Mischievous-A Marauders Fanfic

29-And A Third Rather Larger One

The half term rolled around very quickly, and passed. The seven had deemed the entire summer term useless now exams were gone, so the lessons they did have were merely a catalyst for chaos.

Sirius charmed a paper bird to fly across the classroom and land on Halley's desk. Professor Binns, their ghostly History of Magic teacher, didn't notice.

Halley opened the note. It read:

bets on who can get a paper plane through binns. Ten points for head, one for a limb,
five for chest,
fifty for crotch.
Game?
S

Halley added a quick

sure~h

onto the bottom of the note, and passed it forward to James, who read it, scrawled

YESSSS!!!! jp

below where Halley had written, and passed that forward to Sephy. The little lady beamed widely, hid it with her hand, and reached for her parchment.

The first paper plane soared through Binns's hand, and he didn't really notice it.

James grinned, waggling one finger in triumph. Sephy shook her head.

"Not a limb" she hissed. "Hand. 0.5 points!"

James pulled an ugly face. Sephy smiled, made a paper plane, and launched it straight through Binns's head.

Sniggers rippled around the class as Binns spun around, and Samantha quickly marked down ten points for Sephy on her parchment.

"Who threw that?" he asked, his usual dreary manner sharpened by annoyance.

The class looked at each other meekly. Peter was giggling behind his hand. Samantha slowly trod on his toe to get him to pull himself together.

Binns slowly turned again to the blackboard, and the second his back was turned four more planes flew through his head, left leg, torso and right thigh, dangerously close to his crotch, thrown by Sephy, James, Sirius and Halley respectively.

"Who is doing that?" he demanded again. "Potter. Cardale. Black. Derwent. Was it you?"

"Professor!" Sirius exclaimed dramatically, leaping from his desk. "I'm mightily offended! Just because my friends and I are the troublemakers in this class doesn't mean that whenever trouble is made we are the ones making the trouble!"

"We are totally, utterly, completely enthralled by your overzealous descriptions and tales of the Witch Hunts of the 1700s!" James added, also leaping from his desk.

"1600s" Remus corrected quietly from under a pre-full moon sickness. He hadn't felt so bad that day, and had managed to remain in afternoon lessons. He was setting off to the Shrieking Shack immediately after dinner.

"Those ones too" James agreed. Binns drooped rather in the air, and the class giggled more. Halley looked worriedly over at Lily. She was smiling a little, though trying not to show it. Halley took that as not annoyed by the boys' antics.

"Sit down, the both of you" Binns sighed heavily. James and Sirius smirked and did as they were told.

The class was dismissed ten minutes later, and the seven packed their bags and prepared to go to tea.

Halley noticed Lily cornered by Snape in a corner of the classroom. She instantly went to save her.

"Lily, come on" she called, hurrying over. "I got an Arithmancy puzzle off of Vector. Come and help me with it over tea..."