Authors' note:
I don't own Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew or Lily Evans, but Aurora Sunrise and Robyn Donaldson are both mine. And this fic isn't fun if you haven't seen 'The Shining'. According to JKR boys and girls don't sleep in the same dormitory, but in this fic they do. And just one more thing: I KNOW that 'The Shining' didn't exist in 1975, but I don't care about that. I'm not sure if 'The Exorcist' did, but it doesn't matter. What's fun being a fanfiction-author if you can't make films jump in time???

To watch a Horror Film

'SIRIUS BLACK! THAT'S ENOUGH!' yelled James Potter at the top of his voice. Sirius Black froze, and all the pillows he had been hexing to throw themselves at his classmates fell down.
'Thanks James' said Aurora Sunrise, from behind the television set, where she had been hiding to avoid the pillows.
'Any time, Ro', said James, pulling up Lily Evans from the floor. Her red hair was covered in feathers.
'James', said Remus Lupin. 'I will never call you an arrogant little berk again.'
'Thank you so much, Remus, but I can't ask that of you. An honourable man who only does his duty needs no reward.'
'James Potter, an honourable man?' said Aurora sarcastically, but nobody was listening to her. Remus smiled and said:
'Oh, Jamie, I'm so grateful! By the way, you're an arrogant little berk!' The room was filled with laughter. Even James found it amusing.
'All right, let's be a little serious here!' said Robyn Donaldson. Sirius smirked. 'WAIT! I didn't say that! No pun intended!' Robyn quickly added. What I meant was that we perhaps should remember that we're actually are having a lesson here, even if we are in our dormitory.'
'OK, no more pillow fighting' said Sirius. 'Let's see what kind of film that old hag gave us. Peter, hand me that bag!' Peter Pettigrew threw a lime green bag at Sirius, who opened it. Inside he found an ordinary video-tape, but he looked suspiciously at it.
'Don't worry, I think it's safe' Lily said, smiling.
'Yes' Aurora said. 'It won't eat you, or bite you, or burn your eyes out. Unless the old hag cursed it, and I would understand her if she had' Everybody laughed, except Sirius, who didn't find it very amusing. When everybody except James had stopped laughing, Robyn said:
'Now, which film IS that?'
'Something called 'The Shining'. Sounds boring' Sirius said.
'Well, then there's something wrong with your ears' said Aurora. 'Because it's not. It's a little weird, but not boring'
'You've seen it?' Remus asked.
'Yeah, twice. But of all films in universe, I wouldn't have picked this one for a lesson'
'Why not?' James asked, sounding very curious.
'Because it's a horror film' Lily said. 'Isn't it?' Aurora nodded.
'And it's got bad reputation' Robyn added.
'Not as bad as 'The Exorcist'. Something to be grateful for' Aurora said.
'What's that?' James asked.
'Another horror film, which makes 'The Shining' seem like a cute fairytale' Aurora said casually.
'You've seen 'The Exorcist' too?' Lily said, sounding surprised.
'Sure, haven't you?' Aurora said, sounding even more casual.
'Of course not!' Lily said. 'They say that people fainted and threw up, and had to be carried out of the cinema when they saw it'
'Really?' Sirius said, but Lily didn't answer him. It might give him ideas...
'Are we going to watch this Shining, or what?' Peter asked impatiently.
'Well, what do you think. For being a horror film, it's not that bad' Aurora said.
'That depends' said Sirius.
'Depends on what?' Aurora asked.
'Depends on how much blood there is in it. If it's not very much, I won't see it'
'Like you have any choice' Robyn muttered.
'Is there a lot of blood in it?' Sirius asked curiously. For some reason the others could not understand, Aurora found that comment very amusing. She began to laugh like mad. Finally, Peter got tired of waiting for her to stop laughing and said impatiently:
'Oh, come on Aurora! Get a grip on yourself and tell us what's so funny!'
'No, I don't want to spoil the film for you. Can't we watch it instead? Please?' The Gryffindor fifth years looked at each other. The boys seemed to agree, but Robyn and Lily still did look sceptical. Both were muggleborn, and they had heard a lot about what a scary film 'The Shining' was [Authors' note: Note that it is "was' and not "is'. "The Shining' isn't scary anymore].
'Isn't it a pretty scary film?' said Robyn finally. Aurora looked puzzled for a moment. Then she said:
'Well, if you think it's too scary, you can either close your eyes, or we can turn the sound off.'
'Turn the sound off?' the others echoed.
'Yes. It's a well-known fact that a lot of scary things in films are built on music and strange sounds'
'Is it?' James asked.
'Is it what?' Aurora asked impatiently.
'A well-known fact'
'Yes, to everybody whose head which actually contains a brain and not just stupid untidy hair' Aurora snapped. She was getting tired of discussing this.
'Like you should be the one to talk' James muttered, looking at Auroras plaits, which had grown past her knees. Then he added a bit louder:
'But if we turn the sound off, we won't hear what they're saying!'

'Good point, Jamie' Sirius said. James gave him a very dirty look. He didn't like being called Jamie.
'Read their lips, stupid' Lily said.
'What if I can't?' James said.
'Trust me, they won't be talking when, and if, we need to turn the sound off. Only yelling, and hear them yell will only hurt our ears, so it won't be that much of a problem'
'All right, then. Lets watch it instead of talking' Sirius said. He seemed to very eager to put the tape into the video player, but Robyn and Aurora stopped him. They remembered what had happened the last time Sirius got near something electric.
'Leave the technology for the girls, Siri' said James with a grin. Sirius answered by throwing a pillow at him.
'No more pillow fighting!' said Lily without looking at them.
'All right, all right!' said Sirius, and Aurora could swear that he muttered a 'Party-pooper', but he said it quietly enough for her to pretend she didn't hear him.

While sitting on the floor looking at 'The Shining', they all discovered why the comment 'a lot of blood' was so extremely funny. All of them, except Aurora, began to look a bit pale after they had seen the twin girls chopped in to pieces covered in blood ('bloody pieces' as Aurora called it). So when Danny entered room 237 Aurora turned the sound off, and started to giggle in a way off imitating the woman in the bathtub (who, altough on other reasons had made Robyn and Lily giggling) And Aurora had more funny comments at hand. During the episode at the 'gentlemen's room' she said:
'I don't think I've ever seen anything that ugly.'
'What are you referring to?' asked Remus. 'That ugly red colour of the walls and everything, Jack Nicholson or that Grady guy?'
'None of them, although they are also very ugly, but I meant that jacket Jack's wearing. It looked better a couple of minutes ago, but those spots of whatever it is don't suite the colour of the jacket at all. In fact, it looks terrible!' And once again the room as filled with laughter.
'You know' said James after a while. 'This is the weirdest lesson we have had during this whole year. Instead of sitting in a classroom taking notes etc etc, are we sitting on the floor in our dormitory, watching a horror film. And, best of all, no teacher!'
'For once' said Lily, 'your absolutely right'
'But' said Peter, 'we are here just because we hadn't enough time to see it on today's' lesson, and it's kind of a homework.'
'Well' said Lily. 'At least we could choose the film ourselves. WAIT! Why on earth is he writing 'REDRUM' on the bathroom door?'
'MURDER' said Remus quietly.
'MORD!' said Aurora.
'What???' said Sirius. Aurora smiled.
'Murder in Swedish' she explained.
'Well' said Robyn. 'That's always a very useful word to know...'
'Yeah' said Sirius. 'Next time I meet a Swedish person I will scream MORD! and see what will happen.' Aurora shook her head at the way he pronounced it and said:
'Sirius, if you go round, screaming MORD!, you will probably be put in a mental hospital.'
'Perhaps they will put you in Azkaban!' suggested Robyn.
'That isn't funny' said James. 'You shouldn't joke about things like that'
'Galghumor' commented Aurora.
'I beg your pardon?' said James in abnormally perfect British English.
'Sorry, I didn't mean to speak Swedish again. I didn't think'
'Do you ever?' asked Sirius. Aurora ignored him completely.
'Can we please watch this film now, instead of talking?' asked Peter. Everybody fell silent. They watched Jack Nicholson hunt Danny down to the maze, but when Danny started walking backwards Remus had to whisper to Aurora:
'What's he doing?'
'He's walking backwards in his own footprints, and then he'll jump aside. So then it'll look like he just disappeared when Jack's coming. Kind of smart for being a little kid'
'Do you think Jack ever have heard of Apparating or Disapparating?
'No, I think he's a pureblood muggle. But I think he played a werewolf in another film, called 'Wolf' or something like that. And I think he looks a bit like one, don't you?'
'Yes, perhaps' said Remus very quietly.
'Remus, are you all right?' Aurora sounded a little worried.
'Yes, I'm fine. Why?'
'You look a little pale. Are you sure you're OK?'
'I'm just tired, that's all. It's a long film, and it's past midnight'
'We are not far from the end now'
'Is it ending happily?'
'Just wait and see for yourself'
'Can you two stop whispering now?' said James. 'I'm actually trying to watch this!' Sirius smiled a wicked smile.
'Next time you want anybody's' attention, just scream: 'Here's Jamie!!!' James threw a pillow at Sirius, and his face turned dark red. He absolutely hated being called Jamie.
'No more pillow fighting!' said Lily.
'Yes, Miss Party-pooper!' said Sirius.

When the film had ended and they all lay in their beds and tried to sleep, Aurora said:
'Oh, dear, I'm so tired. I think I can sleep forever . . . and ever . . . and ever!' Then she yawned and giggled.