The Mini-Adventures of
THE MARAUDERS
Starring: MWPP
#2
(*) Choir Class (*)
J: Moony! Come help me write another chapter!
R: No! Stay away! I'm watching Yami no Matsuei!
J: Come on! I need inspiration! What better inspiration is there than a hyped up werewolf?
R: I am NOT, hyped up.
J: What some chocolate?
R: *pounce*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*) Choir Class(*)
It wasn't really a real class; just a sort of fun one. that was worth marks. but it was required.
So that's what they did.
"Well I think this is stupid," Sirius growled. "They should just let us do whatever we want."
"Then the school would probably get blown up," James smirked. "Come on, it's not so bad. We go twice a week and just sing. How hard can that be?"
Famous last words.
"Ok class, we'll be practicing the song 'Memory'. Please open your music and sing along with the piano." Professor Snowb, the choral teacher said. She banged her composer's wand on the side of a podium and they all stood.
As they opened their music, they soon came to realize, that they couldn't read a single note of music.
"How are we supposed to know this?" James whispered to Sirius, who was standing beside him.
"I don't know, I guess she's just assuming we've been in this sort of thing before."
"You! In the back!" Professor Snowb hollered. "Quiet!"
James and Sirius glanced at each other but did as she bid.
By the end of the lesson, it was safe to say that the four boys had a new less than favorite teacher.
***
"That was the biggest waste of time ever!" Sirius growled, kicking the leg of his bed.
"I thought it was kind of fun." James shrugged, finishing his Potions homework.
Sirius frowned, "What? She said you sing like a dieing cat!"
James smirked, "So?"
Sirius sighed and shook his head. "I say we don't go to the next one."
"Why not?"
"Do you wanna go back in there and sing for a bitchy old woman again?"
"Of course not. but who said anything about singing?" James smiled. the one that you can just tell he had an idea. and someone's not going to like it. namely. the teacher.
***
The next class wasn't any better.
"I think can read the first few notes!" James whispered to his friends.
"Oh really now?" Sirius asked out of the corner of his mouth, trying not to look like he was talking again.
"Yes. you see it goes: Miiiddddnnniiiiggghhhhttt! All allloooonnnnee in the Moooonnnliiighhhtt!"
James failed to notice that everyone else in the class had stopped singing and he'd just sing an embarrassing high pitched, out-of-tune phrase.. But this was James.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
The professor was not pleased.
"You over there! And you over there!" She placed Peter at the front on the right side, Sirius in the middle on the left side, James on the right and Remus got to stand just where he was.
The teacher glared at them, then tapping her wand on the podium again, the music started.
"MMMMMMMMMmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddnnnnnnnnnigggggghtttttttt!!!!!"
The music stopped.
"Mr. Potter! Will you KINDLY keep your voice DOWN!!"
James smirked, "I'm sorry. That's just the way I was born, Madam."
The class laughed.
The Professor glared at him and started the music.
"NOT A SOUND FROM THE PPPPPPAAAAAVVVVVEEEMENNT!!"
Again the music stopped.
"Mr. Black, this is not an opera house."
"Could have fooled me." Sirius glared.
The Professor, clearly taken aback, gave an overly loud snort and stalked to the other side of the room.
"Now look! You made the Professor leave!" A girl with red hair said and glared at James.
"So?" Sirius replied. "Ms. Snob should learn how to respect her students!"
The redhead was about to reply when James interrupted. "No one asked your opinion anyway."
The redhead narrowed her impossibly deep green eyes.
"Who are you anyway?" James asked.
The girl sniffed. "I'm Lily Evans, I'm in Gryffindor House."
"Really now? So are we" Sirius said. He had to speak loudly since James and Lily were on the other side of the bleachers.
"I know who you are," Lily said. "Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. You four were caught raiding the kitchen and lost our house 100 points!"
"Wow James, we're infamous!" Sirius said, pretending to wave to a huge crowd.
Peter was watching the whole exchange with keen interest and Remus was reading through the music book.
The professor came back then, "All right, no more nonsense or I will have you expelled from this school! Understand?"
Some of the students nodded.
After a pretty much uneventful end of lesson, Professor (If you could call her that) Snowb made an announcement.
"We will be holding a grand concert for the rest of your schoolmates, and so, there will be an audition for the male and female solos."
James and Sirius glanced at each other.
"You," She pointed at James. "Will not audition."
James frowned. "Why not?"
"I want people with 'talent'" And with that, she stormed away.
"That wasn't very nice!" James called after her.
"She's not a very likable person, is she?" Remus said and Sirius patted James on the shoulder.
~~
"That Professor Snowb really makes me tick." James was saying as the four of them say in the Gryffindor Common Room.
"It's ok James, I don't like her either." Peter said, he was doing his Charms homework.
Remus stood up. "Where are you going?" Sirius asked.
"I need to go do something." Remus said and left the dormitories.
Sirius shrugged from where he was lying on the floor reading a magazine.
Ten minutes passed.
"Oh!" Peter exclaimed. "I forgot my notes! Sirius, can I use yours?"
Sirius was still engulfed in his magazine. "What makes you think I took them? Ask Remus."
Peter nodded and headed up to the dorms.
He stopped outside the doors.
Was that --- music?
Peter rushed back down the stairs. "Sirius! James! Come here!"
James shot a look at his best friend.
"Peter, if this is like the time with the invisible horses."
"No! No! Come! It's .. It's Remus."
James and Sirius got to their feet and followed the boy to the dorms.
They stopped outside the doors and listened.
There was music coming from within.
Quietly, they opened the door a crack, they stuck their heads through.
Remus had his back to them.
Remus was singing. and he didn't sound like a dieing cat either!
He was actually quite good. he was more than good. no, no.. he was frickin' sensational!
When the song was done, a burst of applause broke through the room, Remus spun around.
"I didn't know you could sing!" Sirius said, as Peter, James, and he stood straight up.
"Uh-well. I." Remus stammered.
"Are you going to try for the solo?" Peter asked.
Remus looked thoughtful. "Well I was thinking about it-"
"Thinking about it?" James asked, putting an arm around Remus' shoulder. "Lupin, with that voice, you have it made!"
"Well I'm not sure."
"Nonsense!" Sirius said standing in from of him. "Remus, you are going to audition and you are going to win!"
"This isn't a competition, Sirius." Remus said quietly.
"Well then," Sirius said. "May the best man win."
"And you will!" James added.
The Marauders, true to their word, accompanied Remus on his day of the audition. They sat in the bleachers and waited patiently as many other solo singers tried out. Finally, when it was Remus' turn, they all cheered and caused Remus' face to redden.
Remus was obviously the best vocal talent there. No lies! Everyone else couldn't even compare, they were so sure that he would get the part.
"That was actually quite easy." Remus said grinning at his friends after the audition.
"You rocked!" James piped up, strutting in front of their group like he always did.
"Thank you James." Remus said, he was humble person, but even he knew that he really WAS the best one there.
**Three Days Later**
The students of Hogwarts were informed that the selections for choir solos would be posted that morning. as the students crowed around, one thing was made perfectly clear.
"WHAT!!?? HOW THE HELL DID LUCIUS MALFOY GET THE PART?!?!"
"Sirius!" James yelled and clamped a hand over his mouth, dragging him back to their house table.
"But it doesn't make any sense!" Sirius continued. "The Slytherin prat can't even carry a tune!" Sirius slumped down at his spot at the Gryffindor table.
"Geezus, you'd think you were the one who lost to Malfoy." James said, pouring a glass of juice. "Like I've said before," Remus said. "It isn't a competition, Lucius obviously was just a little better than me."
"He was not!" Sirius was about to start up again. "She didn't pick you because she KNEW you were friends with us!"
No one said anything; that could have very well been the case.
"I'm right, aren't I?" Sirius muttered, eating a bit of pancakes
"That's hardly adequate to be accusing a teacher of such a thing." A voice said. Clearing over-hearing their conversation.
"Eavesdropping Evans? I didn't know you'd sink so low." James said to the redheaded girl.
She flicked her hair behind her, "By the show your friend was putting on, people could probably hear you from all the way outside."
"This is none of your business." Sirius glared.
She shook her head, gathering her things to leave. "Not that it's any of your business, but I happened to have made the female solo part, and you four better do well not to mess it up!" And with that, she left.
"I don't like her one bit." Sirius said, stabbing at his food.
When he didn't get an agreement, nor a disagreement he looked up to see James with a misty expression in his eyes. Then, "I HAVE IT!" James practically jumped onto the table. Startling his friends at his sudden outburst.
"Have what?" Sirius asked, righting the egg bowl he'd toppled.
"I have the plan to make Ms. Snob wish she'd be fair!"
~~~~~~Oh this was going to be good.~~~~~~
On the day of the rehearsal people where rushing around backstage, anticipating the moment when they'd stand up on those bleachers and sing to the school.
James made extra sure he rammed his shoulder into Lucius' whenever he got the chance.
Lucius, that smug bastard. If he thought they were going to let him get away with this. he was wrong.
"I would really appreciate it if you told me what it was you're going to do." Remus said, eyeing Sirius and James suspiciously.
"Don't worry about it," James grinned. "All you have to do is sing. Ok? Whatever happens, just sing."
Remus looked extremely doubtful.
"Promise?" Sirius asked.
Remus sighed. "Oh all right." He wasn't what kind of consequences there would be for placing his sanity in the hands on these people.
The moment arrived and all the members of the choir stepped out and up onto the bleachers on stage.
The Professor tapped her wand and the music started.
James and Sirius were on either end of the bleachers and seemed to be mouthing the words.
Peter was in the middle somewhere and he was waiting for a signal from James.
The solo was coming up.
Lily and Lucius were standing on the top most bleacher, in the middle. Waiting for their solos to come.
The first few bars of the solo were played and James and Sirius jumped off the bleachers.
Peter shoved Remus forward, off the bleachers and to the front.
Simultaneously James and Sirius pulled a bolt from the bleachers and the entire choir fell to the ground.
Leaving only Remus standing in the middle and Sirius and James somewhere off to the side.
The solo came.
"Sing dammit!" Sirius hissed at Remus who was still in mild shock at what had just happened.
Remus did.
The music stopped right after that, when the Professor finally got the music spell to stop, which had been 'altered' by Mr. J. Potter and S. Black.
The rest of the program was cancelled.
As the choir students slowly entangled themselves from each other and got to their feet, the rest of the school roared with laughter and applause. Remus really was the best there and he's proved that just then.
Now only the consequences of their actions remained.
"JAMES POTTER!!!! I TOLD YOU NOT TO RUIN THIS FOR ME! I'LL KILL YOU!!"
James winced as a psycho redheaded Gryffindor charged at him.
Oh yeah. and her too.
THE MARAUDERS
Starring: MWPP
#2
(*) Choir Class (*)
J: Moony! Come help me write another chapter!
R: No! Stay away! I'm watching Yami no Matsuei!
J: Come on! I need inspiration! What better inspiration is there than a hyped up werewolf?
R: I am NOT, hyped up.
J: What some chocolate?
R: *pounce*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*) Choir Class(*)
It wasn't really a real class; just a sort of fun one. that was worth marks. but it was required.
So that's what they did.
"Well I think this is stupid," Sirius growled. "They should just let us do whatever we want."
"Then the school would probably get blown up," James smirked. "Come on, it's not so bad. We go twice a week and just sing. How hard can that be?"
Famous last words.
"Ok class, we'll be practicing the song 'Memory'. Please open your music and sing along with the piano." Professor Snowb, the choral teacher said. She banged her composer's wand on the side of a podium and they all stood.
As they opened their music, they soon came to realize, that they couldn't read a single note of music.
"How are we supposed to know this?" James whispered to Sirius, who was standing beside him.
"I don't know, I guess she's just assuming we've been in this sort of thing before."
"You! In the back!" Professor Snowb hollered. "Quiet!"
James and Sirius glanced at each other but did as she bid.
By the end of the lesson, it was safe to say that the four boys had a new less than favorite teacher.
***
"That was the biggest waste of time ever!" Sirius growled, kicking the leg of his bed.
"I thought it was kind of fun." James shrugged, finishing his Potions homework.
Sirius frowned, "What? She said you sing like a dieing cat!"
James smirked, "So?"
Sirius sighed and shook his head. "I say we don't go to the next one."
"Why not?"
"Do you wanna go back in there and sing for a bitchy old woman again?"
"Of course not. but who said anything about singing?" James smiled. the one that you can just tell he had an idea. and someone's not going to like it. namely. the teacher.
***
The next class wasn't any better.
"I think can read the first few notes!" James whispered to his friends.
"Oh really now?" Sirius asked out of the corner of his mouth, trying not to look like he was talking again.
"Yes. you see it goes: Miiiddddnnniiiiggghhhhttt! All allloooonnnnee in the Moooonnnliiighhhtt!"
James failed to notice that everyone else in the class had stopped singing and he'd just sing an embarrassing high pitched, out-of-tune phrase.. But this was James.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!"
The professor was not pleased.
"You over there! And you over there!" She placed Peter at the front on the right side, Sirius in the middle on the left side, James on the right and Remus got to stand just where he was.
The teacher glared at them, then tapping her wand on the podium again, the music started.
"MMMMMMMMMmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddnnnnnnnnnigggggghtttttttt!!!!!"
The music stopped.
"Mr. Potter! Will you KINDLY keep your voice DOWN!!"
James smirked, "I'm sorry. That's just the way I was born, Madam."
The class laughed.
The Professor glared at him and started the music.
"NOT A SOUND FROM THE PPPPPPAAAAAVVVVVEEEMENNT!!"
Again the music stopped.
"Mr. Black, this is not an opera house."
"Could have fooled me." Sirius glared.
The Professor, clearly taken aback, gave an overly loud snort and stalked to the other side of the room.
"Now look! You made the Professor leave!" A girl with red hair said and glared at James.
"So?" Sirius replied. "Ms. Snob should learn how to respect her students!"
The redhead was about to reply when James interrupted. "No one asked your opinion anyway."
The redhead narrowed her impossibly deep green eyes.
"Who are you anyway?" James asked.
The girl sniffed. "I'm Lily Evans, I'm in Gryffindor House."
"Really now? So are we" Sirius said. He had to speak loudly since James and Lily were on the other side of the bleachers.
"I know who you are," Lily said. "Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. You four were caught raiding the kitchen and lost our house 100 points!"
"Wow James, we're infamous!" Sirius said, pretending to wave to a huge crowd.
Peter was watching the whole exchange with keen interest and Remus was reading through the music book.
The professor came back then, "All right, no more nonsense or I will have you expelled from this school! Understand?"
Some of the students nodded.
After a pretty much uneventful end of lesson, Professor (If you could call her that) Snowb made an announcement.
"We will be holding a grand concert for the rest of your schoolmates, and so, there will be an audition for the male and female solos."
James and Sirius glanced at each other.
"You," She pointed at James. "Will not audition."
James frowned. "Why not?"
"I want people with 'talent'" And with that, she stormed away.
"That wasn't very nice!" James called after her.
"She's not a very likable person, is she?" Remus said and Sirius patted James on the shoulder.
~~
"That Professor Snowb really makes me tick." James was saying as the four of them say in the Gryffindor Common Room.
"It's ok James, I don't like her either." Peter said, he was doing his Charms homework.
Remus stood up. "Where are you going?" Sirius asked.
"I need to go do something." Remus said and left the dormitories.
Sirius shrugged from where he was lying on the floor reading a magazine.
Ten minutes passed.
"Oh!" Peter exclaimed. "I forgot my notes! Sirius, can I use yours?"
Sirius was still engulfed in his magazine. "What makes you think I took them? Ask Remus."
Peter nodded and headed up to the dorms.
He stopped outside the doors.
Was that --- music?
Peter rushed back down the stairs. "Sirius! James! Come here!"
James shot a look at his best friend.
"Peter, if this is like the time with the invisible horses."
"No! No! Come! It's .. It's Remus."
James and Sirius got to their feet and followed the boy to the dorms.
They stopped outside the doors and listened.
There was music coming from within.
Quietly, they opened the door a crack, they stuck their heads through.
Remus had his back to them.
Remus was singing. and he didn't sound like a dieing cat either!
He was actually quite good. he was more than good. no, no.. he was frickin' sensational!
When the song was done, a burst of applause broke through the room, Remus spun around.
"I didn't know you could sing!" Sirius said, as Peter, James, and he stood straight up.
"Uh-well. I." Remus stammered.
"Are you going to try for the solo?" Peter asked.
Remus looked thoughtful. "Well I was thinking about it-"
"Thinking about it?" James asked, putting an arm around Remus' shoulder. "Lupin, with that voice, you have it made!"
"Well I'm not sure."
"Nonsense!" Sirius said standing in from of him. "Remus, you are going to audition and you are going to win!"
"This isn't a competition, Sirius." Remus said quietly.
"Well then," Sirius said. "May the best man win."
"And you will!" James added.
The Marauders, true to their word, accompanied Remus on his day of the audition. They sat in the bleachers and waited patiently as many other solo singers tried out. Finally, when it was Remus' turn, they all cheered and caused Remus' face to redden.
Remus was obviously the best vocal talent there. No lies! Everyone else couldn't even compare, they were so sure that he would get the part.
"That was actually quite easy." Remus said grinning at his friends after the audition.
"You rocked!" James piped up, strutting in front of their group like he always did.
"Thank you James." Remus said, he was humble person, but even he knew that he really WAS the best one there.
**Three Days Later**
The students of Hogwarts were informed that the selections for choir solos would be posted that morning. as the students crowed around, one thing was made perfectly clear.
"WHAT!!?? HOW THE HELL DID LUCIUS MALFOY GET THE PART?!?!"
"Sirius!" James yelled and clamped a hand over his mouth, dragging him back to their house table.
"But it doesn't make any sense!" Sirius continued. "The Slytherin prat can't even carry a tune!" Sirius slumped down at his spot at the Gryffindor table.
"Geezus, you'd think you were the one who lost to Malfoy." James said, pouring a glass of juice. "Like I've said before," Remus said. "It isn't a competition, Lucius obviously was just a little better than me."
"He was not!" Sirius was about to start up again. "She didn't pick you because she KNEW you were friends with us!"
No one said anything; that could have very well been the case.
"I'm right, aren't I?" Sirius muttered, eating a bit of pancakes
"That's hardly adequate to be accusing a teacher of such a thing." A voice said. Clearing over-hearing their conversation.
"Eavesdropping Evans? I didn't know you'd sink so low." James said to the redheaded girl.
She flicked her hair behind her, "By the show your friend was putting on, people could probably hear you from all the way outside."
"This is none of your business." Sirius glared.
She shook her head, gathering her things to leave. "Not that it's any of your business, but I happened to have made the female solo part, and you four better do well not to mess it up!" And with that, she left.
"I don't like her one bit." Sirius said, stabbing at his food.
When he didn't get an agreement, nor a disagreement he looked up to see James with a misty expression in his eyes. Then, "I HAVE IT!" James practically jumped onto the table. Startling his friends at his sudden outburst.
"Have what?" Sirius asked, righting the egg bowl he'd toppled.
"I have the plan to make Ms. Snob wish she'd be fair!"
~~~~~~Oh this was going to be good.~~~~~~
On the day of the rehearsal people where rushing around backstage, anticipating the moment when they'd stand up on those bleachers and sing to the school.
James made extra sure he rammed his shoulder into Lucius' whenever he got the chance.
Lucius, that smug bastard. If he thought they were going to let him get away with this. he was wrong.
"I would really appreciate it if you told me what it was you're going to do." Remus said, eyeing Sirius and James suspiciously.
"Don't worry about it," James grinned. "All you have to do is sing. Ok? Whatever happens, just sing."
Remus looked extremely doubtful.
"Promise?" Sirius asked.
Remus sighed. "Oh all right." He wasn't what kind of consequences there would be for placing his sanity in the hands on these people.
The moment arrived and all the members of the choir stepped out and up onto the bleachers on stage.
The Professor tapped her wand and the music started.
James and Sirius were on either end of the bleachers and seemed to be mouthing the words.
Peter was in the middle somewhere and he was waiting for a signal from James.
The solo was coming up.
Lily and Lucius were standing on the top most bleacher, in the middle. Waiting for their solos to come.
The first few bars of the solo were played and James and Sirius jumped off the bleachers.
Peter shoved Remus forward, off the bleachers and to the front.
Simultaneously James and Sirius pulled a bolt from the bleachers and the entire choir fell to the ground.
Leaving only Remus standing in the middle and Sirius and James somewhere off to the side.
The solo came.
"Sing dammit!" Sirius hissed at Remus who was still in mild shock at what had just happened.
Remus did.
The music stopped right after that, when the Professor finally got the music spell to stop, which had been 'altered' by Mr. J. Potter and S. Black.
The rest of the program was cancelled.
As the choir students slowly entangled themselves from each other and got to their feet, the rest of the school roared with laughter and applause. Remus really was the best there and he's proved that just then.
Now only the consequences of their actions remained.
"JAMES POTTER!!!! I TOLD YOU NOT TO RUIN THIS FOR ME! I'LL KILL YOU!!"
James winced as a psycho redheaded Gryffindor charged at him.
Oh yeah. and her too.