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A/N: Thank you guys SO much for all the reviews! If you guys get a chance, you should check out "Prophecy: That Cat Had It Coming!"… It's a one-shot about young Sirius and his unexplainable fear of cats… Especially ones owned by Bellatrix… Well, that's about it… Hope this chapter lives up to the last two and that you enjoy it!

"Where's Lily?" James asked as he suddenly awoke in the middle of McGonagall's class, his eyes darting around the room.

"James, I think you were dreaming about Lily again," Sirius muttered out of the side of his mouth from beside James.

"No, no, Lily-groundhog," James muttered as he looked down at his book bag to find that it only contained what it was supposed to: books, quills, parchment, dungbombs, and his wand. No Lily-groundhog.

"James," Remus whispered urgently from the other side of James.

"Not now, Remmy," James dismissed him as he continued to look around anxiously for his beloved pet, "I'm busy."

"No, James," Remus said with a sigh. "I really think you should take a look at this.

"Not now, Remmy," James dismissed him again in an annoyed voice.

"Seriously," Sirius paused to giggle, "You should really take a look at this, mate."

"Fine." James snapped, looking up from the floor, "What?"

"That!" Sirius whispered urgently as he pointed towards the front of the class where McGonagall was lecturing.

"What about her? Don't tell me Remmy's going on again about how I should be taking notes, because I have a bit more important things to worry about right now…"

"No, that," Peter chimed in from the row in front of James, Sirius, and Remus as he pointed to a certain groundhog sitting in front of the class, several inches from McGonagall's feet.

"Not again," James said with a gasp.

Two days ago, the same thing had happened and McGonagall had given James a week of detention and told him to get rid of the 'rat'.

"Looks like it, mate," Sirius said, eyes wide.

"But—" James stuttered as he hoped that McGonagall would not look down and see Lily-groundhog. It seemed as though no one had noticed her presence yet. "Does anyone have any food?"

Sirius rummaged began rummaging through his bag for a moment before pausing.

"I'm gonna get it back, right?" Sirius asked in a reluctant voice.

"Of course you are, you prat," James said, pulling Sirius' hand out of his bag and taking the sandwich.

"Ten points from Gryffindor," Professor McGonagall said, pausing her lecture for a moment to silence James and Sirius.

James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter collectively held their breath and then exhaled as the Professor went back to her lecture without looking down.

James silently slid from his chair, food still in hand to the floor and began to crawl quietly towards the front of the classroom.

"Come here, Lily," James called quietly to the groundhog from underneath a desk in the front row. She/he was barely two feet from James.

The groundhog looked up at her/his owner for a moment before gnawing on the leg of McGonagall's podium.

"Lily," James said again, more urgently as he held the food out to her.

"What?" Lily Evans absently called from her seat in the second row.

Professor McGonagall stopped lecturing.

"Did you have a question, Ms. Evans," McGonagall asked the student.

"No ma'am, I thought I heard someone calling me," Lily said as she looked around in confusion.

Professor McGonagall gave the young girl a thin-lipped smile before once again returning to her lecture.

Lily-groundhog continued to gnaw on the podium.

James let out his breath. He hadn't been aware he was holding it.

"Ew," Ava Labeau, Lily Evans' best friend called out from her seat beside Lily. "It's that creepy rat from our dorm yesterday!"

Professor McGonagall and the rest of the class looked to where she was pointing.

"Mr. Potter," McGonagall said as she stared at the groundhog who was currently continuing to gnaw on the podium innocently.

James squatted silently underneath the desk, praying that she wouldn't see him.

"Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall repeated as James saw her feet appear in front of his face.

"Congratulations, Professor," James said as he crawled out from under the desk and dusted himself off. "Your turn to hide now."

"I do believe I told you to get rid of your rat," McGonagall said as she picked up Lily-groundhog with a displeased look on her face.

"I—" James began.

"I'm sorry I have to do this, but another week of detention and I'll be keeping the rat," McGonagall said.

"Lily!" James squealed sadly.

"What?" Lily Evans called out in exasperation as she slammed her quill on her parchment.

"Not you," Sirius said from the back of the classroom as he rolled his eyes, "The rat."

"He named his fat rat after me?" Lily asked in disgust.

"Mr. Potter is apparently a deeply disturbed young man," Professor McGonagall said simply.

"Lily," James continued to squeal from the front of the classroom in a trance.

"How much longer do we have?" Sirius whispered to Remus.

"Four days, 14 hours, 29 minutes, and 59 seconds."

--Well, there it is! I hope you enjoyed it! I'm not sure if it's quite as funny as the first two chapters… Sorry if it isn't… If everyone tells me it wasn't funny, I'll take it down and re-write it... But feel free to tell me your opinion in your REVIEW!--

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