Chapter nine: The Slythrin Common Room
"Hi, you guys okay?" A voice asked them when they were in the common room, waiting for Peter to get his cloak on. James turned around to find himself face to face with Lilly, who had some toast with her. Lou, who had some toast stuck in her mouth, she was trying to fasten her clock clipping, and Laura, who was trying to prevent the marmalade on her toast from sliding everywhere. "Yeah, were alright" Said Sirius who was still smiling about the map, all of the Marauders were.
"Gosh, Lilly, can you do my clip up, I can't see it" Lou pleaded, through a muffled voice, because of the toast still in her mouth.
"I cant, I've got butter on my fingers" Lilly said trying to finish her toast.
"Laura?" She said looking at her nicely, Laura pointed at her toast, then her wiggled her fingers that were covered in marmalade, and then she shrugged.
"I'll do it" Remus said, and he fastened her clock,
"You shouldn't off done that," Lilly said laughing, Remus looked confused,
"Lou has trouble with that clock every morning, and me and Lilly get sick of doing it, and you've just volunteered your life away" Laura said laughing. Lou glared at them and mumbled something sounding like, no she didn't.
"Haven't you had your breakfast yet?" Lilly asked the boys, who shock their heads.
"Oh," Lilly said
"Were going down again, can we come with you?" Laura asked them
"Yeah sure" Sirius smirked. On the way down to the Great Hall, Sirius was talking to Laura and Lilly, and Lou was talking to Peter.
"I haven't really singed my life away, have I?" Remus asked James. James sighed and chuckled, "What?" Remus asked just as they entered the Great Hall, which was still quite full.
"You heard me," James said sitting next to Lilly, leaving Remus to his thoughts. Half way through James's second piece of toast, Lilly said to him, "I really don't like him, he's been insulting me ever since I got here" James looked at her and pulled out his wand,
"Who? I'll curse him," James said trying to stand up,
"James. Sit down, Dumbledore's up there" Lilly pointed out "It doesn't matter anyway" She continued
"Tell me who, I'll get them later" James insisted.
"No one" Lilly said again, James hit her with a stare, "Okay, Snape" She said quietly. James nodded to tell her that he wasn't going to do anything drastic, but he couldn't wait till the Marauders had there say, when they got to the Slythrin common room. He was going to hit Snape with every jinx he could think "Your hooked on her" he said of. To the left of him, Lou and Laura were whispering, no one else seemed to notice, so James tried to tune it out, until his name was mentioned, "She does like James, you owe me a gallion" Laura told Lou.
"There's no proper proof, she only likes him as a friend, I know Lilly, she gets like that" Lou told her
"Are you trying to tell me I don't know one of my best friends?" Laura asked in a dangerous whisper,
"No, I'm trying to save myself a gallion" Lou said sulkily, then she flipped a golden coin into Laura's hand, who smiled and said,
"Thanks."
The girls spent the rest of the day with the boys, not that they were complaining. Peter though went off about three o'clock, saying he needed to talk to Penny, "You go Peter" Sirius said. Laura looked at him funny, "He fancies her crazy" Sirius explained to her.
"He hasn't got a chance" Laura said bluntly, Sirius looked at her strangely and demanded,
"Why not?"
"Oh, I don't mean it that way," Laura said, suddenly realising what she just said, and how mean it sounded. "Its just that Penny is going out with that Tom Rush guy, he's in Slythrin" Laura said apologetically.
"Oh, okay" Sirius said. Later on in the common room, Peter still wasn't back, "Why is she taking so long to reject him," Lilly asked "No offence meant" Lilly added in nicely.
"What are you lot doing on the Hogsmeade weekend?" Lou asked not really paying attention, as she was platting her hair.
"What Hogsmeade visit?" Remus asked
"Do you ever read the message board? There's one next Friday," Lou told him
"Oh, well I donno, were probably going to get some stuff from Zonco's, right?" Remus asked the other guys, they all murmured in agreement.
"Unless," Sirius said with a grin creeping on to his face, they all looked up at him,
"Unless what?" Lilly asked
"Well, unless you want to go about with us?" Sirius said, his voice so full of confidence as if he knew they would say yes.
"Well, if you put it that way, cool" Lou said.
"Lou!" Lilly and Laura said
"What?" She asked
"We had plans, remember," Laura said, looking slightly hurt.
"Oh, sorry, I just thought it would be good for Lilly and James to get to know each other better" Lou said going red.
"Well, if you put it like that, okay" Laura said. Lilly glared at them, but before she could say anything, James cut in,
"It's a date then" James said, directing it more at Lilly than Lou and Laura. The boys grinned,
"Haha, don't count on it, Potter" Lilly said, "Come on, we have work to do" Lilly said to the other girls, who followed her out the room and up the girls stairs.
"Well, your happy now aren't you Prongs?" Remus said "Got a 'kind of' date with Lilly" He added in. James laughed,
"You know, I am, and you two should be too, because Lou and Laura are good looking and all, and you too can have them"
"Already working on it!" Sirius said with confidence, James and Remus just laughed.
"You know, I cant wait till Wormtail gets back, he's going to make the day, because then we can go to the Slythrin common room, and kill Snivilly" James said, smiling mischievously. The boys all waited until about ten o'clock, until the portrait door finally opened,
"Wormtail, where have you been?" Remus exclaimed
"Err, I got caught up by Snivellus, and I forgot my wand" Peter said wincing.
"Right, come on, I'll get my clock and the map, and were off" James said angrily, "No one pushes the Marauders around" He added going up the stairs. Ten minuets later the Marauders were concealed under the cloak, with the map in Sirius's hand. "Wands ready?" James asked them, they all nodded,
"Right then, let's go" Sirius commanded.
"Do we have to?" Peter asked sacredly
"Yes, we do. I agree with them on this one. We have too, he's made your life, Lilly's life and James's life, hell." Remus whispered to him. They made sure they couldn't be seen in a nearby mirror, then as swiftly as possible, they made their way down a dark, cold, cobweb covered corridor, leading to what they knew to be the dungeons. They heard voices up a head, "She is a mudblood, that's the only word for it, just dump the cow, get it over with, don't ruin your reputation, she's not even hot" Someone was telling someone else
"Are you sure she's a mudblood?" He asked back, they guy nodded, "Okay, thanks, Mark". When the coast was clear, they made progress, until they came across a dead end, "I think this is the entrance," Sirius said. They only had to wait thirty seconds to find out whether Sirius was right or not, "Blood" a voice said behind them. The boys recognised the voice, it was a greasy, know it all, it was the voice of Serverus Snape, the boys grinned at each other, evilly. They followed Snape into a vast, green and silver room. "Lets go wreck his room" Sirius suggested, looking menacingly at Snape, Remus made a little noise of unwillingness, but didn't act anymore on it. The boys made their way up the stairs very quietly. They stopped at each room until they got to the top most and noticed that the door plaque said 'Fifth year boys', the boys grinned evilly, and entered slowly. Inside was a room almost identical to the boys dormitories, it was large, beautiful and made out of wood, the only notable difference was it covered in green, "Lets put a little colour change you know, just to liven them up a bit" Sirius said
"Yeah, after all, I've never like the colour green" Peter agreed, James nodded and drew out his wand, Sirius and Peter followed in suit, but Remus looked a bit reluctant, but did still draw out his wand. Half an hour later, the Marauders were still in the Slytherin's dormitories when they herd the distinct sound of people's voices. Hiding under the invisibility cloak, they watched as Snape and another boy they were not familiar with, walk in to the room. At first they just continued talking, until thirty seconds later, their mouths fell wide open. Sirius and James went into silent fits of laughter, Peter looked a bit worried, but joined in, and Remus looked rather upset, like he was going to get caught. He to joined in when the two boys started searching for something, as if they were going to find the culprit. "I'm going to go get Professor Madreal," The boy other than Snape said walking out of the room.
"We've got him!" Sirius snarled, he pulled his wand up closer to him, and aimed it at Snape, "Expelliarmus" He said in a low whisper, Snape turned round to face the voice, but he couldn't see anyone or thing. He was blasted half was across the room, the boys took off the cloak, Remus sealed the door with a locking spell, Sirius and James held their wands over Snape, and Peter stayed back, looking a bit weary. "So," James demanded, "You think you can give Evans a hard time, and Peter, well think again, Snivellus"
"Leave...Me...Alone...Potter" Snape said, still heavily breathing
"You think that James is going to leave you alone, look at all the crap you have put us through, and now your starting on Lilly, anyways, this is James's way of getting Lilly's revenge on you, for you calling her a Mudblood," Sirius said, Snape glared at them, but he got up, uneasily to his feet,
"Your pathetic Potter, pathetic, you hear me, PATHETIC" he shouted out. James laughed, "You think I care what the hell you think, think again" Ten minuets later, there was a patter of feet, and it sounded as though that boy had finally found Professor Madreal. "Come on, let's leave" Remus said, "Hold on, one moment" Peter said, "Obliviate" He shouted, the one spell that Peter always succeeded in was the memory charm, for Snape was on his back, knocked out cold, covered in jinxes, "Alohaomora" Remus whispered, taking off the locking charm on the door, and hiding himself under the cloak. The door opened and there was a gasp, "What happened to the room?" The teacher exclaimed, obviously looking at the drastic colour change from green to red.
"Look," The boy said, pointing at the unconscious Snape covered in jinxes, Professor Madreal gasped, help him up to the Hospital wing, I'll get Madam Levinatra to help him" Professor Madreal said, running out of the room, with Snape on a stretcher, the boys followed them out of the room quietly and silently laughing.
When they were back at the Gryffindor common room entrance, Peter said, "Frisbee" the password, and they entered, before taking the cloak off they noticed three people sitting on the couch, the girls all looked round at the door, but they saw no one, "What was that?" James heard Lilly say, the other boys were about to pull off the cloak, but James stopped them, he wanted to hear what the girls were talking about, "Don't know" Lou replied to Lilly,
"Oh, yeah sorry. Well anyway, you were great, you really had them fooled" Lilly said.
"What can I say, I was born to act" Lou said, jokingly.
"Yeah. You were great, did you see our faces as well, and we were pretty good. They hadn't a clue that you were doing it on purpose," Laura said happily.
"What are they talking about?" Peter asked in a very quiet whisper. Remus shook his head, but there answer had just started to become clear: The boys had a clear view of the girls, who had just started to watch Laura do a reincarnation of the event they were talking about, the reincarnation made the boys smile, it made them smile a lot. The reincarnation they were doing was the one of Lou 'accidentally' letting it slip that they liked them, and inviting them with them on the Hogwarts trip. "Did you see his face, God, he's can be so big headed" Laura said, talking about Sirius, who frowned, and whispered,
"Am not!"
"Hey, Lilly, you owe me a big fee for that act" Lou said jokingly
"Me? You like one of them, I know you do" Lilly said laughing. "And you Laura" Lilly said to her. The girls argued a bit then went to bed. The guys made their way up the stairs too, Sirius still complaining that he was not big headed, "Now you know why Lilly wont go out with me.... yet, because she thinks I'm big headed." James said getting ready for bed.
"Hmmm," Sirius said in agreement. The rest of the night the boys just talked, mostly about the girls, arguing that they didn't fancy certain girls. The talking finally stopped about three o'clock, when Peter started to snore, then the other boys followed his lead and fell asleep.
"Hi, you guys okay?" A voice asked them when they were in the common room, waiting for Peter to get his cloak on. James turned around to find himself face to face with Lilly, who had some toast with her. Lou, who had some toast stuck in her mouth, she was trying to fasten her clock clipping, and Laura, who was trying to prevent the marmalade on her toast from sliding everywhere. "Yeah, were alright" Said Sirius who was still smiling about the map, all of the Marauders were.
"Gosh, Lilly, can you do my clip up, I can't see it" Lou pleaded, through a muffled voice, because of the toast still in her mouth.
"I cant, I've got butter on my fingers" Lilly said trying to finish her toast.
"Laura?" She said looking at her nicely, Laura pointed at her toast, then her wiggled her fingers that were covered in marmalade, and then she shrugged.
"I'll do it" Remus said, and he fastened her clock,
"You shouldn't off done that," Lilly said laughing, Remus looked confused,
"Lou has trouble with that clock every morning, and me and Lilly get sick of doing it, and you've just volunteered your life away" Laura said laughing. Lou glared at them and mumbled something sounding like, no she didn't.
"Haven't you had your breakfast yet?" Lilly asked the boys, who shock their heads.
"Oh," Lilly said
"Were going down again, can we come with you?" Laura asked them
"Yeah sure" Sirius smirked. On the way down to the Great Hall, Sirius was talking to Laura and Lilly, and Lou was talking to Peter.
"I haven't really singed my life away, have I?" Remus asked James. James sighed and chuckled, "What?" Remus asked just as they entered the Great Hall, which was still quite full.
"You heard me," James said sitting next to Lilly, leaving Remus to his thoughts. Half way through James's second piece of toast, Lilly said to him, "I really don't like him, he's been insulting me ever since I got here" James looked at her and pulled out his wand,
"Who? I'll curse him," James said trying to stand up,
"James. Sit down, Dumbledore's up there" Lilly pointed out "It doesn't matter anyway" She continued
"Tell me who, I'll get them later" James insisted.
"No one" Lilly said again, James hit her with a stare, "Okay, Snape" She said quietly. James nodded to tell her that he wasn't going to do anything drastic, but he couldn't wait till the Marauders had there say, when they got to the Slythrin common room. He was going to hit Snape with every jinx he could think "Your hooked on her" he said of. To the left of him, Lou and Laura were whispering, no one else seemed to notice, so James tried to tune it out, until his name was mentioned, "She does like James, you owe me a gallion" Laura told Lou.
"There's no proper proof, she only likes him as a friend, I know Lilly, she gets like that" Lou told her
"Are you trying to tell me I don't know one of my best friends?" Laura asked in a dangerous whisper,
"No, I'm trying to save myself a gallion" Lou said sulkily, then she flipped a golden coin into Laura's hand, who smiled and said,
"Thanks."
The girls spent the rest of the day with the boys, not that they were complaining. Peter though went off about three o'clock, saying he needed to talk to Penny, "You go Peter" Sirius said. Laura looked at him funny, "He fancies her crazy" Sirius explained to her.
"He hasn't got a chance" Laura said bluntly, Sirius looked at her strangely and demanded,
"Why not?"
"Oh, I don't mean it that way," Laura said, suddenly realising what she just said, and how mean it sounded. "Its just that Penny is going out with that Tom Rush guy, he's in Slythrin" Laura said apologetically.
"Oh, okay" Sirius said. Later on in the common room, Peter still wasn't back, "Why is she taking so long to reject him," Lilly asked "No offence meant" Lilly added in nicely.
"What are you lot doing on the Hogsmeade weekend?" Lou asked not really paying attention, as she was platting her hair.
"What Hogsmeade visit?" Remus asked
"Do you ever read the message board? There's one next Friday," Lou told him
"Oh, well I donno, were probably going to get some stuff from Zonco's, right?" Remus asked the other guys, they all murmured in agreement.
"Unless," Sirius said with a grin creeping on to his face, they all looked up at him,
"Unless what?" Lilly asked
"Well, unless you want to go about with us?" Sirius said, his voice so full of confidence as if he knew they would say yes.
"Well, if you put it that way, cool" Lou said.
"Lou!" Lilly and Laura said
"What?" She asked
"We had plans, remember," Laura said, looking slightly hurt.
"Oh, sorry, I just thought it would be good for Lilly and James to get to know each other better" Lou said going red.
"Well, if you put it like that, okay" Laura said. Lilly glared at them, but before she could say anything, James cut in,
"It's a date then" James said, directing it more at Lilly than Lou and Laura. The boys grinned,
"Haha, don't count on it, Potter" Lilly said, "Come on, we have work to do" Lilly said to the other girls, who followed her out the room and up the girls stairs.
"Well, your happy now aren't you Prongs?" Remus said "Got a 'kind of' date with Lilly" He added in. James laughed,
"You know, I am, and you two should be too, because Lou and Laura are good looking and all, and you too can have them"
"Already working on it!" Sirius said with confidence, James and Remus just laughed.
"You know, I cant wait till Wormtail gets back, he's going to make the day, because then we can go to the Slythrin common room, and kill Snivilly" James said, smiling mischievously. The boys all waited until about ten o'clock, until the portrait door finally opened,
"Wormtail, where have you been?" Remus exclaimed
"Err, I got caught up by Snivellus, and I forgot my wand" Peter said wincing.
"Right, come on, I'll get my clock and the map, and were off" James said angrily, "No one pushes the Marauders around" He added going up the stairs. Ten minuets later the Marauders were concealed under the cloak, with the map in Sirius's hand. "Wands ready?" James asked them, they all nodded,
"Right then, let's go" Sirius commanded.
"Do we have to?" Peter asked sacredly
"Yes, we do. I agree with them on this one. We have too, he's made your life, Lilly's life and James's life, hell." Remus whispered to him. They made sure they couldn't be seen in a nearby mirror, then as swiftly as possible, they made their way down a dark, cold, cobweb covered corridor, leading to what they knew to be the dungeons. They heard voices up a head, "She is a mudblood, that's the only word for it, just dump the cow, get it over with, don't ruin your reputation, she's not even hot" Someone was telling someone else
"Are you sure she's a mudblood?" He asked back, they guy nodded, "Okay, thanks, Mark". When the coast was clear, they made progress, until they came across a dead end, "I think this is the entrance," Sirius said. They only had to wait thirty seconds to find out whether Sirius was right or not, "Blood" a voice said behind them. The boys recognised the voice, it was a greasy, know it all, it was the voice of Serverus Snape, the boys grinned at each other, evilly. They followed Snape into a vast, green and silver room. "Lets go wreck his room" Sirius suggested, looking menacingly at Snape, Remus made a little noise of unwillingness, but didn't act anymore on it. The boys made their way up the stairs very quietly. They stopped at each room until they got to the top most and noticed that the door plaque said 'Fifth year boys', the boys grinned evilly, and entered slowly. Inside was a room almost identical to the boys dormitories, it was large, beautiful and made out of wood, the only notable difference was it covered in green, "Lets put a little colour change you know, just to liven them up a bit" Sirius said
"Yeah, after all, I've never like the colour green" Peter agreed, James nodded and drew out his wand, Sirius and Peter followed in suit, but Remus looked a bit reluctant, but did still draw out his wand. Half an hour later, the Marauders were still in the Slytherin's dormitories when they herd the distinct sound of people's voices. Hiding under the invisibility cloak, they watched as Snape and another boy they were not familiar with, walk in to the room. At first they just continued talking, until thirty seconds later, their mouths fell wide open. Sirius and James went into silent fits of laughter, Peter looked a bit worried, but joined in, and Remus looked rather upset, like he was going to get caught. He to joined in when the two boys started searching for something, as if they were going to find the culprit. "I'm going to go get Professor Madreal," The boy other than Snape said walking out of the room.
"We've got him!" Sirius snarled, he pulled his wand up closer to him, and aimed it at Snape, "Expelliarmus" He said in a low whisper, Snape turned round to face the voice, but he couldn't see anyone or thing. He was blasted half was across the room, the boys took off the cloak, Remus sealed the door with a locking spell, Sirius and James held their wands over Snape, and Peter stayed back, looking a bit weary. "So," James demanded, "You think you can give Evans a hard time, and Peter, well think again, Snivellus"
"Leave...Me...Alone...Potter" Snape said, still heavily breathing
"You think that James is going to leave you alone, look at all the crap you have put us through, and now your starting on Lilly, anyways, this is James's way of getting Lilly's revenge on you, for you calling her a Mudblood," Sirius said, Snape glared at them, but he got up, uneasily to his feet,
"Your pathetic Potter, pathetic, you hear me, PATHETIC" he shouted out. James laughed, "You think I care what the hell you think, think again" Ten minuets later, there was a patter of feet, and it sounded as though that boy had finally found Professor Madreal. "Come on, let's leave" Remus said, "Hold on, one moment" Peter said, "Obliviate" He shouted, the one spell that Peter always succeeded in was the memory charm, for Snape was on his back, knocked out cold, covered in jinxes, "Alohaomora" Remus whispered, taking off the locking charm on the door, and hiding himself under the cloak. The door opened and there was a gasp, "What happened to the room?" The teacher exclaimed, obviously looking at the drastic colour change from green to red.
"Look," The boy said, pointing at the unconscious Snape covered in jinxes, Professor Madreal gasped, help him up to the Hospital wing, I'll get Madam Levinatra to help him" Professor Madreal said, running out of the room, with Snape on a stretcher, the boys followed them out of the room quietly and silently laughing.
When they were back at the Gryffindor common room entrance, Peter said, "Frisbee" the password, and they entered, before taking the cloak off they noticed three people sitting on the couch, the girls all looked round at the door, but they saw no one, "What was that?" James heard Lilly say, the other boys were about to pull off the cloak, but James stopped them, he wanted to hear what the girls were talking about, "Don't know" Lou replied to Lilly,
"Oh, yeah sorry. Well anyway, you were great, you really had them fooled" Lilly said.
"What can I say, I was born to act" Lou said, jokingly.
"Yeah. You were great, did you see our faces as well, and we were pretty good. They hadn't a clue that you were doing it on purpose," Laura said happily.
"What are they talking about?" Peter asked in a very quiet whisper. Remus shook his head, but there answer had just started to become clear: The boys had a clear view of the girls, who had just started to watch Laura do a reincarnation of the event they were talking about, the reincarnation made the boys smile, it made them smile a lot. The reincarnation they were doing was the one of Lou 'accidentally' letting it slip that they liked them, and inviting them with them on the Hogwarts trip. "Did you see his face, God, he's can be so big headed" Laura said, talking about Sirius, who frowned, and whispered,
"Am not!"
"Hey, Lilly, you owe me a big fee for that act" Lou said jokingly
"Me? You like one of them, I know you do" Lilly said laughing. "And you Laura" Lilly said to her. The girls argued a bit then went to bed. The guys made their way up the stairs too, Sirius still complaining that he was not big headed, "Now you know why Lilly wont go out with me.... yet, because she thinks I'm big headed." James said getting ready for bed.
"Hmmm," Sirius said in agreement. The rest of the night the boys just talked, mostly about the girls, arguing that they didn't fancy certain girls. The talking finally stopped about three o'clock, when Peter started to snore, then the other boys followed his lead and fell asleep.