"I expect everyone to finish their essay to the qualifications," Professor Avery said, giving the entire class a look at the end of that day's lesson, "but I have decided to change things."
He had been leaning on his desk but now he pushed himself off and started roaming around the front of the room.
"Whoopdie de," Elyse muttered under her breath. Her head was resting on her hand and as soon as she said it, her head slipped and rested on top of the table. Remus snorted, unfortunately attracting the attention of the professor that hated them.
Avery stalked over to their desk and placed his palms face down on top of the desk. "Do you have something to say, Lupin?" Avery asked, in a deadly soft voice.
Remus shrunk back in his seat and shook his head, unable to look the teacher in the eye.
Avery smirked slightly, "I thought so. What about you O'Brian? Have anything you want to say to the class?"
Elyse lifted her head up, looked him straight in the eyes, and said, "Nope," before letting her head fall back into the nest her arms created.
Avery stood straight up and looked down at the pair in horribly disguised disgust, "Head up, O'Brian."
She lifted her head up and looked at him with bored eyes. He looked down at her and spoke softly, but the rest of the class was clearly able to hear him say, "It's a good thing you had nothing to say O'Brian; I doubt that anyone would be able to understand that gibberish you call English."
Her cheeks flushed bright red as she jumped up from her seat and started yelling, "YEH BLOO-"
Remus jumped from his seat and covered her mouth with his hand. Ben jumped up from the seat behind them and wrapped his arms around her to stop her from grabbing her wand. She struggled against them but eventually realized that she was no match for two much taller and stronger boys. She settled for giving Avery the harshest death glare she could muster.
Avery just looked at them with a cold smile, "Detention, all of you, that includes you too Potter, Pettigrew, Blacks."
"What! We didn't even do anything!" Sirius shouted.
Ben and Remus turned their heads to see what was going on in the seats behind them. It would have been funny in any other situation; Sirius and the rest were practically in a mirror image. He and James had moved to hold down Ursula's arm, who had tried to jump up to defend her friend. Peter had both his hands covering her mouth, too. Ursula looked about ready to hex Avery to the next half of the next century.
The professor just raised an eyebrow, "I'm sure had your sister not been restrained, she would have done something. If you three weren't subduing her, then there is no question about you two would have tried to hex me. That is simply unexcusable."
"Let me get this straight," Remus spoke up, his voice tight, "you're giving us detention because we might have done something. I thought students were only to be given detention if they actually committed an offense."
"Another detention of you Lupin. Now, I can keep handing out detentions or you and your little friends can shut your mouths and listen to what I have to say before I was so rudely interrupted." He gave Elyse a look before he returned to the front of the class.
"Now, as I was saying, I have decided that if I give you an O on your essay, then you will be exempt from the winter assignment. The amount of homework gets higher the lower the grade. Class is dismissed; leave your essays on the desk next to the door." He disappeared up the stairs into his office while the rest of the Gryffindors angrily turned their paper's in.
As the group made their way to Gryffindor Tower, they all said a couple things that made a first year walking by blush and some sixth years laugh loudly. Elyse, once she calmed down enough, asked Ursula, "Why d'yeh jump oop?"
"I don't care if he insults me but I will not let him insult my friends." She bristled. She opened her mouth to say something else, but she froze. A dark head of curly hair disappearing into a mob for students wearing Slytherin robes caught her attention.
"I have to go! I'll see you guys later at Ben's concert!" She shouted back at them as she jogged to try to find her brother.
"Don't forget the plan!" James shouted after her before he led everyone to Gryffindor Tower.
She jogged through the throng of students, trying to catch sight of her little brother. They were leaving for Christmas break in a week and while she had told Sirius about the letter, she hadn't had the time to tell Regulus yet. It was just one thing that was still weighing heavily on her mind; the other being that McGonagall hadn't talked to her about what would happen during Christmas Break.
Suddenly, Ursula saw him.
"Regulus!" She shouted to get his attention.
Regulus stopped walking and turned towards her. He smiled when he saw her and waited for her.
"'ello Ursula. What's going on?"
She smiled grimly when he immediately picked up on her mood. She put her hand on his shoulder and gave it a quick squeeze before letting go.
"I got a letter from mum a couple of weeks ago. Sirius and I aren't going home from Christmas this year."
The look on his face broke her heart. She tried to reach out to comfort him but he jerked back.
"Regulus..."
He shook his head, "I don't want to hear it. All you ever do is leave." He muttered before he practically ran to his common room.
Ursula looked at his retreating from with a heavy heart. She groaned in frustration and kicked the wall. Why did brothers have to be so complicated?
I know this really isn't a full chapter, not yet at least. Part Two of this should be up sometime tomorrow. I jsut felt that I owed you guys somethings since I haven't updated in almost a week. Things have become really busy right now but they should be settling back down after the weekend. Don't forget to review and/or say which position you think Ursula should play in Quidditch. (I think we all know DobbysArmy's preference)
Also, I don't know if you have read them or not, but if you haven't, go check out the other two pieces that I wrote that go along with this. Just click on my profile and they will be under my stories.