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The Marauders Year 1
Chapter 17: Driving People Insane
Remus got up from finishing breakfast just as his three friends stood up. They all sent him evil glares, so Remus sent one right back at them.
James led Sirius and Peter out of the Great Hall and to their first class, which was Defense Against the Dark Arts. He turned his head to ask Peter something, but stopped when he saw Remus round the corner with a smirk on his face.
Growling, James stopped and turned around completely. "What are you smirking at?"
"Am I not allowed to smile anymore?" Remus came to stop in front of the three.
"You did something." James said, looking around for anything suspicious.
"You are so paranoid." Remus replied as he shoved his hands in his pockets and walked passed his three friends. He stopped after walking a few feet and turned back around to grin at them. "By the way, I love your robes. They certainly stand out."
With that said Remus spun around and marched onward to his class.
The three boys paled and looked at their plain black robes. James looked at his sleeves and inside them. Peter was trying to look at the back of his robes without taking them off. Sirius took his robes off to look at them better.
"I don't see anything wrong with them." James said, fixing his sleeves. He looked at Sirius to see him looking very pale and spluttering with rage as he stared at the back of his robes. "What? Did you figure at what Remus did?"
Sirius turned the back of his robes to James and Peter. It was bedazzled with green and silver stones and said "I love Slytherins!"
James let out a low whistle. "Wow! That is low." He shook his head, before his eyes widened. He ripped his robe off and looked at the back of his. His was bedazzled with pink stones and said "I love Lily Evans!" James stared at it shocked. "I don't even like Evans. She's such a goody-two shoes."
"What about yours, Pete?" Sirius asked. The angry was clear in his voice.
Peter stared at his bedazzled robe. The stones were a light purple color. "I'm an idiot" was written in the center of his robes. "That's mean."
"Gentlemen, you know what this means?" James asked, staring at his friends.
Sirius nodded his head, while Peter looked confused.
James sighed. "A prank war, Pete. We're not going to take this sitting down."
Peter went from confused to worried. "But we've never been able to prank him successfully."
"That changes today," Sirius declared.
Peter groaned. "I don't think I'm going to survive today."
A bell sounded around the castle, making the boys groan. Not only were their robes ruined, but now they were late to Defense. Cursing Remus angrily, the boys pulled their robes back on and ran the rest of the way to their class.
James slammed the classroom door open, breathing heavily. Sirius and Peter came in behind him, rubbing their ribs and gasping for breath. Remus smirked at them from his seat, earning him glares from the three late boys.
"I DON'T LOVE SLYTHERINS!" Sirius yelled immediately as soon as he caught his breath.
The whole class looked at him strangely, except Remus who was snickering into his hand. "Keep telling yours that, Black. Just keep on living in your fantasy world." Remus replied.
Sirius made to lung at Remus, but James and Peter grabbed the back of his robes to keep him back. Sirius put up quite a struggle though. He wanted to make Remus pay for putting what he did on the back of his robe. No one dares to say he loves Slytherins. NO ONE!
"Sorry we are late, Professor. Someone distracted us." James sent an annoyed glare at Remus, as he continued to hold Sirius back.
"What did I do?" Remus asked innocently.
"You know what you did! Now fix it!" Sirius said angrily.
"Calm down, Black." Remus replied. "It's a simple counter-charm, but I'm not going to give it to you. You have to find it yourself."
Sirius growled at Remus as James and Peter dragged him to the other side of the room to sit far away from Remus. They didn't need Sirius tackling and pummeling Remus into a pulp in the middle of class in front of their teacher.
Professor Rana sighed. "Boys, the second you entered my class, the fight stops. I will not have fighting in my class."
James nodded his head at her before sitting next to Sirius in the back corner of the room with Peter. He turned to Sirius with a frown. "Will you relax? This is all part of the plan. You knew he was going to prank us. You don't see Peter or me freaking out, do you?"
Sirius sighed. "I know, but saying I love Slytherins is a really low blow. How could he do that?"
"How could you say his father hated him and wanted to die to get away from him the other day?" James retorted.
Sirius frowned and looked at his desk. He hated being reminded of that.
Peter looked up from his doodle. "It could be worse."
"How?" Sirius hissed.
Peter grinned. "He could have put 'I love Severus Snape' on it."
Sirius screamed and clawed at his ears, while James and Peter burst out laughing.
Professor's Rana's eyes snapped to the two boys laughing and the third that was on the ground, twitching. "You three, what is so funny and what is wrong with Mr. Black? You know I enjoy a good laugh, so please tell me."
James shook his head still laughing. "Sirius is just fine ma'am."
Rana sighed. "Then you'll be quiet so I can teach my class and get Mr. Black back in his chair."
Peter and James continued to shake with silent laughter, while Sirius got back in his chair and shot an annoyed glare at them. "How dare you say that to me? I'm going to have nightmares for weeks now."
"That scene was priceless when Peter said that. It'll be worth waking up to your screaming for a few weeks." James replied before looking at Remus, who was writing fast as he took notes. "Anyway, I say it's time for our revenge against Mr. Lupin. What do you say?"
Sirius's eyes lit up. "Oh, yes it is. I'll teach him not to mess with me."
"One good thing came from Remus putting 'I love Slytherins' on your cloak." Peter said nervously.
"And what is that?" Sirius growled, glaring at Peter.
Peter flinched away in fear and looked at the ground. "Um…well, you're really mad and even I could believe you guys are still fighting, even though I know you aren't fighting anymore."
James smiled. "He's right. This will work to our advantage."
"Maybe I am mad him," Sirius suggested.
"Not again," Peter groaned.
"Relax, even if I was mad at him, I wouldn't make it a big fight again. Having Remy hate us is a horrible feeling. I'm not going to end our friendship again." Sirius replied.
"Good, because I would pummel you if you made us lose his friendship again," James said.
"Potter! Black! Pettigrew!" Rana shouted as she stormed over to their table. "If I have to speak to you again, I will separate you three. Understand?"
"Yes ma'am." Three voices chorused.
Professor Rana stared at the three of them for a few minutes with narrowed eyes. She turned away mumbling about how she should just move them right now and not wait, but a quick look around the room told her why she didn't. She would have to move kids all around the class to get the three boys separated. Rana wouldn't punish the whole class because of three kids. She could move one of the boys because there was an empty seat, but she wanted to come out of this class sane. She refused to put one of them next to Remus when they were fighting.
When Professor Rana walked back to the front of the class, James, Sirius, and Peter put their heads back together to continue their conversation. Peter kept his eyes on Rana to keep watch for if she turns to look at them. Sirius watched Remus to make sure he wouldn't fire any more spells at them. He didn't think he would since they were in class and it was their turn to attack.
"So, what is our retaliation?" James asked quietly.
"It has to be really embarrassing." Sirius hissed, still angry about what Remus did to his robes.
James leaned back in his seat and cupped his hands behind his head to rest his head in them. He looked around the room as his mind worked on coming up with an idea.
"Rana is glaring at us." Peter whispered a few minutes later.
"Will you three pay attention?" Rana snapped. She never had a problem with these three before so she was a little confused and annoyed at them now. "What could be so im…"
Rana trailed off and stared at her three students with wide eyes and a smile tugging at her lips. Everyone else in the class looked at the three friends once before they started laughing.
Sirius, who took his eyes off Remus to look at Rana, looked back at Remus to see him smirking and sliding his wand back into his robe. Growling, Sirius turned back to James to tell him that Remus did something. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out as he stared at James.
James looked at him shocked. "What happened to your hair?"
"What do you mean what happened to my hair? What's wrong with it?" Sirius screeched. His hands went up to his head. His hair felt short to him. "IS MY HAIR SHORT?"
James nodded his head. "And bright orange."
Sirius whipped around to stare at Remus. He pointed an accusing finger at him. "YOU!"
"Yes me," Remus replied cheerfully. "I told you yesterday that I would cut it."
Peter looked at James to see he had….."PURPLE HAIR!
"What are you talking about, Pete? And by the way, your skin is blue." James swirled in his seat to look at Peter.
"Your hair is purple." Peter said, pointing a shaky finger out it.
James turned to Remus to glare at him angrily. "REMUS JOHN LUPIN, THIS MEANS WAR!"
Remus smirked back at him.
Rana groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose. "This is going to be a long day." She turned away from the Marauders and back to the class. She smiled weakly at them. "Since I want to stay sane and not deal with four angry boys who are out for each others' blood, I am ending the lesson here. Class dismissed."
The class cheered at being released an hour early. They packed up their belongings and ran out the classroom, grinning. The only one who wasn't grinning was Lily. She stayed back to glare at the Marauders who were still in the classroom. Remus was packing up his stuff, while the other three were standing in the back, shooting glares at Remus.
"And I suppose you find that funny." Lily snarled, gripping the strap of her bag tightly. She shot glares at the four boys. "You are making things hard for all the professors. Why can't you just behave?" She sent a glare at Remus. "And you, I thought you were better than Potter, Black, and Pettigrew. Apparently, I was wrong. You are just as bad as them with your pranks."
Remus frowned and turned to Lily. "Lily…"
Lily ignored him and turned back to the other three. "This is your fault. You just had to say his father actually hated him and that's why he saved Remus."
Remus stepped back at the mention of that part of their fight. He shot an upset glance at his friends before running out of the room.
Lily watched him go. She looked shocked at what she said. She looked at the other three to see if they would go to Remus, but they just stood there with impassive faces, not moving. James raised a brow and Sirius crossed his arms, uncaring. Figuring since it was her fault, Lily ran after Remus to apologize.
James stared at Lily shocked. He couldn't believe she would say that. She knew how sensitive that topic was to Remus. After a quick look at Sirius and Peter, he knew he couldn't move. They had to make it look like they were still mad at Remus. Remus would want to continue the prank after what Lily said. He would need the laughter it would bring. They couldn't run after him so they just stood staring at Lily indifferently.
When Lily was gone, Sirius turned to James and Peter, frowning. "I can't believe she mentioned that. Remus doesn't need a constant reminder of that."
Lily raced after Remus down the corridor. The young wizard was running through all the halls to get away from Lily. He knew she was following him and didn't want her to catch him. He was too upset to talk with her after her reminder of his father.
"Remus, stop please! I'm sorry!" Lily called after her friend as he turned another corner of the school. She had no idea where he was going, but was determined not to lose sight of him. They needed to talk now and fix this. She wasn't going to let their friendship end over something she said. She never wanted to hurt him.
Remus shook his head as tears started to fill up in his eyes. He turned down another corner as he heard Lily yell out to him. Remus slowed down some to catch his breath. As he slowed down, he felt someone run into his back, making him fell to the ground. "Ow." He said in a strained voice.
"Sorry," Lily's kind, gentle voice said. She pushed herself off of him and stood up. After offering him a hand up, Lily guided them back down the way they came to head to the library. "Remus, I'm really sorry about what I said in Defense. I didn't mean to say that. I was just annoyed that we got dismissed from class early. I'm really bad in Defense and needed all the time we have in the class."
Remus nodded his head at her, but didn't say anything. He didn't trust himself to speak. If he opened his mouth, he would either cry and collapse or he would yell at her for about what she said in class. The contrast reminders of the fight he and his friends had last week were not doing anything good for his mind.
Lily glanced at Remus when he didn't say anything. She saw that he was frowning and looked deep in thought. "Remus, please forgive me."
A quick glance at Lily told Remus that she was being sincere about what she was saying. Sighing, Remus shoved his hands in his pockets. "Lily, it's not that I'm mad. I'm just upset. I don't like being reminded of that fight from last week. I'm trying to forget about it."
"You should really make it up to them. They haven't been the same since the fight." Lily replied, pushing some of her hair out of her face. "I think some of the changes are good, but you being happy and being friends with them is better. They really want their friend back."
Remus didn't reply. He knew by the end of this day that the school would know they are friends again.
The two walked together the rest of the way to the library in silence. Lily turned to Remus when they stopped. "I'm going to go study. Do you want to join me?" Lily asked.
Remus shook his head. "No thanks. I think I'm going to go for a walk."
"You're not mad at me, are you?" Lily asked.
"No, Lils, I'm not mad. I just want some alone time." Remus replied. With a smile at Lily, Remus turned around and walked down the corridor deep in thought. He had to think of some more ideas to use against his friends. Something to go with their new looks. He knew they wouldn't change what he did to them already. It was part of their plan to keep everything they did to each other the same until after dinner that night. Of course, no one will know why they are doing that.
James, Sirius, and Peter walked outside to enjoy their hour of freedom before Charms in peace. They sat under the beech tree which they had claimed as theirs recently. It was a little chilly outside since it was still winter, but they cast warming charms on themselves to keep warm.
They were joking and laughing loudly when Sirius nudged James's shoulder and motioned to the entrance of the school with his head. James looked where Sirius was looking to see Remus coming outside, looking deep in thought.
James grinned at his friends. "What do you say to a little revenge for our lovely new looks?"
Sirius stood up immediately. "I'm in."
James stood up and brushed the snow off of himself. "I knew you would agree. So, what shall we do to him? You said it have to really embarrass him, right?"
"Yes,"' Sirius was smirking and looking in Remus's direction with his wand in his hand. "I'll teach him not to mess with me."
"Should we fear for Remus's safety?" Peter asked James quietly. He was looking at Sirius warily.
"I think we should be scared for Remus, but also be happy that we aren't his target." James looked at Sirius to see him whispering something before smiling brightly, and putting his wand away. He crossed his arms smugly. "Sirius, what did you do?"
Sirius nodded his head towards Remus.
Nervously, James looked at Remus. He sighed in relief to see that Sirius only put a flashy sign above Remus's head that said, 'I'm a fairy.'
"I didn't know that Remus is gay." Peter said behind James and Sirius.
"He isn't. That's the prank." Sirius replied. "That'll teach that prat."
"My turn," James said excitedly. He pulled his wand out and started walking towards Remus. "HEY REMUS!"
Remus, who was glaring at the sign above him, looked at James annoyed. "I am not a fairy!"
Sirius snorted. "Sure you aren't."
"He's trying to hide the fact that he loves Snivellus. That's why he's always tells us off about hexing him." James was frowning as he said this. "That's just disgusting, Remus."
Remus growled and pulled his wand out. "Please, as if I would love a greasy git like him."
"Look at that, Jamesie. He thinks he can take three of us on at once." Sirius mocked.
"Cool it, Sirius. This is a game. I think you are taking it much more serious than you should." James whispered before turning back to Remus. "We really do want to thank you for our new looks, Remus."
"You're welcome. I just knew you three idiots would love them." Remus snarled at them with a smirk tugging at his lips. This was a lot more fun than he thought it would be. He was finding it hard not to break down and laugh until he went hoarse.
James smirked. "We want to thank you properly."
Remus snorted. "You guys don't know what proper is."
"Do too," James replied childish, before reverting back to his calm, cool self. "Let me show you."
Without being given a second to think, Remus was hit by a spell. He was thrown back a few feet and landed with a 'thud' on the ground. His wand went flying out of his hand. Remus groaned as he hit the ground, then yelled in shock and pain when a person landed on top of him.
"Get off me," Remus growled. He lifted his head off the ground to see Sirius sitting on his chest, smirking down at Remus.
Sirius shook his head. He scooped some snow into his hand and smashed it into Remus's face. As soon as he did that, Sirius rolled off of Remus and went to pick up Remus's wand while he was distracted with the snow in his eyes and mouth.
After wiping the snow out of his eyes, Remus sat up to see his three friends going back inside. Rolling his eyes, Remus began looking for his wand, only to find that it was missing. Remus shoved his hands in his pockets to keep them warm as he stomped back to the castle. He had an idea of where he would find his wand.
"You're a fairy?" An amused voice asked him when he stomped into the Entrance Hall.
Remus stopped walking and turned to see Lily and her friends sitting on the Entrance Hall steps. He sighed and walked over to them. "No, Black did this as revenge and seeing as he took my wand I can't get rid of it. What are you doing here anyway, Lily? I thought you were going to the library."
"I just needed to get a book for an essay I need to write." Lily replied, smiling at Remus. She pulled her wand out and pointed it at Remus. "I'll get rid of that sign for you, okay? You don't want to hunt down Black, Potter, and Pettigrew with that sign above your head. You'll get a lot of mockery with it above you." After muttering the correct spell, Lily put her wand away as the sign disappeared.
Remus grinned at her. The Marauders agreed not to remove the spells themselves, but they didn't say anything about getting someone else to remove them. He wouldn't get into trouble since he didn't break any of the rules by having Lily remove the sign.
"By the way, if you're looking for Black he went in that direction. Potter and Pettigrew went into the Great Hall." Lily told him while she pointed up the Entrance Hall steps. "I believe I saw him twirling your wand in his hand and smirking."
"Thanks Lils." Remus began walking pass the group of girls when one of them reached out and grabbed his arm. Remus turned to her. "Yes?"
The girl smiled with laughter filling her eyes. "Your shirt is really nice."
Remus looked at her confused. "My shirt?"
"I'm guessing Potter did that if you don't know about it." Lily said, rolling her eyes.
Grimacing, Remus looked down at his shirt. He saw the word 'ASS' written in big red letters on his shirt. Groaning, Remus crossed his arms to cover it up. "That jerk. Just wait until I get my wand back. I'll teach him not mess with me." Remus declared as he stomped up the steps.
"This is going to be a very interesting day." Mali, one of Lily's friends, said.
Remus ran down the hall stopping every now and then when he saw a student or professor to see if they knew where Sirius went. Whenever he saw a professor, he would slow to a casual stroll so he wouldn't get yelled at. After fifteen minutes of running, Remus turned a corner and ran right into the person he was hunting down.
"Lupin!" Sirius growled as he picked himself up from the ground.
Remus stood up and dusted himself off. "Where is my wand, Black?"
Sirius smirked at him smugly. "Don't know what you're talking about."
The young werewolf was ready to pounce on and mangle his friend. He clenched his fists at his side. "Yes, you do. You stole my wand when it went flying out of my hand." Remus said this through clenched teeth. "Just give it back. You had no right to take my wand."
"Yes, I did." Sirius replied.
Remus snarled at him. "And what right gave you the permission to take my wand?"
"The one where I decided I didn't want to get hexed again." Sirius said.
"Give me my wand!" Remus nearly shouted this.
Before Sirius could reply, a door slammed opened to their left. An angry McGonagall stood in the doorway with her arms crossed. Behind her, a class of fifth year Gryffindors and Ravenclaws were watching what was going on curiously.
"What are you two doing out of class?" McGonagall started, raising a brow. She took note of Remus's shirt and Sirius's hair and robes.
"Professor Rana let us go an hour early." Remus explained to her before turning back to Sirius.
"I don't have it anymore." Sirius's smug voice said.
Remus's hand twitched. "Where is it?"
Sirius crossed his arms and smirked. "Not telling."
"Black," Remus said in a dangerous voice.
"That's Mr. Black!" McGonagall asked shocked. "What happened to your hair? And why are you two fighting?"
"Lupin here happened to my hair. He cut it off and made it orange." Sirius said angrily.
"Mr. Lupin, I'm…" McGonagall started as she turned to Remus.
"Professor, Black stole my wand after Potter did this to my shirt," Remus motioned to his shirt as he said this. "And now Black won't give me my wand back."
Sirius laughed rudely. "That's cause I don't have your wand anymore."
Remus's eye twitched. "WHERE IS IT?"
"Mr. Lupin, please don't scream." McGonagall scolded.
"But Professor…" Remus started to whine.
McGonagall held up a hand to stop him from going any farther. "Mr. Lupin, I understand that you are mad and want your wand back. Just be quiet for a few minutes." The young professor turned to Sirius. "Mr. Black, I understand that you are mad about what Remus did. But that does not excuse you to steal Mr. Lupin's wand. Return his wand immediately." She gave Sirius a steely glare.
Sirius grinned at her in a sadistic way. "James has it now, so I can't return it."
Remus's eye twitched.
"Where is Mr. Potter?" McGonagall asked in a calm, annoyed voice.
"Great Hall," Sirius replied in a bored tone.
McGonagall sighed before turning to her class. "I will be right back kids. I must deal with this. Just work on transfiguring your cup. I'll help you when I return."
"I can't believe they are still fighting." Shawn said as he turned back to his cup.
"Thought we already agreed that they are never going to be friends again?" Angel replied.
"I know, but their friendship was just so great. It's a shame that it had to end." Shawn said.
Remus and Sirius walked behind McGonagall as she led them to the Great Hall. They were having a glaring contest as they walked to keep their act up. Both of them had twitching mouths as they were trying really hard not burst out laughing right there.
Lily and her friends looked up from their conversation when McGonagall walked pass them with two of the Marauders trailing behind here, engaged in a glaring contest. They looked ready to strangle each other. As they were walking, they kept coming close to running into things since they weren't paying attention to where they were going.
"Mr. Potter!" McGonagall yelled when she entered the Great Hall with the two Marauders. She paused when she saw that his hair was purple. She shook her head bemused.
"Yes Professor?" James asked innocently, smirking at Remus's shirt.
"Return Mr. Lupin's wand to him." McGonagall ordered, pointing a finger at Remus, who turned his attention away from Sirius to look at James angrily.
James looked above Remus's head to see that the sign was gone. He glowered at Remus. "Sorry, Professor, but I will not give that prat his wand back."
"And why not?" Remus growled.
"Because you're a bloody prat who doesn't deserve to know magic," Sirius suggested scathingly
Even though he knew that Sirius was just pretending and didn't mean what he said, it really hurt Remus inside. Being a werewolf, Remus felt he didn't deserve to learn magic. Most werewolves can't do magic to begin with since no one would take them into their schools to teach them. Remus was lucky to be able to come to Hogwarts at all. Hearing his friend say he didn't deserve magic was a really low blow to him, but he couldn't say anything to him since his friend didn't know that he was a werewolf, which was the way he wanted it.
"Mr. Potter, return his wand now." McGonagall said angrily. "I don't have time for this. I have a class I need to ge…"
A bell rang loudly, cutting off McGonagall.
McGonagall sighed. "Potter return Lupin's wand now!"
James glanced at the furious McGonagall and threw Remus's wand at Remus, who caught it.
"Twenty points from each of you for everything you did today and you will each add another detention to your list of detentions." McGonagall said before turning around. "Now get to your next class."
Remus pocketed his wand and after sending an evil glare at his friends, marched out of the Great Hall with his nose in the air like a very pompous person.
"Pompous prat!" Sirius snarled loud enough for everyone who watched the scene to hear.
In Charms class, Remus sat next to Lily with two of her friends behind them and the other two in the desk next to them. Lily smiled at him, after giving his shirt a nasty shirt. "Why don't you fix that? It would be better than walking around with that on your shirt."
Remus shrugged. "Don't know what spell James used to do this so I can't fix it. I can't go change because I didn't have time since I had to spend my free time getting my wand back which took longer than it should have. Black and Potter are annoying idiots."
"I saw McGonagall coming out of the Great Hall after you got your wand back. She didn't look happy." Lily said, frowning. "Actually, I heard her mumbling about how she wants you guys to be friends again so she doesn't have to deal with your fighting. I think she would rather have to deal with you four at once as a group of friends than as those three idiots against you in a huge fight."
"What? Is it much worse with us as enemies than as friends?" Remus asked, raising a brow.
Mali chuckled behind Remus. "Much worse. Look at them now. They are glaring at you; probably hope you die with how evil the glare is."
"Too bad looks don't kill." Remus replied as he turned around to smile at Mali.
Remus turned his eyes to his friends to see them glaring murderous at them. Smiling brightly at them, he turned around as the bell chimed for the class to start. Even with his back turned, Remus could still feel his friends' glares burning into his back.
After class, Remus ran out of the class alone. When he entered the corridor, he went to the wall and leaned against it to wait for his friends to come out of the room. He waved to Lily and her friends as they passed him. Lily gave him a suspicious look but didn't pause to confront him about her suspicions.
When Remus saw his friends come out of the class, he smirked and pulled his wand out of his pocket. They all stopped when they saw Remus and pulled their wands out too.
"You really want to try it, Lupin?" Sirius asked icily.
Remus smirked and fired a spell at Sirius without giving Sirius a warning. Sirius fell to the ground and rubbed his face where he was hit.
James growled and fired a spell at Remus that made the young werewolf fall to his knee. While Remus was distracted, James kneeled next to Sirius to check on him. "What did that prat do?" James asked.
"I don't know." Peter said as he looked at Sirius who had his head buried in his arms.
"Sirius, get up." James ordered. He pulled Sirius's arms away from his face and pulled him to his feet only to drop Sirius in shock half-way to his feet. He stared at Sirius with a frown on his face. "This isn't good."
Sirius growled. "What's not good? And why did you drop me?"
Peter's eyes widened when he saw what was on Sirius's forehead. He slowly inched away from Sirius so he wasn't anywhere near him when he found out and attempted to murder Remus.
Remus pulled himself to his feet and dusted himself off. He looked at himself to see what James did. Immediately he saw that his hands were all scaly and blue. He touched his face to feel the scales there too. Remus shuddered at the touch. It felt really weird.
"Well.….,your forehead says in big red letters," James cast an uneasy look at Peter before looking back at Sirius and continuing. "The spell Remus used put," James cleared his throat nervously. 'I love Severus Snape' on your forehead."
Sirius stared at James blankly for a few seconds before he saw red. He turned to Remus, who was staring at his hands annoyed. His grip on his wand tightened as he marched over to Remus. "YOU!" Sirius bellowed as he hit Remus on the top of his head with his wand.
Remus looked at Sirius angrily. "What?"
"Look what you did to my forehead." Sirius snarled as he pointed to his forehead with his wand.
Remus stared at Sirius's forehead. "I didn't know you liked Snape. Then again, I should have known that you did. I mean, you do always pick on him. It's so obvious now that you like him."
Sirius's eye twitched. He threw his wand away and tackled Remus to the ground. His hands grabbed the front of Remus's robes and started to shake him violently. "I don't like that bloody git. He's a greasy haired prat and he's a Slytherin."
James grabbed Sirius's arms and pulled him off of Remus. "Sirius, no, if you kill him you will be expelled, then you'll have to go back to your family. Do you want that?"
Sirius growled, but let Remus go. "You're just lucky I don't want to go back to my parents."
Remus sighed in relief and sat up. His relief didn't last long as Sirius picked his wand back up and fired a spell at him before stalking away. A grey cloud appeared above him and it started to rain on him. Thunder and lightning happened every few minutes.
James and Peter walked away after seeing the result of Sirius's spell.
Remus picked his wand back up and fired a spell at Peter and James each before he lost sight of them. Peter's shoe laces tried together, making the young wizard trip and James's pants turned into a skirt.
When he felt a breeze around his legs, James looked down to see that he was now wearing a skirt. His eyes widened and his mouth was hanging open.
Peter looked up from falling on his face. He saw that James's pants were a skirt now. "Remus is taking this really seriously."
"Yes, he is. Guess that means we need to start taking this just as serious." James replied. He grinned evilly. "We need to find Sirius. I just had a great idea!"
With that, James and Peter ran down the stairs and to the Great Hall for lunch thinking that Sirius would be there, eating lunch.
Peter and James sat down in their regular seats in the Great Hall. Sirius nodded at them to show them that he knew they were there, but didn't look up from his meal. He was still angry at Remus about what was on his forehead and didn't want to say anything at the moment. The last time he spoke while he was angry, he really hurt Remus feelings. He felt that he might say something mean about Remus again.
"Sirius, I got an idea for our retaliation against Remus." James started quietly. He looked around to make sure no one was nearby to hear him. "But before I tell you that, how mad are you at Remus? I don't want you to do anything that could really ruin our friendship."
Sirius growled. "Look at what he put on my forehead. Do you know how many people snickered or mocked me on the way down here?"
James sighed. "Look, I'll break the rules just this once and remove it for you, okay? Remus did go a little far this time, but he had to make it seem like we were really fighting. He'll understand and won't care if I break the rules this one time."
"Thanks," Sirius replied.
James made sure there were no Prefects or teachers near them to yell at him for doing magic in the Great Hall before he pulled his wand out. He waved his wand as he said the counter-course. Instantly, the words disappeared from Sirius head. James nodded his head, satisfied, and put his wand away.
"Yes, I'm mad at Remus for doing that. I can't believe he would ever put that on me." Sirius growled. He looked at the Great Hall doors and saw a wet and annoyed Remus coming in. He smirked very satisfied. "You know, I should make him get shocked by the lightning too."
James frowned. "It won't hurt him, will it?"
"No, just give him an electric shock, although a little painful." Sirius replied.
"Sirius…" James started a little apprehensive.
Not listening to anything from James, Sirius pulled his wand out and pointed it at Remus and whispered a spell. As soon as he was finished, Sirius put his wand away and watched happily as Remus yelped in surprise and rubbed his head.
James sighed. "Sirius, was that necessary?"
Sirius raised a brow.
"Fine, go ahead and be that way, but now back to my idea to get revenge." James said.
"I'm listening." Sirius replied, but didn't look at James. He was watching Remus as he continued to get shocked every few minutes.
James raised a brow. "Are you listening to me?"
"Yeah," Sirius said.
James snorted. "Okay, sure, whatever you say. Here's my plan."
When James was finished telling the two his plan, he waited and stared at Sirius to see what his reaction would be. Throughout his explanation, Sirius's face was unchanging and still staring at Remus. Now that he was done, Sirius tore his eyes from Remus and stared at James. His face broke into a grin.
"That's a great idea, James. When should we pull it off?" Sirius asked.
"In a few minutes," James said. He glanced at the Head Table to see all the teachers there and smirked.
Sirius looked back at Remus and laughed. "Look at Remus."
James turned around to look down the table where Remus was sitting. His hair was messed up and sticking into the air with one of his eyes twitching from all the shocks he was getting. He looked like a mad scientist. Chuckling, James turned back around. "Very nice, Siri, very nice."
"Thank you, thank you." Sirius mocked bowed.
"Ready for my masterful revenge prank against little Remy," James asked.
Sirius smirked. "Of course I am."
James nodded his head and turned to Peter. "Peter, distract the teachers with the dungbombs."
Peter nodded his head.
"And we will hex Remy." Sirius smirked evilly.
Peter pulled the dungbombs out of his bag. He lit them and threw them all around the Great Hall and a few out the Head Table. This caused utter chaos when the dungbombs went off. Everyone was covering their faces and coughing at the horrible smell in the Great Hall. McGonagall stood up angrily at the Head Table and glared at everyone in the Great Hall.
While everyone was distracted with the smell and trying to figure out who threw the dungbombs, James and Sirius pulled out their wands and turned towards Remus. They each fired a different spell at Remus before putting their wands away and watching the results of their hexes.
The first thing that happened was that Remus's ear started to twitch as a result of the Twitchy Ears Hex. Next, Remus's skin broke out into boils from the Furnunculus hex. Remus screamed in surprise and jumped out of his seat.
Smirking at the perfect opportunity, Sirius pulled his wand back out and fired another spell at Remus which was the jelly-legs jinx. Instantly, Remus's legs began to wobble and he fell onto his face where he groaned and didn't bother trying to get up.
James shot a disapproving look at Sirius. "Why did you do that?"
"Got to make it look like I hate Remus, don't I?" Sirius asked smugly.
James rolled his eyes. He looked back at the teachers to see McGonagall marching towards them with a frown on her face. "Black, Potter, Pettigrew, I want you three in my office now. Ms. Evans, please escort Mr. Lupin to the Hospital Wing. Madam Pomfrey should have a potion to cure Mr. Lupin's boil problem."
"Of course, Professor." Lily sent a disapproving glare at James, Sirius, and Peter before she pulled Remus to his feet and practically dragged the young werewolf out of the Great Hall. She was grumbling the whole way to the Hospital Wing about immature prats.
When they reached the Hospital Wing and Remus was on one of the beds, Remus thanked Lily and told her she could head to Herbology without him. He said that he would meet her in class. Lily hesitantly left the Hospital Wing. She didn't want to leave him behind, but he insisted. He knew she wouldn't want to be late to class.
"I can't believe you three would do that. Mr. Lupin is your friend. Why would you do that him?" McGonagall asked angrily.
The three boys in front of her had the nerve to stay looking indifferently. Not one of them showed any remorse about what they did to Remus, on the outside at least. On the inside, each of them was feeling guilty. They knew they shouldn't be since Remus didn't care. This was, after all, his plan. He wanted them to have fun doing this.
"It's what he gets for being a big prat." Sirius said nonchalantly.
McGonagall huffed and looked James. "Mr. Potter, why are you wearing a skirt?"
James looked at his skirt and crossed his arms. "Lupin did this after Charms."
"And why have you not fixed it back. In fact, why haven't any of you fixed anything Mr. Lupin did to you?" McGonagall asked.
The boys just shrugged since they couldn't tell her the truth.
McGonagall stared at the boys in front of her. "I probably don't even want to know." She pinched the bridge of her nose. Why did these four boys have to be in her house? "To make this simple on all of us since I have a class to teach and you three have to get to your next class. Twenty points from each of you and another detention each and when you see Mr. Lupin next, please inform him that he has the same punishment."
"Yes ma'am." Three voices chorused.
McGonagall nodded her head and pointed at her office door to show that the boys were dismissed.
The three boys ran out of her office. They grinned at her class who was waiting for their teacher to come out of her office. James and Sirius waved at the confused class before bolting out of the class, dragging Peter behind them.
"I was wondering, how are we supposed to end this prank war?" Peter asked as the boys walked to their class.
"Remus said that he was going to end it with a final prank at dinner. I wonder what his prank is going to be." James said.
Remus made it to the Greenhouse just as his three friends reached it. He sent a glare in their direction.
"Hey Lupin!" Sirius yelled at him as Remus started to open the Greenhouse door.
"What?" Remus snapped.
"McGonagall told us to tell you that we have another detention added to our list of detentions." Sirius replied.
Remus groaned. He was actually trying to avoid getting detention. He may be involved in their detention competition, but he didn't want all these detentions. When this prank war was over, he was going to have to talk with his friends about taking it easy for a few weeks and not get any more detentions for a while. They already had about four weeks of detentions stocked up.
"Fine," Remus replied before walking into the Greenhouse.
At dinner that night, three of the Marauders shot a worried look at Remus, who was staring back at them with a calm, unconcerned expression. His eyes moved to the Slytherin table then back to his friends, who raised a brow. They each looked at the Slytherin table.
At the Slytherin table, all the Slytherins were frozen. None of them were moving. They just sat there, staring at the person who sat opposite them.
After a few minutes of nothing happening, the boys turned back to look at Remus confused. Remus smirked and pulled his wand out. He discreetly whispered a spell while he had his wand pointed at the Slytherin table.
Instantly, the Slytherins woke up from their frozen state and jumped to their feet. They all started to act all goofy. Some of them started singing and jumping around the Great Hall like little five year olds. Others were doing cart wheels around the hall or throwing food at other Slytherins. They were doing everything that wasn't the perfect pure-blooded way.
"What is making them do that?" Sirius asked, laughing.
"It has to be a potion." Peter said.
Sirius looked at him confused. "What potion could do this?
"Who did this?" McGonagall asked immediately. She was eyeing the three Marauders suspiciously.
The Marauders looked at her and frowned.
"Professor, I can honestly say, I had nothing to do with this. I don't even know what potion this is." Sirius said.
Slughorn stood up too. "I have to agree with Mr. Black there. The potion that did this isn't taught into fifth year. There's no way they could do this."
McGonagall didn't look convinced, but since she had no proof, she let it go.
The three Marauders looked at Remus who was laughing. He winked at them.
James and Sirius smirked. "This was Remus's doing." James whispered.
"Let's go talk to him." Sirius said.
Peter nodded his head in agreement.
The three boys got up and moved down the table to where Remus sat. They sat around him. James was next to Remus and Sirius and Peter were across from them.
"How did you do that?" Sirius asked quietly.
"A potion I nicked from Slughorn's storage room." Remus smirked.
"Nice." James said.
"When you said you had a final prank for dinner time, I thought you meant that you were going to prank us." Sirius said.
Remus laughed. "I could have, but I wanted to prank the Slytherins so it would look like the prank on the Slytherins brought us back together because of the big laugh it would bring."
James grinned. "I think you did a good job there." He looked at all the laughing faces as they watched the Slytherins.
"Now that we are back together, we're not going to let anything break us apart again, are we?" Sirius asked very seriously.
"No!" Sirius's friends chorused.
As happy as Remus was that his friends said that nothing would break them apart, he knew that they would abandon him eventually. He was a werewolf and no one stays friends with a dangerous creature like him. He didn't want his friends to find out, but Remus knew they would at some point. James and Sirius were two of the smartest students in their year, even if they didn't act like it. He wasn't sure when, but they would find out. Remus was going to cherish all the time he had with his friends before they discovered the truth about him.
A/N: Remus is not gay. Don't even think he is. I hate yaoi and do not write yaoi. I very rarely read yaoi and when I do it's for a laugh. I simply put he is gay in this as a joke. Don't take it seriously.
Same with Sirius. That should be self-explicitly. Sirius could never love Snape.
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