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The next day I awoke to a faint smell of…FIRE! I jumped out of bed to see our curtains on fire, a petrified Peter huddled behind a chair and a frantic Remus casting random spells at the furniture.
"James, help!" Sirius shouted emerging from the bathroom with a glass full of water.
"Oh great like that will help" Remus shouted, hitting the curtain with a 10 volume Divination book.
"You DOPE SMOKERS! What the hell is going on here!" I shouted over the noisy commotion.
"Sirius decided to practise his charms in the dorm; he did a Professor Flitwick and set the curtain on fire!"
"Right, give me a minute" I whipped out my wand and muttered the same spell that had got Sirius out of trouble in class.
"Thanks James" Remus breathed, leaning against the wardrobe.
"Yeah - thanks" Sirius panted. Peter gave a little squeak of gratitude and came out of his place of hiding
"Do I have to do everything around here? Are you guys not capable enough to do ANYTHING!"
Peters face melted into a disappointed frown.
"Why do you say that James? It wasn't that bad, we had everything under control"
"EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL! You could have died you fools!"
"Oh well SORRY that we can't all be as cool headed and collected as you, I mean it's not even like you're smarter than me, you're still pushing up A's all the time while I'm up to my ears in O's"
"Smartness isn't all Books Remus, if it wasn't for me you would be up to your ears in smoke by now!"
"Look I'm not going to take this, find me when the elastic in your pants lets the blood circulate back to your brain. I'll be in the library up to my ears in BOOKS if you want me; after all I'm only book smart" And with that Remus left the room.
"Yeah well…Your shoes don't match your jumper!" I shouted mindlessly at the door.
Sirius glared at me and followed suit leaving me alone with a sad looking Peter.
"Go on then, you leave too, I don't need them any way, they owe me, next time I won't even help" I rambled on at the poor boy while he stood there and took it.
"I don't want to leave" He squeaked. I looked at him, his eyes were sad; he looked like a little mouse, a trapped mouse.
"I didn't mean to shout you know that Peter don't you?"
"Of course I know. And Sirius didn't mean to set the curtains on fire" I looked at him again, he had a point, I was the trapped one.
"Yes…well, that was different"
"Oh yes, of course, totally a different thing" Was this the real Peter, the Peter that was so scared of speaking out that he barely spoke at all?
"Ok, Ok I get it enough with the mind games…I'll go and apologise" Peter smiled, relieved that he had got his point across without having to make me angry.
I left the room myself and went off to find my cheesed off room mates who were probably bad mouthing me at that very moment. When I finally found Remus he wasn't were he had said at all, he was helping Lily with her TRANSFIGURATION homework outside…by OUR (the marauders) tree you know the one were we planned all our schemes and pranks!
"Oh…hi James" Remus mumbled glancing at me then looking back to the book he was holding.
"Hi James" Lily smiled looking at me also then returning her attention the text book in front of her.
"Hi, I just came to say - cough – sorry" Remus looked up at me again then smiled.
"It's ok; I'm just not as good at thinking on my feet as you are"
"That doesn't matter, were would I be without you guys? I mean who else lets me copy their homework?" Remus laughed lightly and gestured for me to take a seat next to him on the grass.
"No It's ok I haven't given Sirius my apologies yet"
"Oh yeah how is Sirius by the way?" Lily asked. I looked at her oddly, "His leg"
"OH YES OF COURSE his leg!"
"What about his leg?" Remus asked.
"He hurt it didn't he?" Lily asked giving him a quizzing look.
"He did?"
"YES, he did very badly" I looked at Remus with a pleading face.
"Oh yes…very bad" Remus said confused. I thanked him quietly.
"Oh no…that bad huh?"
"YES" We shouted in unison. She gave us funny looks, shook her head then returned back to her book.
"So…I'll get going then" I said quickly. I hurried off to the only place I could think of that Sirius could be. The quidditch pitch.
I guessed correctly, he was sitting in the stalls, staring thoughtfully at a piece of lint floating near him.
"Hi Padfoot" I said shyly sneaking up behind him. He jumped half way out of his seat, and then collapsed back on the floor panting.
"Do – pant – you – pant – want to – pant – kill – pant – me!"
"Well that wasn't my immediate intention but – " I stopped short when he gave me one of those deathly glares.
"Look I just wanted to say sorry" It was easier saying it to Sirius mainly because he had been my best friend ever since…I can remember. Plus I needed to say it a lot more to him than Remus and Peter. His glare softened and he gave me a sly smile.
"Apology…accepted" I helped him up from the ground and we had one of those weird manly emotional hug moments.
When we had made completely sure we were the only ones watching the spectacle we left the Quidditch pitch to catch the last bit of breakfast.
When we arrived we took our usual seats half way up the table.
"Hi Wormtail, Moony" I said sitting down in my seat.
"Hi" They said in turn, spooning scrambled eggs onto their plates.
"So, I was thinking", Sirius started, "Our beginning of the term prank needs to be HUGE this year"
"Yep, I already have some ideas hidden up my sleeve" I winked, discreetly pulling out a sheet of paper from, well, my sleeve.
"Lets see" Remus said franticly making a grab at the paper.
"Wait, not yet Moony, we'll discuss it at the tree after classes ok"
"Ok"
"Agreed"
"Can't wait"
And with that we went to our next lessons. Ok, yesterday you had a full insight into our academic lives, now I'm sure you couldn't care less about the punch up in Potions, the freaky tea leaf prediction in Divination and the human transfiguration in Transfiguration.
Oh you are interested? Ok then.
Well first we had potions, with our best friends the Slytherins. Snivellus and his nasty grey underwear strolled into the room with out a care in the world only for his happiness to be cut short when my even better friend Sirius dropped some goblin slime on the floor in front of him. Snivellus' legs flew out in odd angles as he did a sort of split manoeuvre; he stared up at Sirius with a hard expression. Now personally I wasn't scared, but some of the people who were previously laughing were now nervously glancing at the people standing around them then back to the scene.
Just then Lily came in with Alice (friend I mentioned earlier). She saw Sniv- I mean Severus on the floor and had that sympathising look in her eyes. She cautiously walked over to him and picked up his sleeve.
"Get off me you filthy Mud Blood; I don't want your germs!" Lily let go of his arm like it was on fire and took a small step back.
"Hey what did you call her!" I shouted stepping up to her defence.
"Leave it James" I heard Lily whisper behind me, but I ignored it.
"I called her a filthy Mud Blood; I'm just saying it how it is, Mud Blood LOVER!"
"That's it you're going down SLYTHERIN!"
"Oh bring it on Gryff –" But I didn't give him time to finish, I pounced on him and he sprawled across the floor.
"James DON'T!" Lily cried. I looked at her, before receiving a blow to the side of my head from Snivellus.
"Ahhh that HURT!" I screamed, throwing my fist into his stomach. He let out a small moan and crumbled.
"JAMES LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" Lily shouted at me, pulling me off of the still figure on the floor.
"I didn't…" I didn't finish my sentence as Severus was already up and pointing his wand at my gut.
"Please Severus don't" Lily pleaded.
"Oh will you shut your gob you contaminated freak, you think you're so clever so fabulous, you're nothing, NOTHING!" Lily's eyes filled with tears and I could already see the dull green they were turning.
"No one says that to my Lily", I whispered, "EXPELLIARMUS!" My wand shot out a white light and instantly his wand flew out of his hand.
"But – "
"I've never liked you Snape, but this is it, you'll be sorry you ever messed with…"
"Mr Potter" Oopsie. I slowly turned round.
"Professor" I said, smiling weakly.
"What was that Mr Potter, finish your sentence wont you"
"Err no Sir, I'm ok now, and I was just going to tell Sna- I mean Severus here that I thoroughly enjoy his company"
"I'm sure you were" Slughorn sniffed taking a seat at his desk.
"Whoa that was a close one, glad I got away with that" I whispered to Sirius beside me as we took our seats.
"Oh and Mr Potter"
"Yes Sir"
"Detention my room after classes" He said shuffling through a pile of papers.
"Of course" I mumbled, making a rude hand gesture under the desk.
Next lesson was Divination, thank goodness it was with the Ravenclaws, I couldn't stand that ugly smirk from Snivellus any longer, I was this close to smashing his peanut sized brain in.
Anyway I took my usual seat next to Sirius at the front of class, the only problem with this lesson was that Lily didn't take it, she thought it was a load of old rubbish and a waste of her valuable time.
I couldn't agree more! Well I would agree with her if she wanted me to.
So anyway, I sat on my puffy cushion and inhaled the powdery smell of the room.
"Welcome back 5th years to another year of visions, predictions and mysteries"
I sat there listening intently.
"Today we will be focusing on the art of the Tea Leaves, will every one collect a cup from the cupboard and brew your leaves so we can get started" I sat up so fast I felt dizzy and had to stable myself on someone's shoulder, little did I know I had just placed my hand on Melissa Cooks knee by mistake. She looked up at me with a pink face and mumbled something about having to get her own cup. She stood up even quicker than me and I fell back into Remus' lap.
"Get off James, you're blooming heavy" He said shoving me off.
"Thanks" I grumbled moving towards the cupboard and picking up a random cup from the shelf.
I sat back down and poured the tea into my cup.
Sirius did the same and after a few minutes we switched cups and examined each others.
"Well by the looks of it you are going to lose all your hair by your 20th birthday, marry a Troll named Barbette and get a job as a super market attendant" Sirius said a smile playing on his lips.
"Oh ha-ha Padfoot very funny" I said slightly amused.
"No really" He said seriously.
"WHAT!" I shouted grabbing the cup. Sirius burst into a fit of laughter as I kicked him hard under the table.
"Gotcha" He choked laughing so hard tears formed in the corners of his eyes.
"So what does it really say?" I queried looking at it strangely.
"Dunno" Sirius said sounding bored, checking his nails for…nail dirt or something.
"Hmmm…Professor, can you tell me what my leaves mean?" Trelawney turned her large haired head in my direction and peered at me through her dinner plate sized spectacles.
"Of course I can Harry"
"Harry?"
"I'm sorry did I say Harry, I meant…James" Her eyes did something weird and suddenly she had my full attention. When she arrived by my side she picked up my cup and for a second looked at it. Then she slowly turned to me and dropped the cup, it made a piercing noise as it hit the floor and smashed.
The room suddenly seemed darker and the tension was more evident in the class.
"You know not what you see" She said, her voice was husky and strained. Her Pupils were large behind her glasses, she looked drugged, or at the least drunk.
"Erm…ok" I gulped. I wish I had my teddy bear Frodo with me, this lady was scaring me.
"Do not be fooled by others actions…let the Prophecy be filled, let it fulfil itself!" Her voice was getting louder. Now I was really scared.
"LET IT BE FILLED!" She grabbed my shoulder and inhaled a breath. Suddenly she was normal…or as normal as she can get at least.
"Sorry about that, as you were" She walked briskly away as if nothing had happened. I looked around the class, was I the only one who heard that? Because I sure was the only one who seemed affected by it at the moment.
"Sirius…did you just hear that?"
"Hear what mate? The voices inside your head?" He smirked, but I didn't smirk back.
It was becoming a more disturbing day by the minute. I hoped Transfiguration would be a bit less drastic, but then again hoping doesn't do much.
I strolled into the class room again thankful that we were sharing our lesson with the Hufflepuffs as a pose to the Slytherins.
"Take your seats class and I welcome you to a new and fruitful academic year of Transfiguration" Wow…mind boggling speech that was.
"If you would like to get out your books and turn to page 334, we will be focusing on Animagi today"
The Marauders all turned to look at each other. We shared a smile and I winked at Sirius as he held his hands to his head and panted like a dog.
I saw Lily looking at us from the corner of her eye, I turned to smile but she turned away and continued fumbling through her bag.
"I myself am a legal Animagus" Professor McGonagall continued. She promptly transformed into a cat.
"Wow" Was the immediate reaction from the class. Remus and I shared a bored look whilst Peter was on the edge of his chair in exasperation. He had his hand up and was thrashing it around wildly in the air.
"Yes Peter" McGonagall asked when she had transformed back into a human.
"Miss, miss I'm also an a-" But luckily he couldn't spill our secret thanks to Sirius who gave him a good kick in the back of the chair. He was leaning so far forward that he flew off onto the floor in a heap.
"What was that for!" He yelled at Sirius, standing up and dusting himself off.
"Sorry there was a moth on the back of your chair" He lied.
"Oh", Peter said, "I guess that's ok then" Whoa…Peter was pretty naïve wasn't he?
"What were you going to say Peter" McGonagall said tartly, like she couldn't care less anyway.
"Oh I was just going to say…oh, wait; I think I've forgotten now"
"Doh!" I said slapping my head playfully. Peter did bring a kind of humour to our group, a stupid humour, but never the less a humour.
I of course aced the lesson with flying colours. I had my hand up for every question and got an O in my class work. How I loved Transfiguration. Lily on the other hand was red in the face by then end of it, still working on the same paragraph and piece of text I had studied half an hour ago. How I wanted to give her one big hug, rock her in my arms and say "It'll be ok". Ok she was having trouble in class; she hadn't just lost a relative.
Anyway we were assigned our home work and dismissed. Lunchtime. Yay!
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