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The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 14: Valentine's Day
"Remy, guess what?" Sirius screamed, pouncing on Remus in the common room.
Remus groaned under Sirius's weight. "Get off me, you big dog."
Sirius's eye started twitching. Over the past few weeks, Remus, James, and Peter started calling him a dog whenever they could as a joke to Sirius's name being the Dog Star. It was started to get to him. He grabbed Remus's shoulders and started to shake him. "I. Am. Not. A. Dog!"
"Sure, you aren't." Remus replied, pushing Sirius off of him. "You're a heavy dog."
James laughed. "Remus, Sirius looks ready to kill you. Maybe you should run."
"I did and look where that got me. Trapped in the common room with you three." Remus answered, ruffling his hair up with his hand. "Anyway, what are you so excited about, Sirius? The last time I saw you this excited was on your birthday when we gave you all that sugar."
Sirius's eyes lit up at the mention of sugar. "Sugar. Me want sugar!" He started jumping up and down excitedly.
"We're never giving you sugar again." James muttered.
Sirius pouted.
Remus rolled his eyes. "So, why are you excited?"
"Tomorrow's Valentine's day!" Sirius exclaimed, forgetting all about sugar.
James's eyes lit up and he grinned.
Remus looked at them confused. "So?"
The two boys looked at him shocked. Their mouths opening and closing, but no sound was coming out. James was the first to gain his wits back. "What do you mean by so? Valentines is great. You get all this chocolate from girls and they fawn all over you."
"You do realize we're only eleven and that you don't even like any of the girls that fawn over you." Remus pointed out.
"Yeah, but it's great to have girls fawning over us all day and giving us candy. If they want to delude themselves into thinking we're fall in love with them because they give us candy and cards, who are we to upset them by denying them the pleasure of giving them to us." Sirius replied.
Rolling his eyes, Remus grabbed his book off the table. "Lovely speech, Siri." He muttered sarcastically.
"Don't you like Valentines?" Peter asked.
"Not really. I think it's stupid. Guys makes girls delude themselves. It's so stupid." Remus mumbled.
James and Sirius gasped dramatically. "Hate it? That's just as bad as hating Quidditch. We must amend this!" James declared, standing up and pointing a finger at Remus. "When we are finished, you will love Valentines."
Remus's eye started twitching. He looked across the common room at Lily, who was sitting and talking with her friends and doing homework. "LILY!"
Lily looked up to see James and Sirius each grabbed one of Remus's arms. They started to drag him to the dorms. "Yeah?"
"Help me!" Remus screamed as he was dragged up the stairs.
Peter rolled his eyes and started to work on his charms essay.
"Pettigrew, what just happened?" Lily asked, a little worried.
"Don't worry, Evans." Peter replied. "Remus will be fine."
Lily rolled her eyes. "I doubt that. He just got kidnapped by Black and Potter."
"They've never killed him before. Why would they start now?" Peter replied, shrugging his shoulders. "I'm just glad it's not me they're going to torture."
Remus frowned at the betrayal from Lily and let himself be dragged to their dorm. "What are you guys doing?"
"We're going to give you a history of Saint Valentine's Day and why it is such a great holiday." James explained.
Remus snorted. "What could you possibly know about the day? You don't care about its history. You care about the girls and candy, nothing else."
James pushed Remus onto his bed and he and Sirius started pacing in front of him, throwing out facts about Valentine's Day. Their facts were merely what they were told as little kids and about their experience on Valentine's Day.
By the time the two were done with their stories and facts, Remus was ready to kill them. They forced him to seat through three hours of boring facts and stories. After he killed them, Remus was thinking of killing himself so he could forget all these boring stories and facts.
"I'm going to bed now." Remus said. He needed to get away from these stories.
"Okie-dokey." James replied, happily. "See you in the morning."
Remus groaned and climbed into his bed.
"WAKEY, WAKEY REMY!" Two excited voices yelled.
"Go away!" Remus said, pulling his blanket over his head.
"No, no, Remus. It's Valentine's Day and we have classes in an hour. Time to get up." Sirius voice said.
Remus mumbled something and buried himself in his blanket and pillow. "Stupid morning people."
James sighed and looked at Sirius. "The joys of waking up Remy."
"Let's just give him chocolate." Sirius replied. He opened Remus's nightstand and pulled a chocolate frog out of his hidden stash. He pulled the blanket off of Remus. "Want some chocolate, Remy?"
Remus turned over on his bed to see a chocolate frog hanging above his face. He grabbed the frog and ate it. "Thanks." He said, before rolling back into his pillow.
Sirius laughed and grabbed the back of Remus's shirt. He pulled him off the bed. "Get dressed, Remus. I want to go to breakfast. Peter left without us."
"Why?" Remus asked, rubbing his eyes.
"He got bored of waiting for you after fifteen minutes. You wouldn't wake up." James explained.
Remus grabbed his school uniform and climbed back onto his bed, pulling the curtains closed around his bed.
"Why do you think he always changes in private?" James whispered to Sirius.
Sirius shrugged. "Don't know. Hiding something maybe."
James snorted. "Wouldn't shock me. He hides a lot of things."
When Remus finished getting dressed, he grabbed his bag and ran out of the dorm, pass his two friends. He really didn't want to deal with them today. He knew from the conversation the day before that they both loved Valentine's Day.
James and Sirius laughed and ran after their friend. They caught up with him just as he was leaving the common room. James threw an arm around his shoulder. "Where are you going, mate? You left us up in the dorm alone. I guess you forgot we were there, right?"
Remus groaned. "I wish you were still there."
"What was that, Remy? I didn't hear you." Sirius smirked at his friend.
"Nothing."
"Okay. Anyway, it's Valentine's Day. I can't wait to see what the ladies got me." Sirius replied, throwing his arm around Remus's shoulders too.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Egotistic. Don't get why the girls like you so much."
Sirius smiled. "Don't worry, mate. There are many girls who like you to."
"Not what I meant." Remus said, sighing.
James and Sirius guided their friend to the Great Hall, smirking. Remus looked at them scared. "What did you two idiots do?"
"Remus! How dare you suggest we did anything?" Sirius asked, appalled.
James shook his head, frowning. "When have we ever done anything, Remus?"
Remus raised a brow. "Do you really want me to answer?"
Peter waved his friends over when the three got to the Great Hall. He was grinning at them. "Took you guys long enough."
"Remy was being difficult." James said, shaking his head amused.
Peter shrugged. "Guess it doesn't matter. It gave me time."
Remus, who was staring at his plate, looked at Peter with narrowed eyes. "Time for what? What are you guys planning?"
Peter smirked. "A little surprise."
"I'm out of here." Remus jumped out of his seat to leave. He barely took two steps before he heard a blast behind him. Against his better judgment, Remus turned around to see what was going on and instantly regretted it.
Valentine fireworks were going off. Red and pink hearts filled the air. The word love was being repetitive spelled in the air. What really freaked Remus out was that his friends were smirking at him so that meant something more was going to happen to him and he didn't want to be here when it happened.
Remus went to move to leave, but found that he couldn't move his legs. He glared at Sirius to see him pointed his wand at him. "Sirius let me go, now."
Sirius smirked and shook his head no. He pointed at the fireworks, so Remus looked up to see them ending their show in the air and coming towards him. His eyes widened and he was engulfed by the fireworks.
"He's going to kill us." Peter said, smiling brightly.
A second later the fireworks turned onto James, Sirius, and Peter. Their eyes widened as they were engulfed by the fireworks. Remus stood smirking at his friends, perfectly fine.
When his friends reemerged from the fireworks, they all had pink hair and had pink clouds floating above them with pink and red sparkles raining on them.
Remus crossed his arms and raised a brow. "Seems your plan backfired."
"Remus!" James yelled. "How did you do that?"
Remus smirked. "It's not hard."
The hall burst out laughing at the three friends. "Nice one, Remus!" Lily yelled at him.
Remus smiled at her, completely forgetting about her betrayal the night before. "Thanks Lils."
"This isn't over, Rem!" James screamed as he stomped out of the hall with Sirius and Peter. "Just you wait. We will get you back one of these times."
"That was fun!" Remus said, sitting next to Lily.
Lily smiled at him. "I don't get it. They can pull pranks on everyone, but whenever their target is you, the prank backfires. How do you do it?"
"Lily, you forget. I share a dorm with them and I used to be a prankster when I was younger. And my dad…used to always pull pranks on me and my mom." Remus took a few breaths to calm the tears filing up in his eyes. Lily put a comforting arm around him. "I know all the signs of someone about to pull a prank and who the target is going to be. They need to learn to be more sneaky if they are going to target me."
Bilius laughed as he came over. "You know those three aren't going to rest until they get revenge against you."
"I think it's more of the Oompa Loompa prank they want revenge for." Remus replied, smirking.
"They haven't gotten revenge for that prank yet?" Bilius asked.
"Nope. And they never will." Remus answered. He grabbed his bag and stood up. "I have to get to class. See ya!"
In the corridor, Remus was approached by a shy Ravenclaw girl in his year. She had long, curly brown hair and blue eyes. "Hello Remus."
"Hi Lola. Want to walk to class together?" Remus asked, kindly. They had their first class together.
Lola smiled. "Sure."
"So, what can I do for you?" Remus asked, smiling.
"Well, I just wanted to give you something." Lola said, pulling out a small wrapped gift.
Remus's smile faltered slightly. One of the reasons he hated Valentine's Day. Hurting girls' feeling. Not wanting to be mean, Remus took the gift from her. "Thanks Lola." He opened the gift to find chocolate and a card. "Chocolate! You're the best." He gave her a quick hug.
Lola chuckled and blushed heavily. "I heard you like chocolate. I didn't know you liked it that much."
"I love chocolate." Remus said.
The two kids entered the classroom and went their separate ways. Remus went to sit with his friends, who were glaring at him. "I see you still have pink hair and sparkles raining on you. How long until it goes away?"
"Twenty-four hours." Sirius growled.
Remus saw Sirius and James had a pile of cards, chocolate, and gifts piled in front of them. "I see it doesn't stop the girls from giving you gifts."
"What were you doing with Lola?" Sirius asked, ignoring what Remus said.
"She was giving me a gift." Remus answered bitterly.
Sirius raised a brow at Remus's tone. "How is that bad? She's really hot. You should be happy that she gave you a gift."
Remus glared at him. Sirius wouldn't understand. No one could. Being a werewolf, Remus knew he could never have a relationship with anyone. He would just end up hurting them in the end. The second reason Remus hated Valentine's Day. He could never have a relationship with anyone. No one wants to date a werewolf. Valentine's Day just reminded him of that when he saw all the happy couples.
"What did she give you?" James asked.
"Chocolate." Remus replied.
James smiled. "That's nice of her."
"Good morning class and Happy Valentine's Day." Professor Rana greeted when she came into the class. She smiled at them all. "I hope you are all having a good Valentine's Day so far."
Professor Rana looked at each student. Her eyes stopped on James, Sirius, and Peter. "Can you three do something about the clouds? You're getting sparkles all over my floor."
"We have the clouds for twenty-four hours, Professor." James said, glaring at the smirking Remus. "Just you wait, Remus. You won't be smirking for long."
"We'll see about that, Jamie." Remus replied, eyes sparkling with amusement.
James's eye twitched. "Don't call me that."
"Why not, Jamie? Don't you like the name?" Remus asked.
"Remus." James growled through clenched teeth.
Remus smiled innocently. "Yes Jamie? What can I do for you?"
Sirius looked between his two friends. "Remus, I think James is going to kill you if you don't stop, but I on the other hand, love the name."
James turned his glare to Sirius. "Don't even start with it."
"But Jamie, it's such a nice name." Sirius said.
"I hate you guys." James said, burying his head in his arms.
Professor Rana laughed. "Enough you three. It's time for class."
"Yes ma'am." The three boys said. Remus turned back around to face the front of the class.
Peter, Sirius, and James pulled out their enchanted parchments they got from Auva.
Do you have any idea of how to get Remus back?- PP
I'm working on a plan right now.- SB
What do you have so far?- JP
Chocolate, a tutu, bunnies, perfume.- SB
Whatever you are planning sounds good.- JB
I'll tell you guys tonight.- SB
Remus chuckled and shook his head. His friends were idiots. He put his enchanted parchment away and started to take notes.
After class, Remus left with his friends, but stayed a few feet away from them so he wouldn't get sparkles on him. He smiled at his friends. "You guys look so glittery."
"You're pushing it, Remus." Sirius said, eye twitching.
Remus laughed. "I'm pushing it? You guys are the ones who tried to do this to me. So, tell me, when did you guys plan this?"
"Last night after we told you all our wonderful stories about Valentine's Day," James replied. "You went to bed and we thought we should make a plan to make this day even more special for you."
"You guys do know that I was a prankster when I was younger. I know the signs of someone going to pull a prank. You can't prank me." Remus said, smirking at his friends.
Sirius glowered at him. "That's going to be your downfall."
Remus rolled his eyes. He looked at some Slytherins, recognizing one of them as Severus, as they passed them going in the opposite direction. "Instead of pranking me, how about a Code 34?"
James's eyes lit up and he stopped walking. He tackled Remus to ground as he hugged him tightly. "You have a prank idea?"
"What's a Code 34 again?" Peter asked.
"It's new prank idea against the Slytherins." Sirius whispered, after making sure no one was around them to overhear them.
"James?" A quiet female voice asked, nervously.
James looked up from hugging Remus to see a second year girl from Hufflepuff, smiling shyly at him. Remus tipped his head back to look at her and blushed. "Hi Rava." Remus said, closing his eyes.
Rava frowned. "Is something wrong, Remus? You're all red in the face."
Remus shook his head and kept his eyes closed. James laughed when he figured out why Remus had his eyes closed. "Don't worry about him. What did you need me for?"
"Well, I wanted to talk to Remus, but I saw you had him pinned to the ground. Can you let him up, please?" Rava asked.
James grinned. "Sure."
Remus brushed all the sparkles off himself as he stood up, still blushing. "So, what did you need Rava?"
Rava blushed this time. She pulled out a pink card that had a heart on it. "Happy Valentine's Day Remus."
Remus smiled slightly and took the card. "Thanks Rava."
Rava nodded her head and smiled before running away.
Remus heard snickering behind him and turned to see his friends grinning at him. "Awww. Does our little Remus have a crush?"
"So, what color are her panties?" James asked, grinning.
"Shut up." Remus growled, blushing heavily. He stomped away from his friends
"Awww. Come on, Remy. I was just joking." James smirked and ran to catch up with his friend, only to slip on all the sparkles on the ground and fall on his face. Remus looked back when he heard the thud and raced back to his friend.
Sirius and Peter snickered. "You okay, Jamie?"
Remus pulled James up to see his face bleeding and his glasses broken. "Nice James, nice." Remus picked up the broken pieces off the ground and helped James stand up. "Sirius, tell Professor Flitwick that I took James too the Hospital Wing."
"Sure thing, mate." Sirius said. "Then when you guys get to class, you have to tell us your Code 34."
"Whatever." Remus replied, pulling James to the Hospital Wing.
Madam Pomfrey looked up when the two boys came into the Hospital Wing. She sighed and motioned to a bed for James to sit down. "What happened this time?"
"James fell on his face and broke his glasses. The glasses cut his skin. I can't fix his glasses because I think there is some glass in his cuts." Remus explained.
Madam Pomfrey nodded her head and started to work on getting the glass out of James's cuts. After she got all the glass out, she went to get him a potion to heal the cuts. While she was doing that, Remus repaired James's glasses and cleaned the blood off of it. He gave James his glasses, as Madam Pomfrey came back with the potion. After drinking the potion, James thanked her and pulled Remus out o the Hospital Wing.
"James, where are we going? We have Charms." Remus asked, frowning as James pulled him into a broom closet.
"I didn't slip on the sparkles." James growled, sitting on the floor.
Remus blinked and tilted his head to side confused. "You pulled me into a closet to tell me that? We have to get to class, James."
"Remus, sit down and listen to me." James said, pulling his friend into a sitting position.
"You're getting sparkles on me." Remus growled, pushing James away from him. "What's so important that you had to drag me into a closet? I'm sure it could have waited until after class."
James shook his head. "Someone cast a trip jinx on me. That's why I fall. I bet it was Snivellus. He was one of those Slytherins that passed us before Rava showed up. I bet he was waiting to trip me. We need to get revenge against him."
"We? Don't you mean you and Sirius? I don't want involved in this." Remus said. "Pranks I can handle. But this is bullying, James. Leave me out of the feud."
James glared at him. "It isn't bullying. He started it. We're going to get him back. You're a Marauder, Remus. He started the war. We're going to win the war."
Remus groaned and banged his head against the wall. "I don't see why you got to pick on Snape."
James tackled Remus to the ground. "Don't call him his name. We shall never call that greasy git by his name. And if you keep calling him his name, I'm making it a Marauder Rule that we can't call him by his name."
"James, you're just mad because Snape got the better of you this time." Remus said, pushing James off of him. "And stop tackling me."
"Stop calling Snivellus his name." James growled.
Remus glared at James. "Stop being immature and calling him that ridiculous nickname. It's no wonder he jinxed you."
"Are you taking his side?" James growled.
Remus held his hands up in defense. "No. I'm just saying that if you continue to call him that, Snape's going to really hate you. As it is, he already doesn't like you for being Gryffindor. The nickname makes it worse. It's probably why you got jinxed."
"Sounds to me like you're taking Snivellus's side in this matter." James growled.
"I'm not taking his side. I'm just saying maybe we should leave Snape alone." Remus replied, frowning.
James's eye brow twitched. "That's it." He pulled out his enchanted parchment.
Remus rolled his eyes and stood up. "I'm going to class. We'll talk about this at lunch."
"Remus, wait." James said, pulling his wand out.
The young werewolf sighed and turned around to face James to find a wand being pointed at him. "Petrificus Totalus."
Limbs snapping together, Remus fall over. James nodded his head happily and put his wand away. "We're talking about this now. Just need to get Sirius and Peter here."
Sirius, Peter, sneak out of class and come to the broom closet on the fourth floor near the Hospital Wing.- JP
Why? What's going on?- PP
Code 44.- JP
We're on our way.- SB
James put his parchment away and took the charm off of Remus. "Sirius and Peter are on their way."
Remus rolled his eyes and rubbed his head. "Whatever it is you're doing, I want no part. I'm not joining you in this stupid war game against Snape."
James's grabbed Remus's arm before he could run out of the closet. "Remus, you're a Marauder. Marauders stick together and helped each other. And stop calling Snivellus by his name."
A knock sounded on the door. "James, you in there?"
"Yeah, come in." James said.
The closet door opened and Sirius and Peter came in. "What's going on?" Sirius asked, closing the door and sitting down.
"How'd you get out of class?" Remus asked, pulling his arm free.
"Ten dung bombs. The classroom stinks now." Peter answered, wrinkling his nose.
James grinned. "Nice. Anyway, when I fell earlier it was cause of a trick jinx from Snivellus."
"You don't know that it was him." Remus snapped. "You're just assuming."
"I did see him pass us by." Sirius said. "So, you called us out of class because Snivellus tripped you?"
"Not just that. Remus, here, is siding with him and calling Snivellus by his name." James said, seriously.
Sirius's eyes flashed to Remus. "YOU ARE WHAT?" He screamed tackling Remus to the ground and pinning him them. "Don't ever say his name. He's evil! And how dare you side with him over your friend?"
"I'm not siding with him. I was just saying that you don't know if it was Sna….." Remus stopped talking as a hand was slammed over his mouth, making him bite his tongue.
"That's a bad name. Don't say it." Sirius scolded. He turned an angry glare to James. "This is serious. You should have called us out of class sooner."
Remus rolled his eyes and squirmed under Sirius's weight, trying to get free. "Siri, get off me."
"Marauders, we must get Snivellus back and get Remus to stop saying his name." Sirius declared.
"Aye!" James and Peter agreed, pumping fists in the air.
Remus groaned. "How about this? We use my Code 34 as your revenge?"
"That's good for now. What's your Code 34?" James asked, motioning to Sirius to let Remus up.
"We have to wait until tomorrow night until we can start work on it." Remus started, looking at the pink clouds floating above his friends' heads and their pink hair.
"Why?" Sirius whined.
"The sparkles would give us away." Remus answered.
James blinked and looked at his friend confused. "What are we going to do?"
Remus smirked. "We're going to follow a Slytherin to their common room so we can find it."
Sirius smirked. "I like where this is going."
Remus explained his plan to his friends. When he was finished, they were all smirking.
"Brilliant." James breathed out. "This is why you're a Marauder."
"So, we're going to pull the prank tomorrow night. We need to find their common room then. Remus, you can do that today." Sirius said.
"Why do I have to?" Remus asked.
Sirius motioned to the pink clouds. "We have clouds and sparkles. We can't do it without being spotted. James can let you borrow his invisibility cloak and you can follow some Slytherins around."
"We can do it tomorrow." Remus said.
"We can, but it's best to try to find it today since we might not be able to find it tomorrow." Sirius replied.
Remus sighed. He looked around at the sparkles that were starting to fill the closet. "Fine, but let's get out of this closet now. I don't like being buried in sparkles."
James glared. "Try getting rained on by the sparkles."
"I'd rather not." Remus said, standing up. "Great, now I'm covered in sparkles."
Remus walked over to the door with difficulty since his feet were completely buried in the sparkles. "Stupid sparkles." He grumbled as he threw the door open and fall out onto his face. He lost his balance as soon as his feet were free.
James, Sirius, and Peter tumbled out of the closet too and all of them fell on top of Remus, who groaned from the weight that landed on him. "Gerroff me. Can't breathe."
"Sorry Remy." Sirius said, as he rolled off the pile.
When he was free, Remus looked up to see a bunch of older students walking pass them, giving them strange looks. "Great. We missed the whole lesson." Remus grumbled, rubbing his ribs.
"That means it's lunch time. Let's go get the cloak so Remus can find the common room." Sirius said, dragging Remus away from the closet. "You're going to have to work fast, Remus. We're going to only be able to hold McGonagall off for so long."
Remus stared at him confused. "Where does McGonagall come into this?"
James slung an arm around Remus's shoulders. He shook his head slowly while smiling. "Remus, Remus, Remus. We missed Charms completely. Sirius and Peter threw dungbombs in the class and snuck out. Flitwick is going to tell Minnie, then she's going to come looking for us."
"The next seven years are going to be hell. Why am I friends with you three?" Remus grumbled to himself.
James tossed the cloak to Remus, who threw it over himself. He followed his friends down to the Great Hall where he waited for a group of Slytherins to follow. His friends sat down and were beginning to fill their plates with food when McGonagall came over to them, hands planted on her hips and glaring at the three of them.
"Messrs. Black, Potter, Pettigrew, what is this I hear about you and Mr. Lupin skipping class?" McGonagall asked, glaring at the three boys. "And where is Mr. Lupin?"
Remus kept his eyes on the Slytherin table, but stayed listening to McGonagall and his friends talk.
Everyone in the hall looked at McGonagall, but when saw who she was speaking to, they turned away and went back to their conversations. It was no new news to see the Marauders getting yelled at. At first it was entertaining with the cheeky responses from the Marauders, but now it was old news.
The Marauders (James and Sirius mostly) did not like that. They liked being the attention of the students. They had to get the students' attention back on them.
"Well, I don't know where Remus is. He could be anywhere, Minnie." Sirius replied.
"Yeah, he doesn't need us to hold his hand and be with him every minute of the day." James said, smiling brightly. "He's a big boy."
Remus rolled his eyes at his friends' antics.
"Why did you skip class?" McGonagall asked, ignoring the smartass replies.
"Well, Peter and I didn't actually skip. We were in class for about half an hour, ma'am, then we snuck out. James and Remus, on the other hand, never made it to class." Sirius said, looking at his professor with a straight face. "And as you can see, Remus isn't here. I think something must have happened to him. He could be in serious trouble! Maybe Snivellus has gotten to him. We must save him!"
Sirius jumped out of his seat and ran out of the Great Hall, leaving a greatly confused Professor McGonagall staring after him.
Remus snickered as Sirius ran pass him and out of the Great Hall.
"We are off to save Remus, the wonderful wizard of Hogwarts!" James sang, chasing after Sirius with Peter following.
McGonagall opened and closed her mouth a few times, trying to gain her wits back. After a minute, she shook her head and went back to the Head Table, silently deciding to deal with them later when she had all of them together. Remus would be able to keep them from running away.
At the Gryffindor table, the students were laughing. "That was new." Bilius said to his friend, Jake.
Jake was a fellow seventh year, but looked like a punk. He was a muggle-born wizard, who had long brown hair that he had tied in a ponytail and had one of his ears pierced with a dragon fang. His blue eyes were shining with mirth. "I've never seen them run away from a scolding teacher." Jake added, smirking. "Did you see McGonagall's face?"
"It was great. I can't believe they can get away with calling her Minnie." Bilius replied, shaking his head while smiling. "They're going to get it later."
Remus didn't hear anymore as a group of Slytherins stood up at that moment and left the Great Hall. Remus followed them to see them out of the Great Hall and into the Entrance Hall. They went down into the dungeons, so Remus decided to follow them, guessing they would be heading to the common room since there was still forty minutes left of lunch and Slytherins wouldn't be heading to class that early.
Remus followed the Slytherin deep into the dungeons. After ten minutes of walking, the group stopped in front of a brick walled. For a few seconds, Remus thought the group made a wrong turn. That would be his luck to follow a group of idiots, but that thought disappeared when one of the Slytherins said "pureblood" and Remus muttered "figures". The bricks moved and a passage opened up. The Slytherins disappeared into the passage and Remus took off back to the Great Hall.
When Remus was in the Entrance Hall, he made sure he was alone before pulling the cloak off. He stuffed the cloak in his bag and stood there clueless. He had no idea of where to go now. His friends took off and he didn't know where they were going.
Shrugging, Remus went into the Great Hall and paled at what he saw. He saw his three friends standing in front of a red, pink, and white McGonagall, who was yelling loudly at them. "I was only gone twenty minutes." He mumbled. "How could they have done this in twenty minutes? Where did they even get the paint?"
The Great Hall was covered in red, pink, and white paint, along with the students and teachers, who didn't look happy at all. Only a few students weren't covered in paint, and Remus bet those students were wishing they were covered in paint instead. Remus would have to guess that all those students were Slytherins. They were floating in the air and were only wearing diapers and had fake wings on, and were holding a bow and arrow.
"How did they even do that and what is with the paint?" Remus grumbled. He stalked over to his friends, who were standing at the front of the Great Hall in front of the teachers. "OI, Black, Potter, Pettigrew! How dare you leave me out of the fun?"
James, Sirius, and Peter turned around and grinned at Remus. "We'll be more considerate next time, Rems, but you seemed kind of busy at the time."
"So, care to tell me what is with the paint?" Remus asked, looking at the mess.
"Well, the ugly cupids here fired some arrows we gave them. The arrows exploded upon contact with the floor, ceiling, table, and people, which covered everyone in paint." Sirius explained, smiling.
"You know, you guys are probably going to have to clean this place up for your detention. And I'm guessing, from McGonagall's red face, that you just lost about fifty points each and got what, two or three weeks of detention." Remus replied, frowning.
Sirius's eyes widened. "NOOOO!"
Remus jumped in surprise from the yell. "What are you yelling about?"
James exchanged a fearful look with Sirius and Peter. "This is bad! We must fix this!"
Remus looked at his friends strangely, before turning to McGonagall. "What are they talking about?"
"No idea, but you Mr. Lupin, is also in trouble." McGonagall said.
"I had nothing to do with this." Remus replied, motioning to the Great Hall.
"That much is obvious. If you did, I would guess that they would not have been caught. But that is not what I'm referring to that. I am referring to you ditching Charms." McGonagall said.
"To be fair, that wasn't my idea. I got kidnapped after I took James to the Hospital Wing." Remus replied, looking at his friends fearfully, because they had their heads together and were talking quietly and quickly. "How about this fifteen points from me and a detention tonight? Okay, thanks." Remus didn't wait for a reply as he bolted from the Great Hall. Whatever his friends were planning, Remus wanted no part.
James looked up as he saw Remus turn around and run. "REMY-POO, GET BACK HERE!"
Remus blushed heavily at the name that James gave him. Everyone in the Great Hall burst out laughing.
"Honestly, I don't know why that boy puts up with you." McGonagall said, shaking her head.
"No time for chit-chat, Minnie. We have a Code 93!" Sirius replied, waving an impatient hand at McGonagall.
McGonagall blinked. She was so confused about Code 93, she didn't even think to reprimand him for calling her Minnie. "Code 93? What is that?"
"No time, Minnie. We must save Remus!" James said, running out of the Great Hall with Sirius and Peter. "OH REMY-POO, WHERE ARE YOU?"
The Great Hall burst into laughter again when they heard James yelling. "Poor Remus." Angel said, shaking her head.
"Those four are crazy." Shawn added, laughing.
"They make life at Hogwarts interesting, though." Bilius pointed out.
"That they do." Shawn replied.
Remus pulled the cloak over himself and walked to the kitchen for lunch. He didn't want his friends to spot him so he wore the cloak. He knew he couldn't avoid his friends forever, but hopefully he could avoid them long enough that they would forget whatever scheme they thought of and leave him alone.
After lunch, Remus had a free period. So, he spent this time roaming the castle under the cloak so no one would see and yell at him, especially his friends.
An hour later, Remus's free period ended and he had to return to class. Remus knew his life was over when he reached Greenhouse two and saw his friends beat him to class. All three of them wore evil smirks that were directed at him.
Remus began to sweat and looked around for a way to escape from his friends. He didn't find an escape route fast enough as his three friends came over to him and he was forcibly dragged away from Greenhouse two by his friends.
Sighing, Remus looked at Sirius, who was holding his right arm tightly, than at James, who was holding his left arm just as tight as Sirius. "What's going on, guys? We're supposed to be in Herbology right now."
"We're going to skip Herbology." Sirius explained.
Remus groaned. "Why? We already skipped Charms today. We're going to get into more trouble."
"That's the point." James replied.
"What?" Remus asked, confused. He looked between his friends, blinking.
James sighed and looked at Remus like he was stupid. "What happened when you came into the Great Hall after we pulled the prank?"
"I spoke with Minnie before getting the heck out of there." Remus answered, getting more confused by the minutes.
Sirius sighed. "It's about what you said. You knew what McGonagall punished us with and chose your own punishment for skipping Charms."
"You were basically acting like a Prefect." James continued.
"We can't have a friend acting like a Prefect." Peter finished.
Remus raised a brow. "I wasn't acting like a Prefect."
"Yes, you did. You knew what our punishments were. We have to fix this." Sirius said, pulling Remus and James down another corridor.
"Okay, I'll play along. If I was, as you say I was, acting like a Prefect, how do you plan to fix it?" Remus asked, pulling his arms free from Sirius and James. He crossed his arms and looked at them critically with a raised brow.
"That is exactly how a Prefect would look at us if we were doing something wrong." Sirius pointed an accusing finger at Remus, before turning to Peter and James. "It's worse than we thought it was. We have to work fast before the transformation into a Prefect is complete."
Remus shook his head. "First Library Disease, now this. Why do I have to deal with this stuff?"
"This Code 93 is really bad." James nodded his head, while rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"What's a Code 93?" Remus asked.
"Our dear friend, Remus J. Lupin, is starting to act like a Prefect." Sirius said, dramatically.
Remus started pacing in the corridor, while his friends leaned against the wall watching him. "So, you think I'm starting to act like a Prefect, which I'm not. I've just dealt with the punishments for the last five months so I know what they are. But you think I'm acting like a Prefect and you decide to fix it by dragging me away from class. You think skipping class will change a Prefect from being a Prefect. Skipping class will just anger a Prefect and he or she will punish you for dragging said Prefect out of class. But none of this really matters since I'm not acting like a Prefect nor will I ever be a Prefect."
Sirius turned to look disbelieving at James. "Not only is he acting like a Prefect, but he also acts likes a professor."
James nodded his head. "Professor Lupin mode. This mode isn't that bad. It might save us one day. Anyway, we must crush Prefect mode Remus. That is a bad mode."
"Can we just forget this for now?" Remus pleaded, looking up and down the corridor for teachers. "We have class and a prank to set up for tomorrow. We already got detention tonight that is going to put us back on planning the prank."
"So, let's use this time to plan the prank. Herbology is our last class today, so we have time until our detentions to plan the prank." James replied.
Remus raised a brow skeptically. "Oh, really? Minnie will come looking for us as soon as Sprout tells her that we ditched for a second time today. So, where do you suggest we plan the prank so Minnie won't find us?"
"Behind the mirror, of course, Remy-poo." Sirius smirked.
Remus growled. "Don't call me that, Siri-kinies."
Sirius's eyes widened and he growled. "Well, don't call me that. Jamie-kins was the one who started this."
"Don't call me that, Siri-kinies." James snarled.
Peter watched his three friends glaring at each other. He wanted to get out of there since it looked like they were ready to duel each other over the names. He stayed where he was though, since the three were his friends and they wouldn't purposely hurt him.
All three angry boys had their wands drawn. James had his pointed at Sirius. Sirius had his pointed Remus and Remus's was pointed at James. They started throwing spells at one another and dodging in the corridor. Their spells hit the suits of armors and walls. The suits of armor changed color, shrunk, started to grow hair, and lots of other things happened. The walls were being blown apart where the spells hit them.
Peter watched his friends duel uneasily. So far, Remus had blue skin and pink robes, Sirius's hair had fallen off and he had boils on his skin, and James had a green mustache and beard.
Suddenly, Remus stopped throwing spells and looked down the hallway. "Guys, we have to get out of here. There's someone coming."
Sirius and James stopped throwing spells at each other. They fell quiet to listen. "I don't see or hear anyone coming." Sirius replied, looking up and down the destroyed corridor.
"Just trust me." Remus said, pocketing his wand. "We have to leave now."
Peter, James, and Sirius, looked at each other and shrugged. Destroying the corridor would get them into a lot of trouble. They didn't want to be found there, so they ran down the stairs. Just as they reached the bottom of the stairs, they heard a soft meow.
"It's Mrs. Norris." James groaned.
"Or Minnie in her cat form." Remus said.
"Either way we have to get out of here." Sirius said. "Filch is not going to be happy."
"Probably the only good thing to come from this." James said, before he stopped running. "We're dead."
Remus stopped in front of James. "Why?"
"We skipped class and still have clouds of sparkles raining on us. They're going to know it was us who did that, plus look at us. I have a green mustache and beard. You're blue with pink robes and Sirius has no hair and is covered in boils." James replied.
"WHAT?" Sirius yelled, reaching up to touch his head. "What happened to my hair?"
"Stop being in love with your hair." Remus replied, looking behind James when his werewolf hearing picked up Filch's voice mumbling about "rotten kids." "Anyway, Filch is coming. We have to leave now. I want to plan out how we going to pull off our prank before we have to go see Minnie."
"Maybe we were wrong about the Code 93." Sirius whispered to James and Peter.
"Shut up." Remus hissed. He pulled the invisibility cloak from his bag.
"I forgot you had that." James said, as the boys pulled the cloak over themselves.
Remus kept listening to Filch, who was getting closer. "Lucky I didn't. Let's get moving before Filch gets here."
The four boys silently made their way to the mirror on the fourth floor. When they were safely in the hidden room, James pulled the cloak off them and put it in his bag, while Remus went around lighting the torches in the room.
"Can we fix me not having hair and the boils now?" Sirius asked.
"If you fix my skin and robes." Remus replied.
"Fine."
"What about me? I don't like having a green beard and mustache." James said.
The three boys fixed themselves.
The Marauders spent the next few hours working on their plan for how they were going to pull the prank off successfully.
After making sure everything was perfect and that nothing could go wrong, Remus put his parchment and ink away. "It looks like everything will go right. I don't see anything that could go wrong." He said. "So, we better make a reappearance in school."
"This is going to be fun." Sirius said.
A/N: Please review!
Marauders Codes:
Code 34: New Prank idea against the Slytherins
Code 44: Snivellus has hexed or pranked one of the Marauders
Code 93: Remus is starting to act like a Prefect