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A/N: This chapter bores me so I thought I would post it now and get it out of my way. And if I post it now, that means we can get to the fun stuff, or the stuff that I wrote in the later chapters that I found really fun and amusing.
The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 6: First Prank
Kneeling next to Remus's bed, Sirius smiled and started poking his friend in the side. "Remus. Remus. Remus. Remus. Remus. Time to get up."
Remus grumbled and kicked Sirius away from his bed. "It's Saturday. I'm sleeping in." The young werewolf curled into a ball and tangled the blankets around himself. "Close the curtains, Siri. The stupid sun is hurting my eyes."
Sirius sat up and rubbed his head where Remus kicked him. "No. You have to get up."
"Why?" Remus asked upset.
"To work on your flying." James voice entered the conversation.
Remus lifted his head to look at James to see him holding a napkin with toast on it. "What are you talking about? I fly fine. It's Peter who needs help. Did you see him at our flying lessons? And besides I have homework to do today."
"Yes. There is no hope for him." James replied, crossing his arms. "And don't try the homework excuse to get out of this. You are caught up with us. You can do your homework tonight. We're going to the Quidditch pitch to work on your flying. The Gryffindor Team is practicing today. Siri and I asked if we could tag along so we could watch them practice."
Sirius grinned and nodded his head. "Yeah and we told them about your hatred of Quidditch. They were happily agreed to have us come down to the pitch after that. So we're going to teach you to love Quidditch."
Remus groaned and buried his head in his pillow. "I should have said loved it so I wouldn't have to deal with this. Where is Peter?"
"Remedial Potions. Slughorn insisted Peter come for help." Sirius explained. "Now get up and eat the toast James brought for you."
Before Remus could reply, Shawn Wood, a fifth year and Gryffindor Quidditch team captain, came into their room. "Are you guys coming or not? We have to get to practice."
"Yeah." Sirius said at the same time that Remus said no.
Sirius and James sighed. "You're not getting out of this, Remy."
Shawn shook his head, frowning. "So, he really doesn't like Quidditch?"
"Yes, he hates it. And our goal today is to change that." Sirius explained.
Shawn nodded his head with a serious expression on his face. "Yes, we do. I don't understand how people can hate Quidditch. It's should be a crime to hate it."
Bilius came into the room and looked around, smiling. "What are we standing around for? Shawn, I'm shocked at you. You would normally be down at the pitch already waiting for us to get down there to drill us on your plans."
Remus lifted his head and glared at them. "Will all of you get out? I'm trying to sleep."
"Hi Remus. I thought you three were coming to the pitch today, though? Why are you still in bed?" Bilius asked confused.
"We are." James answered cheerfully. "Remus is just being difficult."
Bilius nodded his head. "That figures. A hater of Quidditch would be like that."
Remus buried his face in his pillow and started to mutter angrily at Quidditch and lovers of Quidditch.
Bilius and Shawn sighed and looked at each other. They nodded their heads and flipped Remus's mattress over.
"Ow." Remus said, from under his mattress. He pushed the mattress off of himself and glared at the Quidditch players. "Why did you do that?"
"Well, he's up." Shawn said happily. "We're heading to the pitch now. Meet you there."
The two Quidditch players left the room, leaving an annoyed first year sitting on the ground and his two friends laughing their asses off. "Those two are awesome." Sirius said, clutching his sides in pain from his laughter.
James nodded his head. "Okay Remus. Get dressed and eat."
Remus sighed and looked at his two friends pleadingly. "Please don't make me go."
"There is no chance you're getting out of this. Even if we did let you not go, over half the Gryffindor team is Quidditch obsessed and they know about you not liking it since we spoke to the whole team about this. They are going to teach you to love it whether we there or not." James explained a smirk on his face. "It's best to go now of your own free will or be dragged there by us or the team."
"You guys are evil. That's all there is to it." Remus grumbled as he fixed his bed. He grabbed his clothes and pulled the curtains shut around his bed. He emerged a few minutes later clothed and grabbed some toast from James.
The three friends walked down to the Quidditch pitch together. It was a warm, sunny fall day, perfect conditions to practice Quidditch in.
When they got to the pitch, the three friends sat in the stands and watch the team practice. Remus sighed and pulled out a book after a few minutes of watching. Watching them practice was boring, since all they were doing was flying on brooms and throwing balls around.
James looked at Remus with a grin on his face that died when he saw that his friend was reading. "Remus John Lupin." James growled, catching Sirius's attention.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked. He looked at Remus and frowned. "Reading? We did not bring you here so you could read. You are here to learn to love Quidditch."
Remus rolled his eyes and kept reading.
James sighed and pulled the book out of Remus's hands. "NO READING!"
Bilius and Shawn stopped what they were doing to look at the first years when James screamed. "What's wrong, James?" Shawn yelled at the three.
"Nothing. Remus was just reading." James yelled back, waving the book in the air.
Shawn sighed and shook his head and looked at his team. "It's worst then I thought. We're going to have some serious work to do on this one."
Bilius nodded his head seriously. "Yes, we do."
The team went back to practicing while James and Sirius told Remus who was who on the team.
Shawn Oliver was a fifth year and the captain of the team. This was his first year as captain. He had light brown hair and blue eyes. He was well built for his position as a chaser.
Angel Jackson was the second chaser. She was a prefect in her fifth year. She had long black hair that reached her shoulders and had blue-grey eyes. She was skinny, but had the build of girl chaser.
The last chaser was Athena Rox. Her wavy blond hair reached below her shoulder blades. She had hazel colored eyes. She was in her fifth year to. Her build was of that of a girl chaser to.
Bilius Weasley had red hair and blue eyes. He was well built and had enough muscle to show for all his training as a beater. This was his last year at Hogwarts and he was a prefect, who only enforced the rules when he really had to.
The last beater was Gon Figgle. He had short, brown spiky hair and green eyes. He was in his sixth year and the build of a beater from his training.
Their seeker was Kaiden Meep. She had long, curly black hair with purple streaks running through it. Her eyes were a bright blue. She was in her seventh year.
The keeper was Niko Mock, who was in his seventh year. He had blonde hair and hazel colored eyes. He was well built.
"Hey James, Sirius, Remus, come down here." Shawn yelled at the three. "Practice is over."
James and Sirius grinned, while Remus groaned. Sirius grabbed Remus by the arm and dragged him down to the pitch with James following with a smirk on his face. "Time to change Remy's opinion."
When they reached the pitch, Shawn threw a broom at each of the boys, who caught them.
Remus looked at the broom he was holding. It was a Comet 1000. The broom was a few years old but still worked well as the first years found out in their flying lessons. "What are we doing?"
"Going to play a game of Quidditch." Shawn explained. "Let's see. We have ten players so it will be five on five. Each team will have two chasers, a beater, a seeker, and a keeper."
Remus looked at the broom and shook his head. "I really don't want to play."
Shawn chuckled and shook his head. "Did I say you could choose to play or not?"
"What did you think we were going to do by dragging you out here, Remy?" Sirius asked smirking.
"You're all evil." Remus growled.
Angel shook her head and smiled. "Sorry. They are Quidditch obsessed freaks."
"HEY!" Shawn, Sirius, James, Bilius, Gon, Kaiden, and Niko all yelled.
Angel rolled her eyes. "So, let's set the teams up."
Shawn nodded his head. "I'll be the captain of one team and you, the other."
"James, Sirius, what position do you two play?" Angel asked.
"I play chaser and seeker." James replied.
"I'm a beater." Sirius said.
Angel nodded her head and turned to Bilius. "Can you play chaser so Sirius can play beater?"
"Sure. Though chaser isn't my best position." Bilius answered smiling. "So we got four chasers now, two seekers, two beaters, and a keeper. So Remus will play keeper. That will give us two keepers."
Remus slapped a hand to his face. "Do I have to?"
"YES!" All the Quidditch freaks yelled.
Remus flinched back and held his hands up defensively. "Alright. Sheesh. You don't have to yell."
"Angel, you can pick your team first." Shawn told her, smiling at her.
"Thanks Shawn." Angel replied. She turned to look at the players. "Okay, I'll take James as my seeker, Athena as my second chaser, Gon as my beater, and Remus as my keeper. The rest of you are on Shawn's team. Good luck, Shawn."
"You to, Angel." Shawn replied. The two shook hands. "You know what to do, Remus?"
Remus sighed. "I know the rules and position of Quidditch. I just don't care for the game."
"Right. Defend the hoops." Shawn replied.
"What are you guys doing?" A brown haired fifth year student joined them, smiling at the team.
"Hi Ness." Bilius greeted. "We're going to play a game of Quidditch to so Remus that it's fun cause apparently he doesn't like the game."
Ness screamed dramatically, but was smiling at Remus. "How can you not like Quidditch?"
"Exactly. So he's going to play a game with us as keeper. Can you keep score and do commentary?" Shawn asked.
"Sure. It will be good practice since I'm doing commentary for the games this year." Ness replied and left the pitch to get to the stands.
Sirius and Gon each grabbed a bat and all the players lifted into the air, before Shawn released one of the bludgers, released the snitch, and threw the quaffle into the air to be caught by Angel. Shawn lifted into the sky to join the other players. Remus and Niko took their positions in front of the hoops.
"BEGIN!" Ness yelled when everyone was in position.
Angel began the game and flew towards the opposing team's hoops.
"Gon hits the bludger towards Angel, who flips in the air to dodge it. Sirius appears next to her and hits the bludger away towards Shawn, who was trying to steal the quaffle from Angel. Shawn dodges the bludger and Angel throws the quaffle to Athena. Athena throws quaffle towards the hoops. Niko appears in front of the hoops and hit the quaffle towards Shawn, who catches it. Sirius hits a bludger toward Shawn, who dodges and throws the quaffle to Bilius." Ness said.
Remus watched the game cautiously. The quaffle was coming towards and he knew he would have to act soon.
"Bilius catches the quaffle and flips in the air to avoid Angel, who tried to intercept him. Bilius throws the quaffle back to Shawn. Shawn catches it and throws it towards the hoops." Ness said, watching curiously to see how Remus did, as did the other players. They stopped to see what Remus did.
Remus takes a few deep breaths and watches the quaffle.
"And Remus catches the quaffle at the last second, pretty good for a rookie. He throws the quaffle to Angel. She flies towards the opposing teams hoops. Gon hits bludger at her and Angel drops the quaffle as she dodges the bludger. The quaffle is caught Shawn. Shawn takes the quaffle and throws it to Bilius, who throws it towards the goal posts. Remus flips in front of the goal post and catches the quaffle."
Remus smiled and threw the quaffle Athena.
The two teams continued to play like this for a while. James and Kaiden were watching the game as they flew around the pitch looking for the snitch.
They had been playing for about an hour before students started to come down to pitch to see what was going. They had been seeing students flying around the pitch and wanted to see what was going on.
Madam Hooch came down with McGonagall to see what was going on down at the pitch. They went up to the teacher's stand and watch the ten Gryffindors play. "Why are there first years playing?" McGonagall asked.
"Hello Professors." Ness greeted. "Remus said he hated Quidditch so the team, James, and Sirius decided to play a game to so him the game is fun. He's actually a really good keeper."
"And Athena scores. The score is now fifty to seventy, in favor of Shawn's team. Shawn takes the quaffle and speeds towards the goal posts. Sirius hits a bludger towards Shawn. Gon comes in and hits the quaffle away towards Remus. Remus spins in the air to avoid the bludger. Shawn throws the quaffle to Bilius. Bilius catches the quaffle and speeds to the goal posts. He throws the quaffle to Shawn to avoid Angel. Shawn throws the quaffle at the goal posts. Remus catches the quaffle and throws it to Athena. James and Kaiden are on the move. I think they see the snitch. James and Kaiden are neck and neck. And James catches the snitch! Angel's team wins 200 to 70." Ness yells.
The crowd of students applauded and screamed their approval.
The ten of Gryffindors lowered to ground and grinned, except Remus who frowned. "I played. Can I leave now?"
"Wait. What did you think of the game?" Shawn asked.
Remus frowned and shook his head. "No, I hated it. I don't get how you people can play this game."
All the Quidditch freaks gasped and fell to their knees.
"How can this be? How can anyone hate Quidditch so much?" Shawn exclaimed.
"We must keep trying until he loves it." James declared, stubbornly.
Remus eyes widened and he fell to his knees, grabbing his head. "No. I don't want to do anything involving Quidditch again."
Angel smiled softly. "Sorry Remus. But you should have lied and said you loved it. They're not going to quit now until they are absolutely sure you love Quidditch."
"What are you guys doing?" McGonagall snapped at the team and three first years, stopping Remus from replying.
"We were playing a game of Quidditch. We thought Remus could do with a game to realize how great a game it is!" Shawn explained enthusiastically. "But sadly, he still hates the game.
McGonagall sighed and shook her head. "Right. Though I would prefer it if you didn't allow first years to play even if it is just a practice game."
Shawn grinned. "Sorry Professor. But don't worry. They are all great players for rookies, even if one of them hates the game. It will be fine."
Sunday morning found James and Sirius grinning madly as they woke Remus and Peter up. Remus glared at them when he was woken up. "What?"
"We're going to the library." James explained.
Remus eyes snapped open and he jumped out of bed. He put his hand on James's forehead, earning a confused looked from James. "Sorry, but you just said we were going to the library and no one is forcing you."
"We have a prank to finish up. Some spells we have to master by tomorrow night. Let's go now." Sirius demanded.
After eating a quick breakfast, the four boys went to library and started searching for the books they needed. Remus found them all and put them on the table where his friends were waiting for him. He plopped himself in one of the chairs and looked at them.
"So, who's the target?" Remus asked.
"Snivellus." Sirius replied. "We need to come up with a name for our group now to sign the prank with."
Remus leaned back in his seat and looked the ceiling. "What do we want our name to mean?"
"It has to sound cool." James said. "I don't want people going around talking about us with a stupid name."
The four boys fell quiet and thought about a good name for themselves. After about ten minutes, Sirius slammed his head on the table. "I give up. Let's forget the name for now. Let's work on finishing preparing the prank. We'll come up with a name later."
"Hey, after we do our prank we should sneak out again sometime and explore the castle more. We could find more passages and continuing searching for the castle." James said.
Remus rolled his eyes. "No thanks. The last time we went marauding we were an hour late to Transfiguration."
"Oh come on, Remy. It will be fun. You can't tell us you didn't have fun the last time we sneaked out." Sirius said.
"Will it make you feel better if we do it on the weekend?" James asked.
Remus glowered at Sirius, but thought about what James said. "Fine. We can sneak out on the weekends, but only on the weekends."
Sirius pouted, but agreed. "What are the spells we need to pull this off?"
Peter, Sirius, and James turned to look at Remus. "Why are you looking at me?"
"This is your prank idea so you'll be in charge of everything we do." James explained. His eyes lit up in excitement. "Whosever prank idea we use, is the one in charge of the prank unless we have vote and decide that person shouldn't be in charge of the prank. This should be one of our rules."
"Rules?" Sirius, Remus, and Peter inquired.
James nodded his head viciously. "Yes rules for our group. When we figure out the name of our group, we should have rules for ourselves. These rules will only be known by us."
"Why should we have rules?" Remus asked confused.
"Cause these will be rules of our friendship. Following these rules will make us closer. We'll be brothers. We won't have any secrets between us." Sirius explained, catching on to what James was trying to say.
Remus bit his lip and looked down at the table. No secrets between us? That made the young wizard for uncomfortable. He had a big secret and he couldn't tell anyone. If he told his friends his secret they would abandon him. Remus knew they would tell the whole school if he told them then he would be expelled. He didn't want to have to leave school. He really liked it here and he had a lot of fun with his friends. Even though he was use to being alone, Remus didn't want to be disowned by his friends. Being shunned again would be horrible. He was getting use to having friends for once and might not be able to handle being alone again.
"Hey Remus! Anyone in there! Remus!" James asked, after Remus went quiet and started to ignore everything that he, Sirius, and Peter were saying. "Remus!" Sighing, James kicked Remus in the shin hard.
Remus jumped and fell out of his seat. He started rubbing his leg where James kicked him. "Why'd you that?"
James held his hand out and helped Remus to his feet. "You spaced out. I was trying to get your attention."
"Well, you have my attention. What do you need?" Remus asked.
"We need to start working on the prank. If we don't start working now, we'll have to skip lunch." James explained seriously. "And I don't know about you, but I don't want to skip lunch."
Remus rolled his eyes. "With the way you and Sirius eat, I'm not surprised." Remus looked around the library and frowned. "Let's take these books back to our dorm and looked the spells up there. We can practice them there to."
"Why?" Sirius asked.
"We don't want people to know about us the one pulling the pranks, right?" Remus questioned.
Sirius nodded his head.
"People might suspect us because you and James were in the library on a Sunday." Remus explained.
"Good point." James replied.
The four boys grabbed their stuff and left the library. They went to their dorm and spent the rest of the day working on the spells they would need for their prank, only stopping to go get lunch and dinner.
"Are we sure this will work?" James asked.
"Yes. If you do it the way I told you, everything will be fine." Remus replied, pushing his bangs out of his face.
Sirius plopped himself down on his bed. "Finally, we're ready. This is going to be great. I can't wait for dinner tomorrow."
Peter smiled. "There's just one thing missing."
Sirius raised a brow. "What's that?"
"Our name." Peter replied.
"I still haven't come up with anything." Sirius replied, frowning.
James ran a hand through his hair, making it messier. "A name?" The messy haired boy thought for a minute before he smiled. "Hey Remy, what was that word you said in the library earlier when I suggested we sneak out again?"
"Um…what word?" Remus asked, befuddled.
"Come on. You have to remember what the word is. It began with an m." James said.
Remus thought for a minute. "Um…do you mean marauding?"
"Yes! That word!" James exclaimed, happily.
"Marauding?" Sirius questioned, confused. "What about it?"
"I like the word. We can change it to The Marauders." James explained.
Sirius smiled. "We can be The Marauders. That can be our name. Let's have a vote. All those in favor of our name being The Marauders say aye."
"Aye!" Four voices said at once.
The next day, the four friends were finding it difficult to concentrate in class. They were all thinking about what would happen that night at dinner.
Professor Rana looked at the four boys and frowned. "LUPIN! BLACK! PETTIGREW! POTTER!" The four boys looked at her confused. "Pay attention or I'll give you each a detention."
"Yes ma'am." The boys chorused.
We need to calm down and act normal or the teachers will know it was us.- RL
Okay. We can try, but I'm so excited. I don't know if I'll be able to calm down.- JP
Just try to act like nothing is going to happen.- RL
Easier said than done.- PP
The rest of the day dragged by for the four anxious friends. Even though they tried to act normal it was difficult since they were too excited.
By the time dinner came, the four boys were almost bursting with excitement. They sat down in the middle of the table. "Remus, are we going to sign this prank with our name?" Sirius asked.
Remus thought for a moment before shaking his head. "No. We don't know how to sign it yet and I want to wait for our first really big prank before we give the name out. I think Halloween should be when we give our name out."
James smiled. "Genius. You're still new at this and you can come up with ideas like this. We made a good choice when we choose to befriend you."
"That and if we reveal our name everyone will know it was us." Remus replied. At their confused looks, he continued. "The teachers are smart. We were too excited and weren't paying attention in class. They'll know that the prank was us."
"Do these detentions count in our competition?" Peter asked.
"Yes." Sirius answered. He looked towards the Slytherin table and smirked. "Come on, Remy. Start the prank already."
Remus shook his head. "No. I want to eat some first."
After taking ten minutes to eat, Remus pulled his wand and waved it and muttered a spell. All the lights in the hall went off except the lights above the Slytherin table, which made it look like there was a spotlight on the table, gaining everyone's attention. Sirius smirked and he, James, and Peter took their wands out under the table. They pointed them at Snape and they each muttered a different spell. Three different spells hit Snape. The effect was instantaneous.
The first that happened was all Snape's clothes were transfigured to an orange dress. Then the color of his hair was changed to light blue. Next, Snape jumped out of his seat and onto the table. He started to dance uncontrollably and his feet started to hit dishes around the table, which made the food in the dished splash out and hit the Slytherins sitting at the table.
Everybody watched this wide eyed and their mouths hanging open for about five seconds before (almost) everyone started to laugh uncontrollably at Snape, who was blushing fiercely and was glaring at the darkness. The teachers watched shocked for a few minutes before McGonagall gained her wits back. She stood up angrily and turned the lights back on. She fired the counter-curses at Snape and transfigured his clothes back to normal.
Putting her wand away, McGonagall glared at everyone in the hall. "Who did this?"
Nobody answered her.
Professor Rana glared at James and his friends, then she whispered into McGonagall's ear.
McGonagall growled and looked at the Gryffindors. "BLACK! POTTER! PETTIGREW! I can't believe you three would do something like this!"
Remus looked at his friends and frowned. "Why didn't she yell my name?" He whispered, as he looked at the Head Table. Remus saw Dumbledore smiling and his eyes were twinkling with amusement.
"You're supposed to be the quiet, smart, responsible one. They don't think you would do something like this." Sirius whispered back with a chuckle. He winked at his friend. "Don't worry. We won't rat you out."
McGonagall stalked over to them. "You three my office now."
Remus looked at McGonagall then at his friends. "Professor?"
"What Mr. Lupin?" McGonagall asked, her voice softened when she spoke to him.
Remus flinched back at the kindness she spoke to him with. He looked back at his friends, who shook their heads no and glared at him. He glared back. "I helped with this prank. I'm the one who came up with the prank idea and helped pull it off."
McGonagall frowned. "Mr. Lupin, I can't believe you would do something like this. All four of you to my office now." She stalked off with the four boys trailing after her.
"Why did you do that?" Sirius snapped. He looked around the hall to see the students smiling at them, some with worry and concern on their faces. The Slytherins were glaring at them.
"I'm not letting you take the blame alone. It was my idea." Remus growled back. "And besides, friends stick together. I would have felt guilty if I didn't get in trouble to."
Sirius smiled and flung an arm over Remus's shoulders. "You're a real friend then."
The four followed McGonagall into their office and stood silently in front of her desk. McGonagall stood behind her desk, looking at the four boys in front of her with disappointment and anger. Her hands were planted on her desk and she was leaning forward slightly.
"What were you four thinking? I expected better from Gryffindors." McGonagall growled.
"How did you know it was us?" James asked, curiously. He already had an idea from what Remus said earlier, but he wanted to make sure.
"I suggest that if you're going to pull a prank, try to contain your excitement. All the teachers noticed something was wrong when the four of you weren't concentrating in class and you were all grinning, as if you were waiting for something to happen." McGonagall explain. "You four will have to do better than that if you don't want caught."
Remus shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe being caught is what we wanted."
Sirius, James, and Peter looked shocked at Remus. "It was?"
"I don't know. I knew we would be caught with this prank with how we were really excited throughout the whole day. The teachers are smart enough to put two and two together." Remus explained.
"Hmm. Well, the next time we'll have to be more careful." Sirius whispered to his friends so McGonagall wouldn't hear him.
"Black! Lupin! Potter! Pettigrew! Pay attention." McGonagall snapped. The four boys turned their attention back to her. "Why did you four do that to Mr. Snape?"
Remus looked at his friends. James shrugged his shoulders.
"Did Mr. Snape give you a reason to do that to him?" McGonagall asked, after the boys ignored her question.
The boys shook their head.
McGonagall sighed and took a few deep breaths to calm her temper. "I expected Gryffindors to behave more maturely than this. I guess I was expecting too much. Twenty points will be taken from each of you and a week of detention. I hope I don't see any more pranks from you four. Now go back to your Common Room."
When they left McGonagall's office, the four boys grinned and walked slowly back to their tower. "I think we got off easy, don't you?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah. That could have been much worse." James replied, a huge grin on his face.
Remus rolled his eyes. "A week of detentions isn't bad?"
"Not really. I've gotten into more trouble than that with my parents." James replied. "Anyway, I came up with a new rule for The Marauder's Rules. If one of us gets caught doing something wrong, we don't rat the others out. And no turning yourself in." James glared pointedly at Remus, who whistled innocently. "Remus."
"What was I suppose to do? I would have felt really guilty if I didn't." Remus whined.
James sighed. "Fine. But from this moment on, we don't turn ourselves in or rat each other out. I'm putting it in the book."
"What book?" Remus asked confused.
"James got this black leather book. We're writing all our rules in it." Sirius explained.
Remus frowned. "I thought we were the only ones who were suppose to know the rules?"
"We are." James replied, looking at Remus confused.
"What if we lose the book? Someone could find it and read it." Remus explained.
James ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "I didn't think about that."
"I realized that. Just don't lose the book. I think I can find a spell to put on the book so we are the only ones who can read it. I think there is a spell like that. I have to look." Remus replied.
"That will be helpful. I hope there is a spell like that." James said.
The four boys stopped in front of the Fat Lady Portrait. "Password?" She asked.
"Wolfsbane." Remus said.
The portrait swung forward allowing the four boys passage to get into the Gryffindor Common Room. They were met with a round of applause. James and Sirius grinned, happy with the attention. Peter smiled and looked away. Remus blushed and looked at the ground.
"Thank you. Thank you." Sirius said, bowing at the applause.
"Genius." Bilius replied, grinning. "I know you four will make my last year here great."
James grinned and sat on one of the couches in front of the fire. Sirius sat next to him and Peter sat in an arm chair. Remus sat next to the fire place with his back leaning against the wall, still blushing heavily and staring at the floor. He hated being the center of attention.
"Where did you guys get that idea anyway?" Shawn asked, grinning to.
James and Sirius looked at Remus expectantly.
"Wait, so Remus really was the one to come up with the prank?" Bilius asked, shocked. "I thought you made that up. You said you weren't a prankster."
Remus blushed. "I'm not."
"Well, he's an amateur prankster. We're still working on corrupting him. He's yet to do stuff like break the rules willingly with us." James explained grinning. "But I think by the end of the year you will see a fully corrupted Remus Lupin."
Bilius laughed. "Good. I want to see how corrupted you make him."
Remus sighed. "Do you really think you can corrupt me?"
"Of course. It will just take time." Sirius replied.
"With the prank you came up with I think you already have a mischievous spirit, but your buried it and convinced yourself that you never had a mischievous spirit." Shawn replied.
Remus frowned and thought for a few minutes. He remembered always being a difficult child and playing pranks on his parents and children when his parents forced him to parks. After a while he stopped doing it because of his situation as a werewolf. He grew up at eight when he thought about being a werewolf. Being a werewolf was serious so he stopped with the pranks and stopped being a child. He chose to be a quiet, studious child instead.
James saw Remus smile and smirked. "So Remus, what did you do when you were younger? Had to be bad if you're smiling like that."
Remus blushed and muttered nothing.
"Were you a prankster when you were younger?" Sirius asked, shock clear on his face.
Remus looked away and said nothing.
"You were!" James and Sirius exclaimed at the same time.
Bilius and Shawn laughed and shook their heads in disbelief.
"How a can a prankster change into a quiet, shy student?" Ness asked, appalled by the idea of a prankster changing his personality.
Angel laughed. "So Remus, where did you get your prank idea?"
Remus shrugged his shoulders and smirked. "Why would I give away my secrets?" He looked over at James, Sirius, and Peter to see them with their heads together and talking quickly. "What are you three plotting?"
"Remus Lupin!" Sirius screamed, making many people jump in surprise.
"Why would you suggest we were plotting anything?" James asked, appalled.
Remus raised a brow. "I know you three."
James smiled innocently. "Well, we're not plotting anything now."
Remus snorted. "Sure you aren't." He stood up. "I'm going to do my homework. See ya."
James waved to him as he left. He watched as Remus went up the stairs to their dorm. He waited until he heard the door close before turning back to his friends to continue their supposed plotting.
Remus came back down to the Common Room with his bag. He left and went to the library. In the library he saw Lily sitting there doing her homework. "Hi Lily."
Lily glanced up and glared at Remus. "Remus."
"Are you mad at me?" Remus asked, nervously.
"How could you guys do that to Severus?" Lily growled.
Remus sighed. "Oh that. Look I'm sorry. We just did it to….hmm. We had no reason to do it. I guess if you asked Sirius or James, they would say because he's a slimy git who deserved it for being a Slytherin. But I don't really agree with that. So I'll just say we didn't have an excuse."
Lily frowned and crossed her arms. "That's better than I expected from Sirius or James. I'm glad you didn't give me an excuse to justify your prank. The fact that you also turned yourself in, even when Professor McGonagall didn't call you out, made it better. You four got punished and you gave yourself up. You didn't make some stupid excuse, so I guess I forgive you this time."
"Sorry Lils." Remus replied. "Do you mind if I sit here and do my homework with you?"
Lily smiled. "Sure."
"What do we do?" Peter asked.
"We must re-corrupt Remy. That is our goal that we must reach by the end of the year." James replied.
"Our first mission as The Marauders." Sirius declared, smirking.
A/N: Please review!