The Hogwarts castle was covered in a deep silence as day said her goodbyes and night was welcomed in. All the children of Hogwarts were sleeping, like good dutiful children, all except four boys. Huddled under one cloak, four boys, all different in size and appearance, crept out of their common rooms and in to an empty corridor. Once there they ducked in to an empty classroom and tore the cloak off.
"Alright," said Remus," every one clear on the plan?" He took out a roll of parchment and lay it on a nearby table.
"First," started Sirius, "Remus will flood the boy's bathroom, while Peter distracts Filch and leads him to the flooded bathroom."
"Why do I have to be the distraction," Peter whined.
"Because, you're, a good… distracter! That's it! Now let me finish. Anyways, Remus will have left the bathrooms by then and will meet up with James and me to put a locating charm on Miss Norris. I shall then find and capture the victim while James leaves a note stating are demands. Got it?"
"Got it," replied the three other boys.
Filch had had a bad day. He had been off on his nightly patrol as usual. When that Pettigrew kid had come running through the halls shouting, "I'm up past my curfew! I'm up past my curfew!" He was wondering what the little idiot was up to and so ran after him, and for a boy on the chubby side, that kid could run. Finally he disappeared in to the boy's bathroom which was flooded to the brim. Filch grimaced in disgust as his socks went wet. He quickly got out the mop, grumbling to himself about why he'd taken a job that involved annoying fat boys and flooded bathrooms. By the time he had gotten back to his office he found it completely pink and frilly! Infuriated, he slammed the door behind him, when he noticed something even more strange, Miss Norris was missing!!
She usually was sitting there on his bed when she was through with her nightly patrols, and, because of the bathroom, he'd been late, too. He stared at his empty pillow in despair. Where was his fury little goddess? His one true friend, the only creature, cat or human, who could stalk out misbehaving children to such a degree it, looked like art, gone.
He turned back toward the door, knowing he must find her, when something caught his eye. There, nailed to his door, was a roll of parchment with messy scrawl. Slowly Filch took down the parchment and opened it. It read the following:
Dear Argus Filch,
Your beloved cat, Miss Norris, is in grave and terrible danger unless you do comply with the following demands .On Tuesday night, at midnight, you shall go to the empty classroom in the left corridor on the 6th floor. There you must bring with you every item you've ever confiscated and ten hundred chocolate frogs. You must also be wearing the pink lady garment, you will find in your underwear drawer and a sign across your neck stating you are clearly a loser. Last but not least you must first demolish any detentions you have given thus far.
If you agree to following terms your cat will be returned safely to you, if not the consequences will be dire.
The sun crept up over the hills of Scotland and shone brilliantly on a lone standing castle. It Shined in through the windows, a lighting the once dark, and waking up the young witches and wizards inside, filling silence with life.
"Wake up! Wake Up! Where Late!" Remus Lupin attempted to wake up his still snoring friends and was epically failing to do so. He snatched Peter's pillow and began beating James ferociously with it. "Wake Up!!!!!!!!!"
James still asleep lifted his hand and murmured something about tax reductions.
Remus turned to Peter and flung his bed sheet out from under him causing the boy to fall off his bed. And yet he kept on snoring, not noticing anything.
Finally he turned to Sirius and slapped him hard across the face. This had the desired effect and Sirius jumped up, startled and frightened. When he'd come to terms of where he was, Sirius turned to Remus, a burning hatred in his eyes.
"What the hell was that for??!!"
Remus rolled his eyes, and peter lazily opened his, Sirius's booming voice having finally waked him.
Remus prepared to reply when James who was still blissfully sleeping said something shocking all three boys in to silence.
"Oh Lilykins, I knew you knew I was sexy."
The silence, however, did not last long because they were soon laughing their heads off.
James rubbed his hazel eyes and sat up. This only sent the boys in to a further fit of laughter at the sight of his jet black hair sticking out on all sides.
Katie sat in Potions doodling on her notes, tentatively. She had only been at Hogwarts a few days and already had labeled this to be one of her least favorite subjects. Slughorn liked to pick favorites and it was clear Katie would not be added to that list any time soon, or ever for that matter. It all started on her first day of classes; Slughorn had been trying to appear like a jolly good natured man, his belly shaking like a bowl full of jelly, like old Santy Clause him self . He called out role till he got to Robbins, Katie, the only name where silence followed.
"Robbins, Katie?"
Silence. Till Lily, the goody tushu she was, shouted out, "She's right here professor." She pointed at a sleeping Katie who sat beside her.
"What?" Katie raised her head and rubbed her eyes before letting out a huge yawn.
Professor Slughorn stomped over to her seat jiggling all the way.
"Miss Robbins, why, may I ask are you sleeping in my class?"
Katie looked up at all the jiggling glory that was Slughorn and rubbed her eyes again. "I was tired, "she answered simply.
Ever since then Slughorn had hated her, which was weird because all her teachers, even McGonagall, liked her. Lily of course made his favorites list, the traitor. But despite what Old Sluggy wanted her to think, she had a feeling he must find her humor enduring.
"Miss Robins would you care to pay attention to class, instead of making silly drawings where your notes should be."
"Oh but I was drawing a picture of my favorite teacher." Katie held up a drawing of a circle with a head and stick arms and legs. She smiled innocently making her brown eyes so large and believable that most everyone believed she was serious.
Slughorn's mouth dropped as he decided what to make of this.
"Isn't it pretty?" Katie really was quite a good actress.
The baffled Slughorn merely turned back to the lesson.