Chapter 4
“Boy’s, wake up!”
When she was met with silence she tried again.
“Mr. Potter! Mr. Black! Mr. Lupin! Mr. Pettigrew!”
The words, “Mum five more minutes.” came out of James’ mouth before he adjusted his glasses. Realizing that he never slept with his glasses on, not purposely at least, he was
up in an instant trying to remember where he was.
“Well at least one of you woke up. Now Mr. Potter if you’re done calling out for your mother, it would be greatly appreciated if you could wake up the rest of your friends and come rested to class next time we meet.”
“Yes Mrs. McGonagall. Sorry for falling asleep, last night was just a long night.” James was now out of his seat trying to wake up his mates. He tried to lighten the mood with a soft chuckle but it seems it came out more nervous than he had intended it too.
“Mr. Potter, you four are good students. As a matter of fact, you four are my top students.” James relaxed a bit now, but it hadn’t lasted long because McGonagall continued.
“That is the only reason I let you guys sleep in my class. Because I know that I will be seeing you in the library reading up on what you missed today in class, correct?”
James being James, he had gotten distracted from catching a glimpse of red hair outside of the door, so when he realized that McGonagall had stopped talking he had barely been able to stutter out a response. “Yes. Yes you will because we are so responsible and need to keep our grades up in your class. Just exactly what were we discussing in class today though?”
“We chose topics to research and write a paper about. The details are on the piece of paper you grabbed when you walked in.” She looks down at their desks, there was no paper. James smiled sheepishly. He watched with embarrassment as she walked away back to her desk and grabbed four copies and handed them to James. “There you are Mr. Potter.” She looked at the other three boys who had seem to have just awoken. “Well how kind of the rest of you to join us.” She said in a dry voice and they all lowered their heads in shame. “Seeing as I have already explained everything to James, he will be responsible for catching you all up. Now good day boys.” She turned to walk away, leaving them be as feel as though they were off the hook, though before she could reach the end of the door, she turned around.
She would never admit it but these four boys were like her own children, she had seen them grow up right before her eyes, and they held a special place in her heart. That is why she was so tough on them, she knew they could handle it.
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Later that night, after dinner they realized that they actually needed to go to the library to catch up on the work they had missed out on during class. But as usual Sirius did not want to go to the library claiming that his reputation would be in tatters if he was so much spotted near the library. It took a lot of negotiating from James part but James soon realized that Remus was the only one who could ultimately talk sense into Sirius.
“Padfoot cmon lets just go to the library already you know that there is no way out of this.” James had pleaded with Sirius,
“No James, I said no. Why can’t we just study in here?” Sirius walked from his bed to sit next to Remus, dramatically plopping himself down in the taller boys lap.
“You know mate, I would love to study here as well. We can play our own music, share a spliff what not, but you know that McGonagall is going to be watching out for us in the library because we told her that we would be there.” Apparently Sirius had had enough because he was no longer paying attention to James and redirected his focus to Remus, who was running his hand through Sirius’ long hair. “Remus please talk some sense into him for godrics sake.” Exasperatedly James fell back on his own bed.
“Oh you play dirty Potter, pining poor old Moony against me” Remus laughed as he shushed Sirius, putting his finger over the smaller boys lips, and it was right then that Peter had came back from wherever he had snuck off to after dinner.
“Look how about this,” Remus got up, pushing off Sirius’ prying hands trying to convince him to stay as he walked over to his bedside table, “I will roll us a spliff, a couple even, we will smoke like two in here, max. Then we go to the library for a bit, we study show our faces and then come back and smoke the rest. How does that sound?” He looked at everyone. They all seemed to agree.
“Perfect Moony you are a brilliant genius.” He ran up to Remus grabbing hold of his face as he began peppering kisses all over his face. James and Peter just looked at each other, they shared a thought. “You see James if you had presented your idea like this I would have been right on board.
James just rolled his eyes, “Yeah mate sure”