Fic: Fighting Fate, Chapter 7 (Sloth), Sirius/Remus
7. Sloth
McGonagall told him he was being sloth. Peter had no idea what that was supposed to mean, but judging by his professor’s expression, it was nothing close to a compliment. And all because, when she had asked him what he would like to do after leaving Hogwarts, he had asked what his three friends had answered.
How could wanting to stay with people you already knew liked you be sloth? He had always thought that a Sloth was a slow moving animal. Peter wasn’t slow and he took offense to what McGonagall had said.
Being a Marauder, however, told him that if McGonagall thought that he reminded her of an animal, he should probably provide an answer fitting of his mischievous side.
“Well, I suppose I’d like to be a zoo keeper, then.”
Professor McGonagall ordered him out and told him to never come back.