Chapter 18

                                    

                                          
"Oh My! Is it really?" He turned it in his hands. "I have heard of these, but never actually saw a pair, where did Filch got it?" Peter spoke his jaw dropped.
                          
"No idea mate, but I think he will be pretty mad that he lost it to us!" Sirius said jumping on the bed, sitting next to all the stuff they stole, No! Borrowed it rightfully! As being The Marauders they had actually inherited all the Filch's banned items.
                          
"It was in Filch's drawer marked as 'Confiscated and Highly Dangerous'." James said grinning. 
                          
Remus took it from Peter. It was a pair of two-way mirror. He handed one mirror to Peter and kept one in his hand. In his mirror he could see Peter. While in Peter's mirror Remus was seen.
                          
"I must say, raiding Filch's office wasn't that bad, This mirror is really good, and quite useful to be honest. We should do it again some day"
                          
Remus said grinning. James and Sirius started laughing.
                          
"Oi mate! We have detention, let's go before we are late or McGonagall is going to give us one more detention. Remus, Peter, keep one mirror and give the other one to us, If we were going to die, at least someone can come to rescue." James said. And Remus rolled his eyes.
                          
"Yeah, but don't have much hope, we might let you die." Remus shrugged.
Sirius muttered Gits! And went with James for his detention.
                          
They reached McGonagall's office and knocked. From inside came a voice with Scottish accent. Come in! And they entered the room.
                          
McGonagall's office was decorated with a lot of tartan plaid. There was a tin of biscuits on her desk.
                          
"Here you are Potter and Black, you may sit" McGonagall said without even glancing up from the pages as she kept reading them with her round spectacles on the bridge of her nose.
Sirius scoffed "Please McGonagall you can call me Sirius and him, James"
                          
Sirius said pointing towards him and James. Remus wanted to eye him from the mirror as he heard Sirius but knew nothing he could do now, they weren't looking at the mirror. James and Sirius will either be murdered by Professor's hand or get another detention. So feeling helpless he face-palmed himself.
                          
"Sirius you may call me Professor or professor McGonagall, not McGonagall" McGonagall cleared her throat and said sternly.
                          
"Okay Minevra" Sirius said. And both James and Sirius sat in the chairs in front of McGonagall's desk.
                          
"You may not call me Minevra either"
                          
"What about Mcgony?" James asked.
                          
"No!"
                          
"Gon-Gon" Sirius put in.
                          
"Absolutely not"
                          
"Min-Min" James suggested thinking hard.
                          
"Nope!"
                          
"Minnie!" Sirius shrieked.
                          
"No way Sirius" McGonagall said shaking her head.
                          
"I am with Minnie, what do you say James?" Sirius asked glancing at James.
                          
"Totally in" James said nodding.
                          
"So it's established then. You are Minnie from now onwards" Sirius said turning towards McGonagall now.
                          
On the other side of the mirror Remus and Peter sat with their Jaw- dropping expressions.
                          
"They are dead, not a chance in hell they are coming back!" Peter said. Remus nodded in agreement.
                          
"I give up! Sit quietly and have a bloody biscuit both of you" McGonagall said.
                          
She put a finger on her head. Two minutes in and they gave me a name, Minnie! They are absolutely hopeless and Incorrigible. Never in my life I swore in front of students but these two are absolutely hellions! Still she was fond of them. And she had no idea why?. She turned back to her papers
                          
"Hey Minnie!" Sirius said bitting into his biscuit.
                          
"What Sirius?" She said not glancing up from the paper.
                          
"Oh come on Minnie, you are no fun!" James complained.
                          
She looked up from the paper and hooked her one eyebrow up.
                          
"You both are in detention. You do realize that, don't you?" McGonagall said.
                          
"Oh come on Minnie! Loosen up a bit! By the way can I have some tea with the biscuits?" Sirius asked.
                          
McGonagall sighed and flicked her wand. The kettle with tea came and she transfigured three cups. She knew she wasn't going to get out of it easily. 
                          
"Now it's better!" James and Sirius said in unison.
                          
"So, what's your favorite color Minnie?" James said sipping his tea.
                          
"I don't have a favorite colour James" she replied sipping her tea.
                          
"Strange! Which biscuit to you like the most?" Sirius asked this time.
                          
McGonagall sighed and rolled her eyes. "I like cranberry mint choco-chip biscuit"
                          
"Yeah me too!" James and Sirius both again replied in unison, looked at each other and laughed. Even McGonagall smirked a bit.
                          
"You know when I was little, I picked a cranberry mint choco-chip biscuit, broke it in quarter, dipped it in peanut butter and fed it to my fish. She died in an hour after eating it. My mum got so mad she chased me with a broomstick in her hand" James told them laughing. Both McGonagall and Sirius started laughing.
                          
"No James you aren't serious? You didn't do that"McGonagall said laughing and shaking her head.
                          
"Oh no I did, should have seen my mother's face. My dad apparated saw her face and disapparated. Then he came an hour later" James replied laughing.
                          
"And he is not Sirius, I am" Sirius said.
McGonagall snorted, she was almost in tears.
                          
And all three started laughing again. As they were laughing Dumbledore entered the room and was stunned seeing McGonagall laughing so hard.
                          
His eyes twinkled and he conjured a chair besides James and sat.
                          
"What happened, what is so funny?" Dumbledore asked.
                          
"Tell him the story James" McGonagall said still laughing and shaking her head. It was the first time she didn't stand or greet the headmaster when he came to her office, instead was laughing so hard that she was about to cry.
                          
"When I was little, I picked a cranberry mint choco-chip biscuit, broke it in quarter, dipped it in peanut butter and fed it to my fish. She died in an hour after eating it. My mum got so mad she chased me with a broomstick in her hand. She was so mad that my dad apparated saw her face and disapparated. Then he came an hour later."James said laughing. Dumbledore started laughing too. 
                          
"Can you think of Mia being so mad? Oh yes, Dumbledore do you remember in my Fifth year when Mia and I were talking in the training grounds and Fleamont came with her pepper mint licorice wand and ate in front of her" McGonagall said laughing 
"She summoned the broomstick and ran after him, and when he was quite ahead of him she threw the broomstick at his head." She said clutching her sides.
                          
"I bet 10 galleons, that he remembered the day and disapparated" McGonagall was in tears now.
                          
"She threw her broomstick at James's dad's head!?" Sirius asked excitedly and laughing hard.
                          
"Oh Yes! And it hit him quite well too!" McGonagall answered.
                          
For two hours they talked about the old incidents and laughed at them. Even though the detention was of one hour. They walked out the office two and a half hour later.
                          
"Bye Minnie" Sirius said. Both James and Sirius bid the two professors night. And walked.
                          
"These two know how to have a good kick, eh? Don't they?" Dumbledore asked.
                          
"Oh Merlin! I don't remember when was the last time I laughed so much! They are quite the Troublemakers but I am very fond of them" McGonagall said and nodded. Dumbledore too bid his goodbye and left. Completely forgetting what he came for.