Time for a new chapter! Sorry it took so long, but here it is
Prongs POV:
"It's the first day, why do we have so much to do!?" I whine to myself, hitting my head off the table for the second time today. We are all sitting around the fireplace. Remus is hurriedly writing out his History of Magic essay about the ever so boring Goblins Revolt; Sirius is enchanting paper balls to follow first years as they walk around the common room and hit them repeatedly on the head all whilst muttering "Die, peasants, die,"; and Peter was doing the expected and eating the chocolates he had brought from America one after the other. I, on the other hand, am looking at the stack of books in front of me and weighing up the options of a detention from McGonagall or a detention from Sprout, all depending on which homework I decided I didn't need to do yet.
"I'm sure I can persuade Sprout to let me off," I think to myself. I then pick up my Herbology book and throw it into my school bag.
"Remus, why are you even doing your history of magic? We have two days before that's in!" I say exasperated. It always baffles me how Moony can magically do all his homework before the due date.
He shrugs, "I might as well get it out of the way because knowing you guys I'll probably be forced into doing something and forget all about it until the last minute." With that he then puts his quill back to the paper and blocks out all noise once again.
Sighing defeatedly and dejectedly, I try get to work.
*Two hours later*
"And that ladies and gentleman is how we managed to fight off a herd of bloodthirsty centaurs in just our second year," I finish, grinning out at the group of fifth year girls that have gathered around us: the marauders. I glance to the side at my unfinished homework, but brush it off. "I'm sure McGonagall won't mind."
Of course what we just told them wasn't the entire truth, more like a twisted, modified version of the story. Yes, we did run into a pack of centaurs in the forbidden forest. But no, we didn't insult them cockily and aggrevate them enough to want to fight us.
*Second Year*
"You see that tree?" Sirius said, pointing towards the tallest one the eye could see.
"Yes...?" Remus replied wearily. We all knew what was coming really.
"I can climb it with my eyes closed," Sirius smirked and he ran off into the distance. We three shared a look, sighed, and ran after him.
"Why does everything result in running?" Peter complained from the back of the group.
"Well Peter if you ate properly like the rest of us you probably wouldn't have a problem with runnning more than 10 metres!" I thought to myself as I jumped over a tree root.
We all stopped dead.
Right in front of us was a group of around seven centaurs.
"Oh it seems we went the wrong way! Sorry to disturb you, we'll be off now!" Remus panicked and then we attempted to run away.
"HOLD IT!" the centuar with a honey coat shouted. We all stopped dead. We turned around slowly.
"Yes?" I squeaked.
"Have a nice day now, kids," he said with a smile and then they turned around back to their business. Sirius, Remus, Peter, and I all just stared at each other and with a nod from me we all ran back to Hogwarts.
*End of thingy*
"You're all so brave!" a dark skinned girl says to us, as she smiles.
"So brave!" another girl with blonde hair echoed.
"Well its all a days work really for us; nothing we couldn't handle," I smirk and then I quickly avert my eyes to Lily at the other side of the room. She swiftly looks back down at her book and I see her blush. "She likes me, obviously," I say to myself in my head.
"After a few hexes and insults we basically had them in the palms of our hands," Sirius said, tossing his hair back effortlessly and making the girls around him blush or smile.
"To be honest though, I would have prefered to have faced something a bit more challenging," Remus wonders aloud, allowing some of the girls to giggle.
"Guys, I don't remember this story. I thought that w-"
"OKAY THAT'S ALL!" I say hastily, glaring at Peter subtely. I then fake a yawn. "We should be off to bed now! Night!" As we grab all of our things and get ready to go, we hear a chorus of "Night!" and with that we head off.
When Sirius closes the door to the dorm, we all turn round to face Peter.
"What was that?! You could have blown it for us!" Sirius whisper shouted, sounding deadly.
"W-w-well I just didn't remember that happe-"
"W-w-well then maybe next time you should just go along with it and don't ask questions," I huff at Peter and sit down on my bed. He looks down at the floor defeated and then makes his way to his bed. We all get changed, say our goodnights, and then we turn out the lights.
*2 a.m.*
"Shit..." I mutter to myself. "Okay, I could do my transfiguration now and not get any sleep or I could get sleep and get a detention..." I think to myself.
My head hits the pillow in an instant.
*Transfiguration the next day*
"Alright everyone, get our your homework," McGonagall says. She watches intently as everyone reaches into their bags and gets out their work, all apart from me. With a flick of her wand, all the papers fly towards her and I think to myself that I can get away with this and that I can be the first person to defy McGonagall. But then she starts checking the work.
"Hmm, seems all in order so far however Potter," she says, I jump when she mentions my name, "It appears as though you don't have your homework. Would you care to explain why?" she asks in a sweet tone which lets me know that I have severly messed up.
"Well you see, Professor, I wasn't feeling to well last night –ask anyone– and after managing to complete only one piece of homework –history of magic–I decided that I was too ill too complete your homework in my state – because I didnt want to hand in a bad piece of work- and so Sirius, Remus, and Peter escorted me down to the hospital wing. I hope you understand professor," I finish and then flash her a smile.
She smiles back.
"That sounds dreadful James. Did you come down with a case of invisibilty too? Because I was in the hospital wing last night speaking to Madame Pomfrey and I never saw you there," she finishes and her sweet tone disappears.
"Well, miss that might have been one of the syptoms I had when I was i-"
"Be quiet James."
"Yes miss."
"I'll see you outside of my office tonight at the start of dinner, don't be late or else," she says, narrowing her eyes at me and with that she dismisses us from the room. Deflated, I pack away my things and leave the classroom with Sirius, Peter, and Remus.
"Tough luck, buddy" Sirius says with a smile, ruffling my hair. I brush him off.
"You know what? I don't recall you doing any homework last night, how did you get away with it?" I ask him.
"I have my ways," he replies and slips two galleons into a passing fourth years hand. Remus rolls his eyes and then we set out for our next lesson. Divination. Fun fun fun.
*Detention*
"You are staying here for an hour and you must complete the homework that was due in for last lesson. If you don't you'll get points knocked off," McGonagall explains to me in a firm way.
"Yes professor," I reply as I reach for my quill and some parchment.
After around 30 minutes into my essay on the doubling charm, I hear a hissing noise. I look up and see McGonagall staring at me dead on and I quickly put my back head down. As I write another sentence, out of the corner of my eye I see McGonagall's head move to grade another paper and so I take my chance to look to the source of the noise.
It's Sirius and Remus. Remus has written the word "catch" in mid air with his wand and I see Sirius holding something that looks like a baked potato. Sirius throws it and I catch it with one hand, stuff it in my mouth and chew.
"Okay so it's not poisoned..."
I look at them again but this time Sirius us holding what looks like a bunch of peas. I start violently shaking my head and he starts violently nodding his head and it seems like that was that.
The peas soar through the air.
They land everywhere but my in my hand. However one landed in McGonagall's.
"Black, Lupin, how long do you intend to stand there and assult us with food?" she asks sharply and they slowly walk into the classroom.
"Hi professor, nice evening isn't it?" Sirius said cheerfully and Remus just looked at the floor.
"What on earth are you two doing here?" she questions.
"Well professor, it has come to our attention that James did not eat dinner tonight and we didn't want him to starve or get ill so we came to give him some food. You can't expect us to let our friend starve professor!" Sirius says. McGonagall gives a small smile.
"I guess you're right to some degree. Potter you can go and eat and come straight back here to finish your essay. If you're not here by 8:00pm I will assume you have disobeyed me and I will take off 20 points."
"Thank you professor!" I say and run to join Padfoot and Moony.
Hope you enjoyed!
