THE MARAUDERS

He dashed across the dew covered grass and saw that the sun had only been up for an hour or so. He ran to the front doors of Hogwarts, he pulled them open loudly, and run to the common room. "Snigerboots", he panted the password to the lady in the picture as she complained about being waken so early. He quietly ran through the porthole , and was startled. There was someone up already. It was a girl, he could see the back of her head, she had dirty blonde hair. Startled she turned around, and Remus realized it was the same girl who James had tripped in the hallway yesterday!

"Oh…uh, sorry." Remus apologized nervously for interrupting her.

"For what? It's ok, you just startled me that's all. Your one of those marauders aren't you?"

"Marauders?"

"Ya, it means trouble makers, you know?"

"Ya I know, I guess I just never thought I'd get that title!"

"Huh, then maybe I should get your name."

"Oh! Yes of course, I'm Remus, Remus Lupin." He said, shaking her hand.

"And I'm Summer Callaway."

"Nice to meet you Summer."

Remus was glad to see her smile as she invited him to take a seat next to her.

"So what were you doing out there this early?" she asked him suspiciously.

" uhhh….I couldn't sleep, and uh…needed some fresh air."

"Suuuure" she answered unbelievingly.

"Ya well…what about you? What were you doing up so early?"

"I couldn't sleep."

"Suuuure." He said mocking her.

She laughed and they talked for a little about silly things, but it made Remus happy to be talking to her as a friend.

MEANWHILE…

"Why isn't Remus in his bead?" James half yelled.

"I don't know, did he ever come back last night?" Sirius answered.

"I'm not sure, he prolly went off to play some prank without us."

"He better not have, come on."

Sirius and James ran down the stairs and into the Gryffindor common room, just to find a very happy Remus sitting on the couch talking to some girl.

"Oh, hey Remus." James said startled.

"James here thought you'd gone and had some fun without us." Sirius added.

"So did you!" James shot back.

"Nah, I just couldn't sleep." Remus said smiling.

"Hey, who's she?" Sirius asked, finally acknowledging the girl.

"Hey, isn't that the girl who tried telling us off yesterday!" James realized.

"I, uh…" Summer was startled.

" Remus, what are you doing, talking to her?"

" I'm not her, or that girl, My name is Summer Callaway!"

"Well Callaway, do us a favor, and LEAVE US ALONE!"

"Hmph stupid marauders…"

Summer stormed up her flight of stairs and slammed the door to the girls dormitory. Remus had a look of guilt and disappointment on his face, but James ignored it.

"Hey, that's a good idea, Marauders, I like it."

From then on the school knew them as The Marauders.

The Marauders then walked to the grate hall and found a seat at the Gryffindor table. As they sat down Remus noticed James glance over to the other side of the table, after a second he realized that James was staring at a red headed girl with long hair and green eyes. She seemed tall, (although it was hard to tell, she was sitting down.). Remus smiled knowing that this must be the girl James fancied.

"Be right back."

All of a sudden, James just got up and left, not to mention Sirius, who was right in the middle of a sentence. Clueless, Sirius got frustrated.

"Hey! Where are you going! Did you here a word I said?"

"Don't worry, he'll be right back" Remus said with a smile.

He watched as James walked by the girl in a swift show off way, he ruffled up his hair, caught her attention and said…

"Hi."

"Uh…hi."

"I'm James." He said sticking out his hand.

"I know." She said, ignoring his outstretched hand. "Ur one of those Marauders aren't you?"

"Ya!" James said proudly, retracting his hand.

"Then leave me alone, and go pick on someone else."

James came stomping back, and slammed into his seat.

"Woman." he muttered under his breath.

"Aw, don't worry James, there are lot of other girls to fancy." Sirius said, finally catching on.

"WHAT! Who said I fancied her?"

"Oh come on James, its obvious." Remus added in.

"Hmph" James slumped in his seat and changed the subject quickly.

"So we have Potions with the slytherins today…" The conversation continued on to their plans of torture for the day.

James was right about having Potions that afternoon, and in that class they had one person in particular that they liked to pick on, Severus Snape. Three of the marauders paid no attention during this class, (Remus was there life saver, the only one paying attention and doing the work so they could copy.) The rest of the marauders were trying to come up with a spell that would shoot out stinging green goop into Snape's eyes. They were running out of time in the class, when James finally thought he had figured it out. He showed Sirius, so that he could get Snape. 10 seconds later, a glop of bright blue goop went soaring into the air, with one problem. Peter,(being his clumsy self), had knocked Sirius' elbow as he had conjured the spell. Luckily this didn't change to much, the goop just landed in Snape's hair.

" I thought it was supposed to be green." Sirius whispered to James after there soft laughter had died down.

"Ya, so did I." James answered cluelessly. Over hearing this, Remus asked what spell they had used.

"Well according to my calculations, you guys didn't conjurer a stinging goop, you simply made a piece of chewed muggle gum." Peter continued to laugh at them while James and Sirius pouted in their seats.

"That was supposed to work." James complained

"Ya well, it wasn't my fault, you came up with it." Sirius answered.

"Ya well it would have worked better if you had better aim."

"Better aim! Peter hit me!" Sirius said raising his voice.

"ok." Peter answered in a smart allic tone, and punched Sirius in the arm.

"What was THAT for!"

"You told me to hit you."

They all stopped arguing to find the teacher, (finally catching on), standing in front of them, with all his weight on one foot, and his arm crossed, staring at them.

"I want to see the four of you in my classroom for detention this afternoon at 5."