Year 1: chapter 6 - First Prank

Previously:

Remus raised an eyebrow at that. "Guess I was never a Marauder then," he retorted, smirking at their looks. "I read willingly all the time at Hogwarts."

Sirius and James just both gaped at their smaller friend, not sure how to respond to that.

"That's what I thought," Remus said cheekily. "Now shut up and let me read." before the two could protest, Remus quickly started reading. "Year 1, chapter 6: First Prank."

James and Sirius grinned at this.

"Aw, I remember this!" Sirius cooed.

"Our first prank together," James sighed. "Such memories!"

"I haven't even started reading the chapter and you've already interrupted." Remus said irritably.

The other two Marauders pouted at this, earning an eye-roll from Remus and laughs from the students.

Kneeling next to Remus's bed, Sirius smiled and started poking his friend in the side. "Remus. Remus. Remus. Remus. Remus. Time to get up."

"Ugh, I hate it when you get me up like that." Remus groaned.

"There's nothing wrong with a good poking to get you up in the morning!" Sirius said enthusiastically.

Remus glared at him. "Yes." He deadpanned. "There is."

Remus grumbled and kicked Sirius away from his bed. "It's Saturday. I'm sleeping in." The young werewolf curled into a ball and tangled the blankets around himself. "Close the curtains, Siri."

"So you can call me Siri, but I can't call you Remy?" Sirius grumbled, crossing his arms.

"Exactly." Remus smirked. "I'm so glad you understand."

Sirius scoffed. "I don't understand your reasoning at all!"

"There is no reasoning, Sirius." James said with a smirk. "Remus's word is law!"

"I am so glad you two have finally learned that lesson." Remus deadpanned. "Now, shut up!"

"Yes sir!" The two black haired wizards mocked saluted.

"The stupid sun is hurting my eyes."

"But you're a werewolf, Professor!" Seamus exclaimed.

"Not a vampire!" Dean grinned.

Remus rolled his eyes, shaking his head as James and Sirius snickered.

Sirius sat up and rubbed his head where Remus kicked him.

"You deserved it." Remus smirked.

Sirius pouted at that, glaring at Remus. "Why do you hate me?"

"Why?" Remus seemed surprised. "Hmmm...for being you?"

"Oi, you can't stop that." Sirius pouted.

"No, but I still hope for the day I can." Remus said, sounding wistful.

"No. You have to get up."

"Why?" Remus asked upset.

"To work on your flying." James voice entered the conversation.

"Only my voice?" James questioned, amused.

"Yep," Sirius nodded. "The rest of you doesn't matter; it's not important."

"Though just his voice is pretty annoying," Remus added. "So that isn't important either."

"Oi!" James grumbled. "What'd I ever do to you?"

Remus raised a brow. "I have a list. Want to hear it?"

"…No."

Remus lifted his head to look at James to see him holding a napkin with toast on it. "What are you talking about? I fly fine. It's Peter who needs help. Did you see him at our flying lessons? And besides I have homework to do today."

"A Marauder willingly wanting to do homework on the weekend?" George said shocked, looking at Remus with a frown.

"That's not good, Professor Moony!" Fred cried. "How could you!"

Remus blinked, staring at the twins. "Professor...Moony...?" He questioned slowly.

The twins broke out into identical grins. "Of course, Professor Moony." They said together. "You were our professor and your Marauder nickname was Moony, therefore you are Professor Moony."

Remus stared at them, before slowly leaning away from them. "..."

"Yes. There is no hope for him." James replied, crossing his arms. "And don't try the homework excuse to get out of this. You are caught up with us. You can do your homework tonight. We're going to the Quidditch pitch to work on your flying. The Gryffindor Team is practicing today. Siri and I asked if we could tag along so we could watch them practice."

"Even you call me Siri!" Sirius exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air.

"It's not like you say anything against it." James said, raising an eyebrow.

Sirius grinned and nodded his head. "Yeah and we told them about your hatred of Quidditch. They were happily agreed to have us come down to the pitch after that. So we're going to teach you to love Quidditch."

"Did it work?" Charlie grinned.

Sirius and James both looked at Remus, frowns on their face. "..."

"Er..." Remus blinked. "Well I don't hate it..."

"...REMUS LOVES QUIDDITCH!" James and Sirius screamed, hugging Remus from both sides.

"W-what?!" Remus exclaimed, trying to struggle out of their grip, but his arms were pinned to his sides from the hug, so it was kind of hard. "I never said that! Get off me, you idiots!"

"Never!" Sirius cried, hugging Remus tighter. "We must express how happy we are that you love Quidditch!"

"I never said I loved it!" Remus protested, frowning as he struggled.

"So you hate it?" James pouted.

"I DO NOW!" Remus screamed, still struggling.

"...James, I think Remus has gone mad." Sirius said.

James nodded. "I think so too, Sirius..."

"LET ME GO, YOU IDIOTS!"

"James..." Sirius said slowly.

"Yes Sirius?"

"Should we let Remus go?"

"YES! NOW LET ME GO!"

"I dunno, Sirius." James smirked. "Remus seems to like being trapped in our hug."

Remus glared at him deeply, growling.

"See, he's purring!" James teased.

"I'm going to kill you, James." Remus growled.

"Psh, you would never kill-OW, DAMN IT!" James reeled back from the headbutt, holding his head. "WHAT THE HELL, REMUS?!"

Remus grumbled something, rubbing his head, ignoring the shocked looks from the students. "Hey, you deserved it."

"Why didn't you headbutt Sirius then?!" James exclaimed, glaring at Remus.

Remus rolled his eyes, crossing his arms. "Don't be such a wimp, James," He retorted. "I headbutted you because you were annoying, plus I didn't think Sirius could handle it."

"OI!" Sirius shouted. "Don't drag me into this; I had nothing to do with it!"

Remus glared at him, raising his hand as if to threaten him. "Don't make me slap you."

Sirius shrunk back. "Then again..." He said weakly. "How about you continue reading, Remus?"

Remus sent him one last glare, before picking the book back up and reading. Many students were gaping at him in shock. A professorjust acted like that! Remus Lupin nonetheless!

Remus groaned and buried his head in his pillow. "I should have I said loved it so I wouldn't have to deal with this. Where is Peter?"

"Remedial Potions. Slughorn insisted Peter come for help." Sirius explained. "Now get up and eat the toast James brought for you."

"Does Sirius still mother-hen you?" Tonks asked curiously.

"Well..." Remus said slowly. "Not as much as he used to, but he can get pretty protective and annoying around the full moon."

"Well, sorry for caring." Sirius grumbled.

Before Remus could reply, Shawn Wood, a fifth year and Gryffindor Quidditch team captain, came into their room. "Are you guys coming or not? We have to get to practice."

"Wait, Shawn Wood?" Ron questioned. "As in...Oliver Wood's dad?"

James and Sirius looked surprised at that, while Remus nodded.

"Shawn had a kid?" James asked.

"Yeah, seems so." Harry said, blinking. He was kind of surprised by the fact that Oliver's dad was in this story too. "Was Shawn a Quidditch fanatic?"

Sirius snorted. "You could say that."

"At least we now know where Oliver got it." Fred muttered.

"So we blame Shawn?" George said, quirking an eyebrow.

Fred nodded. "Of course."

"Yeah." Sirius said at the same time that Remus said "No."

Sirius and James sighed. "You're not getting out of this, Remy."

Remus grumbled something under his breath, and whacked the back of James's and Sirius's heads.

"OI!" They exclaimed, holding their heads. "What the hell was that for?!"

"For calling me Remy." Remus retorted, and continued reading before they could say anything.

Shawn shook his head, frowning. "So, he really doesn't like Quidditch?"

"Yes, he hates it. And our goal today is to change that." Sirius explained.

Shawn nodded his head with a serious expression on his face. "Yes, we do. I don't understand how people can hate Quidditch. It's should be a crime to hate it."

"Agreed." James and Sirius said seriously.

"Looks like I've committed a crime then." Remus said, sighing dramatically.

"...ARREST HIM!" Fred and George screamed, pointing at Remus. "QUICK MADAM BONES, ARREST HIM!"

Madam Bones raised an eyebrow at this, looking at the two boys as Molly sighed, shaking her head.

"Honestly boys, will you ever behave?" Molly said.

George and Fred blinked at that. "Be...have?" They said, as if they've never heard the word before. "What's that?"

Molly sighed again, pinching the bridge of her nose in irritation.

"You two sounds like these two idiots." Remus grumbled, pointing at his friends.

The four boys grinned, but didn't get to say anything as Remus started reading again before they could say something to make Remus want to curse all four of them.

Bilius came into the room and looked around, smiling. "What are we standing around for? Shawn, I'm shocked at you. You would normally be down at the pitch already waiting for us to get down there to drill us on your plans."

"Definitely Oliver's dad." All of the Gryffindors that were on Oliver's team in Harry's 3rd year.

Remus lifted his head and glared at them. "Will all of you get out? I'm trying to sleep."

"Hi Remus. I thought you three were coming to the pitch today, though? Why are you still in bed?" Bilius asked confused.

Arthur smiled a little at the mention of his late brother. Oh, how he missed him and his crazy antics...

"We are." James answered cheerfully. "Remus is just being difficult."

Bilius nodded his head. "That figures. A hater of Quidditch would be like that."

"I still can't believe a Marauder hates Quidditch." Fred complained.

"Our lives have been ruined!" George mock-cried.

"Look what you've done to these poor boys, Remy!" James cried.

"You've destroyed them!" Sirius exclaimed.

Remus glared at the two and started muttering angrily about idiot Quidditch players and their idiocy.

Remus buried his face in his pillow and started to mutter angrily at Quidditch and lovers of Quidditch.

Bilius and Shawn sighed and looked at each other. They nodded their heads and flipped Remus's mattress over.

Nearly everyone burst out laughing, especially the ones who knew Oliver and the Weasleys. They would definitely be the ones to do that if it involved Quidditch.

"Ow." Remus said, from under his mattress.

"You fall on the floor with a mattress on you and all you say is 'ow'?" Lily questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." Remus deadpanned, looking up from the book.

"Crazy." Lily muttered, shaking her head.

"What else was I supposed to say?" Remus asked.

"Screaming in pain, cursing at your friends and housemates." Lily replied dryly. "You had a wide variety of choices, Remus."

He pushed the mattress off of himself and glared at the Quidditch players. "Why did you do that?"

"Well, he's up." Shawn said happily. "We're heading to the pitch now. Meet you there."

The two Quidditch players left the room, leaving an annoyed first year sitting on the ground and his two friends laughing their asses off.

James narrowed his eyes and whacked the back of Remus's head.

"OI!" Remus exclaimed, holding his head as he dropped the book on the table. "What the hell, James?"

"Don't change the words to swearing." James frowned.

"I didn't change it!" Remus said, looking at James like he was crazy. "It's actually written that way! See for yourself!" He opened the book up to the right page and shoved it in James's face. "See?!"

James quickly scanned the page, looking for the sentence Remus just read, before flushing slightly when he realized that Remus was right. "Oh...er..."

"Yeah," Remus muttered, moving the book back to his view. "Right, thanks for the whack to the head, James."

James chuckled sheepishly, pulling at the collar of his shirt.

"Those two are awesome." Sirius said, clutching his sides in pain from his laughter.

James nodded his head. "Okay, Remus. Get dressed and eat."

Remus sighed and looked at his two friends pleadingly. "Please don't make me go."

"You haven't given in yet?" Katie Bell said, raising an eyebrow.

Remus scoffed. "Of course not," He replied. "I would stay fighting until the end."

"Or until we drag you to the Quidditch pitch ourselves." Sirius muttered, earning a glare from Remus.

"There is no chance you're getting out of this. Even if we did let you not go, over half the Gryffindor team is Quidditch obsessed and they know about you not liking it since we spoke to the whole team about this. They are going to teach you to love it whether we there or not." James explained a smirk on his face. "It's best to go now of your own free will or be dragged there by us or the team."

"Geez, you guys are evil." Bill said, staring at James and Sirius. "Ever thought about what Remus wants?"

Sirius and James both blinked. "...Nope." They said. "Quidditch is more important."

"Nice to know my wants are beneath Quidditch." Remus muttered.

"You guys are evil. That's all there is to it." Remus grumbled as he fixed his bed. He grabbed his clothes and pulled the curtains shut around his bed. He emerged a few minutes later clothed and grabbed some toast from James.

"More like snatched it from me." James pouted.

"What's it matter?" Remus retorted. "It was for me anyway."

The three friends walked down to the Quidditch pitch together. It was a warm, sunny fall day, perfect conditions to practice Quidditch in.

"Those days are always the best for Quidditch." Angelina sighed.

"Then there are those days that are all muggy and rainy." Alicia muttered from next to Angelina.

"Horrible days to play and practice." Angelina said, frowning.

When they got to the pitch, the three friends sat in the stands and watch the team practice. Remus sighed and pulled out a book after a few minutes of watching.

"You're reading on the Quidditch field?!" Fred cried out.

"How wrong is that?!" George exclaimed.

Remus shrugged. "I didn't care for Quidditch at the time, so reading was my best option."

Watching them practice was boring, since all they were doing was flying on brooms and throwing balls around.

"Well if you put it like that." Ron grumbled, crossing his arms. He couldn't believe that Lupin didn't like Quidditch! He seemed to love it in third year when he watched Harry play!

"It's pretty much what it is." Remus said sheepishly.

"But it's so much more than that!" James exclaimed, but Remus quickly cut him off by reading. He did not need a Quidditch lecture from James right now. It was one of the things he did not miss about his friend.

James looked at Remus with a grin on his face that died when he saw that his friend was reading. "Remus John Lupin." James growled, catching Sirius's attention.

"What's wrong?" Sirius asked. He looked at Remus and frowned. "Reading? We did not bring you here so you could read. You are here to learn to love Quidditch."

"Though I doubt it worked." Sirius grumbled, crossing his arms. "He still likes reading over Quidditch."

Remus shrugged, barely caring. He liked reading. Nothing wrong with that.

Remus rolled his eyes and kept reading.

James sighed and pulled the book out of Remus's hands. "NO READING!"

"Does he still like reading over Quidditch?" James questioned suspiciously.

Remus opened his mouth to respond, but Sirius quickly cut him off.

"He does!" He cried, glaring at Remus. "I doubt he even cares about Quidditch anymore!"

"Anymore?" Harry questioned.

"Yeah, he liked Quidditch in third year." James explained, ignoring Remus's frantic looks. "He even did the commentary!"

"You did the commentary for Quidditch, Professor?" Lee asked, awed.

"Yes, and I was nearly convinced by McGonagall to do the commentary for one of Harry's games." Remus said dryly.

Harry perked up at this. "And why didn't you?"

McGonagall raised an eyebrow at this. "If I remember correctly, he said he didn't want to corrupt the students." She commented. "Saying that his commentary would be a bad influence."

Everyone was quiet for a moment, mulling that over, before several people started chuckling. A chain reaction occurred, and soon everyone was laughing as a light blush appeared on Remus's face.

James shook his head, laughing as he placed a hand on Remus's shoulder. "Of course you would say that!"

"I dunno, James." Sirius said teasingly. "I can see what he means, he commentary was definitely something."

"Oh, shut up." Remus grumbled, brushing James's hand off his shoulder.

"I can't believe that Minnie actually asked you that!" Sirius cried a moment later. "You were great at it, but you also mercilessly attacked all players on the field and swore a lot."

"What?" Hermione cried in surprise. "Professor?"

"Uh…" Remus said, blushing as he stared at the ceiling.

"Despite what you think, Mr. Black," McGonagall said, frowning. "Mr. Lupin has grown up and stopped swearing so much."

"I never swore a lot!" Remus protested. "It was just during the games!"

"And it was horrible." McGonagall said.

"And yet you asked him to do it, despite the fact that you're the one who–" James started, but when he was whacked in the face with the book, he shut up.

"What? What? What? What did she do?" Fred and George asked excitedly.

"Sorry, boys, but I guess I'm not allowed to say." James said, glancing at Remus. "But it's towards the end of our third year so you know."

Bilius and Shawn stopped what they were doing to look at the first years when James screamed. "What's wrong, James?" Shawn yelled at the three.

"Nothing. Remus was just reading." James yelled back, waving the book in the air.

Shawn sighed and shook his head and looked at his team. "It's worst then I thought. We're going to have some serious work to do on this one."

"This one?" Remus said indignantly. "He could've at least said my name!"

"You're really getting worked up over that?" Lily laughed, shaking her head.

Bilius nodded his head seriously. "Yes, we do."

The team went back to practicing while James and Sirius told Remus who was who on the team.

"Sweet, are we getting a description of the team?" Charlie grinned.

Remus glanced down at the book, before nodding. "Yes, we are."

Shawn Wood was a fifth year and the captain of the team. This was his first year as captain. He had light brown hair and blue eyes. He was well built for his position as a chaser.

"So he looks like Oliver?" Fred questioned.

"But with blue eyes?" George asked.

Remus and Sirius shrugged. "Pretty much." They said.

Angel Jackson was the second chaser. She was a prefect in her fifth year. She had long black hair that reached her shoulders and had blue-grey eyes. She was skinny, but had the build of girl chaser.

The last chaser was Athena Rox. Her wavy blond hair reached below her shoulder blades. She had hazel colored eyes. She was in her fifth year to. Her build was of that of a girl chaser to.

The three Gryffindor chasers grinned at each other, high-fiving.

Bilius Weasley had red hair and blue eyes. He was well built and had enough muscle to show for all his training as a beater.

Fred and George grinned at this, fist-bumping. It was so awesome that their uncle was a Beater too!

This was his last year at Hogwarts and he was a prefect, who only enforced the rules when he really had to.

"Well, that reminds me of someone." Sirius said, shooting Remus a look.

"I blame you and James." Remus grumbled.

"Oi, don't drag me into this!" James exclaimed.

"I hear no denial." Remus retorted, crossing his arms.

The last beater was Gon Figgle. He had short, brown spiky hair and green eyes. He was in his sixth year and the build of a beater from his training.

Their seeker was Kaiden Meep. She had long, curly black hair with purple streaks running through it. Her eyes were a bright blue. She was in her seventh year.

The keeper was Niko Mock, who was in his seventh year. He had blonde hair and hazel colored eyes. He was well built.

"Hey James, Sirius, Remus, come down here." Shawn yelled at the three. "Practice is over."

"Oi, how come he called your name first?!" Sirius whined.

"Like you have anything to say." Remus said rolling his eyes. "He said my name last."

James grinned widely at them. "It's because I'm the most powerful!" He boasted, earning a smack to the head from Lily. "Ow, Lily!" He complained, holding his head.

"Honestly, James, act your age." Lily sighed, shaking her head.

"Lily, I think he is." Remus spoke up.

"You mean like a three year old?"

"Exactly."

"OI!" James exclaimed, pouting.

James and Sirius grinned, while Remus groaned. Sirius grabbed Remus by the arm and dragged him down to the pitch with James following with a smirk on his face. "Time to change Remy's opinion."

Remus smacked the back of James and Sirius's head.

"OI!" James shouted, holding his head. "You can't just hit us every time one of us calls you Remy!"

"I can," Remus said. "And I just did."

"But why'd you hit me?" Sirius complained. "It was James who said it!"

Remus shrugged. "It was fun."

"..." Sirius pouted, shooting Remus a deadpanned look. "I hate you."

"Aw, hate you too!"

Sirius scowled. Remus was not getting the point of him saying he hated him!

When they reached the pitch, Shawn threw a broom at each of the boys, who caught them.

"Why did you catch your broom, Professor?" Lavender questioned.

"I didn't fancy getting hit in the face with a broomstick." Remus said dryly, causing everyone who heard to snicker.

Remus looked at the broom he was holding. It was a Comet 1000. The broom was a few years old but still worked well as the first years found out in their flying lessons. "What are we doing?"

"Going to play a game of Quidditch." Shawn explained. "Let's see. We have ten players so it will be five on five. Each team will have two chasers, a beater, a seeker, and a keeper."

Remus looked at the broom and shook his head. "I really don't want to play."

Shawn chuckled and shook his head. "Did I say you could choose to play or not?"

"Quidditch obsessed freaks." Remus muttered. "That's what you all are."

"OI!" James and Sirius frowned, but Remus only shrugged in response.

"Hey, it's true."

"What did you think we were going to do by dragging you out here, Remy?" Sirius asked smirking.

Remus smacked the back of Sirius's head, earning a glare, but no protest. "See? You're learning!" He teased, causing Sirius to growl in annoyance.

"You're all evil." Remus growled.

Angel shook her head and smiled. "Sorry. They are Quidditch obsessed freaks."

"HEY!" Shawn, Sirius, James, Bilius, Gon, Kaiden, and Niko all yelled.

Angel rolled her eyes. "So, let's set the teams up."

Shawn nodded his head. "I'll be the captain of one team and you, the other."

"Wow, they're already splitting up!" James said dramatically.

"James, Sirius, what position do you two play?" Angel asked.

"I play chaser and seeker." James replied.

"I'm a beater." Sirius said.

"AWESOME!" Fred and George screamed, causing several people to jump at the sudden yell. "WE HAVE THE SAME POSITION AS A MARAUDER!"

Sirius grinned proudly, puffing out his chest. "I knew they liked me best." He said cockily.

"Oi, no way!" James retorted, frowning. "They like me best!"

"Are you seriously fighting over this?" Remus snorted. "Besides, they like me best."

"THEY DO NOT!" James and Sirius screamed at the smaller Marauder, causing him to blink.

George and Fred were awed. They couldn't believe that the Marauders were fighting over this, over who they liked better.

Angel nodded her head and turned to Bilius. "Can you play chaser so Sirius can play beater?"

"Sure. Though chaser isn't my best position." Bilius answered smiling. "So we got four chasers now, two seekers, two beaters, and a keeper. So Remus will play keeper.

"Are you a good Keeper, Professor?" Hermione asked curiously.

"No, not really." Remus said immediately.

James and Sirius snorted at that.

"Don't be so humble, Remy." James said teasingly, earning a glare from Remus.

"Yeah, you were an awesome Keeper!" Sirius said enthusiastically.

That will give us two keepers."

Remus slapped a hand to his face. "Do I have to?"

"YES!" All the Quidditch freaks yelled.

Remus flinched back and held his hands up defensively. "Alright. Sheesh. You don't have to yell."

"Angel, you can pick your team first." Shawn told her, smiling at her.

"Wow, even hints back then." Sirius snickered.

"Thanks Shawn." Angel replied. She turned to look at the players. "Okay, I'll take James as my seeker, Athena as my second chaser, Gon as my beater, and Remus as my keeper. The rest of you are on Shawn's team. Good luck, Shawn."

"Cause your team definitely needed it." James teased.

"OI, we did not!" Sirius protested, crossing his arms as he gave his friend the evil eye.

"You too, Angel." Shawn replied. The two shook hands. "You know what to do, Remus?"

Remus sighed. "I know the rules and position of Quidditch. I just don't care for the game."

"Right. Defend the hoops." Shawn replied.

"Obviously." Ron scoffed. What else would the Keeper do?

"What are you guys doing?" A brown haired fifth year student joined them, smiling at the team.

"Hi Ness." Bilius greeted. "We're going to play a game of Quidditch to so Remus that it's fun cause apparently he doesn't like the game."

Ness screamed dramatically, but was smiling at Remus. "How can you not like Quidditch?"

"Well...thaaat certainly reminds me of someone." Fred and George said, giving Lee a pointed look.

Lee tried to look looked innocent. "I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Exactly. So he's going to play a game with us as keeper. Can you keep score and do commentary?" Shawn asked.

"Sure. It will be good practice since I'm doing commentary for the games this year." Ness replied and left the pitch to get to the stands.

"Hey, wait!" Lee suddenly exclaimed, grinning brightly. "That's my dad!"

"Wait...your dad went to Hogwarts with the Marauders?" Fred questioned.

"It seems so." Lee smiled.

"And you didn't tell us?!" George cried.

"I didn't even know!" Lee protested. "Don't shift the blame to me! Harry, Ron, or Hermione could've told you!"

"Hey!" The Golden Trio exclaimed, frowning.

"He makes a point..." George muttered.

"A very valid point..." Fred mumbled.

"...REVENGE!" They shouted together, causing Harry, Ron, and Hermione to pale.

Sirius and Gon each grabbed a bat and all the players lifted into the air, before Shawn released one of the Bludgers, released the snitch, and threw the Quaffle into the air to be caught by Angel. Shawn lifted into the sky to join the other players. Remus and Niko took their positions in front of the hoops.

"BEGIN!" Ness yelled when everyone was in position.

Angel began the game and flew towards the opposing team's hoops.

Many of the Quidditch obsessed students perked up at this. The mini-game was beginning!

"Gon hits the Bludger towards Angel, who flips in the air to dodge it. Sirius appears next to her and hits the Bludger away towards Shawn, who was trying to steal the Quaffle from Angel. Shawn dodges the Bludger and Angel throws the Quaffle to Athena. Athena throws Quaffle towards the hoops. Niko appears in front of the hoops and hit the Quaffle towards Shawn, who catches it. Sirius hits a Bludger toward Shawn, who dodges and throws the Quaffle to Bilius." Ness said.

Remus watched the game cautiously. The Quaffle was coming towards and he knew he would have to act soon.

"At least you did act, and not just sit there!" James said brightly.

"Yeah, good for you and your team." Sirius grumbled unhappily.

"This was years ago, Sirius." Remus said, rolling his eyes. "No reason to be so upset now."

"Bilius catches the Quaffle and flips in the air to avoid Angel, who tried to intercept him. Bilius throws the Quaffle back to Shawn. Shawn catches it and throws it towards the hoops." Ness said, watching curiously to see how Remus did, as did the other players. They stopped to see what Remus did.

"Wait, so everyone stopped to watch me block a Quaffle?" Remus said, raising an eyebrow.

Sirius and James shrugged. "Yeah, we wanted to see what you would do." James explained.

"I appreciate the pressure." Remus grumbled.

Remus takes a few deep breaths and watches the Quaffle.

"And Remus catches the Quaffle at the last second, pretty good for a rookie. He throws the Quaffle to Angel. She flies towards the opposing teams hoops. Gon hits Bludger at her and Angel drops the Quaffle as she dodges the Bludger. The Quaffle is caught Shawn. Shawn takes the Quaffle and throws it to Bilius, who throws it towards the goal posts. Remus flips in front of the goal post and catches the Quaffle."

Many of the students were cheering for a certain team, placing bets on who would win.

"I can't believe people are placing bets on this." Remus frowned, seeing some students throw Galleons on their table.

"...Wanna bet who's going to win?" James said sneakily.

Sirius shot James a deadpanned look.

"Sounds great." Remus said, grinning at Sirius. "What do you–"

"Both of you, shut up." Sirius snapped at them. "Before you ruin the bets for everyone else."

Remus smiled and threw the Quaffle to Athena.

The two teams continued to play like this for a while. James and Kaiden were watching the game as they flew around the pitch looking for the snitch.

They had been playing for about an hour-

"That long?" Cho questioned.

"C'mon, I'm sure you've seen Quidditch matches longer than an hour before." Ron said incredulously. "I bet you've been in half of them!"

Cho shrugged. "The game always seems shorter when you're the one in it."

-before students started to come down to pitch to see what was going. They had been seeing students flying around the pitch and wanted to see what was going on.

Madam Hooch came down with McGonagall to see what was going on down at the pitch. They went up to the teacher's stand and watched the ten Gryffindors play. "Why are there first years playing?" McGonagall asked.

McGonagall frowned at this, glaring at the book. How dare her Gryffindors let three first years play Quidditch! Oh, why didn't she punish them when she had the chance...?

"Hello Professors." Ness greeted. "Remus said he hated Quidditch, so the team, James, and Sirius decided to play a game to show him the game is fun. He's actually a really good keeper."

"I was not." Remus retorted.

"Remus!" Sirius groaned, rubbing his eyes. "Stop being so humble! Learn to boast!"

Remus gave Sirius a dry look. "This is me you're talking to."

"...Touché, short one." Sirius smirked.

Remus's dry look turned to a glare which was directed at Sirius. "Only by a few inches!" He shouted.

"Yes, and those few inches make a difference." James grinned, resting his elbow on top of Remus's head.

Remus glared up at James, pushing his elbow off his head, and crossing his arms. "You know I'm the same height as Lily right now," He grumbled. "So you're basically calling your wife short."

Lily's head snapped up and she glared at James, who's eyes widened.

"Er..." James glared at Remus, before turning to Lily. "I...didn't mean it like that..."

Lily huffed and looked away from her husband to hide a teasing grin.

"And Athena scores. The score is now fifty to seventy, in favor of Shawn's team. Shawn takes the Quaffle and speeds towards the goal posts. Sirius hits a Bludger towards Shawn. Gon comes in and hits the Quaffle away towards Remus. Remus spins in the air to avoid the Bludger. Shawn throws the Quaffle to Bilius. Bilius catches the Quaffle and speeds to the goal posts. He throws the Quaffle to Shawn to avoid Angel. Shawn throws the Quaffle at the goal posts. Remus catches the Quaffle and throws it to Athena. James and Kaiden are on the move. I think they see the snitch. James and Kaiden are neck and neck. And James catches the snitch! Angel's team wins 200 to 70." Ness yells.

"Yes!" A fourth year Ravenclaw exclaimed, glad that she had won the bet. About half the students also looked pleased that they had won the bet, while the other half looked irritated that they'd lost.

The crowd of students applauded and screamed their approval.

The ten of Gryffindors lowered to ground and grinned, except Remus who frowned. "I played. Can I leave now?"

"Why would you want to leave such an awesome place, Professor?!" Seamus exclaimed.

Remus raised an eyebrow. "Cause I didn't like Quidditch?"

"Despicable." Seamus muttered, earning an amused look from Dean.

"Wait. What did you think of the game?" Shawn asked.

Remus frowned and shook his head. "No, I hated it. I don't get how you people can play this game."

All the Quidditch fanatics gasped in horror.

"Still?!" Ron exclaimed.

"How could you still hate it?!" Fred shouted.

"And after it sounded like you were having fun!" George cried.

"..." Remus sweatdropped slightly, not sure how to take that.

All the Quidditch freaks gasped and fell to their knees.

"Overly-dramatic much?" Hermione asked.

"How can this be? How can anyone hate Quidditch so much?" Shawn exclaimed.

"We must keep trying until he loves it." James declared, stubbornly.

Remus eyes widened and he fell to his knees, grabbing his head. "No. I don't want to do anything involving Quidditch again."

"Professor, you should've just lied and said you loved it." Hermione sighed.

"I wish I had." Remus muttered.

Angel smiled softly. "Sorry Remus. But you should have lied and said you loved it. They're not going to quit now until they are absolutely sure you love Quidditch."

"What are you doing?" McGonagall snapped at the team and three first years, stopping Remus from replying.

"We were playing a game of Quidditch. We thought Remus could do with a game to realize how great a game it is!" Shawn explained enthusiastically. "But sadly, he still hates the game."

Remus muttered something under his breath, which caused Sirius to brighten.

"Wait, you were lying?" Sirius said excitedly.

Panicked, Remus snapped his head up to face Sirius. "W-what?!" He exclaimed. "How did you hear me?!"

Sirius smirked. "I have magical hearing."

Remus scowled. "Shut up, git."

"Hold on, so why did you lie about liking it then?" James asked, confused.

Remus shrugged. "I dunno."

James and Sirius stared. "You don't know?"

"No, I don't. I guess it was just to see your reactions, which, by the way, were highly amusing."

James and Sirius gaped at their friend.

McGonagall sighed and shook her head. "Right. Though I would prefer it if you didn't allow first years to play even if it is just a practice game."

Shawn grinned. "Sorry Professor. But don't worry. They are all great players for rookies, even if one of them hates the game. It will be fine."

Sunday morning found James and Sirius grinning madly as they woke Remus and Peter up. Remus glared at them when he was woken up. "What?"

"Here's an important lesson," Remus said, loud enough for everyone to hear. "Never wake up a sleeping werewolf."

James and Sirius shrugged, grinning widely. "Unless it's Remus." They said together.

"No. There is no exception!" Remus snapped.

"We're going to the library." James explained.

Remus eyes snapped open and he jumped out of bed.

"Well, there's one way to get him out of bed." Lily smiled. "Why haven't you done that before?"

"Lily!" Remus protested.

"What?" Lily giggled. "I'm being practical."

He put his hand on James's forehead, earning a confused looked from James. "Sorry, but you just said we were going to the library and no one is forcing you."

"We have a prank to finish up. Some spells we have to master by tomorrow night. Let's go now." Sirius demanded.

Lily sighed, shaking her head. "Of course that was your reason."

"What? Why else would we go to that dreaded place?" James frowned.

"Oh, I dunno, maybe to study?" Remus said sarcastically.

Sirius gasped in mock-horror and slapped a hand over Remus's mouth. "We don't say the 'S' word, Remy." He hissed. "It's a bad word."

Remus only blinked in response, staring at Sirius's hand over his mouth.

"Sirius, let him go." Lily said, rolling her eyes. "He needs to continue reading."

"Hush, Lily!" James exclaimed. "Don't say the 'S' word!"

"The 'S' word...?" Lily questioned briefly before laughing. "Oh, you mean Sir-" James quickly slapped a hand over her mouth, cutting her off.

"OI!" Sirius protested.

Remus pulled Sirius's hand off his mouth and laughed. "You hear that, dog-boy?" He teased. "You're the 'S' word!"

"Shut up, flea-bag." Sirius grumbled.

"Hypocrite!" Remus retorted. "You have way more fleas than me!"

"Mr. Lupin, just read!" McGonagall exclaimed, cutting off Sirius's response.

"Yes, Professor Minnie." Remus said meekly, picking the book back up and opening it to the right page before McGonagall could respond.

"Whipped." Sirius muttered under his breath, earning a glare from the smaller man beside him.

"Professor Minnie, Professor Moony." Fred muttered.

"What next, Professor Padfoot?" George snorted.

They glanced at each other, before dissolving into sputters, holding their hands over their mouths. Sirius as a professor! HA!

After eating a quick breakfast, the four boys went to library and started searching for the books they needed. Remus found them all and put them on the table where his friends were waiting for him. He plopped himself in one of the chairs and looked at them.

"So, who's the target?" Remus asked.

"Snivellus."

Several people snickered at the nickname while Severus gritted his teeth, glowering at the book. This book...this book would be the death of him...

Sirius replied. "We need to come up with a name for our group now to sign the prank with."

Remus leaned back in his seat and looked the ceiling. "What do we want our name to mean?"

"It has to sound cool." James said. "I don't want people going around talking about us with a stupid name."

"Like Wolf Pack." Remus said, shooting Charlie a look.

Charlie shrugged. "Hey, I thought it sounded good." He grinned.

"You would." Bill muttered, wrapping his arm around Charlie's neck, giving him a noogie.

"Ack, Bill!" Charlie protested, struggling against the curse breaker's hold. "Lemme go!"

"No way, little bro!" Bill teased. "I rarely get to do this anymore with me cracking curses and you with dragons!"

"C'mon, Bill!" Charlie groaned, going limp for a moment. "We're 26 and 24 years old! Aren't we a little old for this?"

Bill scoffed. "You can never be too old to mess with your brothers."

Percy, who was looking at his older siblings with an emotion on his face that couldn't be placed, suddenly winced at that, looking down at the table.

The four boys fell quiet and thought about a good name for themselves. After about ten minutes, Sirius slammed his head on the table. "I give up. Let's forget the name for now. Let's work on finishing preparing the prank. We'll come up with a name later."

"Pst," Tonks stage-whispered to Sirius, looking around to make sure no one was 'eavesdropping' on her. "How about the Marauders?"

Sirius looked mock-shocked. "The Marauders?" He questioned. "Why that's a wonderful name! Jamesie, how 'bout it?"

James grinned, looking thoughtful. "Hmm..." He paused for a moment, before shouting, "I LOVE IT! What about you, Remy?"

Remus shot James a dry look. "Don't call me Remy."

"C'mon, Moony , don't be like that!" James pouted. "What about the name?!"

"What about it?"

"Do you like it?"

"No, I hate it." Remus deadpanned. "Now I'm going to continue reading."

Sirius and James pouted. "You're no fun!"

"You've learned to live with it."

"Hey, after we do our prank we should sneak out again sometime and explore the castle more. We could find more passages and continuing searching for the castle." James said.

Remus rolled his eyes. "No thanks. The last time we went marauding we were an hour late to Transfiguration."

"YOUR NAME!" Fred and George suddenly screamed, pointing at the book in Remus's hands. "YOU'VE FINALLY FOUND YOUR NAME!"

Remus smirked. "All because of me."

"Don't get too cocky, Remus." Sirius grumbled.

"Yeah, I was the one who thought of it!" James exclaimed.

"Ah, but who said the word first?" Remus said cheekily.

"..."

"Yep, that's what I thought."

"Oh come on, Remy. It will be fun. You can't tell us you didn't have fun the last time we sneaked out." Sirius said.

"Will it make you feel better if we do it on the weekend?" James asked.

Remus glowered at Sirius, but thought about what James said. "Fine. We can sneak out on the weekends, but only on the weekends."

Lily was shocked. "You actually agreed?" She demanded.

Remus sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeeeeah...about that..."

"Yes?" Lily demanded.

"Um...I BLAME THESE TWO!" He suddenly screamed, pointing at James and Sirius.

"What?!" James exclaimed.

"Hey, don't drag us into this!" Sirius shouted at the same time.

Lily sighed, face-palming. "And I thought Remus was the sane one..."

"I am!" Remus protested. "But Lily, being friends with them was sooo tiring. I just had to agree sometimes to get them off of my back!"

"You're making excuses for your rule-breaking."

Sirius pouted, but agreed. "What are the spells we need to pull this off?"

Peter, Sirius, and James turned to look at Remus. "Why are you looking at me?"

"Cause you're the smart one?" Tonks suggested.

Remus snorted, grinning. "That's nice to hear," He chuckled. "And yes, I suppose so."

"This is your prank idea so you'll be in charge of everything we do." James explained. His eyes lit up in excitement. "Whosever prank idea we use, is the one in charge of the prank unless we have vote and decide that person shouldn't be in charge of the prank. This should be one of our rules."

McGonagall scoffed. Of course they would be the ones to not follow rules, yet make up a set of rules themselves.

"Rules?" Sirius, Remus, and Peter inquired.

James nodded his head viciously. "Yes, rules for our group. When we figure out the name of our group, we should have rules for ourselves. These rules will only be known by us."

"Why should we have rules?" Remus asked confused.

"...that sounds so...weird coming from you, Professor." Dean grinned.

"Yeah," Seamus chimed in. "A professor questioning having rules."

"There's a big difference between real rules and Marauder rules." Remus muttered.

"HE'S LEARNED!" Sirius exclaimed, hugging Remus.

Remus's eye twitched. "Get. Off. Me!"

"NEVA!"

"Sirius, let Remus go." Lily said, rolling her eyes. "He needs to continue reading."

"You know, sometimes I think you only say that just so I can continue reading." Remus pouted after Sirius released him.

"What makes you say that?" Lily said innocently.

Remus just grumbled in response, opening the book again to continue reading.

"Cause these will be rules of our friendship. Following these rules will make us closer. We'll be brothers. We won't have any secrets between us." Sirius explained, catching on to what James was trying to say.

Remus winced slightly at that, but continued before anyone could notice or say anything.

Remus bit his lip and looked down at the table. No secrets between us? That made the young wizard more uncomfortable. He had a big secret and he couldn't tell anyone. If he told his friends his secret they would abandon him.

James and Sirius frowned at that, looking at Remus, who blatantly ignored them. Before they could say anything, however, Remus quickly continued reading.

Remus knew they would tell the whole school if he told them then he would be expelled. He didn't want to have to leave school. He really liked it here and he had a lot of fun with his friends. Even though he was used to being alone, Remus didn't want to be disowned by his friends. Being shunned again would be horrible. He was getting used to having friends for once and might not be able to handle being alone again.

Many people were looking at Remus with pity and/or sympathy, while Remus just scowled in response. He didn't want sympathy from them. He didn't want sympathy from anyone.

"Hey Remus! Anyone in there! Remus!" James asked, after Remus went quiet and started to ignore everything that he, Sirius, and Peter were saying. "Remus!" Sighing, James kicked Remus in the shin hard.

Remus paused with reading for a moment, long enough to whack the back of James's head with the book.

"OI!" James exclaimed, holding the back of his head. He glared at Remus. "What was that for?"

"For kicking me in the shin." Remus said casually.

"But that was in first year!" James protested.

Remus shrugged. "And?" He questioned. "I never got you back for it, so this is revenge."

"Revenge isn't good." James pouted.

"But it sure is sweet." Remus grinned.

Remus jumped and fell out of his seat.

Several students snickered at that, earning a half-glare, half-pout from Remus.

He started rubbing his leg where James kicked him. "Why'd you that?"

James held his hand out and helped Remus to his feet. "You spaced out. I was trying to get your attention."

"Well, you have my attention. What do you need?" Remus asked.

"We need to start working on the prank. If we don't start working now, we'll have to skip lunch." James explained seriously. "And I don't know about you, but I don't want to skip lunch."

"Nothing wrong with not having lunch." Remus said, raising an eyebrow.

"But that's coming from you!" Sirius grumbled. "The person who skipped a whole day of meals and spent it in the library!"

Remus shrugged, ignoring people's incredulous looks. "Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that."

"How did you survive?!" Ron cried. "A whole day without food?!"

Hermione rolled her eyes, sighing. "Honestly Ronald," She groaned. "Professor Lupin was probably catching up on homework."

Remus smiled. "Exactly."

Remus rolled his eyes. "With the way you and Sirius eat, I'm not surprised." Remus looked around the library and frowned. "Let's take these books back to our dorm and look the spells up there. We can practice them there to."

"Why?" Sirius asked.

"We don't want people to know about us the one pulling the pranks, right?" Remus questioned.

Professor McGonagall frowned disapprovingly at Remus.

Sirius nodded his head.

"People might suspect us because you and James were in the library on a Sunday." Remus explained.

Remus snorted. "Forget I said that," He said. "People would suspect you two if you were in the library any day of the week."

James and Sirius shrugged. "Not denying anything."

"Good point." James replied.

The four boys grabbed their stuff and left the library. They went to their dorm and spent the rest of the day working on the spells they would need for their prank, only stopping to go get lunch and dinner.

"Though we did have to force Remus to eat at lunch." Sirius grumbled.

"What can I say? I wasn't hungry." Remus shrugged.

"You never seem to be hungry." James muttered.

"Are we sure this will work?" James asked.

"Yes. If you do it the way I told you, everything will be fine." Remus replied, pushing his bangs out of his face.

Sirius plopped himself down on his bed. "Finally, we're ready. This is going to be great. I can't wait for dinner tomorrow."

"Wait, you forgot something!" Fred cried.

"You're name!" George exclaimed. "You can't forget your name!"

"Like Wolf Pack." Charlie said innocently.

Remus shot him a dry look. "You're never gonna let that go, are you?"

"Of course not. It's the perfect name!"

Peter smiled. "There's just one thing missing."

Sirius raised a brow. "What's that?"

"Our name." Peter replied.

Fred, George, and Charlie all sneered at that. Ugh, they couldn't believe that they basically repeated what the little rat said!

"I still haven't come up with anything." Sirius replied, frowning.

James ran a hand through his hair, making it messier. "A name?" The messy haired boy thought for a minute before he smiled. "Hey Remy, what was that word you said in the library earlier when I suggested we sneak out again?"

"YOU'VE GOT IT!" Fred and George exclaimed happily.

"Um…what word?" Remus asked, befuddled.

"Come on. You have to remember what the word is. It began with an M." James said.

"...IT WAS THE DREADED M WORD!" Bill bellowed. "DON'T SAY IT, LUPIN!"

Remus shot Bill a weird look. "...you...certainly take after your uncles." He said slowly.

Bill grinned widely. "Well then, I'll take that as a compliment."

Remus thought for a minute. "Um…do you mean marauding?"

"YOU SAID THE M WORD!" Charlie screamed. "SHAME ON YOU, LUPIN! SHAAAAAME!"

"..." Remus slowly shook his head, rubbing his temples. Ugh, he could definitely feel a migraine coming forward.

"Yes! That word!" James exclaimed, happily.

"Marauding?" Sirius questioned, confused. "What about it?"

"I like the word. We can change it to The Marauders." James explained.

"I can't believe Remus was the one to make up the name." Lily said, shaking her head.

"Hey, I was the one who thought of it!" James pouted. "Why does no one give me any credit?!"

"Cause I'm the one who said the word 'marauding' first." Remus teased. "I deserve the credit."

James crossed his arms in response, pouting.

Sirius smiled. "We can be The Marauders. That can be our name. Let's have a vote. All those in favor of our name being The Marauders say aye."

"Aye!" Four voices said at once.

"Aye?" Tonks questioned. "No one says aye anymore."

"Blame Sirius." Remus and James said at the same time.

"Oi, what did I do?!" Sirius protested.

"You're the one who said aye first." James shrugged. "Therefore, it's your fault."

Sirius crossed his arms and started grumbling about stupid friends.

The next day, the four friends were finding it difficult to concentrate in class. They were all thinking about what would happen that night at dinner.

Professor Rana looked at the four boys and frowned. "LUPIN! BLACK! PETTIGREW! POTTER!"

"Oi, how come she called my name first?" Remus frowned. "She should've called Black or Potter first, seeing as they're always the ones to do it!"

James and Sirius both glared at Remus, who smirked in response.

The four boys looked at her confused. "Pay attention or I'll give you each a detention."

"Yes ma'am." The boys chorused.

We need to calm down and act normal or the teachers will know it was us.- RL

Okay. We can try, but I'm so excited. I don't know if I'll be able to calm down.- JP

Just try to act like nothing is going to happen.- RL

Easier said than done.- PP

The rest of the day dragged by for the four anxious friends. Even though they tried to act normal it was difficult since they were too excited.

"You're going to get caught." Neville stated.

"You have so little faith in us." Sirius pouted.

"And I know where he gets it from." Remus said dryly.

By the time dinner came, the four boys were almost bursting with excitement. They sat down in the middle of the table. "Remus, are we going to sign this prank with our name?" Sirius asked.

Remus thought for a moment before shaking his head. "No. We don't know how to sign it yet-

"And they would've known it was us." Remus muttered.

"Yeah, that wouldn't have been very good." James chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck.

-and I want to wait for our first really big prank before we give the name out. I think Halloween should be when we give our name out."

James smiled. "Genius. You're still new at this and you can come up with ideas like this. We made a good choice when we choose to befriend you."

"That and if we reveal our name everyone will know it was us." Remus replied. At their confused looks, he continued. "The teachers are smart. We were too excited and weren't paying attention in class. They'll know that the prank was us."

"It's a good thing you noticed that beforehand." Sirius noted, before shivering. "Imagine if you hadn't."

James grimaced. "I would rather not. With all the detentions McGonagall would've given us."

McGonagall crossed her arms. "Of course I would've." She said sharply. "With all the pranks you pulled!"

"You wouldn't have put me in detention, right, Minerva?" Remus said nervously.

McGonagall gave him a sharp glance, frowning. "Don't think that you would've gotten out of it, Mr. Lupin." She said dangerously. "I know you're not as innocent as you seem."

Remus chuckled nervously at that.

"Ha!" James said triumphantly. "Your innocent act is finally up!"

"It wasn't an act in the beginning." Remus muttered, opening the book again. "I was actually innocent until I met you."

"I find that hard to believe." Sirius grinned.

Remus shot the ebony a glare and whacked the back of Sirius's head with the book.

"OI!" Sirius cried out in pain, clutching his head in pain. "What the hell, Remus?!"

Remus shrugged in response, opening the book once again and continued to read, ignoring the half glare, half pout from Sirius.

"Do these detentions count in our competition?" Peter asked.

"Yes." Sirius answered. He looked towards the Slytherin table and smirked. "Come on, Remy. Start the prank already."

Remus closed the book and whacked the back of Sirius's already abused head again, causing the ebony to yelp in pain and shock.

"Damn it, Remus!" Sirius scowled. "I'm definitely going to have brain damage because of this!"

"How can you get brain damage with no brain?" Harry said innocently.

Sirius gaped at Harry, before groaning and slamming his head on the table. "Great, even my godson is against me!" He moaned.

"But you've gotta admit, Padfoot." James grinned. "Harry is right. You can't get brain damage without a brain."

"I hate you all!" Sirius shouted, slightly muffled by the table.

Remus shook his head. "No. I want to eat some first."

After taking ten minutes to eat, Remus pulled his wand and waved it and muttered a spell. All the lights in the hall went off except the lights above the Slytherin table, which made it look like there was a spotlight on the table, gaining everyone's attention.

Everyone looked interested at this. They already had an idea about what was going to take place, but they still wanted to hear the prank by the Marauders. Besides...a spotlight on the Slytherin table could only mean one thing...

Sirius smirked and he, James, and Peter took their wands out under the table. They pointed them at Snape-

Fred and George snickered at this. They just knew that Snape was going to be the target of this prank.

-and they each muttered a different spell. Three different spells hit Snape. The effect was instantaneous.

The first that happened was all Snape's clothes were transfigured to an orange dress.

People's lips twitched upwards.

Then the color of his hair was changed to light blue.

Several people started to laugh.

Next, Snape jumped out of his seat and onto the table. He started to dance uncontrollably and his feet started to hit dishes around the table, which made the food in the dished splash out and hit the Slytherins sitting at the table.

As soon as this was read, nearly everyone was bursting out laughing, as Severus just gritted his teeth and glowered at the three Marauders. Black was laughing as hard as he could, Potter Sr. was chuckling (but trying to hide it in fear of Lily), and Lupin remained silent the entire time, forcing himself not to laugh at his old childish pranks.

Everybody watched this wide eyed and their mouths hanging open for about five seconds before (almost) everyone started to laugh uncontrollably at Snape, who was blushing fiercely-

This just caused everyone to laugh even harder, tears pouring down some of the kids' faces. Snape? Blushing? That was unheard of! More unheard of than McGonagall smiling!

-and was glaring at the darkness. The teachers watched shocked for a few minutes before McGonagall gained her wits back. She stood up angrily and turned the lights back on. She fired the counter-curses at Snape and transfigured his clothes back to normal.

"We've gotta mark this down!" Fred said to George, chuckling.

"R-right!" George exclaimed, shoulders shaking in laughter. He slowly stopped laughing and whipped out his wand, transfiguring a napkin into a notebook and a fork into a quill, quickly jotting something down.

Molly looked suspiciously at her sons. What were they planning this time?

Putting her wand away, McGonagall glared at everyone in the hall. "Who did this?"

Nobody answered her.

Professor Rana glared at James and his friends, then she whispered into McGonagall's ear.

McGonagall growled and looked at the Gryffindors. "BLACK! POTTER! PETTIGREW! I can't believe you three would do something like this!"

"You didn't yell Remus's name?" Tonks gaped. "Why not! He's anything but innocent!"

Remus frowned. "Thanks, Tonks." He mock-grumbled. "Nice to know you're on my side."

"You're welcome, Remus!" Tonks grinned. "Anything for Mr. Wolfy!"

Remus glared at her. "I told you not to call me that."

"I know."

Remus looked at his friends and frowned. "Why didn't she yell my name?" He whispered, as he looked at the Head Table. Remus saw Dumbledore smiling and his eyes were twinkling with amusement.

"You're supposed to be the quiet, smart, responsible one. They don't think you would do something like this." Sirius whispered back with a chuckle. He winked at his friend. "Don't worry. We won't rat you out."

"..." Bill frowned, staring at Remus until he noticed.

Remus blinked and shifted in his seat. "What?"

"You gave yourself up, didn't you?" Bill questioned.

"Er..." Remus quickly continued reading, not responding.

McGonagall stalked over to them. "You three my office now."

Remus looked at McGonagall then at his friends. "Professor?"

"What, Mr. Lupin?" McGonagall asked, her voice softened when she spoke to him.

Remus frowned at that. He hated it when people did that to him. It was almost as bad as others glaring and insulting him.

Remus flinched back at the kindness she spoke to him with. He looked back at his friends, who shook their heads no and glared at him. He glared back. "I helped with this prank. I'm the one who came up with the prank idea and helped pull it off."

"Called it!" Bill exclaimed.

Charlie frowned. "Why'd you give yourself up?" He questioned. "You wouldn't have gotten in trouble if you didn't."

Remus gave a half-shrug. "Well...I'd feel guilty if I didn't." He began slowly. "I wouldn't just let them take the blame without me when I helped them too."

Sirius grinned and slung an arm around Remus's neck. "We always knew you were a great friend."

Embarrassed, Remus ducked his head, a light blush on his cheeks. He quickly continued reading before anyone could say anything else.

McGonagall frowned. "Mr. Lupin, I can't believe you would do something like this. All four of you to my office now." She stalked off with the four boys trailing after her.

"Why did you do that?" Sirius snapped.

Remus sighed, though still slightly embarrassed from before. "I could've just continued reading instead of answering," He said wistfully. "We basically just repeated what happened in first year."

Charlie shrugged, grinning. "Well, I didn't know that."

He looked around the hall to see the students smiling at them, some with worry and concern on their faces. The Slytherins were glaring at them.

"I'm not letting you take the blame alone. It was my idea." Remus growled back. "And besides, friends stick together. I would have felt guilty if I didn't get in trouble too."

Sirius smiled and flung an arm over Remus's shoulders. "You're a real friend then."

The four followed McGonagall into their office and stood silently in front of her desk. McGonagall stood behind her desk, looking at the four boys in front of her with disappointment and anger. Her hands were planted on her desk and she was leaning forward slightly.

"Dang, you really made her mad!" Seamus exclaimed, before shrinking away as McGonagall glared at him

"I should be saying the same thing to you." Sirius said teasingly.

"What were you four thinking? I expected better from Gryffindors." McGonagall growled.

"How did you know it was us?" James asked curiously.

"Curiously?" Dean gaped. "You've made McGonagall that mad and you're not even scared? You're only curious how they knew it was you?"

James shrugged. "Well, yeah. It's only McGonagall."

Many students who heard him stared at him. Only McGonagall? Only McGonagall? WAS THIS MAN MAD?!

He already had an idea from what Remus said earlier, but he wanted to make sure.

"I suggest that if you're going to pull a prank, try to contain your excitement. All the teachers noticed something was wrong when the four of you weren't concentrating in class and you were all grinning, as if you were waiting for something to happen." McGonagall explain. "You four will have to do better than that if you don't want caught."

"You do realize that you basically just told them to be more careful with pranks, right?" Severus said dryly.

McGonagall crossed her arms in response, glaring at the younger professor.

Remus shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe being caught is what we wanted."

Sirius, James, and Peter looked shocked at Remus. "It was?"

"I don't know. I knew we would be caught with this prank with how we were really excited throughout the whole day. The teachers are smart enough to put two and two together." Remus explained.

"Hmm. Well, the next time we'll have to be more careful." Sirius whispered to his friends so McGonagall wouldn't hear him.

McGonagall shook her head.

"...you heard us, didn't you?" Sirius said sheepishly.

McGonagall raised an eyebrow in response. "That I did, Mr. Black." She nodded. "You were quite loud."

"Black! Lupin! Potter! Pettigrew! Pay attention." McGonagall snapped. The four boys turned their attention back to her. "Why did you four do that to Mr. Snape?"

Remus looked at his friends. James shrugged his shoulders.

"Did Mr. Snape give you a reason to do that to him?" McGonagall asked, after the boys ignored her question.

The boys shook their head.

"I still can't believe you." Lily muttered, crossing her arms. "Even though he did nothing wrong, you still embarrassed him in public."

"Lily, he called you...that word!" James hissed to her.

"Yeah, in fifth year!" Lily retorted. "He hadn't done anything to you in first year until you started pranking him!"

James frowned in response, not sure how to respond.

Harry frowned as he unintentionally listened in on their conversation. His dad...he wasn't a bully, right? No...no, he was a great man...not a bully...

McGonagall sighed and took a few deep breaths to calm her temper. "I expected Gryffindors to behave more maturely than this. I guess I was expecting too much. Twenty points will be taken from each of you and a week of detention. I hope I don't see any more pranks from you four. Now go back to your Common Room."

The three Marauders in the room snorted. Them? No longer play pranks? As if!

When they left McGonagall's office, the four boys grinned and walked slowly back to their tower. "I think we got off easy, don't you?" Sirius asked.

McGonagall raised an eyebrow at this while Sirius paled. "Got off easily?" She repeated, rubbing her chin with her fingers. "Well...if you think that I wasn't severe enough with my punishment I could always add to it now..."

"No, no, Minnie." Sirius said quickly. "That's alright, there's no need."

"You can't punish us anyways!" James said defiantly. "We're not your students anymore!"

"Try me." McGonagall retorted.

"Yeah. That could have been much worse." James replied, a huge grin on his face.

"You're digging your own grave," McGonagall sighed, shaking her head.

James and Sirius twitched at that, while Remus only bit his lip. She wouldn't seriously punish them, would she?

Remus rolled his eyes. "A week of detentions isn't bad?"

"Mr. Lupin, you're excused from punishment." McGonagall said, causing Remus to brighten considerably.

"Really?" Remus said. "Sweet!"

"What?!" James and Sirius screeched.

"What punishment? You can't punish us!" James shouted.

"This isn't fair at all!" Sirius growled, glaring at Remus, who gave a cheeky grin in response.

"Give it up," He muttered to Padfoot and Prongs, making sure McGonagall didn't hear. "She just favors me over you."

"Not really. I've gotten into more trouble than that with my parents." James replied. "Anyway, I came up with a new rule for The Marauder's Rules. If one of us gets caught doing something wrong, we don't rat the others out. And no turning yourself in." James glared pointedly at Remus, who whistled innocently. "Remus."

"What was I supposed to do? I would have felt really guilty if I didn't." Remus whined.

"Whined?" Several people repeated, shocked.

"Whined?" Fred said, blinking.

"Whined?" George questioned, gaping at Remus.

"Whined?" Tonks snickered.

"Yes," Remus said dryly. "Whined."

James sighed. "Fine. But from this moment on, we don't turn ourselves in or rat each other out. I'm putting it in the book."

"What book?" Remus asked confused.

"James got this black leather book. We're writing all our rules in it." Sirius explained.

"Do you still have the book?" Hermione asked curiously.

James and Sirius both blinked, before turning to Remus, who gave them a dry look. "Of course you look at me." He muttered. "Yeah, I still have it...somewhere in my flat..."

"Somewhere?" James asked.

Remus shrugged. "I didn't care to look at it so it's just somewhere."

"Of all the books you read, that one should be the most read!" James cried offended. "And yet, you don't read it?" He shook his head.

Remus frowned. "I thought we were the only ones who were supposed to know the rules?"

"We are." James replied, looking at Remus confused.

"What if we lose the book? Someone could find it and read it." Remus explained.

"Why would anyone want to read a book of rules?" Ginny frowned, wrinkling her nose.

"Can't believe we're saying this..." George began.

"But we'd read it!" Fred grinned, making nearly everyone look at them in shock.

"Especially since it's written by the Marauders." They sighed.

"You guys act like lovesick girls over the Marauders." Ron muttered.

Fred and George's eyes widened before smirking.

"Aren't the Marauders just adorable, Georgette?" Fred sighed in a high voice.

"Absolutely charming, Frederica." George said, imitating a girl's giggle.

Ron slammed his head on the table, clawing at his ears as nearly everyone burst out laughing. "I did not need to hear that." He muttered.

Remus, James, and Sirius had slowly leaned away from the Weasley twins as they spoke.

"Remind me not to get too close to them." Sirius whispered.

"As long as you remind me too." James whispered back.

"Deal."

James ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "I didn't think about that."

"I realized that. Just don't lose the book. I think I can find a spell to put on the book so we are the only ones who can read it. I think there is a spell like that. I have to look." Remus replied.

"That will be helpful. I hope there is a spell like that." James said.

The four boys stopped in front of the Fat Lady Portrait. "Password?" She asked.

"Wolfsbane." Remus said.

The portrait swung forward allowing the four boys passage to get into the Gryffindor Common Room. They were met with a round of applause. James and Sirius grinned, happy with the attention. Peter smiled and looked away. Remus blushed and looked at the ground.

"A Marauder not happy with attention?" Lily said in a teasing voice, earning a small blush from Remus. "What has the world come to?"

Remus muttered something incoherent under his breath and continued reading before anyone else could comment.

"Thank you. Thank you." Sirius said, bowing at the applause.

"Genius." Bilius replied, grinning. "I know you four will make my last year here great."

James grinned and sat on one of the couches in front of the fire. Sirius sat next to him and Peter sat in an arm chair. Remus sat next to the fire place with his back leaning against the wall, still blushing heavily and staring at the floor. He hated being the center of attention.

"But being the center of attention is awesome!" Lee exclaimed.

"Yeah, it's like you're the center of the universe!" Fred and George exclaimed.

Remus shook his head. He didn't want that.

"Where did you guys get that idea anyway?" Shawn asked, grinning to.

James and Sirius looked at Remus expectantly.

"Wait, so Remus really was the one to come up with the prank?" Bilius asked, shocked. "I thought you made that up. You said you weren't a prankster."

Remus blushed. "I'm not."

James and Sirius scoffed at that. "You were a prankster before we met you!"

Remus blushed, and glared at the two of them. "Shut it."

"Why don't you make me?" Sirius said teasingly.

Remus narrowed his eyes. "Do you want to have another disagreement with a window, Sirius?"

Sirius blinked at that, before grumbling something and crossing his arms, much to the confusion of others.

"What?" Harry said, confused. "A disagreement with a window?"

"I don't wanna talk about it." Sirius said moodily.

"Don't worry, Harry." Remus smirked. "It will most likely be explained in the books."

"Which also means..." Sirius looked up, smirking. "The picture."

Remus blushed at this and glared at Sirius. "I hate you."

Sirius smirked in response.

"Picture?" Harry questioned.

"Don't question it!" James exclaimed, also embarrassed at the remembrance of it.

"Don't worry, it was most likely be explained in the books." Sirius said teasingly.

"Oh, shut up." Remus muttered.

"Well, he's an amateur prankster. We're still working on corrupting him. He's yet to do stuff like break the rules willingly with us." James explained grinning. "But I think by the end of the year you will see a fully corrupted Remus Lupin."

Bilius laughed. "Good. I want to see how corrupted you make him."

Remus sighed. "Do you really think you can corrupt me?"

"Mission accomplished." Sirius and James smirked, high-fiving.

"Of course. It will just take time." Sirius replied.

"With the prank you came up with I think you already have a mischievous spirit, but you buried it and convinced yourself that you never had a mischievous spirit." Shawn replied.

Remus frowned and thought for a few minutes. He remembered always being a difficult child and playing pranks on his parents and children when his parents forced him to parks.

Sirius and James snorted at that, earning a glare from Remus.

After a while he stopped doing it because of his situation as a werewolf. He grew up at eight when he thought about being a werewolf. Being a werewolf was serious so he stopped with the pranks and stopped being a child. He chose to be a quiet, studious child instead.

A lot of people frowned slightly at that, making Remus twitch slightly. He didn't want sympathy.

James saw Remus smile and smirked. "So Remus, what did you do when you were younger? Had to be bad if you're smiling like that."

Remus blushed and muttered nothing.

"Were you a prankster when you were younger?" Sirius asked, shock clear on his face.

"No need to be so shocked." Remus grumbled.

Sirius grinned, then wrapped and arm around Remus's neck and ruffled his hair in the headlock. "Don't worry, Remy, I don't think that anymore!"

"Ack, lemme go!" Remus exclaimed, struggling against Sirius's hold and he dropped the book on the table.

"Lemme?" James said in mock-shock. "Remus, use correct grammar, it's let me, not lemme."

Remus glared, or as much as someone could glare when in a headlock. "Shut it, James." He grumbled, struggling. "Sirius, let me go!"

James smirked, ruffling Remus's hair, earning a glare, and picked the book up from the table. "I think I'll continue for now." He teased.

"Ack, no! Help me!"

Remus looked away and said nothing.

"You were!" James and Sirius exclaimed at the same time.

Bilius and Shawn laughed and shook their heads in disbelief.

"How a can a prankster change into a quiet, shy student?" Ness asked, appalled by the idea of a prankster changing his personality.

"Anyone would be appalled." Lee commented.

"Of course you would agree with your dad." George said, rolling his eyes.

Lee grinned. "Of course."

"Sirius, let me go!"

"There you go, Remus!" James grinned. "Was that so hard?"

"Remus seems to be having fun." Fred commented.

"Extremely," George grinned. "Just look at how comfortable they look!"

Remus shot them a deadpanned look, still being in Sirius's headlock.

Angel laughed. "So Remus, where did you get your prank idea?"

Remus shrugged his shoulders and smirked. "Why would I give away my secrets?" He looked over at James, Sirius, and Peter to see them with their heads together and talking quickly. "What are you three plotting?"

"Remus Lupin!" Sirius screamed, making many people jump in surprise.

"Why would you suggest we were plotting anything?" James asked, appalled.

Remus finally escaped from Sirius's hold, snatched the book from James's hands, closed it, and then whacked the back of Sirius's head. "Bad dog." He scolded.

Sirius gritted his teeth, holding his abused head. "You're so mean to me!" He whined.

"Hypocrite." Remus muttered, opening the book again and continued reading.

Remus raised a brow. "I know you three."

James smiled innocently. "Well, we're not plotting anything now."

Remus snorted. "Sure you aren't." He stood up. "I'm going to do my homework. See ya."

James waved to him as he left. He watched as Remus went up the stairs to their dorm. He waited until he heard the door close before turning back to his friends to continue their supposed plotting.

"We weren't plotting anything!" James protested, earning a raised eyebrow from Remus.

"I don't believe it." Remus deadpanned.

"You never believe us." Sirius pouted.

"Of course not," Remus scoffed. "You never gave me any reason to."

Remus came back down to the Common Room with his bag. He left and went to the library. In the library he saw Lily sitting there doing her homework. "Hi Lily."

Lily glanced up and glared at Remus. "Remus."

"Are you mad at me?" Remus asked, nervously.

"How could you guys do that to Severus?" Lily growled.

Harry fidgeted with hands. It was still hard to believe that his mom was friends with Snape. He means, c'mon, why would Snape hate him so much if he was the son of his best friend? Snape should at least act decent to him!

Remus sighed. "Oh that. Look I'm sorry. We just did it to….hmm. We had no reason to do it. I guess if you asked Sirius or James, they would say because he's a slimy git who deserved it for being a Slytherin.

"He is." Sirius grumbled, earning a glare from Remus.

Severus glowered at Black and Potter, clutching his fist. Of course they would say that.

But I don't really agree with that. So I'll just say we didn't have an excuse."

Lily frowned and crossed her arms. "That's better than I expected from Sirius or James. I'm glad you didn't give me an excuse to justify your prank. The fact that you also turned yourself in, even when Professor McGonagall didn't call you out, made it better. You four got punished and you gave yourself up. You didn't make some stupid excuse, so I guess I forgive you this time."

"This time?" Harry questioned.

Lily smiled. "Yep, this time." She said, but revealed nothing else.

"Sorry Lils." Remus replied. "Do you mind if I sit here and do my homework with you?"

Lily smiled. "Sure."

"What do we do?" Peter asked.

"We must re-corrupt Remy. That is our goal that we must reach by the end of the year." James replied.

"Our first mission as The Marauders." Sirius declared, smirking.

Remus groaned, setting the book down as he marked the page. "I can't believe that that was your first goal!" He moaned, rubbing his eyes.

James and Sirius shrugged. "Well what else would it be?" They said together.

"Don't even start." Remus grumbled.

"Well on that happy note!" Lily said, smiling as she shook her head. "Who's going to read next?"

"Sirius can!" Remus announced, picking up the book and slamming it against Sirius's chest. Sirius yelped as the force caused him to fall off the bench, causing everyone to burst out laughing.

"Siri?" Remus looked down at Sirius, who was lying on the floor with the book clutched in his hands on his chest. "You alright down there?"

"Remus, I will get you back." Sirius said, glaring up at Remus from the ground.

Remus gave a sheepish smile, shrugging. "Relevant."

"Don't you steal that from us!" Sirius exclaimed, shooting up from the ground and hopping back on the bench next to Remus and Tonks.

"Too late!" Remus smirked.

"I hate you." Sirius growled.

"Mr. Black." McGonagall interrupted. "Don't make me increase your punishment."

Sirius paled, remembering McGonagall's threat from earlier. "Y-you're not really going to punish me, are you, Minnie?" He asked weakly.

"You've just increased it."

"B-but-" Sirius stuttered, before slamming his head on the table. "YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A STUDENT AGAIN!"

Remus chuckled. "Sirius, I think that's the point."

"James, Sirius, possibly Remus, you will serve your punishment during the next break." McGonagall announced.

"What?" Remus said, startled. "Me too? But I thought you said that-"

"I said possibly," McGonagall said. "I'm not sure if you should be punished as well, but I'll get back to you."

"Er...alright then..." Remus said, before slapping the back of Sirius's head. "Quick, start reading." He hissed. "I don't want Minnie to punish us more."

Sirius shivered at the thought and gave a quick nod. "Year 1, chapter 7," Sirius read. "Halloween"

Author: UM. HEY GUYS. I apologize for not updating in a while...? Yeah, I realize you probably hate me right now. But my computer broke. Like, it's legitimately busted. All my stories, finished and unfinished, drawings, reports, EVERYTHING is gone. Luckily, I hate given this chapter to Fallen Crest a while back for her to proofread. And thank Merlin I did! I am not sure when I'll update next time. Sorry to keep you waiting, guys! See you next time! Hopefully!