YAY Chapter two!

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This chappie has some swearing in it, I'm warning you

And without further ado…

BANG

The marauders awoke with a start. Well, at least three of them did. James, it appeared, was already gone, even though the sun had barely risen.

Remus was up and out of bed in no time, thinking his friend might be hurt, he threw his slippers on his feet and scrambled downstairs to the common room, where the sound had presumably come from.

And there, once again in his knickers, stood James Potter, with the words "Lily Evans will STILL never go out with THIS." Emblazed on his chest.

Remus leaned against the staircase banister; he had to, because he was laughing so hard, when would he ever learn?

"Oh sod off Moony" James scowled. Remus didn't flinch, he knew James wasn't mad at him really, he would have said Lupin is he was.

"Right-O Prongs."

"What happened?" Yelled Sirius as he came bounding down the stairs.

"Oh Prongsie here just got turned down again."

"She'll never go out with me!" Whined James.

"Well maybe if you didn't act like such an arse…"

"Shut up Padfoot."

"I'm only saying…"

"SHUT UP!"

Remus just stood and watched. Sometimes he felt like the only mature one of the group.

"Hurry up you two or we'll miss breakfast!"

The Marauders got dressed and walked downstairs. James grumbled along. He needed to find himself a girl. Maybe if he showed he was mature enough to hold a relationship with someone else, Lily would realize it too. Remus tried to tell him this, but naturally, James wouldn't hear of it.

"But I don't LIKE anyone else Remus! I LOVE LILY MARIE EVANS!" He yelled across the table. Lily flipped him off, not even looking up from her food. James frowned, and was about to retort when he was interrupted by the arrival of their new schedules. Professor Sinistra was handing them out.

"Hey! Where's young lady McGonagall? Our lovely head of house! She's usually the one that does this doesn't she?" James cooed. Sinistra was not amused.

"She's in the hospital wing my dears." The Marauders gasped collectively. "Something has taken over her, and she is not feeling well."

"But, but, nguh" James said intelligently.

"Yes of course, naturally you're upset." Sinistra offered. "Your transfiguration classes will be taught by a new Student Teacher awaiting employment, At least, until Minerva is feeling well enough to teach."

With that, Professor Sinistra walked past their gaping faces. This was something they've been waiting for for years.

A substitute teacher.

A new teacher.

Fresh meat.

The pranksters would have a field day with this. Their first block was held by a free period so all four scrambled back up to the common room to make plans.

"Sweet Merlin this'll be awesome!" Sirius squealed in a very Un-Sirius way.

"Oh I've got one!" Said Remus "When I tap on the desk three times everyone moves one seat to the right!" Remus didn't look it, but he could be very mischievous when he wanted to.

"That's good Remus! We should right a bunch of fake-names and slip them into their folder for the class roster like….Anita Bath. Ha Ha!"

"We could put a thumb tack on their chair!"

"James we've done that a million times."

"It's old but classic."

They wrote all the ideas down and more. This was going to be an amazing day back.

Remus still had a spot in the back of his mind for McGonagall. What could have possibly made her sick this early in the year? Something was up, and Remus wanted to find out. He looked over to the list of the things they had planned and smiled.

Finding out could wait.

The Marauders strode into their familiar transfiguration room to see an unfamiliar site. A small, scrawny man with strawberry blonde hair sitting at the desk, wringing his hands. The words "Professor Tucker" were scrawled on the board with shaky letters.

"Perfect!" Whispered James to the other three. "The nervous type, they'll fall for anything."

The Marauders had taken the liberty to enlighten the rest of the class what they were up to so they could all play along too. Lily, who hadn't liked the idea initially, was sitting in the back of the class with a small smirk on her face. Though she was trying to hide it.

"Umm, good day, well good morning actually. Well just, just good then. Good everything. Sorry I'm a little, AHEM, um well, anyway. Good morning class. I am Professor Tucker, and I will be substituting for Professor McGonagall while she is feeling under the weather. I will now take roll." He bent down into his papers to look for the roster; Remus tapped his desk three times.

The entire class rose as one silently and everyone changed seats, even Lily. When Tucker had found his roster, which had been changed by the Marauders, he raised his head and gasped.

His class had not been sitting that way before. They were all staring obediently at him with innocent wide eyes. Tucker squinted his eyes and scanned his class, not seeing anything wrong, his eyes returned to the class roster. Dear Merlin! His class had some unfortunate names!

"Umm, alright. Anita Bath?" The class giggled. "Anita Bath here?" More laughter. I guess she's absent. Tucker thought to himself, he cleared his throat and moved to the next name. "Alright, is Haka Lu Gie here?" the laughter grew louder. The teacher thought the name sounded foreign to him. "Willie Suckit?" He was starting to catch on when the class laughed harder than ever.

"We're sorry Mr. Fucker." Sirius exclaimed.

"Come on now, there's no need for language like that, it clearly says on the board that my name is…" He turned around only to see that his name had changed indeed to Fucker.

"I'm sick of this, every school I go to it's the same. No one ever gives me any of the respect I deserve, go, class dismissed. I hope next lesson you all will be better behaved!"

The class marched out silently, not daring to laugh. This was soon broken when they all heard a loud "OW!" coming from inside of the classroom.

Professor Tucker had sat on the thumbtack.