The Marauders' Memories

First Detention

Chapter 4-First Detention

Remus was pleasantly surprised on the fact that he got the highest in the class for the defence against the dark arts quiz. Their teacher, professor Ackerley, had set them a starting quiz to see how much the knew about the basics of DADA. Remus had managed to get most correct, which was quite a surprise for everyone. Leaving the room feeling happy, a sharp jab from Peter and a glance towards Mulciber reminded him of the plan. It was just a hex, but it was worth seeing after the events on the train. They slinked around the corner, rather like a fox, before spotting a hiding James and Sirius, both completely focused on their task. Remus gave a little intake of breath. They were both going to hex him at the same time! He read that two jinxes used at once, could cause permanent harm, and hexes were worse than jinxes. However before Remus could stop them, they jumped out from behind the statue they were hiding behind, and they triumphantly exclaimed:

"Redactum Skullus!"

Mulciber was hit by the two hexes, however a nearby Hufflepuff prefect had cast a protective charm just before. Everyone turned to see what was going on. With a hissing noise, Mulciber head started shrinking. But in proportion. His eyes widened, and he screamed, the note getting steadily higher. His hands flew up to grab his shrinking head, but as he touched it, he gave a yelp, as if it had given him an electric shock. He fell to the floor, with a whimper, before fainting. Soon it stopped, when it was about the size of an egg. The tense silence was broken by James, laughing. Sirius was also laughing silently. Tears flowed down their cheeks as the rolled on the floor. Remus turned around to see Peter sniggering behind him. There was some weak laughter from the crowd, as the prefect went to move the boy. A loud voice filled the hallway.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"

Everyone turned around to see a short man approaching them. He had mad, glinting eyes, and a mop of black hair, that fell all around his head. He had a large, scruffy beard, and a strangely neat, small moustache He was wearing crisp black robes, however, the arm of his robes bore a large picture of a green snake. Sirius was pretty certain he knew who he was, based on what Andromeda had told him in the holidays. This was Professor Fawley, who was renown for his pride as a Slytherin and his bias towards his house, unfortunately for any non-Slytherins taking Arithmetics. However, he was apparently a brilliant teacher and leader. But it still annoyed Sirius greatly how he could be a professor, when he was so bias?

"Potter and Black hexed Mulciber! He"s fainted, but it would have been worse if a shield charm hadn"t been put on by him" Avery shouted, pointing at, in turn, James, Sirius and the Prefect.

"Thank you Avery." Fawley said, ignoring the Hufflepuff prefect. "Potter! Black!" He spat, quite literally as saliva splattered nearby students. "My office. NOW."

The two didn"t dare disobey him. They followed him, slightly scared for once. What punishment would they receive?

The office had black walls, with black shelves full of black books. James noticed all the writing was in ancient runes. A black desk was littered with parchments, some with numbers, others with students names. He somehow extracted two clean bits of parchment from the clutter on the desk, and began writing on them. A tense silence filled the room, nor Sirius nor James dared to move. After a few minutes, which felt like a few hours, Professor Fawley handed them the parchments, and ordering them to get out of his office. The both looked at their punishments.

"You shall spend half of this Saturday scrubbing a corridor selected by the caretaker." James read out.

,You shall spend the whole of Saturday scrubbing a corridor selected by the caretaker." Sirius said furiously. James jaw dropped open.

"That is twice as much as I have? Why?"

"For being a Gryffindor, despite everyone expecting me to be in Slytherin. I knew he had a bias, but never so blunt..." .Sirius replied.

"Maybe, we should try to be slightly better for the rest of the week, it"s annoying having to waste so much valuable time on a corridor." Sirius gave James a weird face.

"That was the last thing I was expecting! He cried, and the two friends burst into laughter.

When they returned to the common room, they were greeted by Peakes and Coots, who were extremely impressed and wanted to congratulate him. Then, a red faced Peter, muttered a thank you, before rushing back to Remus. Remus had had a tough time while they were gone. He had been arguing with himself about what he should do when they came back, and he became distressed. He sat on his bed, his brow slightly furrowed.

You should tell them off for both sending the hex at the same time.

But they were already punished, and very severely by the looks of the teacher.

But Mulciber could have been injured! The punishment has to be severe!

Mulciber did hex Peter first, so it was only payment.

No, it just made them equally as bad as him.

But, if you tell them off, they won"t be your friends.

Who cares, I can tell my friend off!

No. You. Can"t.

Besides, Peter is a friend, and I"m fine with him.

But you still want to be friendly with them. Do you want to make the some of your roommates as your enemies?

I"ve grown used to it. I"m used to being hated.

Just leave it. They have already gotten a worthy punishment.

"You O.K. Remus? You look rather pale." Peter broke into his argument, looking very concerned.

"I"m fine. Just fine."

"Really? I don"t really think so, considering you made no sign of going to Charms when the bell ringed a minute ago."

"Merlin"s Beard!" Remus cried, as he shot out of the room nearly tripping Peter over, as he shook his head, signed, and followed Remus out the room.

Not much really happened until Saturday. James and Sirius seemed to be much better behaved, but in the time until Saturday, they had made a list of several jinxes and hexes they would like to use. However this didn"t effect their learning; Both boys were very intelligent and could do just as well even better than the others, with their minds half in the work. However, their knowledge couldn"t really be put to scrubbing the corridors on Saturday, which would need their full attention. James and Sirius were given corridors opposite ends to the castle, both long, dirty and popular corridors. A group of Slytherins went by pass Sirius laughing at him. Sirius really couldn"t care less though, he was extremely bored, and desperately needed to rant about Farley and Filch to someone. He had no idea how too. He paced up and down the corridor on the seventh floor, thinking of different ways that would allow him to communicate with James, when he heard a creaking behind him. A door had appeared next to an old tapestry, out of nowhere. It was a lovely mahogany colour, with golden handles. He opened it, to find shelves, packed with an assortment of things. He found several books on hexes, famous Gryffindors, and one on the Blacks. Something shiny caught his eye. Two little mirrors were sitting, side by side, next to a little leaflet, which read,

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Sirius stared at it for a while. It was all very confusing. He understood what it meant but...he had never heard of any company named ComeAndGo, but was even more surprised that it was priced at nothing. He turned to look at some of the other product, when he heard a crash outside the room. He suspected Filch had something to do with it, se he dashed out, only holding the two mirrors, the book set on Hexes and Jinxes to use on enemies, Charms to get work done quick, and best spells for transfiguration, and a Gryffindor seal set. Stuffing them in his bag, he sprinted to the source to find Peter slipping around in the soapy water that should have been in the bucket, but was actually all over the floor. Sirius pulled Peter up, before pulling out his wand and muttering,

"Evanasco"

Peter, who had recovered from the fall, and had opened his mouth to say something, gave an unusual sound, before stuttering,

"How did you do that?!"

Sirius grinned, before launching into the story of how he insisted his uncle to teach him the charm, after his mother and him argued over a muggle poster he had, and in the end of the argument, his mother turned the blu-tacked poster into a sort of black goo that she refused to clean up. Whatever it was, stank, so Sirius had to find some way of getting rid of it. At the end of the take Sirius asked what Peter had come running to him for. Peter"s eyes widened with horror.

"Galloping Gargoyles! I bumped into James, at the other side of the school, and he told me to warn Sirius, I mean warn you, that Filch inspected his corridor and thought it was bad, I mean it wasn"t good enough for him, so he said he had to do it for the rest of the day, so he wants me, to say that he will buy time for Sirius, I mean you, so that he can make sure his corridor is clean, I mean make sure your corridor is clean, or he may make you work for the whole of tomorrow!" Peter babbled.

Sinus nodded before getting to his cleaning. However, he looked in his empty bucket, and shrugged. Filch had told them not to use magic, but with no water...

He pulled out the book on Charms for work, and found one names Scorgify, for cleaning. As it was his first time using it, it wasn"t perfectly clean, but when Filch came wheezing around the corner, as it struck eight o"clock, it passes, clearly to his displeasure. Sirius then rushed with his bucket to Filches cleaning stores, before he saw that it was empty. It was there he found James Potter waiting for him. Chucking the bucket it the cupboard, he watched as James smirked saying,

"Magic?"

"Yup."

"Didn"t suspect anything?"

"He may have been aware of McGonagall roaming nearby."

"Lucky! Fawley was the only teacher nearby!" And hearing Filch"s wheezes from the end of the corridor, they took their leave.

"AWESOME" James yelled as Sirius explained how the two way mirror worked. "But you don"t know how to get to the place."

"Yeah, its very weird."

"Hogwarts if full of secrets." James chanted mysteriously, causing both of them to burst into laughter, in which James snatched the red backed mirror from Sirius, who was left with the green one.

"Hey" he cried indignantly, before surprising James with a large grin. He grabbed the Charms book from his bag, and opening it to a page he saw earlier.

"mutareo rubeum!" He confidently shouted. The green back changed to a red colour. James" mouth fell open.

"How"d ya do that?!"

"Hogwarts is full of secrets" Sirius echoed. James groaned.

"Seriously- How did you do that!"

"Calm down. Your acting like I"m, I"m, gonna put an illegal curse on someone!" Sirius shouted as Remus, Peter, Peakes and Coots walked in.

"Sirius Black, you have already lost 100 points from Gryffindor, please do not put any curses on anyone." Remus complained.

"Certainly, dear mother." James replied.

"We shall be on our best behaviour, I promise!" Sirius cried, giving Remus large puppy eyes.

Remus shook his head as the two boys burst into laughter.