A/NI: A few may take notice that I have gone to the shop and brought home a new keypad for my lovely pc. It's orange! I love orange. It's a happy colour! Well what I want to say is that I now have a " key! I will be using it, however I have developed a habit of using '. From time to time you may see ' by mistake, so I am apologizing beforehand.
"Good evenings! This is Peter signing in with Live at Hogwarts." Peter grinned while reading his little parchment paper he had prepared for this moment. "Tonight we are currently in the Gryffindor Quidditch Team's locker room."
"James cannot be with us at this time because he's sniffing his uniform." Sirius glanced over at his dear friend.
"I cannot recall if I charmed it clean or not." James grumbled before inhaling his game robe.
"We have some really good questions tonight! Some of them are really tough questions!" Peter went on but cast an annoyed looks over at James and Sirius. "For those who are curious, the Gryffindor's Locker room is…"
"…Is filled with lockers but with no showers because it is concerted co-ed." Sirius explained. "We have showers in the castle. Mostly baths but the castle was modernized for newer appliances such as showers and toilettes."
"Please let us get on with the letters?" Peter huffed.
"See what happens when we let him in charge of the microphone?" Sirius looked at the others while pointing a hand at Peter. "He suddenly feels superior."
"Don't be so hard on him, mate." James sat down on one of the benches. "Not often he gets the spot light."
"James is right, Padfoot." Remus bit off a piece of chocolate. "You get the next air time and pick a place."
"Oi! I know!" Sirius clapped his hands together. "I want to do 'Live at Hogwarts' in the girls' second-floor lavatory."
"I don't think I'd like that." James pushed his glasses up on his face a bit more. "Myrtle will be there."
"Of course she will be there. She took residency there, didn't she?" Sirius asked. "Beside it will give our audience a chance to ask her some questions. Make her feel appointment."
"We can do that." Remus agreed. "Please, if any of our listeners would like to ask Myrtle a question, send the letters our way for next week."
"I think I have detention that day." James sighed loudly. "You lot will have to go on without me, I'm afraid."
"Afraid is right. Bloody coward." Sirius grinned.
"Aye, it's an easy thing for you to say! She doesn't go about pinching your bum, does she now?" James asked.
"Only when you are not there." Sirius frowned. "Reason why I need you there! And you don't have detention."
"Not yet but I have ways of making that happen." James grumbled. "Peter, what letter do we have?"
"First question was sent through a private message." Peter grinned. "This listener would like to know if Sirius Black likes Black Pudding, as he never mentions it in his favourite puddings."
"I don't mind black pudding from time to time but I'm not a huge fan of it." Sirius explained. "It's not exactly like the desert pudding, after all. Let me rephrase that. It is nothing like desert pudding. Black pudding is sausage cooked in blood and other oddities. Now you know, you understand why I don't sort black pudding with desert pudding."
"Next question is FlyForever…" Peter went on.
"A new listener! Greetings!" James yelled from his bench, causing Remus to flinch. "I adore the name! FlyForever, I feel it!"
"FlyForever would like to know if you know precisely how many times Lily has refused you and what was the worst? She would like me, Sirius and Remus to tell the most embarrassing moments."
"Embarrassing for him or for us?" Remus asked.
"Obviously she would mean for you." James glanced over at Remus with a smirk. "I do not embarrass."
"So how many times has Lily refused you?" Peter blinked at James expecting a number to be sprouted out quickly.
"I never actually kept track." James shrugged.
"It shouldn't be hard to mathematically find the answer." Remus said as he started scrunching the numbers. "There are fifty-two weeks in a year, we have to minus our holidays naturally and the fact that James hadn't hit girl-liking puberty until he was twelve and a half, add that he ask her out four times a day…"
"Lily has refused James two-hundred, forty-eight times." Sirius cut in. "There is a pool going on, just so you know."
"Bummers." James whistled. "Wait a moment. Are you saying people are betting on my setback?"
"You are the only one calling them a setback, just so you know." Peter whispered.
"Why haven't I been told?" James looked stunned, his hazels eyes traveling from Peter, to Remus and finally settled on Sirius.
"Well…er, we…" Remus looked at his friends for help.
"Merlin! You lot never thought that perhaps I wanted in on it all?" James asked.
"Sorry, I honestly never did." Remus said seriously. "We'll get it sorted after the broadcast."
"Fine." James crossed his arms in a bit of a sulk.
"So James, do you have an embarrassing moment that Lily refused your um…invitation to share your personal space?"
"I would have to say it was the first time I asked her out." James gave a one shoulder shrug. "After two hundred and…"
"Forty-eight." Sirius helped.
"Thanks, mate." James gave him a brisk nod. "After two hundred forty-eight times, it becomes natural occurrence. You expect it. It's when Pete keeps getting stuck on the staircase. It was funny the first few times and now, well its nothing to owl home about, is it? The first time I asked Lily, I believe it was second year and after our Christmas Holiday. We just pulled away from the station and I bumped into her accidentally. She turned around, her hair smelled like cinnamon and her cheeks were flushed from the cold and she was looking quite cross. She had a bit of that lip stain girls use and I have to say, I was thinking she looked quite kissable. Before then, I never thought about kissing a witch, it was quite new feeling. I stuttered out an apology, which she did accept. I then blurted out an invitation to a private compartment together. Evans flatly refused and those twits of first years laughed it up. That was my embarrassing moment I remember. I had to build up a lot of courage to ask for a snog."
"I think I was embarrassed for him when he started singing." Peter grinned, taking a side look over at James. "I'm sure the lot of you know boys cannot go up the stairs of the girls sleeping area. So James gets this clever idea to sing at the base of the girls' staircase."
"Oi, I remember!" Remus laughed loudly. "He picked a muggle song. Sirius helped him research it!"
"It's muggle song passed down from parent to child for some time." Sirius explained. "It represented tradition and value."
"I sang 'This House that Jack Built." James explained. "It's a lengthy song and apparently not song girls like to hear four in the mornin'."
"Especially from a twelve year old wearing nothing but his pants." Remus wiped the tears away.
"They all tossed their pillows at him." Peter explained.
"Yes and then we played a game of which pillow belonged to which girl." James grinned. "I still believe I have Lily's pillow. I sleep with it."
"I am afraid that he is speaking the truth." Sirius patted James on the back, a pity pat.
"Next to send a letter is from our dear friend, FamousNoOne. She says to James, Don't date anyone else. That wouldn't be fair to you, the girl, or your Lily Flower. Just be patient, be nice, and be yourself."
"I am in agreement with you, luv." James frowned, ever so slightly. "Do I have to be nice to everyone or just Lily? I am trying cutting back the hex impulse, I find it very challenging. I believe it is against my nature. After all, a wizard that hex is better with their reflexes than one that does not and in my time of living, one must be on top of their hexes. It is a means of survival."
"Aye, that's a fact." Sirius agreed. "To stop hexing could be the death of us and Lily Dearest shouldn't want that on her lovely hands."
"You noticed her hands are quite lovely?" James leaned his chair back on its back legs. "Those nice long fingers and her nails are always pristine."
"They are very lovely but please no, I only realize this because you mentioned it. I don't go up to a girl and think 'her hands are lovely', it's not how I go about things." Sirius explained.
"Sirius, FamousNoOne would like to know if you consider yourself a to be a manwhore as she had heard a lot of terrible things about you lately, and she was just wondering who you royally screwed over?"
"Har-har! Screwed over!" James laughed.
"I can't say that I gave them a royal screw over, I am saving the royal effects for Mrs. Sirius Black but I've done the best with the time I had." Sirius smoothed his hair back and straightened the sleeve of his robe. "As being a man-whore, well I do have limitations and I try to make an actual relationship out of my special moments. Sadly, they just don't seem to last long. Am I to fault? Sometimes and sometimes not. Have I date more than my share of witches? Some would say yes. Am I out to love as many witches I can? I am thinking of setting that my life goal. So as for now, no I do not consider myself to be a man-whore but perhaps in the future I shall change my answer."
"I consider him to be a man-whore." James said.
"That's because you hadn't even had one screw over." Sirius explained. "So if someone was to compare me to James', than yes I am a man-whore."
"You have been with more birds than me." Peter said.
"And me." Remus added.
"Fine. If you compare how many times I have slept with a witch compared to my fellow Marauders, than yes I am a bloody whore!" Sirius shouted.
"Best move on, Pete." James nodded to the letters in Peter's hand.
"Yes. FamousNoOne address me when I think is the best time to eat an omelet? Most people say breakfast, but she had one for lunch and found it just as satisfying." Peter placed the letter aside. "I believe my friends shall agree with me when I say that the best time to eat breakfast is well into noon. As it is to be the most important eating moment of the day, yet so few can properly enjoy a well done omelet because morning comes about quite abruptly."
"I agree." Sirius backed Peter up. "I'm too tired to enjoy my breakfast. I'm not even sure what I eat sometimes."
"I'm always rushing around, trying to get this lot organized that I too sometimes don't enjoy breakfast." Remus stated.
"How does morning get here abruptly?" James asked. "It comes about the same time every morning."
"James doesn't sleep so he probably is already awake when he is eating any meal." Sirius sighed.
"Next question from FamousNoOne is addressed to Remus. She sincerely hopes you don't think that she honestly enjoy your date trip to Hogsmeade. And if you didn't enjoy yourself, she would understand if you didn't want to go again with her this weekend. She can't think of a decent question at the moment."
"Who to say the question had to be a decent one?" James looked over at Sirius.
"It can be very indecent." Sirius stated.
"So our blushing Headboy, what do you have to say?" James asked Remus. "Did you enjoy our date to Hogsmeade?"
"I think it would have gone better if it weren't 'us' but just her and I." Remus frowned.
"Are you saying you no longer enjoy our company?" Sirius mocked a hurt expression.
"Of course I do just not when I'm on a date." Remus said.
"I invite you to all my dates." James frowned.
"You go alone because Lily never accepts your invitations." Remus explained. "I'm sure if she did, you wouldn't invite me along."
"I would defiantly meet up with you somewhere along the way." James thought it over. "I am sure of it. We come in a pack, you know. Friends and family that is a fine line. There is no accepting me without accepting the lot."
"Maybe that's why Lily isn't saying yes to you." Peter said. "She doesn't accept us yet."
"No." James shook his head. "Lily mind is like describing the taste of fresh ginger."
Peter, Remus, and Sirius looked at James than at each other and then at James again.
"Um..never mind." Peter shook his head. "So Remus, are you up for another try in dating?"
"Are you guys going to stay away?" Remus asked.
"We will give it our best but Hogmeade is very small." James held his thumb and forefinger close together. "We are bound to run into you and your date."
"We'll give you the first two hours together." Sirius warned him. "After two hours, I expect you to be at our side with all your clothes on. I don't want to see any love bites on you. No lipstick. No misarranged necktie."
"Yes dad." Remus rolled his eyes.
"Well, what do you say, luv?" Sirius looked over at James. "Should we let our boy go on a date alone."
"I don't if we should." James tisked. "What do we know of her? She might take advantage of our little Moon-beam."
"I know but we must let him grow up some time." Sirius patted James' shoulder.
"Fine. I don't feel comfortable with the idea but we will just see how it works out." James huffed. "I do expect you to be in the public eye at all times. No sneaking in the allies trying to get a quick bang."
"Can you two embarrass me more?" Remus asked.
"You haven't witness anything yet, my boy!" Sirius barked.
"So, can he go?" Peter asked James and Sirius.
"Yes he can go on a date this weekend." Sirius told him.
"Isn't that great!" Peter looked over at Remus, clearly happy for him.
"I was going to agree to this weekend no matter what they said." Remus told Peter. "I did have fun before you lot showed up."
"He's such a rebel." James looked over at Sirius. "He gets it from you, you know."
"Next question is from Slugston who has tried butter beer and found it taste." Peter continued with the letters. "Slugston would also like to know what mental aspect of a lady we enjoy and what isn't so enjoyable?"
"Er…do we even want to try to answer this?" James looked over at the other Marauders.
"Of course!" Sirius barked. "We answer all questions best to our abilities. Remus, go ahead, answer the question."
"Me?" Remus eyes grew large. "Why not you? You're the man-whore!"
"You're the smart one." Sirius explained.
"And you!" Remus added.
"I shall answer the question. Lily is going to marry me no matter how I answer it." James decided bravely. "What I find mentally attractive to Lily is her ability to sympathize no matter what a person is telling her. You can see it in her face expression. Her eyes get all teary if it's something sad. Her face brightens if it is something brilliant. She doesn't hide back her feelings and she stand up for what she truly believes. What I don't find attractive is her ability to remember everything I've done wrong. She says she forgives me. She says she is willing to move past that. She says its history. It isn't, not. She is quite good at recalling those moments back up and seems genuinely upset that I don't remember them."
"They are all laughing at you." Sirius told him. "Just so you know."
"Detrapped is interested if we were to have a child…" Peter started.
"Together? I don't believe it is possible." Sirius looked taken back.
"Not with me. I'm saving myself." James told them.
"If we each had our own child and our own wives." Remus restated.
"Yes, would we want that child to be extremely ugly but brilliant or insanely beautiful but extremely stupid?" Peter finished.
"That is a hard question." James rubbed his hair. "Being both beautiful and intelligent, I cannot imagine a life without the other."
"I can relate." Sirius scratched his chin.
"I think extremely beautiful but stupid." Peter answered. "The child would know that it's beautiful but too stupid to know it's not smart. If the child was smart and ugly, it would be aware of it and have a lower self-esteem and probably commit suicide or murder."
"I'm with Pete." Remus frowned. "It's sad to say but people do judge you by looks more than intelligence."
"Let the child be gifted, reproduce with me." Sirius told the audience.
"You are a man-whore!" James gasped.
"Serenity has a question. She would like to know why we all matter." Peter frowned. "I feel this is one of those deep feelings questions that only a girl would ask."
"Why do we matter?" James frowned. "We bring something into the world like anyone else. We bring Laughter. Loyalty. Value. Determination. Love. Friendship. I think we bring it all because the lives around us are in need of it. We are in need of it as well."
"Well said." Remus agreed.
"Idonotget would like to know what impact we which to leave in this world and if we knowing going to die today, would we do what we are about to do?" Peter read.
"Gawd!" Sirius took the letter from Peter. "What the bloody hell is wrong with you people! Death seems to be playing on everyone's mind tonight!"
"Obviously we would not be doing what we are about to do if we knew we were going to die today." James answered. "I would for one, kiss Lily until we couldn't breathe. I'd do my best to make her see we are to be together before the day ended."
"I'd get so pissed faced; I wouldn't know I was going to die." Sirius laughed. "Have a going away party!"
"I'd be partying beside you, mate." Remus grinned.
"I think I would write a book. So people would know me and understand me." Peter said. "I get the feeling that I'm not approached sometimes."
"The impact I would like to leave in this world is hold onto those that you love." James said. "Remember them and perhaps the memory would guide you as if they were really there."
"I'd say friendship." Remus said. "It is hard to be a friend that someone would like to have. There are friends out there who are there but really good friends, they are short supplied. Hold onto them. Treat them well and when you need them, they won't walk away."
"Honour." Sirius finally said. "It's yourself value. You can be wealthy or dirt poor but on the final call, it's your honour that will be appraised."
"To know when to make a grand exist or go quietly." Peter thought with a bit of a smile. "That is about all for the letters."
"We would like to tell the audience how great they have been through our broadcasting and we completely understand if you run out of questions. Just saying how great we are is enough." Sirius smiled.
"To the poll now!" James rubbed his hands together.
"Our poll question is, Should James Date Other People." Remus read.
"Zero said, No, let him wait for Lily." Peter read.
"I want a recount!" James pointed at Peter's statistics.
"Okay." Peter looked at his paper. "Zero still said No, let him wait for Lily."
"One said that he should date other people because he is pathetic." Sirius grinned.
"That was your vote, wasn't it?" James asked.
"You know we don't vote in these." Sirius shrugged. "Probably Lily voted."
"She doesn't really want me to date other people." James told him. "She couldn't handle the possibilities."
"Two said that James should date other people because he needs the practice." Remus read.
"I can somewhat understand that but I think Lily will more happy to know that she was my first for everything." James told them.
"Four said that James was the only man for Lily and that she is waiting for him to turn into that man." Peter giggled.
"I'm insulted!" James mocked a hurt expression.
"That's the end of the poll for this week. If you have something you would like us to place on the poll, let us know. In the meantime, keep those questions coming or just reviewing is enough." Remus went on. "Our next poll is where do House Elves come from."
"Have a good night and everyone tell Lily to dream about me. It might help." James said.
"Remember, Moaning Myrtle will be at the show next week. If you would others to make guest appearance, send in the names. If there is a place you would like us to do air time at, let us know." Remus reminded the listeners."Don't forget to vote. Look for the poll on the profile page and click the link."
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