Chapter 11 May

Minerva stormed through the halls of Hogwarts, firmly clutching two soaking wet boys on the arm.

"Honestly! What were you boys thinking? Wait, let me answer that for you. You weren't thinking!" She screeched and both boys winced.

Harry thought back to what happened earlier today. Honestly, he didn't think it would matter that much.

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"Siriuuussssss, this is boringggg," Harry whined, as he continued to pick the thread of a pillow, "and it's so hottt."

"Well what do you want me to do?" Sirius snapped.

Harry's lips quivered as he turned around and muttered a single "Sorry."

Sirius looked at his brothers slightly trembling form and mentally kicked himself. He's 8 years old. It's not his fault that he's bored, Sirius thought. Both boys were stuck in Sirius's room, bored out of their minds while the professors were having a meeting together.

"I'm sorry Harry, but theres nothing I can do," Sirius sighed as he fell face down onto the bed.

Harry looked outside and said, "I wish we could be like the giant squid. He doesn't need to be stuck inside a room all day, and the water is so cool."

At this, Sirius's head snapped back up, "What did you say?" He asked.

"What? The squid?" Harry said.

"Yes, we can go swim in the lake for half an hour," He said as he looked at the time, "Their meeting won't end for another hour or two."

"Um, Siri are you sure that's a good idea?" Harry asked with doubt.

"Yeah! We can ask the elves to bring us some gillyweed, and then we'll be able to breathe underwater too!" Sirius argued.

"Okay," Harry agreed, at the Dursley's the only reason why he knew how to swim was because his aunt thought it would be "strange" at school if people knew that he couldn't swim. Still, even though he took swimming lessons, half of the time, he was trying to stop himself from drowning because Dudley would always push him into the water and try to make him choke for fun.

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"C'mon Harry! Eat it!" Sirius encouraged, staring at his own pile of slimy gillyweed.

"But it looks gross," Harry said with his face scrunched up.

"Do you wanna go under the water or not?" Sirius asked, loosing his patience.

Harry sighed and nodded.

"Okay, 3, 2, 1," Sirius said as he stuffed the gillyweed into his mouth and jumped into the water.

Harry looked at his brother and followed him, jumping into the water himself. He looked around at the environment in awe, and spotted Sirius pulling on a seaweed and swam over.

They played around in the water, pulling on the seaweeds and swimming around, until Sirius saw the giant squid come over.

"Harry! C'mon let's go!" Sirius shouted but it came out as muffled bubbles. Without seeing if his brother followed, he started swimming as fast as he could towards the shore, only stopping once he reached it.

"Wow, that was close right?" Sirius said, "Harry?" He turned and realized that his little brother didn't follow.

He saw someone trying to get out of the water, just as he was about to go back, he heard a shout and his brother flew out of the water and collapsed on the ground, choking.

"Harry? Sirius?" A familiar voice asked.

"Remus!" Sirius shouted, clearly surprised, "Aren't you suppose to be at the staff meeting?"

"The meeting ended early, I was going to Hagrid's and I saw someone splashing in the lake," Remus answered, "What are you guys doing here?"

"We-uh," Sirius stuttered as he begin explaining. Just then, a silver tabby cat appeared and spoke in the voice of their mother, "Remus! We need your help! We can't find the two boys."

Remus shook his head as he produced a transparent silver wolf. "I found them, they're by the lake," Remus said to the patronus before it vanished.

Minutes later, they saw a livid Minerva storming towards them, she muttered a single thanks as she dragged both boys by their arms into the castle.

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"You could off died!" Minerva screeched, "You could off drowned!"

"No, we wouldn't have," Harry argued, then clapped a hand on his mouth,

Minerva narrowed her eyes, "Why not?"

"You're going to be mad," He warned sadly, squirming under the gaze of his adoptive mother. "We got gillyweed," Harry muttered,

"Where exactly did you get that?" She questioned,

"It was a gift," Sirius piped in,

Minerva snapped her head to look at him, "A gift? From whom?"

"Pwease don't get mad at the elves," Harry asked her pleadingly.

She shook her head, sighing. These two boys caused more trouble than her whole Gryffindor house.

"So you asked the elves to take it from Severus's personal stocks?"

Both boys nodded glumly, their plan to visit the squid hadn't been that good. If Remus wasn't there to save them from the squid, they shook at the thought.

"I think that because you took from Severus's stocks, you would be the ones to tell him and he should be the one to determine your punishment," She said.

Both boys eyes went huge, "N-no mum, can't you just choose our punishment?" they begged. Severus would kill them for going into the lake and stealing from him!

"No, next time you should think about that before you decide to steal from him,"

"Steal from whom?" Severus asked, stepping into the room.

Both boys turned and gulped, "No one!" Sirius shouted. "C'mon Harry lets go play," he said nervously as he turned and tried to run from the room, bumping straight into Severus.

"Sirius," Minerva warned, "Tell him," then turned and left the room.

Sirius stepped back a few steps, "We borrowed some gillyweed from your supplies," He mumbled.

"Excuse me?" Severus questioned, "and what did you need it for?"

"W-we wanted to go cool down in the lake," Harry whispered,

"Not to mention becoming an appetizer for the squid," A new voice interrupted.

"What!" He yelled, "Have you two lost your bloody minds?"

"It's not like we planned for that to happen," Sirius retorted, earning himself a smack.

"Are you mad?" Harry asked fearfully,

"No I am not mad," Severus glared, both boys looked up in relief, "I am furious! Out of all the stupid and reckless things! You guys decided to go into the bloody lake!"

Harry swallowed hard "I'm sorry".

"I'm sure a week of skinning flubber worms and pickling toad eyes will help you remember! No, make that 2 weeks!" He finished as he left the room.