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Chapter Six

Sirius Black was bored—very, very bored. It was a Monday morning two months into his first year at Hogwarts and he was currently sitting in History of Magic, with Professor Binns who had to be the most boring person to ever live, er, die, or whatever considering he is a ghost. You would think being that he was a ghost he'd at least be sort of interesting like Nearly Headless Nick, instead Binns was the exact opposite, and Sirius adamantly insisted that Binns was attempting (quite successfully) to bore them all to death, even as Remus countered that it was not in fact possible to be bored to death. Sirius disagreed.

This class was made even more boring by the fact that it was all Gryffindors, so he didn't even have a Slytherin to prank, or a Ravenclaw to shock with his lax study habits, nor even a Hufflepuff to scare. Furthermore, given that it was first hour on a Monday, Marlene had long since fallen asleep and therefore was unable to provide Sirius with sufficient entertainment. All in all History of Magic was not Sirius' favorite class.

Now as we all know, there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than a bored Sirius, except for perhaps a bored Sirius accompanied by an equally bored James. Which was in fact the case on this particular Monday.

Sirius surreptitiously glanced at Remus, who was sitting in front of him, making sure that he was nice and absorbed in his absurd habit of note-taking before hastily scribbling a note to James and charming it into the shape of an airplane before sending it soaring into the back of the bespectacled boy's head. Said boy turned around to glare at Sirius, who remained unfazed, before unfolding the note.

Bored? I am! And, do you know what that means? It's time we pulled a prank! We just got off our detentions for that prank we pulled last week, you know when we stole Flitwick's wand and gave him that fake wand, which means it's high time we pulled a new prank. And what better time than right now, we will surely be doing a helpful service to our fellow classmates, in fact, if as my theory states we are all on the verge of being bored to death, then it would in fact be a life-saving dead would it not?

Has anyone ever told you, Sirius, that you are just the teensiest bit prone to melodrama? Nevertheless, you are correct, we must act for the betterment of mankind! What exactly did you have in mind?

Well, I was thinking that this class is rather dull…

Were you?

Indeed I was. Don't you think our most dull professor would be a bit more interesting if he spoke in rhyme? Like that one Muggle? What's his name? Doctor-something or other.

Um, Sullivan? Swanson? Swift? Sue? Something with an S, I'm not really sure, but I do believe you are correct. I'm assuming you have a spell to accomplish this goal of yours.

Indeed, I do, Jamsie. Indeed I do.

At this point we shall turn our attention from Sirius and James' note writing to focus on the oh-so exciting lecture Professor Binns is giving.

"And so Urg the Unclean said,"

"Ad idem(1)." Sirius whispered softly.

"I do not like soap, I do not like it Zud-I-am," Professor Binns continued apparently not noticing the fact that his lecture had just turned into an odd rendition of "green eggs and ham."

On the other hand, several students seemed to notice, and some laughter could be heard in various parts of the room.

"And, Zud replied, would you like it here or there?"

At this Sirius was forced to shove his fist in his mouth to try to stifle his laughter, Marlene actually woke up hearing the laughter and blinked warily at her surrounding trying to ascertain that cause of her classmates' amusement.

"I would not like it anywhere, Urg replied." Binns continued seemingly undaunted by the disruption is his classroom (Sirius had an inkling that the room could be on fire, and the students could riot, and elephants could stampede across the floor and Binns would continue discussing Goblin rebellions.) "Would you like it in a house, Zud queried."

Sirius, who had been rocking backwards on the back legs of his chair (ignoring Remus' many warnings that he would end up falling over) gave a snort of laughter, lost his balance and did just as Remus predicted. And Professor Binns, as always playing the role of the overly attentive teacher, did not even notice this latest in series of incidents.

"Pst!" James suddenly heard a voice saying. "Potter!"

"Evans?" James responded, looking at the red-haired girl sitting next to Remus. "Can I help you?"

"Fix him!" Lily hissed.

"I'm afraid my dear friend Sirius Black is far beyond the point where 'fixing' him is even an option to be considered." James responded gravely.

"I didn't know you knew so many big words…" Remus muttered under his breath.

"Not Black." Lily replied. "Fix Professor Binns! I know you had something to do with it; you always do."

"Oh Evans," James began, "Your praise is unnecessary."

"That'd be because it isn't praise, prat." Lily stated. "Now, fix the professor, or I swear I'll leave class and go get Professor McGonagall right now!"

"Minnie?" Sirius asked, scrambling to his feet and putting his chair right-side-up, while simultaneously sliding smoothly back onto it. "I miss Minnie. I haven't seen her since breakfast, and we don't have Transfiguration today!"

"Breakfast was an hour and a half ago. " Remus said, finally giving up on his note-taking, as he couldn't even make heads nor tails of the rhymes Binns was still speaking in. "And we only have less than three hours until lunch, now. I'm sure you'll see Professor McGonagall then."

"Well, it feels like lunch won't be for a few thousand more years." Sirius replied, sounding a tad depressed about his lack of being able to see his favorite professor, who was—coincidentally, of course—also the easiest to annoy, which was quite amusing. Quite amusing, indeed.

Lily continued to attempt to get the marauders to change Professor Binns back to normal, but to no avail. Eventually, she sat skulking in her chair trying to interpret what the professor was saying, but failing miserably.

"Except for Urg." Binns finally said with a tone of finality. "Now, please go away. No more class. I've finished teaching you for the day."

"Salvation!" Sirius cried, finally able to speak at a normal level of voice, now that class was over. Although…it's not as if Binns would really have noticed them talking over his lecture, anyway. Hmm, something to ponder for another boring day of Gryffindors-only History of Magic…

In all of the hustle and bustle of people leaving the classroom—while talking amongst themselves, wondering if ghosts were capable of catching and spreading strange diseases causing them to constantly talk like characters in Dr. Seuss books—none of the Marauders quite remembered to remove the jinx from Professor Binns.

a/n-Ah, yes, I'd forgotten to mention: the books Great Day for UP and Green Eggs and Ham, both by Dr. Seuss, were used as references in the writing of rhymes during the production of this chapter. ooh...don't we sound official?

(1)-An-Jelly-Ca would like you to know that she chose this because it means "of the same mind" She picked it because rhymes are similar. Also, apparently the spell also makes Sirius sort of like Dr. Seuss, because it means they are "of the same mind."

Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Oh, and we forgot we wanted to address a question asked in a review. This story is only about the marauders' first year at Hogwarts. We will follow it up with six other stories about the rest of their years at school. After that there will be another story that takes place...well, it would give quite a bit away to say when exactly, but it's going to take place (obviously) after their seventh year...sometime...Please stick through to the end, it's going to be an interesting ride!

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