Only at Hogwarts
"Confidential"
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?
-Albus Dumbledore
The first week always has to pass in a flurry before things can even begin to slow down. The second week is always fun, first years get to fly, and its quidditch tryouts.
"Let's go Pete!" James called pounding on the bathroom door.
"Oi! Can't a bloke get some sleep around here?" Sirius grumbled.
"Apparently not."Remus replied having also been woken up by his obnoxious dorm mates.
Cursing and grumbling Sirius made his way to the bathroom and reached for the handle just as Peter swung it open.
BANG!
"Peter!"
"Oops."
"Don't worry you'll do great" Peter said to James. They were currently sitting in the stands of the quidditch pitch awaiting tryouts.
"Peter. I'm not worried." James said and he wasn't, he'd made the team the last three years and he'd make it again. "I'm gonna wipe the field with the 'competition'." He said arrogantly using finger quotes.
When it came time for the chasers to tryout James lined up on the field with the others flippantly showing off his new Nimbus 1001. He observed that Tammi Kent was there, which meant that her friends would probably be there too. Sure enough he spotted Lily Evans' telltale auburn hair in an instant.
"Perfect." James Potter blew away the competition with skill and some intense showing off.
"Peter?"
"Yeah?"
"Get off my foot."
"Oops."
"Shut up you guys." James hissed, just as Filch came round the corner. He walked past muttering to himself and didn't notice the boys at all. This was because they were currently wearing James' invisibility cloak. What were the infamous marauders up to, hiding under a unique cloak and sneak around in broad daylight? No good of course.
We need to finish our task. We need our room back. We need to become Animagi. James thought these things and paced back and forth in front of a blank wall. After he passed it the third time an intricately carved wooden door materialized out of nowhere. The Room of Requirement.
The boys had been spending a lot of time there the past three years. They were trying to become Animagi. Why? Because of Remus Lupin. He was a werewolf as the other boys had discovered in their second year. They had not only figured out what their friend was but also how to help him. Remus refused to let them at first but bent eventually. Now he couldn't wait for them to succeed.
They were young, restless, and bigheaded, so we forgive them this breach of disobedience. It was a 100% Gryffindor thing to do.
If you had been traipsing about the seventh floor around midnight that same day you could possibly have heard a commotion coming from nowhere. It would have sounded strangely like mix matched feet running and leaping about. You might have heard barking, squeaking, yelling, and whooping. You might have thought that it was some particularly rambunctious spirits not unlike those who occupied the 'shrieking shack'. You would have been partially right of course. You might have known about the room of requirement and tried to enter it. You wouldn't have been able to of course. You might have told a teacher. But of course you didn't, no one did. No one knew, not even me. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? It does at Hogwarts.
-Albus Dumbledore
A/N: Really short chap. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't they use the metric system in Europe? If so, then how come in the Harry Potter books, which are set in Britain, they us inches and feet to measure their wands and parchment?! Weird.
p.s. I really hope you guys use cm. and all that jazz because otherwise I look really stupid. =D
