Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 7: Halloween
For the next few weeks, the four best mates spent all their free time planning their first big prank that would introduce The Marauders to Hogwarts. They kept themselves locked in their dorm with an anti-eavesdropping spell on their room so no one could overhear them planning their prank. They knew better this time so sometimes they split up in their planning.
Remus would go to the library to look up spells and potions that they could use for their prank since none of his friends would go to the library of their own free will. Sirius and Peter would sit in the Common Room pretending to be like good little kids, playing exploding snaps or wizard chess while Remus was in the library and James was out sneaking around the school under his invisibility cloak to get supplies that they needed.
They spent some time with the Quidditch team and playing games with them to keep suspicion off of themselves.
At the moment, Sirius and Peter were in the Common Room waiting for Remus and James to get back. Remus was in the library and James was getting supplies from Zonko's.
Remus looked up at the clock in the library and paled. Curfew was in five minutes. He would never be able to make it back to the tower in time. He grabbed his bag and a few books he was reading and ran out of the library.
Remus walked quietly in the hallway, using his wolf hearing to make sure he didn't run into any teachers or prefects.
The young werewolf heard footsteps approaching and ran down a few flights of steps. He stopped running and leaned against a picture of fruit. Taking a few deep breaths to calm his racing heart, Remus turned to look where he was. When he turned his head, his hair brushed against the pear, making the painting giggled.
Surprised, Remus jumped in the air. He looked at the painting and tickled the pear, curious to see if it would do anything. The pear giggled more and a gold handled appeared on the pear.
Blinking in shock, Remus opened the painting and went inside. He looked around the room to see it was as huge as the Great Hall. There were glittering brass pots and pans around the stone walls. At the other end of the room was a huge brick fireplace. There were hundreds of house elves in the room.
Remus jumped in shocked when the door opened behind him. He turned around and expected to see a teacher there to scold him, but to his surprise no one was there. Shrugging, Remus turned back around to the house elves.
One of the house elves came up to him. "May Binky be of service to you, sir?"
"Uh….is this the kitchen?" Remus asked.
"It is sir. You are the first student we've met in a long time. Usually only the teachers come down here, sir. Can Binky get you anything?" Binky asked.
Remus jumped in surprise again when he felt something on his shoulder. He turned to see James smirking at him. "You're jumpy tonight, Remy."
"Were you following me?" Remus growled.
"Yeah." James replied.
"You could have said it was you. I thought it was a teacher who chased me down here." Remus snapped.
James held his hands up defensively. "Sorry. But hey, it was a good thing I didn't. We wouldn't have found the kitchen if I told you it was me."
Remus smiled. "I guess." He turned back to Binky. "Do you have any chocolate?"
"Yes sir." Binky replied. "Would you like Binky to get you some, sir?"
Remus nodded his head viciously.
James rolled his eyes. "What is with you and chocolate?"
"What do you mean?" Remus asked.
"I've seen the way you are when you have chocolate. You're obsessed with it." James replied.
Remus glared at him. "I like chocolate. What's wrong with that?"
James shook his head. "You're a chocoholic."
Binky returned and gave Remus some chocolate. He turned to James and asked him if he wanted anything.
After getting enough food for the four friends, Remus and James left the kitchen under the invisibility cloak. They entered their dorm and pulled the cloak off, dumping all their sweets on James's bed.
Sirius and Peter looked at the food with wide eyes. "Where did you guys get the food?"
"Well, you see, I scared Remus into finding the kitchen." James replied with a smirk.
"How did you do that?" Peter asked, as he grabbed a mini cake that James brought back.
James explained what happened as the four friends sat on the floor between their beds, eating all the food they brought back. Peter and Sirius laughed when James's finished while Remus blushed.
"This is great. It will help us with our Halloween prank." Sirius said.
James smirked. "And after Gryffindor beats Slytherin tomorrow in Quidditch we can have a party, getting food and drinks from the kitchen."
All the students, except the Slytherins, watched in excitement as Gryffindor scored another goal. The Slytherins booed while everyone else cheered.
"And Gryffindor scores again. The score is now 100 to 70, Gryffindor. Take that you slimy gits!" Ness said.
"Mr. Rig." Professor McGonagall yelled.
"Sorry Professor." Ness replied. "What's this? Kaiden is on the move! Has she seen the snitch?"
Kaiden sped to the Gryffindor goal posts and dived to the ground. She reached out in front of her and closed her fist around a little gold ball. She pulled out of her dive just before she hit the ground. She raised her fist in the air.
"AND KAIDEN CATCHES THE SNITCH! GRYFFINDOR WINS 250 TO 70." Ness yelled.
The students all yelled and clapped loudly as the Slytherins booed.
James smirked at his friends. They smirked back and left the pitch to sneak into the kitchen.
"Hi Binky." Remus greeted when they reached the kitchen.
"Hello sirs." Binky replied.
"Binky, you can call me, Remus and them, Sirius, James, and Peter, okay?" Remus said.
Binky nodded. "Okay, sir Remus. What can Binky do for you?"
Remus sighed. "I guess that's better. Can you get us some food and butterbeer?"
"How much, sir Remus?" Binky asked.
Remus turned to his friends with a raised brow.
Sirius shrugged. "A lot."
After getting enough food for the party, the four friends went back to the tower where the team was celebrating with all the other Gryffindors. The team looked at The Marauders shocked when they saw the food the four were carrying.
"Where did you four get all that food?" Shawn asked, shocked. "And where did you get the butterbeer? We only get butterbeer in Hogsmeade or at the beginning of school, end of school, Halloween, and the Christmas feast."
"The kitchen!" James announced.
Shawn choked on the butterbeer he was drinking. He coughed for a few minutes before standing up straight. "The kitchen? How did you find it?"
James turned to Remus and smirked.
"Shut up, Potter." Remus growled, before turning to Shawn. "And we're not telling you. If you want to know where the kitchen is, you have to find it on your own like we did."
Angel laughed. "Evil. I guess if we ever want to have a party, we have to come to you four."
"As long as we're invited to said party, we will get you the food." Sirius replied.
Bilius nodded his head with a smile. "Of course."
"Now let's get this party under way!" Remus declared.
"YEAH! Remy is being social now!" Sirius cheered, hugging Remus, who pushed him off.
"Don't do that." Remus growled.
Sirius pouted. "Jaaaames, Remy is being mean."
James grumbled to himself. "Remy, don't do that. I don't want to deal with a whiny Sirius."
Remus rolled his eyes. "As long as you're the one he's bothering, I don't care."
"AH! Remy is soooo mean!" James declared.
"What do we do about this, Jamesie?" Sirius asked.
James thought for a few minutes, which Remus used this time to move to a couch and plopped down on it.
Sirius watched Remus leave. "Why must Remy be so mean to us? We're his friends. We don't deserve this treatment." He said dramatically.
James rolled his eyes before smirking. "What do you say to teaching him a lesson?"
Sirius smirked and nodded his head.
"Oh Remy!" Sirius sang cheerfully, looking down at Remus.
Remus tilted his head back to look at his friend. "Yes?"
"We were thinking that you were being really mean earlier about not thinking about our feelings." James explained, smirking. "We just think you should know that you shouldn't be mean to us. I mean we are pranksters. Do you think it's a good idea to be mean to us?"
Remus snorted. "What are you going to do about me being "mean"?"
James didn't reply. Instead he attacked Remus's ribcage and started tickling him, making Remus cry out in laughter. Remus hit James's hands away and fell to the floor laughing.
"What was that for?" Remus asked, breathing heavily.
Sirius smirked and pinned Remus arms above his head and straddled him. He started tickling him mercilessly with his free hand. Remus laughed loudly and started kicking his legs trying to get Sirius off of him.
"SI- AH-RIUS! S-STOP PL-HAHAHAH-PLEASE!" Remus screamed through his laughter.
Sirius stopped and looked at James, who was sitting next to him. "What do you think, James? Has he learned his lesson?"
James pretended to think hard. "I don't think he has."
"Yes, I have!" Remus said frantically. He looked at Sirius pleadingly. "Please, let me go!"
Sirius shook his head, grinning. "Naw."
James joined in on the attack against Remus. They started tickling Remus again.
"AH! GYAAAAH! S-STOP S-SI-RI, J-JAMES!" Remus yelled.
Shawn and Angel watched the three, shaking their heads. Ness rolled his eyes and Bilius smiled. "Do you think we should help him?" Angel asked.
"It doesn't concern us. If they want to tickle him to death then we should let them. It doesn't involve us." Bilius replied.
"Let's get back to the party." Shawn said.
"C-COME….HAHAHAH….O-N! P-PLEASE….GYAAAAH…..S-STOP!" Remus begged. "P-PETE! HAHAHAH! H-HELP….M-ME!"
Peter shook his head laughing and sat on the couch that Remus fell off of.
James and Sirius continued their mercilessly attack on Remus for about ten minutes before Angel came back over to them. "Okay, you two stop trying to tickle Remus to death."
The two pouted, but complied and let Remus go. "Thanks Angel."
"I only helped you because there's an owl here for you." Angel replied, pointing to a black owl with white tips on its wings and red eyes on the coffee table.
Remus pouted at Angel. "You didn't help me because you felt sorry for me?"
Angel smiled and shook her head.
"Meanie." Remus replied.
Angel smiled. "Yep, I'm a meanie. Going to take your letter? It has to be important if it is coming at this time."
Remus looked at the owl and smiled. "Hi Darkwing!"
Darkwing hooted in greeted and held her leg out. Remus took the letter from her and petted her. "Thanks Darkwing."
James and Sirius looked over Remus's shoulders. "Who is it from? Your mom is okay, right?"
Remus looked back at his friends confused. "My mom? Oh, she's fine now. I got a letter a couple weeks ago from my dad. He told me she was better."
"That's good." Sirius replied.
Remus nodded his head and opened his letter.
Dear Remus,
I got your letter about constantly being caught passing notes in class with your friends by teachers. I thought of a way you could pass notes without a teacher knowing. You have to keep this a secret from your mother though. We will both be in trouble if she finds out. Inside this envelope are four blank pieces of parchment. I cast the protean charm on each piece of parchment. If one of you writes on the parchment whatever you wrote will appear on the other pieces of parchment. The writing will disappear after a while so you will be able to use the parchment to talk to your friends over and over again. I hope this helps you.
Love Dad.
Remus looked at his friends, who were grinning.
"Your dad is awesome." Sirius whispered, accepting the parchment that Remus handed him.
"This will definitely come in handy in class." James said, taking the parchment from Remus.
Peter nodded his head in agreement and accepted his parchment as well.
"Don't lose those. It will be bad if you lost them." Remus explained.
"Yes sir!" James and Sirius mocked saluted.
Next Friday, Remus groaned in his bed and rubbed his aching head. The full moon was the next day and his body was feeling the effects of it. He felt lucky that the full moon was on a weekend of this month. He wouldn't be missing any classes this month so his classmates wouldn't notice anything. His friends would though and that is what worried him.
Remus crawled out of his bed and got dressed. He checked to make his friends were still sleeping before sneaking out of the dorm. It was six in the morning and no one was allowed out of their towers until seven thirty. That didn't bother Remus right now. All he cared about was getting to the Hospital Wing.
"What do you think you're doing out of bed?" An angry voice said.
The young werewolf looked up to see Filch glaring at him. "Going to the Hospital Wing. I'm sick." He growled and stalked pass Filch without another word. He didn't feel well with the full moon tomorrow and didn't want to deal with Filch.
Whatever Filch said in reply to what Remus said, the young wizard didn't hear. He was too far away by the time Filch started talking again.
Remus stumbled into the Hospital Wing a few minutes later, breathing heavily. His strength was sapped from walking away from Filch as fast as he did. He leaned against the Hospital Wing door for a few minutes to get his breath back. He rubbed his head in pain.
Blinking his blurry eyes, Remus stumbled over to a bed and laid on it. He curled into a ball and waited for Madam Pomfrey to wake up and come into the Hospital Wing.
Madam Pomfrey entered the Hospital Wing and saw Remus curled up on a bed. She hurried over to him and put a cool hand to Remus's forehead. "Are you okay, dear?" Madam Pomfrey asked, worriedly.
"Tomorrow is full moon. I always feel horrible the day before. I wanted to know if you had something you could give me to help me before the full moon so my friends don't worry or suspect something cause I'm always sick on the day of the full moon." Remus explained, grimacing in pain from his headache. Talking made his head hurt more.
Madam Pomfrey nodded her head and left for a few minutes to check to see if she had anything. She came back about fifteen minutes later with a box and put it on the table next to the bed. "Here is a box of minor infirmus potions. The potion will lessen your symptoms around the full moon. Now this means that your headaches, weakness, and feeling sick won't be as bad. You'll still have them, but drinking this potion should make them less noticeable."
Remus looked in the box to see twenty vials in the box. "Will this potion make me less queasy? My friends were worried because I wasn't eating last month and they forced me to eat lunch."
"It will. It should bring your appetite back. Now, I'll allow you to take this box back to your dorm, but you have to keep it hidden. You can't let your friends find it or they'll ask questions. I'll ask Professor Slughorn to make you more of this potion at the beginning of each school year." Madam Pomfrey explained.
Remus nodded his head. "Thanks Madam Pomfrey."
The nurse smiled. "It's no problem, dearie. Now for this potion, you take one potion the day before the full moon and one of the day of the full moon. Your symptoms will lessen and your friends shouldn't notice. You should keep them locked up somewhere in your dorm."
"I'll lock them in my trunk with the rest of my stuff." Remus replied. He took one of the vials out of the box and drank it. His face screwed up into a scowl and squished his nose in distaste. He gagged at the taste of the potion. It tasted like chocolate, lemons, and wax mixed together with a rotten garlic pickle aftertaste.
"I know it doesn't taste great. Actually it tastes horrible, but if you want to keep your secret, you'll have to take it. If that's all you need, you should get back to your dorm. You'll want to hide the box before your friends wake up." Madam Pomfrey said with a kind smile.
"Thanks Madam Pomfrey." Remus replied. He grabbed the box and left the Hospital Wing with a smile. He felt much better than he did before. His migraine was reduced to a minor headache and he didn't feel as weak as he did on his way to the Hospital Wing. He could walk without stumbling now. His queasy stomach was still there, but he thinks he could a little now, so his friends wouldn't worry.
Remus was happy that he didn't run into any teachers or prefects on his way back to Gryffindor Tower. He really didn't want to talk to anyone at the moment. He was feeling better and was in a good mood, but he was still tired and wasn't in a talking kind of mood.
Sneaking into the Common Room, Remus looked around to make sure no one was in there to see him. When he saw it was empty, Remus climbed the steps to his dorm quietly and slipped in. The curtains around his friends' beds and his were still closed. He had closed his curtains in case his friends woke up. They would think he was still sleeping if his curtains were closed.
Remus tiptoed to his trunk at the end of his bed and put the box at the bottom of the chest. He buried the box with some other stuff in the trunk. After locking the trunk with a locking spell, Remus kicked his shoes off and decided to climb back into bed and rest until his friends woke up. Pulling the curtains back on his bed, Remus jumped back in surprise and fell to the ground with a thump when he saw three boys sitting on his bed.
"What's up guys?" Remus asked, uneasily. He looked at the ground nervously.
Sirius stood up and crossed his arms. "Where were you?"
"What do you mean?" Remus questioned.
James stood next to Sirius. "You know what we mean. We woke up and were going to wake you up when we found your bed empty."
"We were worried when we found your bed empty. We thought something may have happened that you had to go back home again." Peter said, still sitting on the bed. He looked the calmest of the boys, but was frowning and looked worried.
Remus stood up and dusted himself off. He tried to come up with an excuse, but with James and Sirius standing there looking at him angrily, he decided he should just tell the truth, well partial truth. "I woke up and wasn't feeling well. So I went to the Hospital Wing."
"And why didn't you ask one of us to go with you? You could have fainted on the way there." James demanded. His anger lessened a little, but he still looked mad and a little concerned.
The young werewolf resisted the urge to roll his eyes. James always acted like a mother hen to him. He always thought he had to know where Remus was every moment and liked to have someone with him. Remus supposed it was because he always looked pale and weak and needed someone to protect him.
"I think I can make it to the Hospital Wing by myself." Remus replied.
Sirius frowned. "Remy, we just want to make sure you're alright. It would have been really bad if you fainted on your way to the Hospital Wing."
Remus sighed and rubbed his eyes. "Look guys, it's fine. I was just feeling a little under the weather. It was nothing too bad that I needed an escort to the Hospital Wing."
Sirius shrugged his shoulders. "Fine. Just promise us something."
"What?"
"The next time you aren't feeling well and want to go to the Hospital Wing, tell one of us." Sirius said.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Fine. I'll tell someone next time."
"Good." James said, smiling.
"Let's go get breakfast now." Sirius added, also smiling.
The next day, Remus was woken up by Sirius jumping onto him. "REMY! TIME TO GET!"
Remus growled and pushed Sirius off of him and onto the floor. He felt the effects of the full moon come back full force. The minor infirmus had worn off after twenty-four hours and he needed another dose of the potion to survive until that night.
"Why are you waking me up early on a Saturday?" Remus snapped, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
"Gryffindor has the pitch booked for today." Sirius answered, ignoring Remus's tone. "We haven't been to one of their practices in a while."
Remus looked at Sirius with narrowed eyes, then at his trunks, then at the bedroom door. He climbed out of bed and grabbed the back of Sirius's blue jacket. He was wearing normal clothes today since it was the weekend. He grabbed his wand off the nightstand and dragged Sirius to the bedroom door. He threw Sirius down the stairs before slamming the door shut and locking the door with a simple locking simple.
Sirius tumbled down the stairs and landed at the bottom of them abashed. James looked up from talking with Shawn about Quidditch, shocked to see Sirius laying on his stomach with his arms stuck under stomach and legs halfway curled up.
Shawn looked behind himself to see Sirius to. "What happened?"
"Remus." Sirius replied, rolling onto his back and sitting up. He rubbed his back in pain.
"He threw you down the stairs?" James replied, trying to hide his smile.
"Yes." Sirius growled, climbing back up the stairs.
Remus ran back to his trunk and unlocked it. He unburied the box he put in it the day before and opened it. Just as he took out the vial, he heard the doorknob jingle. He uncapped the vial and drank it fast, grimacing at the taste. He put the empty vial back in the box and closed his trunk, locking it once again. When he was finished, Remus jumped back in his bed and pulled his curtains shut.
"Remus, can you unlock the door?" Sirius asked. A few minutes later, Sirius spoke again. "Remus?"
Sighing, Sirius went back downstairs. "James, can you unlock the door for me?"
James looked up and smirked. "Are you that bad at charms that you can't do a simple unlocking charm?"
Sirius glared at him. "No." He snapped. "My wand is in the room."
James smirked. "Right." He stood up and went upstairs. "Alohomora."
The two best mates entered the room and moved over to Remus's bed. James pulled the curtain apart. "Remus, get up."
Remus turned to glare at James. "No."
"You sure you don't want to get up?" James asked.
Remus snorted and turned away. "What are you going to do if I don't get up?"
James smirked and pointed his wand on Remus. "Aguamenti."
Water sprayed out of James's water and onto Remus. Remus screamed and rolled out of bed and onto James, knocking him to the ground. "Prat." Remus growled.
James pushed him off of him and smirked. "I had to get you up. Now get dressed."
After much arguing and resisting, Remus, James, and Sirius made it to the Quidditch practice to watch the rest of the Gryffindor's team practice. Instead of seeing the team practice, they found the team standing on the field and arguing with the Slytherin team.
James and Sirius march out onto the field, while Remus laid down on the bleaches and stared at the sky bored. He didn't like that the Slytherin team was here, but he didn't want to go down to the field and argue. It was the day of the full moon and he wasn't in the best of moods. He was irritable and didn't want to take his frustration out on the Slytherins.
"What's going on?" James asked Angel.
"The Slytherins team is here saying that they booked the pitch today. Something about erasing our name on the list and replacing it with their name." Angel replied, angrily, which surprised James and Sirius since they never really saw her get angry.
James glared at the Slytherins. "Bloody gits."
"You can't just erase our name and put your name and claim the pitch as yours." Shawn snarled at the Slytherin captain, a seventh year by the name of Steve Laughalot.
Steven smirked back. "We can and we did. The pitch is ours today."
"No, it isn't. We've taken the pitch for the day." Gon growled.
Remus looked down into the pitch and rolled his eyes. The teams were in each other's faces and arguing over the pitch.
Sitting up, Remus drew his wand out. He may not like Quidditch, but he didn't want to spend his whole day sitting here, watching the two teams argue. He waved his wand and muttered a few choice words and pointed his wand at Laughalot. Remus waved his wand again and murmured another spell, which hit Laughalot again.
Both teams stopped arguing and looked at Laughalot shocked. Instead of being in his robes, Laughalot was dressed in a strapless dress with long lavender color hair.
The Slytherin stared wide eyed at their captain, while the Gryffindor team and James and Sirius started laughing their arses off. James and Sirius fell to the ground and started rolling around laughing.
Remus smirked and did another spell, this time pointing it at Laughalot's broomstick. He took control of Laughalot's broomstick and started hitting the Slytherin team with it, chasing them off the pitch.
As Laughalot was running he tripped over the dress he was wearing. He to the ground where the broomstick started to hit him repeatedly. Laughalot stood up and started to stumble out of the pitch with the broomstick chasing after him and hitting him.
The Gryffindor team laughed as the Slytherins ran away with the broomstick chasing them. As soon as they were gone, Remus put his wand away and laid back down.
Shawn wiped tears out of his eyes and stood up. "James, Sirius, which one of you did that? It was hilarious."
James and Sirius calmed their laughter and sat up. "Neither of us. We were too busy laughing to do the spells and we didn't have our wands out."
"Then who….?" Angel trailed off confused.
As one, James and Sirius grinned and turned to look at the bleaches. "REMUS!"
Remus sat up and looked at his friends. "Yeah?"
"That was brilliant!" Sirius screamed.
"I didn't know you had it in you!" Shawn yelled.
Remus blushed and looked down.
James and Sirius ran up to the bleaches and sat next to Remus as the Gryffindor team started to practice.
"Remy, I can't believe you did that." Sirius said as soon as he sat down.
Remus rolled his eyes. "I'm just not in a good mood today. I needed to do something to get my irritation out."
James smirked at Sirius. "His irritation brings out his prankster side."
Remus eyes widened when he just realized what he said. His fear was amplified by James.
"Yes. This is good." Sirius replied, smirking as well.
Later that day, the four friends were sitting in the Great Hall talking happily, well three of them were. Remus was starting to get worried. He had to get away from his friends and get to the Hospital Wing soon or he was going to be late and not make it the shack in time.
Remus was trying to think of an excuse to get away when an owl landed by him. He looked at the owl confused. He didn't recognize the owl, but the letter it was holding was addressed to him. Shrugging, he took the letter.
Dear Remus,
I thought you would need an excuse to get away from your friends since you would spend the whole day with them. Make up and excuse and get to the Hospital Wing.
Albus Dumbledore
Remus folded the letter before turning to his friends. He thought quickly before frowning. "Guys, I have to go."
"Go way?" Sirius asked, concerned when he saw the frown.
"To visit my Aunt Margie. She's deathly ill and my dad says she might die soon…She wants me to visit….b-before that h-happens." Remus took a deep breath, then added. "S-she's my f-favorite aunt."
James looked at Remus sadly. "Okay."
Remus nodded his head at friends and left the hall. When he was out in the hall he sighed. Lying to his friends was not fun. He ran up the steps and to the Hospital Wing.
Madam Pomfrey was already waiting for him. She handed the traveling cloak to him and ushered him out as soon as he was ready. "Are you okay?"
"I've been better." Remus gulped. "I never like waiting for the full moon to rise."
"What did you tell your friends?" Madam Pomfrey asked. "It will be good for the teachers to know."
Remus nodded his head. "I told them my Aunt Margie was deathly ill and that she might die soon. She wants me to come visit her before that happens, which set up next month's excuse, I guess."
Madam Pomfrey smiled. "With an excuse like this, you aren't going to make a reappearance in school until Tuesday."
"But I'll miss classes!" Remus whined.
"If you're visiting a deathly ill aunt that is going to die soon, you're going to be gone longer then one day." Madam Pomfrey replied. "Just do as I say or I can go get the Headmaster. I'm sure he'll agree with me. It's for the best. It won't be as suspicious."
Remus huffed and crossed his arms, pouting. "Fine."
Madam Pomfrey set up a private room in the back of the Hospital Wing for Remus since he was to be out of school for a few days. She didn't let Remus out of the Hospital Wing until lunch time on Tuesday. The young nurse told him that all the teachers knew the plan of him being absent until afternoon classes on Tuesday and he couldn't make a reappearance until then.
When Remus entered the Great Hall he was immediately greeted by Lily giving him a hug. Surprised, Remus let his body act on its own and hugged back. "Hello Lily."
"Hi Remus. I heard about your Aunt. How is she?" Lily asked, concerned.
"Oh." Remus whispered. "She's still alive. We're not sure for how much longer."
"I'm sorry, Remus." Lily hugged him tighter.
Remus smiled. "Don't be. It's not your fault."
Lily let go of Remus and smiled at him. "Right, well welcome back. If you need any notes for the classes or help on your homework to catch up, come to me. I'll help you."
"Thanks Lils." Remus replied. He smiled at her as he walked over to his friends, who were calling him over. "Hi guys."
"Hi Remus. How's your aunt?" James asked.
"Still alive at the moment." Remus replied, feigning sadness.
"That's good." Sirius said. "Anyway, I'm really glad you're back."
Remus tilted his head to the side, confused. "Why?"
"I can stop taking notes now." Sirius said. "I don't think my hand can take taking notes anymore."
James rolled his eyes. "I made Sirius take notes while you were gone since I took them last time you had to go home."
Remus nodded his head. "Thanks Siri."
"You owe me, Remy." Sirius growled.
Remus smiled as he reached for the chocolate pudding. "What do you want?"
Sirius watched Remus reach for the pudding. "You're addicted to anything chocolate."
"Leave my chocolate addiction alone." Remus growled.
Sirius smirked. "So you admit to having a chocolate addiction?
Remus blinked. "I ADMIT TO NOTHING!" He yelled, making the Great Hall look at him confused. Remus blushed and looked back at his plate.
James, Sirius, and Peter laughed. "Nice Remy."
"Idiots." Remus hissed. "You never told me what you want, Siri."
"I don't know yet. I'll let you know when I know."
"It's good that you're back, Remus." James replied. "We only have a few more days to perfect our prank. Halloween is in five days."
"I won't be able to help you right away." Remus said.
James frowned. "Why?"
"I have homework to catch up on." Remus explained. "I'll probably go to the library with Lily. She'll help me get caught up. What do we still need to do for the prank?"
"We need a way to sign the prank and we need to make the potion." Sirius replied. "James got all the ingredients we need."
"Start the potion without me." Remus whispered. "Do you have the Fanged Frisbee and dungbombs?"
James nodded his head. "Got them Sunday. Are you sure we'll be able to control them with the potion?"
Remus smiled. "Trust me, Jamesie. I wouldn't do anything dangerous. I don't want to hurt anyone."
On Halloween, the third years and above left Hogwarts to go to Hogsmeade. While they were gone, James and his friends decided to start setting up their prank. With most of the students at Hogwarts, there were less people around to spot the four marauders.
James and Peter set off to kitchen, while Sirius and Remus took the invisibility cloak to sneak into the Forbidden Forest. They spent the whole day getting the prank set up.
Remus and Sirius were the last one to enter the Great Hall that night. They sat next to James and Peter extremely happy. Remus spent dinner watching everyone in the Great Hall while he ate.
It was about half way through dinner when Remus saw that someone found a dung bomb in a bowl. He nodded his head at his friends. The dung bomb set off as soon as the girl found it, making the rest of the dung bombs explode, making food explode over everyone and stinking up the Great Hall.
Everyone was distracted by the dung bomb explosion giving Remus time to draw his wand out and use a spell to open the Great Hall doors. A swarm of acromantula came into the Great Hall, running all around the Great Hall, towards students and teachers.
The students all screamed at the sight of the giant spiders and jumped to their feet. They jumped on the table, hid under the table, or ran around the Great Hall to get away from the spiders. James and Peter stared at the spiders wide eyed. "I didn't expect you guys to get so many."
Peter jumped onto the table and rolled across it to get away from an acromantula trying to attack him. "Re…"
"Relax." Remus mouthed to him. "All part of the act."
James pulled Remus to the side as an acromantula lunged at him. "Are you sure?"
"Trust me. They won't really hurt anyone." Remus growled. "Just trust me on this."
The teachers stood up and pulled their wands out to fight the acromantulas.
Peter saw this and ducked under the table. He pulled his wand out and whispered a spell to turn the lights off. This caused the students to yell louder.
Sirius and James took this time to throw all the Fanged Frisbees around the Great Hall. When they threw them, the Frisbees attacked the students, making them scream in fear, which freaked out the students near them because they thought it was an acromantula attacking near them.
Remus smirked and hid under a table. He muttered a spell and started writing in the air with fire.
Stop with the bloody screaming. You're giving me a headache.
The students and teachers stared at the writing in the air, some people still screamed because they were being bitten by the Fanged Frisbees.
Stop screaming already.
Everyone stared at the message confused. Peter took this as his cue and turned the lights back on.
When the lights were back on, everyone saw little animals that wouldn't hurt them, instead of the acromantulas that were there before. And they saw the Fanged Frisbees that were attacking some students. Their friends helped get the Fanged Frisbees off of them.
Remus climbed out from under the table and sat down. He kept his wand hand hidden under the table.
I hope we didn't scare you all too much.
Many of the students grumbled at this. The students who got bitten by the Fanged Frisbees glared at the message.
We thought it was time to introduce ourselves to this lovely school.
"Who are you?" Dumbledore demanded, though Remus could see his eyes twinkling in amusement.
That isn't any of your business.
"When you attack my students it is my business." Dumbledore said.
Your students are alright. Just a few bites here and there.
Have a wonderful Halloween Hogwarts!
James and Sirius looked at Remus confused.
Remus smiled and shook his head.
Dinner ended soon after that. Many of the students wanted to get out of there after the "acromantula attack" and no one wanted to eat the food after the dungbombs exploded out of it.
Bilius and Shawn were talking in the Common Room after dinner.
"That was awesome. I wonder who did it." Shawn replied. He looked at James and his friends as they came it. "It wouldn't have been you four, would it?"
"What? The prank?" James asked, feigning confusion.
Bilius nodded his head. "Yeah. Did you guys do it?"
"No. That wasn't us." Remus replied.
"We would have made sure everyone knew it was us if we did it." Sirius added.
After hanging in the Common Room for a while, the four friends snuck up to their dorm. In their dorm, Sirius, James, and Peter turned to Remus.
"Why didn't you give our name?" Sirius demanded.
"I thought it would be fun to do a few pranks before giving our name. It would keep them in suspense longer. They'll want to know more and more about The Marauders. It will make you guys more famous if we keep them in suspense." Remus replied.
James and Sirius looked at each other and grinned. "Brilliant."
"Fine. We agree. But next time, we are going to vote before we do anything." Sirius said.
Remus shrugged. "Sorry. I thought of it just as we were finishing the prank."
"Next time, we think ahead." James grumbled as he flopped down onto his bed. "The Marauders next prank will be before we leave for Christmas. Any time between now and then will be done by us and not the Marauders, agreed?"
"Yeah." Sirius replied.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Can't you guys cut down on the pranks?"
"NO!" James and Sirius yelled.
Remus raised his hands in defense. "I was just asking. Sheesh!"
"Don't ask that again." James growled.
"Alright." Remus replied.
Sirius sat next to Remus on his bed. "So what was with the acromantulas attacking us to?"
Remus sighed. "I thought it would be so obvious you guys could figure it out. Guess I was wrong."
"Is he calling us stupid?" James asked.
"I think he is." Sirius growled.
Remus chuckled nervously. "Anyway, the acromantulas attacked us to because if they didn't and people saw they might suspect we were behind the prank."
"Oh. That makes sense." Sirius replied.
"So you gave the potion to bunnies and squirrels?" James asked.
Remus nodded his head. "We couldn't bring real acromantulas into the school. That would be too dangerous."
"Confusing." Peter grumbled. "That potion makes no sense. I know it changes their appearances, but how did you control get to them to attack the Great Hall."
Remus shrugged his shoulders. "A simple spell. It confused them and made them go crazy enough to run into the Great Hall and make it looked like they were attacking."
"Nice." James said.
Remus rubbed his eyes, tiredly. "I'm tired so I'm going to bed. Night guys." Remus pushed Sirius off his bed.
"Night Remy!" Sirius and James said.
"Night all." Peter said. He climbed into bed and fell asleep.
James and Sirius soon joined the two into going to sleep.
A/N: Please review!
I refuse to write Quidditch matches. They are too annoying to write and no one actually cares what happens in them so why should I waste my time trying to write one.
The taste of potion is strange. Don't question it. I really should stop asking my brother questions to help me with things in this story.