Britain Bound
By: BobDole77
"Potions, Transfiguration, Charms and a Whole Bunch of Potions"
"Honestly, I don't understand why they even have that class!" Sirius screamed in frustration while walking to his second class of the day. "It's a waste of time, I tell you! She's a bunch of snot and doesn't know what she's talkin' about!" Sirius scrunched up his nose bitterly and slouched his way onward, his friends trailing behind him.
"It's not all that bad, Sirius," said Jeremi Brown. "I mean, Potions is a great subject to learn! But, then again, maybe the teacher isn't too good."
"What are you talking about, Jeremias," grumbled Sirius.
"Jeremi," she corrected sharply.
"I mean, it's not like I'm ever going to--"
"Don't say it, Sirius," she said, stopping him. "Of course you're going to use it in everyday life! That's almost like what people say about Arithmancy. Potions is your most important subject."
"Screw Potions and screw Professor Lambert--I quit," he announced while striding angrily into the Charms classroom.
Jeremi and Remus stopped at the door while James and Peter followed in after him.
"You know," Remus said solemnly, "it'll be hard to break it to him."
"I know," Jeremi agreed, sighing sadly at her friend who was trying to rip the feathers out of his new eagle quill. "He won't enjoy it at all."
Remus chuckled as James tried to pull the quill away from Sirius' deadly hands. They slowly walked into the room. "He will just have to appreciate Potions' for the rest of the year," he said, scooting into the two desks just infront Sirius and James.
"And Lambert, if he wants to make it to Second Year, that is," Jeremi added, snorting.
~~*~~
Charms had been a rather interesting class. It appears that Professor Rambly, an aging old witch with eyes of a fox, was a little too scary for her character. She started the class with taking notes from the chapter, not bothering with any 'beware of me' introduction. In fact, she would float around the room while they were taking notes, and announce answers every ten minutes, therefore allowing Sirius to sleep at will. However, half way through the class, she had thought that they were 'A+' students and sent them on their way into changing the color of a bunny--a regular spell for First Years. However, things did not go as planned.
The bubbly professor did nothing, after assigning the task, but polish her nails and write letters with her frilly pink-feathered quill in what looked like dark pink ink. Imagine that.
So, Lily Evans, who was sitting beside Figg, had resorted into helping the other students, seeing as she had finished with an entire batch of her bunnies (she was bored changing them into every color she could possibly think of). James' bunny seemed to not want to cooperate and he was madly chasing the fur-ball with his wand. Sirius, who sat in the chair next to James, seemed to be having fun changing other people's skin and hair instead of his bunny, which resulted in Lily getting angry at Sirius for turning her hair blue (Jeremi couldn't control herself with laughter so much that Lily was terribly suspicious). Remus, however, fell asleep because he had already finished changing numerous bunnies into numerous colors (and also gave up helping Peter, his partner). Peter accidentally blew up one of his bunnies, made one disappear, and two of them grew an extra ear. So, Remus ordered him to sit and watch Lily and follow her around (only because he was scared for the well fare of the bunny and before he fell asleep).
Lily looked around at the class who seemed to be just as happy as anyone would be to joke around in their second class of their first year. She giggled at Talon, who had resentfully been assigned to be partners with Elinda Morocco and had decided not to talk to her at all. She saw that the four boys were in the very back of the room, the two dark haired ones with each other and the latter two in front of them. To the left of the two black-haired boys, James and Sirius as she remembered, sat the girl named Jeremi who had shooed the boys from Lily's compartment while on the train. She sat beside the Gryffindor named Katherine (or Katie), and they seemed to be having a good time changing everybody else's hair different colors, like Sirius was doing. So Sirius who was changing everybody else's hair different colors, like Jeremi was doing, had gone a little overboard.
The Gryffindors have this Charms class with the Ravenclaws. The Ravenclaws terribly disapproved with Gryffindors, seeing as the Ravenclaws are extremely studious. But two of them seemed to be having a little more fun than usual. Geremaine France and Ted Tonks had particularly overly enjoyed themselves by adding extra body parts to any remaining Gryffindors, including those of Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, Lily, Jeremi and Katie.
"WHAT THE-" yelled a male voice, breaking Rambly's hobby of nail painting or pink-ink writing.
Sirius, himself, was currently not sitting on his wooden chair, but instead on the stony ground. James, beside Sirius, was now besides himself in laughter.
"Hello Sirius!" Remus said enthusiastically from behind him. "Welcome to Charms class, may I help you?"
"Er. Sirius?" asked Peter tentatively, "I'm wondering... Do you enjoy being there? Or is it--"
"PETER!" Sirius yelled, standing himself up and brushing off his robes, his head ducked low. "No, I don't, thanks Pete, but good you asked, because someone is going to die soon."
"Wha' happened?" James asked, brushing tears from his eyes.
"That's what happened!" Sirius screamed, pointing at two of the Ravenclaws sitting on the other side of the room in the back, laughing hysterically.
Sirius then turned around toward Remus, Jeremi and Peter to show them what he was so angry about.
Jeremi couldn't contain herself and burst out laughing so hard that she cried. Remus and Peter soon followed suit as the shock of what Sirius looked like wore off.
How he saw what he looked like what later found out, but they didn't care. All that they were caring about was that Sirius had apparently grown an extra nose--full of three warts and hair to benefit. His eyebrows were green and his lips were blue. And his face was red with anger.
As he was just about to launch himself at the two Ravenclaws in the back of the room, Tonks and France, when Rambly's shrilly voice stopped everything.
The room had utterly caused chaos in those two seconds of Sirius charging the two students. James had held his friend back, Remus, Peter, Jeremi and Katie coming to the rescue. But then Lily came and tried to scold Sirius. She didn't so much as one word out before a loud screeching reached her ears...
"STUUUUUUUUUUUDEEEEEEENTS!!!!!!!!!" came a horrible noise that sounded like horrible car brakes (whatever that was). Jeremi and Katie almost fainted from the noise, but went next to the four boys, who, like every other boy, were covering their ears with fear and had their wands out, ready to fight whatever evil ensued. Lily actually fainted from the high-pitch noise it was so harsh. The woman and children (girls, in other words) were left to scream and race for the door, but couldn't make it because the screeching noise was coming from the area of the door. So, they just crouched in the back of the room. Figg, Talon, and Elinda, cautiously went over and dragged the unconscience Lily to the back of the wall, once again huddling in fear.
Finally, the horrible screeching came to a stop. All the students came out from behind their desks, and the girls in the back were checking to make sure that they were all right.
Sirius made a daring move. "Professor Rambly!" he yelled, drawing himself to stand up fully. "Are you all right?"
There was no answer.
He continued, "Did you see where the horrible screeching noise came from, Professor? Professor? Are you all right, Professor?"
Slowly, he walked toward the Professor with confusion. And he did find her.
Professor Rambly was currently re-painting her index fingernail.
"A stupid piece of paper from you meddling kids ruined my nails!" she exclaimed, her squeaky voice still very high. She took a deep breath and watch as all the other students recovered themselves and returned to their seats.
The four boys and two girls remained in front of the desk.
"Professor? Wait a second..." Remus thought. "Was that noise..."
"It couldn't be!" James howled.
"I think it was--" Jeremi said.
"You?!" Peter said, finally understanding.
"What?" Professor Rambly asked. "What do you want?"
"Was that you, Professor? That screech that was just made?" Katie asked timidly.
"I was just settling down the class, is all," she explained, examining her one nail. "There's nothing wrong now. Sit."
The six students obliged, confused, and then scared.
Their own teacher made that horrible noise!
~~*~~
"I'm starving," Jeremi announced.
"Hey, I was going to say that!" Sirius retorted.
"Too bad," she responded grumpily, therefore occupying one of the seats at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall. The four boys then sat at their respectably spots at the table. Remus took his seat beside Jeremi, with Katie on her other side, and Sirius directly across from her. James was in between Sirius and Peter. Lily and the other girls sat in a row beside Katie.
"Katie," Jeremi said, turning to her female friend beside her, "what were the pages that Mozzly assigned in Potions.
Sirius grumbled. "Thanks, Jeremias!"
"Jeremi," she corrected sternly.
"That's just what I need!" he exclaimed, ignoring her correction. "Just when I'm starting to accept Potions--"
"You're not accepting Potions anytime, Sirius," Remus countered quietly.
Sirius ignored again and continued, "--when you go on and ruin it by asking what the BLOODY ASSIGNMENT WAS! ARG!"
"Gosh," Jeremi mumbled to Katie, winking, "he's acting like a girl, ya know?"
Katie nodded in agreement.
And then the two broke out laughing.
So Sirius, who was furious with the girls, turned back to stabbing at his meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
~~*~~
"Tomato?" Peter whispered. "Sausages? Nice, crispy bacon?"
"We saved some for you, Mr. Sirius," James offered quietly. (A/n: Sorry, inside joke)
Sirius accepted the offer and quickly gobbled it up.
"So much for that," Peter grouchily murmured to Remus, who was beside him. Remus smirked then turned back to Professor McGonagall, who was transfiguring a portrait of Dumbledore (on the wall) into a bouquet of flowers, which soon became a donkey, then a pouf, and then into an eagle, which soon became it's original portrait.
The portrait Dumbledore thanked McGonagall as she returned to her teaching.
"Now, class," said McGonagall as she started teaching the class.
Transfiguration seemed to hit them all like a tidal wave--with James left standing.
"Come on guys, this is First Year stuff, literally!" James boasted loudly.
Sirius had been desperately trying to get his match to work with him. James had already change a whole matchbox into needles, whereas Lily Evans and Remus were just on his tail. Peter accidentally blew up half his matches and McGonagall had resigned him to sit and watch James perform the spells. Sirius, however, had too much dignity to sit and watch someone else conquer simple transfiguring spell. Jeremi, snarling at her match, hadn't given up her transfiguring, but jealous that Katie beside her had also finished up her matchbox and was reading a book.
Sirius cleared his throat and tried the spell again after asking, "Do you think that this needle will ever--oh my gosh!"
James looked over at Sirius who was staring wide-eyed at his desk, his mouth open.
"I did it!" he shouted. "YES!"
A small crowd formed around Sirius.
"I'm so jealous, squared!" she shrieked, resting her head sadly on Sirius' shoulder.
Peter stared in awe. "Nice work, buddy," James said, patting Sirius on the back.
Sirius began doing a little dance, causing the crowd around him to chuckle.
"Wait..." Remus said, looking back at the match-now-a-needle. The needle was still a needle, but it was charging at Sirius.
"Huh?" asked Sirius, before he shrieked and steered clear of the needle, bulldozing Jeremi, Katie and Peter out of the way. The needle was then charging at everyone's heels before he was gone with a poof!
Lily Evans showed up looking disapprovingly at Sirius who was standing himself, Peter and the two girls up from the ground.
"Sirius," Lily scolded, "don't you know how to transfigure a match?!"
Sirius shrugged. The bell then rang, leaving McGonagall to shout out the assignment before the class was gone for the end of the day.
~~*~~
By: BobDole77
"Potions, Transfiguration, Charms and a Whole Bunch of Potions"
"Honestly, I don't understand why they even have that class!" Sirius screamed in frustration while walking to his second class of the day. "It's a waste of time, I tell you! She's a bunch of snot and doesn't know what she's talkin' about!" Sirius scrunched up his nose bitterly and slouched his way onward, his friends trailing behind him.
"It's not all that bad, Sirius," said Jeremi Brown. "I mean, Potions is a great subject to learn! But, then again, maybe the teacher isn't too good."
"What are you talking about, Jeremias," grumbled Sirius.
"Jeremi," she corrected sharply.
"I mean, it's not like I'm ever going to--"
"Don't say it, Sirius," she said, stopping him. "Of course you're going to use it in everyday life! That's almost like what people say about Arithmancy. Potions is your most important subject."
"Screw Potions and screw Professor Lambert--I quit," he announced while striding angrily into the Charms classroom.
Jeremi and Remus stopped at the door while James and Peter followed in after him.
"You know," Remus said solemnly, "it'll be hard to break it to him."
"I know," Jeremi agreed, sighing sadly at her friend who was trying to rip the feathers out of his new eagle quill. "He won't enjoy it at all."
Remus chuckled as James tried to pull the quill away from Sirius' deadly hands. They slowly walked into the room. "He will just have to appreciate Potions' for the rest of the year," he said, scooting into the two desks just infront Sirius and James.
"And Lambert, if he wants to make it to Second Year, that is," Jeremi added, snorting.
~~*~~
Charms had been a rather interesting class. It appears that Professor Rambly, an aging old witch with eyes of a fox, was a little too scary for her character. She started the class with taking notes from the chapter, not bothering with any 'beware of me' introduction. In fact, she would float around the room while they were taking notes, and announce answers every ten minutes, therefore allowing Sirius to sleep at will. However, half way through the class, she had thought that they were 'A+' students and sent them on their way into changing the color of a bunny--a regular spell for First Years. However, things did not go as planned.
The bubbly professor did nothing, after assigning the task, but polish her nails and write letters with her frilly pink-feathered quill in what looked like dark pink ink. Imagine that.
So, Lily Evans, who was sitting beside Figg, had resorted into helping the other students, seeing as she had finished with an entire batch of her bunnies (she was bored changing them into every color she could possibly think of). James' bunny seemed to not want to cooperate and he was madly chasing the fur-ball with his wand. Sirius, who sat in the chair next to James, seemed to be having fun changing other people's skin and hair instead of his bunny, which resulted in Lily getting angry at Sirius for turning her hair blue (Jeremi couldn't control herself with laughter so much that Lily was terribly suspicious). Remus, however, fell asleep because he had already finished changing numerous bunnies into numerous colors (and also gave up helping Peter, his partner). Peter accidentally blew up one of his bunnies, made one disappear, and two of them grew an extra ear. So, Remus ordered him to sit and watch Lily and follow her around (only because he was scared for the well fare of the bunny and before he fell asleep).
Lily looked around at the class who seemed to be just as happy as anyone would be to joke around in their second class of their first year. She giggled at Talon, who had resentfully been assigned to be partners with Elinda Morocco and had decided not to talk to her at all. She saw that the four boys were in the very back of the room, the two dark haired ones with each other and the latter two in front of them. To the left of the two black-haired boys, James and Sirius as she remembered, sat the girl named Jeremi who had shooed the boys from Lily's compartment while on the train. She sat beside the Gryffindor named Katherine (or Katie), and they seemed to be having a good time changing everybody else's hair different colors, like Sirius was doing. So Sirius who was changing everybody else's hair different colors, like Jeremi was doing, had gone a little overboard.
The Gryffindors have this Charms class with the Ravenclaws. The Ravenclaws terribly disapproved with Gryffindors, seeing as the Ravenclaws are extremely studious. But two of them seemed to be having a little more fun than usual. Geremaine France and Ted Tonks had particularly overly enjoyed themselves by adding extra body parts to any remaining Gryffindors, including those of Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, Lily, Jeremi and Katie.
"WHAT THE-" yelled a male voice, breaking Rambly's hobby of nail painting or pink-ink writing.
Sirius, himself, was currently not sitting on his wooden chair, but instead on the stony ground. James, beside Sirius, was now besides himself in laughter.
"Hello Sirius!" Remus said enthusiastically from behind him. "Welcome to Charms class, may I help you?"
"Er. Sirius?" asked Peter tentatively, "I'm wondering... Do you enjoy being there? Or is it--"
"PETER!" Sirius yelled, standing himself up and brushing off his robes, his head ducked low. "No, I don't, thanks Pete, but good you asked, because someone is going to die soon."
"Wha' happened?" James asked, brushing tears from his eyes.
"That's what happened!" Sirius screamed, pointing at two of the Ravenclaws sitting on the other side of the room in the back, laughing hysterically.
Sirius then turned around toward Remus, Jeremi and Peter to show them what he was so angry about.
Jeremi couldn't contain herself and burst out laughing so hard that she cried. Remus and Peter soon followed suit as the shock of what Sirius looked like wore off.
How he saw what he looked like what later found out, but they didn't care. All that they were caring about was that Sirius had apparently grown an extra nose--full of three warts and hair to benefit. His eyebrows were green and his lips were blue. And his face was red with anger.
As he was just about to launch himself at the two Ravenclaws in the back of the room, Tonks and France, when Rambly's shrilly voice stopped everything.
The room had utterly caused chaos in those two seconds of Sirius charging the two students. James had held his friend back, Remus, Peter, Jeremi and Katie coming to the rescue. But then Lily came and tried to scold Sirius. She didn't so much as one word out before a loud screeching reached her ears...
"STUUUUUUUUUUUDEEEEEEENTS!!!!!!!!!" came a horrible noise that sounded like horrible car brakes (whatever that was). Jeremi and Katie almost fainted from the noise, but went next to the four boys, who, like every other boy, were covering their ears with fear and had their wands out, ready to fight whatever evil ensued. Lily actually fainted from the high-pitch noise it was so harsh. The woman and children (girls, in other words) were left to scream and race for the door, but couldn't make it because the screeching noise was coming from the area of the door. So, they just crouched in the back of the room. Figg, Talon, and Elinda, cautiously went over and dragged the unconscience Lily to the back of the wall, once again huddling in fear.
Finally, the horrible screeching came to a stop. All the students came out from behind their desks, and the girls in the back were checking to make sure that they were all right.
Sirius made a daring move. "Professor Rambly!" he yelled, drawing himself to stand up fully. "Are you all right?"
There was no answer.
He continued, "Did you see where the horrible screeching noise came from, Professor? Professor? Are you all right, Professor?"
Slowly, he walked toward the Professor with confusion. And he did find her.
Professor Rambly was currently re-painting her index fingernail.
"A stupid piece of paper from you meddling kids ruined my nails!" she exclaimed, her squeaky voice still very high. She took a deep breath and watch as all the other students recovered themselves and returned to their seats.
The four boys and two girls remained in front of the desk.
"Professor? Wait a second..." Remus thought. "Was that noise..."
"It couldn't be!" James howled.
"I think it was--" Jeremi said.
"You?!" Peter said, finally understanding.
"What?" Professor Rambly asked. "What do you want?"
"Was that you, Professor? That screech that was just made?" Katie asked timidly.
"I was just settling down the class, is all," she explained, examining her one nail. "There's nothing wrong now. Sit."
The six students obliged, confused, and then scared.
Their own teacher made that horrible noise!
~~*~~
"I'm starving," Jeremi announced.
"Hey, I was going to say that!" Sirius retorted.
"Too bad," she responded grumpily, therefore occupying one of the seats at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall. The four boys then sat at their respectably spots at the table. Remus took his seat beside Jeremi, with Katie on her other side, and Sirius directly across from her. James was in between Sirius and Peter. Lily and the other girls sat in a row beside Katie.
"Katie," Jeremi said, turning to her female friend beside her, "what were the pages that Mozzly assigned in Potions.
Sirius grumbled. "Thanks, Jeremias!"
"Jeremi," she corrected sternly.
"That's just what I need!" he exclaimed, ignoring her correction. "Just when I'm starting to accept Potions--"
"You're not accepting Potions anytime, Sirius," Remus countered quietly.
Sirius ignored again and continued, "--when you go on and ruin it by asking what the BLOODY ASSIGNMENT WAS! ARG!"
"Gosh," Jeremi mumbled to Katie, winking, "he's acting like a girl, ya know?"
Katie nodded in agreement.
And then the two broke out laughing.
So Sirius, who was furious with the girls, turned back to stabbing at his meatloaf and mashed potatoes.
~~*~~
"Tomato?" Peter whispered. "Sausages? Nice, crispy bacon?"
"We saved some for you, Mr. Sirius," James offered quietly. (A/n: Sorry, inside joke)
Sirius accepted the offer and quickly gobbled it up.
"So much for that," Peter grouchily murmured to Remus, who was beside him. Remus smirked then turned back to Professor McGonagall, who was transfiguring a portrait of Dumbledore (on the wall) into a bouquet of flowers, which soon became a donkey, then a pouf, and then into an eagle, which soon became it's original portrait.
The portrait Dumbledore thanked McGonagall as she returned to her teaching.
"Now, class," said McGonagall as she started teaching the class.
Transfiguration seemed to hit them all like a tidal wave--with James left standing.
"Come on guys, this is First Year stuff, literally!" James boasted loudly.
Sirius had been desperately trying to get his match to work with him. James had already change a whole matchbox into needles, whereas Lily Evans and Remus were just on his tail. Peter accidentally blew up half his matches and McGonagall had resigned him to sit and watch James perform the spells. Sirius, however, had too much dignity to sit and watch someone else conquer simple transfiguring spell. Jeremi, snarling at her match, hadn't given up her transfiguring, but jealous that Katie beside her had also finished up her matchbox and was reading a book.
Sirius cleared his throat and tried the spell again after asking, "Do you think that this needle will ever--oh my gosh!"
James looked over at Sirius who was staring wide-eyed at his desk, his mouth open.
"I did it!" he shouted. "YES!"
A small crowd formed around Sirius.
"I'm so jealous, squared!" she shrieked, resting her head sadly on Sirius' shoulder.
Peter stared in awe. "Nice work, buddy," James said, patting Sirius on the back.
Sirius began doing a little dance, causing the crowd around him to chuckle.
"Wait..." Remus said, looking back at the match-now-a-needle. The needle was still a needle, but it was charging at Sirius.
"Huh?" asked Sirius, before he shrieked and steered clear of the needle, bulldozing Jeremi, Katie and Peter out of the way. The needle was then charging at everyone's heels before he was gone with a poof!
Lily Evans showed up looking disapprovingly at Sirius who was standing himself, Peter and the two girls up from the ground.
"Sirius," Lily scolded, "don't you know how to transfigure a match?!"
Sirius shrugged. The bell then rang, leaving McGonagall to shout out the assignment before the class was gone for the end of the day.
~~*~~