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Chapter Four ~ Incidents with the Marauders.

There would be no point me writing down seven years of useless information, like what I had breakfast each day, what lessons I had, and which teachers I hated. This is about the war, Gryfindor versus Slytherin, us verses them!

It was pretty tame for the first year, I mean none of us could do any magic, well apart from Hats, she was definitely the brain of the group. we played pretty small pranks at first, nothing big, not 'cause we didn't want to, but because we didn't know anything bigger.

The Gryfindors got their revenge, they always did. But then we would get ours and it continued in a massive circle.

I don't think our group had a leader, we made plans together, we worked together, no one was in charge. Unlike the Gryfindors, it was pretty clear that Potter was ruling things.

# Incident 1 #

The first ever run in with the 'Marauders' was a straight forward duel. Potter started it, after a few name calling sessions, he challenged us, and we were only to willing to agree.

We arranged it for midnight in the trophy room, Potter, Lupin, Black and Pettigrew versus me, Jolt, Hats and Kyle.

That day in lessons we practised various curses and blocks when the teachers weren't looking. Hats got a detention when she 'accidentally' body binded the girl in front of her in charms.

"I can't believe she gave me a DT! I mean what did I do wrong? I said sorry afterwards, it's not my fault she sat up just at the moment I did it!" Hats said angrily as she flung herself down at the dining table.

Jolt laughed. "Oh well, at least it's not for tonight."

"Is that all you can say? Well it certainly is a good job, 'cause you lot would fail miserably without me!" she said, smugly.

"You wish."

"No, Kyle, I don't wish, I know!" she replied, as she grabbed some food from the plate in front of her. "So have you lot been practising?"

"I managed to get a couple of things in. Disarming is gonna be the most useful, my dad taught it to me." Jolt said.

I rolled my eyes. It seemed everyone had a perfect loving relationship with their family! Everyone except me.

Hats nodded. "Hmm.Expellimus (sp?) yeah, that could come in handy, anything else?"

Just as she said that the bell rang. "What have we got next?" I asked, I had never even looked at my time table let alone learning it, it was much easier to just ask someone.

"Potions."

"Wait a sec, I've had a brilliant idea. There is a potion which acts as a shield, it can protect you from minor curses, if we could get hold of some of that.well.think about it." Hats said, as she got up from the table. She smirked over at the Gryfindors as they sat laughing opposite.

"Good idea, but we'd have to make it." I said.

"So? Old Plum doesn't care what we do, he hardly notices. I am sure we could make it." she said, looking at there dubious faces. "Okay, okay, I am sure I could make it!" she said.

We followed her to the potions dungeon.

But half way through the lessons, Hats approached our table in pretence of going to collect some more ingredients. Not that old Professor Plum would have minded.

"I can't do it." She muttered. "The potion it's too complicated, it can't be brewed in one lesson it takes several weeks."

Jolt shrugged. "Never mind, we'll just have to use the magic we know."

But I'm sure Jolt was more disappointed then he let on. The potion would have let us win for sure, now it was neck and neck between us. Kyle too seemed not to mind.

So having finished their potion we were supposed to be concentrating on the theory, but instead we began to practise incantations, whispering them to each other, taking it in turns to name a new one. And the last person, the one who couldn't continue had to tidy away all the ingredients. It ended up that Kyle had to tidy away. Jolt and I laughed, as he grumbled under the weight of the heavy caldrons.

Hats rolled her eyes at us, as she walked past. "If you're not gonna take this seriously. . ." She warned.

"O' course we bloody is. But you need to lighten up." Jolt said.

Hats shook her head with a laugh and walked away. "We'll see tonight."