I had to write this- as I've just got back from seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp- swoon). I know I should be finishing one of my other fics, like Seeing or Musical Mayhem (someone give me a better title, please), but this is more fun. And I'll forget the idea otherwise.

Disclaimer: Who? Me? Nope, sir, I don't own nothing.

"Right." The four Marauders stood in the middle of Hogsmeade, looking at each other. "What now?"

James smirked. "I've got a date with Lily. She finally gave in to my irresistible charms."

"Took long enough," Sirius muttered. James glared at him.

"I've got a date too," Peter squeaked. The others stared at him in disbelief. He shuffled his feet. "Glenda Smith in Hufflepuff. She asked me to Madame Puddifoot's."

"I'm meeting Lily in The Three Broomsticks."

Sirius nodded, and turned to the remaining member of their quartet. "What about you, Moony? Have you got a date?"

Remus shook his head. "No."

"Looks like it's just you and me then. We'll see you two later." Sirius threw his arm around Remus' shoulders as they walked off. "Where to first, Mr Moony?"

Remus smiled wryly. "Would have thought you knew me better than that by now, Mr Padfoot."

Sirius nodded sagely. "Honeydukes it is, my little chocoholic werewolf."

Remus hit him on the chest, looking around nervously. "Don't say that in public. Anyway, I'm not little. Peter's shorter than me. It's just my bad luck you and Prongs are so bloody lanky."

"I am not lanky. I'm the perfect shape."

"For a giraffe," Remus muttered.

Sirius shoved him, then stopped to glare at a Slytherin leaning on a fence who was staring at them. "What's so intriguing?"

The Slytherin sneered at them. "Two poofs wandering along the road."

Sirius growled, taking his arm from Remus' shoulder. "Firstly, we aren't poofs. Secondly, so what if we were? Just because you're repressed…" Remus dragged on Sirius' arm to pull him into the shop. "What? I would have thought you were glad I'm not solving things by hexing them."

"I am." Remus spoke distractedly, wandering across to the chocolate counter.

Sirius watched him. The way Remus was obsessed by chocolate… it was adorable, really. Sirius shook his head quickly. Where the hell had that thought come from? He didn't think about his friends being adorable. Nope. Cute, maybe, if he was trying to annoy them, but not adorable. No. The only reason he was thinking along those lines was because of what the Slytherin had said. Yeah, that made sense.

Sirius saw Remus tense up. He rushed to his friend's side, looking at him worriedly. "Moony? You ok?" Remus lifted a shaking finger to point at a notice pinned to the wall.

People of the world.

I, mysterious owner of the Tilly chocolate factory, am opening my doors to five lucky winners. Inside five of my chocolate bars will be Golden Tickets. The lucky finders of these Tickets will be allowed inside my factory for one day, and one of these lucky people will receive a special prize. All five will receive a lifetime's supply of chocolate.

Under 16s only.

Mysterious owner.

Remus turned to Sirius, his expression rapt. "Imagine it. A day inside a real chocolate factory. A lifetime's supply. Even better, Tilly's chocolate."

"What's so special about that?"

Remus stared at Sirius as though the latter had sprouted an extra head, popped his eyeballs out and sent them off to tapdance. "Tilly's? The best chocolate in the world?" He returned to staring at the notice. "I'd give anything for a Golden Ticket."

Sirius shrugged. "Then buy some chocolate. You won't get the ticket by wishing."

Remus smiled sadly. "I haven't got enough money for Tilly's chocolate. Just normal Honeyduke's stuff for me." Remus picked up some and paid for it, leaving Sirius to stare at the rows of brown chemical inducers. When Remus returned, tapping Sirius on the shoulder, Sirius jumped into the air.

"Go on, I'll meet you in Zonko's," Sirius said.

"What are you going to do?"

"I need to buy James' birthday present, and I don't want you to see."

Remus gave Sirius the odd look again, but left. Sirius sighed in relief. He picked up a box of Tilly's chocolate and carried it to the counter. He pulled out his wallet and handed over the money. It was the last of the money he'd taken when he ran away. Highly appropriate that it went to make someone happy.

He allowed the shop assistant to wrap the box. Now he could carry it and Remus wouldn't realise what it was.

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Sirius was lying on his bed, staring at the hangings above him, when James and Peter entered the room, giggling. Remus looked up from his book and raised an eyebrow. "What's up with you two?"

"We're young, crazy, and in love," James shrieked, before falling backwards onto his bed.

"Can't argue with the crazy bit," Sirius remarked.

Remus smiled, before looking to the other two. "How did the dates go?"

"Lily didn't yell at me once! And she actually laughed at my jokes!" James' expression was rapt.

"Did you snog her?"

James looked down his nose at Sirius. "I would not kiss on the first date."

"You wouldn't? Or Lily wouldn't?" James jumped on Sirius' bed, before proceeding to tickle the dark haired heartthrob with a feather duster he conjured out of the air.

Remus sighed, and crossed to sit with Peter. "How about you, Wormtail?"

Peter smiled shyly. "She was great. She really likes me, Moony, not James or Sirius." Remus winced inwardly. He knew that Peter had, on numerous occasions, been asked out by girls who really wanted to get close to one of the other Marauders. "We're meeting up next Wednesday."

Remus smiled encouragingly. "Have a good time." At that point Sirius screamed, then began to moan as James continued to tickle him.

"Oh, Jamie, oh, god…" James leapt off him very quickly, accompanied by Sirius' cackle.

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Remus opened his eyes sleepily to see Sirius bouncing at the bottom of his bed, holding a wrapped box out to him. "What the hell are you doing? And what time is it?"

"Half five. I got you a present. Open it!"

Remus frowned as he sat up and took the box. "Why did you get me a present?"

Sirius shrugged. "Just did. Now open it!"

Remus peeled off the paper and stared at the name on the cardboard box, struck speechless. "Tilly's chocolate…" he breathed. "Oh, Siri, you shouldn't have!" He leapt across the bed to hug Sirius, making him fall onto his back. Sirius smiled smugly. Remus was hugging him, on top of him, and it felt good… No! God, why did he keep on having these thoughts?

"Eat it. See if there's a Golden Ticket."

Remus nodded excitedly, moving away from Sirius. "Ok, but you have to eat some as well. You bought it for me."

Sirius shook his head. "It's for you."

Remus spoke with his mouth full. "You'll eat it, even if I have to feed it to you."

Sirius smirked. "Go on then." He was amazed when Remus leant over and popped a piece in his mouth. Taste explosions rippled across his mouth as he chewed slowly. Remus smiled at him. The werewolf did look cute (cute was acceptable) with chocolate in his mouth, especially when he licked his lips to capture every last chocolate molecule. Sirius licked his own lips absentmindedly.

Remus reached for the next bar. He looked at it sadly. "There's only five bars in a box. This is my one in four chance." He opened the wrapper slowly, not daring to look at it. "Is it, Padders?"

"No."

"Ah well. It's still a Triple Dazzle Caramel. Absolutely gorgeous." Remus reached across with another piece, but Sirius backed away.

"It's white. Chocolate is brown."

"This is white chocolate. Try it. It's got caramel in the middle." Sirius obediently opened his mouth, allowing Remus to place his fingers inside his mouth. Sirius wasn't sure which part he enjoyed more- the bit where Remus was feeding him, or the bit where he was actually eating.

This continued for the next two bars, Remus torn between an odd mixture of elation at the fact that he was eating chocolate- not just any chocolate, but Tilly's chocolate- and depression at the fact that he hadn't got a Golden Ticket.

Without bothering to check the last bar, he ripped it open and broke off a piece to feed to Sirius, who was staring at the wrapper. Remus looked down. In his hand he held… a Golden Ticket.

…

…

A Golden Ticket.

Remus screeched and jumped, again pushing Sirius onto his back as he was hugged. "Sirius, I love you, I'll never be mean to you again, thank you thank you thank you!"

The curtains around the bed were wrenched open. "What the… oh, I'll leave you two alone. Just keep it quiet, please?"

Remus jumped off Sirius and onto James' back. "Prongs! Look what Sirius got me!" And the Golden Ticket was waved under James' nose.

He squinted at it. "A gold piece of paper. Moony, I haven't got my glasses on."

"A Golden Ticket! I'm going to Tilly's chocolate factory!" Remus began jumping on the nearest bed, only stopping when he hit his head on a bar at the top.

Sirius looked at James. "We need to sober him up."

James nodded. "Aqua cure?"

"Yup."

They crossed to where Remus was sat, giggling while holding his head. Sirius prised the Ticket from his fingers, placed it in the desk drawer and locked it. Then the two Animagi grabbed Remus' arms and marched him into the bathroom, where they stuck him under the shower. Remus protested weakly.

"Come on, guys, I'm… Ai!" The cold water made him squeal. Sirius tried to watch dispassionately, but found the sight of a wet Remus in clinging clothes was stirring things in him, so he had to look away quickly.

Eventually Remus knocked on the glass screen. "Ok, I'm not hyper any more. You can let me out." He stepped out, looking sheepish. "Sorry guys. Padders, pass me a towel." Sirius did so, trying not to look at the wet Remus, or to find anything arousing in the way Remus was vigorously towelling his hair.

"What's this about a chocolate factory?"

Sirius explained, to take his mind off bad things. "Tilly's. The owner's allowing five people in to look around for a day, and one of them will win a special prize. All five get chocolate for the rest of their lives. He's picking the five by sending out Golden Tickets in his bars, and it appears Re- Moony here is one of them."

"What day?"

Remus paled. "Damn. I hadn't thought about that." He rushed back into the dorm, allowing the other two to follow him. He was frantically digging through the pile of rubbish on his bed when Sirius tapped him on the shoulder, giving him the Ticket. Remus smiled gratefully, before reading the Ticket out loud.

"Dear child,

Congratulations on discovering this Golden Ticket. Please present yourself at the gates of my factory on December 20th at 8 o'clock. You must be accompanied by one adult of your choice."

The three of them stared at each other. James broke the silence. "Is that full moon?"

"No, new moon." Remus sat down. "Who the hell am I going to take? My parents won't take me, and what other adults do I know?"

"At least you don't have to worry about school. We'll be off then."

"Take me." James and Remus stared at Sirius. "I look old enough, and I'm seventeen which makes me of age, and I have my bike so we can get there."

Remus beamed. "Yes! Perfect! And it's only fair that you get to go."

"So, it's settled. In two weeks Moony will go to Tilly's chocolate factory, accompanied by his adult, better known as Padfoot." James sighed. "It's still an hour till breakfast. You guys coming in for showers?"

Remus laughed. "I think I've already had mine this morning."

Sirius grabbed his towels. He didn't mind taking a shower or not, he just didn't want to remain in the same room as a wet werewolf who was beginning to look startlingly appealing.

Well? Next chapter we meet the other Golden Ticket winners. Anyone you'd like to see? And be proud! A long chapter, from the Queen of short things!