The Marauders: Year Six #Wattys2017

Who is Mia Black?

Who is Mia Black?

The lie-in came to an end Monday after lunch when Professor Slughorn mentioned to Minerva at the staff table that he'd been missing half her Gryffindors in the morning Potions class and she'd excused herself immediately from the Great Hall. James and Peter turned on the Gryffindor table benches to watch her go past and Peter, who'd been filling one of the white boxes he'd conjured with lunch for John and Yoko, stopped and sat back down. "I've a feeling they'll be down in a minute," he said when he saw the look on McGonagall's face.

Sure enough, fifteen minutes later, McGonagall entered the Great Hall again, pulling the two boys along with her and deposited them on the bench across from James and Peter. "And if I hear about chains on bedposts again, I'll see to it you're given detentions for a month, Mr. Black!" she stormed off, dusting her hands off as she went back up to the staff table.

Remus looked relieved.

Sirius however kept glaring after Minnie and sighing dramatically. "How are we supposed to get anything done around here if our freedom to protest is restricted?" he complained.

"In all fairness," Peter said, "I don't think anybody noticed what you were doing except us." He pointed at James and himself, "And we already agree with you."

Sirius replied, "Of course they knew!" he paused then, "Oi - Longbottom, d'ya know what I was doing all weekend?"

Frank looked up from his plate of chips. "Remus?" he guessed.

Alice choked on her stew as James hooted with laughter and Remus's face turned as red as the raspberries he was shoving into his mouth.

"No I was not doing Remus," Sirius said with a sigh. "Although that did happen once or twice, didn't it Moonshine?"

Remus concentrated very hard on the food.

James said, "Oi! Rule. Number. One. RULE NUMBER ONE."

"You were in Herbology! You weren't coming back 'til after. I made sure we waited 'til you were gone for a long while. Moony was just so horny and I --"

Remus looked up, eyebrows shot so high they were nearly in his hairline, "Do not blame this on me!"

Sirius grinned.

After lunch, they had Charms and Transfiguration - so Peter left to go work on his homework for Divination, which he was taking by himself since even Remus had decided it was a rubbish subject and dropped it. The other three trooped to their classes. Between the two, when they were walking in the corridor, they bumped into Professor Urquart, who looked to be in a decidedly bad mood... it was unfortunate because he was catching them just as Sirius was in the middle of rearranging one of the suits of armor into making a rude gesture.

Professor Urquart walked past them - stopped a meter down the hall, and backed up to see what Sirius was doing.

Sirius gave him his very best innocent grin. "Professor, would you look at what somebody else has done to this poor armor? I'm just fixing him."

The armor's helmet clanged in protest and Sirius jumped off the plinth, surprised at the betrayal.

Professor Urquart shook his head, "Mr. Black, I am appalled."

Remus murmured, "Told you not to do it mate."

Professor Urquart said, "Thinking too small! There are far funnier things to do with the suits of armor. Mia would be disappointed." He shook his head and walked on down the corridor.