Title: An Unfortunate Transformation

Characters: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin & Peter Pettigrew

AN: Written for the Character Admiration Tournament held by Lenore483 at The Golden Snitch Forum. Team Light: Your character is stuck as a farm animal.

Word Count: 731

James Potter was a goat. He wasn't meant to be a goat but the transformation had gone slightly wrong. It was meant to be a prank and one could claim that it was a prank to turn your friend into a goat but it wasn't the prank they had attempted to pull. When they read the instructions that James had written down on the piece of paper they didn't think that it would work. Turns out they underestimated their friend because apparently, he did know how to turn people into goats.

Sirius, Remus and Peter for the first time found themselves at loss for words. The place that had previously been occupied by their raven-haired friend were now occupied by a brown-eyed goat. Sirius glanced at Remus and saw an expression of complete dread on his face. Peter looked almost green and in the back of his mind Sirius thought about asking if he needed a bucket to throw up in. Then the goat cried out. No, James cried out. The goat became stiff and when he turned around to look at them, his eyes were completely wide-open.

"I know this sounds bad James but I promise that it's not as bad as you think," Sirius said carefully approaching his best friend while gesturing for Remus to hand him a mirror. "You seem to have turned into a goat. A very handsome goat if I may say so myself but never the less a goat."

He held the mirror in front of James and immediately the goat screamed. It was a shrill sound that had Remus and Peter hold both hands over their ears while Sirius scrunched his face together and tried to ignore the spit that landed on his face. Eventually, the goat stopped screaming and Sirius slowly opened his eyes.

"What are we going to do?" Peter asked as he began pacing the room holding his head with his hands. "We're only thirteen for Merlin's sake, we can't undo this. We've just changed our best mate into a damn goat and now he may have to stay like this forever."

At the sound of the word forever James eyes widened but as he opened his mouth Sirius put his hand over it. "Don't listen to him mate. He's just freaking out. I'm sure you'll turn back to normal very soon. We probably won't even have to talk to McGonagall. Thank Merlin for that."

Remus looked at James from every angle with a questioning expression on his face. He gently touched the fur of his back which had James jump away from him. "This is in fact very interesting."

The goat or James rolled his eyes.

"Can you imagine what McGonagall would say?" Sirius said looking at James as he barked out a lout laughter before turning serious and making a bad attempt at copying the voice of their teacher. "Well Mr. Potter this is quite an unfortunate transformation, don't you agree?"

Peter was still pacing the floor while rambling to himself about everything that was so horrible about the situation. By the way he spat out words it wouldn't shock anyone if he fainted any time soon. And if not the three other boys – well, the two other boys and the goat - were sure that he could make someone else faint; this was the longest rant ever and most people in the school had probably never heard him string even two sentences together.

"I wonder what would happen if…" Remus sneaked up behind James and let out a loud scream.

James became stiff and seconds later fell to the floor with his legs stiffly stretched upwards. Sirius and Remus looked at each other. Even Peter had gone quiet at the sound of the goat falling. Seconds of silence and then they laughed. They roared with laughter, clutched their stomachs as happy tears ran down their faces. Neither of the boys noticing when the goat transformed back to a not happy looking James Potter. With an evil grin on his face he raised his wand and pointed at the three boys and their laughing changed into cries from that of three goats. Sirius, a brown goat with long fur that covered his eyes, Remus a blond goat with scars on his body and Peter a bit chubby goat looked at their attacker.

James Potter smirked. "What an unfortunate transformation boys."

The end