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Written as part of the drabble or longer for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)
Prompt used: Getting into trouble at Hogwarts
Prompt used from Gringotts Prompt Bank:
Better word for said 9: uttered
Was it worth it?
James felt proud of himself as he opened the one eyed witch passageway. He looked left and then right, and then once he was sure there was no one there, he eased himself out.
James was excited to test out his brand new Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes products, and he knew who his first target for a prank was going to be – Filch.
You know the saying, speak of the devil and he shall appear, well in James' case it was think of the devil and he shall appear.
"AHA, caught you," Argus Filch cried as he moved out of the shadows. He had been stalking out the one eyed witch passageway, ever since his precious Mrs Norris had alerted him to the fact that James Sirius Potter had sneaked out of Hogwarts. This was the chance he had been waiting for ever since it became apparent to him that James was taking after the Weasley twins. "We're going to pay a little visit to the headmistress," Filch whistled to himself as he grabbed James by the arm and began to march him towards Professor McGonagall's office.
As Filch led James to the headmistress' office, he began to wish that he had tried harder to get his father's invisibility cloak during the summer, that way he wouldn't have been stupid enough to get caught by the caretaker of all people.
Filch rapped three times on Professor McGonagall's door. "Enter," a voice called from inside, a fraction of a second before it flung open.
Minerva observed the two people in the doorway. Why was she not surprised to see James Sirius Potter at her office? He truly was taking after his namesakes, and then when you throw in the Weasley genes, you have got a recipe for the newest troublemaker at Hogwarts. The boy had only been at Hogwarts two years and he had been to her office more times than she could count.
"Thank you Mister Filch," Minerva said dismissing the older man from her office. He gave a short bow, and swiftly left to seek out more troublemakers. "Now Mister Potter, would you care to explain why you are in my office?"
James knew the drill by now. Professor McGonagall would ask him why he was there, he would try to think up some clever half truth, he would then be caught in the lie and McGonagall would give him a detention.
"I was just walking along the corridor professor and then Filch just decided I was doing something wrong, and brought me here," James uttered, looking at the floor instead of Professor McGonagall.
Minerva observed James for a moment and then said in her sternest voice, "Then why do you have a Weasley Wizarding Wheezes bag? You've been to Hogsmede James, haven't you?"
James looked up at Professor McGonagall and saw that she was giving him 'the look' and realised it was fruitless to try and talk himself out of this one. He nodded his, trying his best to look sorry for what he had done.
"Well Mister Potter, I have no choice but to give you two weeks detention, and remove your Quidditch privileges for the foreseeable future," Minerva informed him, and it pained her to punish him with the latter but the boy needed to learn his lesson.
James looked up at Professor McGonagall in horror. "You may well look at me like that Mister Potter, as the saying goes, if you do the crime, you do the time."
Minerva dismissed James from her office, and he headed back to the Gryffindor Common Room hanging his head in shame. It wouldn't take long for the school to find out about his punishment, and his team mates would no doubt be incredibly angry with him. Not to blow his on trumpet or anything, but James knew that even though he was a second year, he was by far the best chaser Gryffindor had.
James looked down at the bag in his hands and wondered if it had been worth it, and he knew that it hadn't.
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