dates and names of Goblins. I chucked a piece of crumpled paper at Remus' head in front of me and he turned around annoyed.
"What the hell was that for?" he asked in a hushed voice.
"Let's play "how many things can we fit on James"!" I say and he smiles and we start piling things up on James who is a deep sleeper so he didn't notice anything much to the class's amusement. This went on for a while with the class contributing things to put on James whilst Binns remained oblivious to what his class was doing. The bell rang loudly around the classroom showing the lesson was finished and James bolted upright, causing everything to fall to the ground with a loud crash. Amazingly, however Binns didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
"Finish reading chapter 7 on the Goblin's revolt and write an essay about how Urg led the Goblins to failure." And with that he glides out of the classroom.
"You git!" James yells at me for the second time today and I just laugh as I put my books away in my bag. James sighs and ruffles his hair once again and some girls behind and next to him giggle. "Let's go. Herbology then potions." He said and then all four of us turned and walked through the door thinking about how Snape will react in Potions.
We were walking down the corridor, which led us outside, talking about Quidditch when a fourth year Ravenclaw girl came up to us, holding three letters. "Are you James, Sirius, and Remus?" she said completely ignoring Peter who looked insulted.
"Yeah," I answer. She holds out the letters. We each take one.
"It's from Slughorn, Slug Club evening next week," she says, I smile at her as I say thanks and she blushes and runs off.
"Turn off your charm Sirius," Peter says jokingly and I laugh. I toss my hair dramatically behind my shoulder.
"It's impossible," I say and then start to strut down the corridor and I hear them laugh behind me. They catch up to me and Remus says.
"I was just thinking whilst we are at the Slug Club thing Peter could get the ink."
"Good idea, you can use my cloak but for Merlin's sake be careful with it," James said and Peter said he would.
*potions*
"You will be making the Draught of Peace today class. You will find that everything you need is over there," Slughorn said gesturing towards the cupboards," and you may begin." The second the words leave Slughorn's mouth, Snape dashes over the cupboard and grabs his equipment.
"Oh great I don't want to touch the cupboard now even if I could, it's all greasy now," I say loud enough for Snape to hear as I walk past. James laughs and we make a big show of gingerly reaching out a taking out equipment and once we put down our things, wiping our hands on our robes.
"You guys are so dramatic," Remus says but he has a smile on his face. James and I are working together and Remus is working with Peter for this potion. "I brought the dungbomb," he says quietly as he points to his pocket.
"I got the exploding marbles," Peter says forgetting to keep his voice down. I slap him on the back of his head.
"Jesus Peter, keep your damn voice down," I say pretending to look at the board but really looking to see if anyone heard. Luckily it seemed that no one had noticed Peter's slip up and I relaxed again. James and I worked on our potion for a while longer and as our potion slowly turned turquoise Slughorn came over. "Excellent work boys, I trust you got my letter?" We both nodded and he smiled in response and walked over to check other people's potions.
"Okay it's time," I mutter to James and Peter hands him the exploding marbles and Remus is ready with the dungbomb. James looks around to make sure no one is watching and he throws the exploding marbles behind Snape. They explode on impact with the floor and everyone is shocked and looking over in the corner. Remus then uses the distraction and throws the dungbomb into Snape's potion with explodes as well as breaking the cauldron. He immediately looks over at the marauders but we were busy our potion. The class starts laughing
"Dear oh dear," Slughorn said and he handed Snape a broom and some scrubbers to clean the mess he had made. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a zero for this lesson Severus." Snivellus looks distraught but angry at the same time.
"It was them!" he said pointing at me along with the marauders.
"Now now, we don't want any false accusations Mr Snape. Just clean up this mess," Slughorn said reluctant to scold his favourite pupils. I gave James a low five underneath the table and then we bottled out potion, handed it in, and set about cleaning our work station.
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