Entry for the Chocolate Frog Card Club at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
(Silver) Shrake; Challenge: Incorporate someone fishing into your story.
Entry for the Gringotts Prompt Bank
Various Prompts: How I Met Your Mother
(action) slapping someone over the back of their head
(object) a beer bottle
(300 Words)
Go Fishing
"Padfoot?"
"Yes, Prongs?"
"This is the best idea we had in months," James grinned at his best friend Sirius and they clinked their beer bottles together. The two N.E.W.T. students sat next to each other at the shore of the Black Lake, each holding a fishing rod in their right hand. Birds were singing, sitting above them in the branches of the willow that did spend them shadow on this warm summer day.
"I am still a little bit disappointed that Remus and Peter didn't want to join us. It could have been a fun Marauder afternoon," James sighed after a while, and Sirius nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, a pity they are missing out on the fun. Only because they wanted to study for that stupid Transfigurations exam. It's in three days, we got all the time in the world!"
Suddenly, the rod in James' hand tensed, and the two boys jumped to their feet in excitement.
"Padfoot! We catched something!"
James pulled on his rod, his face contorted in effort as he hissed:"Help me, it seems to be a pretty big one!"
Sirius grabbed the fishing rod as well, and the two boys pulled has hard as they could.
"Oh no," James muttered dryly and turned around to check their surroundings while Sirius hissed:"Quick, we need to put it back in before anybody sees us!"
The two threw their rods to the ground and hurried to get hold of the merman they had pulled out, pushing it back into the Black Lake.
As the merman sank back into the dark depths, Sirius slapped James over the back of his head, exclaiming:"It was your stupid idea!"
"No, you wanted to go fishing! It's your fault!"
"No, yours!"