Title: Fast Times at HSWW
Rating: PG
Setting: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the month of November in the Fifth Year of James Potter.
Alternate Univers-y things: Lily used to go to another magical school in Durham or something and just joined the school. I think that's about it.
Chapter One
Remus: I'm too sexy for my robes
In which we learn a little of the Marauders and their situations
"Check."
The word echoed through the empty room.
James Potter, a fifteen year old wizard, Prefect and Fifth Year student at Hogwarts SWW sat on one side of a square table. Before him, a piece on a magical chess set moved slightly.
He looked up at his classmate and best friend, Sirius Black, who was sitting at the place across him, and tried to hide the glee in his bright blue eyes.
"Not quite, Prongs, not quite," said Sirius with an air of certainty. Muttering an instruction to his chess set, he leaned back into his chair and ran a hand through his permanently well-kept black hair.
Sirius and James were inseparable, and everyone in school could see why. They shared the same opinions on nearly everything, had the same principles, the same sort of upbringing, the same passions and pursuits. They even looked alike, to a certain degree. They had similarly colored hair, although James' could never be governed without a spell or two as opposed to Sirius' highly maintained style, the same slightly muscular build and an uncannily identical mischievous sparkle in their eyes when they were up to something, and they were always up to something. This of course had come from spending almost their entire lives together, for the Blacks and the Potters had a long-standing tradition of close friendship.
They made up half of a group of friends called the Marauders, fondly named so by their classmates for their habits of breaking rules and playing practical jokes on their fellow students, coaches and members of the faculty.
Two chess pieces collided spectacularly.
James swore. Sirius stood up, chuckling. "Well," he began. "I guess this is-"
He was cut off by a loud moan, followed by a sharp "Ssh!"
The two looked at each other. James waved his wand and tapped it onto a nearby piece of parchment.
The words "Did you hear that?" appeared on it.
Sirius nodded his head worriedly and pointed in the direction from which the sounds had come. A small broom closet.
He, too, waved his wand and the parchment began to show the words. "It sounded like"
Again, his concentration was interrupted by a little giggle.
A moment later, they heard a latch click, and they immediately hid behind one of the many armchairs in Gryffindor House's common room.
After a few seconds, a pretty girl they recognized walked past the couch they had been hiding behind. Her wavy red hair was tousled, and the lowest two buttons on her navy cardigan were buttoned wrong.
They boy's eyes widened as they realized just who it was. Just behind her, a more familiar figure was making it's way across the common room. This one they did not hesitate to apprehend.
"Bloody hell, Moony!" exclaimed Sirius. "That wasn't Maeve, was it?"
Remus Jeremiah Lupin, another Gryffindor student, and the third of the Marauders, grinned smugly at James and Sirius.
"Yeah, it might've been," he said casually.
James was shocked. On the other hand, Sirius congratulated Remus wholeheartedly.
"Do you realized that you just snogged Mrs. Figgs's daughter?" James hissed.
"Snogged?" said Remus with his eyebrows raised.
James' eyes grew so wide that Sirius was sure they would pop out.
"Are you telling me," he began, his tone shaky, "that you-"
"Oh, don't worry your little Prefect head, Prongs," interrupted Remus smoothly. "She won't go telling. I mean, she wasn't complaining too much there."
James' jaw dropped and he looked at Sirius, speechless, for some support. Unfortunately, Sirius was laughing uncontrollably.
James' rolled his eyes and sighed. "Merlin, Remus, she wasn't even Gryffindor!"
Remus paused a while. Then he spoke, "Damn right she's not, Prongs. Hufflepuffs are hot stuff!"
"He's right about that you know," Sirius added pointedly. "Look at Lily."
James felt his face grow red while his two best friends laughed.
Lily A. Evans was a Hufflepuff student in the same year as James. She had entered the school only last year, and had already proven herself a pride to her house and school. She was Head Prefect, the youngest in little less than a century, and, of course, top in her class. She excelled in almost everything she encountered.
Apart from all of that, she was an able athlete. She was a Beater for her House team and the School team. Rumour had it that she had turned down the position of Captain because of her many other activities. She headed the school Fencing team for both boys and girls (a/n: why do you think Harry could fight with Godric's sword?) and she was, as Sirius had eloquently put it after suffering an embarrassing defeat at the sport in question, a damn good dueller. And she was pretty.
In fact, she had first caught James' eye on the pitch. He had been so distracted when she crossed his vision in their first game together that he had barely noticed the Bludger she had sent in his direction, and he had been pining after her ever since.
This was extremely obvious, especially during moments such as this.
"Shudduurrp.." he mumbled, making Remus and Sirius laugh even harder.
It was a pity that Lily was not available. Sirius was quite the matchmaker, though he himself was single. According to the house Spies (gossips) Aaron and Perdita Patil, a pair of twins in their year, she was slightly involved with one Severus Snape, a Slytherin in the same year as them.
When the boys had found out, the three of them plus the final Marauder, a slight boy called Peter Pettigrew, had searched him out. Upon seeing him, James had immediately classified him a 'slimy git' and was supported by his whole group.
Remus and Peter seemed to know him and hated him a little more than James although they never talked about it to each other or anyone else. Nobody outside the circle knew why they were this way.
Anxious to change the subject James suggested lunch, and Prongs, Moony and Sirius or Padfoot set off for the Great Hall, laughing.
A/n: Well? Please please review. This is just the beginning I promise. I will introduce my character in chapter three. Please please please review! And I promise it won't be as cliché'd as you may think.
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