Yes, I know this took awhile, but I think it was worth it! If you see something weird, sorry, my computer is funky. Don't own harry potter. Enjoy!
When the mourning came, Madelyn had already woken up, gone back to the girls dorm, gotten ready, and came back. She quickly woke the others.
"Come on you guys, time for school!" Madelyn shouted while opening the curtains on both the windows and their beds. She whipped the covers off. "Come on, you don't want to miss breakfast, do you?"
"What the… Madelyn?" James groaned.
Sirius buried his head into his pillow, saying, "light bad. Dark good."
Madelyn grabbed hold of Sirius's ankle and pulled. Sirius' hand held fast to his bed post. "Come on Sirius, your making me feel like I'm your mother or something." When it was clear she wouldn't be getting him to move, she let go, saying, "you know what fine!" she walked to the bathroom, got a bucket full of water, and threw it on Sirius.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!" Sirius screamed. "You're ruining my hair!"
James, who had been getting ready, was pulling on his shoe, but fell over laughing when he heard this. "Ow," he said when Sirius threw a shoe at him, nailing him in the head.
Madelyn opened the curtains of another bed to wake Remus, only to find herself face-to-face with a plump little blond boy. There was a second when all they did was blink before both Madelyn and the boy opened their mouths and screamed. Well, actually it was the boy who screamed, Madelyn just gave a one-second shout since she didn't know how to scream
"Who the heck are you?" Madelyn asked when he had finished.
"P-peter p-pet-Pettigrew. This is my d-dorm," he made it sound like a question mark was at the end of the fact.
"Well, then," Madelyn said, extending her hand, "I'm Madelyn West, nice to meet you."
Peter stared at her hand questioningly, with a bit of fear, as if it would bite him.
"You shake it."
Peter shook her hand.
Since they were all quite hungry, Madelyn quickly started on waking Remus up, while Sirius took the shower he insisted upon.
"Geez, Sirius, you're almost as bad as me!" Madelyn said when he came out after fifteen minutes. "And at least I have the excuse of being a girl!"
This sent James back into a fit of laughter. When he finished, they started to leave. "Wait, what about Remus?"
"He sleeps like he's dead. I figure the smell of food would wake him up, so we'll bring back some."
They all had a delicious breakfast, Sirius ate pancakes, James had waffles, Madelyn had four cinnamon rolls, and peter who sat next to them had some of everything. They brought Remus sausage, biskets, and eggs and waved the plate under his nose until he woke up. In five minutes they were all headed to Herbology.
In Herbology, Mrs. Sprouts was a young looking witch who was generally good-natured. She split the children into groups of two and sent them to a pot. Sirius was with James, while Madelyn was with Remus. All they did was plant seeds for an hour, and were allowed to talk, but at the end, James' and Sirius' attention was beginning to drift.
The four of them left together. None of them noticed peter following them from behind. "So what do we have now?" Remus asked Madelyn, who was the unelected Holder of the Schedules.
"Double potions," she answered, "with the Slytherins."
James grimaced. "They say Professor Slughorn has favorites. He throws parties for them on occasion."
"Fun."
When they found their way to the potions room, the four sat at a table with two cauldrons. A fat man with a walrus mustache walked in. "hello, class, I am professor Slughorn. Now, in this class you will be learning," he spoke slowly, drawing out words every now and then, "about potions brewing. Since I have two hours with you, we will be starting on a rather simple concoction. You will be working with a partner on a healing potion that is rather weak, and used only for bruises. The instructions can be found on page seven in your books, ingredients, in the cupboards up front."
When Slughorn finished his speech, there was a brief hustling where everyone hurried to get started. As they began, Slughorn gave roll call. At several names he would stop and talk to the student about some relative of theirs that he new. He noticed some marauders, "a black in Gryffindor, how interesting, I will be watching you…" this had Sirius and James exchanging looks. "Ooo, a potter, I knew your father, how is he?" Madelyn went unnoticed, but Remus got a funny look.
When there was about half an hour left, James gave Sirius a nudge. When Sirius turned to look at him, James showed him a fire work in his hand under the table. James nudged his bag with his foot so that Sirius could see the pack of filibuster's fireworks he had in it while wearing an innocent look on his face. When the two boys looked at each other again, they both had evil grins. Looking around, they say the two kids who had left their train compartment. What were their names…Millie and snivillous? They were working together on a cauldron that was wide open to the two boys…
About ten seconds later, there was and explosion in the front of the room. Several boys and girls screamed, lily herself shrieked. Everyone in the front within seven feet of the potion were drenched and had some burns. Lily and Snape had some bruises as well.
Slughorn sent everyone to the hospital wing, giving Severus and Lily a worried look, as if he thought they were so awful, they would blow up everything. Then he went over and vanished the potion. A look of shock appeared on his face as he picked up the firework.
"Who did this?" Slughorn asked, holding the firework high. He scanned all the faces, "well?"
James and Sirius would have gotten away with it, if they hadn't looked at each other. As soon as they did, they started to snigger, and then a full out laugh. Slughorn walked up to them.
"Well boys, I am very disappointed with you. This was very immature and irresponsible," the professor lectured. He opened his mouth to continue, but was interrupted.
"What, Snivellus had it coming!" James said.
"Excuse me?"
Sirius this time, "what part didn't you get? The 'Snivellus' or the 'had it coming'?"
Slughorn closed his eyes and looked like he had a headache. Eventually he said to the boys who were wearing matching grins, "ten points from Gryffindor. I'm sorry boys, but there's nothing else I can do. You brought this upon yourself. Class dismissed."
As the marauder walked out, Sirius and James had a bounce in their step. Sirius, who was practically skipping, said, "That was excellent! I can't wait to do it again! What class is next?"
"Nothing, its lunch for us," Madelyn replied.
James laughed as Sirius' face fell. "Whatever did you blow up the potion for?" Remus asked them.
"Weren't you listening when we told Sluggy? Snivellus had it coming!"
"No, what did they do?"
James looked at lost, until he figured a one size fits all solution, "he bugs me."
Sirius agreed, "His hair is really greasy, it's like he doesn't know what shampoo is."
Remus sighed while Madelyn rolled her eyes.
When they reached the great hall, James had an idea, "we should prank them!"
"Who?"
"The Slytherins!"
"Ok. How?"
James paused there, "uh, I don't know. What day do we have open?"
Madelyn consulted her papers, "Friday. After lunch we get the afternoon off."
"What?" Sirius looked annoyed. "Today is Monday, and we're planning for Friday? Can't we do it sooner?"
Madelyn looked at the schedule, "ok, then, Wednesday. After charms we can set things up, go to astronomy at midnight, and launch the plan. It will take effect in the morning."
James had a big smile across his thin face, "brilliant! What should we do?"
While they ate lunch, they planned. The first prank of the marauders would have to be simple, they didn't know any magic.
"How will we let them know that we did it?" James asked.
"That we did it?" Remus looked shocked. "Why would we want them to know that we did it?"
James looked confused, "to help build a legacy. To start our reign of this school. Duh."
Since they looked ready to get at it, Sirius interrupted, "wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a hot second," he said, causing Madelyn to snicker. She quickly covered it with a cough when Sirius turned to look at her. "You're arguing on whether or not we should sign our pranks? Seriously? Well, no, of course you're not Sirius, I am."
Madelyn looked at him with a painful expression, "please never use that joke again."
Sirius ignored her. "Well, this is easy, I got an idea."
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The three marauders walked to transfiguration exchanging evil grins. They sat in a row, Remus in the front, James in the back behind Sirius. Professor McGonagall walked in and began to give a speech about how to behave.
"-and anyone who does othe… yes Mr. Black?"
Sirius brought his hand down snappishly; the way he was acting was like a teacher's pet. He was sitting very proper in an obvious way, "Professor McGonagall is it true that your first name is Minerva?"
McGonagall's head was tilted to the side and she had an incredulous look on her face as she stared at Sirius. McGonagall heaved a sigh, "yes, Mr. Black. Now as I was… yes Mr. Black?"
"What was that sigh for? Do you not like your name?"
She sighed again, "Mr. Black whether I like my name or not is inconsequential and none of your business. So stop asking irrelevant questions and pay attention."
She took a breath to continue with her lecture, but lost it when Sirius piped up again to say, "Okay, Minnie."
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The marauders were sitting in chairs waiting for professor McGonagall to return to tell them what their detention would be. Madelyn was talking, "I just don't understand. How did your annoying McGonagall-"
"Annoying?" James interrupted, "he was driving her crazy!"
Madelyn paused, but continued, "How did your annoying McGonagall get all of us detention?"
Sirius was frowning, "I can't believe no one has called her Minnie before."
Remus rolled his eyes, "Slughorn probably told her that they had blown up a potion. Teachers gossip like old ladies. But that doesn't mean Madelyn and I should be here, we didn't do anything!"
James turned on Remus, "oh you're just saying that because we got detention. Okay, we were all there! As soon as she told me and Sirius to go to her office we all started screaming that you can't separate us how if one of us falls we all do! All of that sentimental crap."
Remus stood up and he and James started shouting at each other. Sirius and Madelyn stood up and they were all yelling when McGonagall walked in.
"That is enough!" she shouted. "You-"
Ah, just for the record," Madelyn said with her finger held up and her head moving in sass, "I was not screaming. I don't know how to scream, and I haven't for over seven years."
This caused another shouting match until James spoke to McGonagall, "look professor, just make it easier on yourself and tell us what our detention is."
"Fine, on Tuesday and Thursday you will meet with Mr. Flitch to clean the trophy room from five to seven. Don't be late," and with that, she stood and walked out.
They all sat in silence watching their professor storm out until Sirius broke the silence, clapping his hands together, "well, at least something good came of this. We've missed Defense against the Dark Arts!"
***********inside my head***************
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, how nice. What do you think Split-Personality-Number-1?
Still needs pranks.
Hey, I'm getting there. Its only day one and they still got a detention! Geez! Anyway, how about you, Split-Personality-Number-two?
Well, it is only day one and its good, but it still needs the drama! I can't wait until year three and four!
Sirius- I think it needs more me.
How did you even get in here? Go! Out!
James- needs more me, too.
Shaddap! How did you get in my head anyway?
Remus- Why, west, whatever do you mean? We are in your head, because we are your head.
Ah! I feel like I'm in some Disney movie! Get out of my head!
Sirius- but west, don't you love us?
That is not the point! You're obsessed with your hair.
Sirius- …says the girl who has a name for her hair.
But you're a guy, and I'm a girl. Besides, Vanessa has a mind of her own! She's untamable!
Sirius-a… you smell funny!
Yo…a…th… … … OUT!