[--Sirius yells, first. But because he is, obviously, also a Gryffindor, and not a whiner, he recovers from his indignation and jams his armgloved hands against the controls. His hovercart leaps forward, inasmuch as a hovercart can actually leap. It's more of a lurch, really. Not so lurchy that he even comes close to slamming into anything, unlike some people.
So, when Remus looks around, it's to find that Sirius hasn't actually ovetaken him or beaten him yet, but is hovercarting along more or less beside him, at a hovercart's sedate pace. And yet the grin that Sirius gives him implies a breakneck speed, like they're zooming along much faster than they actually are.]
D'you know what happens to cheaters, Moony? They lose! Just like you're going to!
[And sure enough, his hovercart pulls into the lead, by a nose. A very small nose.]
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[--Sirius yells, first. But because he is, obviously, also a Gryffindor, and not a whiner, he recovers from his indignation and jams his armgloved hands against the controls. His hovercart leaps forward, inasmuch as a hovercart can actually leap. It's more of a lurch, really. Not so lurchy that he even comes close to slamming into anything, unlike some people.
So, when Remus looks around, it's to find that Sirius hasn't actually ovetaken him or beaten him yet, but is hovercarting along more or less beside him, at a hovercart's sedate pace. And yet the grin that Sirius gives him implies a breakneck speed, like they're zooming along much faster than they actually are.]
D'you know what happens to cheaters, Moony? They lose! Just like you're going to!
[And sure enough, his hovercart pulls into the lead, by a nose. A very small nose.]