Chapter 1- Home Again!
With a hurried goodbye to his parents, James made his way quickly across the train station and onto the magnificent, red steam engine, concealed within platform 9 and 3 quarters. He made his way down the corridor to the very end carriage, the one him and his friends had shared ever since their first year at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry.
As he looked in the reflection or the window trying to flatten his unruly black hair, he thought of the year ahead of him, he couldn't help but feel that something was about to change. Maybe he was just being silly? Or maybe it was the fact that he had just become a prefect? Would he have to be more responsible and stop all the pranks? Nah!
All of a sudden he was snapped back into reality when something wet and slimy ran up his neck. "Ulgh! Sirius! Honestly! Anyone would think you were a dog sometimes! Dude you're my best bud, but that is just gross!" Shouted a shocked James, as his best friend, Sirius Black, had licked his neck.
Sirius was the spitting image of James, both tall with dark black hair, both a good build (or course you had to be if you were on the quidditch team!), they shared the same features, in fact the only way you could tell James from Sirius, was James' hair was rather unruly especially compared to Sirius' perfectly neat hair.
Also James wore glasses covering his blue eyes and Sirius had silver eyes. Their other two best friends joined them shortly, Remus Lupin a boy of medium height, light brown hair and matching brown eyes. And Peter Pettigrew a short boy, with sandy blonde hair and green eyes. From day one it had been James, Sirius, Remus and Peter! James would trust these boys with his life.
"So guys, what's up?" Remus asked. James puffed out his chest, he already had his black Hogwarts robes on and his shiny prefects badge pinned neatly to them. Remus took no notice and Sirius replied;
"Nothing much over here. Peter?" "Nah. Same old, same old. Remus?" "Nope, nothing. Guess none of us have any exciting news!"
They grinned at each other, knowing James wanted desperately to show off about his new prefect new. This was the perfect opportunity to wind him up!
*Cough* Came from James' way- no response. *Cough**Cough*- No response still. *Cough**Cough**Cough*
"So Remmie, where have you been over the summer?" Sirius asked politely, ignoring James. *Cough*
"Sirius! I only left your *Cough* house yesterday!" *Cough* "Oh yeah! By the way James you might want to go see Madame Pomfrey about that cough of yours! How about you Peter? Where have you been?"
"I was actually trying to tell you about how I have been made a prefect! You Idiot!" James replied getting a bit flustered. "Really? You're a prefect?" Remus said, as Sirius and Peter burst out laughing. "Oh I think you may have mentioned that!" James in fact hadn't mentioned anything else since he heard about it!
"I still can't believe how the second naughtiest boy in the school (of course I am the first!) Managed to become prefect? I mean you have already broken the schools detention record, and you're only in your fifth year! That Dumbledore sure is crazy!"
"This coming from the boy who gets top grades in all his classes, yet can't seem to notice the difference between the boy's and girl's toilets!?!"
"I told you! Snape must have cursed me to do that! I wasn't of sound mind!" "Yeah what ever SiriELLA, I mean siriUS!" "Ow go join the other teachers pets in the prefects compartment!"
"I think I will!" And with that James made his way to the prefect's compartment at the front.
So who else got prefect? James thought to himself. He stepped into the compartment and looked around, it was massive! There was a chessboard in a corner, as well as exploding snap and gobstones.
There was also a sofa next to a table, which was piled high with what looked like half of Honeydukes and three jug's of pumpkin juice. This is the life thought James.
He sat down grabbed a piece of Droobles best blowing gum and started reading a piece of parchment from the side:
Prefect's rules and responsibilities 1. A prefect must take control over their house when the head of house is
unavailable.
2. A prefect must escort and help new students.
3. A prefect must help guide their house in emergencies. 4. A prefect must set a good example for younger methods of their house.
5. A prefect must prevent others in their house from rule breaking.
6. A prefect may deduct house points, should they feel it necessary.
7. A prefect should attend a monthly meeting to state any problems
brought forward to them and to help organise school events and the
running of the school. (The first meeting will be held September 20th)
Prefect Perks
There will be a certain number of perks awarded for obtaining this
position as well as the honour of it! These are:
1. A prefect bathroom (password- pine fresh)
2. A prefect common room (password- Jynx spectrum) 3. A prefect is allowed into any common room and will be trusted with all
the passwords, as well as those to the headmaster's office.
4. Prefects are allowed into the restricted section of the library and
can check any books out- no questions asked.
Deputy head
Professor. M. Mcgonnagal.
"Wow!" was James' first reaction. He was finding it hard to believe that Dumbledore had got it right in sending him his prefect badge. "Does he honestly trust me with all those passwords? Especially the Slytheryn common room!"
Just then a loud bang was heard followed by some screams and a foul stench coming through the door from the corridor. "James Potter get your prefect a$$ out here so we can kick some Slytheryn butt!" Sirius shouted. James jumped to his feet and rejoined his friends.
They decided that the carriage that Snape and his goons were in was just too dull. So they had a couple of girls distract their victims and a few charms later, the self-proclaimed marauders were running back to their compartment, grinning from ear to ear.
"Red and gold sure doesn't suit those slime balls!" Sirius exclaimed, "Just as well they weren't sorted into Gryffindor!"
After a few more hours of pranks and exploding snap, three giggling 5th year girls visited the boys. Of course the marauders were used to this ever since James' success on the quidditch pitch and their famous pranks they were well known by everyone (especially the girls).
"Hey boys." One said. "Hey Bev, Wendy, Sharon." They replied. "So what you all been up to?" Bev said sitting down next to James and putting her hand on his forearm. "Not much." James replied smiling a little, "Just counting down the days till we saw you three lovely ladies again!" "Really?" Bev asked. "Yes, of course my fair lady" Sirius said, giving Wendy a flirtatious wink. Just then a bodiless voice called over the train;
"We will be arriving at Hogwarts shortly, please put your uniforms on if you have not done so already." "Well we have to go change now, see you guys soon?" Sharon said eyeing up Remus and Peter.
"You can count on it!" Sirius cooed. The girls left their compartment and Sirius added; "Yeah right in a million years!" James, Remus and peter all started laughing. "Whatever Si, you know you'll change your mind when you feel like making out with someone!" "So!" Was all Sirius could come back with.
The train arrived at Hogsmeade station where the boys got into a horseless carriage and made their way to Hogwarts. "Home again!" James stated.
Although he cherished his family and house, he loved it here at Hogwarts, he knew it inside out, and it held so many memories for him. The marauders had, had the run of the school since they started.
They made their way into the great hall and took their usual seats at the Griffindor table, Sirius and James sitting opposite Peter and Remus. Mcgonnagal brought in the new firsties and once they were all sorted (adding 9 new Griffindor's) Dumbledore stood up;
"I'd like to say welcome back to a new school year, and I know you are all eager to enjoy the feast, as am I but first I have to go through the usual school rules and regulations. Firstly the forbidden forest is. well forbidden!" He chuckled at his own joke. "Secondly, a list has been started by the caretaker, Mr.. of all the items which are now banned from use in these school grounds, all of which will be confiscated found. The list co- incidentally was constructed after a certain four boys thought it would be funny to experiment with wet start fire works one memorable dinnertime! There is also a new member to the staff, Mr. Filch. He and his cat Mrs Norris will be Mr. Caretakers apprentice, training for when Mr. Caretaker retires at the end of this year." All four marauders eyes lit up "fresh meat!"
"Finally, I would like us to sing the Hogwarts song before we eat, so pick your favourite tune; after all music is a magic of its own!"
James grinned; prank number 2 was about to be put into action! The words came out of Dumbledore's wand and everyone started singing.
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, warty, Hogwarts." Most people stopped singing, they were confused. One voice could be heard above all the others!
"Teach us something please," The marauders were hysterical.
"Whether we be old and bald," Everyone else was still confused, yet the voice kept going.
"Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff,"
Frantically looking round they started to realise there were a few boys still singing at the Slytheryn table.
"For now there bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,"
At this point the marauders decided to get up on the Griffindor table and start dancing along to the music provided, dragging up numerous people with them.
" So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn till our brains rot." The hall went silent.
Then one person, Dumbledore started clapping. Followed by the rest of the teachers slowly joining in. James looked at Sirius who looked at Remus, who looked at peter, then they started clapping wildly, getting down from the table.
"Woo hoo! Snape your voice rocks!" James shouted with a girly and sarcastic tone. Better.than...expected!..We...Knew...when.. we.. made ..that.. Potion.Snape.. would actually sing, but who ever knew how bad he was!" Peter wheezed within gasps. The boys over the summer had decided that they needed to greet the school with a good welcome home present, so between them concocted the idea to get Snape at the same time.
They had come up with using the school song as Dumbledore had made them sing it the four previous years without fail. All they needed was the perfect spell to do this. They first thought up the obvious thing the "Sonorous" spell, but two reasons prevented them from using this;
1. They didn't have a chance to practice it as they weren't allowed to
use their wands at home.
2. They wouldn't get the chance to get close enough to Snape to put it on
him, just for the song. So they had to think up another way to do it. Then it came to them, it was simple really! All they had to do was make a potion, which they could give him on the train ride some how (when they decorated his compartment they slipped it into his pumpkin juice!)
They had to make sure it would only work when he sung though. You may think this process would be long and boring but Sirius and James were two of the smartest people in the whole school, including the teachers!
To them it was great fun, seeing how many different things they could achieve. They had already started making there own spells and potions (mainly for prank use), learnt how to apparate, passed every test they had ever taken with at least 100% and also got the record for the most ever detentions the school had given (working out roughly to about 5 per week since they started!) They were also working on a top-secret mission, involving the men of the moon.
Dumbledore stood up, a twinkle in his eye. "Thank you Mr. Snape, for that.. Err entertaining performance!" Snape looked at Dumbledore with a quizzical glance, I forgot to mention the boys added an oblivious charm to the potion, meaning Snape would not have a clue to what was happening.
"Now enjoy the feast!" Dumbledore continued. Then gold plates filled with all types of food and the boys tucked in. The rest of the feast passed uneventfully, then James led all the new students up to Griffindor tower, with no help from Peter,
Sirius or Remus who kept jumping out on them and telling them the wrong directions, or giving them advice such as "Don't talk in Mcgonnagal's lessons or she will turn you a frog!" and so on.
After all his prefectorial duties James headed up to bed along with the others. As soon as their heads hit the pillow, they were well gone! Yep that's it! Home again!
With a hurried goodbye to his parents, James made his way quickly across the train station and onto the magnificent, red steam engine, concealed within platform 9 and 3 quarters. He made his way down the corridor to the very end carriage, the one him and his friends had shared ever since their first year at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry.
As he looked in the reflection or the window trying to flatten his unruly black hair, he thought of the year ahead of him, he couldn't help but feel that something was about to change. Maybe he was just being silly? Or maybe it was the fact that he had just become a prefect? Would he have to be more responsible and stop all the pranks? Nah!
All of a sudden he was snapped back into reality when something wet and slimy ran up his neck. "Ulgh! Sirius! Honestly! Anyone would think you were a dog sometimes! Dude you're my best bud, but that is just gross!" Shouted a shocked James, as his best friend, Sirius Black, had licked his neck.
Sirius was the spitting image of James, both tall with dark black hair, both a good build (or course you had to be if you were on the quidditch team!), they shared the same features, in fact the only way you could tell James from Sirius, was James' hair was rather unruly especially compared to Sirius' perfectly neat hair.
Also James wore glasses covering his blue eyes and Sirius had silver eyes. Their other two best friends joined them shortly, Remus Lupin a boy of medium height, light brown hair and matching brown eyes. And Peter Pettigrew a short boy, with sandy blonde hair and green eyes. From day one it had been James, Sirius, Remus and Peter! James would trust these boys with his life.
"So guys, what's up?" Remus asked. James puffed out his chest, he already had his black Hogwarts robes on and his shiny prefects badge pinned neatly to them. Remus took no notice and Sirius replied;
"Nothing much over here. Peter?" "Nah. Same old, same old. Remus?" "Nope, nothing. Guess none of us have any exciting news!"
They grinned at each other, knowing James wanted desperately to show off about his new prefect new. This was the perfect opportunity to wind him up!
*Cough* Came from James' way- no response. *Cough**Cough*- No response still. *Cough**Cough**Cough*
"So Remmie, where have you been over the summer?" Sirius asked politely, ignoring James. *Cough*
"Sirius! I only left your *Cough* house yesterday!" *Cough* "Oh yeah! By the way James you might want to go see Madame Pomfrey about that cough of yours! How about you Peter? Where have you been?"
"I was actually trying to tell you about how I have been made a prefect! You Idiot!" James replied getting a bit flustered. "Really? You're a prefect?" Remus said, as Sirius and Peter burst out laughing. "Oh I think you may have mentioned that!" James in fact hadn't mentioned anything else since he heard about it!
"I still can't believe how the second naughtiest boy in the school (of course I am the first!) Managed to become prefect? I mean you have already broken the schools detention record, and you're only in your fifth year! That Dumbledore sure is crazy!"
"This coming from the boy who gets top grades in all his classes, yet can't seem to notice the difference between the boy's and girl's toilets!?!"
"I told you! Snape must have cursed me to do that! I wasn't of sound mind!" "Yeah what ever SiriELLA, I mean siriUS!" "Ow go join the other teachers pets in the prefects compartment!"
"I think I will!" And with that James made his way to the prefect's compartment at the front.
So who else got prefect? James thought to himself. He stepped into the compartment and looked around, it was massive! There was a chessboard in a corner, as well as exploding snap and gobstones.
There was also a sofa next to a table, which was piled high with what looked like half of Honeydukes and three jug's of pumpkin juice. This is the life thought James.
He sat down grabbed a piece of Droobles best blowing gum and started reading a piece of parchment from the side:
Prefect's rules and responsibilities 1. A prefect must take control over their house when the head of house is
unavailable.
2. A prefect must escort and help new students.
3. A prefect must help guide their house in emergencies. 4. A prefect must set a good example for younger methods of their house.
5. A prefect must prevent others in their house from rule breaking.
6. A prefect may deduct house points, should they feel it necessary.
7. A prefect should attend a monthly meeting to state any problems
brought forward to them and to help organise school events and the
running of the school. (The first meeting will be held September 20th)
Prefect Perks
There will be a certain number of perks awarded for obtaining this
position as well as the honour of it! These are:
1. A prefect bathroom (password- pine fresh)
2. A prefect common room (password- Jynx spectrum) 3. A prefect is allowed into any common room and will be trusted with all
the passwords, as well as those to the headmaster's office.
4. Prefects are allowed into the restricted section of the library and
can check any books out- no questions asked.
Deputy head
Professor. M. Mcgonnagal.
"Wow!" was James' first reaction. He was finding it hard to believe that Dumbledore had got it right in sending him his prefect badge. "Does he honestly trust me with all those passwords? Especially the Slytheryn common room!"
Just then a loud bang was heard followed by some screams and a foul stench coming through the door from the corridor. "James Potter get your prefect a$$ out here so we can kick some Slytheryn butt!" Sirius shouted. James jumped to his feet and rejoined his friends.
They decided that the carriage that Snape and his goons were in was just too dull. So they had a couple of girls distract their victims and a few charms later, the self-proclaimed marauders were running back to their compartment, grinning from ear to ear.
"Red and gold sure doesn't suit those slime balls!" Sirius exclaimed, "Just as well they weren't sorted into Gryffindor!"
After a few more hours of pranks and exploding snap, three giggling 5th year girls visited the boys. Of course the marauders were used to this ever since James' success on the quidditch pitch and their famous pranks they were well known by everyone (especially the girls).
"Hey boys." One said. "Hey Bev, Wendy, Sharon." They replied. "So what you all been up to?" Bev said sitting down next to James and putting her hand on his forearm. "Not much." James replied smiling a little, "Just counting down the days till we saw you three lovely ladies again!" "Really?" Bev asked. "Yes, of course my fair lady" Sirius said, giving Wendy a flirtatious wink. Just then a bodiless voice called over the train;
"We will be arriving at Hogwarts shortly, please put your uniforms on if you have not done so already." "Well we have to go change now, see you guys soon?" Sharon said eyeing up Remus and Peter.
"You can count on it!" Sirius cooed. The girls left their compartment and Sirius added; "Yeah right in a million years!" James, Remus and peter all started laughing. "Whatever Si, you know you'll change your mind when you feel like making out with someone!" "So!" Was all Sirius could come back with.
The train arrived at Hogsmeade station where the boys got into a horseless carriage and made their way to Hogwarts. "Home again!" James stated.
Although he cherished his family and house, he loved it here at Hogwarts, he knew it inside out, and it held so many memories for him. The marauders had, had the run of the school since they started.
They made their way into the great hall and took their usual seats at the Griffindor table, Sirius and James sitting opposite Peter and Remus. Mcgonnagal brought in the new firsties and once they were all sorted (adding 9 new Griffindor's) Dumbledore stood up;
"I'd like to say welcome back to a new school year, and I know you are all eager to enjoy the feast, as am I but first I have to go through the usual school rules and regulations. Firstly the forbidden forest is. well forbidden!" He chuckled at his own joke. "Secondly, a list has been started by the caretaker, Mr.. of all the items which are now banned from use in these school grounds, all of which will be confiscated found. The list co- incidentally was constructed after a certain four boys thought it would be funny to experiment with wet start fire works one memorable dinnertime! There is also a new member to the staff, Mr. Filch. He and his cat Mrs Norris will be Mr. Caretakers apprentice, training for when Mr. Caretaker retires at the end of this year." All four marauders eyes lit up "fresh meat!"
"Finally, I would like us to sing the Hogwarts song before we eat, so pick your favourite tune; after all music is a magic of its own!"
James grinned; prank number 2 was about to be put into action! The words came out of Dumbledore's wand and everyone started singing.
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, warty, Hogwarts." Most people stopped singing, they were confused. One voice could be heard above all the others!
"Teach us something please," The marauders were hysterical.
"Whether we be old and bald," Everyone else was still confused, yet the voice kept going.
"Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff,"
Frantically looking round they started to realise there were a few boys still singing at the Slytheryn table.
"For now there bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,"
At this point the marauders decided to get up on the Griffindor table and start dancing along to the music provided, dragging up numerous people with them.
" So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn till our brains rot." The hall went silent.
Then one person, Dumbledore started clapping. Followed by the rest of the teachers slowly joining in. James looked at Sirius who looked at Remus, who looked at peter, then they started clapping wildly, getting down from the table.
"Woo hoo! Snape your voice rocks!" James shouted with a girly and sarcastic tone. Better.than...expected!..We...Knew...when.. we.. made ..that.. Potion.Snape.. would actually sing, but who ever knew how bad he was!" Peter wheezed within gasps. The boys over the summer had decided that they needed to greet the school with a good welcome home present, so between them concocted the idea to get Snape at the same time.
They had come up with using the school song as Dumbledore had made them sing it the four previous years without fail. All they needed was the perfect spell to do this. They first thought up the obvious thing the "Sonorous" spell, but two reasons prevented them from using this;
1. They didn't have a chance to practice it as they weren't allowed to
use their wands at home.
2. They wouldn't get the chance to get close enough to Snape to put it on
him, just for the song. So they had to think up another way to do it. Then it came to them, it was simple really! All they had to do was make a potion, which they could give him on the train ride some how (when they decorated his compartment they slipped it into his pumpkin juice!)
They had to make sure it would only work when he sung though. You may think this process would be long and boring but Sirius and James were two of the smartest people in the whole school, including the teachers!
To them it was great fun, seeing how many different things they could achieve. They had already started making there own spells and potions (mainly for prank use), learnt how to apparate, passed every test they had ever taken with at least 100% and also got the record for the most ever detentions the school had given (working out roughly to about 5 per week since they started!) They were also working on a top-secret mission, involving the men of the moon.
Dumbledore stood up, a twinkle in his eye. "Thank you Mr. Snape, for that.. Err entertaining performance!" Snape looked at Dumbledore with a quizzical glance, I forgot to mention the boys added an oblivious charm to the potion, meaning Snape would not have a clue to what was happening.
"Now enjoy the feast!" Dumbledore continued. Then gold plates filled with all types of food and the boys tucked in. The rest of the feast passed uneventfully, then James led all the new students up to Griffindor tower, with no help from Peter,
Sirius or Remus who kept jumping out on them and telling them the wrong directions, or giving them advice such as "Don't talk in Mcgonnagal's lessons or she will turn you a frog!" and so on.
After all his prefectorial duties James headed up to bed along with the others. As soon as their heads hit the pillow, they were well gone! Yep that's it! Home again!