Chapter 10: Firing in the classroom.
The next morning, the four Marauders woke up early. They got dressed and dragged their feet down to the Great Hall to eat some breakfast. The girls were already at the Gryffindor Table, eating. James only noticed 30 seconds later that they weren't sitting next to eachother. Emily and Carrie were sitting 10 yards away from Lily.
Lily was sitting with Althea Devon and Elaine Parker, whilst Carrie and Emily sat next to the 7th year Gryffindor , who shared his dorm with the marauders, Harry Green
James turned to Harry and asked,
"What's going on with these three?" James pointed at Lily, Carrie and Emily. Harry shrugged.
"Fighting about you, I think," Harry answered and went back to eating his breakfast. James got a stupid grin on his face, Harry noticed and rolled his eyes.
"Not in that way, you moron!" Harry exclaimed. James faked being hurt.
"We were talking to Lily about you. Then she turned heartless, and I said that if she was going to continue to be that way, she belonged in Slytherin," Carrie butted in, angrily. Emily nodded.
"Carrie, that was a bit harsh!" Remus said. "I mean, how would you like it if someone came up to you and said, 'You belong in Slytherin!'?" Carrie sighed.
"I guess you're right. We should go apologise then," Carrie said guiltily. They walked over to Lily.
Sirius sat cluelessly next to James, stuffing his face. A girl from Ravenclaw came over to them, Sirius noticed and quickly swallowed and 'fixed' his hair. The girl was blonde with blue eyes, about 5'6", and was quite popular in Ravenclaw.
"Hi Sirius," she said sweetly. "I'm Violet Welsh, sixth year, Ravenclaw," she said, pointing to her robes.
"Hey Violet," Sirius said, smiling.
"I was wondering if you'd like to go to Hogsmeade this weekend?" she said, still with sweetness in her voice.
"Of course. I'll see you then," Sirius said, and flashed her a 'charming' smile (as Sirius liked to call it), Violet blushed and ran off to her friends. Sirius turned back to James and the others. Carrie, Emily, and Lily had just come back. "I still have the 'Sirius Black' charm!" Sirius announced, grinning stupidly.
"Yes, but nothing beats the famous 'Potter charm'!" James said proudly. "Watch!" A couple of 5th year Hufflepuff's walked by them. They all looked at James, he winked at them, and they all blushed furiously and quickly walked away. One girl even tripped over her feet, she quickly stood up, brushed the dust of and ran off, face much more red than before. "See!" James said, nodding over to the Hufflepuff's. Carrie and Emily sighed.
"You're not having a beauty contest again are you?" they said in unison.
Professor McGonagall walked over to the friends with two pieces of parchment in her hand.
"Miss Lockhart, I have your timetable here. Oh, Mr. Potter, you're still going to be playing Quidditch, even with N.E.W.T.s this year?" Professor McGonagall asked.
"Are you mad? Of course, Professor." James replied like she was insane.
"Excellent. You are the new Gryffindor Quidditch CaptLealaain," said Professor McGonagall, she handed James his Captain badge. "The season starts in October, so you might want to get the team trials over and done with, then you can practise more." James nodded.
"I'll have trials this weekend, Professor McGonagall," James said, and Professor McGonagall walked away. James put his badge next to the HB badge he already had.
"James!" Sirius moaned. "I'm going to Hogsmeade with Violet!"
"So!" James replied. "Cancel."
"Yeah! What's more important? Quidditch or Hogsmeade?" Carrie said.
"But!-" Sirius started.
"No buts. Trials are Saturday, go out with her on Sunday," Emily said.
"Fine." Sirius moped and walked over to Violet.
"Carrie, Emily? You still in?" James asked. They both nodded.
"Don't even bother asking me Potter!" Lily warned.
"I wasn't going to!" James replied, very offended. He turned to Remus and Peter.
"I'm too clumsy! I can't stay on a broom for a minute without falling off," Peter said miserably.
" I have tutoring, and all of that stuff, I won't have time." Remus said.
"I'll make a notice to put up on the notice board," James announced.
"Lily, why don't you try out for Chaser?" Emily asked. She had been on the team since her second year as Chaser.
"Yeah we need one, since Leala left," Carrie said, she had also been on the team since her second year as Beater. James was Seeker, and Sirius was Beater with Carrie. They had always been the youngest on the team, but now all the others had left the school.
Carrie looked down on her timetable and scowled.
"Pfft! Great first day back! Double Potions with Slughorn!" Carrie moaned.
"Slughorn isn't that bad!" Lily argued.
"Of course, that's what you think. He loves you!" Carrie said. Lily blushed and the gang stood up and walked to Potions.
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Next Friday afternoon, James came from Professor Dumbledore's office. He ran up to Defence Against the Dark Arts. He was 10 minutes late and the corridors were empty. The reason for being late was that he accidentally set a girls hair on fire, when lighting a candle in the Great Hall. Being James he got caught by McGonagall, and was sent up to Dumbledore. But Dumbledore had let him out on time.
James reached the classroom door. He walked inside slowly, not trying to make a sound. James tip-toed to the nearest seat(next to Sirius). The professor was writing notes on the board. James screamed 'yes!' in his head, thinking he got away with it. James started walking, he had stopped to see where the professor was.
"Stop right there." Professor Terminus said, still writing. James kept walking. He thought Terminus was talking to someone else. "Potter! Stop!" he said. James froze as he heard his name.
"Damn," he said quietly. Professor Terminus stopped writing, turned around and walked over to James.
"You are very late! Lesson started 10 minutes ago! Where have you been?" Terminus said loudly. "And you have now disrupted the lesson!" James stared at Terminus. 'I've disrupted the lesson, I? I'm not the one who's screaming my head off now am I?' James thought furiously.
"I was in Professor Dumbledore's office," James said. He hated the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and hoped he would quit like the previous ones had.
"Professor Dumbledore always lets people out on time!" Terminus bellowed.
"He did, but Peeves started attacking me with dung bombs," James argued.
"You lie! Peeves doesn't attack the Marauders, he sides with them. I've been here long enough to know that! Besides you don't stink of dung bombs, you're lying," Terminus said. James sighed, it was a lost case, no point arguing with this man. "30 points from Gryffindor and Detention 8 o'clock tonight. My office. Sit down." James steered his feet in the direction of Sirius. "Not next to Black! Next to Xynther," Terminus said. James swore under his breath. He sat down next to the dumb Hufflepuff.
"Now, what was I going to say, before Potter so rudely interrupted me!" Terminus said. "Miss Evans, why don't you explain to Potter and the rest of the class what I was teaching?" Lily sighed. She looked ill, she had had a flu for three days, but she didn't want to miss any of her classes. To put the icing on the cake, it was boiling in the room too.
"Yes, Professor," she moaned hoarsely. "Professor Terminus was teaching us about..." Lily's eye twitched, and closed. She swayed on the spot and then it happened. Tears flowed down her cheeks, eyes still closed, and she collapsed on the floor.
"Lily!" James screamed, he jumped over a desk and landed next to her. "Carrie, go get Madam Pomfrey. Quick!" James bent over Lily, and checked her pulse.
Professor Terminus hadn't noticed a thing and kept writing on the board.
"Moony, I can't find her pulse," James was really worried. Remus ran over to James and checked.
"I found it!" The door blasted open.
"Professor Terminus! How dare you?" The young Madam Pomfrey screamed. "What in God's name are you doing?"
Terminus turned around and saw Lily lying on the floor unconscious. He gave a fake gasp and said,
"The poor girl's unconscious! So what? Back to the lesson!"
Madam Pomfrey exploded, her face was red with anger.
"Stupefy!" she screamed at Terminus. "Miss Hope, run and fetch Dumbledore." Emily ran out of the door to Professor Dumbledore's office.
Madam Pomfrey summoned a gurney from the hosptital wing, and levitated Lily onto it, then she dragged her off to the hospital.
Professor Dumbledore and Emily burst into the classroom five minutes later. He demanded an explanation, which Harry, shocked, gave him.
"Enervate!" Dumbledore said and Professor Terminus woke. Professor Dumbledore was so angry his face was starting to turn red. "Ignoring your students when they collapse? I've heard many complaints about you Julian. You may treat your students from Durmstrang like that, but here at Hogwarts, we care for our students, I am sorry to say this in front of the students, but you are fired!" Dumbledore said, James looked at Dumbledore, and swore he winked at him. Terminus blushed furiously, he threw his wand on the floo and stormed out of the room.
Hi again, I hope you liked it! Please review. Oh Damn, I have to revise for Sats, year 9 sucks! See ya! Adios!