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Chapter 7- Marauder Idol

The boys all woke up slowly, took turns taking showers, and getting ready. They noticed, much too late, that there were four or five containers that they had missed when filling for shower water. This meant they'd have to cut that activity from twice a week, to once a week. Sirius was the only one to complain about this, mumbling that he didn't want hair like Snivellus. As they were all about to leave, someone knocked on the door.

Michael went to the door and opened it to the head Ranger, Dan. "Good morning, Mr. Potter," Ranger Dan said.

"Good morning," Michael replied with a large smile on his face.

"I'm sorry if I woke you, but we've been getting a lot of complaints about the stunt that this cabin has pulled."

"What?" Michael was completely confused.

"It's one thing when you prank those people you came with, but when you trash other people's cabins, we have to do something about it," Ranger Dan said.

"We didn't trash anyone's cabins," Michael retorted.

Just then Kyla came up behind the Ranger, looking like she was ready to scream at the occupants of Cabin 4. "Michael Potter! It would be one thing if you had just done that to Lily's and my cabin, but what were you thinking? Molly Weasley is stressed, thinking she has to clean along with watching those two young boys!"

"We were here all night! I swear!"

"I'd like to believe that, Mr. Potter, but this is the only cabin that's been untouched." The Marauders were all listening closely and putting the pieces together.

"I-I don't know how to prove it to you, but we were playing chess and exploding snaps and such all night. We didn't leave," Michael was getting frustrated at seeing how damning the evidence was.

"There's one way we can tell for sure if you did do it," Ranger Dan informed them. "Can I see one of your wands."

Remus, who had his right with him, stepped forward and handed it to Ranger Dan. In turn Ranger Dan extracted his wand and placed the tips together. "Prior Incantato," he said and a wispy bunch of smoke came out of the wand and showed a toilet papered cabin. Dan did this to all the boys' wands in turn. Michael's revealed saran wrapped outhouse that was placed in the middle of six cabins, James's was that of dumping the contents of a suitcase, Lily's to be specific, and finally, Sirius's showed forks forcing themselves into the grass in front of yet another cabin.

None of the boys could say anything as they watched. Lily had joined them and had to stifle laughter by covering her mouth. She managed to make it look like she was crying instead. "It's all right, young lady," Ranger Dan said. "You four are going to have to clean up all the campsites, no wands."

"No wands!" James said desperately. This being his first summer with the ability to do magic legally and now he had to do the worst job, not to mention as punishment for something they hadn't done, without it.

"Yes, it's not allowed in the first place, and we decided in a meeting between the rangers that this might detour you from trying something of the likes again while you're here. We would like you to get to it once your done with breakfast, please."

Dan then turned around, tipped the brim of his hat to Lily and Kyla and left Cabin 4. "How dare you do something like this to the other members of the camp," Kyla said dramatically, putting her arms around Lily's shoulders, who was still laughing under her breath. "I never thought you'd stoop that low."

Kyla lead Lily out of the cabin, while the guys couldn't say anything, knowing that those two had had something to do with it. "This is crap!" Remus said, this shocked the rest of the cabin mates as much as the news that they would have to clean all those cabins the Muggle way.

"I agree, but there's nothing we can do right now," Michael said, feeling a bit defeated. "We'll come up with something to do back, but right now, we better take care of those cabins."

With that they all left to breakfast, where they would take their time eating hoping that Lily and Kyla would confess to being the culprits and they would get out of clean up duty. Such did not happen. They did them from the farthest set and came into the camp.

The day started to brighten as they arrived at cabin 15 to the sight of five red heads. This was looking like just another clean up when the Father of the small family came up and introduced himself. "Hi, my name is Arthur Weasley," he said shaking Michael's hand.

The three Marauders' jaws dropped as they looked at one another. This was Arthur Weasley standing in front of them. "The Arthur Weasley?" Sirius asked, eyes still wide. "Founder of the Goofster?"

"Yeah," Arthur said, shocked that these boys would know who he was. "Is that still going?"

"Yeah it is," James said excitedly. Arthur was the Marauder's idol, having been the prankster of his time. "We won it five years in a row," he said proudly.

"What year are you boys in?" Arthur asked.

"Sixth," Remus answered. All three of the boys were star struck.

"So every year you've won?"

"Not exactly," James said, remembering. "We just finished our sixth year and someone got us, and won the Goofster."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Arthur said, having known how important that had been to him. "There's always this year, right?"

"Right," Sirius said, feeling so privileged that Arthur Weasley had faith in them.

"Well, looking at this job, I must say you've proved yourselves at pranking. You didn't even get caught in the act, which is the surprising part."

"We didn't do it though," Michael said, making the other three upset that he was making him look bad again.

"Really? Why are you cleaning it up then?"

Remus decided to answer, hoping to redeem the Marauder name. "The girls that we came with us took our wands and did all of this to frame us."

"No kidding!" Arthur said, a big smile on his face. He started to laugh as the faces in front of him elongated. "Well, are you going to get them back?"

"We're going to try," James said.

Arthur looked thoughtfully. "Why don't I help you here, and maybe we'll come up with something."

"Arthur," his wife said coming out of the cabin with two boys, six and seven, in tow. "Are you ready to go swimming?" she asked.

"I'm not feeling well, hon, do you mind taking just watching the boys?"

"Sure, I can do that, but they wanted you to take them to do the arrow things later," she said, leading the boys toward the lake path.

"All right," Arthur said, rubbing his hands together. "Let's get started."

A/N: I love bringing in Arthur like this! Hehehe! I hope you all like this chapter, I like this prank a lot, but for those of you who don't like the Marauders being beat, they're going to get even. Not that they'll end the whole deal, but they'll have their fair share of pranks. Please Review!!!

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Mell Minamoto: Yes, James and Lily kissed, and he didn't have to throw her off guard to kiss her either. I'll write what the boys do next, though you asked for it in this chapter, but I thought it would be fun for them to meet the person they admire so much.

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