Hermione A Time Turner and The Marauders
Chapter 4 – Punishment
Disclaimer – I seriously (sorry Lauren) do not know why I continue to put this up in my stories. Why does anyone write it? I mean, who, with money like J.K Rowling, would bother writing stories on a site made by half of her fans? Duh…. Bloody stupid people…. And I STILL put this up…
The next morning, The Marauders, Lily and Hermione slowly made their way to breakfast. They sat down at the Gryffindor table, feeling a lot less tired than yesterday, but also a lot less excited. They ate in silence, which was unusual for the Marauders particulary. All of them were dreading the time when the owl post would come. The time went by very slow and by the time it came, they had finished their breakfast much earlier before. The owls screeched, hooted, and dropped parcels and envelopes on their owners heads. They all groaned when a slip of paper each fell to the table in front of them.
Hermione picked up her piece and read:
To Miss Hermione Granger.
Your detention will take place tonight at 7:00pm. You are to meet Professor Auron in the potions classroom. Do not be late.
Professor M. McGonagall
Hermione stared at the little slip of paper, jaw dropped. Classes with Auron were bad, but detention with him? Him being head of Slytherin house didn't make the situation any better. Hermione looked up at her friends who were too, staring at their detention slips in disbelief. James banged his fist on the table.
'In the forest with Hagrid?' Hermione asked, a puzzled expression on her face.
'Yeah-'
'Oh no!' Sirius exclaimed. Everyone looked at him, expecting an answer. Sirius sighed.
'They have given us separate detentions. Just like we bloody well feared,' Sirius said, looking back down at his piece of paper, rereading the words over and over. There was a moments silence.
'But I've got the same as James,' Lily spoke up. Sirius looked up at her.
'What? Show me that,' Sirius said, as Lily handed him her detention slip. He read it quickly then handed it back.
'Well what have you got Remus?' Sirius asked, turning to Remus.
'I have to help Filch with his duties,' Remus replied with a frown, not looking up from his piece of paper.
'Filch? Me too!' Peter exclaimed, suddenly relieved that he wouldn't be serving the detention alone.
'Hermione?' Sirius asked.
'Auron in the potions classroom,' Hermione replied unenthusiastically. Sirius nodded.
'Me too.' They all exchanged glances.
'Well at least we aren't serving completely separate detentions,' Remus said, breaking the awkward silence.
'I guess…' James muttered. There was another awkward silence. Hermione glanced down at her watch.
'Well, classes should be starting soon. We'd better get going, we have potions,' Hermione said, putting down a small crust off her piece of toast and stood up.
'Oh crap,' Sirius muttered, 'We've got detention with him and still have to go to his classes! What a bloody waste of time!'
'You've always thought classes are a waste of time, particulary potions,' Remus muttered.
'Classes are a waste of time! I know enough alread, I'm not stupid-' Sirius said, standing up suddenly, but lost his balance in the process, causing himself to fall over and land with a thud on the ground. Sirius groaned.
'Woops,' Sirius mumbled. James, Remus and Peter cracked up laughing and Lily had arched her eyebrows looking down at Sirius, shaking her head. But Hermione frowned and grabbed Sirius's arm and helped him up.
'You were saying…?' Hermione said with a smirk, now laughing along with the others.
'Ah forget it!' Sirius grumbled, setting the others off into another fit of laughter.
'LATE!' Auron shouted at the top of his voice as Hermione, Lily and the Marauders walked into the classroom, around ten minutes late. They all flinched. Peter actually dropped all his books, causing James and Sirius to snigger. The covered their mouths quickly to hide it, but Auron never missed a thing.
'So you think its funny do you?' Auron asked with a sneer playing on his face.
'N-No sir,' Sirius stuttered, trying to stop laughing, but failed miserably. James wasn't helping at all by poking Sirius continuously in the side.
'Well, Black, Potter, Lupin, Pettigrew, Evans and Granger… lets see what excuse your using today,' Auron sneered. Hermione opened her mouth to speak, but Sirius got there before her.
'Well you see sir, after the success of yesterdays attempt of attacking the Slytherins, we thought it would be fun to do it again!" Sirius said cheerfully as if it were completely normal to plan murders. "So we have been planning, in the ten minutes that we were absent for your class, another prank,' Sirius said with a grin, walking up to a desk and throwing his books down, as hard as he could, on top of it, before sitting down on the seat, grinning the whole time. Even Hermione, Lily and the rest of the Marauders wore bewildered looks on their faces.
'You already have, much to my dislike, a detention with me tonight boy. Do you really want to make it another?' Auron threatened.
'Well if you hate it that much-'
'SILENCE!' They all flinched again. Auron stormed over to Sirius's desk and slammed his fists on the top of it, causing them all to flinch again.
'This is my classroom. You are my student, again, much to my dislike and I have had to put up with you for the past five years. If it wasn't for Dumbledore-'
"You'd smash my head in? Pulverise me? Curse me to obliviation?' Sirius suggested, counting them off on his fingers.
'SHUT UP BLACK!' Auron yelled, before lowering his voice to a deadly hiss. 'If it werent for Dumbledore, you'd be out of this school. Students have been expelled for doing things no where near as bad as some of the things you and your little group have done. But still Dumbledore lets you stay. I personally don't see why he would bother. Your not good at anything anyway,' Auron added bitterly.
'You wouldn't be insulting me now, would you Professor?' Sirius asked mockingly.
'Trust me Black, when I'm insulting you, you'd know it.' He turned his head sharply in the others' direction. They all flinched. Again.
'Sit down. We'll discuss your punishment after class,' Auron said simply, before turning back to the class. Their jaws dropped in disbelief.
'Punishment? But sir-'
'Miss Granger. You came into my class ten minutes late, just yesterday injured most of the students in my house, and are now talking back to me. I would have expelled you by now. But obviously Dumbledore has found a reason to keep you around, just as he has for Black, Lupin and the rest of you. Now sit down before I change my mind about letting you even stay in my classroom.' Hermione opened her mouth to say something back but Remus shot her a look.
'Its not worth it,' he mouthed. Hermione closed her mouth, gave a short nod, and followed the rest to the desk where Sirius was sitting.
Now I would like to say that the rest of Potions class went smoothly, Lily, Hermione and the Marauders stayed out of trouble and they all got out of detention. But what were the chances of that ever going to happen? So naturally, they all stuff things up, and land in even more trouble than before. Who'd have seen that coming?
So, after Lily, Hermione and the Marauders had all sat down, Auron started boring them all with explaining the tiny little details that, "No one needs to know," as Sirius so nicely put it, about potions that half of them would never need to make later on. But maybe they should have listened a little harder.
Auron was ranted on about healing potions. He explained to the class that healing potions will numb the pain temporarily, but they should only be used when absolutely necessary. Even Remus did not feel the need to scribble down any notes.
Sirius was twirling his quill around his fingers like a baton while tapping his foot on the stone floor and rapping on the table with his other hand. Auron shot him a few warning glances which Sirius completely ignored. Hermione, who was in the seat next to Sirius kicked his foot under the table. Sirius looked up at her, putting on his best innocent face.
"Don't get us into more trouble. It really isnt worth it," Hermione whispered to him while Auron had his back turned to write on the board. Sirius just smiled mischieviously and gazed away from her. Hermione sighed and rolled her eyes. There was no point in trying to stop him, so Hermione tried to concentrate on the potions master. But for once in her life, she found she just could not concentrate in class.
Suddenly the bell rang.
"Class is over. Black, Lupin, Potter, Pettigrew, Evans and Granger stay behind. The rest of you are dismissed," Auron said with a cruel grin. The Marauders, Lily and Hermione groaned while the others left. As soon as the last person was out the door, Auron rounded on them.
"Do you think you're funny?" Auron asked. No one answered him.
"Well I've got news for you all. You're not," Auron said nastily. "Though you may try hard to be, I would appreciate it if you did not waste my class as time trying to amuse your classmates." Sirius opened his mouth to speak, but Hermione stamped down hard on his foot, about the same time as Remus elbowed him in the ribs. Sirius tried hard not to show the pain, but let a little wince show. He shot Hermione and Remus a dirty look. Thankfully Auron missed it.
"Have I made myself clear?" Auron asked threateningly. They all nodded, except for Sirius who felt a slight tilt of his head was enough.
"I wont be giving you detention, because spending my free time alone with you lot is about as close to hell as you could get-" Sirius opened his mouth to say he felt the same about him, but was met with more pain in his ribs and foot. "-But I will be placing you under further seating arrangements in my class."
Sirius's jaw dropped. Hermione and Remus gave him warning glances. He took the hint.
"We will discuss it next lesson. Now get out of my classroom." They didn't need telling twice. They quickly gathered their books and walked out of the room, Sirius making sure to slam the door as hard as he could on his way out.
"That is so unfair!" Sirius exlaimed. "I've got detention with him tonite, which, might I say, is bad enough in itself. But seating arrangements?!" The rest of the group groaned, showing their lack of enthusiasm towards the new plan.
"We know, Padfoot. We know," James said patting Sirius on the back. They began quickly walking back to Gryffindor Common Room.
"… And the way he was talking to us!" Sirius went on. "Do you think we might be able to get him into trouble for that?" Sirius asked hopefully.
"I doubt it, Sirius. I highly doubt it," Remus told him.
"Gee thanks, Moony. Just crushed my dreams. Thanks a lot," Sirius groaned.
"Don't mention it," Remus said with a laugh.
"Hey, I've just had a thought," Sirius said. Everyone stared at him incredulously.
"You sound amazed," Remus commented.
"Shut up," Sirius remarked.
"Sorry. I was just wondering if you felt the same way we did," Remus said, managing to keep a straight face. The rest of the group laughed. Not Sirius.
"Very funny," Sirius replied cooly.
"So whats your idea?" Hermione asked curiously. Suddenly it was as if Sirius completely forgot that a minute beforehand they were all laughing at him.
"Well, I was thinking… why don't we skive of the rest of the classes today and head off to Hogsmeade?" Sirius said this in an undertone so no one who may have been walking past could hear. James was the only one to agree.
"Yeah! Awesome idea Padfoot!" James exlaimed. The rest of them had expressions on their faces, showing exactly what they though.
"No way," Lily said, crossing her arms.
"Oh come on Lil's! Surely you can get into a little trouble every now an then!" James said nudging her with his elbow.
"James, unless for some reason your small brain did not process the so called "attempted murders" we committed just yesterday, you would realise that we all ended up with detention," Lily reminded him.
"Don't forget the seating arrangements," Hermione pitched in.
"Oh yeah," James said slightly dazed.
"Okay, lets get back to skipping classes; come on, it'll be fun. No one will know! We'll just say we weren't feeling well," Sirius suggested.
"All of us?" Hermione asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Well Auron does make me a little queesy…" Sirius trailed off.
"Sirius, it isnt going to work," Remus told him. "There is no way they are going to buy that we were all not feeling well."
"Besides, we only just got in trouble yesterday for almost killing all the Slytherin's," Hermione added.
"And we got detention for it," Lily added sourly.
"And now we have seating arrangements," Remus added also.
"Okay, well think of it this way. What subjects have we got today?" Sirius asked. Hermione, who out of habit had already memorised the timetable, spoke up immediately.
"We've got History of Magic next."
"Boring. Binn's has been teaching for probably centuries! You don't learn anything from him anyway!" Sirius interjected.
"Transfiguration."
"McGonagall… do you really need me to explain why we shouldn't go to that class?"
"Divination," Hermione said slowly, wrinkling up her nose in disgust.
"Self explanitory. Trewlawny's a hag who gets off telling people they are going to die."
"I have to agree with you on that one," Hermione sighed.
"Hermione!" Lily and Remus exclaimed at the same time.
"What?" Hermione asked innocently. "She is a hag. And Divination is a pointless subject. It's not like there is any real proof that it works."
"Its still a class," Remus said.
"And if we miss it then we'll get even more detentions!" Lily groaned.
"And you just would be able to stand that would you, Lil's?" James teased.
"Don't you start-"
"Quit it the both of you! Back on the subject. What's after Divination?" Sirius asked Hermione.
"Well actually, that's it. Divination is a double," Hermione said, sounding, if possible, even more disgusted that before. Sirius clapped his hands together triumphantly.
"I think we have ourselves a winner, ladies and gentlemen. To Hogsmeade we go!" Sirius laughed.
A/N – Yes, I know! Finally I've posted a new chapter! And to think, my last update was sometime last year! Bit slack, I know, but I have a whole lot of other stories going at the moment. If you guys have ANY ideas for this story, please review me and tell me. I've got an idea… but I need another one to make it all fit better… ANYWAY!… Please review! Hope you liked it.
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