The Marauders of Hogwarts

A/N: Yay, the sixth chapter! *raises one eyebrow* I'm counting those reviews…SO REVIEW OR DEVIL PENGUIN WILL KILL YOU!!!!! Lol, not really, but please? :D

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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 6

Crossing Lines

"How--could--you--do--that--to--me," James panted, the day after Halloween, trying to kick Lily at the end of every word. However, Lily dodged easily, and smiled sweetly at him as he glared at her. "Stand still, dammit."

"Hm…" she said, pretending to stand still to think about it. He aimed a kick at her, and she jumped upward so it went right under her feet. "…I think not. Sorry."

"How--could--you--give--me--that--nose?" he said. "I--thought--you---were--my--friend. Whew, all that kicking is getting tiring…"

"And you haven't hit me once!" Lily said brightly. James glared at her.

"Why--did--you--do--that?"

"Take a wild guess."

"Uh…I've done a few things to you…"

"Wow, you got it in one!"

"I'm…sorry?" he offered, this time dodging a blow Lily was aiming at him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" He ran away.

"Yeah, that's right, wimp, run away! Go Amazons, the non-wimpy people!" Lily yelled after him, in the middle of the crowded hallway. She noticed people staring at her and smiled. "Hi. Do you have a problem? Because, you know, I could help you with that! Mr. Fist could help too!" She showed everybody her fist. They looked away very quickly. She grinned. "Okay. I was sure you didn't really have a problem!"

***

Sirius chose to yell at Mira, in the Gryffindor common room. "How could you do that to me?!" he yelled.

"Aw, I don't know…I mixed a potion, and then added a few extra things…" she said. "It was nothing," she said, pretending to be modest.

"I hate you!" Sirius said.

"I hate you too!" Mira said sarcastically in a shocked voice. "Wow, what a coincidence!"

"I love you!" Sirius yelled through the common room. Half the common room turned their heads. Sirius Black yelling that he loved somebody was not a normal occurrence. Anybody yelling in the common room that they loved somebody was not a normal occurrence. But Sirius Black was the most likely person, so only half the people's heads turned. Fiona Shetland, who happened to be standing in a convenient corner, clapped her hand to her mouth.

"What?!?!" Mira yelled in shock, and fell off the table she was standing on to yell at him.

"Er…I was just kidding…" Sirius said quickly, peering down at her as she lay on the floor glaring at him.

"Damn, that scared me for a minute! Don't ever do that again! No me gusta tú, Sirius Lee Black!" There were some giggles.

"You're seriously black, Sirius? You look really pale to me!" someone yelled out. Sirius glared.

(A/N: Sorry, I just had to have a horrible pun somewhere in this story…^_^)

"What?" he said to Mira.

"I hate you, Sirius Lee Black!" There were the giggles again.

"Well, I hate you, Mira Sophia Gonzalez!"

"Hey, Mira, you have a pretty name!" someone else yelled.

Mira smiled and yelled, "Thanks!" Sirius glared again.

***

Remus didn't yell. He had a rational discussion with Thea.

"Okay, did you have anything to do with that Bozo nose?" he said.

"Of course!" Thea said brightly.

"I hate you," he said, calmly and rationally.

"I hate you too!" Thea said, hugging him, and they went their separate ways. Peter trailed along behind Remus.

***

"I've got 500 dollars!" Lord Voldemort yelled a week later, clutching the check Dr. Evil had sent him and dancing around his room.

"Now…to get to work on my new nemisises," he said, rubbing his hands together eagerly.

***

On December 1st, the Amazons were in their dormitory, discussing how much Lily and Mira flirted with certain Marauders.

"Lily, you're always dumping buckets of water and stuff on James. It really looks like you have a crush on him," Fiona said seriously. Mira giggled. "And as for you," Fiona said to Mira, "everyone thinks you like Sirius Black." Mira's mouth opened indignantly as Bella and Thea laughed.

"I do not!" Mira said. "He's just…a friend who is really fun to play pranks on," she said, grinning with a sinking heart on the inside as she realized how unbelievable that sounded. She wondered…she didn't think she liked him, but who knew? It was really hard not to like a cute, funny guy who was really fun to play pranks on, and in addition had yelled that he loved her in the common room a month or so ago. I mean, he'd said it was a joke after she'd gotten all shocked, but again…who knew? Weirder things had happened at Hogwarts.

"And I do not and will never have a crush on James Potter," Lily said vehemently.

"Are you sure about that, Lily?" Bella said, grinning.

"Very sure," Lily said.

As for Mira, the Amazons seemed to take her answer all right. They didn't question her about it anymore. This rather unnerved her, since they'd at least teased Lily, but she didn't think it would come up later anyway. Wow, was she wrong.

***

The Amazons and the Marauders (except for James and Peter) all decided to stay over the Christmas holidays, which started on Decemer 20th. They made their entrance on the first day of the holidays by getting two first-years who were friends of theirs, Kendal McCain (a Ravenclaw) and Travis Farley (a Gryffindor), to roll out a red carpet for them and to blow a trumpet to announce their arrival. Then, Mira magicked some confetti to fall on them when they stepped through the door. She made sure it was pink, heart-shaped confetti for Sirius, and everyone laughed.

"Thank you, thank you," Mira said, bowing, until Sirius aimed a kick at her. Then, she jumped up and kicked in mid-air, hitting Sirius in the stomach and sending him staggering into Remus, wheezing. The students in the Great Hall oohed and aahed at her apparent karate skills. "Thank you, thank you," she said again, bowing.

***

"Let's play a game!" Fiona yelled in the common room on the night of December 21st.

"Yeah, okay," nearly everyone in the common room said. Fiona thinks of okay games, they all thought.

"Okay, I'm gonna draw lines across the carpet," she said, "and the person who crosses all the lines and gets to the other side of the room first wins. And we go through everybody playing, see, and everybody thinks of something, like, 'everybody whose favorite color is blue'. And everybody whose favorite color is blue crosses a line. So the first person to cross get to the other side of the room while we're going through everybody playing wins, see?"

Somehow, everybody got it, and they all got in a line across the edge of the carpet. Fiona's skills seemed to be going down in the game area, but who knew, it could be more fun than it looked. They might be able to get some blackmail material from this game. Fiona drew a bunch of lines in chalk across the whole carpet, and then joined everybody else at the edge.

"Okay, I'll do one," she said. "Everybody who…er…has a cat."

Mira and some other people crossed the first line.

Lily said, "Everybody who's insane."

Quite a few people crossed a line at that, including all the Amazons and Sirius and Remus.

"Everybody who likes blue," a first-year said, distinctly copying Fiona. Mira and Sirius and some other random people crossed a line.

"Everybody who's ever killed anything bigger than a rabbit!" some weird first year yelled, and a few people crossed a line, including Fiona and Thea. Mira looked at them with an eyebrow raised.

And it went on. Mira thought it was pretty boring, but soon she was on the first line with Sirius, Remus and the Amazons, and then it was her turn.

"Everybody who loves me!" she yelled sarcastically, and crossed the line with a laugh, but when she looked to her right, so she could smirk at Sirius because she was a line ahead of him, she got a shock.

Sirius Black had moved up too. And nobody else had, so it wasn't a joke this time.

"Holy crap," she whispered, and ran out of the common room.

"Dammit, I thought that would work!" Fiona said.

"You planned this, Fiona? You need to work on your planning skills," Lily said.

"Shut up! I planned it more recently than she did!" Sirius said, and ran out of the common room after Mira.

Everybody stared after him in stunned silence.

Wow, everybody thought, that was weird.

***

Sirius almost didn't see Mira slipping through the door of a classroom that was close to Gryffindor tower, but he did, and rushed through the same door, saying, "Wait."

"Go away, damn you," was the very polite response. She was sitting on a desk with her head down, swinging her legs back and forth.

"Do I have to?" he said.

Mira looked up, and said, "If you just had to do that, did you just have to do that in front of all of Gryffindor House?!? And I told you to never, EVER…" Sirius almost relaxed during the pause, until-- "DO THAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!"

"Er…"

"Dammit, why do I have to like you?! Why can't I like some quiet person?!" she yelled, jumping off the desk and stamping her foot. She stormed out of the classroom.

Sirius shrugged.

***

"So…let me get this straight. You like her, she likes you, and she's mad at you because you basically told all of Gryffindor House about it," Lily said, in the Gryffindor common room the next night, December 22nd.

"Yes, isn't it stupid?"

"You're such an idiot."

"What? Why am I an idiot?? Why can't she be the idiot?"

Lily sighed. "You know she's really shy, don't you? No clue why, but she is. So you basically destroyed any chance of her not hating you, you get it?"

"Yeah, that's it!" Sirius said triumphantly. "She's so shy she's an idiot too!"

Remus, who was sitting with them, sighed with Lily this time. "That reminds me. I have to go visit my mother tomorrow. She's sick again. At least I don't have to listen to you being an idiot."

"Why is your mother always sick? Does she have some kind of repeating disease or something?"

"Er…yeah, kind of….It's a long story," Remus said uneasily.

"Right…Okay, I won't ask then." But he was going to find out. Yet another reason he needed Mira. He grimaced. She was smarter than him. After Remus went upstairs, Sirius said to Lily, "Don't you think there's something strange about Remus' mother being sick all the time?"

"Well, yeah…but you're just trying to get the attention off you, aren't you?"

"Yes…but I still think it's strange."

"Have you ever noticed his mother gets sick about once a month, Sirius?" Mira had appeared next to them.

"Er…Mira…hi…" Sirius said uneasily, looking up at her face to see if she'd forgiven him yet. Apparently not.

"I don't want to talk to you," she said, turning her head slightly away from him. "You know, in case you tell the entire county over a megaphone that I'm talking to you."

"What's a megaphone?" Sirius said curiously.

Mira sighed. "Never mind, Sirius. I don't think the knowledge would be very safe with you."

"What was that about Remus' mother, though?" Lily said.

"You notice she…gets sick…about once every month? Think about it." Mira walked away.

"Hey, she might have something there…" Lily mused, while Sirius banged his head on the table.

"She hates me," he groaned, slamming his head down on the pile of books he was supposed to be doing his homework out of. "Ow."

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A/N: So…all these things will be answered…someday, or perhaps in the next chapter:

Will Sirius ever get Mira to like him again, even as a friend?

Me: I hope so. At least if I ain't getting' a boyfriend for X-mas my favorite original character is! : )

Mira: But I hate him!

Mara: Deal with it. You're her favorite character and I love to load on the misery.

Mira: *kills someone*

Sirius: Hi, Mira.

Mira: Dammit, why didn't I get to kill him?

Sirius: *shrugs*

Mara: I have to keep him for the misery. Deal with it.

Mira: *kills another person*

Anyway…^_^…What will Voldie do to his nemisises?

Me: Might be answered in the next chapter…or the one after that. Who knows, I keep putting it off, stupid me…

Mara: Yeah, I'm being chained to a pole so I only work on the Mara/Sirius line for the moment. No misery from Voldie.

Lara: Why don't I get any big story lines? My only job is to fill in all the horrible puns!

Mara: Live with it.

Lara: Is that your favorite thing to say or something?

Mara: Of course! Did you just figure that out?

Lara: Damn you, I can't kill anyone! I'm the humor muse!

Mara: Hehe.

And…just for a random question…will I ever make any progress in the Lily/James area?

Me: Who knows? Oh, and I intend that story line to be happy, MARA…

Mara: *gulps*

Me: …So you just might get a big story line, Lara.

Lara: *hugs Me*

Me: Aw…thanks.

Okies, bye-bye, everybody, until ze next chapter!

~Hermione2