A/N: We don't own Bohemian Rhapsody. But the Marauders sound like the type to listen to Queen. Also:

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November 1

9 am

"Wake up, Padfoot!"

"Mmmhh," said Sirius drowsily.

"Pads, it's 9 'o'clock! We've got a mission!"

"Not…9…too…early…need sleep," mumbled Sirius.

"James and I are already ready, you're gonna miss breakfast, and I made chocolate chip pancakes."

"Food…?" Sirius opened his eyes and blinked. "Moony?"

"Get up!" Remus Lupin was standing above him, fully ready in dress robes and wielding a bucket of water.

"AAAAARGH! Moony, were you going to dump that on me?" said Sirius indignantly.

"Well…Prongs suggested it as a last resort."

"Last resort?" Sirius sat up. Remus was holding a bag of dungbombs, Dr. Filibuster's Wet-Start fireworks, dog toys, and demon rubber ducks.

"Okay, okay, I'm coming, I'm coming," said Sirius hastily.

"Good," said Remus. "Now get a move on before we finish all the pancakes." He shut the door and walked across to the kitchen table.

"Got him up, Prongsie," he said cheerfully.

"Good," said James distractedly, stuffing his face with pancakes.

Roughly five minutes later, Sirius ran out of his room. "I'm ready! I'm ready! Where're the pancakes?"

Remus and James looked at him, exchanged glances, and burst out laughing.

"What?"

"Sirius…" started Remus. His hair was wet (which he shook out like a dog), he was wearing mismatched socks, the buttons on his robes were all done up wrong, his waistcoat was somehow on backward (Remus honestly had no idea how that was even possible), his tie was crooked and the laces of his shoes were untied.

"Pads, go look in a mirror," said James, laughing.

Sirius turned to the mirror next to the door to his room. "Ohhhhh! So that's why my clothes were so abnormally tight today." He ducked into his room, and came out a minute later looking like he usually did again, casting a drying and warming charm non-verbally at his hair, which immediately resumed its usual good-looking condition.

"So…food?"

"Right," said James, pushing him a plate.

"TWO pancakes? That's it?" he howled. "Geminio!" The pancakes doubled, and he rolled them up and took a giant bite.

Pretty soon, he was done, and they quickly grabbed hands and Disapparated to Diagon Alley together, outside Gringotts.

Sirius walked up to the Head Goblin. "I would like to access the Lestrange-Black Vault, please."

"Mr. Black. Do you have your key?"

Sirius handed the key to the goblin.

"Gornuk!" said the Head Goblin, after examining the key. "Take this one to Vault 304!" He turned to Remus and James. "You two will have to stay here."

"But they're my brothers," said Sirius. Gornuk stared at them. "Well, er, so James's grandmother, Dorea Black was her great aunt - no, wait, she's my great aunt, oh well, anyways, she was Walburga Black's aunt through her uncle Pollux Black, and Walburga Black is my mum, so-"

Gornuk waved his hand. "Wizards. I have no time for your complex genealogical explanations. Go on, then." Gornuk led them to the cart. "In!"

They all exchanged relieved glances, and got in behind each other.

"HEY, LET'S SING SOMETHING!" screamed Sirius, as they hurtled downwards.

"WHAT?" yelled Remus.

"SING!" said James. "YEEEEAAAH!"

"I KNOW THIS MUGGLE SONG!" said Sirius. "DO YOU GUYS KNOW BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY?"

"YEAH!" said James.

"YES," screamed Remus over the wind.

"OKAY, GREAT!" said Sirius. "IS THIS THE REAL LIFE?" he started.

"IS THIS JUST FANTASY?" sang Remus.

"CAUGHT IN A LANDSLIDE," yelled James.

"NO ESCAPE FROM REALITY," they sang together. Gornuk sighed. Hopefully they'd stop soon.

He'd underestimated the Marauders.

"BOYS!" yelled Gornuk. Either they didn't hear him, or they didn't want to. At this point they were at:

"GALILEO!" said Sirius at a ridiculously high pitch.

"GALILEO!" yelled Remus and James.

"GALILEO!" Sirius said again.

"GALILEO!" they all said together.

"SILENCE!" said Gornuk. "OTHERWISE, I WILL THROW YOU OFF THE CART!"

They all fell silent after that.

"Here we are," said Gornuk, mopping his forehead. "Vault 304." If he had had any doubt that they were brothers before, that doubt had now disappeared off the face of the Earth entirely.

"Thanks, Gornuk," said Remus.

Gornuk grunted, looking perhaps a bit surprised. "Well, then, go in. Whoever the Lestranges have given permission to should be able to go inside without getting burnt and having everything you touch doubled."

"Well, then, go in, Padfoot," James shoved him in.

"Well," whispered Sirius to himself. "Moment of truth."

"What?" said Remus.

"Oh, nothing," he said.

Sirius strode in confidently. Unfortunately, he stumbled and crashed into a large pile of Galleons. "Whoops!"

James and Remus and Remus whirled around. Nothing happened.

Sirius grinned. "Alright! Look, boys, look! You remember how it looks, right?"

"Yeah, we do," Remus rolled his eyes. "Lumos Maxima!" The somewhat dark room was suddenly flooded with light.

"Oh, yeah," said James. "Thanks for that. "Hey! I see it! It's up there on that shelf!"

"Where?" asked Remus.

"I see it, too!" said Sirius pointing.

"So, how are we gonna get up there?" asked Remus.

James smirked. "I'm not a Quidditch star for nothing! There's a reason I carry this around with me everywhere," he said, pulling out a tiny broom from his pocket. "Engorgio!" He jumped on and flew up to the shelf on which the cup was standing, and reached out to grab it. "OWWWWW!" he yelled. "Pretend Gornuk didn't see that!" The cup burned white-hot, and he dropped it into the pile of gold below.

"James! Are you alright?" said Sirius.

"Yeah. Aguamenti!" He pointed his wand at his hand, and a stream of fresh, cool water flew at it. "That's better. Alright, Remus, which one is it?"

"It's the one in the middle; it should be at the bottom."

"WHERE?" yelled James.

Sirius attempted to climb up the pile of gold. "Wait, let me help. Remus?"

'Levicorpus', he thought, pointing Sirius towards the pile.

"REMUS, WHY?" yelled Sirius as he dangled from one ankle, hoisted in midair.

"Well, what other spell do you know?" said Remus. 'Liberacorpus!' he thought, and Sirius crashed down on the top of the pile.

Sirius dug through the increasing pile of goblets and emerged with the cup in his hand. "Here!"

"Great!" said Remus.

James helped Sirius onto the broom behind him and they flew down to the ground next to Remus.

"Well, one down!' said Sirius.

"Yeah," said Remus. "Four more to go," he said gloomily.

"Let's get this to Dumbledore. Lily can take this with her when she's going to meet Dumbeldore, Frank, Alice and Sni-Severus this afternoon." said James as they walked out of the vault where Gornuk was waiting with the cart. This time, for their own sake, they didn't sing at the top of their voices on the way out. They did not want to fall out of the cart.

However, once they were back at home and the cup had been safely locked in Sirius's old school trunk, they put Bohemian Rhapsody on, on their shared gramophone at the loudest possible volume. Harry giggled, and Lily just rolled her eyes as the Marauders did a dramatic 'invisible instrument' performance in the middle of Sirius's living room. Though, she had to admit, Sirius did sing quite well - both as an opera-singing dog and a rock-singing human.