School start's.
Dorcas and Evan have been down in the great hall eating breakfast since early morning. They were very surprised to see scattered pages around the table, in between the plate and some even in the food. As they sat down to eat the page definitely caught their eyes and so they read it. 'It' apparently being the new school newspaper, neither of them have heard of Hogwarts having a school newspaper and nothing has been mentioned about it. Well, ever.
So they read it and they laughed, gasped and choked on their water as they did. By the time they had finished reading it and talking about it, others were coming into the room and they simply watched everyone else's reactions to it. They found it amusing, other's found the paper amusing too.
Dorcas didn't know a lot about Quidditch but Emma Vanity, the Slytherin Quidditch captain, did not take the paper well. More so, the small Quidditch section.
Other's, like Dorcas and Evan were waiting for a specific group of Gryffindor's who had been called out. Especially one specific Gryffindor named Sirius Black. "How do you think they'll react?" Evan asked as they continued to watch others read the paper. "What? The'Marauders'?" She made air quotes as she sighed the name with a scoff, "Probably dramatically."
"Wanna make a bet?" Evan smirked her way and Dorcas huffed a small laugh before smirking back. "What's the bet?" She asked.
"I bet- that," He looked around as he thought for a second. "Black will run around the room and demand to know who wrote it." Evan held out his hand as he finished with a laugh. Dorcas was already smiling at the thought of that happening. "Alright," She extended her arm and shook his but before letting go she said; "I bet he'll pretend he's been physically hit and lean on someone, dramatic ass." She was laughing already. "What are we betting?" She asked as she ate some more toast.
"5 Galleons?" Evan questioned and they nodded to each other before continuing to eat. It wasn't that much later that multiple ghosts had crowded around some Ravenclaw's and were reading the paper, it seems most of them didn't know about the new romance between two of the ghost's. Barty and Pandora joined shortly after and then Regulus joined.
"Mate! What took you so long? You nearly missed it, it'll be any second now." Evan shouted excitedly as he made room for him on the bench.
"I was flying, what's happening?" He questioned suspiciously, eyeing all of the giddy faces around. "There's a genius amongst us." Barty said, it sounded like a boast.
"Just read this quickly," Dorcas pushed the paper into his hands and he read it quietly;
‘HOGWARTS HACKED.’ Was the title
"Has Sirius seen this?" He questioned as soon as he read his part.
"Not yet," Evan said as he held back a laugh, Pandora was also holding back laughter. Regulus laughed lightly before asking, "Who wrote it?"
"No one knows," Dorcas said dramatically as she rolled her eyes. "It's not that bad, it might be interesting to see what else they put."
"Not that bad?! It's amazing!" Barty countered but winced and calmed down shortly after.
"It's certainly something," Regulus mumbled as he ate his breakfast and occasionally looked at the entrance to the great hall. It was mere minutes later that all four of the lot came stumbling in, as soon as they did everyone else went quiet and looked at them. Regulus laughed at the dramatics and turned away from them.
HOGWARTS HACKED
The Marauder’s. Since they have given themselves the name, we have been given more and more pranks by the four not so anonymous Gryffindor’s. Can we expect the same this year? Most people ask how do they do it? Some even ask why they are not so anonymous about their escapades? But I am wondering when karma is going to get back at these boys, who have been making enemies all around. Will this be the year The Marauder’s finally get what they have been giving? Will anyone teach these boys some manners or will they continue to get away unscathed.
And last year’s Gryffindor ‘it’ boy, Sirius Black, has been on a hiatus recently from relationships since his last blew up in his face. Is this a self-healing break? Or has the Gryffindor’s self-appointed Casanova simply lost his charm?
By your favourite Tattletale.
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They were late for breakfast, they all knew this. What they didn't know was why everyone was staring and when they did notice the staring they became uncomfortable with it considering they hadn't done anything. Eye's followed them as they walked to the table and as they sat down. James smiled sheepishly at the people staring before leaning into the table to whisper, "Why are we being stared at?" He asked hastily.
"Did one of you guys pull a prank without us?" Peter asked from his side and they all shook their heads. "I think- this has something to do with it." Remus pointed to the paper in front of him and they all leaned over to him to read it until he pushed them all away. "You have your own." He pointed to the paper's in front of them and they all went; "Ahh." Before they started to read, Remus just poured himself a coffee as he read. Trying not to laugh in the process.
Peter glanced at it but was mostly looking at the others reactions, biting his lip in anticipation.
James' eyebrows raised higher and higher as he read, his eyes widening as he looked up to meet Sirius' reaction. The girls next to them were laughing now, smacking the table as Marlene tried to hold it in.
Sirius leaned in closer to the paper, coming strangely close to his face as he took in the words. He put it down and for a moment, everything was silent. He made eye contact with James before standing up suddenly. Remus shook his head already.
"So!" Sirius clapped, everyone was already watching him. "Who wrote this?" He asked as he looked around the hall, people still smiling and laughing at it all, narrowing his eyes as no one answered. "I just want to know!" He jumped up onto the table and showed the paper around, his arms flapping around. "Who wrote this!" He pointed to it again and now everyone was laughing as they looked at each other. James also stood on the table, in solidarity with Sirius and started to interrogate people at random.
"Was it-" James paused dramatically as he swivelled onto someone. "YOU! Benjy Fenwick!" He pointed at the Ravenclaw table dramatically and Sirius turned onto him as well as they both stared at him.
He laughed awkwardly, "No. It wasn't me." He shook his head.
"Hmm." Sirius scratched his invisible beard in thought. "How about you-" He turned to the other side of the table. "Dedalus Diggle!"
"Why would I do this?" The boy laughed as he tried to eat.
"Yes! For revenge for when we changed all of your notes into Gobbledegook!" James agreed as they both now turned to the Hufflepuff table, if anyone could do this and be this petty, it was Hufflepuff's.
Remus groaned as his head hit the table and Peter had to use all his strength not to laugh because-
"That was you!?" Dedalus raised from his seat as he shouted.
"What the hell?" Someone else spoke up from the Hufflepuff table. "I can't believe you did that!" Doris Purkiss stood up with Dedalus, many others started to stand and demand answers.
James and Sirius realised their mistake immediately and started to back away, climbing down from the table and backing away to the entrance of the great hall as they let out nervous puffs of laughter.
"You're going to pay for that!" Walden shouted as he started to run at them, half the Hufflepuff table following after him. The two boys set off running, just as they got to the entrance of the great hall McGonagall appeared before them. They had to swerve and move hastily so they didn't bump into her and she startled before going to shout at them. Then over a dozen Hufflepuff's also came out the hall running after them and McGonagall just sighed. Ignoring them all she walked away.
"Minnie!" James shouted from the end of the hallway but she just turned the corner, taking off her glasses and cleaning them on her robes. "Morning boys," She said to Remus and Peter who did not go unscathed and had green goo all over them.
"Morning Professor.." They grumbled together as they wiped the goo from their eyes and ears.
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"So who wins?" Evan asks as he laughs.
"I don't think either of us do." Dorcas added as she eyed the Hufflepuff's, they were scary when they wanted to be.
Regulus just shook his head, watching his brother run from a horde of Hufflepuff was very entertaining. He couldn't help the hope that he'd get caught by them all, he was still upset. Pandora shook her head with a smile as she took some toast from Regulus's plate. Barty was still howling with laughter as he slammed his hand onto the table.
"I'm gonna to get going." Dorcas said as she stood from the table, "You still owe me a bet." She pointed at Evan as she slung her bag around her shoulder.
"Where are you going?" Pandora asked as she finished her toast.
"First, Charms." She sighed, it wasn't her favourite class.
"Oh, I'm on the fifth." She frowned at Dorcas who laughed slightly. "I'll see you at break, alright?" She said and Pandora nodded at her.
"Get going already." Barty complained, Dorcas turned to try and ruffle his hair but he grabbed her wrist and held it far from him. She put her other hand on his shoulder and squeezed her fingers together close to his neck, it made him cry out and she managed to mess up his hair with a victory cry. Before she felt the hair gel over her hand and she retracted it with a groan. "Why do you put so much gel in your hair!" She cried out as she tried to shake her hand and her whole body cringed at the feeling.
Evan laughed as he watched Dorcas walk away, still shaking her hand, before looking back at Barty. His hair was flopped to the sides as he tried to fix it, a huff left his mouth.
Regulus shook his head as he went to stand, Pandora doing the same and she smiled softly as they stepped away from the table. "You guys coming?" He turned to the other two.
Barty was shaking his head as he still messed with his hair. Evan tore his eyes from the boy opposite him, "We'll catch up." Evan said and so they left the two in the great hall.
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James plopped down onto the bench as he sighed heavily trying to catch his breath.
"You alright?" Peter asked with a cheeky smile, the goo gone from himself. James just looked at the other before laughing, letting his head fall forward onto the table. Peter reached over and took some goo out of his hair as he chuckled himself, James just groaned as he pulled his hand through his hair. "Any more?" He asked as he moved his head around.
There was a clear melted ball of green goo on the side of his head but Peter didn't say anything. Just shook his head.
"This reminds me of the goo I put in Sirius's trunk. It was such a good pink colour Pete, I'll have to show you." He smiled, his teeth showing through his grin as he turned to Peter.
"You've started a prank war within our group? That's what you're telling me?" Peter clarified as he playfully glared at his friend.
"I mean… That’d be a pretty fun idea.." He trailed off as he looked away from his friend, they both didn't notice Remus coming to sit behind them. "But! How was spain?" James asked Peter excitedly.
Peter thought for a moment before replying, "It was hot, the people were really nice too. There was this festival on the street's at one point and it was so fun! I walked around with some other's I had met, I wanted to tell them I didn't want to go with them but then my parents were like, go with them and have fun. So." He told his friend with a shy smile.
"Ah, at least you had fun! It sounds good, I'd love to go to a festival!"
"If there's one going on, I'll take you James!" Peter exclaimed with a wide closed off smile.
"Thank you, Pete." James said as he wiped away a fake tear, Peter giggled at his friend's dramatics.
"Have you guys seen Sirius?" Remus asks from behind them, they both jump. Scared from the voice as they turn to look at him with wide eyes. Remus ignores them and continues to look around for Sirius.
James clears his throat as he gains his bearings, "Er- I don't think so. We got split up.." He tells his friend, Peter shook his head.
Remus nods at him as he continues to read his book, a crease digging between his eyebrows. "You guys are so done for!" Marlene exclaims as she leans forward on James and Peter's desk.
"What? Why?" James asked, Remus just rolled his eyes before looking back at the door again.
"Did you already forget?" James' head whips to the side in the direction of Lily Evans. Her green eyes looking at him from under her scarlet hair, she had curtain bangs that slid across her cheeks. Those were new and James couldn't look away.
"Forget what?" Peter asked from his side, elbowing James to get him to stop staring probably. Lily had already looked away, focusing on her work now. James sighed as he turned away, at least she was talking to him. That had to be an improvement.
"Oh my-" Marlene shook her head, "The prank that you did. That got exposed. People have been talking about getting revenge." She smirked at them, she might be a Gryffindor but she has also been a victim to their pranking. It's safe to say that Marlene has been waiting for this to happen. Possibly to, maybe, also participate in it.
"Revenge?" Peter questioned, as if the thought had never crossed his mind.
"I doubt they could." James shrugged with a grin on his face, his arms coming up as he interlocks his fingers behind his head.
Remus started to say something before someone interrupted.
"Don't be so sure about that." The nasally voice stand's out, they all look over to see Snape standing next to Lily. She sighed, Marlene went over straight away forcefully moving past to sit next to Lily, he snarled at her. "This is my seat." Marlene said as she pointed down, glaring at him. Lily rolled her eyes at the dramatics and started to work again, ignoring everyone.
"Why shouldn't we be so sure?" James asked, leaning back on the bench so his shoulders rested against Remus's desk.
Snape look's over all of them, "Everyone has something." He says, sounding like a threat. No one took it as one.
James laughed, a loud one second laugh forcefully coming out before he looked back up at Snape with a grin. Snape crossed his arms and side eyed him, words rolling around his tongue.
"Sorry, were we supposed to be scared by that?" James asked with fake innocence and condescendence written in his eyebrows as they moved, Peter tried to hide a small smile as he looked between the two.
Snape opened his mouth to talk back but they all focused on the sound of a book closing harshly. As they looked over they saw Lily Evans staring at all of them, "Just- stop it!" She said to everyone around, “Go sit down, Severus.” She stared at him before pointing to the otherside of the room, usually she’d be shouting at James or Sirius.
As Severus turned around to go back he bumped into someone, doing a double take as he looked down. “What the fuck are you doing here, Black?”
The Gryfindors all turned their heads up, expecting to see Sirius. “Going to class?” Regulus replied insead, everyone looked at them confused.
Muliciber sneered, “You think you're funny?”
Ignoring him he tried to walk past the desk but Snape pushed his shoulder and saw how his body twitched from pain.
“I don’t know why you were so closed off this morning,” He grabbed his wrist to twist his arm up. “Not with what’s on your forearm.” Chairs scraped against the floor.
Regulus didn’t know how Snape knew about the Dark Mark but the fact he was trying to imply Regulus had it, followed him after what he did? With a closed fist at his side, he wanted to punch the smirk off his face.
Someone else stood in front of him first, “Hands off greasy.” Barty, with two hands on his chest, shoved Snape away. “Next time you’ll lose your hand.”
“No unauthorised magic,” He stood as tall as he could, “I see any and as prefect I’d have to punish you effectively.” He only became prefect for a power-trip.
But Barty- well his mind worked differently, “Who mentioned magic?” He looked back at Regulus with a grin and shrug, “Do you know how strong the human jaw is?” He leaned forwards and bit the air, his teeth clashing together.
Snape, disgusted, moved over to his desk instead of answering.
“Anyone else got a problem with Regulus?” He looked towards the Slytherins, although they were a year above them Barty didn’t care, he held eye contact with Mulciber and Avery.
But Regulus grabbed his arm and moved them away. The rest of the room shared confused and slightly concerned looks as they watched Barty move to sit down. Turning around to bite at the air towards them once more. “Why are you here? Also- how about we keep our mouths to ourselves?” Regulus whispered, also concerned.
He smirked back, “Simply impossible when you’re around, darling, and you think you're the only one good at charms.” Barty's eyebrow raised, "When I do things why do I get a knife thrown at me and Snape and Mulciber don’t?” He squinted.
“I'm squeamish.” He dryly replied.
“Pulease, I remember last year when you were bouncing with joy at dissecting the baby owl-”
“I was not joyful-”
“Your eyes practically lit up!”
“I was holding a candle!” They whispered to each other heavily.
“You were still happy..”
“Evan was keeping it in the dorms and its cries kept me up all night!” He took books out of his bag, “So excuse me if I was glad to finally get some sleep.”
“Doesn’t explain the dissection..”
“Do you not remember having to get blood drawn?” Regulus narrowed his eyes and watched as Barty looked around with confusion. “Oh my days- the owl was sick? Hagrid and Pomfrey found a rash on it-”
“Right!” Barty snapped his fingers, “I remember now. We almost died.”
“Your memory is astonishing.” He almost slapped his palm against his head until Barty started to get books out of his bags. “What are you doing?”
“Going to class?” Regulus stared. “I’m good at Charms? Do you not remember who helped you with your assignments."
"You mostly copied my work!" He whispered back as he took out his leather book.
"And I'm gonna do it again."
“I’ll hop on that broom.” Dorcas scared them as she sat in the desk behind them.
The professor walked into the classroom, “Good Morning class?” He asked and as he put his books down Sirius stumbled into the class late.