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A/N: This is just an idea we had to help those of you that need help with excuses. You are free to use any of these but you may have to modify some of them.
Diary
Chapter 3: Excuses Galore Part 2
Harry a woke to the sweet aromatic smell of espresso the next morning, wait espresso how could they have espresso in the dorm and why was he sleeping on the couch. "You're finally a wake," Severus remarked walking into the sitting room carrying two cups of frothy espresso with wipped cream with the faint smell of french Vanilla. "How are you feeling, Harry?"
"A live as far as I know for right now," Harry responded wondering exactly what he was doing waking up in the Potion Masters private quarters. "Why am I here? The last I remember I was recharming the diary and getting ready to go back to the Gryffindor Tower."
"Before you got to the door you had a vision and passed out," The Potions Master stated.
"I did?" Harry asked confusion written ask his face. "But why am I here instead of in the hospital wing?"
"I thought you would do better down here," Severus smirked. "Besides if I kept you down here I figured we could get started on the diary faster. Plus the fact that there really is no need for you to go to her after your visions."
"OK," Harry replied evenly. "Aright, lets get started." Harry reached over to the side table and picked up the black book with the stag, wolf, dog and rat running around a lily.
Diary entry
Ways to explain late or missing homework brought to you by the most famous, smart, level headed, handsome and modest Marauders. Mr. Moony, Padfoot, Prongs and Wormtail.
"They did seem to have a rather enlarged ego," Harry remarked before he started to read the next list.
1. My dog/ toad/ cat/ owl ate it.
2. I forgot to do it.
3. I sold to to a blind man so he could start a fire.
4. I brought it to Hogsmead so I could do it. I got it done and a gust of wind blew it out of my hand into the Three Broomsticks where it flew into the fire.
5. My homework. Um, I did it. And um it turned invisible. And um, I lost it. I was hoping to find it before class but as you can see i never did. So here I am making up this excuse and I was hoping um that you would um actually believe it. So do you believe it.
6. I was to busy snogging my girlfriend.
7. I don't have an excuse. I'll do it during class. After all you never said what time it was due. You jut said it was due today.
8. I was hungry last night after I did my homework. Since I had nothing else to eat I ate it.
9. I did it last night and hid it in a pair of three week old dirty underwear and someone stool it out of my trunk. Whoever, brave or stupid enough to take it out of my trunk I admire their bravery or stupidity.
"After that whenever any of the professors excepted any of their homework they had to use a cleansing charm," the Slytherin broke in. "It was very amusing watching the four of their embarrassment."
10. I lost it in the dorm and didn't have time to find it.
11. I brought it to the Great Hall for breakfast and pumpkin juice got spilled on it.
12. I accidently wrote a letter on it and sent it.
13. My pet stool it.
14. Some Slytherins took it right out of my hands right outside the door.
15. My girlfriend borrowed it to read it over and I never got it back.
16. Ler's see. I folded it up and placed it in my robe pocket and put my bottle of ink in there too. And it spilled on it. I really don't think you want to see it.
17. I was in the bathroom and ran out of toletpaper. So I had to use some parchment. Unfortunately I grabbed my assignment. If you really want it I can go and find it.
18. I folded it into a muggle airplane and it flew out the window (state first thing that comes to mind).
19. I did it with invisibly ink. I honestly didn't relize which ink I was using until I got here.
20. I used it as a napkin. And it was dripping wet by the time I was done.
21. One of my peers and I were fighting over it and it ripped. Before I could get all the pieces Mrs. Norris picked some of them up and ran off with it.
22. I left it under my pillow and t turned into a galleon.
23. Peter was trying to learn by osmosis. So he put it under his pillow. During the night he drooled all over it.
24. I fell asleep to early and rose to late.
25. I was to busy playing Exploding Snap.
26. Last night was the fullmoon and it was the thirteen and you know it is bad luck to do homework on a fullmoon that lands on the thirteenth of the month.
27. You asssined it on Friday the thirteenth. Which happened to fall on the fullmoon. And I knew if I did it I would have bad luck.
28. I started to do it and I almost slipped on icecream and broke my neck.
29. I got so fustrated last night when I was doing it and threw it out the window.
30. Crap I turned it into a diffrent class. So which you accept that classes homework instead. ( insert two diffrent classes)
By the time they were done Harry was rolling on the floor in fits of laughter. "I wonder if the last one was true or not," he muttered between breaths.
"Oh come on," Snape sneered. "They were not that funny. I have heard even you come up with better ones. Atleast the last one was true."
"Good point," Harry conceded. "Lets hear some that you have heard."
"I don't think so," Severus smirked. "Are you hungry? We can have one of the house - elves bring something up."
"Speaking of house- elves," Harry remarked going over the list again. "Why didn't they just go to the kitchens when they were hungry instead of eating their homework."
"You are assuming that they actually did do the homework," Snape muttered after ordering some breakfast from one of the elves. "After we eat we can continue going through the diary if you want or we can talk about what we have read so far."
"Do you remember what my mum thought of some of these excuses?" Harry wondered following the Potions master to the table that was of to the side of the sitting room.
"From what I remember Lily was embarrassed at some of the excuses they came up with," Severus muttered taking a seat across from HArry and looking the Gryffindor in the eye. "Especially the one about snogging."
Suddenly there was a knock at the door before professor Dumbledore hurridly entered calling for Severus. "Have you seen Harry. Apparently he never showed up for bed last night. The last time any of his friends saw him he was leaving to see you for a detention."
"He is right here, Albus," Snape said smiling at HArry. "He had a vission as he was leaving and I thought it best that he stay in my chambers for the night. Seeeing how he passed out after the vission. I was affraid someone might take advantage of his drained state."
"Sorry to have worried everyine," HArry muttered blushing.
Read and review. Next chapter will deal with those cheating boyfriends/ girlfriends and getting cought. After that we are unsure what to do and would like any suggestions that you can think of. If we do not get any suggestions we fear that we may have to end the story.
