Disclaimer – I do not own!

The Marauders Magical Journal

By Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs

I can't believe this!

What? Detention wasn't that bad!

What I can't believe is how those bloody Slytherins figured it out!

Yeah, come to think of it, they did seem to know an awful lot…

How do you think they did it?

We'll have to find out. And I have a plan…

His breath hitched in his throat as he stopped as he heard murmuring voices. It was late at night and no student's were allowed out of bed past nine, but he was no ordinary students and didn't give a dang about rules. Well, most of them anyway.

He was glad that he was hidden, there was no way the suspicious voices would see him. Hear was something different, but he knew how to be quiet.

"What do you think? He'll come back?" said one voice, a woman's.

"He all ready has, he's tried to gain power since he came to Hogwarts himself, but now he'll achieve it, and with our help," said the second voice, a males by the sound of it.

"How?"

"I am not sure," said the other.

He was able to hear the rest of the conversation since the voices had moved father down the hall way and he didn't dare follow, though he wanted too, he really, really wanted too. But he had heard enough.

He raced back to Gryffindor Tower.

"Guy's! wake up!" James yelled as soon as he was safely in the dorm.

"Huh!" Sirius sat up and rubbed his eyes.

"I didn't do it?" Remus muttered.

"Muffins.." Peter kept dreaming.

"Wake up! I just heard the strangest thing!" James said excitedly.

"What do you mean? Were you out wandering the halls again?" Remus asked, rubbing his eyes.

"Look, I was wandering the halls, I got hungry, anyway…I was on my way to the kitchen and I came across some students talking in the hall. I don't know who they are, but they were talking about Voldemort!" James explained.

"Why would they be talking about him?" Sirius asked.

"I'm not sure, but I figure it was because they mentioned Dumbledore!"

"This can't be good, Death Eater attacks have gotten to become more alarming because they've been done near the school," Remus said.

"I'm going to find out what's going on," James said.

"Why? Why get involved, you're going to get yourself killed," Peter said as he rubbed sleep from his eyes.

"My parent's are fighting against Voldemort, I have to help in the only ways I can," James said with a glare.

"Right, but not without me!" Sirius jumped up from bed.

"Your family is going to kill you when they find out," James said.

"They support Voldemort, and they want me to do the same thing, since I am the perfect pureblood son that I am, I naturally go against anything they say!"

"Remus? Peter? What about you guy's?" James asked.

"I have nothing more to lose, I guess," Remus muttered.

"All…right…" Peter agreed hesitantly.

"Great! Now all we need to do is figure out who the voices belong too," James said.

The boy's had no clue how to figure this out, so Remus suggested that they do so in the morning. With that, the lights were extinguished once again, and the boys dropped off to sleep. One by one, each head deep in their own angst filled thoughts.

James sighed as he sat in History of Magic, the most boring class anyone had ever came up with in the history of Hogwarts. James was sure that if he mentioned this to Professor Bins, than the ghost Professor would launch into a three hour long speech of the first founder of History of Magic at Hogwarts. James was then very sure that he'd jump off the Astronomy tower if he had to listen to one of THOSE speeches.

"Hey!" Sirius nudged James' elbow which made the other boy lean forward ot much and whack his head on the desk in front of him.

"What is your problem?" James asked as he rubbed his head, he glared at the students who turned to look at him and Sirius.

"Do you at least know the gender's of the people you heard last night?" Sirius asked.

"I think one was a guy and the other a girl, actually, I'm also pretty sure that they weren't Gryffindor's either. And they had to be Prefects or something because no ones supposed to be out after curfew," James replied.

"Except you of course," Remus muttered. He had been taking notes but stopped once James and Sirius had started to discuss something…well…seriously.

"I'm a Potter, I'm allowed to break rules as long as no one finds out," James replied.

"I hope your Dad told you that," Remus shook his head.

"Sure he did, My Mum's head Auror, she'd never tell me to break rules," James said with a pout.

"All right, so who was in the hall way?" Remus let the subject drop for the moment.

"I don't know, but look, I'll know who it is when I hear them again," James sighed. The boys turned their attention back to the lesson but each were lost in thoughts of the mystery.

"Watch it!" a Slytherin glared at Remus as he tried to side step out of her way.

"Er—sorry about that," Remus muttered before the two went their separate ways.

"Want me to hex her?" Sirius asked.

"No," Remus replied.

"What? Why not? She was the one who wasn't watching where she was going!" Sirius looked perplexed.

"Look, apologizing didn't cost me anything, and I'm a better person for not pointing out the fact that if she didn't have her nose buried in a book, then we wouldn't have bumped into each other in the first place. Besides, that would have probably attracted some ones attention," Remus said. He nodded his head in the direction of Lucius Malfoy and Narcissa Black.

"Oh, wonderful," James rolled his eyes.

"See, just apologizing kept us out of a bit of trouble," Remus said.

"But, why is he even watching us?" Peter asked.

"Maybe he knows about James being out of bed last night," Remus muttered.

"No way, I was extremely quiet," James replied.

"You do have this way of being quiet when you want to be," Sirius nodded his head.

The boys looked over their shoulders; Lucius Malfoy was watching them.

"I think something is up, and he's involved," Remus said.

"Maybe we need to get down to the bottom of this before something else happens,
Sirius said.

"Agreed," James, Peter and Remus said at the same time.

"Now, as you see, this curse is very, very difficult, and I am not expecting you to get it the first time around," Professor Selwyn Rigby droaned. He was dressed in dark red robes and wore a floppy hat with a black feather stuck in the brim. He had long grey hair that he wore in a pony tail, and he smelled of old brandy all the time. (He was also very ugly but no one ever mentioned it)

James looked at Sirius and grinned; they loved Defense class the best, well, Transfiguration was just as close to their favorite as well. It was a secret between the boys, that Sirius and James had been practicing any and all curses in their books and in any books that Remus would let them borrow from him, or get him to borrow from the Library for them.

"All right," Rigby said, "Get into pairs," he ordered and the desks and chairs slid across the room into a neat pile. James and Sirius paired with each other, and Remus paired with Peter. The smaller boy never could get the curses right.

"Okay, on the count of three…." Rigby started to count down.

"ONE…..TWO…..THREE!" he yelled.

"EXPELLIARMUS!" was yelled across the room. Then wands were recovered and the lesson went on again. Each pair of students had the goal of using this spell to un arm their partner.

Peter was having a bit of trouble and happened to set Remus' robes on fire. The boy put it out and smiled at Peter.

"It's all right," Remus said, "I know the spell my Mum uses to patch up clothes, I can do it in a heart beat at lunch," he explained, and then began to systematically explain to Peter what he needed to do in order to get the spell right.

However, Both James and Sirius were trying to see how many times they could disarm each other before the end of class. At which time they would decide who won their small bet and had to sing I'm a Little Tea pot in front of everyone in Gryffindor Tower that night.

Needless to say, Peter lost the bet because of default...

A/N – Okay, I know that it's a bit of a short chapter. However, I felt as if I needed to give you guy's something since it has been a week or so since my last update. I am so bloody sorry! But life got in the way and I really didn't have much of an idea for this chapter anyway.

So, please review and feel free to give me idea's!

Love ya! Poppy