Echoed mischief
By lady Arre
Disclaimer: yes jk owns all except Kelly duchess/ jelly who is mine.
A/N it's not the best beginning but it'll get better!I swear.
Sirius looked up from the floor where he was laying at James who was reading a Quidditch magazine. " Hey James, " he said softly, "I miss the lads"
It was the second last week of the holidays and Sirius was once more a mostly-permanent fixture to the Potter's house. James looked at him and grinned. Without a word he stood up and grabbed a handful of floo powder. "Remus' room" he said clearly and tossed into the fireplace. He was gone in a flare of green flames before Sirius had time to respond. He stood up shook his head exasperatedly and followed suit.
In Remus bedroom, Remus Lupin was lying on his bed a dark haired girl curled up around him. They were talking about school and remember-the-time-we 's… when James Potter appeared in the room and blushed. Remus wasn't wearing a shirt and more importantly neither was his girlfriend, Kelly Duchess.
"Oi jell," James said turning to let her retrieve the white top that lay on the floor. She was just pulling it over her head when Sirius appeared.
"Oi!" he exclaimed and wolf whistled. Jelly scowled at himthe two boysmerely laughed.
"You know Prongs" Remus stated swinging his legs over the side of the bed and pulling a shirt of his own from the cupboard next to it, "in most countries it's polite to let people know when you're going to turn up"
jelly laughed and kissed Remus' cheek. "You lads have obviously got some urgent business, bub, so I'll see you later." She stepped away from him and prepared to apparate.
"you don't have to leave kell, " Remus complained, sticking his bottom lip out and pouting playfully
She laughed again, " they loved you first, Rem"
and with that she apparated home.
"I'll get wormtail then" James said and apparated himself away.
Sirius looked at Remus and burst out laughing. "Don't you hate it when he does that?"
Remus growled and tossed a pillow at him.
James and Peter appeared a moment later. The boys all sat down in the room and yawned. "Now what" asked Remus.
"I dunno" James answered. "Sirius was bored, blame him"
"don't blame me" Sirius protested
Peter pulled out a box of fudge and opened it to share. Sirius unconsciously took a piece. "Let's write a book" he suggested. Peter pulled a face
"You know, That's a pretty good idea, we could record our time at Hogwarts and leave it somewhere that true mischief makers will find it and be the effect of generations of havoc and mayhem." James answered
"We'd include the map of Hogwarts offcourse" Sirius said
"A list of our best pranks"
"The best getaway spots and tunnels"
"It'll create havoc at Hogwarts forever."
"It'll need a password" Remus said, "you wouldn't want teachers getting into it"
"we could puta question-and-answer thing to find the exact spell or potion you need"
"The marauders map" Remus mused.
"Wow" all four said and laughed.
The map took two days to complete and the tale of that is told else where. This story is about those who found it next after Sirius deliberately got Filch to confiscate it.
George Weasley yawned. It had been a long night and there were only so many pots a boy could scrub without magic. His twin brother Fred sat next to him, grinning. On the other side of the room Filch was preparing to leave the office.A moment later he did so and Fred shot to his feet. George grinned, understanding now what they were doing. The filing cabinet where all the confiscated things filch had kept stood daringly in the corner. Fred walked towards it whistling faux-innocently. George whipped the keys out of the desk. There was a lot of stuff in those drawers, a good many dozen that Fred and George had created themselves.
" if I had a galleon for fake wand in here" Fred joked, " I'd buy England"
" Why England why not … I dunno… the malfoys, then we could use them as brooms of feather dusters or even plungers."
George grinned. "What abut this exploding toffee? They were a hit, a few years back"
Fred moved the bottom drawer.
"What are you doing mate?" George asked
"Well the top three appear to be full of stuff we made or have already seen ay. So what if we go back ten years or so. They'd have different stuff right"
"And if the stuff stinks we can start placing all over the school and filch'll think he's gone mad" George finished.
"Exactly"
On the top of the pile lay an old piece of parchment. Fred picked it up. "You know if we were in a film they'd have suspicious music playing" he said. "what on earth made filch confiscate this?"
George shook his head "dunno, maybe it does your homework for you?"
"Or it… nah I got nothing"
Fred pocketed it because footsteps were coming down the hall. The twins quickly locked the cabinet and returned to the scrubbing.
It was Dumbledore, who had probably felt déjà vu at the return of that particular piece of parchment. But the old professor said nothing of it as he dismissed the twins. Once out of sight of Dumbledore Fred pulled the parchment out and tapped it with his wand. Nothing happened. Angelina appeared, and growled at them. "you too better not be plotting against snape again. We've lost too many points this week all ready."
" I solemnly swear that I am plotting against Severus Snape" Fred swore, jokingly. Angelina shook her head and walked off.
"oi, mate look" George yanked his bothers sleeve.
Tiny spidery lines appeared in the middle of the map and spread out to form a sentence.
Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs
Present
The Marauders Map
Mischief of the Marauder kind
"Wow" George breathed. The parchment moved again. The title "fun things to do with a Snape" appeared with a list underneath it. The first read
1. Fill his shoes with slugs (shut up we were in first year, and anyway it's a classic)
Fred grinned, "Let's do it"
The next morning, the Weasley twins hid in the teachers' bathroom. Snape was in the shower though thankfully, not singing. A pair of leather shoes sat on top of his pile of robes. About three dozen were placed in each shoe before two red haired boys disappeared from the room and slipped down to breakfast. Snape appeared sometime after, A fascinating shade of red. George noticed that he was only wearing holey socks a hairy green toe nailed, big toe poked through the end of the left sock. George was thankful all that he had eaten was toast. Because it was not a pretty sight. The livid potions master stood on the dais and spat out the threat that if another student was ever caught in the teachers bathroom, the rest of their Life would be spent cleaning the toilets with a toothpick.
It was the beginning of a whole new torment for Snape
Fred smiled. "Oi George lets See if we can make him go fuchsia next time? What d'ya reckon?"
A/N: yes its not a very good prank but my friend said I had to use it. The rest of the list is really funny and it'll be written better too I promise. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaase review!