Ok this is my first ever fanfic so be nice, and don't throw stuff at me if it sucks. I apologise for the summary and the title, but I was watching toy story and the song 'Strange things are happening' was on so I changed it a bit and voile I have a title. As much as I would like to own the marauders I don't They belong to JKR so I guess the rights are hers, I would like to say that this story was inspired by a fancfic competition.
I wanna thank whitefaerie because she spotted an corrected all my mistakes (and believe you me there was a lot)
Ok so I hope you enjoy and please review!
"I'm not a girl not yet a woman." James sang the end of his song loudly. He took a deep bow in his ballerina outfit, and began to laugh. The other 3 Marauders began to howl and shriek with laughter. "I didn't know you had it in you." Said Sirius with tears in his eyes.
The marauders all sat on the Gryffindor common room floor in a circle with a bottle in the middle of them. It was roughly 1am and they had decided to play spin-the-bottle. "See if I hadn't taken muggle studies, we would have never known about this muggle game." Said Remus looking pleased with himself.
"Ok, you have a point muggle studies is a good subject, but changing this subject I say SPIN THE BOTTLE!" said James.
Peter lent forward and spun the empty butterbeer bottle, round and round it span until it landed on... Sirius.
Peter laughed and dramatically went "DUN DUN DUN!" Then Remus and James smiled, but Sirius began to look worried, what would his dare be. An evil grin spread across Peter's face "How about you have to wash snivelly's hair?"
"No" said Sirius immediately
"How about you have to sneak into McGonagall's office and change the lesson plan?" said James innocently.
"Do I look stupid?" Sirius snapped back
"Yes" said Remus quietly.
"O, come on I just had to sing 'I'm not a girl not yet a woman' in a ballerina outfit." James cried.
"Fine I will do it, but I will need the help of the map and cloak." He said accepting his challenge.
A smile cracked on James' face and he sprinted up the stairs to the boy's dormitory, he returned a few minutes later with a piece of old parchment and a silvery cloak. He handed it over and said in a fatherly voice "Use it well my son."
Sirius threw the cloak over himself and pointed his wand at the parchment and said, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." The parchment magically turned into his map, he made his way towards the exit. A voice made him halt and turn around, the voice belonged to James. "We could make this dare a little more interesting you know." His face trying to keep casual. "I'm intrigued." Said Sirius equally casual.
"I bet you a month's supply of Honeydukes chocolate that you won't do the dare in the nude." He said trying to suppress a smile. Sirius thought about this for a minute "N- yes ok" he changed his mind half way through, he could eat a lot of chocolate in one month. He held out his hand trying to make the bet official. James shook Sirius' hand. And with that Sirius ran upstairs to undress, he came back downstairs the cloak draped over him.
"How do we know you are really starkers?" asked Peter
"I can show you if you like," said Sirius darkly
"No, I think we can take your word for it." Remus said quickly, that was one mental image he did not need to see.
The other three marauders decided to follow Sirius to make sure he followed through with the dare, they carefully walked out of the common room and down to McGonagall's office, frequently checking the map to make sure no teachers were prowling the corridor. James, Remus and Peter waited out side the office while Sirius snuck inside. After about 5 minutes Sirius came back out of the office, he removed the hood of the clock so they could see the look of triumph on his face. "Boys it is going to be an easy lesson tomorrow nothing but eating and playing exploding snap."
The marauders laughed as they walked back to the common room, Remus suddenly went very pale and looked at the map. "McGonagall she's heading this way and fast." James groaned and quickly lead them to several suits of armour. The four of them all quickly chose a suit and clambered inside, just as footsteps could be heard coming down the corridor. The marauders gasped as the footsteps stopped right in frount of them, James, Remus and Peter heard a creak as the helmet on one of the suits was opened, then they heard a voice saying "Hello, professor, nice time for a walk don't you think?"
The marauders who had not been caught fought down their smiles as they heard Professor McGonagall bark "BLACK, get out of that armour this instant!"
"Er, professor I don't think that would be a good idea." Said Sirius with a note of panic in his voice.
"What do you mean? I want you out of that armour immediately!" she half shouted, just then another set of footsteps walked down the corridor, they stopped next to the suits of armour. "Evening Professor Dumbledore." Said Sirius in a quiet voice. This was too much for the remaining marauders who burst out laughing and fell out of the armour in a pile. They all stopped laughing as they looked up at the teachers. "An explanation please?" said Dumbledore in an amused voice.
"We were helping Remus with his homework." Said James quickly.
"Yeah, we were helping him understand muggle games like spin-the-bottle" Peter added.
Both teachers looked at the three boys in disbelief and then looked at Sirius, who was still trapped inside the suit of armour, without warning Dumbledore raised his wand and the armour vanished. Sirius was stood there in the Full Monty growing increasingly red. Professor McGonagall went slightly pink and with a wave of her wand, Sirius was dressed in a bathrobe.
"You will all receive detention for wandering the school at night, and Mr.Black you will receive an extra detention for indecent exposure." Dumbledore smiled slightly and said, "I suggest you go find some suitable clothes Mr.Black and all four of you should return to your common room."
With that the four boys sprinted up to the Gryffindor common room, they all collapsed into the chairs by the fire, and began to laugh at what had just happened.
"An extra detention for indecent exposure." Said Remus shaking his head.
"Well at least I have a months supply of chocolate to last me through detention," said Sirius as they all began to laugh again.
