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Peter Pettigrew was the first to calm down and thus the first to notice the girls looking at them, each thinking their own odd, frightened and confused thoughts. He smiled unsurely at them. They all smiled back at the short, blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy. He then proceeded to take the presented seat between a window and Mel.
Remus Lupin was the next to regain his senses. He figured the chance to them stumbling, rather charging, into an empty compartment was very thin. Remus said a quick "Hullo," then noticed Peter. Finding him smiling at the other two amusedly and gesturing for him to do the same, Remus obliged. He took the offered seat beside Jen, then watched and waited.
Both Sirius and James stopped laughing near the same time: about another ten minutes later. They looked at each other, then at the other six people in the compartment. It was safe to say that they both looked rather confused. James blushed some when he noticed Lily and how she was looking at him. Still thinking the same thoughts from when all four boys came crashing in: they were insane.
Sirius grinned and stood up. He took James by the hand and hoisted him up as well. James immediately began to smooth out his robes and straighten his glasses.
"Honestly boys. Knocking would have been the polite thing to do. We could have all been in our knickers, changing into our robes," said Arabella matter-of-factly. She always knew how to start a conversation.
Jen knew how to continue, "Or we could have just been in our knickers, you know. Girls like to do that kind of thing." Sirius rolled his eyes. "Makes us feel like we can accomplish anything for the day."
Then Mel added her opinion, "Now we'll have to punish you all. How should we go about it? Petrified embarrassment or laughing mockery?"
Ending it was Lily with a smirk, "I'm thinking petrified embarrassment. We would have been embarrassed for sure, had they walked in on us in only our knickers. So boys, how does running around in your knickers, exclaiming your love for McGonagall and Rosebud sound?" She leaned back and crossed her arms.
The girls surprisingly all kept straight faces throughout this. Professor McGonagall was the Head of Gryffindor House, Deputy Head Mistress, and Transfiguration teacher. Professor Rosebud was the crazy old lady that taught Divination. Many students took the course just to doze through it, if their nap in History Of Magic wasn't enough.
The boys blanched at the thought. Surely they'd get suspended. Remus spoke up first once he noticed a small smile forming on Jen's lips. "Doesn't sound too appealing to me, but looking at the others," all eyes were now on Remus, "they seem all too happy for words. I'll take laughing mockery, thank you very much."
Arabella, Jen, Lily and Mel all laughed once they saw the looks James, Sirius and Peter were giving their fellow Marauder. It was a look of pure loathing.
"So what did you guys do to some poor un-expecting Slytherin?" Mel asked, curious as to what was so funny. "We got that much from your rambling and cheers."
"First of all: hello," Sirius said, but was interrupted.
"It's a bit too late for regular hellos, Sirius," Arabella said.
"Fine," Sirius said instead. "We put a curse on Snape. Obvious, we know," he said quickly when Lily opened her mouth to speak. "But, who else would we test this puppy on? Anyways, excluding us four, he'd fall madly, desperately in love with the next person he saw; for seven hours. We forgot to tweak it so that he'd only go after someone of the opposite gender…" All the girls' eyes grew wide in understanding. "Forgetting that, Rockshoot was behind him."
Leo Rockshoot and Severus Snape were two Slytherins known for their abhorrence of the four golden boys of Gryffindor. More often the brunt of their jokes, Snape held the utmost amount of hate for Sirius and James over the other two. Rockshoot took out most of his anger towards them on the Quidditch pitch where he played a Chaser for his team. Snape didn't make the team when he tried out and James had mocked him for the rest of fourth year.
Sirius continued telling of their latest adventure. "We waited and watched. Being the genius he is Rockshoot asked what we did." He snorted. "There was no visible change in Snape. Well, Snape turned around to see who spoke, and well… you can see where this is headed…"
After that explanation, the boys shared a brief laughter and the girls decided to search for Snape. They glanced from carriage to carriage, casually sneaking looks through the windows. They got more than one odd look back.
"Found him!" Mel shouted down the train to Lily and Jen who were nearer the other end. Ara had gone to the other end and Mel felt slightly privileged to witness more than them. And indeed she had found him.
By the time the three girls gathered with the blonde, Snape was crying like a lost little girl in front of a compartment door; pounding his fist upon it.
"Just let me tell you how much I love you. Please Lee!"
The girls had to share a laugh at Snape's affectionate pet name for Leo. It was so uncharacteristic of him to show any emotion away from pride, anger, hate and superiority that a few more people had gathered to see what the fuss was about. The Marauders found them also and James and Sirius had to lean onto each other to stay standing. Looking around, a wall of students had formed around Snape, watching intently to whom this "Lee" was that stole his heart. Rockshoot hadn't said a word, so they just assumed that "Lee" was a girl.
Sirius, being the gentleman he is, decided to stop everyone's confusion, "Oh Snape, leave poor Mister Rockshoot alone," he said loudly, so that everyone would hear. They did. People's faces went into shock, then disbelief.
To confirm Sirius' words, Snape had to comment with a sour look upon his face. "Never. I love Lee with all my heart! I will recite a Sonnet for him on the spot."
The Sonnet reciting was actually Remus' idea. He had perused through books during the holidays and found a nifty spell for instant poetry. Today seemed like a good opportunity to use it. When Sirius had told them his immature plan, Remus had brought it up to add a hint of uniqueness to their prank.
And after clearing his throat, Snape proceeded to tell poetry to the compartment Rockshoot had sealed himself in. It was very bad, mind you; nothing like Shakespeare. When he was done, everyone cheered. Well, everyone that wasn't covered by the man pile of people who collapsed with laughter.
Students cleared out soon after when the Head Girl, Amanda Bones, cleared them away. The look of Snape confessing his love for Rockshoot was humorous to her, but even she didn't know a counter spell. Short and with a stubborn attitude, she could only let him be. Amanda was told it would wear off by some witnesses and couldn't get anyone to fess up. She cleared the crowd away, though, including her counterpart, Marcus Dickens, from Ravenclaw.
Everyone returned to their compartments.
The four girls decided to let the Marauders share their large compartment and were sitting in the same spots as before, with one exception; that being James and Sirius were no longer on the floor. James happily took the seat next to Lily and across from Remus who raised an eyebrow at him. James tried to pass his smile off as lingering humour from Snape's sonnet. For some reason, Remus didn't seem to completely believe him.
After an hour or so of jokes and Sirius reciting Snape's poem, James and Lily excused themselves to go see the Prefect compartment. Apparently it was horribly comfortable and shouldn't be missed; why miss it? James' insides were squirming with the thought of some time alone with Lily. Lily couldn't stop smiling as James told her how they found and mixed a few spells in 101 Ways To Curse Your Enemies – And Your Friends Too!
Was she beginning to fancy James Potter? Lily's smile grew. Just what her dad would want…
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Ok, done chapter 5.
Here's how the seating arrangement went.
Door – Remus – Jen – Mel – Peter – Window
Door – James – Lily – Ara – Sirius – WindowGot it? Good! All in their happy little places.
Now, I, as many of you I'm sure, don't like Peter. Weak bastard. But, James and Lily (and even Sirius) trusted him enough to lay their lives, and their son's life, in his hands. He has to be with them, even if just a tag along. I won't make him completely pathetic and stupid either. Something tells me, deep down mind you, that Peter was more or less (coughlesscough) a Marauder. Not just a copy, if you get my meaning. He even turned Animagus with them! I just think he cracked at one point. Unsure of how big Voldemort was going to get, not wanting to die. He got scared and his Gryffindor pride got flushed. Poor git. Poor messed up, murderous, waste of air, dumbass of a git, yes. But poor nonetheless.
Sorry about my rambling! I'll get the next chapter up tomorrow, I can promise you that much!
