NEW CHAPTER! No one told me if you want me to change Peter's role in the story (which is sleeping, eating, or struggling to keep up and occasionally babbling about something stupid, or weird, or both)

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CHAPTER 15

"Mr Potter, Mr Black, I can't believe you!" Professor McGonagall is pacing in front of the two Gryffindors, who is -unsurprisingly- not listening to her, "School hasn't even started yet and you already in trouble!"

"We're sorry, Professor McGonagall, but they are beating up the first year just because he said he wants to be in Gryffindor!" James defended,

"Yeah! And we stopped once Evans told us to, but they tackled us as soon as we stood up!"

Professor McGonagall's expression softened a little, "Still, that's no excuse to start breaking rules before school even starts, detention and 50 points from Gryffindor," And she dismissed them so they can watch the sorting,

"That's not fair, I bet they aren't even in trouble with Slughorn!" Sirius shouted loudly as they head down the halls to see the sorting ceremony of the first years,

"At least it's only 50, last time we got 50 each! And all four of us were involved in some way,"

"I suppose that it's good that Peter is asleep and Remus didn't get dragged into it then, McGonagall thinks that we're corrupting them,"

"We probably are corrupting Peter, but not Remus, he's too dignified to allow us to corrupt him,"

"True,"

The sorting ceremony was over quickly, the first year who was picked on on the train got sorted into Hufflepuff, and Dumbledore said a few random words, which didn't make sense to anyone. Then there's the scramble for people to find the Prefect for the password so they can get to the dorm first and soon everyone is asleep, except for 3 people.

"First day of school is always the easiest, they expect us to be so tired that we wouldn't be able to do anything,"

"Yeah, but the marauders never rest, and the first day is the easiest day to bribe the paintings or put up enchantments because no one is on the lookout."

"Remind me again why we need to bribe the paintings?" Remus asked with a yawn,

"Because paintings can confuse anyone who is trying to chase us, and people tend to ask paintings where people are," James replied,

"Well, you two go ahead, I'm going to bed,"

"No, you're coming with us,"

"Why?" Remus clearly knows that it's a useless argument, but felt the need to pursue it, "there's not going to be enough room under the invisibility cloak anyway, we all grew taller,"

"Yeah, but I thought that you can cast your disillusion spell on Sirius and yourself and I can wear the cloak,"

"Fine, come over here,"

"Come on, I really need it,"

"Go on your own,"

"I can't, what if I got caught?"

"You'll be in trouble, but if we both get caught, we'll both be in trouble,"

"Please?"

"Ugh, Fine, but you owe me,"

Lily and Alice walked down the spiral staircase and found the common room empty, but it's not, three invisible figures stood frozen in front of the portrait hole, looking over their shoulders at the two girls. Then they scrambled as quietly as they can to get out of the way of the girls, who are heading out the portrait hole,

"What is Lily doing outside?" James thought to himself, when they opened the portrait and climbed out, James extended a hand outside of the cloak, and clearly indicated that he wants to follow them, the other two nodded, but James cannot see, so he assumed that they nodded anyway.

They climbed out the portrait hole quietly and followed the two girls down the hall, James pulled out the half-finished Marauder's map and studied the people patrolling the corridors, Mrs Norris is upstairs, but they still haven't figured out where Filch is, he's either in a secret passageway that's not on the map yet or he's undetected, which happens a lot, they plan on perfecting the map by Christmas.

James continued walking and glanced down at the map to see Filch right around the corner! He did the first thing he can thought of, he threw off his cloak and grabbed Lily by the collar and dragged her back, his other hand pressing on Lily's mouth to prevent her from screaming.

"Wha-" Lily started sputtering but James put a finger to his lips and covered Lily's mouth again, then James dragged her and Alice behind an armor and they hear Filch muttering as he walked by them,

"Peeves again...We'll get them..."

James kept his hand on Lily's mouth until he's sure Filch is out of earshot,

"Potter! What are you doing here?" Lily said immediately after James removed his hand, "Are you following me?"

"No, well, kind of," James explained, "We were going to bribe the portraits on the forth floor, but then we saw you and then decided to find out why you are out of bed on the first day of school,"

"We?" Lily asked with an accusing voice,

"Oh, Remus and Sirius are here too, come out guys,"

They hear a slight rustle and Sirius appeared out of thin air, followed by Remus,

"How- oh, disillusion spell?"

"Bingo,"

"You can go to the forth floor now, we don't need you here,"

"Oh yeah?" James leaned against the wall in a careless manner, "If it's not for me, you'll be sitting in Filch's office listening to him ranting on about chains and hanging you by the wrist,"

Lily visibly paled, "What?"

"Apparently that's how they used to punish students, but I think it was ruled out when Dumbledore became headmaster,"

"Fine, thank you for saving me detention, but you can go to the forth floor all you want,"

"Why are you out of bed?"

"That's none of your business," Lily said hotly,

James raised his eyebrows,

"I left something on the astronomy tower last year, I wanted to go get it,"

"It's locked, and Alohoroma doesn't work, no point in trying,"

"How do you know?"

"I just know,"

Lily narrowed her eyes suspiciously but gave up and started heading back to the Gryffindor dorms,

"Well, bye then," Lily said, "as a favor for saving me, I won't tell anyone that you're out of bed,"

"I won't mind if you tell, people won't find it weird at all,"

Lily didn't say anything but stalk up the hallway with Alice in tow.

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