GENERAL
Four
bored marauders (one of them incapable of
speech because of a, uhm, potion) sat at the back of the class and
tried to amuse themselves the best they could during Defence Against
the Dark Arts, trying not to get noticed by Professor Malfoy.
It
was one of those theoretical lessons where the students had to answer
questions from their book on their own, and
since Remus always tried to be a couple of chapters ahead everybody
else, he had been kind enough to share the correct answers with his
friends and thus leaving them some time to work on their Snape-art.
"I
know I said there's no such thing as too big an ass" said James,
observing their work in progress. "But now
the head is hidden! How can we tell it's Snape?"
"No
problem, I'll just add some greasy hairs to his buttocks" Sirius
drew some lines on both cheeks. "But the question now is: What are
we gonna do about the nose we can no longer see?"
Both
James and Sirius stroke their invisible beards. Remus glanced at the
picture and simply drew the nose on the crack.
James and
Sirius beamed, nearly crying from pride.
"Moony
you're a true artist!"
"Thanks,
but I already knew that"
Suddenly,
before any of them had time to react and hide the portrait, it was
lifted to the air and caught by Professor Malfoy.
"Well,
well, what's going on here then?" he said. "500 points from
Gryffindor for not paying attention in class"
"What
were we supposed to pay attention to?" James argued.
"Another
500 points for being you"
All
the rest of the Gryffindors glared at Lucius, but he just looked at
the picture for about a second. Then he started laughing so hard he
returned the taken points, added a thousand, dismissed the class,
framed the drawing and put it on his desk.
As usual,
Remus went straight to the library to do some homework. James and
Sirius went there too, followed by Peter, because they wanted to work
on the map-insults.
"So in
case this map gets lost, one of a thousands people may find it"
said James, tapping his quill against the table. "There's no way
we can write personal insults for a thousand people"
"I'm
sure there's some spell that makes the insults write themselves as
if they came straight from our heads" Sirius swinged his legs
restlessly from where he sat at the top of a bookcase.
"Uhm Mr
Prongs wonders for what exact purpose would somebody already have
invented a spell like that, stupid"
Sirius
threw a book in James' head. "Mr Padfoot would like to suggest
that there must be loads of situations where such a spell could come
in handy"
"Mr
Prongs dares Mr Padfoot to name one"
"Er Mr
Padfoot would like to think about it"
"Mr
Prongs gives Mr Padfoot 3 seconds"
"Mr
Padfoot wonders who Mr Prongs thinks he is, the time police?"
"Mr
Prongs takes that as Mr Padfoot can't think of a situation"
"Mr
Padfoot wonders who Mr Prongs thinks he's fooling, calling himselfMr…"
"Mr
Prongs would like to warn Mr Padfoot for he is about to kick his ass"
"Mr
Padfoot is getting bored waiting for Miss Prongs to bring it on, the
pansy"
And then
Mr Prongs did bring it on. And while he and Mr Padfoot were tumbling
about among the books, Mr Moony had gotten inspired to invent a spell
that would automatically insult whoever would come across the map and
started browsing through potentially useful books. Done bringing it
on, James and Sirius decided to help out.
"Remember,
guys, I don't want Lily to be insulted by anyof us in case she happens to come
across the map" said James.
"You're
not the boss of my insults" said Sirius.
"Seriously,
I'm warning you!"
Sirius
frowned. "Oh are you now? Well in that case, I have a girl I'd
like to be free from insults as well"
"Who?"
James glared at him.
"Dorcas"
"You are
so immature! Only because she and Lily had a big fight!"
Sirius
shrugged. "What can I say? She's the love of my life!"
"Yeah
right, that's why you broke up with her, and NOT because one of her
ears is slightly bigger…"
"It
takes love to notice details like that, you know"
James
turned to Remus for support.
"Moony
tell him off!"
"You do
realize you're both prats?"
"Mr
Wormatil is hungry" Peter squeaked randomly.
"Go eat
then"
Feeling
somewhat neglegted, Peter trotted out of the library.
Silence
followed. The remaining marauders found a way to make the map insult
pretty much everybody in the world that at least worked in theory,
but since it involved some complicated magic they couldn't try at
the moment, at least Remus continued with his homeworks.
"I'm
bored" said Sirius after what felt like hours but really were two
seconds. "Let's go on a adventure!"
His
friends thought that was a jolly idea.
(A/N: Right, what can I say? I hope you enjoyed this part enough to stay tuned! As you migh have guessed, the next part will be written in adventure style. Ish. Queen rules, by the way! Ask Sirius!)