13. Becoming Marauders
We had only been back for a week and we were already sitting in our first detention with Professor McGonagall. The head of Gryffindor didn't find it to amused to find us at the place of crime giving us immediately our first, but also probably not last, detention. Even if we had everything totally organized and calculated we wouldn't have thought that something could go wrong. Still we somehow had left benefited, with a grin of achievement on our faces, as the Slytherins also had to endure the same detention we had.
Deathly glares were glanced at each other while Professor McGonagall was separating us along the room. Still it came that the classroom was to small then not having to sit all next to each other, so at the end I sat next to Peter while James and Sirius were sitting next to each other whispering instead of working, which of course caused even more trouble.
"Mr. Black and Mr. Potter I thought I had told you write out that passage out the book and not to go and jabber with one and another." McGonagall said strictly and poor Peter cringed slightly next to me. James and Sirius looked up looking at the Professor confused pretending that they hadn't done anything at all. The Slytherins sniggered as they were obediently to copy down their passage to cowardly to do anything wrong now.
"Pettigrew. Go and change place with Mr. Black here maybe then we will have some more silence." McGonagall commanded and Peter jumped up with a shriek and quickly gathered his things. Sirius got up with a grunt and whispered something again in James' ear before coming to sit down next to me.
"She doesn't like me." Sirius grunted leaning down on the table with the full parchment next to him.
"I mean look, I have already copied everything." Sirius whispered with a small hint of that mischievous look in his eyes. I grinned looking at to McGonagall and then leaning down next to Sirius.
"Come on tell me, how did you do it?" I asked my voice as quiet as possible and a broad grin appeared on Sirius' face. He slowly pulled out his wand from his sleeve and whispered something under his breath while pointing his wand at my piece of parchment. Seconds later the passage appeared on the parchment and I thought quickly how we could escape our detention, so that we wouldn't have to sit here through the rest of the evening.
I gave a quick glance at Peter on whose parchment also just appeared everything mysteriously. I looked over to the Slytherins and at the same time Severus Snape glared at me, the silver cross still hanging loosely around his neck. Our looks were fixed for some more seconds before we turned back to gaze at the table.
I could feel the Silver affecting my body slowly even if it was not touching my body and I closed my eyes for some minutes feeling nausea spread through my body. I had never been so close to silver as dad always prevented Silver coming anywhere near the house.
"Professor!" Sirius' yell pulled me from my reverie and I looked at her trying to sit up straight. She came over to me and felt my fevered forehead knowing exactly what was wrong.
"Mr. Black please escort your fellow colleague back to your dormitory, and you two Gryffindor's can also leave as you have already finished. Now of with you four and I hope that I won't find any of you four marauding around the castle again." McGonagall chuckled slightly at the last part. In the meantime Sirius helped me to stand, his arm under my shoulders so I could lean my weight on him and like this we slowly left followed closely by James and Peter.
I felt a lot better as we reached our common room and Sirius helped me to sit down on one of the armchairs. I smiled at the couragly and Sirius smiled back pulling me friendly on his lap feeling my forehead worriedly.
"I am fine Sirius. I just felt a little dizzy earlier, probably of something I ate wrong. Nothing to worry about." I said and Sirius sighed pulling me in a deeper embrace. I don't know why but I somehow felt safe in those strong arms relaxing totally, feeling totally liberated and normal.
"Ha! Did you hear what she said at the end? That we were marauding around the school!!" James laughed and my head shot up, joining the quiet laughter.
"The next time she will say that the 'Marauders' are marauding again." Sirius said and we all looked at us with evil glints. Peter looked at a little scared at first not really confident of the thought, but we soon had him convinced by saying that Hogwarts needed to lighten up a little.
So that was then when we called ourselves secretly the Marauders. Knowing that many pranks and midnight adventures were still ahead of us, just like the big amounts of detentions.
