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A/N: Thank you to all our reviewers!! And thanks for you patience, I've been being dragged around without a computer for the past week or so!
~*~*~ Chapter Ten: Where's My Posse?! ~*~*~
Time quickly flew by and the Marauders (minus two) found themselves preparing for the Festival of the Masked. The one gloomy night a year where pranking was permitted with a smile and a laugh (and not detention!). All Hallows Eve was upon the Marauders and the school was waiting in apprehension.
"So Rem-ster. Do you have everything we will need tonight? It must go without a flaw!" Sirius asked as he and Remus strolled down a corridor very early on Halloween day.
Remus turned toward his friend with an evil grin. "Of course! Its all in my office awaiting us," he replied.
Sirius flashed an evil grin, but it lightened as he slapped Remus on the back. "Excellent. Good job buddy! But, how did you get all the ingredients without anyone finding out?" Sirius asked. Now it was Remus' turn to grin evilly.
~*~*~
~Last Night~
Remus slipped into Snape's classroom and found that greasy git grading essays.
"Hiya Severus," Remus said as he stepped in front of the desk. Snape looked up and gave Remus a strange look.
"And what do you want Lupin?" he asked airily. Remus grinned at him and pulled a karaoke machine out from behind his back.
~*~*~
~Back to the Present~
"It was so simple. All I had to do was hand over the karaoke machine and he was out the door. He must have wanted to go serenade Lucius . . .," Remus trailed off at the mere thought of those two. Both he and Sirius shuddered. "Anyway. I grabbed the ingredients and ran once I was sure he was out of my path!" Remus said happily.
"Now there's the Marauder motto! Run for your life!!!" Sirius said with a huge laugh. Remus joined him a few seconds later, both thinking about all the pranks they had pulled as Marauders in school.
"Good times, good times," Sirius said when he had finally stopped laughing.
Remus nodded, not trusting himself to say anything incase he start laughing again and never stopped.
Eventually they arrived at Remus' office to begin setting their major prank in motion.
~*~*~
"Is everything in place?" Remus asked Sirius when he saw him in the corridor later that day.
Sirius nodded happily.
"Good. Now our timing for entering the Great Hall must be precise. We have to walk in exactly two minutes after dinner starts," Remus explained as they walked through the maze of hallways that led to the advanced Transfiguration hallway. Sirius smiled evilly and nodded in comprehension.
Sirius was then about to say something but stopped himself.
"What Sirius?" Remus asked in confusion.
"Listen," Sirius whispered.
A low rumbling noise sounded from the classroom that they were standing in front of. Both Marauders looked towards the door and started backing away slowly. Suddenly the door swung open and a frantic young man came sprinting out of the classroom. He ran right past Remus and Sirius.
"What an unusual kid," Remus remarked when he ran past them. Sirius however was still looking at the classroom door. They both leaned forward a bit, staring at the door in a mixture of fear and curiosity.
The loud booming grew closer and within seconds an unusually large horde of girls ran out of the room and sprinted after the boy. Sirius grabbed Remus and began to race down the corridor.
But having to carry the still wide-eyed Remus while trying to out run the horde was not going to well. Alas! The horde of raging hormones caught up with Sirius and Remus and trampled them, trying to find the young man they were chasing.
When the hall cleared out, Sirius and Remus lay twitching on the floor. Slowly they both sat up, massaging their soon to be bruises.
"And what was that all about?" Sirius asked slowly.
Remus thought for a second. "I think I saw that guy in a magazine I confiscated from a girl in my class. He's supposed to be some sort of muggle entertainer," Remus said, "Now what was his name? Bloombury?"
"Nope, never heard of him. How about Bloombottom?" Sirius offered. Remus shook his head.
"That just doesn't sound right. What about Bloomer?" Remus asked.
"What about Bloomhead?" Sirius proposed. Remus once again shook his head.
"Aha! I've got it! Bloom! That's it! Orlando Bloom!" he shouted in triumph.
"Bloody hell! What were his parents smoking? Orlando Bloom! Ha! What a laugh! I'm sorry Remmy, But I don't think that's right!" Sirius said. Remus was about to say something to Sirius, but decided it was best not to.
Slowly Remus stood up and helped Sirius to his feet. Then, Remus thought back to the pack of girls who had trampled them. There was something oddly familiar about them . . .
"Hey Sirius . . . wasn't that your fan club of admirers?" Remus asked slowly. Sirius thought back and his eyes bulged.
Within seconds Sirius had raced through the Transfiguration hallway, sprinting after his fan club.
"Hey! Come back!!" Sirius shouted and his voice echoed through the hall. Remus shook his head and continued at his way at a leisurely pace.
"Orlando Bloom . . . at Hogwarts. Sirius is right. I must be thinking of someone else. Ha! Orlando Bloom," Remus muttered to himself as he walked down the corridor. When Remus had left the hall, a head popped out of the wall.
"Who keeps saying my name?" the one known as Orlando Bloom asked to the empty hallway.
~*~*~
"Thanks so much for letting me hang out with you guys. You have no idea how traumatic this has been for me!" Sirius said to Hermione and Draco, who were sitting on either side of him.
He had found the two sneaking up to the Astronomy Tower after he has given up hope of finding his posse and decided to tag along. Draco had been in a foul mood ever since he had appeared, but Hermione welcomed Sirius as she always did.
"You're welcome," Draco said, not at all meaning it. Hermione gave him a look and his face softened, but for only a second.
"It's alright. We weren't going to do anything anyway," Hermione said while reading a page in her book. She snuck a glance over at Draco who looked confused.
"We weren't? Why didn't I get the memo?! That's it! Who's been in my mail?" Draco stood up and shouted. Professor Snape, who had been on his way up the stairs, turned quickly around and placed Draco's mail in his robes to read later.
~Meanwhile~
"Where is Sirius?! We were supposed to meet an hour ago for rehearsal. Probably gone off somewhere to cry," Remus whispered to himself as he began to search the school.
Ten minutes later he found Sirius up in the Astronomy Tower playing Casting Stones with Hermione and Draco, and losing horrible.
"Sirius! I've been looking all over for you. The least you could have done was tell me you were going to play with Hermione and Draco, so I could have come up here and watched you lose from the beginning!" Remus said with a grin.
Sirius scowled at him and finished his turn. "Well, it was nice chatting with the two of you, but I must be off. People to scare, explosives to make, you know how it goes!" Sirius said as he hopped up from his spot in between Draco and Hermione.
Remus slapped Sirius on the back. "That's the spirit soldier!" he said with enthusiasm.
Draco and Hermione began packing up the casting stones as Sirius and Remus whispered back and forth ideas for their grand finale that night. Little did they know, evil lurked in the shadows. Snape was slowly making his way up behind Sirius and Remus. With a big snip here and a big snip there, Snape had gotten what he had come for.
"Victory!" Snape shouted as he raced down the stairs. Both Remus and Sirius looked confused. They turned around to face the stairwell that Snape had just escaped by, and Draco and Hermione saw what Snape was yelling victory about. Large chunks of both Sirius' and Remus' hair were missing, chopped off in uneven snips.
Hermione gasped out loud, but Draco found himself in a fit of laughter. Remus turned towards Hermione with a question in his eyes. Hermione was so shocked all she could do was point to the back of Sirius' head. Remus gasped and then felt his own hair to see what Snape had done. With a shriek he caught Siri's attention and motioned to the backs of both of their heads. Sirius reached back and screamed.
With a bolt, they both raced to Remus' classroom to get their wands and magically grew back their hair.
~*~*~
"I say we rip his heart out with a spoon!" Sirius shouted when his hair was normal again. (Woo hoo! Turn Alan Rickman's classic line back on himself, classic, ashen! Kudos!)
Remus sighed. "Aren't you over-reacting a little Siri? No harm was done," Remus said.
Sirius stopped his pacing and turned to look at Remus. On his face shone a mischievous smile.
"Stop joking you prat! You very well know Snape is going to get it and you already have a plan! Tell!" Sirius shouted good-naturedly at his friend. Remus hopped up from his chair.
"Some adjustments have to be made," he said slowly to Sirius. They both broke into huge grins.
~*~*~
Standing outside the Great Hall, Remus and Sirius gave each other thumbs up, they were ready for action!
Slowly, Sirius tugged the rope that would set their master prank into action. They waited for a count of five and then burst into the Great Hall, just in time to see a pile of mashed potatoes fly off of the catapult they had rigged in the corner. The food seemed to fly in slow motion, but it eventually landed on its target. Snape's greasy black hair.
Everyone in the hall went dead silent except for Sirius and Remus who were laughing in the back of the hall. Seeing this, Snape recovered from his shock and picked up a handful of peas and flung them at the two Marauders. Remus and Sirius grinned and ran in the opposite direction the peas were coming from.
With wide grins they watches as the peas landed instead, on Draco's lap. Furious, both Draco and Hermione stood up and started pelting Snape with chicken. Soon, the whole hall was taking part in the food fight. Even Dumbledore was throwing food at students and teachers alike.
Remus and Sirius smiled with a job well done. Together they raised their wands and jets of red sparks flew out of them. Together they made their escape from the Great Hall (not before throwing some food of course!) as the sparks formed the words,
"So you woke up this morning to find a fire-breathing dragon in your bed;
Or your robes caught fire at breakfast, sparks spitting gold and red.
Perhaps you mysteriously found your homework eaten by a goldfish in your sink?
Something isn't right you think.
Something's gone afoul,
This morning Malfoy's hot pink boxers came swooping in by owl!
At dinner Snape came screaming in, a black dog attached to his bum,
A handful of boys came tearing after, "Padfoot! Padfoot!" cried some.
Perhaps you head to Potions to be tested on your love spell brew,
But instead your cauldron cracks and Crabbe and Goyle have eyes only for you!
Unable to resist the urge, Crabbe ransacked a strange vending machine,
For two days after being eaten by it, that Slytherin was not seen.
Or maybe at a Quidditch game, the Snitch never does appear,
And the teams continue playing for 150 years!
And say, by chance you one day look up, startled by a sound
Only to find that what you thought was up turned out to really be down!
Don't fear that Peeves is haunting you, or believe anything that the Slytherins have said
The Purveyors of Magical Mischief are always one step ahead!
~*~*~
Remus and Sirius raced up flight after flight of stairs, making their escape. They quickly arrived at the Astronomy Tower and raced to a dark corner that held their get away devices. Remus and Sirius grabbed their umbrellas. Together they opened them up and were about to jump off of the tower when they heard a familiar voice.
"Remus? Sirius? Is it really you guys?" a ghost said, emerging from the shadows. Both of the Marauders turned around to see James' ghost. Remus and Sirius were thrown off balance by James' sudden appearance and tripped off the edge of the tower.
"James!!" both Sirius and Remus shouted as they slowly floated away with their umbrellas.
~*~*~
A/N: Sorry it took so long! I hope you liked it!! R & R guys!!!
A/N: Thank you to all our reviewers!! And thanks for you patience, I've been being dragged around without a computer for the past week or so!
~*~*~ Chapter Ten: Where's My Posse?! ~*~*~
Time quickly flew by and the Marauders (minus two) found themselves preparing for the Festival of the Masked. The one gloomy night a year where pranking was permitted with a smile and a laugh (and not detention!). All Hallows Eve was upon the Marauders and the school was waiting in apprehension.
"So Rem-ster. Do you have everything we will need tonight? It must go without a flaw!" Sirius asked as he and Remus strolled down a corridor very early on Halloween day.
Remus turned toward his friend with an evil grin. "Of course! Its all in my office awaiting us," he replied.
Sirius flashed an evil grin, but it lightened as he slapped Remus on the back. "Excellent. Good job buddy! But, how did you get all the ingredients without anyone finding out?" Sirius asked. Now it was Remus' turn to grin evilly.
~*~*~
~Last Night~
Remus slipped into Snape's classroom and found that greasy git grading essays.
"Hiya Severus," Remus said as he stepped in front of the desk. Snape looked up and gave Remus a strange look.
"And what do you want Lupin?" he asked airily. Remus grinned at him and pulled a karaoke machine out from behind his back.
~*~*~
~Back to the Present~
"It was so simple. All I had to do was hand over the karaoke machine and he was out the door. He must have wanted to go serenade Lucius . . .," Remus trailed off at the mere thought of those two. Both he and Sirius shuddered. "Anyway. I grabbed the ingredients and ran once I was sure he was out of my path!" Remus said happily.
"Now there's the Marauder motto! Run for your life!!!" Sirius said with a huge laugh. Remus joined him a few seconds later, both thinking about all the pranks they had pulled as Marauders in school.
"Good times, good times," Sirius said when he had finally stopped laughing.
Remus nodded, not trusting himself to say anything incase he start laughing again and never stopped.
Eventually they arrived at Remus' office to begin setting their major prank in motion.
~*~*~
"Is everything in place?" Remus asked Sirius when he saw him in the corridor later that day.
Sirius nodded happily.
"Good. Now our timing for entering the Great Hall must be precise. We have to walk in exactly two minutes after dinner starts," Remus explained as they walked through the maze of hallways that led to the advanced Transfiguration hallway. Sirius smiled evilly and nodded in comprehension.
Sirius was then about to say something but stopped himself.
"What Sirius?" Remus asked in confusion.
"Listen," Sirius whispered.
A low rumbling noise sounded from the classroom that they were standing in front of. Both Marauders looked towards the door and started backing away slowly. Suddenly the door swung open and a frantic young man came sprinting out of the classroom. He ran right past Remus and Sirius.
"What an unusual kid," Remus remarked when he ran past them. Sirius however was still looking at the classroom door. They both leaned forward a bit, staring at the door in a mixture of fear and curiosity.
The loud booming grew closer and within seconds an unusually large horde of girls ran out of the room and sprinted after the boy. Sirius grabbed Remus and began to race down the corridor.
But having to carry the still wide-eyed Remus while trying to out run the horde was not going to well. Alas! The horde of raging hormones caught up with Sirius and Remus and trampled them, trying to find the young man they were chasing.
When the hall cleared out, Sirius and Remus lay twitching on the floor. Slowly they both sat up, massaging their soon to be bruises.
"And what was that all about?" Sirius asked slowly.
Remus thought for a second. "I think I saw that guy in a magazine I confiscated from a girl in my class. He's supposed to be some sort of muggle entertainer," Remus said, "Now what was his name? Bloombury?"
"Nope, never heard of him. How about Bloombottom?" Sirius offered. Remus shook his head.
"That just doesn't sound right. What about Bloomer?" Remus asked.
"What about Bloomhead?" Sirius proposed. Remus once again shook his head.
"Aha! I've got it! Bloom! That's it! Orlando Bloom!" he shouted in triumph.
"Bloody hell! What were his parents smoking? Orlando Bloom! Ha! What a laugh! I'm sorry Remmy, But I don't think that's right!" Sirius said. Remus was about to say something to Sirius, but decided it was best not to.
Slowly Remus stood up and helped Sirius to his feet. Then, Remus thought back to the pack of girls who had trampled them. There was something oddly familiar about them . . .
"Hey Sirius . . . wasn't that your fan club of admirers?" Remus asked slowly. Sirius thought back and his eyes bulged.
Within seconds Sirius had raced through the Transfiguration hallway, sprinting after his fan club.
"Hey! Come back!!" Sirius shouted and his voice echoed through the hall. Remus shook his head and continued at his way at a leisurely pace.
"Orlando Bloom . . . at Hogwarts. Sirius is right. I must be thinking of someone else. Ha! Orlando Bloom," Remus muttered to himself as he walked down the corridor. When Remus had left the hall, a head popped out of the wall.
"Who keeps saying my name?" the one known as Orlando Bloom asked to the empty hallway.
~*~*~
"Thanks so much for letting me hang out with you guys. You have no idea how traumatic this has been for me!" Sirius said to Hermione and Draco, who were sitting on either side of him.
He had found the two sneaking up to the Astronomy Tower after he has given up hope of finding his posse and decided to tag along. Draco had been in a foul mood ever since he had appeared, but Hermione welcomed Sirius as she always did.
"You're welcome," Draco said, not at all meaning it. Hermione gave him a look and his face softened, but for only a second.
"It's alright. We weren't going to do anything anyway," Hermione said while reading a page in her book. She snuck a glance over at Draco who looked confused.
"We weren't? Why didn't I get the memo?! That's it! Who's been in my mail?" Draco stood up and shouted. Professor Snape, who had been on his way up the stairs, turned quickly around and placed Draco's mail in his robes to read later.
~Meanwhile~
"Where is Sirius?! We were supposed to meet an hour ago for rehearsal. Probably gone off somewhere to cry," Remus whispered to himself as he began to search the school.
Ten minutes later he found Sirius up in the Astronomy Tower playing Casting Stones with Hermione and Draco, and losing horrible.
"Sirius! I've been looking all over for you. The least you could have done was tell me you were going to play with Hermione and Draco, so I could have come up here and watched you lose from the beginning!" Remus said with a grin.
Sirius scowled at him and finished his turn. "Well, it was nice chatting with the two of you, but I must be off. People to scare, explosives to make, you know how it goes!" Sirius said as he hopped up from his spot in between Draco and Hermione.
Remus slapped Sirius on the back. "That's the spirit soldier!" he said with enthusiasm.
Draco and Hermione began packing up the casting stones as Sirius and Remus whispered back and forth ideas for their grand finale that night. Little did they know, evil lurked in the shadows. Snape was slowly making his way up behind Sirius and Remus. With a big snip here and a big snip there, Snape had gotten what he had come for.
"Victory!" Snape shouted as he raced down the stairs. Both Remus and Sirius looked confused. They turned around to face the stairwell that Snape had just escaped by, and Draco and Hermione saw what Snape was yelling victory about. Large chunks of both Sirius' and Remus' hair were missing, chopped off in uneven snips.
Hermione gasped out loud, but Draco found himself in a fit of laughter. Remus turned towards Hermione with a question in his eyes. Hermione was so shocked all she could do was point to the back of Sirius' head. Remus gasped and then felt his own hair to see what Snape had done. With a shriek he caught Siri's attention and motioned to the backs of both of their heads. Sirius reached back and screamed.
With a bolt, they both raced to Remus' classroom to get their wands and magically grew back their hair.
~*~*~
"I say we rip his heart out with a spoon!" Sirius shouted when his hair was normal again. (Woo hoo! Turn Alan Rickman's classic line back on himself, classic, ashen! Kudos!)
Remus sighed. "Aren't you over-reacting a little Siri? No harm was done," Remus said.
Sirius stopped his pacing and turned to look at Remus. On his face shone a mischievous smile.
"Stop joking you prat! You very well know Snape is going to get it and you already have a plan! Tell!" Sirius shouted good-naturedly at his friend. Remus hopped up from his chair.
"Some adjustments have to be made," he said slowly to Sirius. They both broke into huge grins.
~*~*~
Standing outside the Great Hall, Remus and Sirius gave each other thumbs up, they were ready for action!
Slowly, Sirius tugged the rope that would set their master prank into action. They waited for a count of five and then burst into the Great Hall, just in time to see a pile of mashed potatoes fly off of the catapult they had rigged in the corner. The food seemed to fly in slow motion, but it eventually landed on its target. Snape's greasy black hair.
Everyone in the hall went dead silent except for Sirius and Remus who were laughing in the back of the hall. Seeing this, Snape recovered from his shock and picked up a handful of peas and flung them at the two Marauders. Remus and Sirius grinned and ran in the opposite direction the peas were coming from.
With wide grins they watches as the peas landed instead, on Draco's lap. Furious, both Draco and Hermione stood up and started pelting Snape with chicken. Soon, the whole hall was taking part in the food fight. Even Dumbledore was throwing food at students and teachers alike.
Remus and Sirius smiled with a job well done. Together they raised their wands and jets of red sparks flew out of them. Together they made their escape from the Great Hall (not before throwing some food of course!) as the sparks formed the words,
"So you woke up this morning to find a fire-breathing dragon in your bed;
Or your robes caught fire at breakfast, sparks spitting gold and red.
Perhaps you mysteriously found your homework eaten by a goldfish in your sink?
Something isn't right you think.
Something's gone afoul,
This morning Malfoy's hot pink boxers came swooping in by owl!
At dinner Snape came screaming in, a black dog attached to his bum,
A handful of boys came tearing after, "Padfoot! Padfoot!" cried some.
Perhaps you head to Potions to be tested on your love spell brew,
But instead your cauldron cracks and Crabbe and Goyle have eyes only for you!
Unable to resist the urge, Crabbe ransacked a strange vending machine,
For two days after being eaten by it, that Slytherin was not seen.
Or maybe at a Quidditch game, the Snitch never does appear,
And the teams continue playing for 150 years!
And say, by chance you one day look up, startled by a sound
Only to find that what you thought was up turned out to really be down!
Don't fear that Peeves is haunting you, or believe anything that the Slytherins have said
The Purveyors of Magical Mischief are always one step ahead!
~*~*~
Remus and Sirius raced up flight after flight of stairs, making their escape. They quickly arrived at the Astronomy Tower and raced to a dark corner that held their get away devices. Remus and Sirius grabbed their umbrellas. Together they opened them up and were about to jump off of the tower when they heard a familiar voice.
"Remus? Sirius? Is it really you guys?" a ghost said, emerging from the shadows. Both of the Marauders turned around to see James' ghost. Remus and Sirius were thrown off balance by James' sudden appearance and tripped off the edge of the tower.
"James!!" both Sirius and Remus shouted as they slowly floated away with their umbrellas.
~*~*~
A/N: Sorry it took so long! I hope you liked it!! R & R guys!!!