Look at my previous chapters for all the disclaimers and stuff.
Sorry, yesterday was boiling hot and I didn't feel well.
still, enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 13- School Continues
A school owl tapped at the glass of the first year boys dormitory. Remus was the first to wake, and the owl hopped on his bed, revealing a familiar looking envelope with the black crest seal on it. He paled and quickly woke the others up, as it began to shake.
'Anyone know a silencing charm?' He whispered urgently. Peakes and Cootes sort of knew, and cast up the spell together. It wasn't complete and sound still went through, however it did muffle the deep yell a bit.
'WHO ARE YOU?
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
I DON'T CARE WHETHER THIS IS REAL OR A JOKE, JUST DON'T DO IT AGAIN OR I SHALL SEND A CURSE THE NEXT TIME!
THIS IS NOT WIZARDS LETTER. YOU COULD BE A BLOOD TRAITOR, MUDBLOOD' Most of the boys winced 'OR A MUGGLE. I, ON THE OTHER HAND, AM A NOBLE, PUREBLOOD BLACK.
KNOWING THIS, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU.
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU KNOW OUR ADDRESS, BUT SHOULD YOU EVER CONTACT ME OR ANY OF MY FAMILY AGAIN, YOU SHALL BE PUNISHED.
GOODBYE.'
The Howler fell to the floor, with the words 'To whom this owl belongs to. Give it immediately.' Sirius looked extremely grim.
'Thank goodness that it didn't arrive in the Great Hall' Peakes muttered, being the only one who could actually talk. The forbidden word for muggle born seemed to echo around the room. Sirius covered his face. He should've known it wouldn't be fun to prank his father. It hardly ever turns out amusing. The silencing charm was removed, and the boys got themselves ready, Sirius being positively glum. He was embarrassed, ashamed, angry at his family, They had to ruin all his fun, they had to destroy...
Sirius' chain of negative thoughts were quickly gone, as James Potter hit him on the head with a book. By the startled looks of the others in the room, James had done it to all of the boys.
'Oh Cheer up! Nobody else properly heard it, and anyway, what can we expect from a pureblood, Slytherin family! Take the funny side of it! Imagine Sirius's dad's face when he read the letter! Or him shouting for the Howler! I wonder what the rest of the family thought!' Sirius laughed, and showed everyone of picture of his haughty but still kind of handsome father. Everyone else started to laugh, and had big smiles as they entered the Gryffindor common room. Their smiles quickly faded as they were bombarded with questions.
'What was the noise coming from you dormitory?'
'Who was shouting?'
'What happened this morning?'The six boys looked at each other, glad they had planned it. With a completely straight face, James said,
'We accidentally let a pig loose, and it went mental.' Everybody bar the first year boys looked sceptical. 'Need more detail. It was a little pig, about the size os a kneazle, with brown spots on it's pink body...'
'Alright alright!' One of the third years shouted. The six first years gave each other another look, before heading down to breakfast. The day went quite normally, however the six boys were still bombarded by question. By lunch, all six decided to take refuge in the library, but that proved to be no different, other than the question being in whispers. Surprisingly, it was James who snapped first, as second year approached them. She was only half way through her question when James whipped out his wand, and shouted,
'Tarantallegra,' The strict librarian went over to glare at then, when she caught sight of the Gryffindor, dancing uncontrollably and knocking over her precious books. She took her wand out and performed the counter jinx, before forcing James and the other 5 first year boys out too, however James wouldn't escape a punishment- E left with a detention, a loss of 50 points for Gryffindor, and an angry Remus Lupin. Before Remus could open his mouth, James was already apologising,
'Sorry! I just snapped! It wasn't my fault. Now, can the lecture be completed?' He whiled, shocking all the boys. They were about to leave the corridor, when they bumped into two people.
'Snivellus. He growled at Snape. Snape merely smirked and said
'Potter'. Lily Evans glared at them both. The others thought they may walk past without James getting a second detention, however, as expected, it didn't happen. James fired two curses at Snape, who in turn, hexed him. They were both lying on the floor, James wining at the stinging sensation he was experiencing. Snape had boils forming all over him, and a blurry sensation in his mind. Then, most obviously, it had to be Professor Farley passing the corridor. James was not in a good mood at all as he stalked into the Gryffindor common room with two more detentions. Just as he sat down, he was hit on the head by Sirius. Instead of scowling, he smiled, and got up rubbing his head.
'Thanks, I needed someone to clear that up. As lunch ended, James was much happier. Not even Remus (who was constantly whispering to him about how bad it was just to randomly jinx people.) could stop him smiling, in a way, to be honest, creeped out nearly everyone. However, in the end, Remus managed to stop him smiling at dinner. It started off normally, until Remus offered him...
'Beans! No Way! They are disgusting, horrible, terrifying and everything in between! Good day to you!' And he walked out of the Great hall into the Gryffindor Common Room. Back in the Great Hall, Sirius was telling all his confused companions the many stories of James vs beans. When dinner ended, the Gryffindor first year boys went do their dormitory to find James lying down on his bed muttering about beans. The boys looked really confused, unsure of why he disliked beans so much, bar Sirius, who was used to his friend's frequent mutterings. He got into bed calmly, leaving the other four even more bewildered than ever.
The next day went smoothly, but James seemed to have turned it into a habit to jinx those he disliked, earning him another Detention, along with Sirius for being 'on the scene of the crime' (Needless to say, Professor Farley was involved). James's first Detention was later that day, and despite having to tend the Quidditch pitch, he kept up a constant chatter with Sirius, through their two way mirrors. Though the highlight of the detention was when it ended, as Filch caught a look of James' flushed but pleased face. Despite it happening every Detention since their first, it was still hilarious to see him go red and angry. James laughed his way back, the corridors were still light and most the portraits were awake, meaning it wasn't very late. The common room was bursting with life, and James nearly drowned in the swarm of people. He went to locate his friends, but someone else located him first.
'James, I heard you've been jinxing random students for no reason what so ever. Is that true.' James turned to face Lily Evans, D'Arcy Warsh and Mary Pritchard. He gave them a pleasant smile.
'No, I've been jinxing and hexing students that annoy me.' The girls looked a little disgusted, and walked away. James was then pounded on the shoulder by Sirius.
'Mate! You're back early! I mean, we were talking constantly!'
'Well, all I needed to think of was me flying over the pitch, so at least it should look good is I'm going to be on it.' He then immediately turned to Remus. 'Don't start lecturing me- The girls have already given me a good talking. I won't jinx or hex people who annoy me.' Remus thought there was something hidden in the tone, but he didn't question it. He was right to assume that.
'I'll only hex them if they annoy me. Jinxes are too simple.' He murmured, only allowing Sirius and Peter to hear. They smirked and made their way to the dormitory.
In the three remaining detentions of the week, Sirius and James put their heads together, via the two way mirrors, to think of some new pranks to play. Sirius suggested bewitching the cauldrons so that they sang if you got anywhere near them, however that was truly beyond their abilities. James couldn't think of anything either, which was extremely surprising, since the two always seemed to be full of ideas. Remus was walking past Sirius as he talked into the mirror, giving Sirius the fright of his life.
'Bloody hell Remus, don't surprise me like that!' Remus ignored it and spoke to James instead.
'How about something Quidditch related, like changing the wires in the magical microphone to make everything sound funny?' He suggested. James and Sirius' eyes twinkled. The began planning straight away. H
Both boys tried to get their detentions over and done with as soon as possible, and a displeased Filch had to let them out of Detention much earlier than before, due to them finishing the jobs located quickly. James and Peter were waiting for them by the fireplace, nobody paying any attention to them. James crept up and chucked the invisibility cloak over them. The four made their way to the Quidditch pitch, and dashing up to the main stand. Remus immediately dismantled it, and changed the magical wires within the microphone. He was muttering what seemed to be a steady stream of instructions to himself, concentrations etched upon his face.
'Are you a mechanic or something?' Remus went a little red, before telling them his father liked to experiment with things from muggles and witches/wizards.
'Why?' James asked, curious yet innocent. Remus paused, however that was mainly due to the marching of footsteps down the pitch. The invisibility cloak was thrown hastily over the four as they sat in silence, waiting for two to leave the place. Remus was back on the microphone, and gave a little cheer when he finished.
The following day was the Hufflepuff vs Gryffindor match. The four friends ran down to the pitch excitedly, wearing their house colours, as they weren't just there for the prank. The teams entered to a mass of cheering, a Ravenclaw boy was yelling their names into the microphone, no different to how it normally should be.
'Hey Remus, what is the microphone going to do?' Remus smiled and said
'Wait and watch.' The flying teacher threw the Quaffle up, and Gryffindor nabbed it. They wove inn between the Hufflepuffs, however weren't paying attention the the beaters, who had sent both bludgers straight at two of the chasers. One of them lost possession of the Quaffle, and it was taken by the Hufflepuffs, who quickly got it to the other end of the pitch, however their aim was bad, and it ended up going straight to the goalkeeper, for an easy save. Everyone was now looking at the microphone. The boy's voice was progressively getting higher and squeakier with every word. The Ravenclaw looked at in horror. Professor Farley, who was sitting next to the boy, snatched the microphone from his hands , muttering,
'Stupid boy, just ignore it and get on with the commentary.' All the houses bar Slytherin took a breath in to stop them laughing. Farley' normal deep booming voice, now sounded like a timid little behind them, an unknown teacher whispered to both of them, every word picked up by the microphone.
'Stop fighting, you need to do the commentary, we'll deal with the microphone later.' The Quidditch pitch was ignored totally now, as the team half heartedly played, mainly focused on the argument. Sirius looked through his binoculars at the scene, and this time he couldn't stop himself laughing. Farley's face was a red as a tomato; Sirius could swear his face was going to explode. However, then everyone turned back to the pitch as the Ravenclaw by said into the microphone,
'Look, the seekers are in a tight match! And in the kerfuffle, I believe Gryffindor scored four times, while Hufflepuff, five. The seekers are evenly matched, both reaching out for the snitch, and GRYFFINDOR SEEKER CASSIE NOSTRAT HAS CAUGHT THE SNTCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS BY 190 POINTS TO SIXTY! All the Gryffindors cheered, and everyone made their way back to school talking excitedly. The four first year boys joined them.
'That was a match! Thank's for playing that prank Remus, it was hilarious!'
'Well, I'm not that serious..'
'Who ever said you were?' Sirius asked. Remus smiled. The other three boys shook their heads.
They enjoyed the rest of the weekend, however soon it was Monday and they were back into the school week, obviously full of pranks and surprises.
I don't have any idea what I was doing for this chapter, but still, I hope you liked it!