Chapter 16- Winning on a Technicality
A/n I was really tempted to call this chapter. Sirius's Undies. But I decided against it.
James rolled over he looked at the watch on his arm. 'Oh Great seven and I am awake already. Hmm maybe Remus will be up.' He thought to himself. James got changed and headed for the Gryffindor Common Room. He wanted to check if Lily was asleep but knew better.
When he entered the Common Room the first thing he saw was fiery red hair. 'Well that answers that.' He thought. Lily was reading something. James really wanted to talk to her. But after the incident he figured it wouldn't be wise. He went and sat down across from her.
"Hello James." James jumped he hadn't realized that Lily had noticed him.
"Hey Lily."
"What are you doing today?"
"Nothing really the guys and I are going out to the fields to practice."
"Oh ok." Lily went back to reading but now there was a smile plastered on her face, Sirius came down rubbing his eyes.
"Am I hallucinating or is James Potter really up?"
"No I'm really up Padfoot. Whatcha want?"
"Nothing just amazed to see you and Lily not snogging."
James looked over at Lily to see if she was listening to what Sirius had just said. "Well that's nice for you isn't it Sirius." Lily responded.
Sirius gave a confused look at her but went and joined James. They started talking Quidditch. With in a half hour the Marauders had made their way down to the Common Room. They were all wondering what Lily was up to but none of them were brave enough to ask. A half hour after all the Marauders had gotten down to the Common Room the rest of the Marauderettes showed up.
"Are we ready for today Lils?" Christine asked.
"Yup Chris I just got the information that we didn't have."
"But but how?" Emilie asked.
"It wasn't hard. I was just kinda told." Then it clicked with them.
The Marauders stared at the girls. "You would think that they would tell us." Peter said.
"Yeah but then again they are girls."
"Is that supposed to mean something Sirius?" Lily asked with her hands on her hips.
"No it isn't."
"Don't you five have homework or Quidditch to deal with?" Lily asked.
"No we finished it, where would we be with out you Lils?" James replied.
"In detention."
"Ah yes, I see. I can't help myself but wonder why I fell in love with you."
"Beats me." Lily smiled.
"Ahh yes now I remember why." Everyone laughed. Lily playfully slapped James upside the head.
The Marauders left. Quickly the girls snuck up to the boys' dormitory. "Chris you get it I don't want to touch them."
"Fine what ever." Christine went over to one of the trunks and pulled some things out. Lily went over to another and grabbed a couple of things out of it. Giggling the Marauderettes left to go back to Lily's room.
Later that Night.
The Marauders hadn't seen the Marauderettes all day. They walked to the Gryffindor Common Room. They were about to open the door when they heard someone auctioning off something. "It will be starting at one galleon.
Do I hear two?"
Being the curious people they were they started to descend on the Common Room. Jimmy Thomas walked out. When he saw the Marauders we went over to them. "You don't want to go in there it is a mad house. Especially you Sirius, you really don't want to go in there."
"Why would that be Jimmy?"
"Christine is auctioning off your underpants." Jimmy said before leaving.
"He was kidding right?" Sirius asked.
"Let's hope so." They causally walked in to see Christine holding up a pair of Sirius's briefs.
"Do I hear 10 galleons? Yes ok going once going twice."
"TWENTY-FIVE!"
"Twenty-Five? Going once going twice. Gone to the blonde 6th year over there."
Lily brought the girl her prize and the girl gave Lily the twenty-five galleons."
The Marauders mouths dropped. Alice had now taken Christine's place. "Next up is James Potter's quill. We will start the bidding at 1 knut."
"1 galleon!"
"One galleon? Ok Going once going twice."
"Four galleons!"
"Four galleons going once"
"Five galleons 6 knuts and 7shickels!"
"5 galleons 6 knuts and 7shickels going once going twice gone to the sandy color haired 5th year." Alice shouted.
The Marauders finally came to their senses. "What in the name of Dumbledore do you think your doing?" James shouted.
"Can't you see we are busy? Hey Chris we should start selling to the whole school." Emilie shouted.
"Yeah your right!" Christine shouted back. Sirius walked over to the table. He lifted Alice of it and stood up on it his self.
"Sorry Ali but, ATTENTION ALL PEOPLE BIDDING. IT IS NOW CLOSED. THE MARAUDERS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS AND ARE NOW CLOSING IT PLEASE GO BACK TO YOUR STUDING AND WHAT NOT." Sirius stepped down as the girls pouted and went back to their lives. Everyone had cleared out of the Gryffindor Common Room because they knew that the Marauders were mad as heck.
"So would you like to tell us what just happened?" Remus asked.
"We figured the girls could do with some items. So we started bidding off James and Sirius's stuff. Not much but just some." Alice replied.
"How did you get it? Asked Frank.
"Do you really want to know?" Christine replied.
"No not really."
"That is what I thought. But of course you didn't let us get to some of the better stuff. Including these. Christine held up a pair of Sirius's silk boxers.
"You wouldn't" Sirius stuttered shocked.
"Really, we were." Lily replied.
"That is if you hadn't stopped us." Emilie added.
"OH bloody hell." Peter said.
"Now if you will excuse us we must be going." Christine said.
"OH no you don't." James and Sirius said together standing in front of the portrait.
"What makes you think you can stop us boys." Alice shot at them.
"You aren't leaving here until you give me back my underpants!" Sirius said holding his hand out."
"Fine." Christine said. She made it look as if she was going to give them back but then ran for the window. "Let us through or your underpants will be gone."
"How dare you!" Sirius called over.
"How dare I? I'm not the one who won't let people through the portrait hole." Christine called back.
"Please Chris can I have my underpants back?" Sirius pouted with puppy dog eyes.
"Your puppy dog eyes won't work on me Mr. Black you aren't a puppy anymore." James started to move away from Sirius. Sirius gave him a confused look until James mouthed what he was doing and Sirius nodded.
"Fine but can I have my underpants back?"
"NO and if James Potter takes one more step the underwear gets dropped."
James stopped moving. Lily, Alice, Emilie, Frank, Peter, and Remus watched, since James was on Sirius's side Lily moved over to join Christine. She leaned out the window and looked down at all the kids on the lawn. "Hey we have Sirius Black's underpants up here. Who thinks we should drop them." Lily called down.
The Gryffindors could here girls calling all types of things. "So Sirius you can let us through and have these back or you can stay in our way and loose your underpants to a group of girls that really want them." Christine smiled.
"That's not fair Lily was completely out of bounds." Sirius pleaded.
"No she wasn't we didn't have any bounds Sirius Black. James Potter I saw that. Don't think I won't see the next one as well. You are bringing me very close to dropping Sirius's underpants to all the waiting girls."
Remus walked over to Lily. He put his hands up showing that he wasn't going to do anything funny. He looked out the window to see over half the female population of Hogwarts on the grass waiting to see what was going to happen. Waiting to see if they would get Sirius Black's underpants.
"Wow that is a lot of girls. Sirius who would have thought that you could have such a fan club."
"You didn't know about the Sirius Black Fan Club? They got shirts, buttons, pins, everything." Christine said looking away from her target. James made a mad dash but Lily stepped into his way.
"Now now Mr. Potter that would be cheating. Tisk Tisk."
"Lils darling, please it is for Sirius's own good."
"So is this James. So is this."
Emilie and Alice looked as if an idea had hit them. They walked over to the window making Remus go back to where Sirius was. Emilie leaned out the window and shouted. "The bidding will start at ten galleons!"
Lily had been able to push James back to his spot next to Sirius. She walked back over to Christine and the others. "What are you willing to do to get those back?" she asked.
"Emilie what is the bidding on?" Frank asked.
"27 galleons 15 knuts and 10 shickels why?"
"29 galleons." He said.
Emilie and everyone else looked surprised. She called down to the girls who all looked confused. They didn't have time to respond to Emilie's calls before she said gone. They all looked disappointed.
Christine turned to the Marauders. "You won on an unfair technicality. We would have won otherwise and we would have gotten a whole lot more money and so where is that 29 galleons?"
Frank now turned to Sirius. "You owe me 29 galleons." He said fishing out the money from his pocket. Everyone started laughing except for Sirius who was inspecting his underpants making sure they were still good.
Then a fifth year came running into the Gryffindor Common Room. "Excuse me. The Headmaster would like to see the Head Boy and Girl. The Marauders and Marauderettes all sent curious glances.