"No."
"But, Moony, please?" begged Sirius, pulling a puppy face.
"No."
"Why not?"
"I'll give you a couple of reasons. 1) James will hate you. Forever. 2) Lilly will hate you even more than she currently does, which would be a record, in my opinion. 3) You're disturbing me. 4) I need to take notes, so I, at least, can pass my exams. 5) If I don't take notes, then who is? How will you lot pass without me taking notes?" Remus hissed.
Sirius stopped, as if to ponder this. "Yeah, but it's only History of Magic. I mean, you can always get notes off Lilly, can't you?"
Remus sighed, and put away his quill. It was obvious that he wasn't going to get any work done in this lesson. "I don't want to ask Lilly, because I don't want to annoy Lilly with the tedious problems that I have to suffer everyday. Will you stop bugging me now?"
"Aha!" Sirius said, quite a bit louder than he wanted.
Binns looked up from an exceedingly boring pile of parchment about the Centaur Acts. "Yes, Mr Blane?"
"Oh no, Sir," replied Sirius silkily. "I was just reminding Mr Lupin to be silent during a lesson."
Binns looked over his glasses at Remus. "You heard Mr. Blame, Mr Loopy-" but he couldn't get any further. A great shout of laughter came from the class, particularly from the Slytherin side of the room. Lilly, who was sitting next to Snape was the only person not to laugh, as she nudged him in the ribs.
Remus had turned bright red. James, who was sitting next to Peter in front of Remus and Sirius, turned around to glower at the Slytherins in general and Snape in particular. He lifted his wand and whispered something. Snape was on the floor laughing loudly, holding his sides. "Stop," he said, his voice coming out in short gasps. "Please-stop-I-I'm-begg-ing." Punctured between his words was laughter.
Binns stared at him. "Please, Mr Stake, you are causing a scene and disturbing our lesson. Get up."
Lilly stood up. "James Potter, take that off him now! Do you hear me?"
James glared up at her, but said nothing.
"James! Do you hear me?"
James scowled. He turned his back on her, but there was hurt in his eyes.
This just seemed to aggravate Lilly even more. "Take it off him! Are you listening to me?"
James whispered something to Remus, who said, "He said he can hear you, he can't help that, and it's just that he doesn't want to."
All the time, Professor Binns was trying to speak, but in between Lilly's yelling, Snape laughing, and the Gryffindors (minus Lilly) and half the Slytherins sniggering at Snape, he wasn't heard. He floated out of the room, but nobody noticed him.
A few minutes later, he floated back. The door opened with a loud bang, and on the threshold stood Professor McGonagall, looking more furious than they had ever seen her.
"Everybody, get back to your seats. Miss Evans, stop screaming. Everyone, stop laughing. What happened to Mr Snape? Mr Potter, I suggest you take that off him now. The whole class has got detention."
Lilly looked up furiously. "All of us, professor?"
McGonagall looked at them, with a slightly softer expression. "Yes, all of you. Goodbye."
The class sat in silence for a few seconds.
"And so, the Wand of Destiny's trial ran cold then, and it has not resurfaced yet. In 1327, however-"
And the class settled back in stupor.