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Doubling The Spotlight:

Finally, Halloween had arrived and the four boys were either seen skipping class or not seen at all. Even the responsible Remus Lupin generously began skipping classes, his mysterious Marauder-self taking over his mind.

" There," James sighing huffily, " now the potion's almost ready for the feast. Padfoot, are you sure everything's going according to plan?" Padfoot nodded and began to salute. "Alright then, what do we do now?"

"Well, James, we could head to the dorms and get ready for the feast," claimed Remus, who was leaning against the castle's stony walls.

" Man, Mooney, you sound like a girl. We have an entire hour and you expect us to get ready? Come on, Mooney, what happened to you? Lost your make up bag," teased Sirius, slowly coaxing James and Peter to do the same.

Great, thought Remus, slowly walking towards Gryfindor Tower, now I'll be stuck with this for the rest of the night. And with that, the Marauders trooped up the moving staircases to their dorm room.

Meanwhile…

"Janette, tell us!"

" Come on, Janette, keeping secrets from your best friends is unhealthy for you."

" Yeah, uh… it'll give you…uh, bad breath."

" Oh, that was smooth Melli. Now she'll never tell us!"

" Hey, I was trying my hardest," I claimed. For the last half hour, the girls and I were interrogating Janette over what she was wearing for the Halloween feast. Even though Dumbledore never said anything about dressing up, this year us girls were all going to wear costumes to the feast. We all knew we would look like idiots, but we didn't care that much. I mean, when your friends with Lily, you get over embarrassment pretty easily.

" No, I'm not going to tell you. You'll just have to see in an hour. Can't you all just wait for an hour," Janette looked around at us. As we shook our heads, she sighed loudly, " You girls are the biggest prats I have ever known in my entire life. Even bigger than the Marauders, and that's saying something."

This had struck a nerve in Lily and Alice and I knew better than to stay around and chat. Slowly we turned around and… sprinted down the stairs that lead up to the sixth year girls' dorm. Panting hard, we both stopped once we got down to the Common Room. Suddenly we heard voices:

" God, Mooney, if you like her then you have to tell her! It's not that hard you know."

"Padfoot, I have no idea how we jumped our topic from turning Snape's hair neon pink to talking to her about liking her. However, you know I can't talk to her like that, you're the expert at girls."

As Alice and I looked at each other, we both knew it was Remus and Sirius talking. Who are they talking about, I thought, looking around the corner too see them lounging on the cushy, comfortable sofas that laid across the fire. The conversation went on:

"Ok, fine. Here, I will show you how it's done."

This should be good, I thought, trying to get a better view of the drama playing before us.

"Now, here we go. First, you sit next to her like so." Alice and I both saw Sirius strolling towards James and plopping down next to him. James had a bit of a frightened look in his eyes and tried to scoot away but Sirius held him down. Snickering, Alice and I watched to see what would happen next.

"Now, you try to spark a conversation. Well, hello there, Jam…ima. Yeah, Jamima! How are you today, Jamima? See that, Remus, you have to start with small talk. Then, she will reply." I saw James trying his best to struggle out of Sirius's grasp but couldn't. Apparently, Sirius was too excited about this lesson then to care if he was hurting James.

Slowly realizing that James was not replying, Sirius turned toward him, " Prongs, reply!"

Pausing his struggling for a bit, James replied confusedly, " What?"

"Prongs, you're supposed to play Mooney's lovey-dovey now help out why don't you!"

"Ok, ok. Let's start over," grumbled James, resuming his struggling.

"Ahem, ok. How are you, Jamima?"

"Uh, swell! Nice weather we're having," squeaked James in his best girly voice. Doubling over with silent laughter, I wiped the tears from my eyes so I could watch the lesson more clearly.

"You know, I really have something to tell you."

"Now, what might that be, Sirius?" Although James was having a horrifying experience right now, you could tell Sirius was getting caught up in the drama.

With a flourish, Sirius wrapped one of his arms around James's shoulder and used his other hand to pick up James's. "I liked you the moment I saw you. You are the most beautiful, smart, kind, generous, funny, sweet girl I have ever met. Jamima, will you go out with me?" Maybe he's getting too rapped up in this lesson, I thought as I saw Sirius leaning in towards James. So far, James didn't notice, since he was too busy struggling.

All of a sudden, something really, really awkward happened. I don't know what happened, maybe it was the Halloween spirit or maybe some weird, evil Gryfindor put a spell or charm or something else on Sirius. Whatever it was, it created the moment into the best blackmail ever created in history.

Ever so slowly, Sirius leaned in towards James, too into the "guy-asking-girl-out" lesson to notice what he was doing. Suddenly picturing a black haired, hazel-eyed beauty (Author's note: He's thinking about a girl, ok. He's picturing a beautiful black haired, hazel-eyed girl.) he leaned in, not noticing the look of horror on Remus's face.

As James slowly lifted his face up to face Sirius, Sirius came down upon him, connecting James's lips with his. Loud gasps could be heard. A shudder passed on from Remus, to Alice, and then finally to a few second years who were edging towards the wall and me.

Suddenly, I heard a popping sound beside me. I turned around, and there crouched a furiously blushing Alice holding a camera. "I'm sorry! I just want to catch this on film!"

I gave her a confused look. I knew as well as she did that many of her plans just never caught up to me.

"I'm trying to catch them on film so we can blackmail them! This will be the perfect torture instrument!"

Oh, I thought in wonder, why couldn't I have thought of that? So we both crouched down, trying to find the perfect angle.

FLASH! (Author's Note: this is supposed to symbolize a camera's flash. I know, pretty pathetic.)

"WHAT?"

"Who's out there?"

"GET OFF ME YOU GREAT PRAT! SIRIUS, I'LL GET YOU FOR THAT!" (Author's Note: Hey, that rhymes!) With that, James sprung off the couch and leapt towards Sirius. Noticing the dangerous look in his eye, Sirius fell off the couch and ran as fast as he could, up to the boys' dorm.

"Who's out there," called Remus. Very slowly, Alice and I showed ourselves. I could see a sudden terror in Remus's eyes and I wondered why. Giggling loudly, we ran up to our dorms to show Lily and Janette our newly restored Marauder-blackmail supply.

Meanwhile…

Oh no, Remus thought, banging his head against the arm of his sofa, now she knows! She knows! Great way to tell her, Remus! Glancing at his watch, he realized there was only twenty minutes left until the feast so he trudged up the stairs two at a time to undo any curses that James had bestowed upon Sirius. I guess I'll just tell her after the feast then.

Meanwhile…

"Oh no! My costume's torn!"

"This will be embarrassing!"

"At least I have a costume that can't be torn," I said, grabbing my costume from my four-post bed. It was just a simple sign that stated 'This is my Halloween costume. Pretty original, huh?' I got the idea off one of those muggle shirts I saw when I visited California with my parents.

"Ok, I'm all set."

"Me too!"

"My costume's still torn," cried Janette, poking at the rip with her finger. This just made the rip even bigger.

"Well, someone forgot she's a witch. Reparo," mumbled Lily while shoving Janette into the bathroom. "Now hurry up and get changed, it starts in fifteen minutes!"

After everyone claimed they were done getting ready, we all trudged down the stairs. By that time, there was only five minutes before the feast so we ran down the corridors nearly missing Professor Slughorn who was drinking his last bit of mulled mead before the night's end.

We shoved the great oak doors open, tried to ignore the confused looks of our fellow classmates, and sat down in the only seats left available. Or were kept available. Those seats were right next to the Marauders.

I watched the boys stare at us as the head spoke his famous Halloween feast speech.

"Why are you wearing costumes," asked Sirius, looking at us as if we were aliens from outer space. "What are you all supposed to be anyway?"

"Well, you dimwit, you can see I'm dressed as a cat. Alice there is dressed up as a hippie and Lily is dressed up as a gardener. I have no idea what Melli is," growled Janette shooting daggers at Sirius. All of a sudden, the boys' attention was on me.

"So, Smelly Melli, what are you," asked Sirius. I felt my hands tense into fists. I hate it when he calls me that.

"Why don't you read the sign, you can read can't you," I replied, grabbing a dinner roll and started munching. That idiot just thinks he's so great. UGH!

Meanwhile…

James watched Lily intently, trying to take it all in. Her fiery red hair was brushed back into a half ponytail and was kept up with a bandana. She was dressed in old, used overalls, sneakers, and a t-shirt. James had only rarely seen her in muggle clothes, only on the station at King's Cross or when they were waiting to exit the train back into muggle London. Currently, she was chewing on a stick of celery, looking at her friends, intent on joining in on the conversation. He sighed and then remembered the plan. Lily will soon like him, very soon.

The first girl to take a drink from her goblet was Alice. Taking in a large gulp, she set the goblet down and took notice of the smiling Marauders. Every now and then, a girl from Gryfindor House would drink from her goblet, suddenly feeling sick and lightheaded. Not noticing what was going on, Janette and I drank from our goblets, feeling thirsty from the dry bread. Suddenly, I felt my brain go numb. My head felt like it was expanding and collapsing at the same time. During the pain, I saw Lily finally taking a sip. Turning to my left, I saw the Marauders carry the widest grins I have ever seen. I knew something was wrong.

Apparently, Lily did too. She looked down the table and saw weird things happening to each Gryfindor girl. For instance, a fourth year named Mavis Furnley's blond hair was growing darker and darker until it hit a violet shade. A fifth year named Nancy Dillinger's head was growing to twice its size; it looked as if someone cast a bubblehead charm at it. Shocked, Lily look up and down the table, noticing that all the girls had purple hair and bubbleheads. And that was just the beginning…

I spun around in my seat, trying to take notice of the other girls. Some were growing boils on their arms and growing tails. I turned to Alice to see if she saw what I saw and saw that she was the final result of weird happenings. I looked around once more and saw that only the girls were harmed, not the boys. And that was when I noticed that the Marauders, the gits, had done something.

Tears welled up in my eyes; I couldn't see a thing anymore. All I knew was to follow my instinct, and so I ran. The last thing I heard was someone calling after me, but I didn't care anymore. All I knew, was that this meant war.

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