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The Marauders Pre-Marauders

Chapter 4

The wonderful game of Quidditch

Remus Lupin climbed into the portrait hole to Gryffindor Tower, tripping on something lying on the floor and landing facedown. Great, he thought, a perfect way to end the first week of school. Remus heard some one laughing, at his expence.

"Wait, hold on, it's only Remus," he heard a voice that was suspiciously similar to Sirius' say. Immediately the laughter died away.

"James?" Remus asked, getting to his feet, looking at a body face down on the ground, "What are you doing lying on the ground?"

"Oh, nothing," said Sirius, "I dared James to lie on the floor in front of the portrait hole to see how many people would trip over him," he said, a smug look on his face as if it was the best idea he'd ever had, which it probably was.

"Well it sure worked, didn't it?" Remus asked, glaring at Sirius.

"Sorry mate, you weren't supposed to trip, it just happened," said Sirius, pretending to look sorry.

"Of course it did," Remus said, laughing to himself and wondering how he had managed to get such idiots for friends.

"Yeah, but the good news is that so far we've tripped…" James counted off on his fingers, "… 36 people!" he said, looking proud of this accomplishment.

Remus closed his eyes, not quite sure he wanted to know the answer to his next question, "Please, please tell me that Lily wasn't one of those 36 people?"

"Okay, since you asked nicely, no, Lily wasn't one of the people we tripped," Sirius said in a not very convincing way.

"Oh no," Remus said, putting his head in his hands, "You tripped her? She must really hate you now James!"

"Yeah, I reckon she does, considering she purposely stomped on me after she tripped. That's going to hurt in the morning," he said as he rubbed his rear end.

"Ah well, we had better start on this weekend's homework," Remus said, sitting down on an armchair and opening his bag.

"Yeah," said Sirius, "I can't believe how much homework they gave us. I mean, you'd think they'd show a little pity. I mean, this is our first week here, and already we have a mountain of homework to do."

"Sirius, you have two pieces. I have two essays and four worksheets," said Remus, rolling his eyes.

"Yeah, well that's probably more work than I've ever done!" Sirius retorted.

"Wow, you must be lazier than I thought," Remus muttered.

Just then, Lily walked down from the Girls' Dormitory, completely ignoring the study group.

"Hey, Lily," James called after her, getting up and running towards her.

"What do you want!" Lily screamed, whipping around to face James.

"Um, I wanted to say I'm sorry I tripped you…."

Lily scoffed, "Anything else?"

"And, um, will you go out with me?" James asked as an awkward silence followed.

Lily was taken aback by this, "I-I, um, NO!" she screamed and left the common room.

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Lily stormed out of the common room, not watching where she was going and bumped headlong into someone.

"Oh I'm so sorry!" she said, helping the girl pick up all of the stuff she'd dropped.

"Oh hi Stacy," she said.

"Hi Lily. I'm fine, happens all the time," Stacy said smiling, "Hey are you ok? You seem a little upset."

"Oh I'm fine, just a little p.o.ed at James Potter right now."

"Wait," said Stacy, "Do you mean James Potter, the extremely annoying and self-centered Gryffindor?"

"And arrogant," Lily added, laughing.

"Ah, yes, how could I forget?"

"You know what, Stacy?" Lily asked, "This may be the beginning of a great friendship."

X

James walked back to where Peter, Remus and Sirius were working.

"Wow, you must have really messed up this time, what'd you do?" asked Sirius, not helping matters.

"I asked her out," James mumbled unhappily.

"You what!" Sirius asked.

"I asked her out, okay?" James yelled.

"Why did you do that?" asked Remus, trying to not be accusing.

"I don't know!" James wailed, "I just, I don't know, I just did!"

"Well that's definitely not a very good reason," Remus mused.

"I know! I don't know what came over me! I just did it without really thinking!"

"It happens to the best of us," said Sirius, trying to comfort James.

"Thanks Sirius," James said.

"No, really, I never think before I do something!" Sirius said.

"Nnnnoooo," James groaned, "I can't believe I've as low as Sirius."

"Hey!" Sirius replied indignantly.

After 30 more minutes of silence, Remus stood up and said, "Well, I'm done with my homework; I'm going up to bed now."

The other three stared at him.

"You had more work than us, and I still have a long way to go. How is that possible?"

"Well James," Remus explained, "I actually work."

"Ah, that would explain it," James said.

"Well, goodnight you lot," said Remus as he started for the Boys' Dormitory.

The next morning, James woke up early waited an hour before he could go down to the Quidditch field with Sirius. His father had been a great Quidditch player and James wanted to own up to it.

"Hey James, have you ever noticed that grass is green?" Sirius asked as they were walking to the pitch, receiving a worried look from James, who hoped that Sirius was just giddy.

"Okay, Sirius, let's do the best we can so maybe we can get on the team together," James suggested.

'That would be sweet!" Sirius said.

Sirius and James got in line to try-out for the Gryffindor team. James watched and grew slightly more worried as he saw several 7th years be turned down from the team. Next it was James' turn to try out for seeker.

"Good luck, mate," Sirius said as he pushed James out onto the field.

James mounted the school broom he was holding and pushed off from the ground as the Quidditch instructor let go of the Snitch. James flew right after it and captured it after about a minute or so.

James flew back down to the field. He touched down and walked over to where the rest of the team would tell him if he made the team.

"What is your name?" asked a fourth or fifth year.

"Uh James Potter," he said.

"And what year are you?"

"Um fir-first year," James stuttered.

All of the team's player's mouth's dropped open.

"Well you made the team, good job,"

James couldn't believe it. No one had made it onto the team in their first year since, since….his father had gone to Hogwarts, and that was a long time ago.

James ran to find Remus and Peter to tell them the good news. Unfortunately, Sirius wasn't as lucky as James had been.

"Sorry you didn't make the team," James told Sirius after the try-outs.

"Don't be. There's always next year," he said.

"And the next year and the next year and the next year," James said, laughing.

"Hey!" Sirius yelled, trying to whack James, but once again his reflexes were too quick and Sirius ended up hitting…

"Ow, a wall!" Sirius cried, cradling his hand, "I'll get you for that one Potter!" and with that Sirius chased James all around the common room until the wee hours of morning.

A/N: There's chap 4 for ya! Please review. That was a little too sentimental, so I promise the fifth will be better. Thank you Cold Moon for making my story one of your favorites! It's really quite an honor! The fifth chapter will probably be up tomorrow.