Yes, my first actual chapter of this story, as the first made no sense (it shouldn't have). Hopefully this one will get reviewed by someone besides my friend Dizzy. This is again dedicated to Dizzy for making this story sound stupid, destroying the plot when making it sound good, being perhaps the only person to read all of my stories (or you better have), inspiring me to write this, greatly influencing this chapter, and being an idiot. Oh, and commenting on my ruler. To you, Dizzy.

The reason I added humor as a genre was because some chapters (like this one) are slightly humorous. The plot and such hardly are, though.

Be warned that there are homosexuality references, although there's not actually any slash pairings. Yet. I'm still thinking about it, as it'd be going out of my way.

Disclaimer: I own Harry Potter. I'm J.K. Rowling. See, you don't believe me. Then why tell the truth that I'm not when you know I'm not already? But what I do own is my beloved ruler. Hurray for the ruler!

----Gryffindor Common Room, September 2, 1975----

We- that is, me, Moony, Padfoot, and Prongs- hang out in the common room. We just had our first day of classes, and now all of us but Moony are procrastinating our homework. Even though I know I should be working and studying hard because of the OWLs later this year, it's just so tempting to procrastinate. Besides, James and Sirius manage to do it and still get good grades.

Of course, they are smarter than me.

My thoughts are interrupted by a noise. I look around to see that Padfoot has chosen to grab Moony's homework and toss it halfway across the common room.

"Sirius," Remus says irritably, "I was working on that."

"You were," Sirius replies, "but now you're not. Honestly Moony, Marauders don't work in the middle of the day."

Moony sighs. "Fine," he says in an I-give-up tone. "So what do Marauders do in the middle of the day?"

"Dunno, but it doesn't involve schoolwork."

"What about when Marauders have classes? You kind of have to do schoolwork then."

"That's different, as you have to."

"Right…"

"Shut up."

"Why are we still sitting around?" James suddenly asks. "We should be causing chaos!"

Sirius says, "Indeed!" as Remus says, "Oh dear."

"Stop being a prat, Remus," Sirius tells Remus as he gets up. "C'mon, Wormtail, Prongs. It looks like this traitor would rather study."

"I'll get my cloak," James says and runs upstairs. I get up, as does Remus (with a sigh).

"What'll we do today?" I ask eagerly. Padfoot shrugs.

"Whatever comes to mind first," he responds.

"Which will probably involve attacking a Slytherin," Remus mutters.

"Excellent idea, Moony!" Sirius says happily. "Yes, that'll what we'll do!" Remus groans.

James comes back down with his clock in his hand, and we leave. "We should split up to increase chances of finding a Slytherin," Sirius says. "Two of us will go with the cloak, and two without."

"Good idea," James says. "You and Remus without the cloak, me and Peter with."

"Do you realize that you put more effort in planning pranks than schoolwork?" Remus points out.

"Moony," Sirius says to him in an annoyed tone, "stop being a prat."

"Sorry. But I'm a prefect! I shouldn't be doing-"

"Whatever," James interrupts, "now let's go do what Marauders do! Spread out!" And with that, James and I go under the cloak, and walk in the opposite directing as the other two.

"Why didn't you decide to go with Padfoot?" I ask him.

"Because," James responds with an evil grin, "they need to work on their chemistry." I roll my eyes. James has recently decided without telling anyone but me that Remus and Sirius are simply 'destined' for each other, and it's up to him to make them see it. His socalled plan includes trying to get them alone together whenever it won't seem obvious as to what he's doing, eavesdropping on their conversations, and ignoring the fact that both are clearly straight. At least, Sirius is, considering how he has dated at least a doxen girls during our time at Hogwarts. Remus for all we know is asexual.

"Anyway, shouldn't we be working on our animagus forms?" I ask as we carefully walk down a staircase. "I mean, the full moon was just around 10 days ago, so at least you and Padfoot might get it by the next one." When I think about it, I find it rather odd that we've created nicknames for each other based on the animal we're trying to be before we've even succeeded.

James shakes his head. "Nah, we shouldn't. There's no point. We need you to touch the knob, and no offence as you're not a terrible wizard or anything, but even with our help it'll take you more than a few weeksto get it."

"I know," I admit. It is true; whether I like it or not, they're simply better at magic than me. I don't really care about it that much, but it does seem to make things a bit slower when I'm involved than when I'm not. I'm just not that great a wizard.

"Don't think that," I suddenly hear a female voice say softly.

"Who's there?" I ask, quickly turning around and ending up going out from under the cloak. From what I can hear, James turns around too.

"Peter, what are you talking about?" the invisible James questions.

"You're not that bad," the voice continues. "Becoming an Animagi is extremely difficult, after all. You just have some of the brightest boys in the school as your friends to compare yourself to."

"James, don't you hear that?" I ask him, searching the corridor with my eyes. "Don't you hear that voice?"

"Wormtail," James says as he walks over to me, "I don't hear anything."

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Dizzy's gonna kill me now. Sorry, but I couldn't resist the Remus/ Sirius thing. I originally had this chapter without it, but then thought why wouldn't James go with his best friend Sirius? I couldn't really manage to write anything but that without it sounding odd/ not working.

Hehe, semi-cliffy. Not much of one though. The year they entered 5th year took me a little research to find.

I'm not very happy with this chapter. I feel like it's rushed. The voice was originally not going to be for another chapter or 2, but I decided not to.

Please review. While I'll write even if only one person reads it (and at least one person, that being Diz-Diz, is), it's nice to get reviews to see more than that are reading it. Even a "good story" "keep writing" or even "OMG EVIL" or "not the best will suffice.

Farewell, and I don't think I said my deal here. If I don't update anything (if I put up a one shot, that counts as an update) for a month, you can ask any question you want about any story and I send the answer to the first question I receive. Confusing, but it keeps me writing.

Now review! (Or don't.)