The Marauding Five - Year Four

AN: Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the lateness of this chapter. So… sorry!!! You see, the reason was really, really simple and hopefully, acceptable: My Computer Broke Down. Isn't it just stupendous, to break down as soon as I finished typing up Chapter 6? Har har. And me [being me], kicked it and it flew out of the window [whoo!!! Maybe my legs are super…?]. Anywayz, I'll cut that boring story short. The hard drive failed on me, deleted this chapter and hasta la vista! It went black! I got it back [the hard drive, mind, since the story was gone] already, by the time you read this [ahem. I AM retyping on it now!] One good thing about this though, I get a new and nicer to use keyboard ^^ and guess what? They formatted everything in here, so bye-bye to my AIM, ICQ and MSN, meaning I have to download everything all over.

Me? Improve my writing? Well, I got only 80% for my last English test… they made my test standard higher than ever and I'm suffering even more. And plot? What plot? What does plot mean anyway? I don't write by any plots! If anyone can explain what on earth IS a plot, fifteen galleons. I need to know, since this friend of mine thought I was pretending when I said I don't know what a plot is. So basically, she wouldn't answer me… and NO! I am NOT kidding!

Let's see… the previous chapter was written when I was having a dreadful pain in head. You can kill me if you're in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. See, I'm even giving you a chance to murder me before this story finishes! I'll give you even my school if you so much wanted to strangle me after this.

Thousands of thanks to everyone who had reviewed for my past chapters! You are the most bestest [is it a word? It sounds cute!] people in the whole wide world!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: If you're new to fanfiction, welcome to the crowd. This is not mine, so don't repeat what my friend Yasmine did. She started ranting about all the responsibilities I have to do and all. My ears are red…

The Marauding Five : Year Four

Chapter 6: The Potion In The Shack

News soon spread like fire the next day about Lily and Lord Voldemort. Fortunately for Lily, James, and for some reasons, Sirius, Remus and Adele, nothing in the news had anything about how the curse was broken.

'You'd better be thankful nothing of that leaked out,' Lily warned. Sirius nodded meekly. Adele and Remus had made numerous copies of photos and tapes, just in case Lily and James took the originals and burn then into ashes.

'Cross your heart and hope to die. You know we know you too long,' James said, looming scarily before the frightened boy. Sirius gulped and began sweating nervously under Lily and James's death glare.

'Uh, cross my heart and hope to live,' Sirius stammered nervously.

'Die!' Lily snapped.

'What?! I? Die now??? You've got to be kidding, girl!' Sirius shot.

'No! That promise, you dolt!' Remus hissed. Sirius rolled his eyes.

'Fine. Cross my neck and hope to die,' Sirius said.

'Cross your HEART!' James said.

'Okay, okay!! Hit my heart and hope to die. Happy now?'

'Sirius…'

'Ulp! Uh, cross my heart and, uh, hope to die, right?' Sirius said nervously, noticing a wand in James's right hand.

'Maybe we'll leave him for now, kay?' Adele said, stepping out. Lily turned murderously to her.

'And you! Give me that tape!' Lily demanded.

'We bombed it,' Remus said.

'The negative, Mr Photographer?' James said.

'Ah… eh… er… erm…' Remus fidgeted.

'Now, Remus.' Sighing in defeat, Remus handed James the precious roll of film. Lily burnt it into white ashes before their very eyes.

'Nooo!' Sirius wailed.

'What's the fuss?' Tally asked, walking into the common room. Remus pointed sadly at the pile of ash.

'Your film again? What's in it this time?' Nina asked. Adele jabbed a finger at Lily and James.

'Don't you guys ever get bored?' Sita asked.

'Bored? Bored? They? Get bored? Of this?' James yelled, spitting some saliva in process.

'I am not interested in cleaning that up,' Lily said plainly, 'And you are bored, aren't you?' That was their second chance.

'Nope! Never bored, never will!' Remus, Sirius and Adele chirped. The three of them were soon tangled into a "Lily and James versus Remus, Sirius and Adele Fighting Match".

'You'd better knock out of it then,' James advised, dusting his hands haughtily. 'I'm just like Uncle William now.'

'Huh? What?' Remus said dizzily.

'RAAAH!!!!' Sirius yelled, jumping out and attacking James. James pointed a finger at him and Sirius was floating in the air. He fell down in a second.

'Ow!' Sirius cried.

'Tsk! Tsk! You need more training,' Lily tutted sadly.

'Kids!!!!' Rose, Yvonne, Melissa and Anne called from the portrait hole.

'Marauders!! It's Marauders!' they chorused in annoyance.

'Whatever,' Anne said, brushing it off.

'No! It's Marauder, not Whatever. M-A-R-A-U-D-E-R. Get it? Good,' Sirius said.

'And kids? Seriously, we're fourteen! Or at least, am going to be,' Lily said, adding the last part after some thought.

'You'll be going to Hogsmeade! Today!' Rose jumped, skipping in.

'Really? Why?' James asked.

'Oh, it's Sunday and you wanna stay? Tch, tch! Kids these days…' Yvonne tutted.

'Hey, watch who's talking!'

'Dumbledore let you out,' Melissa said. 'Let's go!!!'

'Mom, you're embarrassing me!' Sirius wailed, covering his face in shame.

'Hah! Like you even know what that means,' Melissa replied tauntingly.

'Yeah, I know what it means. Mothers don't act that way all the time,' Sirius muttered to the group.

'To Hogsmeade we will go… to Hogsmeade we will go… Hie ho the dally o to Hogsmeade we will go!' the four mothers sang. Lily, James, Sirius and Remus slapped their hands to their faces as Adele and the others giggled at them.

'I wish mom was here,' Adele said with a sigh.

'Who?' Anne asked.

'Mom. Celine Varens.'

'Celine! But she is here!' Rose laughed.

'Really? Where?' Adele said, looking around eagerly.

'Is it "Trappeltime"?' a voice asked outside.

'No, no! And I couldn't let you in without a password!' the Fat Lady said.

'Aaw… why not? Please? Is it "Gadding Ghouls?'

'Naw!'

'"Porcupine Tatters"?'

'Lady, you don't have the password!'

'"Peppermint"!'

'No, no!'

'Mom!' Adele cried.

'Argh! Lemme in you stupid painting, whatever your name is!'

'No, no, no!'

'Now she's embarrassing me,' Adele muttered. A tip-tapping of quick footsteps walked swiftly by.

'Uh-oh! Minnie's here!' Remus said.

'Deletrius!' the same voice cried. 'Trouping Trappels!'

The portrait swung open reluctantly and in came a young lady with raven black hair and twinkling blue eyes.

'Mom!' Adele cried, running forward.

'Sorry. That was my other side there. Been a little too wild these days,' Celine Varens said, fondly ruffling Adele's hair. She had pale skin, just like Adele. Adele's eyes were the only difference between the two of them. Hers is a mysteriously deep violet shade but Celine's were blue and laughing.

'Ah, Celine! Now how do you do?' Melissa said, sticking a hand. 'This is our first meeting I assume?' Sirius snorted. His mother's thick British accent was ridiculous.

'Ah, Melissa! No, this is not the first time, so drop that ridiculously ridiculous act,' Celine replied, rolling her eyes.

'What does your mom mean by "other side"?' Lily whispered to Adele.

'Oh, she has two different personalities. This potion she made when she was young was the cause of it. One of it is a total fraud, of course. She had to keep deleting it, but it always appear again after a week. Guess that should teach us not to mess with potions, huh?' Adele said. Lily nodded. She didn't quite understand it, but she didn't care much anyway.

'So how's little Lily?' Celine asked, turning to the redhead.

'Oh, really nice, prim and proper. Not to mention feeling evil at the moment,' Lily said politely, curtsying a little. Tally forced herself to swallow the giggle that threatened to spill.

'That's good. Speaking of Hogsmeade, Gram asked me to get something… er… oops, I forgot,' Celine grinned sheepishly.

'Lily, why not you guess what it is?' Rose asked.

Lily, however, wasn't paying her mother any attention. She was playing Gobstones with the rest of the Marauders. The others girls had left, feeling that they'd burst out laughing if they stay any longer. When Rose had asked the question, Lily ducked the flying liquid (she answered wrongly). It flew on and…

Hit Rose flat on her face.

'LILY ROSE EVANS!!! HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO ME, YOUNG LADY???' Rose yelled, her voice magically louder than usual.

'Sorry mom! Didn't mean to! Honest! D'you know what's the answer to "Jumping Beanstalks"?' Lily asked.

'Grr…' Rose said, fire burning in her eyes.

'Uh-oh! Your eyes are burning!' Yvonne said.

The next second found Lily dancing around the common room to avoid being stabbed by the daggers Rose shot at her. Everyone watched them in amusement, the Gobstones forgotten. Lily ran left… then right… then left… then right… left. Right. Left. Right.

'Igneus!' Lily called suddenly and a huge fireball chased after Rose. Rose dodge it and it flew straight at their spectators, roasting them up.

Remus coughed. 'Lily!!'

'Uh, it was for mom! Sorry!' Lily said sheepishly. They were all jumping and trying to run from the fire on their robes.

'Seadra!' Adele cried. Her forehead marking flashed for an instance and in a second, a huge wave loomed over the whole common room.

'Adele!!!!! Not seadra!!!!! It's hydra!!!' Lily yelled as the currants swept them ferociously.

'How would you know?' Adele called back.

'I helped you, dumbo!'

'Uh, nothing says about getting rid of these, does it?' Adele said, worried.

'Help!!! I can't swim!!!' Sirius yelled. Melissa swam to her son.

'What use are those swimming lessons then?' Melissa scolded, hitting Sirius.

'Yow! Me and my big mouth,' Sirius muttered.

'First time you say that!' James laughed.

'Guastos suos!' Celine cried, brandishing her wand fiercely. The waves slowed down and everything was under control.

Or so they thought.

A fierce storm had taken over.

'Aunt Celine! You can't use wand against Black Arts!' James called.

'Argh! What'm I gonna do now? I can't swim either!' Celine cried in dismay. 'Adele Varens!'

'I'm sorry I ever mixed up the water snake and the water dragon!' Adele called.

'Forget apologizing. Someone – anyone – open the windows!' Remus ordered.

'It's freezing out there!' Sirius protested.

'Yeah! We don't wanna be instant ice-cubes!' Lily supported.

'Or turn into ice-creams,' James added.

'Open it!' Anne yelled.

'ICE!' The Marauders yelled in unison.

'Adele and Lily mastered fire! OPEN IT!' Anne boomed frighteningly.

'We can't swim!' Adele replied before her head bobbed into the water.

Rose, Yvonne, Melissa and Anne swam strongly to the window and pushed it open. The water flowed out, frightened some students in the class below and froze into a sort of still waterfall. As Lily had predicted, they were instant ice-cubes.

'I told you we'll be ice! See!' Sirius yelled, moving his arms. His lower body part were buried under the water that froze in the room.

'Calm it! We'll melt it!' Melissa assured.

'Genius. James already mentioned that before. No black magic should be meddled,' Remus said. All eyes turned to Adele and Lily immediately, the two sole black mage in the group.

'Okay, okay! We got the message! Stop glaring fire at me!' Adele said. Lily just sighed.

'Igneus Magma!' they cried at once. A huge wave of flaming red suddenly swoop down and melt the ice beneath it. The ice melted into water (obviously) and flowed outside the window. Sirius hurriedly closed it and the remaining puddles were sucked by Anne's special non-electrical vacuum cleaner.

'A- Adele's a Black Mage?' Melissa said shakily, backing away from the said girl.

'Yeah, but no one's allowed to kill her or take her blood,' Sirius said.

'Why would one want to do such a disgusting thing?' Anne said wincing as she twisted her face.

'Then- then Lily?' Rose said weakly.

'Nope. Learnt it myself. High chance for me if I ever had that talent,' Lily said. 'Aren't I a genius?'

'Genius? You? You've got to be kidding,' Yvonne said, laughing. 'Okay, I think I'll stop now.'

'Not really funny,' Remus said.

'Very un-funny. Yep. So when are we leaving?' James asked.

'We're not going,' Anne said.

'What? Why not?'

'We said you'll be going, not us,' Yvonne said.

'We are?' Adele echoed.

'Yep! Now, aren't you going?' Rose said. The Marauders had a little group meeting.

'So, must we go Dumbledore's way or normal way?' Sirius asked.

'What normal, what Dumbledore? What's the difference?' Anne said, puzzled.

'Anne, I think they mean those passages,' Yvonne said.

'Right, mom!' James chirped.

'So… which?' Remus asked.

'Up to you. Not in the family rulebook,' Anne said.

'Good. Our way then,' Lily grinned.

'What sort of way would you use anyway?' Celine asked.

'Through the buttercups … and beyond!!!!!' The Marauders (minus Adele) chorused, running out of the portrait hole at top speed, stumbling once or twice on their robes.

'Yea, yea, whatever,' Celine muttered.

'Think Lily'll be alright?' Rose asked.

'Alright? With them, alright's more!' Yvonne said, jerking her head at the closed portrait hole.

'I think we'd better get back home. Those boys at home will be starved to death by now without us. None of them can cook,' Anne said, checking her watch.

'Yeah. All of them failed their Muggle Studies and Cooking Lessons for Wizards,' Rose smirked.

'Men are so helpless without us,' Celine sighed, shaking her head. 'What'd they do without us?'

'Starve to death, I expect,' Melissa said mercilessly.

**

The Marauders went to the painting of golden buttercups, who, yet again, asked them a ridiculous riddle.

'What would you do if you're a surgeon?' they asked.

'Surgeon my brain, what else? Nothing betetr than killing some beautiful cells,' Sirius said.

'That's ridiculously stupid, Sirius, and not a matter of laugh,' Adele said flatly.

'So's this painting. Watch!' Remus said, grinning. So Adele watched. To her amazement the painting moved back to reveal a huge flight of white steps.

'Ugh! This smell stench! Doesn't somebody clean this place?' Adele commented in a disgusted voice.

'You'll get over it some time,' Lily said, holding her nose.

'Sewer tunnel,' James added.

'Yuck. Double ugh,' Adele muttered. 'What were those founders thinking?'

'Exactly what I said!' Lily agreed.

After the very uncomfortable and very smelly adventure under the sewer (accompanied by some mischievous sewer trolls), the dead end came. Sirius gingerly removed the coverage above their heads and the warm sunlight flooded in, along with a soft breeze and sweet smelling pasties.

'Now tour guide Remus Lupin will take us to the Shrieking Shack!' Sirius announced, clapping his hands. The other three clapped theirs, producing a sort of uneven 'clap-clap' sound.

'Most honored, but not,' Remus said, a frown on his face. 'I didn't say I'll be a tour guide, let alone think about the abnormal idea, Sirius. Maybe you'd kindly take that smirk off your stupid, goofy face and tour yourself there.'

'But you'll be our guide for this tour! See? Tour. Guide. Guide. Tour. Tour guide!' James said.

'Shuddap!' Remus smapped.

'Just bring us there, Mr Guide! Stop dilly-dallying!' Lily said.

'Right. Don't bother explaining on everything we see except the Shrieking Shack. I came here before,' Adele said. And Remus, under the pressure of four of his best friends, had to pull the white flag. Sorrowfully, he took out a white tissue paper.

'Fine, fine! You win! Happy?' Remus sighed. 'Now, onto the stupid-dupit-offwithit-tour.'

'Where's it?' Adele asked.

'I thought you said you came here before,' Remus said sourly.

'Yeah, but never went further than the shopping places. So where?'

'Further way downtown. I hope those ghosts that were rumored there eat you up,' Remus said menacingly.

'And the only ghost is Remus Werewolf,' James said. 'Get on with it!'

The fivesome went past several shops, met a couple of half-giants (or so they thought. The wizard was only a few feet higher than normal), got chipped halfway by a hag (who was after five-year-old's livers) and nearly got arrested by a ministry wizard for being suspicious characters.

'Seriously how can a group of innocent-' (the group snorted) '- teenagers be?' Sirius demanded.

'Why're yeh out, eh? An' teens, eh? Age, eh?' the wizard asked thickly, brandishing his wand at them. Remus carefully pointed it to the ground.

'No good to point. Mom says it's rude,' Remus said.

'Teens are teens, aren't they? Fourteen, most of us,' James said irritably.

'Why out, eh? Why, isn't this Hogsmeade, eh?' Lily said, mimicking the wizard's "ehs" after some questions.

'Fourteen, eh? Where's yer school, eh? Sneaked out, eh?' the wizard asked.

'Hogwarts. We're NOT some hog with warts on us,' Lily said.

'And special permission from Albus Dumbledore,' Sirius said.

'Death Eaters ev'rywhere. Y'know, eh? You-Know-Oo on the loose t'day, wizard reports. Them Azkaban guards wi' 'im now, ah heard. Them giants wi' 'im. Shouldn' wander, naw. What's yer names, eh?'

'Yeah, we know Whatever-You-Know-Who whatever,' Adele said boringly.

'Th'name's Sirius Black. Nice th' meet yeh,' Sirius said, bowing.

'Evans. Lily Evans.'

'James Potter.'

'Remus Lupin.'

'Adele Varens.'

'Yeh kids-' the wizard started.

'We're not kids, uncle. We're teenagers, and probably only a couple of years younger than your youngest recruit in the ministry. Good day,' James said huffily, marching off with the rest of the group, before the odd wizard should start a new string of questions. After some distance, they ran hurriedly behind a thick tree.

'Weird thing, isn't he?' Remus said in an amused tone.

'Very interesting. Oh, look! We're at the Shack!' Sirius said.

'Who cares a thing about that psychotic weirdo?' Adele said.

'Now, Mr Guide, may we proceed?' James said.

'Stop calling me "Mr Guide"!!!' Remus yelled at them.

'There's no better name, Mr Guide. But if you wish, Mr Guide,' Lily said smoothly.

'I said stop. Calling. Me. Mister. Guide,' Remus said between clenched teeth.

'Yes, Mr Guide,' Lily said promptly. Adele and James had to pull Remus back to stop him from attacking Lily physically and Sirius had to take his wand away from him so he couldn't jinx Lily. Lily backed behind the tree.

'Maybe you should calm down, Mr Guide,' Lily said in a small voice from behind the tree.

After a few draughts of potions, various charms and some Transfiguration, Remus was calmed down evenly. The Marauders opened the creaky door (a pale witch informed of the vicious ghosts, but they ignored it) and entered the empty house, crossing teared wood furniture, smashed windows and bits of blood everywhere.

'You're biting yourself! I told you not to!' Lily scolded. Remus scowled at her.

'Hey, no use scowling! Look what's the price for not listening to an advice!' James said, pulling up Remus' black robes' sleeves. Huge plasters covered some parts of the newly bitten wounds and stitched scars were remains of the previous bites.

'Either that or the villagers. Those villagers called me a ghost!' Remus said.

'Yeah… just heard that,' Sirius said.

'Exactly my point.'

'What's this?' Adele asked, when they entered the last room.

'Odd. It wasn't here the last time I came,' Remus said. 'Anyway, this is the room I always come to. To complete my transformation.'

'It looks like a potion,' James said.

'Don't ask me. I flunk potions all the time,' Lily said flatly.

'No comments, though I'm pretty good at it,' Adele said..

'Probably the Poisoning Potion,' Sirius said.

'Who comes here?' Adele asked.

'Looks new,' Lily said. Remus sneezed suddenly, his nose turning scarlet.

'Hello!! – achoo! – No one listening to the – achoo! – tour guide? – achoo! – Why'd you guys appoint – achoo! – me anyway?' Remus said between sneezes.

'Look, Remus! Wolfsbane!' Sirius said, showing the little plant to Remus. Remus' sneezed even more.

'Get it – achoo! – off!! I'm – achoo! – allergic to it! – achoo!' Remus sneezed.

'Here, I'll offer my gracious service to flung it out then. Look how far it'll go!' Adele said, grabbing the plant. She did a twist with her arm and flung it out the window.

'About ten feet. Lousy. Lily can do fifteen,' James said. At this point, Lily grabbed another Wolfsbane and threw it out the window.

'Wow!! Sixteen! New record!'

Sirius took one and threw it out. James tutted sadly.

'Only nineteen. What happened to twenty?' Lily said.

'Watch me!' James said. He threw the last Wolfsbane out and Lily sighed.

'Even worse. Seventeen,' Adele said.

'It was twenty before!' James argued.

'Thanks for getting rid of those stupid plant,' Remus said rubbing the scarlet nose.

'Sure thing. Should we throw this thing out? One bowl for each of us,' Adele said, measuring the contents in the cauldron.

'Nah, we'll leave it here. This must've been one of our schoolmate's. Pewter, size 2… get your fat butt outta here, James!' Lily said. Sirius and James were inspecting the cauldron and Remus was sitting on a half broken chair.

'Not dropping yet?' Adele asked Remus.

'This thing's tough,' Remus said, shaking his head. No sooner had he said that when the chair finally gave way and crumple on his weight, leaving the boy in mess.

'SO said the so-call light boy,' Adele giggled.

'Look here! There's a name on this thing!' Sirius said, pointing at the small part on the cauldron. 'S.S.Snape… it's Snake's!'

'Sss…' Adele hissed.

'That's not a snake,' Lily said.

'Who cares? I just want the sound effect!' the girl argued.

'No! It's ssss…' Sirius said softly, attempting at a hiss. Suddenly, James burst out laughing, followed by Lily after five seconds.

'What?' Sirius said, annoyed.

'You- you said…' Lily stammered. 'You said…'

'You said you're a- a- a-' James stuttered.

'A dolt!' they concluded.

'What d'you mean? All I'm trying to say is-'

'No! The hiss!' Lily laughed. 'You said you're a dolt!'

'Liar! Try this!' Sirius said, doing a sort of shiffle sound. James simply doubled over.

'Now you tell me you have a huge head with cottons for filling!' James laughed. 'Oh, I didn't know you could speak animal language but not know it!'

'I could. Just found out,' Sirius grinned. It disappeared in a moment, though. 'I do NOT say I've a huge head with cottons for filling!'

'But that's exactly it!' Lily smiled.

'Ahem. I just said that I was a superbly genius kid. Best in the whole school,' Sirius said modestly.

The others just rolled their eyes. Typical Sirius Ego.

'So… what d'you think that snake-git wanna do with this load of… what?' Remus said.

'Poisoning Potion,' Adele said promptly.

'Uh… make himself super duper strong with huge muscles? No, he'll probably fall under their weight first. Maybe get back at us? I mean, I did mess up his potion…' Lily said cautiously.

'I vote second!' Adele said at once.

'Reckon what'll he do?' James said. 'Poison us? Nah, he'd tried that way too many a time.'

'Like I'd said, that idiot git probably had no other idea left in his stupid brain,' Sirius yawned boringly.

'It looked more like a figure changing one. Poison don't go with wolfsbane,' Adele said.

'What are you saying? First you agreed with me, then you dumped me!' Sirius said, annoyed. Adele raised a brow.

'I dump you? I hadn't even known you for a year!' she asked incredously.

Sirius looked around, as if not hearing the question.

'Let's see… truffle, a galleon, owl feathers, fern, quill, inkbottle… what'd this make?' James said.

'There's a galleon? Oooh! Let's take it for our own!' Sirius said eagerly.

'He'll know someone greedy's visiting, you dolt, which narrows all to you!' Remus said.

'You're filthy rich, so what's a galleon to you? Only a knut,' Adele said sourly.

'This potion… I think it's a Melter,' Lily said intelligently.

'How'd you know?' Sirius shot. 'I'm the potions master, remember?'

'But she's the brains!' James said, althought he hadn't any idea how she knew. But she's a tape recorder, so everything should be right when it comes to lessons, so long as she didn't mess the potions up herself.

'We did this the other day, remember? Remus was sick that time,' Lily reminded.

'Oh yeah! Wolfsbane, galleon, truffle, owl feather and all. Snape got his potion messed by the Pettigrew worm,' James said, his memory stirring. Pettigrew had added some Toadstool Spores and Yellow Apple Seeds into Snape's cauldron, mistaking the book's orders. The result was their robes nearly menlting to nothing and a very red Snape with fire puffing from his nose and ears.

'So… whaddyou suggest? Ruin it again? He need to hand this in on Monday,' Adele said.

'Ruin it? Oh, gracious me, no!' Sirius said. Saintly.

'Why not?' Remus said, staring at him in surprise.

'Nope. Ruining isn't a nice word, is it? Let's just say we'll beautify it! Mom didn't pretend to be a beautician for all those years for nothing!' Lily grinned evilly. They spread out at once, to see what they could get from the old shack and brought anything they could use for destroying the potion.

'Lookie here! Lizard's leg, cockroach feelers, goat eyes and- what's this? A teeth?' Sirius said, proudly showing his findings.

'A stray eyelast, some bits of dust-eel's dusts, broomstick twigs, fang…' Remus said, throwing them into the cauldron. The potion's color changed from purple to a sick yellow.

'A mice's teeth, some dead owl, lizard claw and an old parchment,' Adele said, throwing in the ingredients.

'Fingernail, toe nail, hair scalp, stones, sand, soil, igneus – no, not THAT one – and sea water,' James said, idly throwing them in.

'Pencil lead, tissue, bones, wood and an old oriental rug,' Lily said, dumping them in.

'A what?! Oriental rug?? Lily, you're mad!!!' the four exclaimed.

'No… it was only a small thread of it…'

'Oh.'

As a grand finale, James transfigured the whiteowl feather into a white chicken's feather. Lily turned the mud-brown potion into its original green with the coloring charm so that Snape wouldn't notice the difference that had been made to his potion. Grinning with satisfaction, the Marauders left the Shrieking Shack.

**

It was dead of the night and Severus Snape tiptoed to the Shrieking Shack in his green nightgown, a thin wick candle in hand, to check on his precious potion. There was no way he'd let Pettigrew have a second chance in destroying his wonderful creation.

No. He had to hand this in on Monday and now's the time to collect it. Moreover, the marks goes into his finals.

Snape went to the last room, shivering in thought of the vicious ghosts, hurriedly threw in the other ingredients, not noticing that the wolfsbane was gone and left as quickly as his legs could carry him back to Hogwarts.

He shut his dormitory door and tried to melt Pettigrew's night cap. It worked. It not only melted Pettigrew's night cap, but Pettigrew's bed, the side table they shared, his father and mother's picture, his bed, messed his Charms essay and freezed him dead.

AN: Finally! You're probably wondering why didn't I make a backup for this important thing and how I managed to retype it again, right? First, I DID make a backup. The problem is that the backup backfired. And luckily for me, I wrote this chapter on my A4 paper in school, thus, allows me to retype it if anything happens [not that I want anything of this sort to happen again!!! No way!!!].

Anywayz, this chapter's pointless. I'm beaten. I have test in only a few days time!!! Wish me luck, please!!!!!!!!!! And review, kayz? You're given the rights to criticise it however you want.