The Marauding Five Year Three

by bunny chan

it's year three at last! oh, loads of pranks [grins some are muggleabled ones ] MPPL :: rr, please?

6. Lord Voldemort

AN: Sorry, I'm feeling a little off-color these days. Who wouldn't if you have school work, tuitions and so many classes to coop up with? Yep!! Down with skool!!!! And this IS their third year! Nope, not fourth, not fifth, but third. They're thirteen now J and *gasp* I won't be here to help celebrate your birthday! I'll be far off elsewhere L sorry hermione potter… and I hate maths just as much as you do; probably more, care. Hate it a lot! And those stupid conversation? O_o; okay, that's how it went in my mind when I'm talking to myself, so be glad you're not in it. and having the Marauders' parents will be heaven, actually! I just surfaced their bad parts in that chapter :P

thanks to everyone who reviewed *sob* I'm so thankful…

bunny chan

Disclaimer: You think I may run out of snappy comments here, but I hadn't!! This chapter's one is; I own everything!!! True! I owned them!! All in my dreams J

The Marauding Five : Year Three

Chapter 6: Lord Voldemort

The sun is bright and shining, the flowers are gay and colored, the grass is green as green can be, the wind is whistling joyfully, fishes are swimming happily, butterflies and bees are busy, but what did it matter at Hogwarts? Mother Nature's sympathy isn't really curing everyone.

Bad tidings came almost everyday of every week, all because of Voldemort. Many old wizarding families were killed and murdered coldly by the dark wizard. Muggles also suffer, though causes may be unknown to the doctors. Almost half of Hogwarts' student had lost their families and turned orphans. Some of which their parents were turned into just a living shell, courtesy of the Dementors that had recently just joined the Dark Lord. Giants were seen rampaging all about and the Death Eater's circle is just growing bigger everyday.

Worst of all is that life had turned into a living nightmare. It's bad enough to dream a nightmare, but this nightmare is one that will never cure just by opening your eyes. It needs courage, hope and unity of all. People live to die; that was a phrase, but what if they hadn't meant to die just yet? Innocent souls were wandering all about without even knowing why they are there. Was this really meant to happen? Or had destiny decided to end the life of the universe?

Today, Dumbledore had gathered the teachers and students in the Great Hall. Just what would they hear from him? A warning? An advice? Leaving the school? Or worst of all, death of another family? The school shared their troubles deep and passionate. Or at least, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor does. Slytherin merely snarled and kept themselves far.

Lily, James, Sirius and Remus walked solemnly to the Hall. Things weren't meant to be this way. Catching sight of Anna Hopkins talking to her Gereld, Lily felt a sudden pity overwhelming her. The girl wouldn't know what will come. Being students of the school is fun, but having to attend a school meeting like a funeral is definitely the other way round.

Just the week before, it was Thomas DeAnne's family that got murdered coldly by Voldemort. News had said that the DeAnnes refused to join the Dark side, and they were killed straight off by the Avada Kedavra curse. Thomas DeAnne had not cried. He was so sad that he couldn't even cry. However, it was rumoured that Sprout found him almost hanging himself.

Dumbledore stood gravely at the High Tables. The blue eyes weren't twinkling. They were stony, full of rushing emotions. When he stood up, everyone held deep breath. All hopes of the Dark Lord defeated were lost by his sad tone.

'I shan't keep you long here, as you have to attend to your classes. Today, I bring another one of the worst waves. Maybe it is better if a tornado has come and hit us, but we needn't it. We were already hitten harder than all those, as I'd known. This week, it is my grave duty to inform you, that the Hopkins had been killed.'

Five gasps came from the Ravenclaw table, all of, whom, were the Hopkins. Lily turned to Anna. She was white, and shaking with remorse grief. Next to her were her brothers and sisters, all of whom were also ghost white and quivering.

'I'm really sorry, Justin, Jane, Mary, John and Anna, to have to tell you this. I hated to be a bearer of bad tidings myself, but I had no choice. Professor Flitwick, can you please see them to the common room?'

With a squeak, Flitwick sobbed loudly and brought all five Hopkins away, whom all looked petrified at the news.

'It is most Hogwarts students which had lost their families,' Dumbledore started again. 'I believe that Voldemort has a motive, as there was a pattern in all his killings these days. Ten third-years had all lost their families, Anna Hopkins included.'

The Marauders felt a lump rising in their throat as they recalled the warning. The ten thirteen-year-old orphans were all of their knowings. Anna, Thomas DeAnne, Thomas McMillan, Tally, Terry Putmorey, Drolly Ternningham, Rollent Ballstic, Nina, Serena Tappers and Ruby Tappers. None of them were Slytherins, however, and the Marauders felt bitter for that. If it were the Slytherins, they wouldn't even feel sorry. Well, quite, but not very.

'I believe he is after something. Something he really wanted to go after his motive, for there is a message each time a family is murdered. It reads;

"Beware of the snake and heed no doubts;

for this is a warning to you, filthy little grubs."'

James gave a loud gasp and started falling down suddenly. Sirius and Lily, who was sitting nearby him, caught him just in time.

'James? Are you alright?' Lily asked when James sat back up in his chair.

'My head…'

'I have a headache pill,' Remus offered. James took it gratefully before swallowing it down. Lily tried communicating in his mind, knowing that even if she mayn't enter, at least she might have a raw idea of what had happened. To her surprise, she entered it easily, without needing to open the gate.

Lily… Voldemort…

What's with him? Wait, I'll link with Sirius and Remus.

What happened, James?

Are you okay?

Voldemort. He's coming. I can feel it.

How?

Remus, this is no time for questions!

Yeah! He's coming after us!

I feel it in my head. It rang when the warning was there, but it wasn't this pain.

Calm it, James. I can try to heal you. I just found out how to.

With that, their mind connection broke. They opened their eyes, only to find a hundred over looking strangely at them. The Gryffindor third-years were crowding over them worriedly.

'Are you all right?' Tally asked. Lily didn't reply, but she concentrated her psychic powers (they can be used to cure various things) and tried her luck in helping James up.

'Dumbledore!' Sirius said, when he gained back his voice. Quickly, he pushed everyone aside.

'Sirius, what are you trying to do?' Remus said, pulling him back.

'Tell Dumbledore. We have to,' Sirius said seriously.

'Si, wait. James' coming back,' Lily said in relief. Sirius waited as everyone crowded over the four of them, wondering what had made James rendered unconsious, followed by each of the Marauders.

'Move back! Back back back!' Remus instructed. The crowd moved, but not much. They were all curious. Lily didn't bother pulling out her wand. Why should she? The school was already thrown far back by a little barrier Lily's psychic powers had created. It was getting stronger and firmer each day, and Lily had no problem controlling it perfectly well.

'Ow…' James moaned tiredly. 'Lily. Voldemort. He's on his way.'

Just then, Lily, too, felt a sharp prick that sent shivers down her spine.

'H- he's not on his way. H- h- he's here,' Lily said, barely above whisper.

Everyone was beginning to try to surround them again, but the barrier Lily held was firm and stood rooted to it's ground.

'Lily, let us in!' Tally cried, banging hard at the shimmering wall.

'No! Not now!' Lily shrieked. If possible, the wall went even thicker than before. Dumbledore ran down to them as quick as he can and demanded to be let in. Lily let him in and Remus and Sirius were telling about the warning they had received, how James and Lily had felt Voldemort's presence. Lily just concentrated on healing James. When James could at least walk, he went to Dumbledore before rattling on from where Sirius and Remus stopped.

'Oh no!' Remus gasped suddenly, pointing at a large hole which was appearing somewhere. Bristles and mutterings were heard all around as the Dark Lord himself appeared from it, slowly coming to view. Half the students shrieked louder than Lily. Some fainted and some just stood petrified. Sirius swore that Snape was sneering at them, along with the other Slytherins.

Lily gasped and concentrated even more on healing James. Eventually, the barrier dropped off, since Lily was more into healing James than keeping the barrier on. Sirius just stood rooted on the ground and Remus was gripping hard on his wand.

Dumbledore stood firmly at his place as James was recovering very quickly.

'Ah, so they received my warning, didn't you?' Voldemort said is a soft hiss. A snake slithered from his neck and to the floor, just waving and turning. 'Waited for me patiently.'

'When did you receive the warning?' Dumbledore asked, turning to Lily.

'Last Summer. We received our letters at that time, too,' Lily gasped, collasping for a quick rest.

'Those booklists,' James said, seeing that Dumbledore didn't understand.

'You didn't tell me?'

'Um, we wanna go Hogsmeade…'

'So we thought-'

'It may be some sorta prank-'

'Played. But it-'

'Doesn't seem to be that.'

'And the Halloween night! I received that message from him at the Hogsmeade attack!' Lily said in dismay.

'Ah, so, you hadn't told anyone yet, did you?' Voldemort cackled. 'Well, made things easier for me. Maybe you hadn't known of my arrival here yet, maybe you do. I will tell you, all the same. I am here for only one reason, and only one reason.'

'What is it?' Dumbledore asked.

'To kill Lily Rose Evans, James Edward Potter, Sirius Orion Black and Remus Romulus Lupin,' Voldemort cackled. 'The four had much been messing in my time already and it is time they die.'

'Why us? We're only thirteen year old, teenagers at the very least,' Sirius said.

'You're stooping so low, if you wanted us,' James said.

'Stooping low? That's dropping low!' Remus said.

'Mess what? Your time? Die? Really weird, Voldemort. Or should I say, Tom Riddle?' Lily said.

Voldemort was taken aback by this.

'You know that I hated that name. That common, useless, muggle name,' Voldemort hissed.

'Really? You do? That's good,' Sirius said. Anyway, if they were to die, they should at least be happy when they died. Who wants to be a ghost with an unfinished buisiness? Nah! Sirius rather go to the dark hell than that.

'Well, why us?' James asked.

'You know that well, Dumbledore,' Voldemort hissed. Dumbledore went thoughtful.

'Did I?'

'I shall revive your memory, if at that. When I was once a school boy here,' Voldemort began. Lily tried to imagine Voldemort being a school boy. She came up with a weird looking snake.

'There were five students by your name. Lily, James, Sirius and Remus. The last one remained a mystery.'

'And what has that got to do with us?' Remus asked, yawning loudly.

'They were always taunting. Pulling a prank and everything at me,' Voldemort said with pure venom. 'I sweared I'll kill them with my own hands one day, but I never did. They died themselves.'

'Mmhm… this would go really well for History class,' Sirius said, writing with his quill.

'They were exactly like you. A redhead, three blackheads and a fair one,' Voldemort hissed. 'I'd just received news from a faithful Death Eater, that they were reincarnated again. Reincarnated into you!'

'And your point is?' James said.

'I had vowed that I'd kill the five of you. I-'

'One moment please,' Lily stopped. 'Five? There are only four of us!'

Voldemort snorted, much to everyone's surprise.

'You think so, Lily. The last one has remained an unsolved mystery in my memory,' Voldemort said with hatred.

The Marauders waited patiently for him to continue.

'Waiting for death, huh? Very well, you shall be challenged into a wizard duel. The four of you against me, Lord Voldemort!' Voldemort said with a high-pitched cackled. Everyone's blood froze right there and then, but the Marauders looked at each other confidently. Behind, Dumbledore was shaking his head, but he had to agree. If the Marauders win the duel, Voldemort will be gone. It is better than them being killed straight off just like so.

The Marauders nodded and the Hall went into deep murmurs.

'Alright then. We accept your challenge,' James said. Just then, the door burst open. Nine men and women ran in with their robes billowing after them. Each one of them held their wand tightly as they went over to the middle.

'Lily! How dare you not tell me about this!' Rose shrieked.

'You could be killed!' Gram said.

'How could you all not say even a word?' William said.

'James!' Edward cried.

'Why didn't you even say a word!' Yvonne said.

'Sirius Black! You should've known better!' Orion shouted.

'Don't you dare accept that duel!' Melissa practically screamed.

'Remus! Don't you dare!' Romulus stomped.

'If Rose hadn't said, we'd be clueless!' Anne said.

The Marauders didn't say a word, but gaze solemnly back at their parents.

'Tally! They didn't accept, did they?' Rose said to the blonde. Caught by surprise, Tally slowly nodded. How did Lily's mother know her name?

'No. No. You didn't accept, did you?' Anne said, dropping to the ground. Romulus helped her up.

The Marauders slowly nodded.

'We're sorry,' Sirius said.

'WHAT??' Melissa screamed.

'We're sorry,' Sirius repeated.

'You never said a word of sorry before,' Gram shuddered, feeling Sirius' head for temperature.

'Gram, we're sorry,' Lily said.

'Now, enough of this nicey-pamsy talk,' Voldemort sneered.

'Lily, you're a girl!' Rose moaned. 'You can't win him!'

'Hey, if we die, imagine how much less torture you'll have!' James assured.

'What? We'll torture even more if you died!' Yvonne shrieked.

And the Marauders talked as their parents screamed at the top of their lungs. Everyone watched on with amazement, even Voldemort himself. No one had expected the nine guardians of the Marauders to appear in Hogwarts school; not even Lily herself.

'Enough of this!' Lily cried at last. 'We will fight for we'd accepted the challenge, so there!'

'Ah, someone is pretty reliable here. I admire you,' Voldemort sneered. 'But not for long.'

The Marauders turned to face the greatest Dark wizard as Dumbledore led the hysterical parents and Gram away. Their mothers had all started crying, as if the four had already died. The fathers were all stoned faced, but their eyes were all pain with emotions rushing quickly.

'Now, bow,' Voldemort said, lowering his head. The Marauders did the same. Besides, they have their manners and they plan to show them off to the Dark Lord before they die with glory and dignity. 'Who'd like the first hit? Ah, since you are only thirteen, I shall give you the first chance then.'

The four looked at each other and James began counting them out. Finally, his finger rest on Lily. rose let out a sniff and watched red-eyed as her daughter went up, wand in hand.

'Maybe you want us to attack together? Since you're stronger? And we're only thirteen,' Lily said.

'Very well, but that will not change anything,' Voldemort said silkily.

Everyone watched, breath all held tightly. Here is a real wizard duel, unlike their childish ones. And here's a wizard duel that is Voldemort over four thirteen-year-old school teenagers. The Hopkins had joined the crowd after a good rest in their dorm and a sensible talk with each other. They were now watching with their breaths held sharply. Not a sound was heard until Lily began her first move.

She held her wand up high before aiming it at Voldemort. However, it wasn't what the Dark wizard had expected. It wasn't any magic that came out of that willow wand; no. It was something rather silvery white that surrounded over everyone and the Marauders.

Voldemort laughed.

'Hah! Child's play. You never thought that I couldn't break such simple spells, do you?'

'Expelliarmus!' James cried, jumping forward when Voldemort was still laughing. The wand shot from his wand and into James'. Pleased, James smiled to himself as everyone cheered at him.

'You know that magic isn't just limited to wands. I thought the professors taught you that!' Voldemort said, flashing a glare at them before pulling out another wand. 'Then again, maybe it is.'

'Cheater!' Lily called at him.

'Well, everything is always a cheat,' Voldemort said silkily. 'Persistomus huala!'

Lily dodged it easily, but the spell flew after her. Frightened, Lily quickly called out a spell which came straight to her head. Anything that came first in her head. Whether was it spell, magic or maybe Lily's trained Psychic powers, no one knew, for the chasing fireball turned into a squeaking mouse.

'Cool!' a Hufflepuff called.

Rose sighed with relief when she at last managed to go into her daughter's mind. In there, she saw that Lily had acquired skills much more than a grown wizard or witch. At least she practised, Rose said mentally to herself. Now why couldn't she enter the Psychic part? Lily's Inner Eye… it'd "saw" Rose in the head in had alerted the owner, which quickly shut everything out of existance. Rose fumed.

'Avada Kedavra!!' Voldemort shouted. Gasps flew all around the room as everyone shut their eyes, not wanting to know what will happen to their favorite four.

'Tantularus!' Sirius cried when Voldemort shouted, knowing that the spell is quite stupid, but who cares?

'Petrificus totulus!' Remus cried at the same time.

'Impidementa!' James called, also at the same time.

Lily didn't say anything, but Voldemort, after being hitten by three different spells at the time, was quite distracted. Her sharp daggers had pierced hard into Voldemort and silvery-green blood oozed out, drawings cries of sickness everywhere.

'So, you're not as weak as I'd thought, nor as stupid,' Voldemort gasped, coughing out a little. He had come, thinking that a simple Avada Kedavra would finish them all, but the four had proved him wrong. The snake slithered back up to him and he grabbed hold of it, sinking back into a small hole before vanishing off from the school grounds.

The nine that had been taken away by Dumbledore ran straight to the four kids, who all collasped with fright, nerves and shock.

'Lily? James? Sirius? Remus? Are you all alright? We were so worried,' Gram said, hugging them all passionately as tears of relief slid down her wrinkled cheeks.

'We're fine,' Remus assured.

'That was Avada Kedavra there you won! Hurrah!' William, Edward, Orion and Romulus cheered. So did the school, but Slytherins (a few of them did, but majority's no). The dads were finally hitten down by their wives, who were too worried at the moment.

'They almost died!! It is lucky Lily's-' Anne stopped, having got a warning look from Lily's green eyes. 'It's lucky that Lily's first spell worked in protecting them, isn't it?'

'I'd say lucky she "cast" it first,' Melissa said gratefully. 'Else, they might have gotten hit!! And and and-'

'We're alive, incase you'd forgotten,' James reminded.

'And when did Lily cast anything?' Sirius said. He was quickly kicked by Remus, who always had to do it because Sirius' tongue usually ran with his mind these days. 'Uh, I mean, she did, didn't you Li?'

'I'm so drowned…' was Lily's only reply. She had used her Psychic powers the whole day; healing James, protecting everyone, turning that fireball into mouse (was it her powers? Lily couldn't recall), and shooting the daggers at Voldemort had been the last of her drained off power.

'I guess we'd better leave now, Dumbledore. Would you like to go home with us?' Anne asked kindly. They all shook their heads solemnly and after a tearful goodbye, the nine sudden-comers went.

**

The Marauders were all sent to the hospital wing for two weeks for recovery of their shock, spent energy and fright. Fighting the dark lord isn't as easy as it seems, especially one that is almost at his height of powers. Besides, they got off lucky, since he had under-estimated them and Lily had used her powers to help protect everyone.

Needless to say, the Marauders became a celebrity.

'Lily, why didn't you tell anyone?' Tally asked, setting down a pot of honey and sitting down in the opposite bed.

'You should've at least told us!' Sita said.

'Well… I don't want to be your cause of being an orphan. I just only realized it,' Lily said bitterly.

'Oh well, maybe you can teach us the spells you used?' Pertsy asked hopefully. 'They're cool!'

'We can't teach it,' James said.

'You're not the one to use it!'

'Well, we speak on Lily's behalf. Unless you want her mother having her head, you'd better not ask about it,' Sirius said.

'He's telling the truth, so don't doubt it. If you think Lily's little temper is-' Remus was cut by Nina.

'Little? You're kidding! She almost had Anna Hopkins fooled that she'd kill for calling her a redhead! And you call that little?'

'Compared to her mother's it is,' James said. 'Hey, thanks for the honey!'

'What's her mother's temper like?'

'First, she'll starve you. Then she'll torture you. After that, she'll perform fifty different curses – very high ones – on you. She'll take away your wand, probably lock you in a cell and then she will start whipping you like she whips the butter. Trust me, she hit the butter hard,' Remus said.

'Sounds menacing…'

'Hey! That's only for calling her enemies idiot!' Sirius said.

'Imagine if it's her,' Pertsy said thoughtfully.

'Mom believes in torture than killing. Says it makes the person feel to not wanna live, and it's a hundred times better. Maybe I should take after her,' Lily said pensively. Tally immediately stomp it down.

'If you turn out that way, I-'

'Oh, scratch it! I'll do it anyway, so don't waste your breath!'

And after a short chat, the four girls went.

'What d'you know. We'll be stuck here for two weeks. Two weeks!' James exclaimed. 'I'll be bored to death!'

'At least Voldemort's down for a while,' Remus said.

'No more killings for some time. Thank goodness,' Sirius muttered.

'Hey, what sorta curse you used? Something called tantarlus or something,' Lily said.

'Oh, that. It turns someone into a tarantula. Weird.'

'But Voldemort didn't even grow a hair!'

'Oh, he did. I saw some furry things poking from his neck.'

'I can't believe I'm this tired…'

'Hey, you cured James from his fright fully, done that thick barrier when we needed the space, showered that protecting part from your wand to make it look like a spell, turned that fireball into a mouse. If I don't know any better, I say you used too much powers!'

'Thanks Re… curing James is the hardest part. It drained up ¾ of my psychic! I can't believe it.'

'Uh, sorry Li.'

'Whatever. I didn't use any spell in that duel. Is that fair or unfair? I mean, it is supposed to be wand to wand, not mind to wand, isn't it?'

'At least you didn't use physical contact, that's good enough. No one said anything about mind to wand though.'

'And Voldemort used an extra wand, remember?'

'Oh, speaking of that, I still have his wand.'

James pulled out a wand from his robes pocket. He placed it befor them and they looked solemnly at it, wondering what were they to do with this wand and how will they destroy it. Wands weren't destroyed easily, although it may look like it will break in a snap.

In the end, Lily glared at it and it broke into two before their eyes. A unicorn feather poked out and so did a peacock feather. Sirius inspected the wood, sniffing at it hard, before proclaiming that it's made of cherry wood.

'Someone like Voldemort used a cherry wood wand made with peacock and unicorn feather?' Remus said in amazement.

'I'm ready to bet that this wand isn't his!' Lily said.

James touched the wand gently.

'No. This wand belongs to,' James never got to finish, for the door burst open. Dan and Thomas marched in, a Get Well card in hand.

'Hi! Tired out? We made you a card,' Dan said, handing it over to Sirius. He inspect it thoroughly so that no trick was hidden.

'We're not as sneaky as you are,' Thomas said. Sirius opened it and a little tune was played. Confettis flew everywhere and a streamer writing 'Get Well Soon!' decorated above them gaily. Thomas caught sight of the broken wand.

'You-Know-Who's?' he asked, pointing at it.

'Um, no. I think it's your late father's,' James said slowly.

'What? How?'

'What sort of wand did your dad used?'

'Um, I think it's cherry wood, peacock and unicorn feather, thirteen inches.'

'Then this is the one. Sorry we broke it.'

'Oh. It's okay. I think I'll go burn it, since it'll bring too much bad memories.'

'Sure.'

**

The two weeks in the Infirmary passed quite pleasantly for the four of them. They didn't get 'too bored' for visitors streamed in at almost every moment. Madam Pomfrey said once to them that they are the most troublesome patients she had to take care of, mainly because the gang gets bored and pulled a few nasty pranks on her.

Just a day before they were let out, Barty Crouch and Dumbledore had visited them. The Marauders were planting a couple of dungbombs behind the sleeping matron when the two elderly wizards walked in on them. Grinning, they quickly hid away everything.

'Uh, hi! We were just waking Pomfrey,' Lily said sheepishly, hiding the Dungbombs from view as soon as she can.

'Good morning,' Dumbledore greeted. His greeting was replied by four earnest faces.

Crouch just looked at them blankly, and they sudden had a feeling of dislike building up especially for him.

'Who's this?' James asked.

'I'm Barty Crouch, currently running for the Minister of Magic,' Crouch replied, straightfaced.

I hope you drop, Lily said to herself.

'What are you doing here then?' Sirius asked, pulling out a book to pretend that he's a saint as he is.

Remus was secretly planting a little crab behind Crouch.

'Oh, Crouch is here on a request,' Dumbledore said, as though not approving this. 'He wants to appoint you as an Auror.'

'Sorry? Come again?' Remus said.

'I'd like to appoint you four as an Auror,' Crouch said.

'You want us to die right after we'd escaped death?' Lily said in disbelief. 'What sort of Minister are you?'

'And when we're only thirteen. You are out of you mind!' James added.

'James…' Dumbledore started.

'But it's true! We just escaped Voldemort-' Sirius protested. Crouch shuddered. '-and he wants us to die at the age of thirteen? Lily's right; what sorta minister are you?'

'Children…' Dumbledore tried again.

'It's Marauders!!!' the four snapped at the same time. 'And we're not gonna be Aurors just yet!'

'Marauders, the. Okay, Marauders, it's fine for you to refuse it, for I strongly believe you should since you are all too young to be Aurors. Crouch, now that we'd known…'

But Crouch was far too busy picking things from his back. The crabs Remus planted earlier had done it's job in pinching the man's back tightly, so now Crouch is doing a very funny wriggle to try and get it all off. The poor wizard thought a Dark curse was put on him, thus, yelled outloud when the crab pinched him finger, thinking that his forefinger had been eaten.

'Hey, you okay?' Sirius asked, prodding the fainted man (he thought he fainted out of blood-shortage).

Crouch gave a groan.

'Oh well, I guess I'll get him out. Mobilicorpus!' Dumbledore said. Crouch looked like a hung puppet as Dumbledore directed him out of the door.

'That was fun,' Lily said.

'And those crabs! Remus, you planted them?' James said, chuckling to himself.

'Who else?' Remus said modestly, bowing to the three.

'Huh?' Madam Pomfrey said, waking up from her sleep. 'Oh, you again! What had you done now?'

'Pomfrey, we've been here for two weeks!' Sirius reminded.

'You have? Oh, I don't care. Eat some chocolate now and be done with it,' Pomfrey said, pushing four large pieces of Honeydukes' best chocolate into their hands.

'I'm getting sick of these,' Sirius mumbled.

'That's first,' James said.

'No, serious. I mean, if you eat this for fourteen days and after all your meals, you'll be sick of it! I'm surprise that a temperature hasn't come yet,' Sirius said, biting into the piece.

'We'll be out by tomorrow,' Lily said, and that seem to cheer everyone's thoughts.

'I'll be so glad to get out,' Remus said.

'Maybe you will be. The school's waiting to cheer on you,' Tally said from the door.

'All but the Slytherins,' Dan muttered.

'The Slytherins? They'd rather die than cheer for those who just defeat Voldemort and those who're Gryffindors,' Lily said, rolling her eyes. 'Trust us.'

'Well, maybe, since half of them are probably Death Eaters,' Tally said as an afterthought. 'By the way, Hagrid sent these flowers.'

'It's good of him to send flowers to us, but one for everyday?' James said, indicating the room. It was filled with flowers of all sorts, colors, sizes, fragrances and patterns. Chocolates covered another huge part, a few boxes of pranks in another and a heap of cards were scattered in a corner.

'And the flowers hadn't even faded,' Sirius said. 'And the fragrance! It would do for perfume!'

Everyone knew that Sirius had a very sensitive nose. Dan suspected that it has just as many cells as a dog's nose, but the boy denied it quickly, saying that it isn't his fault to own such a sensitive nose. Besides, it came useful in smelling out food…

'Crouch just can over, didn't he? We saw him with Dumbledore,' Dan said.

'Just saw Dumbledore directing him to his office,' Tally giggled. 'He looked knocked out.'

'Oh, Remus threw crabs into his robes. The rest is history!' James grinned, dropping onto the bed.

'Speaking of which, do you need the last two week's homework? You missed a lot,' Dan said, holding out a sheaf of papers.

'Yeah! Trelawney asked us to send you this,' Tally said, pulling out a few rolls of parchments.

'Speaking of homework, here's ours,' Lily said, throwing four sacks full of parchments to their way. 'We did them all, so don't bother checking.'

'How did you know? Oh yeah, you're a Seer,' Dan said.

'But Seers can't "see" what they get for homework, can they?' Tally asked, pulling out a roll from a sack labeled "Lily Evans".

'No, I'm not Trelawney, am I?'

'No, of course not, but still…'

'Help us pass it up. And make sure Corn gets his present for setting us a subject on Hinkypunks,' Sirius grumbled. He hated DADA and he hated the teacher even more. Probably because he couldn't seem to get the subject right or maybe it's because the teacher seemed to hate him for no reason.

'I wonder how Voldemort got into the school,' Dan said. 'You couldn't apparate or disapparate in here.'

'That was what we were trying to figure out,' Remus said.

'Maybe that snake? You notice that green snake right?' Tally said.

'Yeah. Somehow, it looked quite familiar…' Lily said, trying to put her finger in.

'Remember Corn's snake?' James said, referring to the stuffed snake the DADA teacher had in his office.

The Marauders burst out laughing.

'Yeah! When we went for detention in our first year!' Lily said.

'What?' Tally and Dan asked quizzically.

'Oh, we bomb Corn's table in our first year,' Sirius said. The two nodded. The Marauders got into loads of trouble in their first year.

'And he gave us detention,' Remus continued.

'We went to his office,' James said between laughs.

'And we saw two stuffed snakes in his office! They're beanies!' Lily said, laughing. The idea of two stuffed beanies in a DADA professor's office was hilarious to the four laughing kids. Tally and Dan shot them looks, and they stopped laughing.

'Isn't it funny?' Remus wailed.

'Did you guys,' Dan started.

'Girl,' Lily cut.

'Okay, guys and girl, raid his cupboards?' Dan said.

'Raid? Nah!' Sirius said dismissively.

'Oh, we peeped though,' James said.

'Personal property. What's wrong with us knowing anyway? We hadn't blackmail him yet,' Lily said.

'You four are totally unbelievable!' Tally shrieked in a decent tone, so that Pomfrey won't kick her out.

'Why is that so?'

'Remind me to lock all my personal belongings.'

'Oh, no use.'

'Yeah, see, we can pick locks.'

'Easy as a cake.'

'Learnt that trick some time ago. All we need is my hairpin!'

'One of our treasured possesion; Lily's hairpin.'

'Trust you to do that!' Dan said.

'Just grow up!' Tally said.

Sirius suddenly looked interested.

'What?' the two asked.

'Y'know, maybe you should get together. Hook up,' Sirius said.

'Give us five good reasons then.'

'What? And you'll hook up?'

'Yep! I bet you can't even think of one; hah!'

'Oh, first, you guys keep saying the same thing.'

'Second, you guys look good together.'

'Third, your objectives are the same; get us to grow up.'

'Fourth, Tally Trevor sounds wonderful.'

'And lastly,' the Marauders concluded, 'You two are exactly the same. Nag nag nag. You'll make wonderful parents. So you are both officially an item!'

'NOOOOOO!!!!!!!' the two yelled. But before they get to point out any reasons in the Marauders' words, which maybe there is none, Madam Pomfrey had already thrown them out in less than a mili-second.

'And stay quiet!' Pomfrey said, slamming the door.

'What? You slammed that door!' Tally wailed.

'And you shouted at us!' Dan cried.

'So that's why you two should get together,' James said from the window, pulling a mischievous face at the two.

'Unfair!'

AN: Waaah!!!! I know I can't write much action [take the wizard duel for example… it's BORING!] and that's why I rarely write much!! Realize that? None of my stories have ANYTHING got to do with any fighting or such types, whatever they are!!! Please review please!!!!!! Please! With a huge thanksgiving turkey [now, why is it here?], fifteen christmas puddings [and this???], mom's best chinese cookies [yep! Definitely! It's delicious!], chapati [okay…], Malay kueh [good, good…] and a tubful of ice-cream! Wow! What a variety of food here!