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The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 3: First Day
James stood in the middle of his room looking at his three sleeping roommates with a smirk on his face. He walked over to Sirius's bed and pulled the curtains apart. He grabbed Sirius's blankets and gave a mighty pull, making Sirius flipped onto the floor. Sirius landed on the floor with a loud thump.
"POTTER!" Sirius yelled angrily, when he saw the black haired wizard standing on the other side of his bed, smiling innocently, but the smile was ruined because of James holding the blankets.
"Wha's going on?" Peter slurred from his bed next to Sirius. He pulled his curtains back to see Sirius laying on his stomach on the floor and blinked. "What happened to you?"
"Jamesie here thought it would be nice to throw me off of my bed." Sirius growled angrily, as he stood up and dusted imaginary dirt off of himself.
James crossed his arms and glared at Peter. "Peter, you weren't suppose to wake up. You were suppose to let Sirius and I rudely wake you up."
Peter rolled his eyes and climbed out of bed to get dressed. "Sorry, but I don't enjoy the idea of being woken up by the two of you."
"I guess we can wake Remus up." Sirius said, glancing at Remus's bed. "Since Peter is being a bad sport. I'm surprised he didn't wake up from the noise already."
"Right." Peter rolled his eyes again.
Sirius stood up and looked at James. "How shall we wake Remus up?"
"Let's go jump on his bed." James said happily. "Want to join us, Peter?"
Peter chuckled and shook his head. "I want to live. If you want to die, then go ahead."
Sirius shrugged his shoulders and he and James moved over to Remus's bed. They pulled the curtains apart and James held up three fingers. James put a finger down for each second until he reached zero. At zero, James and Sirius jumped onto Remus's bed and started jumping up and own. "WAKE UP, REMY! WAKE UP!" Sirius yelled as they jumped.
Remus groaned and threw his pillow at Sirius, knocking him off the bed, then pulled the blankets over his head. "Shut up. M'sleeping."
"No, no, Remy. It's time to get up. No more sleeping." James said. He stopped jumping and pulled the blanket off of Remus and threw it onto the floor. "Now get up, Remy. It's time for breakfast."
Remus kicked James off his bed and pulled his curtains shut. "M'sleeping. Go away, you stupid prats."
James fell to the ground and hit his head. "Ow." He mumbled and rubbed his head. Sirius and James looked at each other and laughed. "Come on, Remy. It's time to get up. No more sleeping. We have to go get our schedules and breakfast."
There was no reply from Remus's bed so Sirius pulled the curtains apart again to see Remus curled up in the ball and sleeping. "He's already asleep." Sirius muttered. "He must really want to sleep."
Sighing, Sirius went into the bathroom and came back a minute later with a glass of water. "This should get him up." He poured the water over Remus's head and jumped backwards when the young werewolf screamed and fell out of bed.
James and Sirius laughed before helping him up. "Good, now that you're awake, get dressed." James ordered.
"Yes mother." Remus muttered sarcastically, still half-asleep.
James went back to his bed and pouted.
Remus rolled his eyes. He grabbed his clothes and pulled his curtains shut around his bed.
"Remy, hurry up. I want to go eat." Sirius said.
"Firstly, stop calling me Remy. I don't like it. My name is Remus. Secondly, go ahead without me then." Remus replied.
"Do you know how to get to the Great Hall?" James asked. Remus didn't reply. "Exactly. None of us do. So if we are going to get lost looking for the Great Hall, we're going to get lost together. Now hurry up."
After half an hour of searching and taking five wrong turns, the four boys made it to the Great Hall. All of them were smiling and sat down at the table. They filled their plates with food as the Owl Post arrived. An Eurasian Eagle carrying a red envelope landed in front of Sirius, who paled at the sight of it. He took the envelope and stared at it. His three friends looked at him worried. "Just open it and get it over with." James said.
Sirius nodded his head and opened the envelope. "SIRUS ORION BLACK! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? GRYFFINDOR? I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE WHEN I LEARNED MY SON WAS IN GRYFFINDOR! THE FAMILY HONOR HAS BEEN SPOILED, DAMAGED CORRUPTED, VIOLATED! I KNEW ALL ALONG THAT YOU WOULD BE A BLOOD TRAITOR, ASSOCITATING YOURSELF WITH MUGGLES, MUDBLOODS, AND BLOOD TRAITORS! YOU ARE NO SON OF MINE!"
The howler burst into flames and Sirius smiled shakily at his friends, while the Slytherins burst into laughter. "Sorry about that." Sirius muttered, while glaring at the Slytherin table.
Remus sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "The Noble and Ancient House of Black believes in blood purity and thinks muggle-borns and half-blood shouldn't be allowed to learn magic. You must think differently because you're in Gryffindor."
"How do you know that?" Sirius asked.
"My father told me about certain pure-blood families. The Black's, the Malfoy's, the Lestrange's, and the Nott's family. He doesn't like them or their views. No offense, Sirius."
"None taken." Sirius replied, smiling a little.
After the howler, Professor McGonagall started to move down the table to hand out their schedules. When she reached the four boys, she gave them their schedules and looked at Remus. "Mr. Lupin, can you come with me?"
Remus looked at her confused, but nodded his head. He turned to look at his friends, who looked at him worriedly. "I'll see you in class."
James nodded his head and watched the two leave. "Wonder what that was about." He murmured.
Sirius groaned, catching James attention. "We have double potions with the Slytherins after lunch."
"This is great actually. We have more time to torture Snivellus." James said excitedly, his eyes lit up at the idea of mischievous.
Sirius grinned evilly, before going back to his schedules.
"What classes do we?" Peter asked, looking up from his meal.
"Herbology on Monday, Wednesday, and double of it on Friday, Astronomy-Wednesday night, Defense Against the Dark Arts on Wednesday and Friday, double of it on Monday, Charms on Monday, Friday, and double of it on Wednesday, History of Magic on Tuesday, double of it on Thursday, Transfiguration on Tuesday, double of it on Thursday, Potions on Thursday, double of it on Tuesday." James answered. [1]
"Great. What do we have first today?" Sirius mumbled.
"Transfiguration." James answered. "We better get going if we want to make it there on time."
His two friends nodded and the trio left the Great Hall. After getting lost, they started looking for an older student to help them find a class. They ran into two Gryffindor third years, Frank Longbottom and Alice Clienak. Both of them were really nice and escorted the boys to their class, making all of them late by ten minutes. The two third years didn't mind though and said Professor Flitwick wouldn't mind that they were showing some first years their way to class.
James thanked the two and ran into the class with his friends, getting ready to form an excuse when he saw the teacher wasn't there. He blinked and looked at his friends, who looked just as confused. Noticing a familiar pretty redhead in the front, James moved to talk to her. "Hi. You know you never told me your name."
"What do you want, Potter?" The girl asked annoyed.
"Well, to know your name for starters." James asked, smiling charmingly at her.
The girl frowned and narrowed her eyes at James. "Lily Evans. Now go away."
James shook his head. "I also wanted to know where the professor was, Evans."
"I don't know. She wasn't here when I arrived." Lily replied, then turned back to her friend. "Now go away."
James walked away from her and went to sit in the back next to his friends. "The teacher wasn't here when they arrived."
"I wonder how long we'll have to wait." Sirius murmured.
Remus followed McGonagall to a stone gargoyle. "Pepper Imps." She said when they were standing in front of the gargoyle.
The young werewolf stared at McGonagall confused for a second, before the gargoyle in front of them moved. Stairs rose from the ground and moved upwards. McGonagall stepped onto the moving stairs and motioned for Remus to do so to.
The steps stopped and the two got off of the steps and stopped in front of a pair of large doors. McGonagall knocked on the door, and a quiet come in answered her. McGonagall ushered Remus inside before leaving, saying she had a class to attend to. Remus entered the room to see Professor Dumbledore sitting behind a large desk with a kind looking, young woman standing in front of the desk with her hands folded over each other. The room itself was a large, circular room. On the walls were pictures of past headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts. They were bookshelves around the office full of books and tables with silver instruments on them. Near Dumbledore's desk was a golden perch with a beautiful scarlet and gold bird sitting on it.
Remus smiled and moved towards the bird. He lifted a hand towards the bird and when it didn't move and try to peck him, he petted the bird on its head.
"That is Fawkes. He is a phoenix." Dumbledore told him kindly.
"He's beautiful." Remus whispered, staring at the phoenix, who stared back at him with unblinking eyes.
The young woman in front of the desk smiled. "I believe we are here for a reason." She said in a kind, gentle voice.
"Yes, yes, we are." Dumbledore said. "Mr. Lupin, this is Madam Pomfrey, the school's matron and nurse. She will be taking care of you during the time of the full moon."
Remus sighed and sat down in a chair. "I thought that was what this was about. So what do I do?"
"On the day of the full moon, if you are feeling up to it, you will attend classes like normal. If you aren't up to it, just skip all your classes. The teachers will understand. They all know about your condition. The day after the full moon you will stay in the hospital wing for a day before you can go back to your dorm. I'm sure your friends will be able to help you catch up." Dumbledore explained.
Remus nodded his head. "Where will I go on the day of the full moon?"
This time the nurse spoke. "On the day of the full moon you will come to the Hospital Wing an hour before the moon rises. I will escort you to the Whomping Willow."
The young werewolf paled and put his head in his hands. "The tree was planted because of me?"
Madam Pomfrey smiled sympathetically at him. "Yes, it was. Below the tree is a tunnel that will lead to a building on the edge of Hogsmeade. The tree is there to guard the entrance so no one can get in. It's for your protection and the students' protection."
"Two things. How do I get past the tree that is trying to kill me and what if I break out of the building? I could hurt the people in the village or kill them." Remus said, his voice muffled since his head was still in his hands. He made a vow to himself that he would never bite another living being. He didn't want anyone else to go through what he has to.
"I reinforced the building with charms so no one can get it or out, not even a werewolf, except by the hidden tunnel. As for how you are going to get in there, Madam Pomfrey will prod a knot on the tree that will freeze it long enough for you to get into the tunnel. The next morning, she will come to get you and bring back here." Dumbledore answered.
Remus nodded his head, before he remembered something. "Where is the Hospital Wing?"
"Poppy, will you please show Mr. Lupin the Hospital Wing, then escort him to his first class?" Dumbledore asked.
Madam Pomfrey nodded her head and led Remus out of the office. After showing him the way to the Hospital Wing, she led him to Transfiguration. Outside the classroom, she said good-bye, not seeing a reason to go inside since the teacher knew why he was late.
Professor McGonagall showed up to her class fifteen minutes late and started speaking to the class. "I am Professor Minerva McGonagall, your transfiguration teacher. Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."
James grabbed a piece of parchment. He wrote real quickly on it and gave it to Sirius.
Didn't McGonagall take Remus to talk with her- JP
Yeah. I wonder what happened to him. He couldn't have gotten in trouble.- SB
Yeah, there's no way he would get into trouble alone. He would have to be helping us with something to get in trouble.- JP
I'm sure he'll show up eventually, then we can ask him. Didn't McGonagall just say her first name was Minerva?- SB
What about it?- JP James looked at Sirius to see him grinning evilly.
Professor Minnie.- SB
James sighed and shook his head. Don't say that to her face. She doesn't seem like the type of teacher to mess around.- JP
That's the fun of it.- SB
Then call her it in front of the whole class.- JP
Okay.- SB
James looked at the note and shook his head. He looked back up to see McGonagall change her desk into a pig and back, impressing the whole class. "That is transfiguration. You won't be attempting that yet. It is far too advanced for you. For this lesson, you will be taking notes, then attempting to change a match into a needle. I don't expect many, if any, of you to be able to do it in this lesson."
After taking notes for twenty minutes, McGonagall asked Lily to pass out the matches. When Lily came to their table, James smiled at Lily and said hi, only for Lily to purposely ignore him, making Sirius laugh. McGonagall glared him, but didn't comment. When everyone had their matches, McGonagall showed them how to transfigure the match.
Sirius looked at James and smirked. He raised his hand and waited for McGonagall to acknowledge him. "What was the spell we again, Professor Minnie?"
The class turned to look at Sirius shocked, then turned to look at McGonagall, who looked shock, then annoyed. "Do not call me that, Mr. Black. It is Professor McGonagall or ma'am to you. Ten points from Gryffindor for disrespect. Next time it will be more and a detention."
James had to plant a hand firmly over his mouth to keep himself from laughing. It took him a few minutes before he could move his hand and get to work on transfiguring his match. He only looked up from his match when Sirius kicked him and pointed to the door, where Remus was coming inside.
Professor McGonagall looked at the door to. "Mr. Lupin, glad you could join us. We're transfiguring matches into needles. I will show you how and you can attempt to do it afterwards. You can get the notes from a classmate later."
Remus nodded his head and watched McGonagall transfigure the match into a needle. After getting his match, he went to sit in the back next to Sirius. He barely worked for five minutes before he got a note.
Where were you?- JP
Forget it. It's not important.- RL
I don't buy that for a minute. You were 40 minutes late.- SB
It had to be important for you to miss most of the class.- JP
Forget it, guys.- RL
Remus passed the note back and went back to working on his match. So far he got it to look a little bit silver and the end to be a little pointy, but not transfigure all the way yet.
James got his match transfigured after his fifth try, earning him ten points from McGonagall for being the first one able to do it.
Where did McGonagall take you?- JP
Didn't I just say to forget it?- RL
No, you wrote it. And we just want to know. It can't be bad, so why can't you tell us?- JP
Come on. We're your friends. You can tell us.- SB
N-O! Now leave it alone.- RL
Guys, Professor Minnie is looking over here.- PP
Professor Minnie?- RL
Sirius called her that because of her first name being Minerva. Lost us 10 points.- PP
Figure he would get in trouble on the first day.- RL
Sirius glared at Remus, who just shrugged his shoulders.
"Ten points from Gryffindor, boys. No note passing in class." Professor McGonagall said and took the note from the boys and looked at it. After reading it she looked at Remus, who shook his head. She sighed. "Get back to work."
By the end of the class, Remus, Lily, and Sirius managed to transfigure their needles along with a couple of Ravenclaws in the class. All of them were given five points each.
"What was that about?" James asked, as soon as they were out of the class.
"What was what about?" Remus asked.
"After McGonagall read the note she looked at you and you shook your head. What was it about?" James said, looking at Remus, who was walking behind him.
Remus shrugged his shoulders. "Probably about where I was for most of the class. Can I borrow your notes?"
"Sure." James grumbled. "What do we have next?"
"History of Magic, then a free period, then lunch." Remus replied, looking at his schedule. "I heard the teacher for History of Magic is a ghost. He fell asleep and when he got up the next morning he walked out of his body."
Sirius groaned. "I heard his classes are extremely boring. It puts people to sleep."
"A perfect place to get a nap." James replied.
"You're going to fail the class if you sleep." Remus said.
When they got to the class Sirius and James sat at a desk in the back and Peter and Remus sat in front of them. Remus pulled out some parchment, ink, and a quill to start taking notes, while Peter just sat and stared at the ceiling. Behind them, James and Sirius were talking quietly to each other.
Professor Binns started talking in a boring, monotone about Goblin Rebellions as soon as the bell rang. About half way through the lesson, James and Sirius looked at Remus to see him put his quill down and bang his head on his desk, making them snicker.
What's wrong, Remy?- SB
Don't call me that!- RL
Why Remy?- SB
I'm warning you, Black. Stop calling me that.- RL
But I like calling you, Remy. Remy. Remy. Remy. Remy. Remy.- SB
Remus looked at the note and jumped to his feet to glare at Sirius. "SIRIUS BLACK!" He yelled, gaining the class's attention. "What did I tell you about calling me that?" He pulled his wand out and pointed it out Sirius.
"Please, Remy, you don't know any spells. You can't do anythi….." Sirius started.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" Remus yelled. Sirius body stiffened and his limbs snapped together, falling to the ground. Remus twirled his wand in his hand and put it back in his pocket with a smile on his face. He sat down and started to stare at the wall.
James kneeled next to Sirius and poked him in the side. "What did you do, Remus?"
"Full-body bind." Remus replied.
Professor Binns noticed none of this and continued with his lecture.
"Um…..do you know the counter-curse to it?" James asked.
Remus thought for a moment before smiling sheepishly at James. "Um…no?"
James laughed loudly and stood up. "Then we're going to have to ask a teacher for help."
Remus groaned and hit his head on the table.
Lily looked them and frowned, before turning to the teacher and raising her hand. "Professor Binns!"
Binns looked at her and frowned. "What is it, Miss…..?"
"Evans, sir. A student has been cursed and we don't know the counter-curse." Lily explained.
"Will someone take him to the Hospital Wing?" Binns asked.
"None of us know where it is, sir. It's only our first day." Lily replied.
Remus sighed and stood up. "I'll take him."
James raised a brow. "You know where the Hospital Wing is?"
"Yes. And we can just take him to a teacher if we really have to." Remus replied as he put his stuff back into his bag. Throwing his bag strap over his shoulder, he picked up Sirius's ankles and James picked up his shoulders. The two of them carried him out of the class and into the hallway.
"How did you learn that spell?" James asked as they walked.
"I read it in our defense book during the summer and practiced it. I thought it might be good to know it." Remus explained.
"You have to show us how to do it later. You're right. It is good to know some defense spells. We could use them against the Slytherins." James said.
Remus shook his head and sighed. "Of course that is what you would use it for."
"Boys, what are you doing out of class?" A stern voice asked after a few minutes of walking. "And what happened to Mr. Black?"
The boys stopped to see McGonagall looking at them. "Full-body bind curse, ma'am." Remus replied. "Can you help us? We don't know the counter-curse."
"How did this happen and why didn't your teacher fix it?" McGonagall asked suspiciously.
"I'm pretty sure Professor Binns can't do magic anymore." James replied.
Professor McGonagall raised a brow and tapped her foot on the ground. "And who was the one to hex Mr. Black?"
James and Remus looked at each other. Remus sighed, then smirked. "I was, Professor Minnie."
James stared at Remus in shock. His mouth was hanging opened and his eyes widened. He knew Remus would tell the truth, but he didn't expect him to call her that.
Professor McGonagall looked at Remus shocked then frowned. "Mr. Lupin, I expected better from you. Twenty points from Gryffindor and detention tonight at eight." McGonagall pulled her wand out and pointed it at Sirius. "Finite Incantatem."
Remus and James dropped Sirius on the ground as he started moving. "Now get back to class, all three of you."
The three boys nodded their heads and walked back to class. When they were out of sight of McGonagall, Sirius turned to Remus. "You hexed me." Sirius growled.
Remus shrugged his shoulders. "You called me Remy."
Sirius smiled, then frowned. "You called her Professor Minnie and got the first detention of the year. I wanted the first detention."
Remus looked at him confused for a second before he groaned. "I have detention. This is why I wanted to go to the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey wouldn't give us detention, I bet."
"Us? You mean you." Sirius replied.
"Why did you call her Professor Minnie anyway?" James asked. "I thought you would never disrespect a teacher."
Remus sighed. "I had nothing more to lose. I figured that I should enjoy myself since I was going to get detention anyway."
"That's the troublemaker spirit. I knew you had it in you. Making you a prankster is going to be easier than I thought." Sirius replied happily.
"I'm not going to become a prankster." Remus growled. "One detention is enough. I'm going to get in trouble for getting a detention on the first day. I don't need more."
Sirius grinned. "What are your parents going to do? Send you a howler for getting a detention on the first day?"
Remus stopped walking and looked at James and Sirius wide eyed.
James and Sirius started laughing. "Little Remy is going to get a howler tomorrow. This is great and now everyone will know that Remy made a record by getting a detention on the first day." James said in between his laughter.
"You guys are not helping." Remus groaned.
The three boys entered the classroom with James and Sirius still laughing, and Remus frowning. Peter looked at his three friends and raised a brow. "What are you guys laughing at?"
"Professor McGonagall found us in the hallway." Sirius said trying to stop laughing.
"Remus told her he hexed Sirius and called her Professor Minnie." James continued in between his laughing.
Peter still looked confused, but smiled. "And what happened?"
"She took twenty points from me and gave me detention." Remus replied bitterly.
"It's just one detention. Why are you guys laughing so hard?" A Hufflepuff boy asked, though he looked amused himself.
Remus stomped over to his seat and slammed his bag down. "Everyone is so amused at this."
"We think Remus is going to get a howler for getting a detention on the first day." Sirius replied after taking a few deep breaths to calm his laughing.
"You're one to talk. You already got a howler." The Hufflepuff boy replied.
Sirius nodded his head. "Yes, but I was expecting it. Little Remus seems like such a good boy. Who would expect him to get a howler?"
Remus glared at him. "You're enjoying this too much."
"I got to get my enjoyment somewhere. I was supposed to get the first detention of the year." Sirius replied, smiling.
During their free period, the four boys worked on their essay for History of Magic. Or at least Remus did and he helped Peter. James and Sirius spent their time fooling around.
At lunch time, the four boys went to the Great Hall and sat at the Gryffindor table. They were only there for five minutes before a seventh year came up to them. "Hi." The boy had red hair and a huge smile on his face.
"Hi." Sirius said happily.
"What do you want?" James asked.
"I heard one of you got a detention from McGonagall for hexing a student then calling her Professor Minnie." The boy said.
Peter, James, and Sirius turned to look at Remus with huge grins on their faces, while Remus slammed his head on the table. "This is all your fault, Sirius."
"How is it my fault?" Sirius asked.
"If you hadn't been calling me Remy, I wouldn't have hexed you." Remus replied.
Sirius nodded his head. "Yes, but I didn't tell you to call her Professor Minnie."
"You came up with the name though." Remus said.
"So you're the one who got the detention." The boy asked.
Remus nodded his head. "How did you find out about it?"
"People love to gossip. And the first detention of the year and how the person got it is something they love. Everyone knows about what happened." The boy replied. "By the way my name is Bilius Weasley. I have a feeling you four are going to make my last year interesting."
Sirius and James grinned mischievously. "Oh yes. This will be a year you won't forget, Bilius."
Bilius smiled. "Good. I wanted something interesting going on. So I'm guessing you guys are pranksters."
"Well, Sirius and I are. Peter likes pranks so he must do some once in a while. And Remus here is going to be learning the art of pranking and become a great prankster." James explained, earning a groan from Remus.
"My parents are going to murder me when they learn of all the trouble I'm causing because of you three." Remus muttered.
Bilius laughed and stood up. "See you four around."
Alice and Frank came up to them and sat down. "Detention on the first day?" Frank asked.
"So Bilius was serious? Everyone knows about this?" Remus asked.
"Pretty much. There's a Hufflepuff in her fourth year. Her name is Bertha Jorkins. She's a gossip queen. She makes sure the whole school knows all the recent gossip." Alice explained.
"Does she know the meaning of privacy?" Remus asked.
Alice shook her head. "No. That's why I'm warning you. If you have something you don't want anyone to know, don't talk about or tell people. She will do anything for an interesting piece of gossip. She'll dig into your lives if you catch her interest just so she'll have something to gossip about. Be careful if you don't want the school to know your secrets."
Remus paled.
"The only good thing is that she isn't very smart." Franks explained.
After lunch the four boys headed to double potions.
"I am Professor Horace Slughorn, the potions master." Slughorn continued with is speech before allowing the class to work in pairs to make a simple potion that would cure boils. James paired up with Sirius and Remus paired up with Peter.
About half way through the class, Sirius and James looked over at Snape. "Hey Remus!" James called to the boy in front of him.
Remus finished putting ingredients in his potion before looking at James. "What?"
"Do you know any good spells that we could torture Snivellus with?" James whispered, glancing at Horace to make sure he wasn't watching them.
"Why are you asking me?" Remus whispered back.
James shrugged. "You knew that Petrificus Totalus spell. You seem to know more than us. We haven't learned any useful spells yet."
"Even if I do know some spells, they would be useless to you since you don't know how to do them." Remus replied. "And I'm not doing them for you. I don't need another detention." Sirius and James pouted so he continued. "Just throw a dungbomb or something into his cauldron that will make it explode if it means so much to you."
"Can't you just hex him for us." James pleaded.
"No." Remus growled. "Now go back to your potion." With that said, Remus turned back around to continue helping Peter with their potion.
James turned to Sirius. "Have any dungbombs?"
Sirius shook his head. "I didn't bring any prank supplies. My mom made sure I didn't bring anything. You?"
"Same here. It's like our moms don't trust us." James replied.
Sirius sighed. "Remus!"
Remus groaned and turned to look at him. "What?" He hissed.
"We don't have any dungbombs." Sirius replied, ignoring the annoyed look on Remus's face.
"Oh, what a shame!" Remus replied sarcastically, rolling his eyes and turning back around.
"Remus, we need your help. What is something that would make this potion explode?" James asked.
"I'm not helping you." Remus growled.
"Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please." James and Sirius said.
Remus groaned and slapped a hand to his forehead. "Fine, just shut up." James and Sirius grinned at each other. Remus whispered instructions to them and they nodded their head enthusiastically. A few minutes later, Sirius walked pass Snape's cauldron to the student's supplies. On his way back, James threw a wad of paper at Snape to get his attention away from his cauldron.
While Snape was distracted, Sirius dropped something in the cauldron and hurried back to his desk. He sat next to James and smiled.
A few seconds later, Snape was standing over his potion, putting the next ingredient in when the potion exploded in his face, coving Snape in the potion. The potion got on his robes, face, and hair. Red boils began to appear on his face, arms, and all over his body, making him whimper in pain.
Slughorn looked up from his desk at the sound of the explosion and stood up angrily. "Who did this?"
No one answered. They just stared at him. "Will someone escort Mr. Snape to the Hospital Wing? And whoever did this better hope I don't find out. It will be double detention and twenty from you when I do."
A Slytherin stood up and took Snape out of the class.
Lily looked back at the four snickering boys. "That was immature. I can't believe you would do that. Haven't you four lost enough points for us today?"
"Come on, Evans. It was just a joke." James said, smiling at her.
Lily glared and turned away from the four.
"She can't take a joke." Sirius said.
At breakfast the next day, Remus kept looking at the sky, biting his lip.
"So, what did you have to do for detention?" Sirius asked.
"I had to polish the trophies in the Trophy Room." Remus replied.
"That's not that bad." James said.
Remus rubbed his arms. "Without magic. My arms are still sore."
James smiled and went back to his breakfast. "Well, get used to it. Since you'll be helping us with our pranks, we ought to be caught once and a while so you should get use to detention."
"Who said I'm going to help you?" Remus asked.
James sighed and looked at Sirius exasperated. "Didn't we already explain this?"
Sirius nodded his head. "Yes, we did. You're part of this group, Remus. So you're going to prank with us. And from what I saw yesterday, you have a mischievous spirit. We just got to bring it out and bring to good use. With your brains, we shouldn't get caught much. It will be good for us. You want to keep us out of detention as much as possible, right?"
Remus groaned and looked up as the owl post arrived. "Great, the owl post is here."
"Ooooh. Let's see if Little Remy gets a howler." Sirius said.
Remus glared at Sirius. "Stop with the stupid nickname. I hate it."
Just as Sirius opened his mouth to reply, an owl landed in front of Remus with a red envelope in his mouth.
"YES!" Sirius cheered, making many heads turn towards the strange first year.
"You're so mean to me." Remus muttered as he took the envelope.
Sirius grinned at him. "It won't be that bad. They'll just yell at you, then it will be all over."
Remus glared at him, but opened the envelope. Even though his mother wasn't a witch, his father was a wizard so she could still use howlers. So it was her voice that Remus heard. "REMUS JOHN LUPIN! ONE DAY! I THOUGHT I TAUGHT YOU MORE MANNERS AND RESPONSBILITY THEN THAT! GETTNG DETENTION ON THE FIRST DAY! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? HEXING A FRIEND! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HEAR SUCH A THING AND THEN DISRESPECTING A TEACHER! YOU'RE SO LUCKY I CAN'T GET TO YOU! AUVA, YOU GOT ANYTHING TO SAY TO YOUR SON!
Huh? Oh yes dear, of course I do. I'm suppose to yell at you, Remus, but I don't want to. So instead I'll say, nice going, son. Good job on getting a detention on the first day of school. Have fun at school. Go ahead and get in more trouble, just not too much or your mother will kill us both. Oh no, I got to go now. It looks like your mother is going to kill me.
AUVA, GET BACK HERE!
By the time the howler exploded, Remus was in red in the face, but not from embarrassment. When the howler exploded, he fell off his seat and started laughing. His friends followed his lead and started laughing too.
"I…..love…..your….dad…..Remus." Sirius said in between his father, clutching his sides in pain from his laughter.
The rest of the Great Hall was either laughing from the amusement of the howler or watching shocked at what the howler said and how the four boys reacted to it.
After a few minutes of uncontrollable laughter, the four boys climbed back into their seats and went back to eating breakfast as if nothing happened. "That was fun." Peter stated. "Your parents are something else."
Remus shrugged his shoulders. "They're great. I've never seen that side of them though."
"And here you were so worried about getting a howler and you just laugh it off." James said.
Remus smiled. "Well, as my mother said, she can't get me here."
Sirius and James smiled. "True. But what about when you go home for Christmas break."
"Oh no." Remus said. His eye started twitching, making the boys laugh.
A/N: Please review. The faster I get reviews, the faster I'll post chapters. I already got the next couple chapters done. I'll post them faster if I get more reviews.
I've seen people make Peter a muggle-born. I can't figure out why they did that. Peter is a servant of Voldemort. A muggle-born can't be a servant of Voldemort. Honestly. So Peter is a pure-blood in my story.
Remus might be a little out of character, but I thought this would be more fun to make this his personality, same with his father.
[1] Stupid schedules make no sense. Don't question the way I set the schedules up because even I have no idea and won't be able to answer your questions. Besides that, I think I got all the classes first years take.