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"James, I swear, nothing happened between us! All we were doing was-"
"Shut it, Moony!" James barked before I could finish.
"Prongs, listen-"
"Don't take his side, Padfoot!" he belted out at poor Sirius as he rounded on me again.
" , out of the library if you are to be so loud. And do put away your wand or I shall have to take it from you." ,the librarian, Madam Pince spoke up within the shelves.
James muttered under his breath and grabbed me by the front of my robes, pointing his wand at my face.
"Want to see what a spell in Defence Against the Dark Arts does? I've not tried it yet.. let's see what it does, shall we?" James grinned while Sirius begged him to stop.
...
"James, I'm being very serious here!"
"Aren't you always Sirius?"
"Well, yes, but-"
"Then you shouldn't say more.."
"James.. better lower your wand, I've heard Madam Pince has 'magic senses' or something of the sort.."
"Oh, zip it! Let's see.. what was the spell again? Oh ya, Mucus ad Naus-"
"Mr. Potter! Don't you recall me telling you not to use a spell! And I had hoped you wouldn't force me to do this."
...
Madam Pince shot out a yellow light out the tip of her wand as James' wand flew out of his hand and into hers.
"Now, Mr. Potter, if I catch you attempting to harm Mr. Lupin again, I shall have to report you to the Head of your House. Which, as you very well know, is Professor McGonagall. You will do well to be on your best behavior. Now, as for your wand, it will be kept with me. Oh, and 10 points from Gryffindor!"
Madam Pince sent us on our way after forcing James to release me.
"Well, well, well! Look at who's walking out of the Library!" Peeves cackled at us from the ceiling, "Ooh! And wandless! Haha! We gonna have fun, aren't we?"
We all looked at each other before bolting off to the Grand Staircase to climb all the way up to the Seventh Floor when I fell into a portrait.
"Oh, sorry-"
"Oh no, you probably just want to use me as a shortcut to get to the Seventh Floor, don't you? Yes, you're quite the lot, aren't-"
"Look, sir, I'm sorry, but we all need to-"
"Yes, yes.. my password is 'Light Against Darkness', you may come in, if you wish to avoid that poltergeist." the portrait opened to reveal a passageway and I rushed in, Sirius and James shoving in behind me as the portrait closed.
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It was fairly light in the passage as I ventured forth after Moony. Another opening was ahead and we came through to the Seventh Floor landing, right by the Gryffindor portrait. The Fat Lady.
"Hello boys, password?"
"Quid Agis!"
"I'm fine, thank you.." the Fat Lady swung open for us to step through to the Gryffindor Common Room.
"Dormitory. Now." James demanded as we made our way up to the dormitory and found Pettigrew nibbling on some chocolate.
"Where have you been? I was looking everywhere for you!" he squeaked as he slid off his bed to join us.
"Nowhere. Moony, you have your parchment? And a quill?"
"Yes, right here in my bag.." Remus took out a piece of parchment and a quill out of his bag as we all sat in a circle on the floor.
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"Gents, we've made a huge discovery and we need to-"
"Discovery? W-what discovery did you discover?" Peter piped up again, looking at what James was writing down on the parchment.
"We found a secret passage, Wormtail. Anyway, so we need to make a map of where all the passageways of Hogwarts are. But only so we know where they all are!" James beamed as he ran his quill along the parchment, marking where we had just found our passageway, labeling floors and Common Rooms as he went.
"And we should make a name for ourselves, too.. 'cause we already have our own nicknames. Remus as Moony, Pettigrew as Wormtail, Sirius as Padfoot and myself as Prongs, so what should we call ourselves?"
"Y-you mean, I'm part of the group?"
"Well, I suppose, Wormtail, but you can't tell anybody about us! Got it?" James explained to Peter, whom was trembling of excitement as he nodded rapidly.
"Well, if anybody's interested, I have an idea of what we should call ourselves.." I began.
"Sure, let's hear it then!" James shrugged as he put the quill down and leaned back slightly on his elbows.
"Well, since we can all change ourselves into a creature of some sort, and a few of us.. not mentioning names.. enjoy taking from others.. How about we call ourselves 'The Marauders'?" James chuckled at my idea, while Sirius looked thoughtful.
"What does it mean? T-the Marauders?" trembled Peter.
"Well, to 'maraud' means to roam about to look for interesting things that we would fancy. And 'marauder' means a person or animal roaming for something worth taking. Make sense, Peter?" Peter nodded at my explanation.
"Well, who thinks it sounds like a good name? I'm in for it." James shrugged.
"Ya, I think it suits us.." Sirius nodded, impressed with my idea.
"M-me as well.." Peter smiled shakily.
"I came up with it, so I guess that's our group name?"
We all, except James, who raised the quill, took out our wands and aimed them at the ceiling.
"To, The Marauders!"
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