Ch. 10- Chaos in transfiguration

"I can't believe she followed us." Sirius whispered to James aw the four marauders trapsed back up to gryffindor tower"

"I know. How'd she even know where we went?" James answered.

"I almost bit her" Remus said stiffly.

"It would have been her fault if you had" Sirius reasoned.

"I don't think many people would take that view," Remus replied coldly. "and I'd probably get expelled."

"I doubt it" James answered.

"Perturbo" Remus muttered as they arrived at the portrait hole.

The four climbed in and took seats on the chairs by the now smoldering fire.

"I could have bit her" Remus mumbled

"Oh Remus get over it. You didn't bite her" Peter replied.

Remus glared at him, "if you were a werewolf and almost bit someone, I don't think you'd get over it fast."

Peter blushed and sunk into his chair.

Moments past in which none of them spoke, the only sound coming from the howling wind rattling the tower windows. Finally, close to dawn, James stood up, said goodnight, and climbed the spiral staircase towards the boys dormitories. Without changing, he undid the covers on his bed and climbed in, trying to catch a couple hours sleep before getting up to go to lessons. After a few minutes, James heard the door open and the sound of footsteps as his friends came in to go to bed.

It seemed like James had closed his eyes for just one second, when he was being vigoursly shaken awake by Remus.

"James come ON! class starts in 5 minutes!"

James sat bolt upright, "WHAT! wh didn't anyone wake me?" he asked scrambling out of bed and pulling on his robes.

"We would have if we hadn't just woken up too" Remus snapped.

James stopped tying his left shoe too look at Remus, "sorry moony"

"it's alright Prongs"

"Ready!" Sirius shouted from across the room with a triumphant smile on his face.

"Me too" Peter said emerging from behind his fourposter"

"Me three" James said grabbing his bag from the ground.

together the four ran down the spiral staircase, through the empty common room, through the portrait hole("you boys are gonna be late!" the fat lady shouted) and sprinted down the corridor the transfiguration room.

"You're late" Professor mcgonnagal said as the four out of breath boys entered the classroom. all the heads in the class turned to face the late arrivers.

"sorry professor. we overslept." Remus said sitting down, followed by Peter, andignoring the stares of his fellow classmates"

"there's not time for excuses Lupin," the professor said, "now will you two please take your seats?"

Realizing they were still standing, James and Sirius took their seats behind Lily and Jordan, neither of which appeared to have cared that there was any disruption, as they were the only 2 not facing James and Sirius, but deeply immeresed in the book lying open in front of them. James smiled and ran his hand through his hair, making it even messier than it already was. Sirius just sat there tilting on the back two legs of his chair, looking as though nothing had happened.

"Now, before we were interrupted," Professor McGonnagal began, "i was telling you how to transform your chair into a smallturtle. To do this, you have to count 1, 2, 3 and say changement." She demonstrated the spell on the chair she had placed in the front of the room and the class watched as the chair shrunk down to a turtle. She muttered the countercurse and the turtle transformed back into the chair.

"You have the rest of the lesson to practice. go" Professor McGonnagal said.

James and Sirius stood up and attempted to transform their chairs into turtles. On James' first try, he only managed the make the seat change into a shell, the rest of the chair remained wood, Sirius on the other hand, managed to transform his almost completely.

"Aww it doesn't have a head!" Sirius pouted sticking his head into the opening of the shell.

James howled with laughter.

"It's not funny James!" Sirius said, trying to surpass a smile but not managing.

"Hey Sirius" James said nudging Sirius in the side of the arm, "look at snivellus"

Sirius looked to where James was pointing. Severus Snape was sitting his his chair digging in his bag for something. Sirius glanced back to James and saw an evil grin spread across his face.

"You thinking what i am?" James asked.

Sirius nodded, now grinning himself, "On three. One, two, THREE"

"Changement!" Sirius and James bellowed pointing their wands at Snapes chair. Together, the two spells hit Snapes chair, transforming it completely into a turtle. Severus, not quick enough to react, fell to the ground landing on the shell of the turtle, now trying to free itself from underneath Severus' weight. Sirius, James, and the rest of the class roared with laughter.

"That's enough!" Professor McGonnagal bellowed. The class became silent instantly. Severus, standing up, retrieved his wand from his desk and pointed it at James and yelled, "rictusempra!" James doubled over in laugther.

"I said THAT'S ENOUGH!" Professor Mcgonngal shouted again. Sirius and Snape weren't listening. Sirius raised his wand and pointed it at Snape and shouted, "Expelliarmus!" Snape was thrown off his feet, slamming agains the side wall of the classroom, before landing on the floor panting, his wand laying severel feet in front of him.

"Finite Incantatem" Professor Mcgonnagal yelled. Sirius lowered his wand and looked at Mcgonnagal. James stopped laughing and also turned to face Professor McGonnagal.

"I can't believe this behavior! Especially from 7th years. Potter! Black!25 points from Gryffindor each and 2 weeks worth of detention! As for you Snape, 25 points from Slytherin and 1 week of detention." Professor McGonnagal said her face burning with anger.

"What? That's not fair Professor!" James argued.

"Don't tell me what's fair Potter!" Professor McGonnagal said coldly. "Now everyone, return to practicing transforming your chair. Potter, Black, Snape, come up to my desk so we can arrange your detentions."

Glaring at each other, Snape and James and Sirius walked up to the front of the room, ignoring the stares of their classmates towards Professor McGonnagals desk.

"Professor, I already have detention to serveall this week"James said when he reached Professor McGonnagals desk.

"I'm quite aware. You will serve that detention this week and this detention next week. As for you, Black, Snape, you will serve detention this week at 8:00. Meet in my office. You will find out what you are going to do then."

"Yes professor" Sirius and Severus said.

The rest of the lesson continued without much excitment. When the bell rang signaling lunch, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter grabbed their stuff and headed to the great hall for lunch.

"That was brilliant you two" Peter squeaked

James and Sirius grinned.

"So you think you're all cool now don't you Potter?" a voice from behind the four of them spat. The four turned around to face Lily and Jordan.

"Oh, hey Evans. Did you enjoy transfiguration?" James asked politely.

"No I very well did not! You're such an ego-maniac Potter! I can't stand you!" she snapped.

"Well he was asking for it Evans" James reasoned

"How did he ask for it?" Lily demanded.

"Well Lily, he WAS just sitting there. Who could resist?" Sirius asked still grinning.

Lily groaned, "You two are disgusting!" Lily grabbed Jordan's arm and stormed away towards the great hall ahead of James and his friends.

a/n: bad ending i know. I'm sooooo sorry it took so long to update! i've been soo busy. I've had a lot of homework to do and soccer i just haven't had a lot of time! and for awhile, i'm just gonna focus on this story and leave my other three for a while. I can't handle four stories going at the same time. lol. So, please read and review and tell me what you liked/disliked/etc.

♥Emma