Chapter 4: End of the Year: Marauder Style!

"What are you going to do this summer, Sirius?" asked James at lunch the next day.

"Summer?" I asked. "Is it that close already?"

"Yep," James nodded. "We have one last quidditch game and then the End-of-the-Year-Bash in the Gryffindor Common-room."

"And a big bang to end off the year," I said leaning back and almost falling backwards. "Whoa!"

Remus caught me before I actually fell though. "What about Evangeline White?" he asked.

"Thanks, Moony," I said brushing myself off like nothing happened. "Don't worry," I said with a smirk. "I have an idea."

It was 12:00 in the common room when everyone except me had gone to bed. Except James, of course. He was still trying to figure out how to get up to girls dorms without going outside with his broom stick.

I was working on something that would help us win the quidditch championships this year, get the house cup out of the Slytherins' grasp and help me win the girl.

"In the future did we figure out how to get up there with a spell or something?" he asked coming over and sitting next to me on the couch. He looked at what I was working on for a few seconds. "What's up with all the scribbles?" he asked after examining all my parchment that was sprawled out all over the table.

"Nothing much," I said. "Just the most diabolical plan in both our lifetimes."

"So what is it?" he asked.

"You'll see," I said smirking and rolling it all up. "Oh, and yes…You will find a way to get up the staircase without going outside on your broomstick to do it."

At breakfast the next morning I brought my plans with me for Moony. I wanted him to look at them and "de-bug" them for me. I sat down next to him at the house table. "Here," I said thrusting the pieces of rolled-up parchment at him.

"What's this?" he asked as he eyed it suspiciously like I had jinxed it or something.

"Plans," was my reply.

"Ooh!" James plopped next to me on the bench. "Is that what you were working on last night?"

I nodded.

"What is it?" he asked me.

"Plans," was my only reply to him too.

"For what?" he asked. He obviously wasn't going to stop until I told him what he wanted to hear.

"Something," I said in a slightly higher voice looking anywhere but at James. "Moony could you 'de-bug' those plans for me? I want everything to go perfectly on Saturday."

Remus unfurled the plans and noticed James had gotten up and was looking at it over Remus' shoulder.

I pushed James back to spot on the other side of me. "Make sure doesn't look at it," I said trying to keep him away from Remus and my plans.

"Why can't I see?" whined James.

"It's a secret," I said. "You'll see it at the game on Saturday.

Nothing more was brought up until later that night, but I will get to that soon. Why don't we get back to right now, eh?

With that said, the four of us—Lily, James, Remus, and I (Peter is still sleeping in the dorm.)—got some breakfast.

I was sitting with Remus on my left and James on my right and Lily was sitting next to James.

I tapped James on the shoulder that was closer to Lily. He turned toward her.

I slipped some extra potent sugar out of my robe pocket.

"Yes Lily?" he asked her.

I opened it slowly.

"I didn't say anything," she replied.

He turned back to his breakfast and took a few bites.

I tapped him again.

He turned back toward Lily.

"Lily, did you tap me again?"

I started pouring the extra-sugary sugar into his pumpkin juice.

"No, it was Sirius who tapped you."

Damn her.

I pulled the packet away just as he turned back around.

James added some regular sugar to his juice.

This is going to be nice…

He stirred it up and took a sip of it. "Yum," he said licking his lips. "Extra sugary."

Okay, now we fast-forward to later in the common room.

When we went to the common room later that night, Moony pulled me into a corner away from everybody. "I can not believe that you, Sirius Black, came up with something like this," Remus mused. "I never would have thought, in this life or the next, that you, of all wizards, would be able to do this, let alone think of this," he said in awe.

"Aww, Remy, you mean it?"

He nodded. "But rearranging the stars?" He quirked an eyebrow.

"It's impossible, isn't it?"

"Yep."

I knew it would be.

"Okay then, I'll just do something else."

"What are you guys talkin' 'bout?" asked James from behind me. "Is it those plans you won't let me see? Huh? Huh? Huh?" he asked really hyper-like.

"What are you guys planning now?" asked Lily. Both James and I spun around. She was tapping her foot in annoyance.

"LILY!" shouted James as he pounced on her. "Lily! Lily! Lily, I missed you!"

"James, you only just left me in the class room a couple minutes ago." She glared up at us from the spot where she was pinned to the ground. "What did you do to him?" she asked.

Remus shrugged. "Don't look at me."

"Sirius…" she coaxed.

"I did nothing," I said slowly, choosing my words carefully. "He misses you. That's all."

"Yeah," she said rolling her eyes. "No, this is James we're talking about. You know, the one who's head is thicker then the trunk of the Whomping Willow. Now what did you do?"

"Sugar," was all I said and left them on they're own.

There might have been a slight problem with that though because Lily isn't speaking to me or James now.

Over the next few days I perfected my plans until it was the night before the last game of the Year. It would be against Slytherin. Hopefully, it all goes as planned.

I had convinced Professor Dumbledore to have the game in the star light. That would make the plans a bit easier seeing as neither Remus nor any of the Ravenclaws I talked to knew any kind of spell to turn day into night.

"It's Saturday and it's the game. What's the surprise?!" asked James as we were getting ready to for the game. Leave it to him to be hyper at the big game.

"You'll see," I said. "It'll happen at the end of the game. Until then, just concentrate on catching the snitch, Prongs." I looked outside and thought we had about an hour and a half until the game. "Oh shoot! I just remembered that I forgot something by the thing in the place," I said hurriedly. I ran out of our room, ran out the common room, and dashed to the broom closet where the quidditch supplies are kept. I muttered a jinx and jinxed the snitch then I hexed the quaffle so it would evade any of the Gryffindors and always make it passed the Gryffindor keeper.

(A/N: I don't know how commentating the quidditch game is going to work, so bear with me here.)
"It's time for the game, Paddy! Tell me! What is it?"

"What's what?" I asked. I had an idea of what he might be talking about but this is James we're talking about here. He could be asking me what game we're playing for all I know.

"You know." Yes, I did know. "The top-secret plans," he whispered.

"You'll see soon," I said in a mysterious fashion that kept him begging.

"Can I see now?"

"Keep asking and you won't see at all," I said. Total bluff, but he didn't know that.

We're out on the field and the game is about to begin.

"Evangeline White will be commentating the game," said Madam Hooch. "3…2…1!" The whistle blew and the game began.

"And they're off! Bricade takes the quaffle…He closes in on the goal post and—Aww! The shot was blocked by Gold!"

Of course when I jinxed the quaffle I never took Bridgette Gold into account. She's the best Keeper of Hogwarts! She's even better then Oliver Wood ever could be.

"Gold smacks the quaffle with her broom handle and it soars over half the field! It's still soaring…And Spinnet intercepts the quaffle—Oh no! What's this?! The quaffle has leaped out of her arms and is now falling toward the ground!

"Black dives for the quaffle and catches it just in time.

"It looks like there is a rouge bludger on the field!"

"Sirius, look out!" shouted James.

"And it's heading right toward Black!"

I dodged out of the way just in time. The bludger hit the ground and ricocheted back into the game.

"Sirius Black recovers with quaffle in hand! Oh no! Not again! The quaffle just leaped from his hands and is now gliding—GLIDING?!—back into Bricade's possession.

"We have a rouge bludger and now a rouge quaffle? I wonder…Are they faulty or are they jinxed?"

I was wondering the same thing. I mean I know I hexed both the golden snitch and the quaffle but is the bludger really rouge?

"Slytherin makes the goal! And that makes the score 10—0.

"Oh look! It's the Golden Snitch!"

I was so glad to hear the words "Golden Snitch" that I practically fell off my broom.

"Potter dive-bombs, swoops, and—Bludger! Look out! And Potter dodges the rouge bludger just in time! Oops, say 'Bye bye snitch!' Looks like you'll have to wait for next time."

I almost fell off of my broomstick again. How did James miss it! Oh yeah, the bludger. It's most certainly not faulty, so who jinxed it?

"Spinnet lunges forward for the quaffle but it jumps out of her reach and sails into the hands of a waiting Slytherin. Bricade to be exact.

"Okay, who jinxed the quaffle and the bludger? The quaffle can't keep doing what it's doing and the bludger is going to kill someone.

"I have an idea that it was Slytherin who jinxed the quaffle and the bludger because, if mine eyes do not deceive me, the quaffle has been evading Gryffindors and the bludger has been attacking the Gryffindors left and right! And I think I know who it is, but enough about that, back to the game!"

Shoot. Hopefully she didn't suspect me for anything…Wait, she doesn't! She thinks it's all Slytherin. Yes! My plan is working!

"Waters goes in for the goal and—Not her too! Stupid quaffle!

"Can't we just call off the game, Madam Hooch?" I heard Vangie ask through without taking off the spell.

"No!" I almost yell but stop myself.

"The game will go on until the snitch is caught," replied Madam Hooch.

"Okay," Evangeline huffed.

"And back to the game—OH! What's this? It's the Golden Snitch!

"Potter swoops! He dives! He catches the Golden Snitch! Yes! Game—Set and match! Gryffidor wins!!

"Wait! What's this! Look! There! In the sky! Fire works!"

I looked up toward the sky.

In the sky were the words "I love you Lily! I always will!"

Alright! It worked!

I looked over at James and he was still looking at the sky, transfixed, in awe.

He looked over at me with a look of questioning on his face.

"I'll explain later!" I called my from my broom.

After that fell from the sky the next show of lights was a green heart with gold and red letters that said EW+SB. After that faded more fire works erupted.

I landed on the ground and people surrounded me…Like James, for one.

"Was that what you had planned, Padfoot?" he asked in total awe.

"That was bloody brilliant Sirius! But what was up with the bludger?"

I shook my head. "No idea. My guess is Slytherin."

"James, did you do that?" asked Lily coming up from behind Remus.

"N—" he started.

"Yes he did," I cut him off and slapped him on the back. "Didn't you?"

"Yep, and I did it for you, Lily!" James walked over to her and hugged her.

"That's cool, Potter," she said after he let her go. She ran off, but not without giving James a peck on lips.

I laughed. He almost fainted. But I stopped laughing when Vangie came up to me. She slapped me in the face.

"Bitch," she snarled.

I was stunned. That's not the reaction I was hoping for.

"It's okay, Paddy. Better luck next time," encouraged James.

Of course I was over it by the time Professor McGonagall came up to us and questioned us about the bludger and the quaffle. I managed to keep a straight face as I told her I didn't do it, but the Slytherins might have.

It wasn't until later that night that I was starting to miss the future. My thoughts wandered to Voldemort and how Harry was doing and what he was doing at the Dursley's. I was thinking of taking my two-way mirror out of my robes before I remembered I never grabbed it before I hurried to save Harry at the Ministry of Magic. Then an idea hit me.

"Guys, I've just had another idea. I'll be the dorm if you need me!" I called and made my way up the stairs, skipping three at a time.

"Another idea?" asked Lily.

"Anybody have a piece of parchment that we can document this?" asked Remus.

"VERY FUNNY GUYS!" I called down the stairs.

The quidditch commentary went better then I thought it would, but it started to get boring. I could commentate if I were watching a sport but actually making up what happens is boring some times.

I was long too, though. Like a page and a half.

Okay, you know what I just realized? I didn't do the O.W.L.s. But I think I will just skip those...I mean if you really want to know what happens there just read the 5th HP book.

Oh, and if I didn't say this yet, they are in their 5th year which puts Reggie in his 3rd year. Yes, Regulus is 2 years behind in this chapter.

This was the longest chapter of about 5 pages.

And if you're wondering about updates, I will try to get another chapter up every 1-2 weeks, but it might be slow because of school and stuff.

Oh and I uploaded a picture of the quidditch scene on Deviantart if you want to see it.

Here is the link: http:// www. deviantart. com/ deviation/ 53627028/

Anyway, peace out!

Trix