Yes, I know I still owe a chapter on The Summoning, and I promise I'm almost done with it now, just a bit of editing and I'll have it up sooner rather than later. In the meantime, I had this put together...

The Marauders realizing Filch is a Squibb


"What's up Wormtail?" James asked as his last friend came in with a faraway look in his eyes.

"I'm just happy he's back at all," Remus muttered with his face still in a pillow. "Now we can all go to sleep and stop imagining the tortures Filch had him doing." Then he gave an exaggerated snore for emphasis.

Peter sunk down onto his bed, not even pretending he was listening to those around him.

"Oi," Sirius barked as he chucked a pillow at him, surprised that they hadn't gotten any such response. "He try to do something nice in front of you and stun you or something?"

"No," he finally answered, and he sounded so confused that even Remus looked up from his face cushion. "Have you lot ever noticed Filch doesn't do magic?"

They all exchanged a perplexed look before Remus answered slowly, "no, guess we hadn't noticed. Been over seven months now and I've never seen him lift a wand." He now sounded just as perplexed as Peter did.

"What was your detention over anyways, that brought all this up?" Sirius asked.

"We were down in the dungeons cleaning up some potions mess, and I was very politely asking him," Remus couldn't stop a snort and hid his face back in his pillow with mock exhaustion to hid his laughter at such a thing coming out of his mouth, "why he didn't just magic it away and Filch just snapped at me to shut it, but then I realized I'd never seen him do any magic."

"You think he might be a Squib?" Sirius asked almost before Peter had finished speaking.

"That was a leap," Remus got out around a yawn. "I've never seen Dumbledore actually do magic and I'm not questioning his ability to do it."

"Dumbledore's not some bitter old man who hates everyone in this castle," James reminded. "Actually it kind of makes sense, he'd resent all of us for going around learning magic when he can't."

"Think we should be testing this?" Sirius suddenly asked with a different light in his eyes.

"No more than we already have," Peter shrugged as he began removing his shoes.

"Well whatever we do, can it be done when there's daylight outside," Remus groused from under his covers now, and the others gradually fell silent.