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Affection or Adventure?

Chapter 3: Plotting Revenge

"Oy, food!" Remus yelled, though he was barely heard over the chatter of the people around him. He and his friends started piling their plates with everything they could reach.

"Moony, pass the potatoes," Sirius said, reaching toward them.

"Sure," Remus replied, after helping himself.

"I wonder," James said, "I wonder if…you know…they'll get us back for the dung bomb." Remus followed his gaze to Lily Evans.

"Prongs…you know…I reckon we ought to be careful. You're right…they've pulled some major tricks on us, even though we don't dare let them know how good they are." Remus replied to James's statement.

"Yeah, but they're just a bunch of girls." Said Peter.

"Well, that's what I'm afraid of," Remus said with a grin.

"Well, we'll see, won't we?" Sirius asked. They all nodded in agreement.

When they finished eating, their headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore, stood up to make a speech after running his long fingers through his long, silvery hair and beard and pushing his half-moon glasses further up his crooked nose.

"Welcome, welcome! I hope that you have all enjoyed the excellent feast, I certainly did! Anyway, I just thought that I should remind you that the Forbidden Forest is out-of-bounds and is not to be entered by any of the students here. Some of you know this already, but I am sure a select few will disregard this rule completely." The Marauders grinned at one another as Dumbledore continued. "Those few are aware of the consequences of their actions. Well, what needed to be said has been said, so I leave you all to go to your dormitories and get a good night's sleep."

All of the people sitting down got up and headed out of the double-doors to their common rooms. The Gryffindors headed up a marble staircase, down a dark hall, and stopped in front of a portrait of a very fat lady in a pick dress.

"Password?" She said to them.

Lily Evans spoke up. "Valor."

The portrait swung forward on its hinges, and one by one the Gryffindors entered their cozy, warm common room.

Remus ran straight for one of his favorite chairs by the crackling fire. His friends did the same, James and Sirius occupying the other two comfy chairs, while Peter sat on the floor.

"You know what we have to do, right?" Sirius asked them.

"What are you talking about, Padfoot?" Remus said.

"About the girls! We're going to have to get them before they get us back! They won't be expecting us to pull prank after prank! They'll think that we're taking a break, you know?"

"I don't know…they're pretty smart…" Said James.

"They won't be expecting this though, he's right Prongs." Remus replied.

"Well…alright. What should we do?" Asked James.

"Dungbombs?" Peter offered.

"You git, Wormtail! We just did that!" Sirius and James said in unison.

"I have an idea." Said Remus. But before he could tell them, he looked up and saw Penny Payge enter the common room and sit with her friends in a corner opposite the Marauders. She's pretty cute… He thought.

"Moony! Don't look at them, they might think something's up!" Whispered Sirius, and Remus turned back towards his friends.

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"Look at them staring at us!" Penny said, leaning up against the wall in the corner of the common room that she and her friends were sitting in. "It's almost like they're plotting something else…why on earth would they be doing that when they just pulled a big one on us?"

"Probably trying to take us by surprise," Said Natalie in a distant manner.

"Oh my gosh, you're right, Natalie! Your absolutely right! That sounds just like them!" Lily exclaimed.

"Keep your voice down!" Chloe said.

"You guys, I have the perfect idea." Penny breathed.

"Erm…Penny? Just because Lily got a little over-excited about what Natalie said doesn't mean you have to speak below a whisper." Said Chloe, mocking Penny's soft voice.

Penny shoved her. "Shut up! Anyway, don't you want to know my idea?"

"Yeah…" Said Lily and Chloe in unison. Natalie had taken out a nail filer and started to file her nails.

"Natalie!" Lily shouted, waving her hand in front of Natalie's eyes. "Listen! I want to get back at that arrogant Potter for what he did to us on the train!"

"Fine, fine…" Natalie muttered, pocketing her nail filer.

"Anyway…where was I before I was so rudely interrupted?" Penny continued, smiling. "Oh, yes…all we have to do is put our water-works to the test!"

"What do you mean by that?" Asked Natalie.

"What I mean is, we have to wait for them to do whatever they're planning to do, and in the meantime, we have to work on our crying skills."

"OH!" Said Lily and Chloe, realizing what Penny meant.

Natalie was now brushing her hair. "Huh?"

"I'll tell her," Chloe offered. "Nat, what we have to do it wait until the Marauders pull their next prank, and then we all start crying."

"Why on earth would we start crying…wouldn't we be angry and start yelling at them for their immaturity?" Natalie said. She was quite a clever girl, but she had slight listening problems.

Penny and Chloe hit themselves in the head while Lily sighed. "Care to take over, Lil?" Penny asked.

"Sure. Okay, Natalie, this is what we're going to do. After they do whatever they have planned, we are going to start crying to make them feel bad. We won't mean it, of course, it's just our way of getting revenge."

"Oh…sounds good to me!" Said Natalie, grinning evilly.

"Yeah! Perfect, right? So, we can think of something really sad…and it has to be really sad; we need to keep ourselves from laughing…we can stay for however long we can without doing so…and then we can run away from wherever the Marauders pull their lame stunt!"

"Excellent, Penny! Then, we can just ignore them for a few days, and laughing their faces when we tell them it was all a joke!" Chloe said.

"And just think…we won't be doing anything against school rules!"

"Lily, live it up a little!" Penny yelled, and they laughed away their first night back at Hogwarts just thinking about the looks on the boys' faces when their enemies start crying.