"This," began professor Slughorn, "is a little potion called Amortentia. It is more commonly known as a most potent love potion."
This caused some whispers of excitement among the 6th year students. James Potter elbowed his friend Sirius Black in the side. Raising his eyebrows he whispered, "gee who could I use that on…"
"Please, Prongs. Even the world's strongest love potion couldn't get Lily to talk to you."
"Shut up!" James retorted as he elbowed Sirius even harder. Sirius began to elbow back, sparking an elbowing war.
Remus Lupin turned around and gave them a stern look. "Would you two just get a room already?"
"You shut up too, Moony!" Black whispered.
Slughorn stopped his lesson. " ! Since you seem to be ignoring my lesson, I can be led to assume you know everything about this potion. In that case, could you tell me the effects of this love potion?"
"Um…Love sir?"
"It would appear you do not in fact know everything about this potion; so please pay attention ." Slughorn turned so he was addressing the class as a whole. "Amortentia does not actually create love, as that is nearly impossible. It simply creates an extreme obsession. The effected person wants nothing more than to be with the person who gave it to them. It becomes so extreme, the effected person forgets to eat, drink, and eventually breathe."
James and Sirius heard none of this because they had resumed their elbowing.
Slughorn began to pack up his books. "Well that ends our lesson for today. For homework, you will be required to research the Dogbane potion, as we will be studying it next class."
"Moony, you might want to skip that lesson." Sirius laughed. He, Remus, and James walked through the hallway, headed towards the Gryffindor tower.
"Very funny, Padfoot. You're honestly just a bundle of laughs today." Remus said in the most sarcastic tone possible.
Peter ran up behind the trio. He had forgotten his potions book in the classroom.
"Slughorn never gives homework!" He breathed heavily.
"That's true. Maybe we just shouldn't do it." Sirius laughed.
"Sirius you never do your homework." Remus laughed.
"Exactly"
The 4 laughed and talked some more until they finally made it to the Gryffindor common room. Peter, Sirius, and James went into their rooms to plan tonight's adventure while Remus stayed in the common room to work on Slughorn's assignment.
James opened his trunk and pulled out his invisibility cloak and the marauders map. "We're gonna get that love potion tonight."
Sirius snorted. "Prongs, I told you lily won't fall for it."
"Maybe not but if all else fails, we could always make Snivellus fall in love with McGonnagall or something." James said nonchalantly.
They all looked at each other and laughed. Peter pulled out a notepad from his trunk and threw it to Sirius. "Alright so we wrote here that Slughorn usually hangs in his office for about 2 hours after classes then heads to Slytherin. Sound right?"
"Seems like it." James replied. "So we'll leave after dinner tonight.
Sirius and James spent the next hour playing wizards chess with Peter cheering each on respectively. When the game was over they headed out into the common room to leave for dinner. Remus was sitting on the couch next to lily Evans.
"Oi Moony, we're heading down for dinner you coming?" Sirius asked.
The full moon was this week and Remus was feeling a bit queasy.
"No I think I'll skip tonight. Not feeling too great." He replied.
James looked at Lily. "Evans, you gonna stay down here an starve with Remy over here?"
Lily shot James one of her famous soul piercing glances. "I have left overs from lunch thank you very much." She pulled a bag out of her backpack.
"Fine. Starve then." James retorted. He and the other two marauders left through the portrait hole, making the common room quiet once again.
Remus and Lily worked on their assignments for another hour until the three marauders returned. They busted through the hole again and all attempted to sit on Remus's lap at once. "Ready to go Moony?" James laughed.
"It'd be a lot easier to leave if you all got off me!" Remus tapped into that bit of wolf strength he had and shoved his three friends off his lap. "Alright lets go. See you later Lily." Remus waved at the ginger girl and the four marauders climbed out of the portrait hole, into the stairway.