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Chapter 13
Ron and Harry were making their way to breakfast the next morning when Sirius and James came up behind them.
"Hey guys!" Sirius said a little too cheerfully, slinging an arm across Ron's shoulders as James did the same to Harry.
"Er, hi," Harry replied, attempting to remove James's arm.
James didn't budge.
"Where's Paul?" Ron asked.
"He's sleeping," James replied quickly.
"So, Pronglet and Arthur junior," Sirius began.
"If you're going to start on that again you can get lost now," Ron snapped.
"Hey, we're just trying to make conversation here!" James cried defensively.
"Yeah, sure you are," Harry said sarcastically, "What do you want?"
James grinned. "Well, now that you mention it…"
"Little Ronniekins here didn't keep up his end of the deal," Sirius continued.
Ron gulped. "What deal was that?"
"You know, the one that had me up in front of the entire school singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?" Sirius reminded him with a smirk.
"I am so not doing that," Ron said with a shudder, "Besides; you said you wanted to do it alone."
"Well I couldn't have someone like you messing up my act, could I?"
Ron rolled his eyes.
"Get to the point, and get your arm off my shoulder – it's heavy!" Harry snapped.
"Ok, ok!" James agreed, taking back his arm, "We need a favour-"
"And we think that Ron here would be perfect for the job," Sirius finished.
"You shook on it when you made the deal with my mate here," James reminded him.
"What do I have to do?" Ron asked with a hint of a groan.
Professor Snape was in a bad mood when he walked into class that morning. Not only did he have to teach those insufferable Gryffindor brats this morning, he now had Black and Potter to keep an eye on also. Just thinking of it made his blood boil. Or run cold. He wasn't quite sure which it was.
Sirius and Ron partnered together that morning to make a difficult potion called 'Ocknax Solution' that was supposed to remove stains from clothing.
Halfway through the class, James grinned that grin at Sirius. Sirius smiled inwardly as he contemplated what was to come. He nudged Ron. Ron groaned and silently prayed that Snape wasn't watching him as he took their cauldron off the heat and poured in a large quantity of murtlap essence.
His prayers weren't answered, as Snape was bearing down on him moments later.
"Why did you do that, Weasely?" he hissed, "Do the instructions not clearly state that this potion is not to be removed from the heat at any time during its brewing?"
"Err, I guess I must've missed that part Professor," Ron muttered, thinking dark, evil, murderous thoughts about Sirius and James.
The potion started to froth and turned an interesting shade of magenta. Professor Snape waved his wand over it, deleting it from existence just as the froth started to flow over the top of the cauldron.
"Detention tomorrow night at six, Mr Weasely," Snape said with a smirk, "Do not be late."
As Snape returned to his desk, Ron saw Sirius and James flash each other the thumbs up.
"You better have done something really good for me to get a detention with Snape, Orion." Ron snapped.
Sirius grinned. "Well, I wouldn't say it was our best ever effort, but it's not too bad."
As they left the dungeons a little while later, Harry, Ron and Hermione noticed that Snape had the words "I am a greasy git" printed in bright purple letters across the back of his robes, and his shoes had turned the same shade of purple as the letters. They all rolled their eyes and walked away quickly, hoping they wouldn't be in trouble.
A/N Sploogal Speaking I am so sorry for taking so long with this chapter. I've had a really difficult last couple of months and haven't had much of an opportunity to work on this. At least exams are over now (or they will be tomorrow, anyway), so I can try and make my next chapter a bit longer to make up for the lateness (and shortness) of this one. grins Deal?
A/N 2 Hey, Star here. I am sorry but I don't have time to write reviewer responses right now. Thank you to everyone who is enjoying this! I hope you continue to like it.