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The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 4: Grounded
The next few weeks went by fast. The four boys spent them in class, hexing Snape (James and Sirius), doing homework, hexing Snape (James and Sirius), planning pranks that they have yet to do, exploring the castle, and hexing Snape (James and Sirius). In their second week at school, the four boys were relaxing in their dorm when Remus remember something. He put his book that he was reading down and turned to James. "Hey James, when we were King's Cross I saw your father hand you a parcel. He acted like he didn't want your mom to see it. What was it?"
James, who was relaxing on his bed and talking about Quidditch with Sirius and Peter, looked at Remus confused. "How did you know my dad gave me a parcel? I didn't see you anywhere around us when he gave me that."
"I was watching from the train. He even winked at you when he gave it to you. It makes me think that it might be something to use for mischief. But then again, I don't know. I'm not really a mischief maker." Remus replied.
The young miscreant wizard jumped off his bed and moved to his trunk. "Actually, I don't know what it is. I forgot my dad gave it to me. He told me to cause a lot of mischief while I was here and that it would help with not getting caught. By the time we got to Hogwarts, I was too excited and I forgot about it.
Sirius and Peter watched James from their beds, curious about what was going on.
James pulled the packet out and opened it. A silky cloak fell out of the package and onto his bed.
"What's that?" Peter asked.
James picked it up and examined it, then smirked. "It's suppose to help cause mischief. My dad must have used this in school and decided to pass it down to the next mischief maker to meet this school."
"That doesn't tell us what it is." Sirius said. He was starting to get excited by the way James was talking.
"I'll show you." James replied. He threw the cloak over himself and instantly disappeared.
"An invisibility cloak!" Sirius said. He jumped off his bed. "This is going to help us. We can sneak around the school after curfew now and we don't have to worry about getting caught. You should have told us about this sooner."
James pulled the cloak off. "I told you I forgot. And you're right. This is fantastic. Getting to sneak around after curfew. We can learn so much about this castle. Maybe they are secret passages here. Who knows how much we can learn."
Remus shook his head and went back to reading his book.
"We should try it out tonight. What do you guys say?" Sirius asked. The excitement of an adventure was shining in his eyes.
James nodded his head with the same excitement in his eyes.
"It does sound fun. As long as we don't caught. I don't fancy getting my first detention for being out after curfew." Peter replied.
"Yeah. Our first detention is going to be for pranking." James replied seriously. "Anyway, want to go out now? It's past curfew."
"Yes, lets. Time for the fun to begin." Sirius declared.
Peter jumped off his bed and smiled. He didn't want to be left out so he figures he would tag along. He never imagined he would have friends like these two.
Remus stayed where he was on his bed and continued to read.
"Come on, Remus. We're going exploring." James said when he saw Remus didn't move.
"I don't fancy the idea of sneaking out and risk getting caught." Remus replied.
Sirius bounced over to Remus's bed. "Come on. Your dad even said to get in some trouble. It'll be fun. Come on."
"No Sirius. Now leave me alone." Remus replied.
Sirius turned away from Remus and walked over to James. "We're not letting him stay here, right?" He whispered.
James smirked. "Of course not. We'd be horrible friends if we let Remus spend his evening reading."
The two delinquents turned back to Remus. James put his cloak on his bed and walked over to Remus. "Oh Remy!" He said cheerfully.
Remus glanced at him over his book. "No James. Just leave already."
"Now that just won't do. Such negative spirits. You need to be more positive, Remy." Sirius said.
"Will you two stop calling me Remy?" Remus asked.
Sirius shook his head. "Not a chance, mate. You just have to get use to it. Now, you can get out of bed and come with us willingly or we can force you."
Remus laughed. "Force me? What are you going to do?"
Looking at each other, Sirius and James nodded at each other. The long haired wizard grabbed Remus's book and threw it onto the floor. Before Remus could even think about his book being missing, James grabbed his wrists and pulled him off the bed. He pinned Remus's arms to his side.
"James, let go of me. I don't want to go." Remus growled.
"You're going. Now be quiet." James replied. His eyes were shining with mischief. "Sirius, throw the cloak over us."
The four boys huddled together and Sirius threw cloak over them. "Okay, let's go." Sirius whispered and the boys shuffled their way out of their dorm to the common room. After making it to the hallway, the boys stopped walking.
"James….." Remus whined. "Please let go of me."
"Are you going to come willingly?" James asked, raising a brow.
Remus didn't answer.
James nodded his head. "I thought so. So I'm not letting you go. Now be quiet or we'll get caught."
Remus huffed, but stopped talking.
"Where are we going?" Peter asked.
"Let's just walk around until we find something interesting." Sirius replied.
"Let's see if we can find the kitchen." James said. "I'm hungry."
"No surprise there." Remus grumbled.
James stomped up Remus's foot, making the young werewolf have to bite his lip to keep from screaming.
Sirius chuckled and shook his head. "That's going to be near impossible. It might take us a while to find it. We probably won't find it tonight."
"But I'm hungry." James replied.
After wondering around for a while, finding nothing exciting, the four made it to the third floor. All of them stopped walking to see Mrs. Norris walking towards them. She stopped in front of them and stared directly at them.
Remus turned his head to look at James, who was still pinning his arms to his sides. "Can cats see us even if we are the wearing cloak?"
"I don't know." James replied.
Mrs. Norris opened her mouth to meow to alert Filch.
"Oh no. Quick, James let go of me. I need my wand." Remus spoke urgently.
James let go of him and Remus immediately pulled his wand out. He pointed it out Mrs. Norris. "Confundo."
The cat closed her mouth and just sat on the floor confused.
Remus sighed in relief and put his wand away. "Now let's get back to our dorm before anything else happens."
"We haven't found anything interesting though." Sirius said.
"Maybe there isn't anything interesting in this school. Now let's go." Remus snapped.
James raised a brow and pinned Remus's arms to his side again. "We're not going back yet." He murmured and the four boys walked away from the confused cat. Remus groaned and let himself be forced to walk forward. They walked up to the fourth floor and continued down the hallway for a few minutes before they saw Slughorn walking in hallway.
"We're dead." Remus muttered, only to have Sirius slap a hand over his mouth. They scooted over to the wall and walked along the wall quietly. When they reached Slughorn, they stopped and waited for him to pass.
"I wonder why there is a mirror in the hallway." James said when Slughorn was gone.
"What are you talking about?" Sirius asked.
James nodded towards a mirror a little bit down the hallway, since he couldn't let go of Remus. Sirius looked at the mirror and smiled. "Let's check it out then."
The boys stopped in the front of the mirror. They looked around before pulling the cloak off. "It's just a mirror." Remus muttered.
"I don't believe that." James replied, as he ran a hand over the mirror. "There's got to be something special about it."
Sirius started to inspect the mirror when they heard chuckling.
Peter looked down the hallway and paled. "It's Peeves."
"Oh no. We're so dead now." Remus said.
"Ooooh. Look at this. Ickle little first years out of bed." Peeves sang. "What shall Peeves do?" Peeves grinned evilly. "FIRST YEARS OUT OF BED! FIRST YEARS OUT OF BED!"
Remus groaned and Peter started to sweat nervously. James looked around nervously, while Sirius stared out the mirror. "We're going to get detention." Remus muttered.
"No, we aren't." Sirius said.
The three boys looked at Sirius. He smirked at them and pointed at the mirror. "We go through the mirror and escape."
"Oh, wonderful idea. Care to explain how we get thro…" Before Remus could finish his sentence, Sirius used a spell on the mirror so the mirror would swing forward, revealing a hidden passage.
"Everyone in, now." Sirius demanded, as he heard footsteps coming near them.
Remus looked at the passage uneasily, as his Peter and Sirius climbed into it. "Come on, Remus. Either we go in it or we get detention and lost points." James growled. He grabbed Remus's arm and pulled him into the passage, pulling the mirror closed behind them, enclosing the boys into darkness.
"That was close." James said to the darkness.
"I wonder where this passage leads." Sirius said.
Remus groaned. "Please don't say what I think you thinking."
"You know us well, Remy." James replied, grinning. "We're going to explore it, but before we do that. We need light."
"We're going through the passage with or without light, aren't we?" Remus said.
"Yep." James said.
Remus huffed. "Fine. Lumos."
The three other boys lit their wands up and looked around the area they were in. "This is a big room. You could hold a club meeting in here."
James nodded his head in agreement. "So let's move forward."
After walking for about twenty minutes the boys made it to a ladder. "We're going up?" Remus said.
"You bet we are." Sirius said happily.
Climbing up the ladder, Sirius pushed the door at the tap of it open and looked around. "It looks like a cellar. Come on up." He whispered to his friends.
When they were all up, James and Sirius started searching through the boxes in the cellar. They grinned evilly when they saw what was in the box.
"We're in Zonko's Joke Shop." James said excitedly. "Which means we're in Hogsmeade."
"No way. We aren't suppose to be able to come here until our 3rd year." Peter said, just as happy.
Sirius looked up at James. "We can get all our joke supplies now and our moms can't stop us."
"You're right." James replied, an evil glint in his eyes.
Remus crossed his arms and glared at them. "You're not going to steal them, are you?"
"Do you really think that lowly of us, Rems?" Sirius asked.
"Don't call me that and sadly, yes." Remus replied, keeping his eyes on Sirius and James to make sure they didn't take anything.
James sighed. "Relax Remus, we won't steal them. We'll leave a note and some money."
The young werewolf nodded his head and let his arms drop to his sides. "Fine. Just hurry up. It's getting late and we have classes tomorrow."
Dear Owners of Zonko's,
We are leaving money here for you for the joke supplies we have taken. If you could, would you leave a list of your products and though prices, so next time we know exactly how much to pay you. Thanks. And don't worry, we'll always pay you the right amount. Our friend won't let us leave without paying you the exact amount.
School Pranksters
Sirius looked at the note and shook his head. "We really need to come up with a name for us. Something cool and we also need nicknames, ones that no one will be able to lead back to us. That way we can sign our pranks with them and no one will know it was us. We'll be able to get away with all our pranks that way."
"We can think of something later. Let's just go back already." Remus growled.
Remus groaned as the sun shined through the window and hit his eyes. 'Stupid sun. Let me sleep.' He thought angrily. He rolled over and buried his face in his pillow and fell back to asleep.
A little while later, he woke up and looked at the clock. "AAAAHHHH!"
The other three sleeping boys in the room jumped and fell out of their beds. "What's going on?" James asked.
"We slept in. We an hour late for Transfiguration." Remus explained, jumping out of bed.
"McGonagall is going to kill us." James muttered as he hurried to get dressed.
Ten minutes later, the four boys were running out of their dorm to their class.
They slammed the classroom door opened and came in out of breath. The class turned to look at them surprised, while McGonagall frowned and looked at the four boys angrily. "And where have you four been? Class started over an hour ago."
"Well, my dear Minnie, we were sleeping." Sirius replied, smiling at McGonagall.
McGonagall glared at them. "Twenty points and detention, each of you."
Remus glared at Sirius and James as they went to their seats.
Never again.- RL
What are you talking about?- SB
I am never sneaking out with you guys again.- RL
Come on, Remy. It's not that bad.- JP
Says you.- RL
You know, Remus, they aren't going to not let you not come.- PP
He's right, Remy.- JP
Just get use to it.- SB
I hate you all.- RL
What did I do?- PP
I guess I don't really hate you, Pete.- RL
"Black! Lupin! Pettigrew! Potter! You were already late to my class. Don't make me give you more detentions for passing notes." McGonagall snapped, coming to stand in front of them and reached for the note.
Remus grabbed the note before McGonagall could get it. He knew she would read it and they would get in more trouble for sneaking out.
McGonagall turned her icy glare towards Remus. "Mr. Lupin, give me that note."
"Um….." Remus looked over at his friends, who looked at him expectantly. Sighing, Remus started to rip the note into little pieces and threw them into the air. Then he smiled at McGonagall innocently, while the class watched in silence, some of them with wide eyes.
The Transfiguration teacher huffed and breathed out through her nose angrily. "Ten points from Gryffindor, Mr. Lupin. And I want you to stay after class."
Remus nodded his head and McGonagall went back to the front of the class to continue the lesson. He looked at his friends to see them looking at him worriedly, so he smiled reassuringly and started taking notes. Truth was, he was nervous about talking with McGonagall after class. Taking notes helped distract him from his nervousness.
When class was over, Remus watched his friends leave the class before going up to McGonagall's desk and standing in front of it.
McGonagall waited for all the students to leave before turning to Remus. "Lupin, clean all the paper you ripped up, please."
Remus blinked confused, but did as McGonagall asked. As he was cleaning the paper up, he saw McGonagall watching him.
"Lupin, I wanted to remind you that the full moon is in five days. Do you remember the plan of what to do on the day of the full moon?" McGonagall asked.
Remus sighed and stopped picking up the paper. He sat on the floor and stared at the teacher with a frown. "Yes."
"I'm reminding you because it seems like you forgotten about the full moon since you are so busy hanging with your friends." McGonagall explained.
"I did forget. For once I felt like a normal kid." Remus replied, looking at the ground sadly. His hands clenched into fists. "I forgot all about my lycanthropy. I thought I was normal wizard, living the normal life of a wizard student. Sometimes, I wish that I died the night I was bitten then I wouldn't have to live through this hell every month."
McGonagall frowned. "Do you make that wish now?"
Remus stared at the floor for a few minutes before looking at his teacher. "I don't know. I'm happy for once since I have friends. But I don't know if that takes the wish away. The wish can never come true since the bite was years ago, but I sometimes dream of it. If my friends ever find out about my condition, they'll leave me and I'm afraid of what I'll do if that happens, especially if it's around a full moon. I'm more scared then I let on. I never wanted to make friends because of all these fears, but James and Sirius were really stubborn about being my friends."
"If they leave you because of your condition, then they weren't true friends. True friends wouldn't leave you because of your condition." McGonagall replied.
"Maybe. I just hope no one ever finds out. I couldn't deal with being shunned." Remus said. He bit his lip to keep from crying about the idea of being shunned. "Professor, may I leave? I'm late to my class."
McGonagall nodded her head. "Go ahead, Mr. Lupin."
Remus smiled and ran out of the classroom.
When he entered History of Magic, Remus saw his friends glance at him uneasily, so he smiled and sat in front of them. "Don't worry. She just had to tell me something. I'm not in trouble. I think that she was so busy talking with me that she forgot about the note."
"That's good. We need to come up with a way to pass notes without getting caught." James whispered.
Remus nodded his head and turned around to start taking notes for the class when he saw he was sitting next to Lily. "Hi Lily."
"He Remus." She replied.
"Can I borrow your notes for Transfiguration that I missed?" Remus asked.
Lily smiled. "Sure. I'll give them to you tonight and maybe we can work on our homework together?"
Remus smiled. "Sure. Meet in the library after dinner?"
"Okay."
Remus started to take notes when he felt something hit his head. He looked at the ground to see a paper airplane.
YOU'RE ABANDONDING US FOR EVANS!- SB
What are you talking about?- RL
You're leaving us to go on a study date with Evans.- SB
Remus rolled his eyes. It's not a date. Just friends doing homework together.- RL
It better be.- JP
Oooooh. Does Little Jamesie love Lily?- RL
"WHAT?" James yelled, making Remus snicker. Sirius looked at the note and snickered to.
"I didn't know you had it in you, Remus." Sirius said.
"Be quiet." Lily snapped.
Remus smiled. "Sorry, Lils."
"It's alright, Remus. I was talking more towards Black and Potter." Lily replied, before continuing to take notes.
After dinner that night, Remus went back to the dorm to get his bag with his friends. Before he could get out of their dorm, James blocked the door so Remus couldn't leave. He had his arms crossed and was frowning. He had a very serious expression on his face.
"Now Remus, I expect you back here by eight thirty and don't do anything to Miss. Evans. We don't need a traumatized witch on our hands. I expect you to treat her with respect and do not do anything that will make her uncomfortable. You are just there to study and that's all you better be doing." James said in a commanding voice.
Remus looked at James shocked. He heard Sirius snickering from his bed. He smirked when an idea came to him. "Of course, mother. I would never upset, Lily. Now move or she's going to think I ditched her. That would upset her and we don't want that, do we, mother?"
It was James turn to look shock. He glared over at the snickering Sirius. "Do you have anything to say before we allow Remus to leave?" James asked, regaining his calm composure, hiding his shock of Remus turning this into a game.
Sirius smirked and got off his bed. "Now Remy, don't be late in coming back or you'll grounded. Now go out and enjoy yourself, but not too much."
Remus chuckled to himself and pushed James away from the day. "Thanks father. I'll see you later."
"Oi, why does he get to be father?" James yelled out after him, but Remus ignored him.
Remus found Lily sitting at a table in the library waiting for him by the time he arrived. "Hi Lily. Sorry about making you wait. James and Sirius held me up."
Lily looked up from the book she was reading and smiled at Remus. "That's alright, Remus. I was kind of expecting that to happen and when you weren't here when I arrived, I realized it must have happened." She laughed lightly and pulled out her homework, putting away the book she was reading.
The two worked together on their essays and answering questions for their classes quietly. Lily realized that she actually really enjoyed Remus's company. He was so nice to her and wasn't arrogant like James.
"Remus, why do you hang out with Potter and Black? They are so arrogant and rude. They are always hexing Severus in the halls for no reason. They act like they own the school and we've only been here for two weeks. We still have seven years here." The young Gryffindor looked vehement as she spoke about them. "You're nothing like them. You are so kind and smart. And I saw you on the train sitting with them. I saw the way you disapproved of their attitudes through your reflection in the window. So I just want to know why you hang with them." Lily asked in a kinder tone then she was using when talking about Sirius and James.
Putting down his quill, Remus put a hand to his chin and acted like he was thinking hard. "I actually didn't want to be their friends. They sat with me on the train and I tried to ignore them, but they were very persistent about becoming my friends. They got annoyed with me ignoring them that they made a deal with me. If we were in the same house, I would become their friend. I agreed because I was thinking I would end up in Ravenclaw and they would end up somewhere else because they didn't seem the Ravenclaw type. But the hat said that I belonged in Gryffindor and after arguing with that hat for a while, he put me in Gryffindor. I guess the hat doesn't like taking demands from students."
Lily laughed lightly. "That would explain why you were up there for long. The teachers were beginning to look worried because you were up there for so long. So you got stuck being Potter's friend because of a deal?"
Remus smiled. "Yeah. And now they I'm theirs and must help them with pranks and learning hexes and such. They don't take no for an answer."
"If you ever need help getting out of doing something with them, come to me. We'll make another study date and I'll get them to allow you to come with me. That way you won't have to help them." Lily said.
"Thank Lils. You don't mind that I call you that do you? I called you it in class and you didn't seem to mind." Remus asked.
Lily shook her head. "It's alright. I like it. It means we're friends if you're calling me something other than my name."
"Right, but you have to call me Remus. Don't use those horrid names that James and Sirius call me." Remus replied, a huge smile on his face.
"What Rems and Remy?" Lily asked. Remus nodded his head and Lily laughed. "Don't worry. I won't call you that."
"Thanks." Remus replied.
The two friends went back to working on their homework, helping each here and there. Remus found out that Lily's best subject was Charms and worst was Defense against the Dark Arts. She was so happy when she found out that Defense was Remus's best subject.
They were so engrossed in their work that they didn't notice the time slip by. So when three boys, two leading the way and the other one just following, came up to their table and slammed a hand on the table, they were quite surprised.
Lily glared at the three of them. "What do you want, Potter?"
James smiled at Lily and ran a hand through his hair to make it messier. "Hello Evans."
Sirius rolled his eyes. "Lover boy, we aren't here for you to flirt."
James glared at Sirius. "Don't call me Lover boy."
"Why are you guys here?" Remus asked, interrupting Sirius and James before they could start arguing.
"Why are we here?" James asked. "To get you, of course. I said be back by eight thirty. It is now eight forty. You are late."
Lily blinked and turned to Remus. "Late for what?"
Remus rolled his eyes. "James and Sirius think they need to be my parents and ordered me back to my dorms by eight thirty, isn't that right, mother?" Remus turned to James as he said this.
The young witch burst out laughing when she saw Remus turn to James and call him mother. "How sweet."
"Sweet? You're crazy." Remus declared.
Sirius shook his head. "Remy, put your stuff away and get back to our dorm."
"We will escort you back to, Evans." James said dreamily.
Lily glowered at him and saw her friends entered the library. "No thanks. My friends just came in. I'll go back with them." She turned to Remus and smiled. "Thanks for studying with me, Remus. We'll do it again."
"Yeah, sure." Remus replied.
When Lily was gone, James and Sirius crossed their arms and stared at Remus. "Remus, hurry up. We want to get back to our dorm."
"Why?" Remus asked. "Curfew isn't for another fifteen minutes and you guys like being out after curfew."
"Because you are grounded." Sirius replied.
Remus looked at Sirius with a raised brow. "What are you talking about?"
"I said if you were late, you would be grounded." Sirius explained, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Remus laughed and left the library. "You can't ground me, Siri."
Sirius raised a brow. "Oh, can't I?"
"No, you can't." Remus replied.
Sirius turned to James. "What do you say, Jamesie? Is it possible for us to ground Remy?"
James smirked. "Of course, Siri."
"And how are you guys going to do that?" Peter asked, confused.
"We just have to make sure he's never out of our sight. And pretty much control everything he does until his sentence is up." James explained, earning a laugh from Remus. "Is something funny, Remus?"
Remus smiled. "You guys can't control what I do."
"He doesn't believe us, Jamesie. And here I was thinking about letting him off with a warning. Now we have to ground him just to prove we can." Sirius replied, a smirk forming on his lips.
Peter smiled and looked at Remus. "I don't envy you, Remus. They seem completely serious."
Remus looked at James and Sirius evil, smirking faces then back at Peter. He looked at the smirking wizards, who looked like they could be brothers right, before he took off running back to Gryffindor Tower.
James and Sirius watched shocked as Remus ran. They gained their wits back and ran after him with Peter trailing behind them.
Remus burst into the common room, startling the students in there. They looked at Remus shocked. He just smiled at them and ran up to his dorm. When he got to his room, he pulled out his wand and muttered Colloportus, locking the door. Smiling, Remus threw his stuff on the ground and threw himself onto his bed.
As he was doing this, his three friends burst into the common room just like Remus did a few minutes before. The Gryffindors in the common room jumped again and glared at the three boys.
"Hey, did you guys see where Remus went?" Sirius asked.
All of them pointed towards the boy dorms.
James thanked them and ran up to their dorm with Sirius and Peter following close behind him. He grabbed the door knob and ran into the door as he tried to open. "Ow." James muttered as he rubbed his head. "I think Remus locked the door."
"You think?" Sirius grumbled sarcastically.
"REMUS, OPEN THIS DOOR!" James yelled, as he started pounding on the door. "REMUS!"
There was no reply from inside their room.
"REMUS, OPEN THE DOOR NOW!" Sirius yelled, pounding on the door too.
"WILL YOU TWO STOP YELLING?" An annoyed prefect yelled at them.
Sirius and James ignored him and continued pounding on the door. "OPEN THE DOOR NOW OR I'M BLASTING IT DOWN!" James screamed.
"YOU HAVE TO THE COUNT OF THREE, REMY!" Sirius added.
Remus laughed and continued staring at the ceiling. He didn't believe the two would actually blow the door down.
"ONE!" Sirius screamed.
"TWO!" James screamed.
"THREE!" Sirius screamed.
There was a moment of silence, before the door was blown off its hinges, making Remus jumped in surprise. "There was a simple unlocking charm, you know."
Sirius and James blinked in confusion. Then James smiled. "Explosions are more fun."
"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU FOUR DOING?" A sixth year prefect yelled, storming into the room.
"Breaking into our room." Sirius replied, thinking it was obvious. "And stop yelling. You're disrupting the peace."
The prefect's face was livid. "I'M DISRUPTING THE PEACE? YOU FOUR ARE THE ONES RUNNING AROUND THE TOWER, YELLING, AND POUNDING ON DOORS!"
"Shh. Lower your voice." Sirius said, nicely.
The prefect's eye started twitching. "DETENTION, BLACK!" The prefect repaired the door with a flick of his wand and stormed out of the room, slamming the door closed behind him.
Sirius laughed and jumped onto his bed. "Now what were we doing before Mr. Prefect interrupted us?"
James cupped his chin in his hand and thought. "I believe we were grounding Remus."
"Ah, yes, we were." Sirius replied, sitting up on his bed and looking at Remus.
Remus groaned and buried his head in his pillow. "Will you two stop acting like idiots?" His muffled voice asked.
James and Sirius looked at each other and nodded. "Fine. I guess we can let you off with a warning this time. But you have to go to bed now."
The young werewolf lifted his head and looked at the two like they were crazy. "You can't tell me when to go to bed."
Sirius grumbled. "Fine. Be that way. Don't listen to us."
Remus rolled his eyes and climbed off his bed to grab his bag to get a book. While his back was turned to Sirius, the young heir smirked and threw a pillow at Remus's head.
The young werewolf turned and glared at Sirius. "Is that how it's going to be?"
Before Sirius could reply, Remus grabbed the pillow off the ground and lunged at Sirius, whacking him in the face with the pillow.
"Oh, it's on now." Sirius growled. He grabbed Peter's pillow and swung it towards Remus, who ducked, so the pillow hit James instead.
"Hey!" James complained and grabbed Remus's pillow. "You're going to pay for that, Black."
Peter grabbed James's pillow and the four started to pummel each other with the pillows.
The pillow fight lasted for about half an hour before a prefect came in and yelled at them to stop and be quiet. After that the four friends decided to go to bed, so they wouldn't wake up late and miss classes again.
A/N: Please review!