Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. The wonderful JK Rowling does! I wish I did, then I'd be rich! Just kidding! Please don't sue me for writing a fan fic that I really hope you enjoy!
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"I'M GOING TO KILL THEM!" Marissa shouted when she looked in the mirror that morning.
Lily sleepily woke up. "Whatsa matta wif oo?" she mumbled.
"Oh my gosh Lily, they did it to you to!" Marissa whined.
"Did wha-" Lily trailed off, looking at Marissa. Or what she thought was Marissa. It looked like Sirius was standing there, clad in boxer shorts, but Marissa's voice was coming out of him. "Marissa?" Lily asked.
"Yes! It's me! They did it to you too! I'm going to kill the Marauders when I see them!" Marissa said.
Lily jumped out of bed and raced to the mirror, pushing Marissa out of the way. She gasped when she looked in the mirror. Lily was looking at James through the mirror; she was wearing his pajama pants and a muggle Beatles t-shirt that Lily got James for his birthday one year.
"Come on, I'm going to hex them into next week!" Lily said, grabbing Marissa's hand.
"No! I'm only wearing boxer shorts!" Marissa said.
"It doesn't matter, everyone will think its Sirius!" Lily said, pulling Marissa down the stairs and up the boy's staircase, ignoring all the stares, and burst into the room.
Lily froze when she got in there. She saw herself, Marissa, Kiah, and Petula, but the Marauder's voices were coming out of them.
"Good morning boys!" Sirius said cheerfully.
"Undo this now!" Mara screeched, advancing on Sirius.
"It lasts for a day, and we decided to do it on Saturday so you wouldn't kill us," Sirius said, hoping to make the situation better.
"I'm going to kill you anyways! Is everyone like this?" Marissa asked.
"Kind of. All the couples are switched, and everyone who is single just look like cardboard cutouts," Remus said.
Lily gave them a disbelieving look. "How does switching bodies and cardboard cutouts relate to each other?"
James shrugged. "Dunno, it seemed kind of funny when we came up with it."
Marissa and Lily looked at each other, and then took out their wands. "Petrificus Totalus!" both girls shouted at the same time. All four boys froze like ice and fell sideways.
"Undo it now, or else we'll keep you like this for a week," Lily said. James just smirked and closed his eyes, deeply concentrating on the counter curse. Soon, he stood up and took out his wand, performing the counter curse on his fellow Marauders.
"How-how-how…" Sirius said, dumbfounded.
"You just concentrate hard on the counter curse, and it should undo the spell," James said nonchalantly.
"That's very hard to do, only a few great witches and wizards have learned to do that," Marissa said.
"Really? I did that once," Lily said.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Marissa said, sending the spell towards Lily. She fell backwards, then closed her eyes. After a moment, she was standing again, brushing herself off and sending a rude glare towards Marissa.
"Wow, you guys' kid is going to have some pretty sweet abilities," Remus said in pure amazement.
"Kids?" Lily and James said at the same time. Everyone else in the room just laughed.
"Okay, well I'm going to hide out in our dorm and study for NEWTS. There's no way in hell I'm leaving the common room today," Marissa said.
"Me too," Lily said, turning to leave.
"Don't you want to spend time with me?" James asked.
Lily looked at him, or herself, and laughed. "Well, I think it would be a little creepy. Besides, you might be able to fool the spells on the girls staircase looking like us."
"Yeah! Let's try it!" Sirius said, jumping up and down with anticipation.
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Well, the Marauders weren't able to make it up the staircase. They got halfway down the hall then an invisible force pushed them down the stairs, which turned into the slide when they were halfway down it.
Soon weeks passed by, and teachers were putting more pressure on 7th year students to study for NEWTS.
"I told you in first year to save all your notes and essays Pettigrew!" McGonagall yelled. Peter had lost all of his work from the past seven years at school.
"It's okay Minerva, he can share with us," Sirius said, clapping a scared looking Peter on the shoulder.
McGonagall just shook her head, muttering under her breath.
Lily was feeling a lot of stress. She had to study for NEWTS, plan the wedding, and find out what she wanted to do after Hogwarts, not to mention start trying to make a life for her and James.
"I just can't do all this anymore! I need help with it!" Lily said one night, throwing down her quill in frustration.
James sighed and walked over to where she was sitting on the ground, books, notes, and binders piled around her. "Listen, I know you want to have the wedding in the summer, but you're on such a tight schedule. Why don't you delay it until fall or winter," James said.
"But mum has already got the invitation outline," Lily said, rubbing her eyes.
James sat down next to her and pulled out all the wedding information from her pile. He also found muggle newspaper clippings full of apartment rentals. "You're already trying to find a place for us to live?" asked James.
"Yes, we can't very well live on the street," replied Lily.
"Well, I thought we agreed that I was going to stay at your house and get to know your family more. Why don't we just set the wedding date now, so we know what we're dealing with," James said, hugging Lily.
Small tears of frustration escaped her eyes. "Alright, but if we set the wedding date, we also need to set up a place to get married and somewhere to have the reception."
"I have an amazing idea!" James said suddenly, grinning from ear to ear.
"What is it?" Lily said, sitting up a little.
"We could have the wedding in Hogsmeade! We could do it in the winter on the same day that we started going out!" James said excitedly.
Lily smiled. "You're brilliant! I love you!"
"I love you too," James said, kissing her briefly before writing down the wedding date and place. "Maybe we could just rent a muggle hall and DJ," he said, looking over various notes.
"That's fine, my mother probably knows a few since she already planned Petunia's wedding," Lily said. James sensed coldness in her voice, but said nothing.
"I'm pretty much good on studying for NEWTS, why don't you go ahead and study and I'll work on as much wedding stuff as I can," James said, seeing Lily trying to look at wedding dresses and write down key concepts for Charms.
"Only if you feel like you're ready for NEWTS," Lily mumbled, pushing the wedding dresses aside and focusing all her attention on the schoolwork in front of her.
There was silence in the common room for a while. Sirius and Marissa were studying together rewarding each other for getting right answers with kisses, Remus was doing price comparisons for the wedding out of complete boredom, Lily was studying away, James was flipping through a bridal catalogue, and Peter was sitting by the fire, his eyes nervously darting around the room and frequently checking his watch.
"I-I think I lef-left my book in the P-P-Potions classroom. I'm g-g-going to go check if it's there," Peter said, stumbling over his words.
"You want me to go with you?" Remus asked.
"No!" Peter answered quickly. "I can go by myself. See you guys later!"
Peter hurriedly wobbled out of the portrait hole. Remus narrowed his eyes suspiciously. Peter had been wandering off a lot lately, claiming he lost his book, quill, or cauldron; this was interesting in itself because after the sixth time of sneaking away Remus checked the dormitory and found exactly what he was searching for. He also always knew the passwords to the Slytherin common room, saying that he heard a Slytherin say it when he was passing by. But there was no time in the day where Peter would be casually "passing by" the Slytherin common room.
"I'm going to go help him," Remus said, putting down the notebook and briskly walking out of the common room.
Remus saw Peter heading down a corridor, in the opposite direction of the Potions classrooms. Remus quickly but quietly followed him.
After about ten minutes of moving up stairs and through corridors, Peter finally stopped at a painting of Salazar Slytherin. He muttered something to the portrait, and the picture turned into a door. Looking around carefully, Peter swung open the door and quickly entered the hidden room. Remus ran towards it and slipped in just before it closed.
Remus saw the faint outline of Peter running through a dimly lit hallway. Remus carefully ran after him, slowing down when he saw the hallway coming to an end.
After a while, Remus reached a circular stone room, a bonfire in the middle of it. There were students dressed in black robes with hoods hiding their faces. Peter was pulling the hood over his own head.
Peter joined in the circle, and the students started mumbling a name, but Remus couldn't make it out. Then the chanting got louder and clearer. "Dark Lord!" is what they were chanting.
Remus' blood ran cold. These are Death Eaters, and Peter is one of them. Remus was just about to run and tell Dumbledore, when he heard a boy talking. "There is an intruder in our midst!" he yelled.
A hooded figure began to walk where Remus was standing. Not knowing what else to do, Remus ran towards the exit. "Capture him!" a girl's voice said.
Remus ran as fast as he could. But when he got to the end, there was no door. "Come on! Appear!" Remus muttered, searching the wall for a handle.
"There is no way you can escape," said a voice. Before Remus could turn around, he felt himself being tied up and gagged. "Take him back to the room!" another voice said.
Remus was floated down the hallway, and then chained magically to the wall. "Remus?" Peter's voice squeaked.
"How could you be a Death Eater?" Remus spat as soon as he could talk again. "We trusted you, how could you betray you're friends and help that bastard Voldemort-"
"Do not speak his name!" said Peter as a shudder went through the students.
"Crucio!" said a slimy voice. Remus screamed, it felt as if knives were stabbing him all over his body. He couldn't breathe or think. All he felt was hot, blinding pain. Then suddenly, it was gone.
"Do you have any idea how long I wanted to do that?" said the slimy voice again.
Remus then recognized it. "Snape, I should've guessed you would be a filthy Death Eater."
"Silence! We cannot let him leave now," said another Death Eater.
"I say we do what the Dark Lord would do if he were here. Let's torture him," said a girl's voice.
"I agree with Spinner, but let's go to the forest, there's much more privacy there," Snape said.
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"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Remus was screaming, the blinding pain wouldn't stop. It was worse than when he transformed, at least there he had his best friends with him. Peter is no friend of mine, Remus told himself.
"Imperio!" said another voice. Climb up the tree, a voice was saying in Remus' head.
Why? Remus asked the voice.
Do it now! Remus followed the voices orders, he couldn't help himself. Now, jump off the top branch.
That might hurt…I don't care.
I really rather not…
NOW! Remus tried to fight it. Eventually he gave up and jumped. He landed on his right arm, hearing a series of cracks and feeling pain all up his arm.
"Stop! Let me go please!" Remus said.
"No!" said Snape, magically binding him to a tree, making the invisible ropes tighten across his right arm. Remus cried out in pain. "So sorry to leave you here, but we must get back to our common rooms before we are missed. Goodnight."
Slowly the hooded figures departed, but one was left standing there. "I'm sorry," Peter muttered.
"Don't talk to me traitor," Remus spat.
"Please Remus, I had no choice…"
"Yes you did! You didn't have to join!"
"But there was so much power involved, you guys have always treated me rotten."
"We have never treated you rotten! We play around and make fun of each other! We have been your best friends since forever! And you just turn sides, and join up with that idiot!"
"Remus, listen to me!"
"No! Have you not seen how much pain he has caused? Did you even see James after his parents died? Do you remember the reaction to Claudia's death? You were even friends with Claudia! How could you?"
"Crucio!" Peter yelled, his voice full of fury. He let Remus scream for a few minutes, then lowered his wand. "Don't ever insult me again! I have more power than you'll ever have.
"You don't have power, you have nothing. You're a coward. Here's what I think of you," Remus rasped, then spit in his face.
"You'll regret that, someday you'll see what I can do!" Peter said angrily, then turned on his heel and headed towards the castle.
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"Where is he?" James said. Remus has been missing for a week, and no one knew where he was. Dumbledore had the teachers searching the castle, and Dumbledore himself was looking also.
"I don't know, I just hope he's alright," Lily said, her voice quivering.
Kiah was staring blankly at her plate, not making in move to eat anything. "Come on Kiah, you have to eat something," Sirius said pleadingly.
Kiah shook her head. "I'm not hungry."
"You haven't eaten since Remus has been missing. You must be starving," Marissa said
"No," Kiah said, her shoulders shaking slightly.
"Peter, did you see him at all? The last time we saw him he was going down to the Potions classroom to help you find your book," Sirius asked.
Peter shook his head, his hands twitching. "No, never, I didn't see him at all."
"I can't sit here," Kiah said, standing up and running towards the door leading outside. Lily and Marissa ran after her. But before any of them could reach the door, Filch burst through the door, letting a cold draft sweep through the Great Hall.
"I found him! Albus, he's in the woods!" Filch said breathlessly. All of the teachers stood and walked briskly to the door. James and Sirius stood also, running towards the door, grabbing the girls along the way.
"You cannot come!" Professor Snelling said sternly.
"Too damn bad, we're going anyways," Sirius said, trying to push her aside.
"Excuse me! You are students and therefore not allowed to come in the Forbidden Forest!" Snelling yelled, blocking the path. The whole Great Hall had taken interest in the struggle.
"Move out of the way hag!" Sirius yelled trying to push through the door.
"30 points from Gryffindor!" Snelling yelled.
"Stupefy!" James and Lily both yelled at the same time, wands pointing to the professor's chest. Snelling was blasted twenty feet backwards, landing hard on the ground. The five students ran after the other teachers. The teachers didn't even notice they were there, except Dumbledore maybe, but made no inclination that they were following. Filch was leading them deep into the woods. "Just a little further," Filch said.
After about five minutes, they came to a small clearing. There was a lot of blood across the ground, and Remus was curled up next to a tree, dried blood on the side of his shirt. There were bruises all over his face and he was very skinny. His lips were chapped and his breathing was low and deep, as if he were out of breath. Remus was also blue and shivering.
"Remus! Oh my God!" Kiah screamed as she ran forward. Dumbledore tried to hold her back, but she broke free of his grip and ran to Remus. "Remus? Remus? Wake up please," Kiah cried.
"Kiah," Remus said softly. "I love you."
"Oh my God, Remus don't do this!" Kiah said, tears sliding off her face. James, Sirius, Lily, and Marissa were watching silently, tears rolling down each of their faces.
"Bye Kiah," Remus said softly.
"No! Remus!" Kiah yelled, her shoulders shaking. Remus' breathing stopped, and Kiah passed out from shock. Marissa and Lily were holding each other, crying, while James was clapping Sirius' shoulder, trying to hold back their tears.
Madame Pomfrey bustled forward and gasped at the scene in front of her. She knelt down to Remus and checked his heartbeat and pulse.
"Well?" McGonagall said, her voice shaking.
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Author Notes: MY BIGGEST CLIFFHANGER EVER! Everyone is going to hate me now, lol. I actually don't think this chapter is that bad but it does need improvement, along with a few, well A LOT, of other ones.
xx-Heartbroken: Well when I was editing I knew your amazing brain power skills would guess it right away, but I'm sure you're the only one lol. No sorry I'm not making it AU…but after I'm done posting the later chapters one I'm going to write a three chapter Alternate ending that you can read because you'll have all the info to understand it. Yeah Katherine is a whore…she was especially popping out of her dress when she did the duet with Meatloaf (which sounded like crap btw…their voices just don't go) Apparently in all her interviews after the results she's been very catty and talking about how Taylor really didn't deserve the win and how she hated the duet with Meatball because "he was looking at me like a piece of candy!" This is why she is the anti-american idol. Did you know Spielberg wanted her to star in a upcoming movie? Yuck…I'm not going to see it. Ummm…13 year old girls probably have no idea what rape really is therefore shouldn't be writing about it. I don't blame you for getting sick. Out of curiosity, and you don't have to answer, how old are you? Awww you were touched? But it's true…because your criticism helps me grow and I know what to change whenever I start re-writing chapters (probably after I'm done with the later chapters and the alternate ending).
Demi: Guess what? I GET TO SEE CHRIS IN CONCERT! Lol I got tickets to the American Idol tour in a town near me and I'm FOURTEEN ROWS BACK! Yessss…I get to see my love up close ((sigh)). FF cuts off multiple characters for some reason. Like when I said yes up there I have like four s's but they will probably be cut off. Our dress code was like that in middle school but no one obeyed it. We got out about two weeks ago.
CASOCCERCHIC02: Don't be sorry for not reading sooner…as long as you enjoyed it when you did. Thanks for R/R!
Oh yeah, guess what everyone? I got my license today! This is how I celebrate…with an update! R/R!