Chapter 4: Inconceivable
"Ugh Monday… the week will never end!" James whined as the friends walked to Care of Magical Creatures.
"I can't believe Felix got stuck in the invisible step twenty seven times this week!" Sawyer said in disbelief
"Is that even possible?" Ariana asked
"I didn't even know you needed to go past that step twenty seven times." Peter said
"Oh well, at least it's almost the end of the day." Caprice declared
"I can't believe you two don't have a detention yet." Lily said to James and Sirius.
"The day is still young." Sirius replied
"Come on, we need to hurry up or we'll be late." Remus said
"Have fun in class." Sawyer said with a smile
"I love having a free period." Ariana agreed
"Lucky you." Sirius replied, "I'm not really in the mood for care of magical creatures today…or any day for that matter."
"You should drop it then." Sawyer said
"Maybe…"
"We can talk about this later, we have to get going before Professor Comc freaks out on us for being late again. See you both later." Remus said
Ariana and Sawyer said good bye to their friends and the others headed to class. They had to come all the way from the third floor down to near the lake. They arrived just in time for class.
"We need to find a better short cut to get here." Peter said out of breath
"I've got one, just jump out one of the windows of the third floor." James suggested
"That actually sounds like fun. Can we really do that?" Sirius asked
"No, you can't jump out of the north tower, you creep." Lily said jokingly
"How am I a creep? Just because I jumped out of the third floor window-" Sirius questioned, looking offended
"You haven't jumped out of the window, what are you talking about?" Caprice cut him off
"QUIET!" Professor Comc yelled. The class went silent. Comc was a short, round man with a hawk like face and the biggest mustache anyone had ever seen. It even beat out Slughorn's walrus like facial hair.
"Next class we will be going down into the lake to observe how the creatures of the lake behave in their natural environment. For this lesson I will need everyone's full attention. I will not be taking someone into the lake if I feel that they can not handle themselves accordingly. As such…"
While Comc was talking Sirius turned to James and whispered, "Have you realized that care of magical creatures spells COMC when abbreviated? And our COMC teacher is COMC."
James snorted rather loudly, trying to contain his amusement.
"Potter, Black! Is there something you would like to share with the rest of the class?" Professor Comc asked, looking aggravated.
"Well sir, we were just discussing care of magical creatures." Sirius explained
"What about the course do you find so interesting that you have to rudely interrupt while I am talking?" Comc asked
James smiled and said, "Well have you realized that Care of Magical Creatures is COMC when abbreviated? And you last name is also COMC, is that why you became the COMC teacher Professor COMC?"
Comc didn't look every amused as the class began to laugh. "SILENCE!" The class went silent. "Potter, Black, Detention!"
"Why?" Sirius moaned
"Disruption my class with nonsense, that's why."
"You're just sore about COMC thing." James said coolly
"BOTH OF YOU BE QUIET OR GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM!"
"Ohhh , angry man." Sirius muttered
"Wait a minute," James began, "we aren't in classroom; we're outside."
"BLACK POTTER, GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" Comc was furious
"Where should we go?" James questioned
"I don't care; just get out of my sight!" The class was quiet as James and Sirius headed back up to the castle. Comc took a deep breath and continued with his lesson.
As they walked away Sirius turned to James and said, "Short people have short tempers."
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James and Sirius opened a door and walked into the room. A man with honey blonde was teaching a class of first years. He wasn't the tallest man but what his height lacked his facial features made up for.
"It's just a nice swish and flick motion. There's no need to wave your wand around like you're going to stab someone." The boys heard Nassir saying.
Professor Nassir looked up from his class and saw James and Sirius standing at the door.
"Potter, Black, can I help you?"
"No thanks Nass, we thought we'd just swing by." Sirius said.
"Well maybe you should swing yourselves out, I'm teaching a class." Nassir said calmly and the class snickered.
"Aw, professor, you're no fun." James said lightheartedly
Nassir raised an eye brow, "So out of curiosity, what class did you get kicked out of this time?"
"Care of magical creatures." James said smiling.
"We pointed out to Comc that his profession is his name." Sirius explained
"Oh. Yes, well that's a rather sensitive subject for him." Nassir said, turning back to his students, "Continue practicing the hand motion for a moment please class."
Nassir walked over to the boys "So, what are you two going to do for this period?"
"We thought we'd give you a hand" James said with a grin.
Sirius was looking at the class practicing their wand movements, "Hey that's Felix. You should be careful with that one."
"Yeah he's related to Sawyer." James informed.
"Real trouble maker." Sirius commented.
"Oh yes and you two are perfect angels." Nassir said sarcastically. "I have nothing for you two to do, but if you like you can alphabetize the bookshelf."
The boys looked at the bookshelf Nassir was referring to. "Alright" they said with a grin.
Suddenly something flew past James' face narrowly missing taking out his eye.
"What did I tell you? Gentle motions! Not murderous ones!" Nassir scolded.
James picked up the wand and looked to see who was missing it. He saw Felix looking red and wand less. "See, what did I tell you? Trouble maker!"
After they returned Felix's wand they went to the bookshelf and got to work.
At the end the end of the class Nassir came over the bookshelf and raised an eye brow "I thought you were going to alphabetize?"
"We changed our minds, it looks nicer like this." Sirius declared proudly
"We filed using the ROY.G.BIV system." James explained.
"ROY.G.BIV?"
"You know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet."
The Bookshelf was color coded rather than alphabetized.
"You two are one of a kind." Said Nassir, shaking his head with a grin.
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Caprice, Ariana, Sawyer, Lily, Peter and Remus entered the Great Hall to see James and Sirius already eating. They sat down at the table with their friends.
"So where did you guys go after you got kicked out of class?" Remus asked
"Nass." Sirius said with his mouth full
"Do you guys always go to Nassir's room after you get kicked out of class?" Lily asked
"Yup." James nodded as he and Sirius quickly shoveled down some lunch. Then stood up saying, "Come on Padfoot, we've got work to do."
"Where are you going exactly?" Remus asked
"We didn't our Potions homework." Sirius said
"And you're both going to the library to do it?" Lily asked hopefully.
"Not quite." James smirked
"Then what are you doing?" Peter asked
"You'll see." Sirius said as he and James left the great hall.
Remus rolled his eyes and went back to his sandwich.
Felix came over and sat down next to them.
Sawyer frowned and said "Felix why is your hand bandaged?"
"I was lifting the visor on a suit of armor and it snapped back on my hand."
"How did you even reach the visor?" Sawyer asked in disbelief.
Felix shrugged and started serving himself.
"Wow, I didn't think there was anyone more accident prone than me." Peter said.
"I don't mind I get to go the nurse each time." Felix said with a grin.
Caprice looked confused, "Why do you have the hotts for Madam Pomfrey?"
"Eww! No, you're a sick man! She has lollypops!"
"Typical." Sawyer said under her breath.
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After lunch the friends headed down to the dungeons for Potions, only to find the hallway leading to the room blocked by a crowd of people.
They could hear Professor Slughorn telling students, "All classes in the Dungeons bellow this point have been canceled due to severe flooding. Enjoy your afternoon off while we fix this mess."
The group exchanged a look and went to find James and Sirius. They went outside and sitting under a tree was James and Sirius, looking rather pleased with themselves.
"What did you guys do that flooded all the classrooms in the dungeons?" Sawyer asked
"Our little secret." James winked
"Whatever, I'm going to go catch up with Brody, see you guys later." Sawyer said and walked away. The rest of the friends sat down under the tree. Remus pulled out a book and started reading.
"We just got everyone the afternoon off and you want to read?" Sirius said in disbelief
"Yeah, some people actually read for fun." Remus commented
"Only psychos read for fun." James declared
"Isn't that a bit over dramatic?" Ariana asked
"No, reading makes you crazy."
"How does it make you crazy exactly?" Peter smirked
"It puts ideas in your head; now Remus is going to become a crazy psychotic killer, murdering everyone in his path!" Sirius announced
"What ever you say Padfoot." Remus said and turned back to his book.
"Sirius, no more sugar for you." Lily said, shaking her head.
"Okay, so we have the afternoon off, what should we do?" Caprice questioned
"Spin the bottle?" James said wiggling his eyebrows at Lily.
"In your dreams Potter." Lily said
"My dreams are much more interesting than a little game of spin the bottle."
"Eweweweweweewewewewewewew!" Lily said "Don't you dare dream about me!"
"What makes you think I'm talking about you? I could be talking about Sirius!" James said.
"AWWW, James…I had no idea you felt that way about me." Sirius got up and sat next to James and gave him a hug. The group was roaring with laughter.
"Oh, cool, I'm single again." Ariana declare then turned to Remus, "So Remus…How's life?"
Sirius quickly got up and tackled Ariana, "NO! Remus is mine too!"
Ariana poked Sirius in the side, making him squeal and pull away from Ariana. She grinned while the rest of the group gave him curious stares.
"Did you just squeal?" Peter asked
"No…" Sirius said, "It was a manly howl."
"I know manly howls," Remus explained, "And that was no manly howl."
"I can't help it…I'm ticklish…it's a disease."
"Like cancer?" James asked
"Well…maybe not that bad...more like hiccups."
"And by the way, cancer is caused from cell mutations, it isn't a disease." Remus explained, receiving blank stares from everyone except Lily.
"You get hiccups when your diaphragm is having a spasm, by the way not a disease." Lily explained.
"Anyway… who wants to play cards?" Peter asked, taking out a deck of cards from his pocket.
They gang played cards for a while. Remus read his book and Lily worked on her essay for muggle studies. The spent the rest of the afternoon outside until it was time to come for dinner.
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AN: Yeah chapter 4!