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?

7. Animagi Plans

AN: Let's see… what have I here? Nothing. Boring boring boring. I bet you can't wait for Year Four to step in, huh? Since most L/J will be starting from there? Maybe, maybe. I'm glad for all of those that told me the [*cough*stupid*cough] dueling part isn't all that bad! You guys are the nicest people I know [and I know few]!!!! I can't speak french least understand it, but I know what 'au revoir' means! That good enough, I hope? Lets see… I envy you, hermione potter, I really do!! I have a week off cause it's Chinese New Year, but still loaden with work. Some new year… and I guess I'll have the last Marauder to have black hair, kay?

One reminder: this has NOTHING got to do with the real story, kay? Don't come after me with a wand and crying Avada Kedavra when I have half some things wrong and all. I'm really not planning to make it like the original story anyway.

Managed to get this done early, so no post for next week since I'll be gone. And there's no computer at the place I'm going!!!! Waaaaaaahhh!!!!!!

bunny chan

Disclaimer: Roses are red, Violets are blue; I own everything, so sue me won't you?

The Marauding Five : Year Three

Chapter 7: Animagi Plans

Lily woke up with a huge grin plastered across her face in the Gryffindor common room. She'd found it! At last! After a so long last, she had finally managed to find out as much as she can from the library's restricted section (they had duplicates of the Invisibility Cloak), their school books, a few extra purchases from Flourish and Blotts and maraudings in McGonagall's office.

'Okay, now what am I to do? What time is it anyway?' Lily said to no one as she checked her watch.

'WHAT??? Only FIVE in the morning?' Lily screeched before shutting her lips with her hand. They tend to run on their own if she didn't do that. Slumping down over her parchments she gathered everything into a folder before starting a plan in her head.

She will, again, bomb the Gryffindor dormitory wings. After all, she's feeling quite destructive today, so why not do that first? After that the Slytherins will get locked again in their dungeon. Hah! This time, they can't give her detention, for the chalk in an invisible chalk! Lily had made her own version of chalk rings and had tested it once on Filch, the caretaker. He couldn't get out of his bed until the next day, where at night, Lily had to creep out of bed to rub it off.

But first, Lily grinned to herself before pulling out a box, the stupid Snakes.

Grabbing the gleaming cloak, she pull it over her head, making her totally invisible, before floating off with it. One of her favourite powers. You can float yourself or other people anywhere you want to. It feels like a ghost, especially when you have an Invisibility Cloak with you.

'Psst! Peeeeeeves!' Lily said in a chilling cold voice. The ghost turned around, looking everywhere.

'Come out! Out out out!! James? I knooooow!!!!' Peeves cackled.

'Nah! It's Lily!!' Lily said, still under the cloak.

'What? Where?'

'Over here!'

Peeves flew to a nearby suit of armor before knocking at it. 'Lilydums?'

'No!!! Here!' Lily said, tapping him. That is, if you can tap him. But Peeves turned all the same to come face to face with a grinning redhead.

'Aaaaaaaah!' Peeves said, toppling and flying straight far off. 'You're a ghost already?'

'Do I look transparent to you?'

'No, but you're floating, Lily!!!!! I know! You're playing a trick at me! Let's see… puppet strings, puppet strings…'

'No, no strings.'

'On your head, perhaps?' Peeves took out a pair of scissors before snipping everywhere. Lily remained floating.

'No! I wanna go get the Slytherins! Keep Halley at bay, kay?' Lily fumed.

'Sure!!! Kahaha!!! Halley eh? Goody!!! I'll sneak in some-'

'Here, take this. Keep her asleep!' Lily warned, shoving a packet of green powder to Peeves.

'Surey!!!!!' With that, the poltergeist cackled off. Lily sighed. Trying to get Peeves to help you takes ages! He'll do whatsoever he wants first before listening to you.

'Oh well. Back to my plan. They should be thankful that it's Sunday today,' Lily said, pulling back the Invisibility Cloak.

'Ah!!!!'

Lily, the cloak half pulled, turned and look down. McGonagall had fainted with fright of seeing a half-Lily, floating in mid-air without any wand or strings or brooms. Shortly, without any support. But is it true that she had fainted with fright? Lily quickly pull cover her other half before looking up. Nearly Headless Nick was floating there, dazzled, and the Bloody Baron was laughing and snickering on the other side. Apparently, it is obvious that McGonagall had fainted when Nicholas (Nearly Headless Nick) went past her.

The redhead sighed in relief before heading her way to the Slytherin dungeons to continue with her plans. Now, where was she? Oh yeah, lock the Slytherins all in their dormitories with her new and improved invisible chalk ring. Now no one can blame anyone, since the chalk rings can't be seen and it'll wear off only two days after, an add-on effect Lily added since she couldn't see the chalk ring.

'Shut up!!'

'Ssh! You're making too much noise!'

'Hey! McGonagall'll be on her way here! We're too obvious!'

'Whose smart idea is it anyway?'

'Yours, idiot!'

Lily gaped in surprise. Someone else, invisible, obviously, is roaming through the corridors at five in the morning on a Saturday. Students and teacher usually sleep in on the weekends to enjoy their loss amount of sleep (except when they take History of Magic or Divination course for their OWLs).

So who in their right mind will go roaming around at this time?

No harm in finding out, Lily said to herself. The girl listened harder.

'Ow!! You stepped on my foot!'

'Sorry! I didn't see it!'

'Why are we stupid enough to bring only one?'

'Who's there?' Lily's voice rang out sharply. 'You're behind the armor, aren't you?'

No one talked. It's pure silence.

'Peeves? That you?'

'Wait, that sounded pretty familiar…'

'Shut up! We don't wanna get caught after eating!'

Furious (she has a very short temper), Lily flew behind the armor and felt about for a watery-like cloak, since the person seemed to be using a cloak. Finding a silver linen, she pulled hard at it. Out revealed three very familiar faces; one with an unruly hair, another with shoulder length hair and another fair-head with deep eyes. They gropped around for the Invisibility Cloak which Lily was holding.

'Peeves! Give it back!' James said, putting his glasses back to it's place.

'Stop trying to be invisible! If McGonagall ever comes by, we're dead!' Sirius argued.

'Is it even Peeves?' Remus said to no one.

'Oh, it's you!' Lily said in surprise. 'You didn't call me!!'

'What?' the three said blankly. Lily sighed before pulling the cloak off her head and the three gasped in surprise and awe.

'Hey Li!! You're flying!' Sirius marveled.

'Oh, sorry 'bout your cloak. You didn't call me!!' Lily protested.

'You realize you're flying?' James said.

'And you went to the kitchens without me!' Lily went on.

'Lily? You're floating mid-air,' Remus said.

'And you are so mean! I mean, I was at the common room sleeping and none of you woke me-' Lily trailed.

'Lily!' Sirius said at last.

'What?'

'You're floating! Or hadn't you known?' James said.

'You're pointing out the obvious. Yes, of course I know that!' Lily fumed.

'You didn't tell us!' Remus said.

'I thought you knew. April Fool was a long time ago…'

'Is it?'

'Unless your head decided to go like Si's, Re, try it.'

'What're you doing here anyway? Posing like a poltergeist? We wanna be one,' James said.

'No. I wanted to annoy the Slytherins. I quote Severus Snape "Saturn is the most unlucky day for the Slytherins" unquote. I just want to prove how right he was.'

'Saturn takes over only on next Wednesday!' Remus said.

'True, but Saturday is also known as Saturn's Day. Interested in joining my army?'

'Aye!'

'Then up we go!' Lily said, covering the cloak over the four of them.

Wait, Lily's floating, so how did she cover…? Sirius said in his thoughts. Okay, gulp a little and look down.

'AAAH!!!!!!!!' Sirius yelped.

'Shut up!' James hissed.

'We're floating!'

'You didn't notice?'

'No…'

'Ssh! We're at the dungeons already!'

'So fast?'

'What d'you expect we are? Tortoises?'

'I hate your stupid remarks on animals these days, Re.'

'Who cares?'

'Ssssh!'

'The toilet's that way.'

'No, quiet!'

'But you wanted-'

'Just forget it, Si! Lily's got some prank going around.'

'Yeah. Invisible chalk rings. Motivated by Gram's original chalk rings.'

'Cool! When did you make them?'

'Last month, I think.'

'You didn't tell us!'

'No one asked!'

'Ow! What hit my head?'

'The ceiling. You're levitating us too high!'

'I am? Sorry.'

'Forget it! Get on with the plan!'

'Okay, okay!'

The four carefully unload Lily's chalks and started drawing a huge circle again, just like they had last year, a day before the grand bye-bye feast. The teachers, finally given up, had dragged the Marauders to the Slytherin dungeons, suspecting a prank being pulled. The four had to wipe off everything to free the Slytherins (much to their annoyance) and received extra homework as detentions.

But Lily's plan this time seemed able to pull off easily, since it's invisible chalks that are conducting the trick. They were sure that nothing will happen to them this time, since Lily had promised faithfully that the chalk will wear of by itself after two days, unless you want to rub it off.

Grinning, they started their job and planted dinamites. Lily thought that they didn't quite much needed it to bomb the Gryffindor wings, so why not torture the Slytherins while keeping them in their dorms? They can't run away.

**

Two days without any Slytherins was heaven for the school. No, heaven is not the word. Um, maybe on the seventh heaven's the best. The school was rejoicing and classes had to be cancelled on Monday; all just because the Slytherins were stuck.

Rumors went about that the Marauders had, yet again, trapped them in their dorms, but the teachers all dismissed it since they were 'Such angels this year,' said Professor Rivers who taught them Muggle Studies.

The Gryffindor third year had a little quiet party, celebrating the downfall of the whole of Slytherin house under four thirteen year old witch and wizards, each having had their own theory on how the Slytherins managed to eat (no one can go into the magic ring) and live.

They needn't ponder, for answers came themselves on Tuesday. Just as soon as they found out that they can come out, the Slytherins had all barged out to the Great Hall that very morning (some as early as four) to feast on their missed food for the last two to three days. Apparently, Lily's chalk worked better than expected.

'Morning! Had a nice day?' Sirius said to the Slytherins.

'Very polite way in pigging out your food, huh?' Remus said. Indeed, the Slytherins were pigging onto their food lavishly.

'No! They're not pigging! They're pigs themselves, remember?' James said. Half the Slytherins went red in face and Snape was already clutching tightly at his wand, shooting daggers at them. However, unlike Lily's daggers, which shot right at you, Snape's isn't much help, for the four Marauders simply ignored it.

'No use glaring, Snape. You can't get us pinned to the wall,' Lily said before sitting down at the Gryffindor table.

'Nope! Not unless you have – ow!' Sirius said. Remus and James had both stepped hard on both of his feet to stop him.

'You let your tongue run a lot these days,' Remus hissed.

'I can't help it!'

'Well, bear with it!' James said before pushing a bread into Sirius' mouth.

'Mmpf mmm.'

'If you can't keep your tongue, I'll put a curse on it,' Lily warned.

'Mm msyth mmpf mmm!'

'Fine then!'

'Oh, what was it he's saying?' Snape sneered from behind.

'Y- yeah! W- what?' Pettigrew squeaked. Blankly.

'Sfufid fnaks! Fet feat fto fiur fable!!' Sirius said, stuffing his mouth with more bread.

'Need a translation?' Tally offered. Snape immediately went misty-eyed. 'He said, "Stupid snakes! Get back to your table!!" So get back!'

Cursing, the two grumbled before walking back sulkily to their green cladded table. Wait. Snape was the one doing all. Pettigrew just followed him like a little shadow.

'Ever reckon Pettigrew ever learning?' James said.

'What? That he's a squib?' Lily said, spooning her cereal porridge. 'Unusual breakfast though. I thought the house-elves have more taste than to feed us cereal plus porridge. Or had they went nuts?'

'Very unusual,' Remus agreed. 'And Pettigrew could do with talking.'

Sirius swallowed his mouthful before choking hard.

'He's talking, isn't he?' James and Lily said together with the same tone.

'No! He's squeaking! Honestly, I thought an elf is hidden in him. Or maybe his parents changed his voicebox with an elf's? Hmm…' Sirius said, drinking his orange juice.

'How do you change your voicebox anyway? And what's it?' Sita asked, muching on her cereal porridge. 'Yuck! This thing's disgusting!'

'Oh, we learnt that in our muggle school. Pity there aren't any muggle-born in our year,' Remus said.

'Sad. What's your parent's objective anyway, to keep you off the magical world?' Dan asked, trying to reach the fruit bowl, but collasped into his milk.

'Back off! Back off!' Tally instructed when Dan was about to drip milk onto her.

'Sorry.'

'By the way, anyone seen Minnie?' James said.

'Nope. Not even a hair,' Nina replied. 'Should I eat this?'

'No, don't eat it,' Sita said, sticking out a tongue.

'And about McGonagall, not even a hair,' Pertsy, who'd been quiet all the while, said.

'Well, if you see her, tell me what she look like then,' Lily said, laughing.

'What?'

'Ooh! Dumbledore has something to say!'

'So long as it's got nothing to do with Voldemort.'

'That stopped some time ago, Si.'

'Yeah, but what if he comes up again? We'll be doomed!'

'I can't seem to find out who's the fifth of us though. Something like "Prediction Hazy. Try Again." Always appear in my eye whenever I tried that.'

Everyone burst out into gales of laughter as the older and younger students edged away. Who'll know what the third years would do next with the four mischief makers by their side? Anything could bomb, the chickens would turn could, they (the students) might turn into little Jelly-Slugs…

'Attention! May I please have all your attention?' Dumbledore asked.

'All ears!' Remus called.

'Brainwave checked. Report – clear!' Sirius said.

'Eyes wide open!' James added.

'Brain and subconcious alert – finished!' Lily concluded.

'The Quidditch match next week and the following practices are to be canceled.'

'WHAT?!'

'Yes, canceled, because Voldemort is rumored to rise again. Reports have it that he's gradually healing from the, um, weird curses someone gave him the other day. And his heart seem to have healed itself – slowly – from the crisis of being hitten by an ordinary dagger.'

A few laughters issued around and the Slytherins glared.

'But those practices!' Sirius started.

'Practices will also be canceled, for your safety. Voldemort is not one wizard you want to mess with-'

'Is he a wizard? He looked more like the evil sorceror!' Lily said.

'Well, he is one. And being defeated by thirteen year old teenagers was quite a humiliation to him there,' Dumbledore said, chuckling a little. 'I daresay that he'll be back for revenge.'

The Marauders shivered. 'We rather he not.'

'Using Avada Kedavra-'

'We'll be dead if we didn't shoot-'

'Any of our curses!'

'And we're just lucky he was distracted!'

'And-'

'Okay, okay, we get your message,' Tally said, calming the hysterical four before her. Seriously, what they'll be doing next is totally unpredictable!

Just then, Thomas was rushing in with a goat baa-ing at him from behind. What was weird was that the goat had glasses, billowing black robes and books hung under it's neck. It's horns were jet-black and the fur (or was it hair?) on the top was tied neatly into a neat bun. It's…

'MINNIE!!!!! So glad you decided to stop by!!!' Sirius said happily, bouncing to the goat as he tried to drag McGonagall. The goat butted, barely missing Sirius.

'That's McGonagall? What did you do?' Pertsy asked shakily to Lily.

'Do? Oh, we gave her some food,' Lily grinned.

'And you turned her into a goat?'

'No, actually, it's the spell that turns her. It turned her into an animal – maybe personality – and since Minnie loves to nag and nag and but and but, she turned into a goat!' James said triumphantly.

'Quidditch… canceled…' Terrykinns' sorrowful voice said suddenly from behind them.

'Don't bother him. He's been moaning like this ever since Dumbledore announced that,' Catherine said, dragging her boyfriend away from the third years.

'Boy, that hit him hard huh?' Remus said.

'You can't blame him,' Lily said.

'Yeah. This is his last year!' James added.

'Oh joy. Muggle Studies,' Sirius said, looking at his timetable.

'Do we have Transfiguration today?'

'Minnie's class, Minnie's class … nope! We have DADA though.'

'Wonderful. To miss a goat baa-ing in your ears in the class. Maybe we can put that spell again tomorrow?

'Dumbledore's watching…'

'Aw, who cares? Hey, Dumbledore sounded almost like a bumblebee, doesn't it?'

'Does it? It sounded like Dumb-Bell-Door.'

'Dumb bell door. Cool!'

'Anyway, DADA. We'd just finished on those draculas. What d'you reckon we'll have now?'

'Last chapter. Hurrah!!! We're going a bit too fast this year.'

'When aren't we?'

'We're always fast!'

'We are?'

'Where had you been a century ago?'

'Lets see… I hadn't existed yet.'

'Typical. Anyway, for your very-stupid-information and Re, no offense! It's werewolf.'

'Why no offense to Remus?' Tally inquired. The four fidgeted a little. But Sirius came up with a story easily.

'Oh, Remus has a thing for werewolves.'

'Uh, you hadn't seen his room yet! It's full of posters!'

'Um, yea! He adores them, don't you, Re?'

'Um, uh, yes.'

Remus glanced uneasily at his friends. The last thing he'd do alive was to put posters of werewolves in his room and adore them. How was he supposed to do that when he, Remus Lupin, was a werewolf? Heck, even his name had to do with a werewolf! Remus; the greek legend where Remus and Romulus were a pair of twins raised up by a pack of wolves. Just his luck was that he was named Remus Romulus Lupin, of both the twins and his last name, Lupin, so happened to have a thing with those wolves.

Maybe he should 'change' his middle name. Not exactly change it, but just alter it a little. Just for the ones close to him, like the Marauders, will only know it's Romulus. He should change it to something else. Something that hasn't even got a connection with werewolves or wolves.

How would Remus John Lupin sound anyway?

'Oh, it sounded okay, Remus,' Lily said to him.

'I hate how my name goes, just when I received that stupid bite,' Remus said.

'Well, no one knows,' James said, guessing immediately what had Remus meant and through Lily's telepathic message.

'We won't tell a soul, remember?' Sirius said.

'There's a saying that goes "Never trust Sirius Black". Or hadn't you heard?' Remus laughed.

'Is that so? My name happened to be a Dog Star and I can't say I like it,' Sirius groaned.

'Mine's a flower. Of all things that it could be, it's a flower,' Lily said.

'So far mine's the most normal one!' James said proudly.

'Not exactly. James was your ancestor's name. I recall reading it in your family tree,' Lily reminded.

'You just have to spoil my fun,' James said. 'Having a dead ancestor named after was bad…'

'What're you talking about?' Sita asked.

'Names…' the four groaned at the same time.

'My name's like "sitar" but without the "r",' Sita said gloomily.

'I like mine. It's normal,' Nina said proudly.

'Mine sounded like "telly". Not like I'm a tell tale,' Tally frowned.

'Pertsy. What does it goes anyway?' Pertsy asked.

'The PERTs?'

'Thanks a lot…'

'Dan and Thomas are just fine!' Thomas said.

'Not exactly. Remember that Arabian that came to our village, Tal?' Remus said.

'Yeah! He said "and" as "dan" [pronounced "Dah-n"],' James said.

'And it's spelt d-a-n, too!' Lily said.

Dan went red.

'Hey, cool it! It's true anyway!' Tally said soothingly to him.

'Okay, so my name means "and" in malay? Wonderful…'

'You are so right! So instead of Dan [Den], we'll call you Dan [Dah-n]!' Sirius laughed.

'Hey!!! It's Muggle Studies!' James said, grabbing hold of his bag.

'Ah!!! Ancient Runes!' Tally groaned.

'Ciao! See ya later!' Lily waved as they sprinted off to class.

'But the food-'

'How would you expect them to eat this uneatable thing? I bet the cooks had a leave,' Sita muttered as she held out a spoon of cereal porridge to Nina.

**

Muggle Studies went quite smoothly for the Marauders. Only one problem when the teacher decide to conduct her experiment on their table.

'We'll be reading this today,' Professor Rivers said proudly, holding out a camera. 'I found this somewhere in the corridor!'

'Hey! That's mine!' Remus said, recognizing his old camera.

'It is?'

'Yeah!! See? Remus Lupin,' Remus said, pointing at a carved words at the corner.

'Oh well, mind if I borrow?' Rivers asked.

'You can have it, for all I care. That stupid camera quitted!!!!!'

'Twittered?'

'No, quit! He don't want his job anymore!'

Dan and Thomas laughed silently at the back of their seats, remembering the last year where Lily and James had handed them the Thinking Parchments and after when Sirius and Remus had stomped in, holding out the message about his camera quitting his job and not wanting to have anything to do with photography any more.

'Oh well. Maybe he'll work for me. Now, how do you work this?'

For fifteen full minutes, Rivers fingered the camera, pushing the buttons here and there and all around. And for fifteen full minutes, the class slept soundlessly, with the camera clicking every once in a while. Finally, Rivers smiled happily to her sleeping class.

'Done it!!'

'Huh?' James said.

'Wha? Oh, congratulations,' Lily said.

'So given it a try already?' Sirius asked.

'Or maybe given up?' Remus muttered.

'See, I press this little button up here,' Rivers said, pushing the top button. Out printed the very same note Remus had seen the year before. Remus put his head into his hands as Lily, James, Dan and Thomas burst out laughing loudly, unable to control their pouring laugher.

'Evans, Potter, Trevor, McMillan! What is it?' Rivers exclaimed as she read the note the camera printed out.

'The c- camera!' Dan stiffled with laughter.

'Q- q- quit!!' Thomas managed to choke out before dropping with laughter all over again.

The class was now puzzled. What in Merlin's name are they laughing about? Just then, the note was passed around by Sirius and soon, no one was in any condition to even think of what they are doing.

**

The Marauders were in their room behind the mirror, obviously bored. Rolls of parchments were scattered all around the room, their Zonko's products were lying everywhere unattended, books that were used for reference were all stacked on a corner and the Marauders themselves were lying on their bed, staring blankly at the wall.

'Hey Lily! What were you doing in the common room last night,' James said, trying to stir up a conversation.

He had obviously did it, 'cause Lily shot up straight at once and clasped her hand to her forehead and gave a cry of dismay.

'Oh my, why no one asked me earlier? I was doing some research!'

'You? Research?? That didn't quite match the picture,' Sirius said.

'Shut up, Si, and listen to what Li has got to say!' Remus said.

'Okay, see, Remus is a werewolf, right?'

They nodded.

'And werewolved are dangerous to humans; even wizards.'

'And your point is?' James said.

'If we're animals, we can help Remus! It's all in our DADA book all the time and we didn't even notice it!'

'Yeah, unfortunately, we're not a wolf,' Sirius said sarcastically.

'Hey! What I mean is that we will need a potion brewer and a Transfiguration master!' Lily said happily. 'Which is where James and Sirius walks into the scene!'

'What?' the three said blankly. Obviously, the Marauders were sleeping when McGonagall was talking about animagi.

'We'll be animagi! Just like Minnie!' Lily said, sparkles shining in her green eyes. Realization slowly rised from their faces as Lily's words began to sink right into their heads. They will be breaking the law, after all the school rules, and can help their friend at the same time! That goes for the saying of two bites in the apple, Sirius said gleefully to himself. Wait. Was it a right saying?

'Who cares? We're able to help Remus now! And we get new adventures than roaming the dark corridors!!!!' James said, dancing around, as if reading Sirius' mind.

'Yay! Into the forest at night! How will it be?' Lily said, eyes shining.

'Probably cool! Hurrah!' Remus cheered.

'Yay!!'

Just then, the four felt their minds being opened as a message crept into it.

'What's this?' Remus asked, feeling that everyone must've the same feeling.

'Oh! Someone's writing to our Thinking Parchments!' Sirius said. They waited patiently for the message to come.

Lily? it asked

What is it Tally?

You still in love with James?

We're NOT in love! James sended as quick as he can as Remus and Sirius sniggered beside him.

Oh, so when are you gonna grow up?

When we hink it's time to be old. About fifty-five? Sirius tried helpfully.

If it helps, Tal, mine's written in green, James in black, Sirius in brown and Remus in red.

Oh, okay. It gets confusing sometimes.

So Snape still over you? Remus asked.

If this helps; I poured my inkbottle onto his face during Ancient Runes.

Oh, wonderful! Lily said.

Ingenius! James added.

Any idea what's happening, Tally? Sirius asked.

Immediately sensing that Sirius will soon let out all the secret that Lily and James had made the parchment telepathic, all three promptly stomped on his feet and waved a quick goodbye to Tally.

Sirius was groaning and moaning in pain. If you have your foot being stomped continously by three teenagers, it'll get sore, even if it's steel. Don't they ever feel the pain? Sirius said sullenly to himself.

'Learn how to keep your mouth and thoughts!' Lily said.

'Thank goodness we're quick enough,' James said.

'You really need self-control, Sirius. I'm tired of having to shut you up. Soon, we'll be carrying a few rolls of Spellotape around with us since one roll wouldn't be enough,' Remus said.

'I can't help it!'

'Then learn to!' the trio chorused loudly.

'Who goes there?' Flitwick's squeak came from the wall. The four quickly shut their mouth up as soon as possible.

'Did you see anyone?' Flitwick asked the mirror. The mirror, being the one responsible to hide the room, replied a no to the little professor. Still in puzzlement, he walked off, thinking of all the voices he had heard.

'Maybe a ghost,' the tiny professor said at last. There are so many ghosts in Hogwarts, but they rarely come out. The ones that usually showed up are just the Grey Lady, Fat Friar, Nearly Headless Nick, Bloody Baron and Peeves.

The four heaved a deep sigh of relief.

'I thought he had us there and then!' Lily breathed.

'Um, where were we before this?' Remus asked. His head was quite blank at the moment.

'Animagi. Yep! Minnie was a cat, though I think she'd fit for a Hippogriff!' James chuckled.

'We're gonna break the laws!!! Joy!!' Sirius cheered, bouncing all over the room.

'Stop! We're getting dizzy!' James said. Sirius just went on bouncing and bouncing, ocasionally letting out little gasps of delight to show him delight of breaking the law.

'Um, are we sure we want to do this? It sounded dangerous to break the law,' Remus said slowly.

'But we wanted to help you, Re! So, please?' Lily pleaded.

'But you're taking risks for me!' Remus said.

'We will have the fun of our own, too, Re! So, please?' James added his contribution to Lily's plea.

'Pretty please? With huge, great cherries on the top?' Lily said again.

Remus gave in, deciding that this younger 'sister' of his is way too ignorant and stubborn to even care. Why waste your breath? Just give in and be done with it. trying to talk sense to her is very hard, especially when she had spent so much effort in a work.

Sirius bounced even more when Remus gave in. He was chanting and jumping even more than ever, and soon, the trio were dizzy already. But after a while, Sirius fell down, fainted with exhaustation and dizziness.

'Told you not to jump too much,' Remus muttered. Lily was busy pushing a tubeful of pills and James was pouring in a kettle of water into Sirius' mouth. 'What pill is this anyway?'

Lily just grinned happily and started bouncing a little.

'Lily Evans! You gave Sirius the hyperactive pills? Are you nuts??' Remus exclaimed after smelling the pills.

'Well, he wanted to jump…' Lily started.

'So we thought we'd give him these,' James said.

'I'm going to be the only sane one in this group from now on. You two have definitely snapped in head already,' Remus said sadly.

'Well, joy to the insane world!' James cheered.

'Joy!!' Lily said.

'Joy joy joy!! We're insane, we're jumping; up down, up down!' Sirius said, jumping up and down and up and down.

'Aaah! I'm going to go insane if I keep up with you all whenever you're in this mood!' Remus wailed.

'Put up with it! Put up with it!' Lily chanted.

'Lily, shake and get back to normal!' Remus pleaded.

'Shake left, shake right!' James sang.

'James! Not you too!' Remus wailed again.

'Sad, sad, sad!' Sirius, Lily and James sang together at Remus.

Remus covered his face with his hands. How could the usually three sensible ones of the group turned to only one sensible one? Okay, Lily and James are just on sugar high, so keep calm, Remus. Breathe in. Breathe out. Now, they'll go back to normal after swallowing a glass of water…

Swallowing a glass of water… The kettle!

Remus quickly grabbed the kettle and shook it a little, just to make sure at least some water is in there. The last time Sirius went hyper, James and Lily had both chucked two kettles of waterful into the boy and when it was James' turn to jump around, the both (Remus and Lily) had poured the kettle into him, which is nothing. It turned out that Sirius had drank up everything.

Okay, now to pour it into their mouths. Why am I always the one to do this?

Remus quickly tipped the kettle into Lily's mouth, since the redhead was one of the most sensible of them all. The girl shook back and blinked.

'What?'

'James,' Remus said, handing the kettle over to her.

'Oh okay.'

Lily quickly ran after the jumping James (more of jumping beans that invaded his mind) and quickly poured the remaining of the water in the kettle into his mouth. James choked halfway and splurted some of it onto Lily's face, since she was standing right in front of him. Disgusted, she pulled out a hankerchief to wipe off everything.

'James, must you do that?'

'Sorry Lily! It got stuck halfway…'

'Quit rambling on James, Lily, and get Sirius back!'

'Remus, there isn't even a drop of water left!'

'Why must it happen just now…?'

The three turned to Sirius, who was destroying almost everything in the room. It wasn't much of a problem anyway, since they can redo everything back by magic (one of magic's advantages, Lily thought thankfully), but what's annoying is his voice.

He was singing and their place is supposed to remain hidden, not found.

Sighing, Lily placed a silence charm on Sirius as James and Remus brought a bucketful of tap water. Remus yanked his mouth open as James poured the bucket into Sirius' mouth. He gasped, choked and protested (no sound came out anyway), but they kept pouring right until the very last drop.

This is the last time we're gonna make Sirius' hyper… James vowed silently to himself.

AN: Great. I'm getting more and more busier. Maybe this'll have to come out once in two weeks already, with those stupid curriculum activities, never-ending tuition homeworks and school homeworks piling right before my eyes. Anyone wanna trade places with me? I'll be glad if we can! And no. No animagi potion until the next year!! Hurrah! :P nah, just kidding! Anywayz, none for next wekk ^_^; I'm celebrating Chinese New Year! I wish the same to those who're Buddhists out there!! Review, please!!!!