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Chapter 16

Dumbledore's Office

Sirius was surprised by how open and friendly the headmaster's office felt. There was a lot of stuff in it, but it still didn't seem cluttered. It made him think of the homes he had read about in stories when he read to his little brother. He had been sure that there wasn't really a way to make a place feel warm without turning up the heat like the stories had said it did. As soon as he walked into this room, he was sure that they hadn't been lying. His house was dark and dusty in comparison.

Dumbledore sat at his desk and watched them for a moment. "I need you to tell me everything you know about the Marauders."

"We did." James said. He wanted to answer the easier questions so that it didn't look bad that Remus and Sirius were doing all the talking.

"No you told me what they did. I need you to tell me other things. Such as what they looked like, how many there were, where you met them, things like that." James let Sirius and Remus answer this. Remus was the first one to speak.

"We met them in the hall. No where special, I think it was on the first floor though." Remus was trying to hide the fact that he was looking at them as though he was asking permission to say this. No one noticed. Not even the other Marauders, so he stopped and figured they would tell him later if he did something wrong.

"I think there were four of them." Sirius looked like he was trying to remember that far back. "Ya, defiantly four of them. They looked rather human. They didn't float or anything, but they still seemed like ghosts. They were like whiteish, and you could kind of see though them, though I may be wrong about that. That's about it. Unless you guys can think of anything." Peter shook his head. James and Remus said no.

Dumbledore nodded. "Alright, I will escort you to your common room." He said and stood. They followed him out the door and down the halls. When they got to the portrait of the Fat Lady, they said the password and waved to Dumbledore. When they turned around, they were surprised to see just about every Gryffindor in the common room staring at them. They attempted to get in their dorm but were forced to stay by the mass of Gryffindors that were asking them questions and wanting to hear about what they saw. After half an hour of madness, Sirius got sick of it.

"ALRIGHT THAT'S IT!" He yelled so loud that he reminded them of his mother. "EVERYONE LEAVES US ALONE OR I START BLASTING CURSES AT PEOPLE!" He pointed his wand around in a threatening manner. The fact that he was a Black was not lost in the crowd, even if he was only a first year. The crowd broke up and they were able to get to their dormitory. James gave him an impressed look. Not every first year could control the entire Gryffindor house just by threatening them like that. Remus moaned and dropped on his bed.

"Where did you hide it?" Sirius asked, Remus smirked, obviously very proud of himself. He stood and walked over to Peter's bed. To their surprise, he lifted up a loose brick in the floor. They looked in and saw a secret space just under the floor. James' bag was in there. James grabbed his bag, and looked at the now empty space. It was rather large, not huge when Sirius put his hand down in it to test the strength of the bottom of it, the floor only went up to his elbow, but as far as secret spaces go it was rather large.

"Woah, how did you find it?" James asked after a while.

"When I went to wake Peter up, I noticed that this brick sounded different than the others. It wasn't much difference, not enough that most people could find it. But still different." Actually, it was so similar that it would be rare for anyone to find it. He only could because of his sensitive hearing, one of the only advantages of being a werewolf.

"Sweet, this is awesome, now we can hide anything we want from them." Sirius said excited again, this let in completely new possibilities as pranking goes.

"Anything that fits anyway." James said looking almost as excited. Remus put the brick back in place.

"What are we going to do now?" He asked and sat on Peter's bed. "From what you put on the wall they are going to be expecting another attack, so they are going to heighten security." They all looked to Sirius, who was obviously the one who would figure out what to do.

"We have to do it again. They need to be really scared; I'm not as worried about getting past all the prefects and stuff as finding another 'victim.' Everyone is going to be watched and not many people will risk going out."

"What if we just ask one of them to come with one of us to the library or something?" James suggested.

"No, it would be way too obvious that it's us when they wake up. We would have to mess with their memory first, and I don't know how to do that yet." Sirius was in his thinking mode. It always entertained Remus when he went into his thinking mode. He was so different during it that it made Remus think that maybe it was the only time he ever really thought about something. James was merely surprised that it didn't hurt. When he voiced this aloud, he always received a smack from Sirius.

"What if we just go after another prefect?" Peter suggested.

"No, I'm sure they have been told to partner up. We don't want to have to hit them both." Sirius muttered.

"Why don't we hit them both? I mean there are four of us." James asked.

"What are we going to do with the other one? We can't put two of them together, and then they will just pair them up in threes or something."

"Oh man, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but why don't we just stash the other one in a broom closet for later or something. Oh, man that didn't sound right. Guys I really feel like a mass murderer or something." Sirius, James, and Peter laughed. They knew Remus was serious, but they couldn't help but think that was funny.

To Remus' dismay, Sirius said "Great idea Remus."

They laughed again as they started to descend to the common room. James had his very manly bag (I swear it isn't a purse.) To their great surprise, they saw that a few of the students were leaving the common room in groups of two or three. They asked Frank Longbottem and found out that they were allowed to leave as long they didn't go alone. Sirius cheered when they got into the hall. This made things much easier. There would be more targets, but not so many that it would be hard to not be caught. They headed towards the Herbology classroom. Sirius complained the whole way about having classes on a holiday. Their class that day was pretty easy; no one seemed really into it, even the teacher. She seemed more interested watching to make sure no one broke into her class and tried to kill anyone than actually teaching them. She was defiantly the paranoid type. When they left, they had already picked their victim. She was a third year Gryffindor, they absolutely could not figure out why a third year was in class with them. It took them a while to convince James that they had to pick on the Gryffindors as well. She spent the entire class insulting the Marauders. She was trying to prove that she wasn't scared of them. She also stated that she absolutely refused to have an escort everywhere, which meant that she would be going out alone, an easy target.

They followed her out of Herbology and found she wasn't lying. She really wasn't going to use the buddy system. Sirius smirked and gave James a high five. She was heading for the library. They couldn't believe their luck, not far away was the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. That was the next class the first years had. So it wouldn't be too surprising if they were there. James used the spell again, Remus didn't want to, and Peter was too afraid. He winced when he petrified the Gryffindor girl. It really went against the grain to jinks one of his own house. They quickly set her up the same way, except this time Sirius wrote…

Having fun yet!!!!!

Marauders:2 Hogwarts:0

They snuck off snickering. Sirius was rather proud of them, the armatures were rather good at this, though he was doing most of the work. Perhaps by the end of the year he won't have to. When they came back for D.A.D.A class, they were happy that about the same thing happened. Once again, someone notices them and the crowd kinda split.

Remus made a depressed noise when they saw their handiwork. However, in his head he was rather proud of it. "Not again." Remus did an excellent job of looking like he was going to cry.

"What is going on out…" The D.A.D.A teacher's voice trailed off when he saw the Girl in the same state Diggory was this morning. "Get inside the classroom! Now! Hurry!" Everyone quickly went inside the classroom. The teacher went to his fireplace and summoned Dumbledore, who he told everything. Dumbledore then summoned a few of the teachers. They went out of the classroom. The door was left open so they could hear the conversation.

"What do you think is doing this Albus?" They heard Professor McGonagall say.

"I haven't the slightest clue, but it must be a very strong magic. Even Yuma's Mandrakes couldn't wake them." Sirius almost laughed, and told them in his mind that maybe it was just too weak that they would never figure out what it was. Remus seemed rather confused. Dumbledore was now explaining what each teacher was expected to do. They heard their teacher ask.

"What do you want me to do with the first years, Dumbledore."

"Take them back to their Common Rooms, I don't want anyone roaming the halls. We aren't going to let these Marauders play their little game." Their teacher, who Sirius just remembered was called Professor Gilbert, came in the room and told them all to follow him. When they left the room the girl and the writing were both gone. They were taken straight to their common room, Professor McGonagall was there waiting for them.

"I want everyone to pay close attention." She stood in front of the room. "I need to inform everyone that is not already aware that another student has been attacked by these so called Marauders." There was a large collective gasp, they had forgotten that it was only the first years that would have seen the attack.

"Now you all know that if you have any information you are too see any teacher as soon as possible. I want to warn you of the danger that they present. The most resent victim was heard saying that she didn't see the point of having someone else with her when she left her class. She went out alone, and now she is in the hospital wing and we cannot figure out how to help her. I cannot stress enough how important it is for you to not go out alone. We are not aware of what the Marauders are capable of, but we know they are powerful. We can only help you stay safe if you agree to listen to what we are telling you." The Marauders were trying so hard not to laugh. They could not believe how good they were. McGonagall had said that they were powerful when all they did was use a simple spell that you normally didn't learn in school. They were first years for Pete's sake, and they were even outwitting the teachers. Even Remus was holding back laughter, normally he would feel sorry for the teachers, but the spell they used was just so easy that he couldn't help but want to laugh at them. Professor McGonagall continued to attempt to warn them. If only she knew how close, a couple of first years were to laughing at her.

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