A Literal Scrapbook

by Claire Whitmore

A scrapbook is messy, it's full of everything, an essence of what was. It has the smiles, the sadness and the moments when you laugh for no good reason and just want to be with someone loved. This is the Marauder's scrapbook, literally. It's a big bundle of warm fuzzy blankets, cheap wine and the comic section of the paper on a rainy day, just in the form of drabbles. R/S and J/L

35. Lines

Even when James and Sirius were nineteen, and most certainly out of school by two years, were still forced to write lines when Remus deemed that they were being morally or illegally wrong. The biggest and most serious occurrence was when James and Sirius had hijacked a Muggle digger and charmed it to move to the beat of thumping dancey-sort of music.

Remus made them write 'I must not steal Muggle industrial machinery and use it for my own personal and recreational use' seven hundred times.

James and Sirius couldn't feel their writing hands for a week.