Remus and Emily arrived just in time to hear James speaking to Lily with a bewildered expression.
'-When you said you'd rather go with either Snivellus or the giant squid I actually though you'd pick the squid first.'
'Wouldn't it have been easier to go with the LESS slimy option.' Sirius said snidely, eyeing Snape with utmost dislike.
'Potter asked you!?' Snape turned on Lily. His face was unreadable.
'I said No!' Lily muttered, almost defensively.
'Right. Right.' James said. 'Well, let me clean up your date a bit Evans, it looks like it's not showered in about a year.' James threw the potions spiked punch all over Snape. Immediately, any hair that came into contact with it turned a bright luminous pink, but somehow still looked as greasy, and any skin turned a bright magenta.
'You arrogant mop-headed prat.' Snap spat, sending a hair thickening curse at James' head. It hit, and James' already wild hair grew in all directions until he could no longer see.
At this, Sirius eyes hardened, and Emily's jaw set, as they both fired jinxes at Snape with super-sonic speed. Sirius his him with the bat bogey hex, difficult to master, and even more difficult to undo, and a jinx which made the victim sprout green boils. Emily hit him with a particularly powerful cheering charm. There was a bolt of dark blue light shooting out of Snape's wand in retaliation, and another out of Emily's, but these both his the invisible barrier that had been erected between them. Snape was stood with bright magenta skin, luminous pink hair, oozing green boils, with bat bogeys hanging from his face, and a smile with a cheerful, if unwanted, attitude to top it off.
'Enough!' Came Professor McGonagall's stern voice, and both parties stopped firing hexes, though this might have had something to do with the shield preventing them.
'Potter! Black! Patterson! My office now!' The three offenders could do nothing but grin at each other briefly, and follow behind.
James bumped into the wall on the way out, missing the door by about a foot. 'I can't see.' He stated briefly.
Professor McGonogall did not semi to eager to help him, so Sirius severed the overgrown fringe with a jinx, allowing James to see, but still leaving his hear think, long and stuck up in all directions. James' hand briefly darted to the tufts now left of his fringe, and hoped Madam Pomfrey could reverse it. If they ever got out of detention, that is.
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'What do have to say for yourselves?' McGonogall glared at them font he other side of the desk.
They had been listening to her rage for the past 10 minutes, about the irresponsibility of their actions (James was now doubting if this was actually a word), and the fact that they ruined a huge social event (Sirius didn't think they'd ruined it , merely made it more interesting).
Professor McGonogall didn't either didn't want an answer from this, or didn't expect one, because when all 3 were silent, she continued regardless.
'All 3 of you will apologise to , potter, you will serve 1 week of detentions with me, Black and Patterson, for firing the hexes, you will spend 2. And 30 points will be taken. Each.' Professor McGonagall was never as tough on the majority of other members on her house, normally one detention would have sent a first year into distress. But the Marauders didn't care, and that was what annoyed her. She had to overdo the punishments, otherwise they wouldn't have any affect at all.
James gasped at the last part, thinking it entirely unfair. He would earn the points back. The Marauders had gotten worried about how they were affecting their house, so had created a tally about how many points they received and lost. All of them were in positive numbers at the moment, but he knew this would knock the three of them back into negative, so they would have to work really hard in lessons for a bit to get them back.
Emily was opposed to something else. 'I'm not apologising.'
McGonagall's expression puckered. 'Why ever not ?' He time was as cold as ice, and there was steely hint to it.
'To be sorry means that if you could go back, you would change what you did. I would not change a thing. I don't like to lie.' Emily stopped her voice from shaking, and was quite proud, considering the extent of McGonagall's wrath.
McGonagall's expression soured even further. 'Why would that be? Surely you have no real reason for your actions and acted out of anger?'.
Sirius though knew the answer to this one. 'But sniv- Snape hexed James!' He stated, as if that explained it all. 'I'm not apologising either. He deserved it and I'd do it again.'
'If you show no remorse for your actions, you can always double your detentions.' Seeing how relieved Emily, and Sirius looked, she added. 'And double the points.' Emily and Sirius shared a look which she wished she could interpret.
'Ok.' Sirius relied, apparently speaking for both of them. McGonagall hadn't expected this, she thought they would back down in the face if this.
' ?' She asked, arching an eyebrow.
'I'm not either.'
She sighed and dismissed them. Stupid Gryffindor pride.
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James, Sirius and Emily brought back the news of their detentions, and deducted their house points on the tally. Emily was now at -39, Sirius at -37 and James had -33. It was admittedly harder for Sirius and Emily to earn points, as the teachers of the subject they excelled in, hated them. Remus asked why James hasn't gotten 4 wells like Emily and Sirius.
'because Jamesie here is Minnie's little transfiguration specialist.' Sirius answered affectionately ruffling James hair.
'Gerrof!' James scowled batting away Sirius hand. 'And it was because I didn't have time to get a jinx in edge ways, the little slime all made my hair grow to blind me. He'll pay for that.'
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At first, although Snape and the marauders could never be called friends, there hadn't been much serious animosity between them. All that had happened was Snape was rude to James and Sirius on the train, resulting in him being the blunt if a few of their jokes behind his back, and the occasional prank. Now though, things had changed. James, accompanied by Emily and Sirius spent almost every spare moment plotting against him. This wasn't a lot, considering the amount of detentions they had because of him, but detentions generally weren't to mentally challenging, and they plotted there as well. It was small menial things, which built upon each other, such as dying his hair pink, casting a garbling spell unknowingly so everything he said turned into non-sensical babbling. Things that invaded his life, like putting exploding snap cards around his bed and dorm room, and hiding his books. Everything they thought of they did, until Sirius came up with something which made Lily Evans blow her temper.
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A/N: Sorry about another cliff hanger, but this chapter was too long already. The fifth marauder and Snape relation is difficult to handle, most writers have their character replicating Remus' behaviour, or even Lily's. I've never seen one replicate Peter or sirius and James, as they don't want their character to have a malicious streak. Most will deny any participation in the bullying, and the better authors will allow their characters to admit they never did anything to stop it either, making it look like a fault. But no, I strive to be different, as always and I herby declare that my OC Emily Patterson will hate Snivellus Snape for no other angsty reason then that he is a slimy git, and practices the dark arts despite not coming from a dark family. Oh, and he stole James crush.
Let me know what you think about this... Still not entirely sure.