AN: it's the first Quidditch match for the Gryffindor house and like other fics, I'd decided to make it Gryffindor-Slytherin. Who'll care anyway? The idea's getting boring and if you want fun, we'll have to do it with the Slytherins. R/R, please?
bunny chan
Disclaimer: who will read this anyway? You know what I'll say.
The Marauding Five : Year Two
Chapter 7: Quidditch: Gryffindor vs Slytherin
Catherine Forgerys and Terrykinns Splatter stood waiting alone at the Quidditch pitch, waiting for the Gryffindor team to assemble for their usual practice. James Potter, Lily Evans and Droville Rammers as the swift Chasers, Sirius Black and Catherine Forgerys as the unbeatable Beaters, Billy McMillan the Keeper and lastly, Terrykinns Splatter, the Gryffindor Seeker. However, only Droville and Billy showed up. The remaining trio, who were also one of the Hogwarts' Marauders, were lost. Terrykinns paced around the field impatiently.
'Just where can they be? We can't start without them! Not with only one Chaser!' Terrykinns wailed.
'Terry, you sounded most like an immature kid! Just stay put, okay? When did you tell them the practice was?' Catherine chided her boyfriend. Terrykinns' face turned pale that very instant. He gulped.
'Uh, Kat? Can you go fetch them from Hagrid's? I sorta set them on a detention, without meaning it.'
'And just how?'
'Uh, you know how much Gryffindors hated Slytherins, don't you?' Catherine nodded.
'See, I'd sorta used this spell – by accident – on Severus Snape, who happened to be the Marauders' sworn rival. I swear, it was meant for Gratshead, but somehow, Snape got it. James, Lily and Sirius were there at that moment – we were talking – and somehow, McGonagall came. She issued them detention at Hagrid's,' Terrykinns say, waving his arms frantically as he explained the story.
'Great. And get us a practice off?' Catherine replied dryly. 'Sorry,' Terrykinns said. Catherine went off to get the three remaining players. The remaining third years just sighed as they discuss about their replaced Divination teacher. Catherine reappeared soon after with three second-years, all grinning stupidly as they ran towards the team, carrying their brooms.
'Phew! She saved us just in time to eat Hagrid's rock cakes,' Sirius said, smiling broadly at the thought of not eating Hagrid's cooking.
'He's right. She barged in just in time,' James complimented.
'Anything much else? Well, I can't help but agree with them. When's practice? You said ten, not eight!' Lily protested as she took out a jar containing emeral-green flames and let it out, savouring the heat gratefully. It had been a cold, winter morning and the February air isn't really agreeing much with the red head.
'Uh, Lily?' Terrykinns started.
'Yeah?'
'Mind cutting yout hair? Having hair as long as your ankles aren't going to give us much chance. Your opponent can just pull you hair to stop you.'
'He's right, Lily. Maybe if you have it shoulder length-'
Catherine was cut straight off by the girl, who held her hair protectively. 'No. I always have my ways. I'd thought about it during the holidays, when flying the broom, and trust me, it'll work out,' Lily said firmly.
'She's right, Kat. Couldn't very much agree with her,' James added, looking at his Butterfly which was levitating in mid-air.
'But it seemed to be quite a bother sometimes, so can you please use that way, whatever it is, during all our future practices?'
'Yeah. It always hit me on my face.'
'Hey, when she use it, trust me, you'd wish she hadn't!' James laughed. They looked on oddly at them but shrug it off and began praticing. Before they start, Lily had to hold them back to discuss their strategies (she'd completely forgotten them all).
'But Milicent Dork is taking this section, so Droville'll be good against her!' Lily insisted.
'But see, the latest information I'd gathered is that Milicent'll be on the right, not left. And right happened to be James' side,' Terrykinns explained.
'No! Milicent will definitely be on the left. Droville can keep her off, I'm sure of it. Then Lucifer'll be on the left. I can switch with James, so that I can tackle him easily. He's their main attacker and if either James or I can keep him off, Slytherin'll lay flat!'
'Lily?'
'Yes?'
'Have you been spying on them?'
'Billy! She doesn't have to! She has-' Sirius was quickly muffled by James.
'Has what?'
'Uh, nothing. Let's just listen to her plan, okay?'
'And then if we leave Kat to attack the Chasers-'
'No. Sirius will do that.'
'Sorry, but we need Sirius to attack Lylaster. She has something against girls these days, and if Kat goes off attacking her, she'll end up in the Hospital Wing.'
After another fifteen minutes of discussion, they stared at their plan. The Marauders were up front with Droville to score and Terrykinns was to do the Fleint every time the Slytherins almost scored. They figured out that it'll distract them for a moment and give the Gryffindor Chasers a chance to grab the Quaffle.
'It's a little confusing, but I reckon Lily's right. We'll stick to this unless the Slytherins decided to change their plans,' Terrykinns said, shaking his head. The others nodded as they kicked off into the blue sky to begin their practice. Terrykinns insisted that they practice everyday until the faithful Quidditch match for Gryffindor and Slytherin.
'Slytherin had beaten the Hufflepuffs flat. If we idle, they'll get the cup! Ravenclaw's been getting the cup for three years now, and the Hufflepuff has it three years ago. We have to buck up if we want it,' Catherine said solemnly. Immediately, everyone placed a vow to win the Quidditch cup. After half an hour of practice, Remus came down looking tired. He cheered them on everytime any of them did a spectacular move, noting everything down into his notebook. He, although not in the team, was suppose to note down each spectacular moves any of the team members had made so they can all learn them.
Remus was busily scribbling onto that notebook when he heard a squeak behind him. He sighed. Pettigrew. This had been the fifteenth time he'd came to the Quidditch field whenever the Gryffindor practices, no doubt to spy on them.
'Buzz off Pettigrew. Unless you want my quill in your nose, you'd better run off quick. I daresay Lily will use a Memory Charm on you, since she's heading this way,' Remus said, pointing at Lily, who was advancing towards them on her Butterfly. Pettigrew squealed, and without another word, left as quickly as he can.
'Who was that?' Lily asked, picking up her water from beside Remus.
'Pettigrew. Spying again.'
'Oh, him. Well, I wouldn't mind as I'll use a memory charm at him.'
'He just ran off.'
Lily drew her wand and pointed at the running boy who was at the other end. 'Oblivate.' He sat down suddenly, dazed.
'Lily! Aren't you coming again?' James called. Lily swung quickly and flew straight up.
'Pettigrew. Just sent him off with a memory charm. I think I sorta modified it, too, but I'm not that convince with that part. Modifying memories can be quite hard.'
'Who cares? You're a Pyschic, so you can tell what's on their minds. That's how you got us our strategy.'
'Well, then again, my powers are limited. I can't really control them yet and Lotus isn't back. I bet Petty poisoned her,' Lily grumbled as she reached out to snatch the Quaffle before scoring it into a hoop.
'Nah! Lotus' too smart for her. I thought Petty's at school.'
'Of course she is. And Petty? She has measles. Stayed back after Christmas. She's faking it though.'
James snorted, avoiding a stray Bludger with Catherine sweeping after it. 'Hey, watch it!'
Catherine grinned. 'Sorry, can't help it.'
James shook it off. After talking to Lily to assure Lotus is still fine and alive, the two went back to chasing after the Quaffle and scoring the red ball into the hoops. Terrykinns called them off after another hour and they settled for another chat with Remus, who was explaining on the moves and everything.
'POTTER, EVANS, BLACK! WHO ALLOWED YOU OFF FROM DETENTION!' Minerva McGonagall's usual screech echoed in the Quidditch pitch as the witch stomped into the field, red in face.
'Good morning, Professor. I let them off for a while as we had to practice for the oncoming Quidditch game,' Catherine explained politely. For a new troublemaker, she is falling real down, Lily said to herself, mentally shaking her head in disappointment. This year, Catherine Forgerys and Terrykinns Splatter had taken to follow in the previous Head Boy and Head Girl's hobby: Trouble Making.
'No, Kat. The way to response to her is "Minnie, we sneaked them off for practices"!' James corrected the sixth-year.
'Huh? Oh, okay,' Catherine pulled out a small notebook and opened to the middle page before penning down what James had just said. She thought a bit. 'Why Minnie?'
'It sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Minnie McGonagall,' Sirius said smirking at the teacher, who turned, if possible, even redder and Lily swore she saw steam coming from their Transfiguration teacher's ears.
'Forgerys, I will not have you speak impolitely to me. Detention!' McGonagall screamed. She was already boiling when she found James, Lily and Sirius skipping detention. Before that, she had woken up in water. The Marauders had somehow used a water spell and had decided to drown her that morning. The professor now had a bad cold (it's February, and swimming in February isn't exactly her type) and an awful time cleaning all the mess.
'Take it light-heartedly, Kat. She's out of detentions already,' Remus said easily.
'Yep! She'd tried all sorts, including sending us to the Forest,' Sirius said proudly.
'Thanks to you. You were always the one to be seen and everytime she sees you caught playing a prank, she automatically suspects us,' Lily muttered under her breath. 'We're suppose to stop our detentions, or your mom'll starve you. Come to think of it, maybe we should let her starve you.'
'Hey! You know I can't pass a day without eating!'
'Yes, very. That's why I want her to do that. That way, we can get as many detentions as we like again.'
'You're blaming me?'
'That's right.'
'But like James had said, it's more professional to not get detentions when we play a prank!'
'Yes, but what's the point?'
'To annoy Snape, Filch and Mrs Norris.'
'Oh, yeah. I forgot about them. Oh well, at least all's not wasted.'
'Everyone! DETENTION!' McGonagall screamed again. Terrykinns, Billy and Droville looked alarm.
'But professor-'
'Detention. Scrubbing all the hallways everyday of this week! And I will personally speak to Madam Hooch about suspending your practices for a week!!!' the professor continued.
The Gryffindor team looked disappointedly at the Marauders.
'Uh, oops?' Lily said sheepishly.
'We didn't mean it. If you want, we can do all of it for you,' Remus offered.
'Nah. Dad'll kill me if I leave a detention at another student,' Billy said, shivering at the thought.
'We didn't mean to pull you on with us,' James said sincerely. Sirius whooped happily in a happy yet sad tone. Happy for getting a detention, sad for afraid of being starved.
'The practice! What about them?' Terrykinns moaned sadly.
'Well, I just found a spell. It's really good as it makes duplicates of us and we can order it to do anything!' Lily said happily.
'Oh, really? Where did you find it?' Droville asked dryly, grumbling at the thought of getting a detention.
'Is there even one?' Catherine asked pensively. 'I didn't even know, but if there is, don't you think we'll be learning it already?'
'You can confirm your thoughts, Kat. There isn't even such spell,' Terrykinns said firmly. 'Or is there…?'
'Great. I can practice Quidditch here and send my duplicated self – which'll be something like a doll – to do my detention. I wish you all the fun for doing it,' Lily said happily as she skipped off. James, Remus and Sirius ran after her, no doubt to find out the spell.
'Do you think she's in a right state of mind?' Catherine asked, turning to Terrykinns, who shrugged.
'I don't know, but so far, I'd come up with a no. Does she knows that she'll be having exams soon? They seemed to be playing around most of the time.'
**
'Lily!' James called out to the flying red hair as it turned around the corner. The boys breathed heavily. Lily can run quickly and swiftly, and they can barely catch up with her. 'Lily Evans! Come back here!' Sirius called, panting heavily. 'She'll never come,' Remus said as he dropped down to breathe, clutching hard at his lungs. Two huge, green eyes grinned mischievously at them as Lily's red fringe fell neatly before her forehead. She was not having difficulties in breathing, unlike the boys.
'Yes?'
'What was it –huff– you were –huff– saying about –huff– duplicating?' Remus panted.
'Hey, calm it! Yes, I found a spell for duplicating when you guys were asleep in bed. I was bored, so I thought I'd read the books in the common room,' – Sirius snorted. Lily'd read anything – 'and I came across this spell. It says that the duplicate will be like you and everything, but it's not living 'cause it's a doll.'
'A doll?'
'Yeah. You can order it however you like, but you must vanish it before the sun sets.'
'Wow! Cool, Li! What's the spell?'
'It's kinda hard, and I took a whole night to learn it.'
'You? Hard? If it takes you a night to learn it, it'll take me a day,' Sirius said in disbelieve.
'It's actually the hand gesture that's hard. Wanna see a sample?' They nodded. Lily led them into Moaning Myrtle's cubicle, frightened the ghost, and shut the door behind her.
Lily then turned her hands and twirled her wand neatly between her fingers before doing a wiggle and whispering Duplicatus, pointing the wand at herself. Soon, the boys saw two Lily. Sirius gaped.
'How? What happened? Which one's real?'
'I think this is, isn't it?' James said, pointing to the left Lily.
'Yeah, you're right. We look same, don't we? Except for the color. She's a little darker than I am, and that is what shows the difference,' Lily said, grinning even broader.
'Wow. It's amazing! How did you return it back?' Remus asked as he peered curiously at the Lily-doll.
'That's simple. Unosus,' Lily said as she pointed at the doll. It vanished. 'And now, I can practice Quidditch when the rest of you can't!' the girl said smugly as she walked out of the cubicle. Myrtle glared bitterly at her, ready to cry as she glided back into the toilet. Sure enough, tears came flooding after the four left.
'She'll never change,' Lily said with a sigh.
'Who does?' James asked.
'Everyone but us?'
'Maybe.'
'Oh, and about Snape after the Quidditch match…'
'Plan A done,' Lily replied.
'Plan B accomplished,' James said, grinning happily.
'Plan C – uh, I fell asleep,' Sirius said sheepishly. They groaned. 'Sirius!'
'I couldn't help it!'
'Maybe no.'
'Plan D?'
'All set. But I need Si's help,' Remus said worriedly.
'I'm ready to help-'
'Oh no you don't! You're to finish your part of the project first!' Lily said, pulling him back. He sulked angrily.
'Stay that way, Si! Then when the wind changed, you'll stay in that face forever,' James said jokingly. Sirius immediately pulled it back again.
'Remus, you'll have to do it on your own. The new password's Thornhead,' Lily said, turning to him.
'Where'd you get them anyway? The girl refuses to tell me the new one,' Sirius asked sulkily.
'I'm smart, Si. See, I always walk about the Slytherin dungeons because of my potions. You know I'm hopeless at it.'
'Yeah, and you collect information at the same time. Interesting. Maybe I should try it too,' Sirius said as he wandered off, thinking and muttering.
'Come back, Sirius! You'd to work on Plan C!' James called. The boy went on. 'Oh well. Wanna finish our potions essay?'
'Sure. Remus and Sirius gone to finish their part. What about these Rabbies anyway?'
James and Lily walked towards the Gryffindor common room, discussing about the Rabby potion and their essays.
The next morning found eight Gryffindors working hard, scrubbing the Gryffindor hallways. Catherine, Terrykinns, Droville, Billy and the famous Marauders. They were working hard for a moment when Catherine got tired of it, threw her toothpick with little hairs attached to it, onto the floor.
'Lily?' she said as she turned to the girl behind her. She was working hard without a word and not even a mutter. This is strange. Usually, Lily will go on ranting about Quidditch and liven things up, Catherine said quietly to herself. She turned to James, Sirius and Remus, who were also working hard. Sirius, who spent half his time of detentions planting Dungbombs whenever he had the oppurtunity was strangely mute today. Catherine looked out of the window and nearly fainted with shock.
Outside, four shadowy firgures were flying merrily on their broomsticks. One with an ankle-long red hair, another with glasses, another with shoulder-length hair and a tired and pale looking boy. The Marauders.
'But how-?' Catherine managed to splutter before turning to the others who were behind her. Terrykinns was grumbling angrily, Droville and Billy were groaning about having a detention, but the four figures were mute, scrubbing hard at the floor.
'Lily? James? Sirius? Remus?' Catherine started weakly. No response from either of them. Deciding that she was dreaming, she turned out again. To her surprise, the four figures who were playing Quidditch themselves were hovering before her window, grinning hard at her face. Color drained from the girl's face. Was she seeing what she thought she was? Two of each of the Marauders?
Lily, James, Sirius and Remus flew in and landed gently on the hallway before walking to their clones and tapping them with their wands. Terrykinns, Catherine, Droville and Billy stared speechlessly at them. The four grinned happily and said their greetings. When the four mute Lily, James, Sirius and Remus vanished before their eyes, the three did one thing. They screamed loudly.
McGonagall came rushing towards the screams. Really, what could happen now?
When she entered the hallway, she saw Catherine, Terrykinns, Droville and Billy staring and screaming hard at Lily, James, Sirius and Remus, who quickly hid their brooms in a nearby closet and started scrubbing the floor.
'Forgerys, Splatter, Rammers, McMillan! What happened?' McGonagall demanded.
'D- dark m- magic! Two Lily, James, Sirius, Remus! Professor, there are two of them each just now!' Billy said, waving his hands franticly to show how anxious he was. His voice was quivering. The others nodded mutely as they stared hard at the Marauders.
'There, Minnie! We're all finished!' Lily said happily as she collected all the toothpicks and handed them over to the professor. She waved them off without a word, thinking hard at what Billy had said earlier.
The sixth and third years stared at the four second years they had their detentions with.
'Remus, you'd gotten over your fear of flying!'
'Congratulations! It'll be a waste if you hadn't! Hey Terry! Maybe we can have Remus as a reserve!'
Terrykinns nodded mutely.
'Boy, that was fun! Sirius, don't hit that Bludger at me anymore!'
'Hey, it was supposed to be a training! Besides, it strenghtens your reflexes!'
'Fine, I'll accept it this time.'
'Hey James, you caught that snitch pretty fast!'
'Well, Terry could've caught it better, couldn't you?'
'Maybe when they leave we can take over some of their places.'
'Hey! I prefer being a Chaser! Seekers are so boring, circling around until he sees the snitch!'
'Um, excuse me!' Catherine demanded.
'Yes, Kat?'
'Where'd you get the Bludgers, Snitch and Quaffles? We're not allowed to play Quidditch until the week ends, and Madam Hooch will not let them be taken without a teacher's permission,' Terrykinns said, clearing his throat.
'We didn't get it from her.'
'You stole it from her??' Billy asked, wide-eyed.
'No.'
'You borrowed it from her?' Droville asked, eyeing them.
'No.'
'Then where did you get them?'
'Uh… top secret.'
'Just like the many other things you'd done. Rumors are flying around, you know. Safe and sound from the Forest, tricking McGonagall before the school, knowing what'll come in the exams, knowing the Slytherin's strategy. They're all top secret too, aren't they?'
'Yes.'
'And how do you plead?'
'Look, you can't trick us into that, Kat.'
'Why not? You managed without a wand with McGonagall. The four of us are having our wands, pointing at you at the moment. How come it works for you and not us?'
Only then, did the four realized, that four wands were pointed in their direction. They gulped.
'You-Know-Who's supporters, aren't you? You're using dark arts to duplicate yourselves, didn't you?'
'Voldemort's supporters? That egoistic, show-off Voldemort's supporters? Are you nuts? Are we Gryffindors or not?' Lily asked furiously. They backed off slightly, flinching at the sound of the Dark Lord's name.
'W- well, why not? You made yourselves into two and the only one I knew who could do this is the Dark Lord himself! I checked at the Library, Lily Evans,' Billy said sourly.
That's dark magic? No wonder it was so complicated… Lily said to herself.
'What do you mean? We found that spell!' James retorted.
'You mean You-Know-Who taught it to you! No doubt, with four witch and wizards as clever as you are at the young age of twelve, You-Know-Who'll want you!' Catherine almost screamed.
'Why'd he want us?' Remus asked, clearly puzzled.
'My dad. He's an Auror. He says that You-Know-Who had somehow sensed high powers in the four of you,' Billy said, voice quivering.
'And you think we're as dumb as to go to his side?' Sirius rolled his eyes. 'Never even after my death.'
'Liars. I saw you all. You duplicated yourselves and that is Dark Magic,' Catherine whispered.
'And all your powers. Confunding McGonagall, safe from the Forest and knowing more than you look. They're all done with You-Know-Who's help, weren't they?' Billy said with a toneless voice.
'Look, say all you like but we have a Quidditch game here! Besides, which Gryffindor goes over to Voldemort?' James challenged.
'Yanna Justins. She went over to You-Know-Who straight after leaving Hogwarts. She's a death eater.'
'Oh, great. That must've been some stupid Gryffindor there. Okay, we need to explain this fast. How do you want us to prove it?' Lily asked. Maybe that's the best way, she said to herself, Let them think of a way and just show it to them!
'Can I see your wrists?' Billy asked suddenly. Puzzled, the four held out their wrists as the boy checked them, squinting hard. Finally, finding nothing he retreated and hug them with relief.
'At least you're not with him,' Billy said smiling.
'What? Why check our wrists?' Lily asked, puzzlement clearly written on her face.
'To see if you're a death eater,' Catherine responded.
'A what?'
'Voldemort's supporters,' James replied.
'Oh. And how will checking our wrists help?' Sirius squinted hard at his wrist for anything.
'Maybe they read blood-veins?' Remus suggested.
'Re, not everyone's into medicines! They don't know how to check! Have you ever lived with a muggle?'
They shook their heads.
'See?'
'Fine…'
'And how about practising now? As for the balls, they aren't exactly secret at all. It's ours.'
They cheered and went out to the Quidditch pitch on their brooms before starting another game.
**
'Hey Lily! I heard things today,' Tally said as the red hair stumbled into the room, tired but happy with the practice.
'Such as?'
'Well, they said that the Marauders were death eaters. Is that true?'
'No. Why did you ask? Who told you anyway?'
'Pertsy brought me the news. Some suspected you guys to be on You-Know-Who's side, with all your weirdness and all. You aren't, are you?'
'Nah! Never.'
'Mind if I check your wrist?'
'Not believing huh? Okay.' Lily held out her wrist the second time that day. 'Why do you people keep checking the wrists? It looked stupid!'
'Huh? Oh, it's because the Death Eaters,' Tally shivered, 'Have this mark on their wrists. That's why.'
'I see. Isn't that just plain stupid? The marks on wrist is just too silly 'cause everyone can see it.'
'Maybe You-Know-Who hasn't thought of this.'
'Whatever. I'm beaten. Sirius had tried hitting me with the Bludger countless of times today! It's so unfair!'
Tally laughed. 'Well, goodnight then.'
'Night!'
Lily lay back gratefully onto her bed before dropping into a deep sleep.
**
Lily, James, Sirius, Catherine, Terrykinns, Droville and Billy sat uncomfortably at the Gryffindor table. Today was the day they were waiting anxiously for and yet the day they dreaded to come. Whichever, they don't know. Lily fidgeted around her chair and Sirius started jumping nervously at his. James is staring mutely at a bowl of fruits when the Slytherin team walked in. The Slytherins burst into an applause as Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff glared at them, shooting uncountable daggers at the Slytherins.
'We'll beat you, you just wait, we'll beat you!' a Gryffindor first year said, standing up suddenly. The Gryffindor team smiled weakly at the boy. They don't have the courage to do that, but soon, Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws and Gryffindors had stood up to say the same thing, and that gave them the courage.
'Thanks,' Terrykinns muttered weakly to his friend beside him.
'Hey, cool it! We'll win them for sure,' Jenny and Harold said reassuringly to them. They gulped and nodded.
'Eat up! If you wanna win, you just have to. You need nutritions to go on and protein,' Remus said as he started taking half the food from the table and placing them on his friends' plate. Sirius stomach gave a growl. He smiled sheepishly as he started eating his food down, swallowing everything at top speed. Lily and James stared at him.
'You said you can't eat a thing.'
'With food as good as this? Lily, the food's fabulous today!'
'You ate the plate. I suppose it's food?'
'I ate everything but I never ate the pl- what? I ate the plate?!' Sirius shouted, frightening everyone. He stared before him. Sure enough, his plate was gone.
'See? I don't think glass is good for you, Si.'
'Why didn't anyone stop me? I might have an indigestion now!'
'You ate too quick. Hey, he's right! The food's good today! Give it a try, James!'
'Looking after your boyfriend, aren't you?'
'What boyfriend? Oh, yeah, why not?'
'Aha! Lily Evans, you'd just admitted that James is your boyfriend!'
'No I didn't, Si. James' a boy and he's a friend, so he's my boy friend! And so're you and Remus!'
'Old joke.'
'Well, it's true anyway. I'm a boy and I'm her friend. Admit it Si, she has her facts right.'
'Who cares? You both had better eat up everything!' Remus said as he shove everything into his other two friends' mouth before they could even breathe.
'Fefus, ftops fat fis finfan!!' Lily cried.
'Feah! Fuit! Fi fan't ftant fit fmuh fonger fand fy fouth fis fuff!!' James cried, or tried to. Remus and Sirius are too busy pushing food down their throat. When they could fit anything in anymore, Remus performed a spell so the food goes down automatically and the two started stuffing their friends again.
Everyone watched the four second years in amazement.
At last, Lily gave it up and splutter everything off. 'Stop it! I'm already full with that food and my stomach isn't as bottomless as Sirius'!'
James coughed everything off, too.
'Enough already!! We have limits you know!'
'Like me? Nah, I doubt it!' Sirius grinned.
'Uh, I trust we've to change now,' Catherine said, tapping Lily, James and Sirius.
'But why?' they had completely forgotten all about the match. Catherine groaned. Can we win this match?
'The. Quiddittch. Match,' she explained slowly. They look puzzled at it. When it all sank into their brains, they jumped and ran straight off to change. 'Will we ever win?' Catherine asked Terrykinns, who was looking quite green. He shake his head. 'Oh well, might as well try.'
'Team, we'd better win this game, okay? We just have to. Everyone out there – except the snakes – are rooting for us,' Terrykinns said as he pulled at his sleeve.
'Who wouldn't want to win?' James muttered.
'So we have better work hard and try our best out there. You remembered our plans and everything, don't you? Work on it. Sirius, try to keep on target. Kat? You'd to help our Chasers here,' Terrykinns said gloomily.
'Hey, spice up! We need confidence!' Sirius said as he patted their captain.
'Yep! And you'll love our way of spicing up!' Lily said grinning, a spark of miscief in her green eyes.
'How? Paint the Slytherins' robes with doodles?' Droville muttered.
'Maybe,' James said, brightening up.
'Let's just try our best, okay?' Terrykinns say as they went to the stadium.
Remus offered to be the commentator, since Greanut Toaster, the usual commentator, was lying sick at the Hospital Wing.
'Now, let's look at Gryffindor's new – uh, not really – team! Splatter, Forgerys, Black, Potter, Evans, Rammers aaaannndd McMillan!!' Remus cried happily from the box, his voice magnified loudly as it echoed around the stadium. The Gryffindor team bowed low as the crowd cheered and whistled loudly at them.
'Let's give a boo – I mean a clap to the Snakes – uh, Slytherin – team! Greathead – uh, Gratshead – Yowler – no, I mean it's Yowlt – Snake – sorry, Snape – Forgerys, Framer – oops! It was Framester – Dork and Liar – no. Lylaster,' Remus said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. Everyone booed loudly, but the Slytherins cheered, to no avail. Three houses against one isn't exactly good. Soon, everyone started laughing, for behind the Slytherins' green robes were doodles and shimering gold words which read "Gryffindors rules and Gryffindor'll win!"
'Kat, you have a brother in Slytherin?' Lily asked in disbelief when she see Lucifer Forgerys from Slytherin kicking sand at Framester.
'Sad, but true. He's leaving next year, so luck for me.'
Lily nodded, looking at Lucifer. He was different from his sister, just like how she and Petunia were. But Petunia hadn't been Lily's real sister. Lucifer is dark, mean-looking, raven haired and tall, which is a complete opposite to Catherine, who was slightly tanned from being under the sun, cheerful, blonde and fairly tall. Lily preferred Catherine than her brother.
'And now that we'd known our wonderful teams, I present Hooch the Pooch! Wait, no Minnie!! Sorry!!' Remus called cowering from McGonagall's glare.
Madam Hooch scowled at Remus, but held tight onto her whistle.
'On your mark, get set, go!'
Fourteen students flew up into the air on their broomsticks. Remus commentated up on the commentating box.
'And it's Evans, Framer – look at the Bludger, Kat! Good job there! – Potter, Forgerys, Evans again and she scored! It's 10-0 for Gryffindor!' Remus jumped as everyone cheered at the stands. The Slytherins looked sulkily at them.
'Look how the Bludger flew! Snake hit it from Framer to Dork-girl, who evaded it. the Quaffle's at the hands of Rammers, Potter, Rammers again, Evans, Potter again, and Rammers scores! 20-0 favor to Gryffindor!
'Dork-girl now has the Quaffle, Framer, Forgerys, Rammers, Forgerys aaaaaand – had Splatter seen the Golden Snitch? He must have as he's diving down!'
The Slytherin Chasers stopped to watch as Lylasters flew after Terrykinns, closely behind his broom. Milicent Dork squealed when the two were about to crash, but Terrykinns turned straight off, causing the other Seeker to fall flat on his face. Cheers and applause errupted from the audience.
'Count youself lucky today! That was the famous Fleint!! Congratulations Terry! You pulled it well! And Potter scores!! 30-0 for Gryffindor!' Remus said, jumping excitedly.
Lily turned her eyes to Terrykinns, whom which Lylaster was following closely. Silently, she tried sending a telepathic message to him. He glanced down at her before nodding and grinning, doing a small thumbs-up. She smiled. It got to him.
'And why is Splatters deciding to dive again? Oh, I see the Snitch just before Evans! Is that where Splatters is heading to? No! he is heading towards the other side of the field! Terry!!! It's before Lily!!! Oh no! Lylaster had seen it and she's diving for it! Terry, turn baack!! Back!!!!! Back!!!!! Baaaaaaack!!!!!!! TO LIIIIIIIILLYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Remus screamed, making his loud voice even louder. Screams were heard from the stands and as soon as Lylaster neared Lily, who had just scored another goal, making it 80-10 for Gryffindor.
Catherine quickly hit a stray Bludger towards Lylaster, who dodged it neatly before reaching out to grab the little fluttering ball. Everyone gasped and silenced as Lylaster grinned to herself and grabbed the Snitch. She'd won the match for Slytherin. Only one problem. Lily was grinning at her before dashing off, laughing at the Seeker's face. Lylaster glared at her. What did it matter now? She'd caught the Snitch. Lylaster looked at her right hand, which held the Snitch. Another problem. It wasn't there anymore. Furious, she turned to where Terrykinns is. He held up his hand with pride and joy. A little gold ball clasped in his hands.
'AND HE CAUGHT THE SNITCH!!!!!!!!' Remus screamed excitedly as everyone burst into a louder cheer. Applause and cheers for Gryffindor, who'd won the Quidditch match against the Slytherins.
'It's 230-10 for Gryffindor! A roar for the lions!' Remus said happily as everyone started to roar for the lions. Lily, James and Sirius flew up to Remus.
'Hey, how'd it go?' James started.
'You guys are fabulous! I wonder how the snitch managed to go from Lily all the way to the other end of the field though,' Remus said, whispering the spell to unmagnify his voice.
'Heck, yeah! And I thought that the Slytherins won!' Sirius said, worried for a second.
'Well, I sorta project it. A few days ago, mom told me I can play tricks with mind. I played with yours and when you said it, Lylasters only knew it was there. In her midst of excitement, she didn't bother looking,' Lily said, grinning.
'You've loads of talents, girl, loads of them,' Remus said, shaking his head.
Snape stared sourly at the Marauders as they were chatting with Remus. Spying a stray Bludger, he hit it hard towards them.
'Hey Lily! Watch out!' Remus cried, alarmed, when he saw the Bludger shooting towards the red head. Lily casually waved her hand. 'Whatever for?'
'That Bludger-' he started. The Bludger didn't hit Lily. Instead, it changed course and shoot itself towards Snape, who got hitten by it instead.
'Why'd it change course suddenly?' Remus asked, puzzled.
'Lily's spell on her hair,' James said, shaking it off. 'She put a spell on it to prevent anyone touching it. remember when Dork tried to pull it? She can't reach it. Since Li's hair's behind her and that Bludger tried to hit it, the spell sorta reactivate and repel it off. When I told her it was a cheat, she says Snape cheated too,' James said, pulling Snape over and tapped at his chest. A loud clunk was heard. Snape had put a metal against his chest so he wouldn't be hurt whenever a Bludger hit him. James sent Snape off with a simple hex.
'Not only that, all of the Slytherins had used those metals too. Notice why I aimed for their head?' Sirius said angrily.
Remus nodded before gesturing them to the common room. 'There's a party there. I got those elves to make it,' Remus said smiling happily at his brilliance. Sirius rubbed his tummy hungrily and smacked his lips.
On their way, they met Snape. The boy was about to place a hex on the Marauders when Tally came bounding over, remembering the promise she had made to Lily.
'Hey guys!' Tally said as she ran over to Lily.
'Hiya Tal! See it? We won!' Lily said, dancing happily with her friend. Tally just laughed at her.
'You're so immature! Isn't it time you stop being childish?'
'Am I ever childish? Thanks!' Lily said, hugging her friend tightly before whispering, 'Snape's about to hex us and I'm not having my wand.'
Muttering, Snape left them. The five went to the common room, where the party had started. The rest of the team were already there, partying happily at their success.
'We'd won!' Catherine said happily, conjuring confettis all over.
'We won those snakes! Hurrah! Joy to Gryffindor!' Sirius said, bouncing happily to the table where the food stood innocently. Sirius gobbled them up, innocent or not.
'And you call me childish and immature,' Lily said, laughing to Tally.
'You are anyway. Why'd Snape try to curse you?'
'Something about a Bludger. Thanks for showing up.'
'Why'd he stop when he see me?'
'He's a crush on you.'
'He WHAT?!'
'He's a crush on you.'
'God… I'm dead.'
'Why not? You're not dead yet. You're alive and breathing.'
'I hate that snake.'
'So did every other Gryffindor.'
'Who cares? He hasn't a crush on them.'
'Point taken.'
Lily took a large helping of a blackcurrant pudding. Tally just stared at the food, wide-eyed.
'Eat up. Why stare?'
'Another question, Lil.'
'I'm not answering any question now.' Lily quickly run to James, who was inspecting his drumstick, which somehow seem to have some feathers. Tally shrug the question off. She'll ask Lily later. She turn to see Lily, who was talking with James about his feathered chicken drumstick. Sirius bounced over to her, followed by a grinning Remus.
'Hey Tally!!' they greeted. Tally returned the greeting and went back to look at her friend. James and her were both laughing cheerfully, probably because of the joke Lily made because of the feathered drumstick. Sirius followed her gaze at her friend.
'Why? Had a crush on James?' Sirius asked grinning.
'Never. I don't want to even like him although he's cute,' Tally replied, taking a bite at her watermelon.
'Then why stare at them?' Remus asked.
'They're cute.'
'You think so too?'
'Who wouldn't?'
'The other girls?'
'Well, you're cute too, Si, Re.'
'Thanks. We know we are. Half the girls are goggling their eyes at us and we're only second years.'
'Well, you guys are. And Lily's a pretty one. Any of you had a crush on her?'
'James?'
'He likes her as a brother, Lily told me.'
'She likes him as a sister, James said. We don't care. Don't they look cute?'
'Lily Potter sounds good, too.'
'At least not Tally Snape. Li says that snake has a crush on me.'
'She told you? Well, still, he did.'
'I hate this… I'm dead.'
'You look pretty well to me. Breathing, pulse beating…'
'You guys are sick. Why do you all say the same?'
'Cause we are sick.'
'Why'm I even talking to you? I might go crazy. At least Lily has some sense…'
Tally walked off to the dorm. Lily and James soon skipped over with a plateful of Grubby Macaroni. Laughing at something.
'Hey Si! Try one! We just got it from the kitchens!' Lily offered, holding the plate to her friend. Sirius took it and popped it into his mouth without a word.
'Want one, Remus?' James asked, pushing the plate to his friend. Remus shook his head. The two ran off to offer the Grubby Macaroni to everyone else. They pestered Remus to take one, and after five minutes, he took it reluctantly.
'Where's Tal?'
'Went to her dorm.'
'How'd you know, Jam?'
'Stop calling me Jam, okay?'
'Fine, Jam.'
'Stop it.'
'Then? You need a name. How about Jimmy?'
'Sounds like a girl. I think I'd stick with Jam, thank you very much.'
Lily checked her watch, which said 'It's Time!'. She turned to grin at James, who grinned back at her. James took out a mini camera and adjusted it so it would take the whole of the common room and snaped the photo. Smiling happily, they waited for the photo to develop.
'We'll make an extra big one and I'll keep the negative, okay?' Lily said, pocketing the negative.
'Sure. Sirius'll search me for it to burn anyway,' James said when the photo came to view.
'And a drop of this potion,' Lily said, taking out a small bottle and unscrew its cap. She let a drop of it fall onto the picture, making it move. She took her wand and perform a spell so that sounds will be heard from the picture. Grinning happily, she framed the photo up and got a ladder to hang it at the common room. Everyone crowded around her to see what is hidden behind the cloth (they wrapped it up) and hung it at a wall. It took almost all of the huge wall and when James pulled the cloth down, everyone laughed in amazement.
For on the photo, is a whole lot of hens and cocks in the Gryffindor common room, all eating and drinking and some playing chasey.
'Where'd you get it? We don't have chickens in our common room,' a seventh year asked.
'Yeah. And which spell you used?' a first year asked, interested.
'Why is it dated today?' Sita asked when she read the date Lily painted.
The two couldn't take it much longer. They burst out laughing helplessly, rolling on the floor and clutching hard at their stomachs. Everyone looked at them in puzzle.
'Hey, what happened?' Sirius asked, poking the two.
'Why're there chickens in the common room? They're eating and drinking. How'd you do that?' Remus asked. Just then, Tally walked down the stairs, deciding to join in the party. She took one look at the picture and started laughing.
'Gosh! When did that picture come? It wasn't here before!' the girl said, laughing as she raced down to look at the big picture.
'No, it wasn't. Lily and James just put it up,' Molly, another seventh year, replied.
'You- you- you,' Lily laughed again before she finished.
'Answer us, nitwit!' Sirius demanded, hitting them on the head.
'Grubby Macaronis,' James said as the two pulled themselves up and ran to their dorm before anyone can fire them with the questions.
'Huh? What macaroni? I didn't see any,' Tally looked at them.
'What's with the macaronis? They're good,' Sirius said looking around to find the bowl of macaronis.
Everyone was still looking at the picture, puzzled. Five minutes after, the picture burst, revealing two students, grinning at them. Lily and James.
'Hey everyone! That was a good picture, wasn't it? How did it feel like to be a chicken?' Lily said good naturedly.
'I bet you love it, don't you? Well, we hoped you enjoy being chickens!' James said happily. The two of the waved at everyone and the picture burst again, vanishing into thin air. The Gryffindors stared at the empty wall before them, puzzled. Suddenly, everything they had said, the picture and what the projectors of the two Marauders made sense to Remus.
'Find the Grubby Macaronis,' Remus ordered. Soon, everyone were looking for the bowl Lily and James passed over. Catherine found them. Without a word, Remus pushed a spoonful of it into Tally's mouth. Everyone watched the blonde for twenty minutes. Soon, she grew a beak, feathers and she started clucking around like a hen. Five minutes later, she returned, looking quite daze.
'What? Why's everyone staring at me?' Tally asked.
Everything went into Remus' quick mind. He moaned.
'Lily and James used a Memory charm and this chicken changing potion on this macaronis and fed it to us! After we turned into chickens, we forget what happened at the time we turned into chickens!'
'Trust those two to think of something this ingenius,' Sirius mumbled. Before anyone else had a chance to question Remus, the two ran off.
'What happened?' Tally asked herself, trying to think.
'You remember growing feathers?' Sita asked.
'Feathers? Oh no – wait. So that's what they were talking about! No wonder they were grinning at us and laughing their heads off!!' Tally said, remembering when Lily and James were talking after she'd tried to question Lily.
'Sorry?'
'Nothing, Sita, nothing.'
Sita walked away and Tally ran up to her dorm, determined to find out that spell to use on Snape.
AN: Sounds too silly, doesn't it? Well, I'm never one to write a properly serious fic (are you thankful or dull? I wonder…), so it won't bother me much. I'm not too good at writing the Quidditch part (aren't you glad?), so I thought I'd stuff some other things along with it ^_^ don't get too mad! By the way, tell me if you like this part okay? Else, I'll turn everyone into chickens [j/k]! review!