Author's note: I am soooooooo sorry that I didn't get to update sooner….don't eat me! *angry mob holding torches, forks, and knives puts down their weapons and backs away whistling* okay…any way…

Oh yeah: I forgot to tell you the winner of my contest!  The winner is…*there is a drum roll out of nowhere and invisible people are playing trumpets*

Think! Think! Think! *hits self on head with fist*

Ok….

And the winner is……

Wait a minute! You have to read to find out!

Ok…I guess I have to start before the angry mob comes back…*angry mob backs away whistling again*

Summery: the five teens are finally at the movie theater! And James and Sirius are being stupid again!

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Chapter 3:

The Marauders + Lily found themselves at a huge shopping center.  There were stores, stores, and more stores!  As soon as Lily saw this, her eyes lit up.  James (who is always watching Lily) noticed this and became very scared.  He was with a teenage girl in a middle of a shopping center.  This was bad.

"Hey, everybody!" he said, desperately trying to get Lily's attention off shopping so they wouldn't have to carry enormous bags of clothes for her.  "Look! Another bus!  Why don't we-"

"NO!" screamed Lily, Remus, and Peter at the same time.  Sirius didn't say anything.  He missed the little girl who taught him how to sing the wheels on the bus.  He was sad.

James was trying to think fast.  Then he spotted a humongous building that defiantly didn't look like a store.  It had a big sign in it that said, "Destinta".  He had no idea what Destinta meant, but it would have to do.  He turned to Sirius who was looking at the ground wondering where the 3 year-old was now.

 "Hey Padfoot!  Look!  A giant teddy bear!"  He shouted.

Sirius looked up excitedly.  He loved teddy bears (don't ask me why, he just does, ok?).  "Teddy bear? Where? Where?  Where? Which way did it go?"

"In there!" said James pointing to the huge building.  Without warning, Sirius bolted as fast as he possibly could to the building so he could see the giant bear.  The other teens had no choice but to run after him so he wouldn't cause destruction to the muggles in the building.

"What'd you do that for?!" screamed Lily, "Now he's going to go crazy looking for teddy bears!"

Meanwhile, Sirius had already entered the building.  It was huge inside there and filled with a lot of muggles.  This was just great.  How was he supposed to find the teddy bear in this mess?  Oh well, he thought.  Better start now. 

Lily, Remus, and Peter came in about a minute later followed by James who was pleased by how well his plan went.  The three wizards were amazed.  They were in a huge place with posters hanging everywhere.  Along the walls were lots of arcade games.  Towards the back of the room was a muggle food stand.  "Wow…" said the three boys at once.

"Oh, thanks a lot James," said Lily sarcastically.  "It's going to take us an hour to find Sirius in a movie theater!"

"Movie?" said Wormtail.  "Isn't that that thing that we watch at your house?"

"Yes."

"Why do they have theaters for them?"

"So you can see them on the Big Screen"

"….."

"I'll show you, but only after we find Mr. Teddy-Bear-Boy."

"There he is!" said Remus.  It was actually very easy to find Sirius because he was only about 2 feet away staring at a crane machine.

"Whatcha lookin at, Padfoot?" asked James who was suddenly curious of what the big machine was.  Sirius pointed at a bunch of stuffed animal prizes that were under a big claw at the top of the machine.  Sure enough, on the top of the stuffed-animal pile was….a teddy bear!

"How am I supposed to get it out?" he asked.

"It's a muggle game, Sirius," said Lily.  "You put to coins into that hole, (she pointed to the coin slot) and then you steer that claw to go and try to grab one of those prizes.  No one ever wins this game so you don't even want to try."

"I wanna try!" said Padfoot.  Lily sighed.  "Fine." she said.  "But only once.  You are NOT going to spend all my money on stupid games."

One hour later.

"Sirius, that's enough!"

"No!  Just one more try!  I know I'll get it this time!"

"That's what you said 20 minutes ago!!!  Plus there's a line of about 10 kids waiting for their turn!"

"But this time I really mean it!"

"I seriously doubt that."

"Just one more try!  Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease?"  Sirius put on his puppy-dog face.

"Oh no…not the puppy-dog face."

Sirius whined.

"ALRIGHT!!!!!  But this is the last time!!!!!"  Sirius received two more coins and practically jumped for joy.  He put the money in and (once again) aimed the crane over the teddy bear.  He pressed the button for it to go down and the claw grabbed the teddy's head and pulled.  To everybody's surprise, the bear was lifted into the air and brought back to the hole where the prizes came out.  Everybody including the kids at the end of the line cheered.  But there was just one tiny problem: the claw wouldn't let go of the bear.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" Padfoot cried.  "Give me my bear! Its mine!  MINE I TELL YOU!!!!"  With that he started to kick the machine. "Give *kick* me *kick* my *kick* teddy *kick* bear!" 

The little kids in line started to get scared.  "Sirius, stop it!"  Lily hissed at him.  If he didn't stop soon, the movie theater people were going to kick them out.

"NOT UNTIL IT GIVES ME MY BEAR!" Padfoot shouted.

Curious, Peter stepped up to the machine and pressed the button that made the claw go down.  It let go of the bear.  "Teddy!" Sirius cried and took the stuffed animal out of the prize hole.  Then he gave it a big hug.  (Readers: Awwww…) the crowd that had formed around the crane machine cheered. 

Sirius turned to Lily while they were walking away from the crowd. "I told you I'd get it this time!  See! I was being serious!"

Lily rolled her eyes. "Seriously, Sirius, you're never serious."

Sirius stuck out his tongue (still hugging the bear).

"Lily," said Remus. "You never told us what the big screen thingy is."

"Big screen thingy?" said Sirius who had missed that whole conversation. "Whats that?"

"Ok…" said Lily trying to think of how he could explain this to 4 wizards who have never heard of a lamp before.  "You know what my TV looked like before you idiots blew it up?"  The Marauders nodded.  "Well, its kinda like that except it only shows movies and is about 20 times bigger and its darker inside where you watch it and you watch it with about 50 other people and its a lot louder and better."

Marauders:  . . . .

Lily sighed.  "Fine.  We'll go see one.  Hopefully it will get you away from muggle-destruction for a few hours. But first we have to figure out what movie we're going to see.  C'mon"  The 4 guys followed Lily to the tickets-seller-people.  While they were walking they were looking at the movie posters with interest and pointing them out.

"The Ring….what's that supposed to be about?  Eep!  That girl looks freaky…"  That earned James a smack on the head from Lily.

"Shrek…?  Ok…Ahhh!  It's an ugly green guy!"

"Snivellus?  Where?"  The Marauders burst out laughing.  Lily was not amused.

"You guys really need to stop picking on him, you know," she said.  "Especially you James, so stop laughing!"  He got smacked on the head again.

"Would you stop doing that?!  You smacked me 4 times already today!"

"Then stop being stupid!"

"Hmmph!"

"C'mon you guys!" said Padfoot.  "Hey, look at this one!  Pirates of the Caribbean…didn't we learn about pirates in History of Magic?"

"Padfoot, that guy looks like you…in about 20 years…maybe…" said Wormtail uncertainly pointing to a picture of Captain Jack Sparrow holding a bottle of rum.  Everybody started laughing again.

"Hey it does!" said Remus between breaths.  "Especially with the rum!"

"I only tried it that one time!" said Sirius defensively.

"One time?!  You go to the Hog's Head every time you get the chance to sneak into Hogsmeade!"

"Shut up, Jam- wait a minute…how do you know about that?"

"I dunno…a certain cloak, perhaps?"

"You follow me?!"

"Somebody needs to bring you back to Hogwarts once you pass out."

"WHAT?!"

"Drinking kills your memory cells, Padfoot.  You should have known that ever since the incident with the drunken potheads."

This got Lily interested.  "Drunken potheads?" she asked.  "Was this the same day as the acid-pop incident?"

"Uhhh….let's change the subject…"

"Wait a minute!  Were they muggle drunken potheads?"

"Ummm….no…" said Sirius.

"They were, weren't they?"

"Umm…yes,"

Lily sighed and looked at the ceiling as if to say, "Why me?"

"Er, let's go," said Peter, knowing this was a bad conversation to get into.  The Marauders had taken a vow not to speak of what happened that night.

So they continued to walk and look at the posters.

"Lord of the Rings…The Fellowship of the Ring…what's that about?  Are they a club that collects jewelry?  Why would they have a movie about that?"

Lily looked at them.  "You've never read that book, have you?" she said.  "It's a really good one.  I'm surprised you never heard of it…I never thought they could make a movie for it!  Geez!  It must be long!"  Lily looked around.  "Where did Remus go?"

The other boys looked around too.  Yep, Remus was gone.  Right before they were about to run around yelling his name, James saw him.  Moony was standing about 20 feet behind them looking at a poster with a look of confusion on his face.

"Whatcha lookin at Moon-"James stopped in the middle of his sentence and started to stare at the poster too.  Lily and Peter followed and were about to ask why everyone was standing around looking like idiots when their eyes caught sight of the poster.

Sirius came over about 5 seconds later and looked at the poster.  "Relative of yours, Prongs?" he asked. 

"Not that I know of… 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'…eep! He looks like me!  Darn! If I have a twin that my parents didn't tell me about who happens to be in Azkaban, my mom and dad are gonna have some explaining to do…"

"I don't think that's the case," said Sirius grinning mischievously.  "Look at his eyes…"

Remus looked.  "Green eyes…"

Peter looked too.  "Lily, are you sure you're muggle-born?"

"Of course I am!  And why would Harry Potter be in Azkaban when it says 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban'?"

"Oh, good point…"

"Do you think this is set in the future?" asked Padfoot.

"Why?"

Sirius and Remus were both grinning.  "Because that boy just happens to have James's hair and Lily's eyes…"

Sirius got smacked on the head this time while James was staring at Lily. "I wanna see that movie!!!!" he said.

The others agreed. All except for Peter.  "I wanted to see Shrek!" he whined.  Nobody listened to him.

"We are not seeing a movie about Snivellus!"  James got smacked.

The five teens arrived at the ticket place.

Lily went up to get the tickets when something caught Sirius's eye.  Lily started talking to the ticket-person.  "Five tickets for-"

"For whatever is showing in Theater #7!!!!" cried Padfoot.

"Sirius, shut up."

"NO!!!  I need to go into Theater #7!!!!!"

"Why?"

"Because!!!!!" he cried.  Then without warning, he started sprinting towards Theater #7.   He was about to go in, but the guard at the door stopped him.

"Do you have a ticket?" he asked.

"No," Sirius panted.  "But I really need to go in there!"

"You're not allowed in unless you have a ticket."

"But-but-but-"

Meanwhile, Lily, Moony, Prongs, and Wormtail were still at the ticket place.

"What's showing at #7?" Lily asked one of the guys selling the tickets.

"The Lord of the Rings," he replied.

"Okay…we'll have 5 tickets for that."

"What?!" yelled Peter.  "I'm not gonna see a movie about a jewelry club!"

The ticket-guy stared at him.  "You never heard of Lord of the Rings have you?"

"No but-"

"We are going to see it anyway before Sirius kills the guard at the door," interrupted Lily.  "That way, you can find out that it is not even close to being about a jewelry club."

"Fine!" pouted Wormtail.  Then he mumbled something about Shrek.

Clearing his throat, the ticked-guy said, "That will be $40."

"40?!" cried Lily.

"Well, its only $5 before five o-clock, but since it's six, its now $8 per ticket."

"You guys are paying me back," Lily mumbled to the 3 Marauders next to her.

The ticket-guy gave them their tickets and they ran off to #7 before Sirius did something stupid.

Sirius was about to tackle the guard at the door when James shoved his ticket in his hand.

 "Oh!" said Sirius. "Cool!" with that, he burst through the door and disappeared.

"Why is he so anxious to get in there?" asked Remus.

"I dunno," said James. "Let's go."

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Author's note:

Aren't I bad?  Did I trick anyone into thinking that they were going to see Harry Potter?  Next chapter: PREVEIWS! Yay!

Congrats to soblack113 who was the first one to say Lord of the Rings! Melanie will be a character starting next chapter!

Marauderluver4-ever: I'm really sorry that you didn't get it because you also had LotR as an answer.  Sooorrry! I feel really bad now… :(  I award you second place!  But I don't know how to award you so I'll put you in a preview.

To anyone who suggested Harry Potter as the movie: I was actually gonna pick that. But then I thought about it and I didn't want it to be too weird…sorry to those people! So you guys get the honor of 3rd place!

BloodyLily: your reviews are very strange…

Anne-Evans89: I promise that I won't torture Sirius anymore.  It was funny though.  Sorry for the mental images.  Eep!  Austin Powers actually wasn't a bad idea! Now that I think about it, it would have been a good movie!

To anybody whose wondering why Padfoot and Prongs are stupid: Sorry, but its fun making them stupid!

BloodyLily (again) Drunken Potheads!

Don't ask….and no I do not drink and I do not do drugs is case any of you are wondering.

Thanx to all who reviewed! I feel special!  Go me!

How did you think of this chapter?  Yes, James was actually a bit smarter…weird…

Keep the reviews coming and I'm very sorry that this chapter was delayed!

                                                                                            Until next chapter,

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