Days of the Marauders
DISCLAIMER: Yeah, I know…. I own nothing . . . Fanfiction. I own nothing. None of the characters, places, creatures, inanimate objects - nothing.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
(Brace yourself, now, this'll take a while….)
Something I made rather controversial for myself - not intentionally, of course, but I just wanted it to be a bit more believable. Raven Sinistra: She-Raven-I made up, but Sinistra, I didn't. I doubt many HP fans'll pick this up, but she IS the same Sinistra as the Professor Sinistra of the books, who teaches Astronomy. Alrightie? I just happened to have a good mental image of her while reading the books, and decided to come up with a name and personality to go with it.
Peter Pettigrew isn't an evil Slytherin, just a Gryffindor boy, who is surprisingly weak, considering he got into that house. I hate to see him as a perfectly evil villain. It just can't be. He's simply a weak coward.
Remus - I can't stand to think he was ever a shy, quiet little bookworm. Yes, he is very intelligent, and does read quite a lot, but not obsessively, as some people imagine. Remus is more a clever, than intellectual to me, very sweet, kind, gentle, calm, and meditative. I've read so many fanfics, explaining how tragic Remus's life was, and all these horrible things happen to him…I find it heartbreaking, because he's such a good person, in general. I mean, yeah, he's been through a lot, but he keeps going, and is able to do it with a smile on his face. Point of this rambling, Remus is a wonderful guy, and I like to imagine him a really sweet kid, so I've given him a lover (:
I intended this to be strictly a Remus/Raven romance fic, but in the end, found I liked it better with my screwy way of switching POVs, and including them of both Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Another thing that confuses people is the fact that it's stated that Lucius Malfoy is 41 in the Order of the Phoenix, and Snape and the Marauders are 38. Meaning, during their school days, they (Malfoy and the Marauders) were three years apart. Some people see Malfoy as someone the Marauders constantly encountered, but I see it as very unlikely, unless they were in the same house or played Quidditch against each other. ONE bad guy for the Marauders! ONE!
When I say the Marauders, d'you know whom I'm talking about? I'm so lazy…I don't mean just Remus, Peter, Sirius, and James, but also, I'm including Raven and Lily…. I ought to say what year their in…but then, this fic covers all of them, so that'd sound screwed up…. I also see Bellatrix, Narcissa, Andromeda, Lucius, Crabbe, and Goyle, all in the same year, and they're all in Slytherin (with the exception of Andromeda, of course, who's a Gryffindor.)
As far as looks go, I've kept straight to the books. Though I've given Sirius handsome grey eyes, and Remus, brownish-orange.
Lily, I don't see as the kind of extremely popular girl at school. In this fic, she's got popularity enough, but she's really rather kept to herself, having only a couple of really good, close friends, Raven, being her best. Though Lily only snaps a couple of times at James, she's got a knack for making herself heard, which is good for when she becomes a prefect.
Okee! Enough of this nonsense! ONWARD!!