"So Mary," Lily starts off, while Marlene is tucking in a few strands of hair that came out of Mary's hijab. "Tomorrow's Ramadan right?" Lily asks from her place next to Mary.
Everyone was sitting in a circle on the ground of James’, Sirius’, Peters, and Remus’ dorm.
Mary, Marlene, and Lily sat next to eachother. Next to them, Sirius was laying upside down on Remus’ bed. Resting against the bed sat Remus. Regulus was sitting next to him, while laying his head on James’ shoulder.
Evan was sitting with his legs extended, playing with Barty’s hair whose head was resting on his legs and next to them was Dorcas, closing off their little circle.
“Yup,… well normally, I’ll have to ask McGonagall later.” Mary replies while sending a grateful look to Marlene.
“What’s ramadan?” Barty asks turning his head to look at Mary better.
“So, it’s a holy month in Islam where we can’t eat and drink-“
“NO FOOD?!” Evan cried out.
“NOT EVEN WATER?!” Barty said appalled, while sitting up.
“Salazar Slytherin are you two absolutely stupid?” Regulus cringed.
“Babes do you think it’s physically possible to not eat or drink for a whole month?” Dorcas said, to the two slytherins, already knowing the answer.
“Oh, yeah” mumbled Evan, embarrassed.
“Anyways,” Mary started again, amusement evident on her face.
“You basically can’t eat or drink food from dawn to sunset” She explained, “it’s so you can get closer to God, and also to feel how it would be if you were poor and aren’t able to eat/drink.”
Barty nodded, at that moment Pandora came into the room.
“Boo,” Pandora said- Boo being her catchphrase.
Everyone greeted her in their own ways.
“Hey, love,” Lily said, making space for Pandora to join.
“Oh, Mary, i saw the moon by the way, tomorrow is the first day of Ramadan.” Pandora said as she sat inbetween Lily and Marlene.
“Thank you!” she replied, “saves me a trip to McGonagall.”
Pandora smiled and Lily kissed her temple.
“Oohhh, guys?” Sirius asked, an idea in his head.
“Oh no, I don’t know what you’re planning but I’m not participating.” Regulus said, shutting down his idea before it even made it out of his mouth.
“You didn’t even know what I was going to say!” Sirius barked out, while flapping his arms around.
“Nothing that comes out of your mouth is a good plan” he retorted.
Sirius rolled his eyes- like the drama queen he is.
Drawing out the ‘s’ Sirius started again.“Anyways,” he began. “What i was going to say before my lovely brother interrupted me,” he started again, glaring at his little baby brother. “What if we all like try to fast with Mary this year?” Sirius asked the group.
The group exchanged a few glances before a chain of agreements flew through the circle.
“Eh, why not right?” James agreed.
Mary’s eyes widened before she shook her head with a fond smile.
“Alright, are you all sure? Like sure?” She asked with an expression that looked like she knew more than she was letting on.
Again a chorus of agreements was heard.
“Okay, well, you guys do know that you can’t smoke while you’re fasting right?” Mary said enjoying every second.
“WHAT?!” Barty, Sirius, and Remus shouted in unison at the same time a loud boom was heard.
“AW!” Sirius said, rubbing his head after he just fell out of the bed he was previously laying on like a monkey.
“You must be joking right?” Remus asked Mary distressed.
“Nope, only after sunset. Well, actually muslims can’t smoke at all, but y’all are different anyways.” Mary said popping her ‘p’, while looking way to smug about it.
“Well fuck me in the back,” Barty said sighing, like he just heard the most devastating news ever.
“About that..”
Now almost everyone- expect Peter and Evan -had their jaw open.
“NO FUCKING?!?” Remus cried out.
Mary- looking way to smug -crossed her arms, and shook her head.
“So, you’re telling me no fucking, no cigarettes, AND no alcohol?” Marlene said.
“Yup,” Mary said popping her ‘p’, thriving on her friends’ misery.
A beat passed before Mary spoke again.
“Alright, y’all can do those things after sunset, y’all aren’t actually muslim anyways.” Mary told them, and many relieved exhales were heard.
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Most people wake up to the sunlight leaking in from their windows or a t least wake up naturally. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for Sirius and Remus.
They were peacefully asleep, until they weren't. Remus and Sirius woke up to a bucket of water being poured over them.
Sirius lets out a shriek as the cold water made contact with his face. Meanwhile, Remus lets out a groan that Sirius would have found hot if they were under different circumstances.
"What the fuck is going on?!" Remus finally yells out, shielding them- or atleast trying to- with his hand from the water.
"Get up!" Marlene yells out, and Sirius realizes that she's the one pouring the bucket. "It's time for suhoor!"
"Suh- what?!" Remus shouts out. "And does it have to be at three fucking am?"
"Just fucking get up!" Sirius heard Marlene holler, finally stepping back and giving them a break from the water.
Sirus lets out a groan, and he forces himself to leave Remus' cozy embrace.
"What's going on?" Sirius asks, as he looks around and sees that everyone gathered here- except the Slytherins.
"Well, since we're going to be fasting, there is this meal that we eat before sunrise so we won't be completely starving while we're fasting. It’s called Suhoor, as aforementioned.” Mary explains.
"So get the fuck up so we can get some food from the kitchens," Marlene says. "Or would you like another round of water?"
"Why couldn't you just wake us up like normal human beings?" Remus asks with a groan as he also sits up.
Everyone looks around at each other before James speaks up. "Sorry mate, no one wants to deal with you two's grumpy attitude at 3 am."
"And the best decision was to pour water on us?"
"Yeah,"
"I'm going to murder you lot."
"We love you too, Remus," Lily replies fondly.
"No time for this banter!" Mary yells out. "We need to go get the Slytherins and have suhoor together. Sirius and Remus, go change; we'll be waiting in the common room."
With a reluctant sigh, Sirius and Remus exchanged glances before heading to their closets. "Fine, but if anyone throws water on us again, I swear—" Remus started, but his protest was cut short by the sound of laughter echoing down the hallway.
"Moony?"
"Yeah?"
"Forgot something?”
Remus's lips curl up in a smile before planting a kiss on Sirius's lips.
"Mhm, better." Sirius mutters, pulling Remus into a hug. Remus's arms wrap around his waist while gently stroking his hair.
"Everything okay, Pads?" Remus asks.
"No, I’m awake at 3am, i should be sleeping." Sirius answers, sarcastically, into his chest.
"Such a hard life you live,” Remus replied, rolling his eyes even though Sirius couldn’t see him. “Let's get dressed?" Remus whispers, kissing the crown of his head.
"Yeah, okay." Sirius agrees. They linger for a moment longer, enjoying the warmth of each other's embrace before finally parting.
“Hey!” Remus said, as they changed out of their wet clothes, and Sirius took one of Remus’ jumpers to wear.
“What?” Sirius says with faux-innocence as he puts the jumper over his head.
“That’s mine,” The taller replies.
In response Sirius just sticks his tongue out.
Remus rolls his eyes and continues getting dressed before the both of them make their way to the common room.
"Finally!" James shouts out. "You're here. Let's go to the dungeons now." He jumps up from his seat on the couch.
"Prongs, calm down, Regulus ain’t going nowhere," Peter says, rolling his eyes.
"Just because you don’t have a boyfriend doesn’t mean you can hate on the ones that do." James says sticking out his tongue. Sirius chuckles and soon they all make their way towards the portrait hole.
"Just remember to keep it PG, James," Marlene warns with a teasing grin.
Sirius smirks, adjusting his jumper. "Yeah, Prongs. It's going to be Ramadan."
"You lot pronounce that wrong on so many levels," Mary sighs.
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A while later, they manage to enter the Slytherin common room and sneak into
the dorms without being seen. James of course is the first one to enter.
The dorm room is dark and quiet, the only sounds are the ones of people sleeping.
Recently, Dorcas moved from her dorm to Regulus, Barty, and Evan’s because her dorm mates were bugging her. And even though Pandora might be a Ravenclaw, the amount of times she falls asleep in their dorm- and the amount of stuff of hers she has there -practically makes her a Slytherin.
James immediately made his way to Regulus’ bed, opening the curtains and going inside. The rest was not far behind him, but going to wake up the others.
James sat on the bed, carding a hand through Regulus’ hair, trying to wake him up gently before suddenly the lights flicked on and off repeatedly.
Regulus stirred awake and spoke before his eyes even opened.
“Putain de merde! Qui a allumé les lumières?!” (fucking shit! who turned on the lights?!) He mumbled while rubbing his eyes.
That’s another thing James noticed about Regulus. The first 10 minutes or so after he woke up he’d speak mainly french because his brain didn’t wake up yet, and couldn’t differentiate the two languages.
“C'était moi, fils de putes.” (it was me you son of a bitch) Sirius said before opening the other side of Regulus’ bed curtains.
“Pour l’amour de Dieu- va te faire foutre Sirius.” (for the love of god- go fuck yourself, Sirius) Regulus replied agitated, now opening his eyes fully to look his brother in the eye.
Sirius gasped. “Moony! Reggie’s being mean!” he complained.
Regulus rolled his eyes and in a show of wandless magic closed the curtains again around them, and put a silencing charm up.
Finally he turned back to James.
“Morning,” he said sitting up.
James grinned, brighter than the sun. “Morning,” He replied before capturing Regulus’ lips in a chaste kiss.
“Alright, now i’m whole again” James said.
“Why? Weren’t you whole before?” Reg asked confused.
“Uh, no? I didn’t get a kiss from you before.” James said like it was obvious.
Regulus just chuckled and pecked him on the lips again.
“Alright, now come on let’s go because i don’t want Mary to get mad, that woman is scary” James said and fake shuddered.
Regulus rolled his eyes before he lifted the silencing charm and they exited his bed.
When Regulus took in the room he saw Marlene sitting criss-crossed on Dorcas’ bed seemingly explaining something. Lily stood besides Pandora as she put on shoes. Sirius, Peter, and Evan were trying to wake up Barty (with no progress). And Mary and Remus were standing infront of the door, waiting to leave.
"Do I have permission to pour a bucket of water on Barty?" Sirius asked the group like a teacher asking his students a question.
“At this point I’ll be surprised if even that would even wake him,” Evan said while shaking his boyfriend trying to get him to wake up.
Not even a few seconds later after the approval, Sirius appeared with a bucket of water. Where and how he got it? We don’t know, Merlin, nobody does.
And like expected, Sirius poured the water over Barty, resulting in finally waking him up.
Barty immediately sat up and spluttered awake resulting in the whole group bursting out laughing.
When Barty realised what happened- and most importantly- who happened his face immediately changed.
“LWELD DYAL HMAR, SIRIUS” (SON OF A DONKEY, SIRIUS) Barty shouted and started chasing Sirius- who already ran out of the dorm room, anticipating this.
The rest of the group laughed as they saw the two leaving the dorm- chasing each other.
“Alright, everyone’s up, let’s go to the kitchens” Mary said, pushing everyone out the dorm.
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A while later they all made it to the kitchens. Mary immediately went to the house elves, explaining why they are there at such an early hour.
At the current moment, they're all eating. They’re are people eating eggs, some eating cheese and bread (Mary says it's an Arab thing), others toast or fruit.
“Alright,” Mary says looking over at the clock that hangs on the wall. “Fajr is in 6 minutes guys, just so you know,” she warns them.
“6?!” Peter mumbles with a mouthful full of food.
“Yup, gotta eat faster Petey,” Marlene teases.
Soon, they’re all done and head back to their respective dorms.
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“I’m dying, this is the end, tell my mother i love her- and i mean Effie if that wasn’t obvious,” Sirius whines as he dramatically flings himself on the couch.
“Padfoot, it’s literally only 2pm,” Remus says while carding his hands through Sirius’ hair.
“Pain, hunger, agony!” Sirius continues like Remus never even spoke.
“Yeah, you’re not getting through the day.” James said from the opposite couch.
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“Ow, shit, fucking, OW!” Regulus said, when he entered the marauders’ dorm, tripping over a loose shoe resulting in him tripping and hurting his foot.
“You can’t cuss Reggie!” Sirius remarked from where he was lying on Remus’ bed, reading a muggle magazine.
“The fuck you mean- and where’s James?” Regulus retorted as he stood again normally after his fall.
“Girls’ dorm- anyways, Mary said you can’t cuss while fasting, so..” His older brother replied, smugly, as he put his magazine down so he could take a better look at Regulus.
In response, the slytherin rolled his eyes- probably seeing his own brain- and groaned, mumbling something french under his breath.
“And that also means no cussing in French, Reggie.”
Regulus- seemingly having gotten enough of it- flapped his arms around before leaving the room- not before muttering a “bye,” and promptly left.
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“Where in Merlin’s name are they??” Lily cried out as the whole group- expect James and Sirius, who they are looking for- searched the corridors.
At that moment, Remus and Peter were seen jogging up to them with the map in hand. “Got it,” Remus announced while opening it up to search for the duo.
For a while it’s just everyone searching the map, looking for James and Sirius.
“For fucks sake, we’re eating in 7 minutes how the fuck aren’t they here already?” Barty groaned out, annoyed, as he complained.
“That’s a stuggy bro” Marlene remarked, about Barty’s cussing.
“You mean, Astagfiru’Allah?,” Mary corrected, amused.
“Yeah whatever she said,” she replied flapping a hand to Mary.
“How do you even mess up that-“ Barty started but was interrupted.
“Godrich Gryffindor is this really the moment?” Peter complained as he pointed on the map to show Remus, seemingly having found the boys.
“Where are they?” Dorcas asked.
Remus looked up before speaking. “At the fu-“ he promptly chose another word when he saw Mary’s glare “fun quidditch pitch.”
A chorus of groans and “of course they are” went around the room.
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“Okay, before any of you say anything, in our defence, we still had 2 hours when we got there!” James said when he and Sirius got dragged to the kitchens by Remus and Lily.
“And you guys trust yourself enough to know when those 2 hours are up, WHEN you’re on the quidditch field?” Peter asked indignantly.
“Well- actually, no, yeah- that’s fair. Sorry.” Sirius realised.
“WE KNOW!” everyone said simultaneously.
Mary rolled her eyes. “Anyways, sit, Maghreb is in,” she looked over at Peter’s wrist. “2 minutes”
At that moment everyone joined the table, waiting eagerly till they could start eating.
Mary had asked the house elf’s if they could save a portion of what the rest of the school had for dinner, for them.
“2…1 okay it’s time!” Mary announced.
A serie of relieved groans were heard before everyone started digging in.
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“I’m full,”
“Same,”
“Yup,”
After a little over 25 minutes everyone- expect for Remus, Barty, and Marlene who were still joyfully eating- was done.
“I’m so full i’m not gonna eat for another week” Sirius said leaning his head on Lily, who he was sitting next to.
“Babes, we all know you’ll be eating again tomorrow,” Lily responded, amused.
There was a pause before he spoke up again. “Yeah, probably,” he said shrugging his shoulders.
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“So, how did you guys find fasting?” Mary asked as the whole group retreated to the Gryffindor common room. The slytherin deciding they’ll just sleep in their dorms today as it is a weekend anyway.
“Really easy, like i wasn’t hungry at all.” Sirius said, nonchalantly.
“Hunny, 3 hours ago you were complaining about hunger like you hadn’t eaten in 6 days,” Dorcas replied with an eyebrow raised.
“Huh? Well, that must be my clone, wasn’t me” Sirius denies.
“Mhm, whatever helps you sleep at night,” Peter replied.
“Uhh, i sleep VERY well actually, next to my amazing boyfriend- well, actually no i have insomnia-“
He was cut off by a loud bang.
“What the fuck was that?” Remus asked, confused, as everyone in the group looked around confused, having just made it at the staircase of the common room.
“Oh my- where are Barty and Evan?” Regulus asked, as he looked around.
“Don’t tell me we lost Barty and Evan!” Dorcas said after they don’t locate them anywhere around them.
“Oh, yeah, we’re done,” Pandora replied, somehow keeping calm while the two most chaotic duo- maybe even more chaotic then James and Sirius- of Hogwarts are somewhere, blowing stuff up apperantly.
At that exact moment Barty and Evan appeared from behind the group with the two most bright grins ever.
And Merlin help whoever is on the receiving end of whatever those two did.