Title: Little Spark of Madness

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter in anyway, that belongs to JK Rowlings. I don't make any money from this either. I just do it for fun :) All original characters are my own, those would be the ones that you don't recognize from the books.

AN: I am so sorry about the delay in posting this. It has been a hectic few months with the holidays and my mother going into the hospital. I kinda lost it for a while. I will keep posting I promise. I try very hard to finish all my stories, I think there is only one on hiatus.

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

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Hogwarts - February 1976

Everything had pretty much gone back to normal once school started. While the tension and glaring were no longer present, Sirius and Hermione still kept their distance. Even in the common room Hermione would curl up in one of the threadbare plush chairs and read or study while the boys would hang out and plan pranks.

The only difference being that in the privacy of the boys dorm with her only her brother and their friends. Sirius would try and talk to Hermione about what she liked to do in her spare time. While she did talk to him everyone could clearly see that her guard was up around him.

It had been a fairly quiet day when Lily suddenly came running down the stairs and into the common room. "JAMES POTTER YOU ARE SUCH A TOERAG! AHHHH…"

Hermione shot up as four of the five boys fell over laughing in near hysterics, while James looked around purely confused, "Why am I getting all the blame? Lily flower come on what happened?"

Lily turned on her heel as Hermione ran up the stairs after her to find out what had happened when a horrible stink wafted into her nose.

Covering her nose as she tried not to gag, "OH! What it that?"

Marlene held up her bag which had about ten dungbombs in it that had all gone off at the same time. "Those stupid boys did this!"

The girls all ran to their windows flinging them open to let out the smell as they used every fanning and deodorizing spell that they could think of.

Hermione while holding her nose looked at Lily, Alice, and Marlene. "We need to get them back for this you know."

The other girls nodded in agreement. Lily crossed her arms, "While this is airing out I think we all need to do a study session in the library and figure out something good."

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Lily and Hermione were determined to find something that would make to boys pay for what they had done.

Suddenly Hermione sat straight up as a thought hit her, "Have you guys seen the movie Pinocchio?" Both Alice and Marlene shook their heads no in confusion.

Alice closed the book she was reading as she saw Lily getting very excited, "Who was he? Was he a wizard? This Pinocchio man?"

Lily was practically shaking as laughter overtook her anger, "Oh my goodness Hermione that is genius, We can modify an engorging spell to make their noses grow with every lie they tell! It is perfect. Those boys will be dragging their huge noses all over campus!"

Hermione giggled as she imagined them doing just what Lily had said, "Well, on the bright side they might keep their noses out of our business for a while."

Lily just about jumped out of her chair, "That is it, we are doing it."

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It had taken about a week for the four girls to figure out how to change the spell to affect only the boys noses anytime they lied. And then once they told the truth their noses would shrink back to their normal size with every truth.

Marlene and Alice managed to figure out the layout to the boys rooms and which room belonged to James, Sirius, Harry, Remus and Peter.

Then they waited for nightfall. The girls had stayed up till the earlier hours of the mornin to make sure the boys had fallen asleep before they snuck out of the girls tower.

Slowly making their way up to the boys rooms Hermione couldn't help but wish that they had Harry's invisibility cloak. Stopping she couldn't help but admit that it was James' right now. If he even had it yet.

Walking in the door quietly she stood over her brother, she almost felt badly as she cast the spell on him. However that was quickly forgotten when she remember how hard he had laughed at the latest prank that they had pulled on them.

Looking up Lily had just finished casting the spell on James, Alice had cast on Remus and Marlene had taken care of Peter.

Sneaking over to Sirius she quickly cast the spell right as Marlene squealed with a hushed tone, "Oh oh oh oh…. There is dirty boy underwear on my shoe. Ewww….."

Lily glanced down at the floor she was kneeling on and shot up before whispering disgustedly, "There is dirty clothes all over this place!"

The girls got up and all but ran from the room and straight to their own beds to get some sleep that night.

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The next morning the girls had slept in and missed breakfast. Luckily it was Saturday and there were no classes. By the time they awoke it was almost lunch time and the girls rushed to get ready so they could eat lunch.

The four of them ran into the great hall and began putting food on their plates. Hermione had just taken a drink of her pumpkin juice when she saw the boys sitting down next to them with the largest noses she'd ever seen on them. Spitting her juice out as she started laughing, the other girls started laughing as well seeing Sirius sitting across from Hermione covered in juice.

Lily's eyes bugged out, "Oh good lord your noses!"

James picked up a bread roll to cover his nose, "We think we must have messed up a potion, all of us had some kind of reaction."

Lily nodded and put a serious face on, "What were you doing? Another prank?"

James flushed, "No of course not, it was… ahhhhh….."

The girls laughed as James nose grew another half inch larger, "What is going on! Why is my nose doing this?" Lily couldn't help but roll her eyes that the boys were seriously up to something that this was a plausible side effect.

Hermione and Lily left the boys to wonder what was going on with a trip outside. As they sat under a tree with a blanket over their laps as they watched the giant squid playing around on the surface, "Lily? How long are we going to let them suffer?"

The redhead shrugged her shoulders, "How long do you think their noses will get?" She laughed and rubbed her hands together, "The spell should cancel out by tomorrow morning."

Hermione giggled for a moment when Lucius, Severus and another seventh year slytherin boy named Thorne Wilkes approached the girls, "Hello ladies, how are you this chilly afternoon?"

They both smiled as Hermione answered for them, "We are doing well thank you Lucius. We are just taking a break from the indoors."

Lily couldn't help but add, "And the boys."

Lucius just grinned as he sat next to Hermione. Severus sat by Lily and Throne sat facing the girls.

Lucius reached over and took Hermione's hands in his own, "You are freezing my dear. Please allow me." With a wave of his wand a warming spell fell around the group of friends.

The five of them sat around until dinner was being served before they headed inside the castle. As they separated the girls went and sat next to the boys. Alice and Marlene were already there giggling.

Peter's nose was almost touching the table, James and Sirius were tied for second place while Harry looked as if his nose had been stung by large bee. Remus' nose on the other hand looked completely normal even though he looked completely pale.

Lily tilted her head to the side, "Remus seems to be over your prank disaster."

Sirius sighed loudly laying his head on the table, "My nose feels huge!"

Hermione left out a little laugh as Sirius looked up glaring at her over his huge nose. "I am so happy that you find this amusing Hermione. Please is there anything I can do to amuse you? Look at me! The most beautiful man to grace this school and this happens!"

Hermione just shook her head as she kept laughing at vain comments, "No. Tell me what you've done today?"

Sirius looked at her as if she had sprouted a second head, "Well other than being stuck in Professor Slughorn's office as he asked me over and over if I had 'borrowed' anything from his stores do to my enlarging nose. It didn't help that the bloody thing kept growing the whole time."

Biting her lip she couldn't help but laugh as she asked with a slightly haughty tone, "Well have you taken from his stores?"

Sirius turned red and slammed his hands down in front of her as he hissed, "Well yes, but nothing that caused this! Like you and Lily are so bloody perfect with your little swotty selves."

Taken back by the personal attack from Sirius she lost all amusement in her voice. "Excuse me? Swotty?"

Sirius just glared at her but ignored her question and put his head back down on the table fully intending on not talking for the rest of their meal.

James who had been in his own little world as soon as he heard his Lily's voice smiled at her ignoring his large nose. He was lost in watching her red hair flow over her shoulder, "You are so beautiful my Lily Flower. I know I don't looked so good now, but I love you. I will marry you one day my Lily Flower"

Lily sat there staring at James with her eyes wide open. With each thing he told her his nose had shrunk. At him telling her that she was beautiful, that he loved her, that he was going to marry her one day.

She looked to Hermione with a complete look of loss on her face. Hermione saw it too and just smiled at her friend with a knowing look. Lily got up from the table at the revelation that James Potter really did love her and all but ran to her dorm room.

Hermione shoved a few sandwiches in her bag for her and Lily as she followed after her friend knowing that they would be hungry later. She didn't feel like sitting at the table with Sirius in whatever mood he was in.

The girls hung out in their room for the rest of the day, Lily had been pacing in the room spouting off every reason why it couldn't be true.

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In the boys room Harry was sitting at his desk finishing up a paper that was due the next day when Sirius and James shared a look behind him.

James cleared his throat, "I am not feeling so good either, I think I might have caught what Remus has."

Harry turned to look at James who honestly looked fine, he was rather bad at lying. Rolling his eyes as he turned around to keep working. "Maybe you and Remus should go see Madam Pomfrey before curfew?"

Sirius popped up and patted Harry on the back, "Peter and I will take them. You just finish that paper."

Harry watched as Sirius and Peter help Remus from the room while a badly acting James followed after them. Turning back around Harry started to work on his paper again. Tonight was a full moon and Harry had known that at some point the four of them would come up with a reason to leave. While Harry and Hermione had been studying Animagus transformations for few months. James, Sirius, and Peter had been looking into it for years now.

He was hoping that they would confide in him about Remus being a werewolf, but that had yet to happen. Sure they were friends, but Remus never wanted anyone to know. Everyone who had known besides the Headmaster had found out somehow. The marauders had gotten better at hiding their full moon nights, Harry hadn't found anything to call out Remus on.

Sitting back after he finished his paper Harry pulled out his transformation books and started to work on his meditation again.

Suddenly there was a knock on his door as Hermione popped her head in, "You alone?"

Harry nodded, "Yeah it is just me in here." Feeling his nose shrink a bit as his sister opened the door and sat quietly on his bed. "Mione? Our noses? Did you do something?"

Giggling Hermione shrugged her shoulders, "It would be great if it was wouldn't it? Karma for a certain number of dungbombs that were left in our rooms?"

Harry stood up quickly glaring at his sister, "I KNEW IT! Hermione Jane McGonagall you pranked us?"

Hermione nodded as she stood up before her face fell as she remembered Sirius piss poor mood, "The spell should be wearing off very soon, it will be done before you all wake in the morning." She looked as she remembered she had left her book out by the tree that she had been sitting at earlier with Lily and the others. "I just remembered something. I need to take care of before bed. See you tomorrow Harry." She kissed his forehead and then left the room.

Heading to her room to grab her thick robe before heading outside. She could still see fairly well since the sun hadn't fully set yet. The sky was lit up like it was on fire though and she had to stop for a moment after she got her book to watch.

As she turned and headed back to the school she stopped hearing a rustling in the bushes near her, "Hello?"

Suddenly James' head popped out from behind one of the bushes, "Hermione? Um what are you doing out here so late?"

She was taken aback by his frazzled look. Seeing Remus, Sirius and Peter following them out, "Well James I just was taking care of something. What are you boys doing out here? Not another prank are you?" As she spoke she realized that tonight was the full moon as she looked closer at Remus. They were most likely heading to the Whomping Willow which she realized that was behind her.

She was getting ready to leave when Sirius scoffed at her clearly irritated still from earlier, "What? Are you going to turn us in?"

Putting her hands on her hips, "I am not sure what got into you this time Sirius Black, but you can knock it off. I wasn't going to tell anyone anything. As usually you are jumping to the wrong conclusion again."

She was getting so upset that she wasn't thinking as clearly as she should have when she followed up with, "I was planning on staying out here to collect fluxweed. It is more potent if you pick it under a full moon!"

With that she turned, ignoring the look of shock from the boys as she headed out to the edge of the forbidden forest.

Remus turned to Sirius and James as he growled out, "One of you three need to go get Harry to get her."

James shook his head, "He won't get why he needs to bring her inside. She actually has a reason Remus."

Remus growled leaning against an old brick barrier wall as his eyes flashed golden for a moment, "Just go get him I will think of something."

James sighed loudly as he looked over his shoulder at Hermione who was now pacing near the entry to to forest and only about thirty feet from the whomping willow. "Bloody Hell."

He took off running back up towards the castle leaving Peter, Sirius and Remus standing around. He nearly stumbled a few times, but kept pushing himself forward knowing that time was short right now.

As he got into the common room he bolted up the stairs to their room seeing Harry reading a book. Harry had jumped when he had slammed the door open, "James? You look like hell what's wrong?"

James grabbed Harry's arm, "I need you to come with me now. There is something…. Are you reading about animagus transformations?"

Harry just looked down at the book he had dropped. Sure enough it was opened to the second step of becoming one, "Yeah. My Aunt is one. She got Hermione and I both a few books on it to start learning. Why? What is wrong?"

James shook his head remembering why he was there, "Nevermind, Please come on though."

Harry followed James as they ran out of the castle and down near the whomping willow. "James where are we…. Wow, Remus, man you should be with Poppy."

Remus just glared up at him and Harry knew it wasn't Remus, his eyes were not flickering between gold and blue. They were a solid gold at the moment, Moony was very clearly the dominant one at the moment. "Get your sister and go." His voice was gravelly and low.

Harry was stunned as he looked around trying to find Hermione, he finally spotted her near the edge of the forbidden forest, "Why is she over there?"

Moony grabbed his shoulder and whipped him around to face him, "Get her inside and Remus will tell you everything tomorrow. She won't back it must past sundown if you don't. Make her run to get inside. No stopping."

Harry just nodded before he looked at his three other friends, he knew realistically he should be asking about why she wouldn't make it or why Remus would be threatening her. He didn't have time for all of that though as he took off running towards his sister.

"Mione… We need to go now." He all but yelled as he got within a few feet of her, "Seriously what are you thinking?"

Hermione turned and he stopped seeing tears tracking down her cheeks, "He called me a swot and asked if i was going to turn them in."

Harry stopped and wiped her cheeks, "Are you talking about Sirius?"

Nodding her head as her hands brushed over her book, "I thought we had cleared up the misunderstanding. I knew we couldn't be friendly in public yet, but he still….."

Harry sighed, "He was irritated Hermione. His nose. You know that he still has to keep up a front about not liking you though."

Shaking her head, "Just up there he snapped at me about telling on them with no one else around, and…"

Putting his hand over her mouth, "He is worried about Remus Mione. We have five minutes to get into the castle before the moon comes up and it is a ten minute walk from here. I promise you I will talk to him tomorrow."

Nodding her head as she took his outstretched hand as Harry took off running as he pulled her behind them, they had gotten within five feet of the castle when they heard a pained scream coming from the tunnels beneath the whomping willow.

Harry pushed her inside before the large doors slammed behind them. They both made their way up to the boys room in Gryffindor tower. Hermione crawled up on Harry's bed sitting cross legged as he picked up the book he dropped when James pulled him from the room to save his stubborn sister.

Sitting in front of his sister, "Want to tell me what that was about? You knew that it was a full moon, and you knew that Remus would blame himself if ANYTHING happened to you. I get that Sirius has been a prat today, but that might have something to do with his nose." Giving her a pointed look.

Rolling her eyes she pulled his pillow out from behind her and used it to lean on in her lap, "So he can prank people all day, but if someone pranks him he throws a tizzy fit? You all put dungbombs in our dorm, and that was just the most recent! Last month I had to walk around with duck feet for 2 days!"

Harry sighed and nodded, "I will talk to Sirius. He says it is getting harder and harder to keep up the pretense of not liking you. I think he just went too far in the great hall this morning, and then just now. That was fear, pure and simple. Please forgive him. Remus, or should I say Moony, told me if I got you inside Remus would tell me everything tomorrow about why I had to get you inside. It will be nice not having to play stupid about the full moon. James saw my book too, I was reading it when he ran in."

Hermione looked up at her brother her cheeks still slightly flush from running for their lives, "I will. What did you say to James? Will you try and get Remus to tell me too?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "That our aunt is an animagus and she got us the books to start our training since we are both McGonagall's. Pretty much everyone in the McGonagall line is one, that isn't really a secret. Our father was a badger. I will try to get him to tell you, I can say that I know you'd take it well because our father had a friend who was a werewolf too. So you wouldn't freak out or anything."

Hermione just grinned as she took on her brother's words while tucking her legs under his comforter to get warm. "When did you get so smart anyhow?"

Harry just grinned and leaned back across his bed, "About the time you lost your senses because you like Sirius."

Hermione's eyes widen as she stuttered, "I do not like that boy. He is such a pompous arse." Grabbing his pillow from her lap whacking him with it.

Harry just laughed and put up his hands protecting himself from the soft pillow, "Oh right. Like how Lily calls James a toe rag. We both know how that works out."

Flushing Hermione sat upright lifting her chin in defiance, "It is nothing like that. Sirius is intolerable."

Harry just raised his eyebrow and nodded before sarcastically responding to her, "Sure. You forget I have to hear about what he thinks about you all the time in here." Throwing his pillow back to Hermione, "Just stay here tonight, it is late and the boys aren't coming back. I'll sleep on James' bed."

Nodding her head as she curled up in her brother's bed for the night thinking about what he had said. After about ten minutes her voice broke the silence, "What does he think about me?"

Harry chuckled tiredly into his pillow, "Nothing like James and Lily you say? Night Mione. Get some sleep."

With that the both of them drifted off to sleep.

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So how do you guys think the next day is going to go?