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Ch1
It was a cold wintry day at Hogwarts and everyone had decided that the best place to be was inside where the warmth was. The only people outside were three boys, naturally they were all together as one was never seen without the other two and if one was, you could be sure that the others were close behind. Presently the three most popular boys in the school were discussing their next practical joke.
"So we plan on sneaking down to the Slytherin common room and putting purple goo in ol' Snapie's hair, you guys in?" a certain Sirius black inquired of his companions. Shoulder length black hair and sky blue eyes constantly dancing with laughter were characteristic of the mischievous carefree boy. Tall and handsome, he was one of the most sought after boys in Hogwarts, but he found girls to be extremely confusing and thought that he shouldn't involve himself with their strange ways and ridiculous attitude, besides there were more important things in life, like pulling pranks on unsuspecting victims.
"One problem, smart one, we do not know where the Slytherin common room is and besides even if we did discover it's location how would we get the password?" Remus Lupin inquired of him. Slightly shorter than Sirius but just as good-looking, with soft brown eyes and light brown hair, was considered the only one of the three that actually had common sense. While not as outgoing as the others he was still just as bad. He was thought of as the kind gentle, so-called 'sweetie' of Hogwarts, which was ironic because he just so happened to be a werewolf.
"Remus you are forgetting out secret weapon!" James potter, the un-official head of the 'marauders' (as the called themselves) the tallest and (as all the girls said), 'hottest' of the three, said gleefully. His dark blue eyes made girls swoon and his very untidy hair was a source of great attraction to the many Hogwarts females. James however did not find his hair in the least bit attractive. He found it very strange that people actually thought it looked good.
"Ah yes, the invisibility cloak, that thing has saved our necks too many times for me to count!" Remus said.
"Yes and we can use it to get to slimy Snape." Sirius said clapping his hands together. Severus Snape was the greasy-haired Slytherin whose loathing of the marauders was matched only by their hatred of him. They had played endless tricks on him and weren't about to stop.
"Planning more pranks are we?" Lily Evans asked walking up behind the boys. Tall thin and beautiful, the green-eyed red haired Lily Evans was one of the only two girls the marauders understood. She had been friends with them since the first day of school, she was especially close to Remus and it had been her that first realized that he was a werewolf. She stuck by him though and the four of them never let each other down. She was one of the most envied girls in Hogwarts because of her close friendship with the marauders.
"Yup." The boys replied.
"Oh on who?" Arabella Figg asked walking up next to Lily. The fun-loving brunette was the other girl the marauders understood. Shorter than Lily with shining silver eyes, Arabella had become friends with Lily and the boys when she 'accidentally' set Snape's hair on fire in charms their second year. She and lily were best friends and always together.
"Snape, but it needs some serious fine tuning." James told her. Sirius jerked his head up.
"Did some one say my name?" he asked stupidly. The other four just rolled their eyes.
"Come on lets go in its cold ya'll still have homework I'm tired and the full moon is in three days." Remus said shivering.
"Okay Rem, come on guys lets go." James said and he and the others began to walk back to the castle.
Young care-free and somewhat ignorant the five brightest students in Hogwarts thought that life was pretty good, they had had some ups and downs so far but nothing life altering. They suspected that nothing horrible would ever happen to them. How very wrong they were. They of course had no idea that they would soon become the target of something evil something sinister. You see the dark lord called the name Voldemort by his followers was gaining power in the east. He had started moving west, his path marked by attacks disappearances and deaths. The five knew that this was going on but they, like everyone else, figured the bad things would happen to some one else. Unfortunately, we are all someone else to someone else.
"Arrgg!! I don't understand this one bit!" Remus yelled to no one in particular.
"That's a first." Sirius said looking up from his astronomy chart.
"I just don't understand astronomy, how you understand it is beyond me." Remus yelled again throwing his hands in the air in defeat.
"You aren't named after a star." Sirius stated simply.
" How can you not understand astronomy, the moon practically controls you 'cause you're a werewolf." James stated. Remus looked over at him.
"That is because astronomy deals with stars not the moon, genius."
"You think I am a genius? Why thank you Remus." James said in mock pride. Sirius snickered and Remus rolled his eyes.
"Hey genius and Remus kind of rhyme…"Sirius said thoughtfully. James rolled his eyes.
"If you two aren't going to help me…"Sirius jumped up and moved over to help his friend. The week before the full moon put a lot of stress on Remus and Sirius and James did whatever they could to help him.
"Hey guys what does antidisestablishmentarianism mean?" James asked.
"Look it up." lily said walking in the common room, followed by Arabella.
"Now why would I do that when I have Professor Moony over there?"
Moony was the nickname Sirius and James called Remus because he was a werewolf. They had made the name when they had become animagi to help Remus during the full moon. They did it as a huge Christmas present and it took them the better part of three years and involved many sleepless nights, but it was worth hit in their minds. They decided that the marauders needed code names. James was Prongs because he was a stag and Sirius was Padfoot because he was a dog. They spent the nights of the full moon exploring the castle and the grounds. They knew more about the castle than anybody and that is how they came to write the marauders map, a map that showed all the passages of the castle and where anyone in the castle was.
"You would look it up to further your education and learn something." Arabella said.
"Pointless." Sirius muttered.
"Sometimes I wonder how you three get top grades when you don't even care." Lily said.
"I care!" Remus yelled, still very frustrated.
"Look Rems, you put this star in the wrong spot, so you messed up the rest of the chart." Sirius said.
"Oh!" Remus said, "Which star did I mess up?" Sirius looked down at the chart.
"Well it's hard to read it looks like…HEY! You messed up my namesake, this star Sirius does not go there, it goes there. How insulting!" Sirius said pointing at the chart. Remus frowned.
"I didn't do that! Why would I mess up my own chart?!?" Remus asked. At that moment James started laughing uncontrollably. Sirius and Remus turned to look at him.
"You!" Remus hissed.
"Me!" James yelled. Remus jumped up and started chasing James around the common room.
"Will they ever grow up?" Lily asked Sirius.
"'Fraid not Lils we are about as far from grown up as you can get."
"And were happy about it!" Remus yelled still chasing James.
After about five minutes, James, still laughing hysterically fell on the floor exhausted. Remus walked over to him.
"You do know that this means you are doing my homework for me." Remus told James. James looked up and grinned.
"I came prepared." He said and handed Remus his completed astronomy chart. Remus looked it over and nodded to show that he was satisfied and then sat down on the couch in front of the fire next to Arabella and Lily.
"I love holiday break," lily said breaking the silence, "We get the whole tower to ourselves and we can eat when ever we want no homework. ("Except the holiday assignments they insist on giving!" Sirius shouted.) It's just such a wonderful time of year, and we'll all be together Christmas Eve!"
"Full moon's on Christmas eve." Remus grumbled, frowning. Lily and Arabella gasped.
"No!" Arabella shouted, "Horrible timing Remus!"
"Hey I thought you two knew!" Sirius shouted. Upset that they had brought up the subject.
"I knew it was this week but I expected it to be later, Christmas Eve is in three days." Lily said. James looked up.
"Well you two will be on your own Christmas Eve then, 'cause we're going with Moony."
"You really don't have to…." Remus mumbled.
"Nonsense!" Sirius said, "besides that's when I want to pull our prank on Snape!" Remus snapped his head up at these words and stared at Sirius.
"Oh no way are we doing that! A werewolf a dog and a stag sneaking into the Slytherin dorms!" Remus yelled," how insane is that!?! There are about a billion things that could go deadly wrong!"
"We'll be fine when have I ever steered you wrong?" Sirius asked.
"Sixth year comes to mind." James said
"Ok so that was a bit of a disaster." Sirius said eyeing Remus who glared back. "But nothing else has ever gone wrong!"
"Ahem, the pudding incident…?" Remus said.
"That was not an incident!!" Sirius shrieked.
"Incident or not it got us suspended for a week!" James said, obviously still mad about that.
"Fine we'll save the Snape prank for New Years, it'll be better then any way." Sirius said defeated.
"Good if that's all cleared up!" Lily said loudly, "We are going down to dinner." She got up and walked out of the portrait hole down to dinner the rest of the group following her.
A/N:
I am posting this chappie to get it up but the next wont come out till I get finals over with, also because my bratty sister deleted my file, so the other five chapters are gone. I am just about to kill her!!! *looks around angrily * this fic is loads better than my first one, which you should still read, It couldn't hurt for you to review this it now could it? Pretty please, *puts on her not so good puppy eyes* thanks o faithful, {and not so faithful reviewers,[if there are any reviewers at all( I sure as hell hope there are)]} anyhoo- love you all
~flame