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That afternoon, there was hell to pay.
"Ms. Gronjerr! Mr. Black!" McGonagall barked harshly, "in my office; NOW!"
"Yes ma'am," Sirius said, putting on his best ashamed face. Hermione didn't have to fake it.
The three proceeded at McGonagall's swift pace in stiff silence. Hermione was shooting nervous looks towards Black, but he was concentrating on keeping his shamed-façade. When they reached the room, McGonagall slammed the door.
"You two: Never in my LIFE have I seen such blatant disrespect and discourteous behavior! NOT ONLY were you two given DETENTION by your OWN head of the house, you failed to show up at the detention I gave you. Unacceptable…
"Ms. Gronjerr; before you came along, Black would get into trouble; but, he would ATTEND his detention just like everyone else. It leads me to believe that you might be the influence here. As I said before; UNACCEPTABLE! Hélène, you will serve a week's detention, in my office from seven to ten.
"Black; Ms. Grojerr is a very good student. Both of you have VERY bright futures. BUT, if your behavior does not turn around, if you two continue on like this, then I will have to expel you. Do you understand?" she waited for nods before continuing, "Now, what excuse can you give me that would possibly explain WHY you would skip detention?"
Expel! Expel! Expel! Expel! Ran through Hermione's mind, I could get expelled! Oh no! What would my parents think! Wait… they aren't my parents yet. Black could be expelled! What would happen to our future if he didn't complete school!
Sirius opened his mouth to talk, but Hermione cut in.
"It vas my fault prof-fess-air. I vas really wer-heed about zee exam from Prof-fess-air Dugal. You see, I couldeen't mastair vone of zee spells 'e vas teaching us. But Sirius 'ere could. So ve started practeec-eeng in an empty classroom. As we pract-eece-ed, ve deedn't realize how late it vas getting. By zee time I had mast-aired it, we remembered your day-ten-see-on, but it vas too late." Hermione lied. Sirius whipped out his innocent face and nodded graciously.
"What spell?" she asked.
"A protean charm," Hermione said sweetly.
"A Protean charm!" McGonagall said surprised. "I could see how you would have trouble with it. That's pretty difficult. Let's see, Ms Hélène, how well Mr. Black here has taught you."
"You vant me to de-mone-strate?" Hermione asked in a surprised tone. In truth she had known it was coming. That was why she picked it.
"Yes," McGonagall said smugly.
"Err--- Eef you say so…" Hermione put on an anxious face. Then she gathered sickles and started bewitching them. This was no sweat. She had done this with fake galleons for the DA. Hermione soon became lost in concentration. Black was trying not to look amazed. McGonagall was focused on each movement of Hermione's wand. When she was done with three sickles, she placed them on the counter.
"Now, ven you tap thees seekle 'ere to change the numbers, the othair seekles change as vell," Hermione said smartly to McGonagall. She suspected that Black had no whim of what a protean charm was. Sirius, who was still amazed, intelligently said nothing.
"All thanks to Sear-he-is," Hélène said triumphantly. McGonagall looked at Sirius, and then back to Hélène.
"Don't mention it," Sirius said cordially, waving his hand as if to brush away her worries.
"Alright, you have a good excuse. But, know this; if it weren't for the NEWTs, I wouldn't let you slip. Don't do this again. This Friday at 10am, both of you will serve one detention together, hand cleaning the trophy room. If you skip this one," she said menacingly, "I will make you hand clean the whole castle for a month!"
"Yes Madame," Hélène spoke as if she had learned her lesson.
"Yes ma'am!" Sirius said, giving McGonagall a solute and a smile.
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Hermione and Sirius went back to the common room happy as could be.
"You were brilliant!" Sirius said, his hands waving emphatically. Hermione smiled. When the other marauders heard the commotion, Sirius told them what crazy story she had told McGonagall. The others were in awe.
"You lied! To a TEACHER!" James asked wildly.
"I was afraid Sirius was going to be expelled or something!" Hermione said, now feeling a little guilty.
"She's got a point there Padfoot," James yielded. "McGonagall has been pretty pissed with us lately."
Remus yawned, "Yeah… Maybe we should lay off her for the week."
"Yeah, at least until Saturday, right Hermione?" Sirius grinned.
"Oh definitely," Hermione grinned back.
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Saturday came quickly.
Baggggaaaazzzzzzzzz! Baggaaaaaazzzzzzzzz!
Hermione rolled out of bed and peered at her alarm. It was 6am. Why did her alarm wake her up at six AM? Hazily, Hermione realized it didn't. She looked back at her clock. Across it wrote, Compliments of the Marauders.
Hermione got angry. No one should DARE wake her slumber. Getting dressed, Hermione was hit with a plan. Not a plan, per say … more like a scheme. Hermione grinned mercilessly. If she had to wake up… they would too.
Hermione got a few spare knuts from her trunk and made them extra cold with a bit of magic. Hermione had heard that if these cold coins were placed on the face of a sleeping person…. Hermione laughed aloud.
Getting Har- her own invisibility cloak, Hermione snuck up the boys stairs undetected. Loud snores emitted within the room. Adrenaline spiked at what she was about to do, Hermione quietly tiptoed in. None of them were suspecting this. James was nearest. She crawled to his bed and carefully placed the freezing coins across his forehead.
James shivered involuntarily and a small wet spot began to grow further on down the blanket. Hermione, laughing silently, hurried towards Remus, Pettigrew, and Sirius to do the same. It took more coins on Pettigrew, but the result was the same. Finally, she had gotten sweet, sweet revenge.
Hermione had gotten all the Marauders to piss their pants.
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She could barely contain her laughter. Hermione ran downstairs in a silent fit of giggles. She deposited the cloak and, with a lot of work, fixed an angry look on her face. Then, she proceeded back to the Marauder's room.
"Get up NOW!" roared Hermione angrily. The Marauders, startled, sat up; coins falling off their faces.
"Aw, Hermione, it was only a joke!" Sirius said sleepily. "We wouldn't have been mad if you played one on us…."
"As if…" finished James.
Hermione grinned cunningly. "Oh my, James! Did you have a nightmare?"
James looked at her quizzically. "No, why?"
Hermione turned away in fits of giggles. "Surely your own stench can tell you why!"
James looked down and turned red immediately. Sirius started laughing. "Oh Sirius! You think I'd leave you out?"
Sirius's smile fell and he looked down. Hermione's laughter swelled.
"How did she!" James sputtered.
"When did she!" Sirius sputtered.
"Ahhh!" yelled Pettigrew as he looked down… Remus soon joined him.
By now, Hermione was rolling on the floor with uncontainable laughter. The Marauders were both laughing and embarrassed at the same time.
"Very clever," Remus said grumpily. Sirius started throwing pillows at Hermione and she, laughing, threw them back.
"I'll get out," she said defensively, "but now you know; never play a trick on a girl in the morning!"
And with that, Hermione closed the door before the wave of pillows could hit her.
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