Library Trip
The chaos that followed the Marauder's midnight adventure was little more than a blur to any of them, mostly because they couldn't figure out whether the teachers wished to expel the lot of them or what.
Yet nothing more happened in the following weeks of any great importance until Allysia and Alice got out of the hospital wing.
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The four friends dragged themselves out of bed the next day and down to a late breakfast. The Marauders managed to make it there before the crowd, but the other half of the first year Gryffindor group was already seated at the table.
"Morning, girls." Sirius greeted, sitting himself down at the table and eyeing a strawberry breakfast tart. "Food!"
Lily rolled her eyes as the other three boys sat down as well and turned pleadingly to her friends. "Must I?"
One of Lizz's eyebrows shot up, but she made no comment.
"Yes." Alice answered.
By now all four boys were wondering what was going on.
"Right… We want to call an official truce in light of recent events."
This time it was James's turn to raise an eyebrow. "Oookay."
Everyone blinked for a few moments before Sirius broke the silence.
"Food!!!"
He had discovered a brand new breakfast food that the house elves had just put out: A tart stuffed with eggs and other breakfast items.
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"Well..." Remus said as the four walked with the rest of the class to History of Magic. (Finals were fast approaching and the classes were mainly reviewing what they'd already covered, but they still received mounds of homework.)
"Well what?" James asked absently, he was searching his bags for sugar quills. Sugar quills were the only things capable of almost keeping anyone awake through that class, but they were only guaranteed to help resist boredom for around five minutes tops.
"Now that we know we're not getting expelled, should we continue fruitlessly trying to get house points in a way that shall lose points-"
Sirius opened his mouth, most likely to answer with a 'yes' of some form or other, but Remus quickly pressed on.
"Or, should we do something else. "
"Like what?" Peter asked cautiously. He knew Remus was far more likely to come up with something safe, but that didn't mean it would be something he was fond of doing.
"Like" Remus said, looking mildly annoyed at no one being overjoyed at his idea, whatever it may be. Not that he had expected them to be enthused, but still... "Studying for final exams. Which, might I remind all of you, are less than two weeks away."
Peter gaped, obviously having needed reminding. Sirius merely shrugged, he had already pointedly ignored any suggestions of extra studying made several weeks earlier.
"Anything more entertaining?" James asked, as they entered the classroom and headed for their group of seats near the back.
Remus said nothing, only looking slightly dejected that his idea had been vetoed.
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Everyone waited quietly as Professor Binns floated in through the blackboard, but that didn't last long. Immediately after arriving he began a long drawn out speech reviewing an earlier history subject, something on a goblin uprising. The entire class groaned as they realized he had given the exact same speech the lesson before, apparently he had forgotten.
After class, on the way to dinner, the Marauders suddenly found themselves accompanied by Frank.
"Never been more bored in my life." Frank announced, amazingly back on speaking terms with the Marauders.
Not missing a beat due to Frank's sudden talkativeness, Sirius answered in agreement. "Yeah, I sent a note anonymously to Dumbledore saying we needed a new History of Magic teacher, but he wrote me back and said Professor Binns has never missed a day of work. Sorta unnerving that he knew who to write back too though..."
"Dedicated teachers... How can we make Binns miss a day?" James pondered aloud. "How do you delay a ghost who's that dull?"
Peter shook his head. "Can't be done."
James, Sirius, and Frank sighed. Peter was right.
"Least we have Defence Against the Dark Arts to look forward to tomorrow." James announced. "That's never boring."
"It was rather scary once or twice though..." Peter quickly added. "Those Boggarts were something else." He continued on with a slightly thoughtful expression. "You haven't been up against one yet, Remus. What will it turn into for you?"
Remus, who had been silently listening, suddenly blinked, ignoring Peter's question. "Boggarts...."
No one heard him, however, because Sirius had just somehow pulled his Flitterbloom out of his pocket. Showing off that he had managed to make his harmless plant a little less than harmless. The plant now twitched slightly at any sudden movements.
"Just need to grow it a bit bigger." Sirius said proudly. "Then we can leave Bob near the Slytherin common room and let him do the rest."
"What's up, Remus?" James questioned when Remus didn't throw in his usual bit about getting detention.
"I just thought of something..." Remus answered absently. "I'm going to go check out a book from the library."
The remaining boys watched in slight confusion as Remus immediately turned around and headed off for the library.
"What's that about?" Sirius questioned.
The others shrugged and Peter announced excitedly, "I just remembered something! Earlier I heard exams were being called off! Something about having to search the school..."
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Remus paused only long enough to greet the aging librarian before he grabbed the nearest book on dark creatures. Soon he was sitting at his favorite little table flipping through the pages, a look of utmost concentration on his pale face. He took no notice of anything but the book for quite a while.
So suddenly that he would have startled someone, if anyone had been in the library, Remus snapped the book shut with a triumphant and slightly grim smile.
Things weren't quite so sketchy to him now.
- Jade-chan
