Their first class was transfiguration. Sirius, James and Remus entered professor McGonagall's class room just before the bell rang, and hurriedly took their seats.
"Great!" James moaned sarcastically into Sirius's ear, "We have transfiguration with the Slytherins."
"Just our luck." Sirius replied annoyed. James though was staring disgustedly at snape and Lilly. They were having a poke-war in their seats. While Lilly giggled, Severus gave James a triumphant glance. By this time professor McGonagall had started lecturing about the proper way to use magic, and the techniques needed to perform transfiguration correctly.
"doesn't look like we are going to be using magic today," Sirius volunteered after becoming bored with McGonagall's speech.
"Yea, what do you say we make this class a little more interesting?" James asked a mischievous glint fostering in his eyes.
"Not a bad Idea."
"We don't know much magic, but we could always fling parchment balls at people."
"Well that's better than anything I can come up with." Sirius said crumbling up a piece of parchment. James followed suit and soon the trouble-makers had a fine collection of wadded up parchment.
"On three." James said, while both boys picked up a wad and glanced at the professor.
"One, two, three." Both boys' parchment balls flew though the air. James' hit Severus squarely on the back of his head and Sirius's rebounded off a Slytherin girl's back.
"Nice shot!" Sirius exclaimed.
"You could always try winguardium leviosa. It's an elementary spell that makes objects levitate." Remus whispered.
"It's worth a shot." Sirius said, sneakily pulling his wand out of his pocket.
James and Sirius pointed each of their wands at a parchment wad, then whispered, "winguardium leviosa."
The balls whizzed into the air immediately, which caught the boys by surprise. They had not expected their spells to work. Even though the parchment balls were successfully airborne, they were badly aimed. Unfortunately James's smashed into Professor McGonagall's arm, while Sirius's hit a crystal vase which cascaded to the floor and shattered. Furious, Professor McGonagall glared at the two guilty boys.
"Detention! I'll be expecting you, Mister Potter and Mister Black, to report to me at 5:00 sharp. Class dismissed."
"Wicked," Sirius said after the boys had exited the classroom.
"First prank accomplished!" James replied high-fiving Sirius.
"Next time, we can't get caught though." Sirius reminded James, "And hey, thanks for the spell tip, I'll be sure to remember it! That reminds me," he said, leaning his hand on a statue of a one eyed witch behind him, his wand still clasped in his hand. "We need some sort of dissendium-" he was cut off by a scraping noise, and the hump on the statue's back slid open to reveal a dark hole.
"Let's ditch class. I want to see where this goes. We can't get into much more trouble anyway." James said excitedly. With that he turned and slid head first into the hole.
"You next, Remus." Nervously, Remus glanced around the deserted hall, then disappeared through the hole. Sirius followed his friends and slid into complete darkness. A rush of air whipped his face until he landed with a thud and knocked over Remus.
"I can't see!" James shouted.
"Try this." Sirius said. "Andromeda told me it was a useful spell to know," Then he whispered, "Lumos." His wand tip lit up, sending a beam of light streaking through the darkness. Now Remus and James said the same word, and their wands were also aglow. After all their wands were alight, the boys could see their surroundings. They were standing in a cave-like passageway, the floor was covered in dirt, and two, sturdy stone walls rose up beside them.
"Well, let's see where it goes." Sirius said, advancing.
Minuets passed, and finally, they reached the end of the passageway. There they found ladder leading up to a concrete hatch. James climbed up and thrust the hatch open.
"It looks like some sort of storage room." He yelled back to Sirius and Remus waiting below.
By this time, Sirius and Remus were in the storage room, too. It was cramped, mounds of boxes clustered the room, and a stone staircase led to a metal door.
"I wonder where that leads." James said, motioning to the metal door.
"Only one way to find out." Remus tiptoed up the steps and pushed open the stone door. "It's a candy shop!" Remus exclaimed, softly closing the door again.
"It must be the one in Hogsmeade," Sirius said. "I think it is called Honeydukes."
"What do you say we take some snacks back?" James questioned.
"Sounds good to me," Sirius replied, and the boys started opening boxes and shoving sweets into their pockets.
"I think we should go now. We have already missed History of Magic." Remus said after his pockets were full.
"James and I will probably get more detention added on, so we really don't have anything to worry about." At Sirius's comment, Remus's eyes widened to the size of two crystal balls.
"Oh no!" Remus groaned, "I'm probably going to get detention, too!"
"It's all right. We are all in this together." Sirius smiled.
"Yea, it's just a detention. I still don't want to miss Charms, though."
At that moment, they heard footsteps outside the metal door. The boys scrambled down the ladder and just as Sirius closed the hatch he heard someone coming down the stairs. "I could have sworn I heard something down here," a voice was saying.
"Its probably just your imagination," another voice said.
"Or we have an infestation of ghouls," The first voice said.
"Let's go!" Sirius whispered, "Lumos."
The three friends dashed down the long musty corridor and out through the hole in the witch's back. They hurried up to the Gryffindor common room. As they climbed through the portrait hole, everyone in the common room looked up. They seemed startled to see three first years standing in front of them. The circular room was full of seventh years, presumably on their study period…and professor McGonagall.
"Shouldn't you gentlemen be in History of Magic?" she inquired roughly.
"I, we , uh." James tried to explain.
A/N: Please review...I'm happy with anything!