"Terribly sorry we're late again!" James said,
"We got lost!" Arthur said
"We had to help them find their way!" Sirius said catching on,
"They were a great help!" Merlin said,
"Yes, thank you boys." Arthur said,
"Sit down." She said, not even glancing up from her desk.
"Yes ma'am," James said
"Whatever you say" Sirius said,
"Won't happen again!" Peter said. They all sat down.
"Nice improv!" James whispered across Sirius to Arthur, who smiled.
"today we are are going to be transforming plates into cloth." She handed out a few plates to each student. Knowing they'd break the first few.
"Bredan æt béon ne plat ac flac." Merlin mumbled, and with a flash of gold across his irises, the plate became a blue cloth the first try. The rest of the class was flipping through the textbook looking for a charm. It only took a few minutes and a few tries for them to figure it out
"Mr. James." The teacher said
"Yes?" James replied
"Not you, Mr. Potter." McGonagall sighed, and looked at Arthur.
"Me, I'm not Mr. James, I'm King Arthur." Merlin face palmed. Everyone laughed.
"Do you want a detention?" She asked
"No m'lady." He mumbled,
"Good. Now then, what are you having trouble with?"
"I can't seem to pronounce it correctly." He said
"Why don't you try again?"
"Bredan æt béon nec plat-" Arthur tried pointing his wand at the plate
"Ne." Merlin said,
"oh! Bredan æt béon ne plat ac flac." Arthur said, and his eyes flashed gold. The tip of the wand caught fire and the plate became a piece of red cloth. He waved the wand until the fire went out, and looked at the teacher.
"At least you didn't cause the wand to explode." She sighed
"Tha' was an honest mistake, m'lady." Merlin said.
"you two are something else, you know that?" She said. They looked at each other and shrugged. Professor McGonagall began to explain the magic behind the transformation, but James was whispering to them all.
"McGonagall's an animagus!" He told them.
"You can't even tell!" Arthur said looking at her.
"McGoo's a kitty." Sirius smiled.
"After class you should come to our room so we can start looking over the spell." James said. They nodded, and when class was over headed to Gryffindor tower.
"We have to keep the room a disaster to keep Remus from finding the books." Sirius said, pulling a few layers of clothes out from under his bed. Underneath were about ten books.
"Start reading I guess?" Merlin said
"We already marked the pages that are helpful, this book is really the only one that says anything, but the writing is strange." James said handing Merlin a very old looking book. He opened to the first page.
"Nimueh." He muttered, Arthur looked over.
"What?" He was shocked "She was an animagus?"
"A hawk it seems." Merlin said flipping through the pages
"Uh... do you know her?" Sirius asked
"My father's ancestors hated her, she was a witch that nearly destroyed my family line." Arthur said, "father spoke of her on occasion."
"Here it is, the spell needed... this speaks of a ritual as well." Merlin said,
"How can you read that?" James asked.
"This? It's just Latin." Merlin said,
"Not the Latin we learned!" Sirius said,
"It's more of the sort of Latin people would be speaking... with a lot of abbreviations." Merlin said then stopped, "it calls for a sacrifice to the Triple Goddess." He said
"No way." Arthur said, "we aren't doing this."
"C'mon Arthur!" James and Sirius pled. Arthur looked at Merlin, who shrugged.
"...I suppose we my try..."
"Yeah!" James and Sirius yelled jumping up.
Merlin read the page over.
"We'll need to travel to the White Mountains in Wales."
"The what?"
"Uh... it's Snowdonia now I believe." Merlin mumbled, flipping through the book some more,
"Oh, we have small camp there." James said, "perhaps we could call you down there Easter Break, Pete!" He said
"ok!" Peter squeaked
"There's a cave that houses the Disir, the three soothsayers of the Triple Goddess." Merlin told them. "We will need to leave all weapons outside as it is a sacred place. That means wands and swords." He said looking at Arthur,
"Ok, ok, I get it!" He laughed.
The rest of the morning seemed long and boring, but McGonagall asked for a list of the Gryffindors going home for Easter after lunch. And then it was Care of Magical Creatures.
They headed down to the Greenhouse.
"Why are we here?" Sirius groaned, he didn't like Herbology.
"Because, Mr. Black, we are learning are out Gnomes today." The professor said. Arthur couldn't tell if it was are out woman or a man, scars covered... his/her face, and... he/her were missed a hand and a nose. "They've been trying to get into the Greenhouse." They all headed over to the long grass behind the Greenhouse, and the professor began to tell them what Gnomes were, when suddenly about 12 stood up and walked away from the Green House.
"Emrys!" They said, bowing in front of Merlin, "you have returned!" Merlin looked around,
"Uh... I wasn't ever here."
"No, but Scotland has heard of your great feats in Wales for generations!"
"...thanks, but I think you have the wrong-"
"Great job collecting them, Cathal!" The professor smiled, going to grab one,
"What are you doing?" Merlin asked, the Gnomes ran off.
"Great..." the professor said. They couldn't find them after that, even though they spent the whole class trying.
"You two just can't have a normal class can you?" James asked,
"Sorry," Merlin said,
"It's actually quite funny!" Sirius said, there was a loud squeal from the other end of the grounds "oh! the other day we had a plan for the best prank of the year, it sounds like it's finally started" they headed over to the lake were a very upset giant squid was attempting to get out of a very pink lake.
"I guess Squishy doesn't like pink." James said
"Squishy?"
"Pete named the squid." Sirius said, Peter smiled proudly.
"That is decidedly pink." Arthur said. McGonagall walked out of the school, and hadn't taken but 3 steps before she yelled "Mr. Potter and Mr. Black!" They laughed, and ran toward her
"Yes Minnie dear?" Sirius smiled
"20 points from Gryffindor for turning the lake pink, and 25 from for calling me Minnie." She said, sternly, "and detentions for the both of you!"