Marauder Nightmare
JK Rowling's
Chapter 2
The Hogwarts Express rolled back into Kings Cross Station and they exited the barrier. Mrs. Potter was at the gate waving. James led his Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail to his mom without a second glance at Snivellus. Mrs. Potter welcomed the four and then said, "Where's dear Severus?"
"I dunno," James replied.
"We must wait for him."
"We do?" Sirius muttered.
They needn't have waited long, before the greasy, stingy haired boy came over, struggling with his owl, who wouldn't get in his cage. Mrs. Potter smiled.
"Hello, Severus dear," Mrs. Potter said sweetly.
"Hello Mrs. Potter," Severus muttered.
"Let me help you with your owl, dear."
Severus handed his owl and the cage to Mrs. Potter and she shoved the owl lightly into his cage. It hooted wildly.
"Come now, let us go!"
"James, when are we having a snack? I'm hungry!" Sirius whined.
"You just had 70 chocolate frogs, 32 pumpkin pastries, 44 licorice wands, and 25 cauldron cakes, and you're hungry?" Remus exclaimed, and raised his eyebrows.
"You know Sirius, Moony! His three favorite subjects are girls, Quidditch, and FOOD," Prongs laughed.
Mrs. Potter chuckled, "Don't worry Sirius, I have a cauldron full of cauldron cakes at home!"
"FOOD!" Sirius yelled.
The Marauders and Mrs. Potter laughed. Severus followed stiffly behind them, not saying a word. It was easy not to notice him.
The minute Mrs. Potter flung open the door to their home, Sirius sprinted to the kitchen, dropping his trunk on Peter's toe by accident. He immediately found the cauldron full of steaming cauldron cakes. Sirius's eyes lit up and his face pulled into a maniac grin. He stuck his hand in and pulled ten out at once and stuffed them all into his mouth, the taste was heavenly. Mrs. Potter made the best cauldron cakes. The other three Marauders flew into the kitchen to grab some cakes before Sirius sucked them all up. Severus walked upstairs.
"Sevvy dear, do you want some cauldron cakes?" Mrs. Potter called.
"No, thank you," Severus muttered.
"Are you sure dear?"
"Yes, thank you anyway, Mrs. Potter."
"Since when did Snivelly have manners?" Peter whispered.
"Since he's been trying to charm Prongs' mother," Sirius replied, taking another twenty cakes and throwing them in his mouth.
"I'm surprised you stay so thin, when you eat so much sweets," Remus exclaimed, watching crumbs fly from his Sirius's mouth.
"It by spe-bal-ti," Sirius stuttered, finally swallowing the load of cakes, "Ahh, that was good."
James reached into the cauldron and felt around it. There were no more cakes.
"Sirius!"
Sirius grinned sheepishly, "Sorry Prongs."
Mrs. Potter came bustling in, seeing the empty cauldron, she quickly sent it into the sink and the faucet turned on and began rinsing it.
"What would you four like to drink? Pumpkin juice? Butterbeer? Tea? Milk? Coffee? Or a Muggle soda pop?"
"Muggle soda pops? What are soda pops?" Peter asked.
"Their like this fizzy drink. It's actually good. Can I have one Mum?" James asked.
A soda came whizzing to the table. James popped the can off and looked under it.
"Oh drat," he muttered.
"What?" Remus asked.
"I didn't win."
"Win what?" Sirius asked.
"On these soda pop thingys, you can look under the cap to see if you win. If you win, you get some prize," he took a sip, "But the soda is good anyways."
"It looks too fizzy. I think I'll just take a Butterbeer," Remus said.
"I want the soda poppy thing," Peter said.
"Me too," Sirius agreed.
A Butterbeer and two sodas landed on the table. When all drinks were finished, the Marauders flew up the stairs and burst in on poor Sevvy.
"Hi Snivelly! Let's have fun!" James said in a falsely cheery voice.
James had already had his wand out before Snape could move.
"Engorgio!" he shouted, and aimed it at Snape's stomach.
In less than two seconds, Severus's stomach was swelling like a balloon. He looked like a pot-belly pig with greasy hair. With a swelling stomach, Severus couldn't lift his wand.
"Look's like dear Sevvy's pregnant!" Sirius teased.
"No, I think he just ate a little too much on the train," Peter replied.
Remus sat on the bed, refusing to take part. Neutrality was his best choice.
"Actually, I just think he swallowed a watermelon seed and now it's growing," James said.
Nobody did anything to help the poor fellow. Until...
"James! Remus! Sirius! Peter! Severus! You have a visitor!"
Peter, James, and Sirius stopped laughing and James quickly muttered the counter spell and his friends and he hurried downstairs, Severus followed, scowling nastily. At the door, stood a moderately tall sort of person. He had red hair and freckles.
"Oh hi Arthur!" Remus said kindly.
"Who?" Sirius asked.
"I'm Arthur Weasley. I'm in Gryffindor too, remember?"
"Oh yea! Hey!" James said.
"I just moved here, and wanted to say hi to my classmates. We have plugs in our house! My parents bought a Muggle house! So there's plugs! There's also a fellytone! Isn't it wonderful? I've always wanted to see what a Muggle house was like! You should come by sometime! It's so fascinating! And I found some Muggle money in a corner! It's so cool! Well, I have to go home now, Mum wants me to pick my room. Drop by sometime, ok James?"
"Will do," James replied.
Arthur hopped back to his house across the street.
"I always thought the guy was a little weird," Sirius said, shaking his head.
"We better get back upstairs," Remus said quietly.
"Yea, good idea Moony, we have a lot of plans with Snivelly," James agreed.
They were almost at the door of James' room, when a low voice snarled –
"Pertrificus totalus!"
James' arms snapped to his side and his legs snapped together. His face froze and he fell over. Sirius brandished his wand and quickly said the counter spell, then aimed his wand at Severus – "Rictusempra!" Snape fell over, laughing so hard. He was a very ticklish guy. He rolled on the floor laughing and trying to avoid the tickles the spell was doing. He was finally able to cry the counter spell and aim a spell at Sirius. "Furnunculus! " Boils spread all over Sirius's face. Meanwhile, Remus had slipped quietly downstairs, not wanting to witness the duel. Together, Sirius still having boils growing all over his skin, James and Sirius shouted, "Incendio!" Snape's clothes caught on fire. The Marauders laughed. It was a funny sight, watching him jump up and down, using his wand to spill water over them. When the flames had finally been emitted, Mrs. Potter had called them to dinner. Everyone stuck their wands quickly in their pockets and hurried downstairs.
There was a giant plate of sandwiches on the table, along with five goblets and bottles of soda pop, Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice, and tea.
"Where's Mr. Potter?" Peter asked.
"He's working late at the Ministry today, trying to figure out whether that child – I think Lucius Malfoy was he? Trying to figure out whether the boy's father is a Death Eater. Now, what would you five like to drink?"
"Can we have Firewhisky, Mum?"James asked.
"Of course not!" Mrs. Potter cried, "Only the adult wizards and witches may touch that!"
James grinned wickedly.
"No James, I hid it in a new place!"
The look on James' face disappeared and he helped himself to a sandwich, while Sirius stacked 20 on top of each other and swallowed them whole. What with Sirius eating 20 at once, the plate was gone in a matter of seconds. Luckily, the plate was a refilling plate, so it kept refilling itself.
When all drinks had been served, Mrs. Potter tried to start a conversation.
"I did hear an awful lot of shouting and screaming upstairs, what in the world are you five doing?" Mrs. Potter asked them.
James threw Severus a glare. Severus knew that, he could always tell Mrs. Potter what happened, and James and his friends would get in deep trouble, but that would only prove he was a coward, and they'd be more unbearable. He would settle them some way else.
"Oh, we were practicing some spells," James said casually.
Remus raised his eyebrows, and Peter quickly stuffed the rest of his sandwich into his mouth. Severus chugged his glass of Pumpkin Juice to keep from spilling. James and Sirius just kept eating as if nothing was wrong. Eventually, the subject changed.
"I heard that Arthur Weasley, who's in your house, just moved across the street. Was he the one who came to visit?"
"Oh yea," Sirius said dully.
"He's a little strange, isn't he?"
"He loves Muggles and their stuff, he collects plugs," Peter exclaimed.
"He's the most disrespectful pure-blood there is!" Severus snarled, "Loving Muggles."
There was an awkward silence following. Mrs. Potter seemed to want to say something in Muggles' defense, but she stopped, not wanting to anger her best friend's child. James and Sirius threw Snape an evil glare, and Remus looked away. Peter picked at his sandwich, he was a half-blood after all.
"Erm, I think I'm done," James said.
"Yea, me too," Peter agreed.
"Me three," Remus replied.
Severus stood up without a word.
Only Mrs. Potter and Sirius were still sitting at the table.
"Oy! Am I the only one who's still hungry?" Sirius asked.
He grabbed the plate and dumped the rest of its contents into his mouth, took a swig of soda pop, and let out a big belch.
"Ah, that felt good. Ok, I'm full now too!" Sirius said cheerfully, and jumped up.
"Vacuum!" Remus teased.
Sirius ignored the comment and turned to Mrs. Potter.
"When's dessert?" he asked.
The other three Marauders groaned.
Padfoot: Yea, well, this is sort of in the point of Snapey and sort of in the point of the Marauders, so you might have some insulting from both sides. DON'T KILL ME!
Evil Bellatrix Lestrange: Haha! See what happens to Snapey!
Kyra Invictus Black: Thank you for the advice. I'll be sure to keep that in mind (. Maybe they will go on a road trip, I dunno.
aihjah: Thanks for your praises! We'll see what happens to Snapey, I'll send him your sympathy though! And don't worry, the Marauders won't be too bad, they're my heroes too (
Electron Chan: Thanks for the praises! Don't worry, Snapey won't have too much of a hard time, I'll send him your sympathy along with aijah's.
Fanasy: Thanks for the praises!