The Marauders of Hogwarts
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Disclaimer: All recognizable characters, places, etc. belong to J.K. Rowling, the best writer EVER!!! And I mean EVER! All the characters, places, etc. that you don't recognize belong to me. Get it, got it, good.
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Chapter 4
Plans
"No, Mr. Potter, don't stare at it like that..." Dumbledore was trying to teach James how to make a feather float with his telekinesis. "You have to be interested in it. You can't just stare at like you're thinking, 'So, I have to stare at a feather and it'll move. Dumbledore's lost his marbles.' " James flushed. "You have to actually believe that it will move...Don't look at me in that tone of voice!"
James started. He'd still had the slightly skeptical look on his face.
"Concentrate. A good way to do it is imagine it happening. For example, how you imagined Miss Evans falling off a cliff somewhere." James' face went red again. Dumbledore was very good at embarrassing James when he wanted him to get something done, yet he always had that merry twinkle in his eye, so James knew he wasn't really that mad at him. Hopefully.
Deciding to follow Dumbledore's advice, he stared at the feather, and imagined it floating upward. He narrowed his eyes and stared at it harder...And then his eyes got a burning feeling, sort of uncomfortable, but not enough to stop, because he thought that maybe he was finally getting somewhere with this...
And then, slowly, and seeming to waver uncertainly in the air, the feather rose into the air about two inches.
James yelped in surprise, and the feather dropped back down again. The burning feeling in his eyes was gone. But he'd done it! That feather had floated up into the air, all because of him! He didn't need any wand to help him! James grinned suddenly. Oh, the possibilities...
Dumbledore said quietly, "Very good, Mr. Potter."
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James had been taking lessons in telekinesis from Dumbledore twice a week, for about two weeks. It was around the beginning of October now. In another week, the Halloween decorations would start to go up, and then there would be the feast. But more important to James was his telekinesis.
"No telling what you could move," Sirius said to him the night after James made the feather move.
"Yeah. I was thinking it'd be very…useful in pranks," James said, grinning mischeviously.
Sirius grinned back at him. "Now that's an idea!" Raising his voice, he stood on top of the table they were sitting at in the common room and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please give Gryffindor's resident genius, James Potter, a round of applause!" A few people laughed and clapped, but most didn't pay any attention to him. "They don't have the proper respect for us, James," Sirius said tragically, shaking his head as he sat down again. "We'll have to do something big. I think the Halloween feast'll be the perfect time. Trap all the Slytherins in their common room or something…"
"Nah, remember the last record-holder for the most detentions, Ashley Thompson? She did that already. None of them could come to the Great Hall for meals for a whole day. The house elves had to go in to give them food, and then they got stuck in there too. Must have been the greatest prank in history," James said, shaking his head in admiration. "But we've got to beat her, Sirius."
"Yeah, you're right. And how do you know all this?"
"Research, my friend…research."
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Also at the same time, Voldemort was in his hideout, examining the prophecy Malfoy had brought him. "Hm…
"Nine people, and two of them dark.
"The first: dark on the inside, but not on the outside. Hm…perfect servant for me, it sounds like. Looks innocent. I'll use that one against them in good time.
"The second: dark on the outside, but not on the inside. Dark by rule, but defying the rule. Hm…One of the dark creatures, perhaps? I'll come back to that.
"The seven others are light." He stopped reading and said, "Ha! I knew I'd find some nemisises soon! I must show this to Dr. Evil! I'll win that bet!" He clapped his hands in joy.
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And yet again, at the same time (A/N: Wow I have a lot of that in this chapter ^_^), Lily, Bella, Fiona, Thea and Mira were sitting on the beds in their dormitory, having a very important discussion.
"Look! The piggy can fly!" Thea squealed randomly, and threw a stuffed pig into the air. Of course, it hit the ground in less than two seconds. Thea frowned and stubbornly shouted, "Wingardium Leviosa!" but unfortunately hit Lily instead of the pig, so Lily rose off her bunk and hit her head on the bunk above it.
"Ow. Dammit, Thea, that hurt!"
"Sorry," Thea said, looking down. She also took her wand off Lily, so that the red-haired girl abruptly came in the control of gravity again, and yelped as she hit her leg very hard on the edge of the bunk.
"Gee, thanks for letting me down, Thea," Lily said sarcastically.
"No problem, Lily. Anytime," Thea said cheerfully, and shrunk back in her bed a little as Lily glared at her venemously.
"So, what are we here for?" Mira said.
"We need to think of a name for our group. I mean, the boys are the Marauders, but we don't want to be called the Marauders too! They'll think they're so smart because they made up the name!" Bella said. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Like what?" Mira said. She wasn't very good at thinking of names. "Does anybody have an idea?"
"THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS!!!!!" Thea shouted. Everyone whipped their heads around and stared at her incredulously.
"The…Purple…People Eaters?" Fiona said weakly.
"Yep!"
"Uh…no, I don't think that's it, Thea…Doesn't fit us, somehow…" Bella said slowly.
"The Maraudettes?" Mira said sarcastically, and laughed. Nobody else laughed.
Gah, Mira thought. Nobody gets my sarcastic jokes.
"THE VENEMOUS CHINCHILLAS!!!!" Thea screamed. Everyone stared at her again.
"Seriously, Thea, where do you get these things?" Lily said.
"I like it!" Mira said. Everyone stared at her instead. "Uh…just kidding…" she said weakly.
"THE MICRO INVERTEBRATES THAT EXPLODE IF YOU PUT THEM IN TAP WATER!!!!"
"What are micro invertebrates?" Bella said, confused.
Thea suddenly started singing. "They live in a pineapple under the sea…SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!"
"She's gone mad," Fiona said, shaking her head. "What a sad case."
"She hasn't gone mad!" Mira said indignantly. "Haven't you people ever heard of Spongebob Squarepants??" She started singing along with Thea and shouting, "SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!"
(A/N: And I don't care if they didn't have Spongebob Squarepants back in the 60's or whenever the Marauders were alive, and if they don't have it in England. Mira's from the US anyway. *looks stubborn* Lol. :D)
Lily said, "Micro invertebrates are these little animals…I studied them in school once…but THEY EXPLODE WHEN YOU PUT THEM IN TAP WATER?!??! Bloody hell, that's AWESOME!!! I didn't learn that! And some of them do live under the sea…but not in a pineapple. I think they really have gone mad," she said, shaking her head sadly as Mira and Thea continued to sing. Mira actually had a nice voice, but nobody really cared: they were too busy staring at her and Thea.
"Let's just call ourselves the Amazons and be done with it," Fiona said.
"Amazons?" Bella said, raising her eyebrows.
"Warrior maidens," Fiona explained.
"Yeah, okay, that works," Lily said.
"Appropriate, since we're going to kill the Marauders and trample them into the dust when it comes to pranks," Thea said brightly.
"Yeah," Mira said.
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And that's the end of all the things that happened at the same time, thankfully. I bet you were tired of that.
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"I've got it, James!" Sirius suddenly yelled out in the middle of Transfiguration one afternoon, earning himself a stern look from Professor McGonagall.
"What have you got, Black?" Professor McGonagall said sarcastically. "We'd all simply love to know."
"Er…"
"Answer me, Black. What have you got?"
"Er…my ear?" Sirius offered. A few of the Slytherins they were having the lesson with sniggered.
"Silence! Rimet, Snape, and all the rest of you too." Snape and Narcissa Rimet stopped sniggering.
"Five points off Gryffindor, Black. Now, let's get back to what we were talking about before Black shouted out that he got his ear," Professor McGonagall said.
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After the class, James walked out of the classroom with Sirius and then confronted him. "So, Sirius, what do you really have?" He grinned.
"The prank," Sirius said, nodding wisely.
"What prank?"
"The big one we were going to do, remember?"
"Oh, right!"
"Yeah, see, here's what we do. I make a potion, right, and--"
"Sirius, you're horrible at potions."
"Oh, right…Er…Remus'll do that then. Anyway, it'll be a potion to make all the Slytherins turn into chickens for five minutes or something at a time. Then, we go down to the kitchen and put it in their food on the night there's the Halloween Feast, and we'll get Remus to make it so it works every time somebody says 'Happy Halloween'."
"You're brilliant, Sirius."
"I know, Jamesiekinns, I know."
"DON'T CALL ME JAMSIEKINNS!!!"
The two boys kept walking. What they didn't notice was that a certain Gryffindor girl with long red hair and emerald green eyes had been following them, listening to every word. As soon as they stopped discussing the prank, however, she stopped listening and smiled.
"We've got them now!" she said to herself.
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A/N: Dun dun DUUUN…What is Lily up to?
And lookie, there's James' nickname again! Go Jamsiekinns! Lol.
Some stuff in the next chapter's gonna be…The Halloween Feast, some pranks, Voldie and Dr. Evil (yep, in my story, Voldie and Dr. Evil are best buds, lol), maybe James gets some more lessons from Dumbledore, and whatever else I can think of.
And now I will explain Voldie and Dr. Evil more carefully, for the benefit of all who did not read the first story, hehe.
Voldie went to an orphanage in Belgium and he met Dr. Evil getting raised by that evil Belgian couple, so they're best buds because they're both evil people. Hehe. And if you don't know about Dr. Evil from watching Austin Powers…you make me cry with your deprivation. Watch Austin Powers. Lol.
And then, in the Marauders' and Amazons' first year, Voldie and Dr. Evil made a bet about Voldie getting a nemisis ('cause he's gotta have a newer nemisis than Dumblydore, Voldie's hated him for 20 years or something already). Voldie said he could get a whole group of nemisises, and Dr. Evil said he couldn't. They only bet 500 dollars though, 'cause Dr. Evil's running low on money. ^_^ And Dr. Evil sends Voldie a machine gun for X-mas. :D
So Voldie's found his nemisises now, so we'll see about that bet in the next chapter! Yay! ^_^
~Hermione2