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Chapter 21 (James Potter)

The Illegal Trip to Hogsmeade

After the boys had made their way into the shop undetected, they pulled off the cloak in an empty isle. James peered at all the items in front of him. It was like heaven. He could cause so much mischief with this stuff. They carried on browsing the shop and James picked up some Dr Fillibuster's Fireworks, Invisible Itching Powder and two fake wands that spouted water if used. Remus only had 3 sickles from Christmas left and said he was saving it for some chocolate, Peter didn't buy anything and Sirius bought some Dung Bombs. They went up to the counter where a bumbling old man stood humming. They paid hurriedly as Remus was getting agitated about taking so long.

Next they walked to Honeydukes, which was due to close in in the next hour at 6pm. Remus was carefully calculating how much he could buy with his money, which was sadly only enough for two small chocolate bars. James bought a few things and made a mental note to slip some into Remus' bag when he wasn't looking. Sirius bought some acid pops and a dozen sugar quills.

Once they had left, it started to pour down with thick harsh rain, it was cool against his face in the hot spring air, but he quickly started to feel stuffy with the mix of weather. Typical English weather.

"James my hair's getting wet let's go." Sirius whined, trying to cover his hair with his bag.

"It's getting cold!" moaned Remus.

"And my shoes are getting wet."

"I'm going to catch hypothermia."

"Remus, nobody knows what Hypothermia is."

"Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature.

"English please?"

"Sirius shut-

"Will you two get a grip. It's not that bad. Merlin some people-

"Some people are out of the castle when they shouldn't be." said a stern voice in a very familiar accent. They all turned round regretfully to see Professor Mcgonagall standing behind them.

"Evening Professor." James said cheekily. Remus nudged him discretely in the ribs.

"What are you doing here on such a fine day?" added Sirius, quite conversationally.

"To the castle now!" she said, her lips thin and her eyes livid. They trudged behind her all the way back to the castle, but James and Sirius were trying not to laugh when Peter got his foot stuck im a rabbit hole. Remus looked as if he was heading to the gallows.

By the time they got to Mcgonagall's office, they were soaked head to toe from the rain and James' fringe was stuck slick to his face. By the look on her face he could tell he was in massive trouble.

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When she had finally stopped scolding them and telling them how dangerous leaving the castle without permission and were breaking multiple school rules, the four of them had escaped with a weeks worth of detention every evening, which James didn't really care. The worst thing was-

"25 points from Gryffindor each, that's 100 points. That bloody Scottish cow." mumbled Sirius as they walked to the common room. "And she's writing to our bloody parents too."

"So? Big deal?" James said casually. Sirius didn't say anything but looked anxious.

"Come on what's the worse that could happen. Your father tells you off and your mother docks your pocket money." James just couldn't understand why Sirius was so worried.

"If only." and for the rest of the evening Sirius didn't say a word.

Monday 12th June 1972

The first detention was Monday evening. Mcgonagall had made the boys write lines, which was very boring and he would have much rathered playing a game of chess with Snivellus Snape. When his knuckles starting to ache, thankfully they were dismissed.

"This is all your fault James." spat Remus "I was supposed to be going to the library with Lily today."

"You do an awful lot with Lily, seeming as your just friends." James retorted.

"What's that supposed to mean."

James tutted and looked away. He was just as bored as anybody else, why was it his fault.

"What? Can't I just have a friend that isn't a boy."

"But you're so friendly with her."

"OOOooo I think James is jealous." laughed Sirus.

James just rolled his eyes and carried on walking back to the Common Room.

"Potter!" called an angry girls voice behind him. He turned around to see Lily looking livid.

"Alright Evans. Lovely evening ton-"

"You're a right arrogant toe-rag you are!" Lily was so pretty when she was angry he thought to himself. "We've got a massive Herbology assignment soon and I had nobody to study with tonight because YOU got Remus in detention."

Sirius and Peter were sniggering to each other and Remus was biting his lip trying not to laugh.

"Oh w-"

"Why don't you stop talking and start thinking Potter! For somebody so good at Transfiguration you'd think they'd know they're not allowed to go to Hogsmeade as a first-year and not even on a Hogsmeade weekend!" she turned on her heel and stalked off.

"Evans! Wait Evans!" he called, but she had gone. "Did you hear that, she said I was good at Transfiguration."

"James, I think you're missing the point here."

I'm thinking, in first year the boys wouldn't want to play too many pranks (because they haven't even been there a whole year) so I think I'll write more in second year. Maybe one at the end of this year.