Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter-characters. If I did, things would be very different. Remus, for example, would never, never, never, never ever hold hands with Tonks in the funeral!! He is with Sirius!! Okay, just had to get that out of my system.
I have done some changes to this chapter. The month has been changed because honestly, it didn't make any sense. And some small things. I have been itching to do this for a long time. And for some reason, I sit here, the day before my third exam, doing it. I get rather annoyed at myself sometimes.
But! Here it is!
Chapter 1 – Muggle Studies
It was late September. The air had begun to get cold and autmun was approaching Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was in the seventh and last year of the four most infamous students to set foot within the grounds of Hogwarts; the Marauders.
Three of the Marauders, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and James Potter, were currently sitting in their Muggle Studies class. Two out of three were extremely bored. Sirius had taken Muggle Studies only because James had taken it (and to annoy his parents, of course), and James had taken it only because one Lily Evans had taken it. It was really a puzzle why Lily Evans had taken this subject, seeing as she was Muggleborn, but James didn't care about that. Remus were genuinely interested in the subject, as the only one of the Marauders, because his mother had been Muggleborn. Peter had taken Divination instead, thank God, so they didn't have to explain every little detail to him.
The teacher, professor Appleway, was handing back a test they had a week before. James and Sirius didn't seem to be paying attention at all. They were too busy planning a prank in progress in The Plan Of Making The Slytherins' Life Miserable. This one was on how to make their clothes turn pink. They hadn't gone very far, however, because Remus refused to help with pranks during class and he was the brain in the prank-pulling. Without him, James and Sirius wouldn't be able to figure out how to get their brilliant pranks working.
"And as you might recall, I promised the top four on this test a prize," professor Appleway said loudly. At this, James and Sirius paid attention too.
"The top four are, in chronologic order; Lily Evans, Remus Lupin, James Potter and Sirius Black!" the teacher announced. Applause broke out. Lily beamed, Remus looked proud and Sirius and James exchanged hand-shakes and then stood up to bow.
"The prize is a trip," Appleway continued when James and Sirius had sat back down and the applause died out. "You are going to a Muggle school, where you will learn how to behave as Muggles, experience their schooldays and, hopefully, act as Muggles." He gave them an exited grin, and failed to notice that James and Sirius' grins had faltered.
"You will be there with them for a month," the professor said. "It will not affect your schoolwork here. Your other teachers will send you your homework by owl while you are away. I will come with you on this trip and will help you with your homework, should you need it."
"Now, everybody move along now," he finished. "See you next class."
"Living as Muggles for a month?!" Sirius exclaimed when they were out of the classroom. "We are wizards! Why would we want to do that?"
"I don't know a first thing about Muggles," James muttered with a horrified look on his face. "I don't know a single thing about them!"
"Oh come on, you two!" Remus said and smacked them both on the head.
"Ow!" they said in unison.
"You deserved it," Lily said from behind as she walked over to them. "You're acting like idiots!"
"No, we're not!" James said.
"Sirius Black does never act like an idiot!" Sirius said with an indignant voice. "I'm always acting like my usual extra-ordinary, smart, utterly handsome self!" Lily huffed in disbelief.
"Your girlfriend hates me, Prongs!" Sirius wailed. He put his hand on Remus' shoulders. "My Moony is the only one that understand me. Right, Moony?" Remus Looked at him.
"You're making fun of Muggles. That means you're making fun of my mum's family," Remus said. He put on a hurt expression. "It would hurt me a lot if you didn't want to go," he pouted. Sirius closed his eyes, muttering "no, no, no, I'm not falling for it." While Sirius was muttering and refusing to look, they had reached the Gryffindor table for dinner. They sat on the end furthest away from the teachers' table, as usual. Peter came and sat with them too.
"You don't want to learn about my mother's family?" Remus asked Sirius, looking and sounding deadly hurt. Sirius had a hard time trying to ignore the look on his boyfriend's face.
"Damn!" he said, and a few first-years edged a little away from them. "Okay then! I'll come with you guys on the trip!"
"What trip?" piped Peter, but was promptly ignored.
"That's the spirit, Padfoot!" Remus said and kissed him. "And I promise, we can go searching for a pub there too." Both Sirius and James looked considerately happier from that idea.
"Yes! We can go pub-crawling!" James said with his voice full of childish enthusiasm.
"Where are we going?" Peter asked. No one heard him this time either.
"Hurray!" Sirius yelled, and caused several students to look at him with fear written all over their faces. It was a well-known fact to hide when Sirius Black looked so pleased, especially when James Potter looked equally happy. Lily groaned.
"Did you have to say that, Remus?" she asked. "Now they're never going to let that thought go!" Remus just shrugged. He didn't much dislike pub-crawling with his two best friends, especially because Sirius got very cuddly when drunk.
"What are you guys talking about?" Peter asked again, and the other Marauders and Lily turned to him as if they hadn't noticed him there. Then Lily started a long explanation of what was going on. When she was done, Peter chirped out.
"So you're leaving me all alone?" he looked absolutely terrified of the mere thought of it.
"Well, seeing as you don't even have Muggle Studies, then yes," James said and patted Peter reassuringly on the back.
The week before the Trip was extremely quiet from the Marauders' side. They nearly let the Slytherins in peace, which was a very disturbing change. Every time one or more Marauders walked past a Slytherin in the halls, the poor Slytherin would shrink and hide as well as they could. The only reason for this change, however, was that the Marauders (sans Peter) didn't want to get into a detention that would ruin their trip.
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