Edited: July 27, 2012

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter

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Remus

Sirius

Peter

James

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IT'S OVER! BWAHAHAHA! I WIN!

You do understand that James still doesn't know, right?

Wait, why not?

He doesn't have his book, duh.

Oh yeah…I forgot

I'm going to advise you to take this slowly, Padfoot. Break it to him easy, preferably in private.

Are you kidding? I'm going to do it in front of EVERYONE! BWAHAHAHAHA!

You're going to crush his ego…a lot. He's going to be heartbroken.

So? Remember what he did to me at the last Marauder Duel? He got Dumbledore to announce that I lost at breakfast!

Revenge isn't always the best way to do things though.

It seems to work well for most of the world.

Exactly. Now excuse me while I go humiliate my best friend.

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"Oi! Prongsie!" Sirius yelled as he walked into the Great Hall for dinner.

James was sitting at their usual spots and appeared quite flustered. His eyes darted nervously about the room as if trying to find something. Lily Evans was sitting a few seats down from him, not wanting to miss out on the action.

James' head shot up at Sirius' words. As soon as they made eye contact Sirius waved James' copy of The BOOK in the air, grinning widely.

"FELLOW HOGWARTS STUDENTS!" he yelled, "FROM THIS DAY FORWARD IT SHALL BE KNOWN THAT I, SIRIUS BLACK, AM MORE MANLY THEN JAMES POTTER!"

"WHAT?" James yelled standing up.

"I'm going to ask you to remember Marauder Duel Rule Number 8." Sirius stated smugly.

Remus walked up behind the two, ready to stop any fighting. James was staring at the both of them with a confused look on his face. Obviously he didn't remember so Remus decided to help him out.

"If at any time during the Duel a competing Marauder looses possession of their BOOK, he is there by disqualified and opposite competitor wins by default, still claiming the title," he rattled off.

James' face fell and Sirius whooped with joy. Students who had heard the news were either assuring their friends that they knew that would be the outcome the whole time or passing around lost galleons they had bet. Professor Dumbledore was smiling from his spot and his blue eyes twinkled a bit more then usual.

He knew that these boys would cause a lot of spirits to rise in the upcoming years. Times ahead of them would be brutal and they all needed a laugh. With the forces of Lord Voldemort growing every day, perhaps every hour even, the only thing left they could do was build their own forces and try to laugh while they could.

"Sorry Potter," Lily said coming up behind them, "you need to learn not to get distracted so easily." She ran a hand through his hair mockingly before walking to sit with her friends.

James was speechless. He turned to Sirius with a frown.

"You recruited Evans?" he asked. His frown slowly turned into a wide grin. "Nice going mate. Never knew you were that smart."

"I take that offensively." Sirius said monotonously while sitting down.

"That's good, you were supposed to. Congrats by the way, you make a worthy opponent." He said slapping his best friend on the back.

"Your not bad yourself…I'm still manlier though,"

James sighed in defeat and dug into his treacle tart. Perhaps he would win next time.

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One of the most entertaining Marauder's Duel yet I suppose.

You got that right; it was brilliant!

You're just saying that because you won.

Yeah, you're right

Now what?

I guess we just have to continue on with life. You know how it is after the duels.

Yep. We'll catch up in detention, have prank withdrawals, and be bored out of our minds.

Same as always. I assume that you'll find something else to duel over before too long though.

Probably. You forgot one thing on your list though, Padfoot.

What is it?

Catching up with Lily! Do you know how many times I lost the opportunity to ask her out during all this? What if she would've said yes and I've already missed my chance!

Suuuurrrreee Prongs.

I'm serious!

No I am! BWAHAHAHAHA

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The End! I hope you all enjoyed it :). I'd like to thank all my lovely reviewers and those who favorite this story! It was a lot of fun to write. Take a look at my story "Life of Lily" if you have time, the first chapter to the sequel, "Face the World Fighting" is out Saturday.

-Sweets5236