SDCC Panel | Marauders: Managers of Mischief

“Hello San Diego Comic-Con! I am your host for this afternoon's panel Alexis Shelley, we will be joined shortly by the cast of Marauders: Managers of Mischief. Are you guys excited?!!” the moderator calls out into the audience, being met with screams and cheers.

“I thought so! Now we will be doing audience questions later but not until the second half of the panel so start thinking now! As always you are allowed to record the panel. We just ask that you keep your flash off and try not to obscure others' view of the stage! Now without further ado, I present to you our wonderful cast! Starting out the gate with the charming and wonderful Remus Lupin, who plays everyone's favorite werewolf, Andrew Garfield!” Alexis says with a flourish of her arm. Remus comes out on stage waving with a bright smile before sitting down at the far end of the table.

“Next we have the notorious Sirius Black, who plays the ever charming Ben Barnes!” Sirius runs out onto the stage blowing a kiss at the audience resulting in the room erupting into screams before he sits himself next to Remus, placing a hand on the man's shoulder and giving it a squeeze with a smile.

“Following that we have the lovely Ms. Lily Evans, who plays the brilliant Sophie Skelton,” Lily comes out with a wave and a sweet smile before sitting down.

“After her we have James Potter, who plays everyone's favorite loverboy Aaron Taylor-Johnson!” James trots out on stage before sitting next to Lily, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek in greeting causing another eruption of cheers to fill the room.

“The fourth Marauder, Lewis Capaldi, played by the hilarious Peter Pettigrew!” Peter saunters out onto the stage then with a lazy wave before sitting next to James.

“Next, everyone’s favorite enemy, Louis Garrel! Played by the talented Severus Snape is here, along with the sweet Mary McDonald, who plays Sophia Bryant!” Severus and Mary come out waving and smiling before quickly sitting down at the table beside Peter.

“And finally, we have the other Black brother! Regulus Black, who plays the cunning Timothee Chalamet Barnes also known as T.C.B!” Regulus walks out with a shy smile and a wave before sitting down to uproarious applause.

“Hello San Diego!” Remus says with a smile, the rest of the cast giving a variation of the greeting as well while they wait for the volume of the room to subside.

“Before anyone asks, Marlene and Dorcas aren’t here because they’re both filming elsewhere!” Mary says before Alexis can start the interview.

“Yes, Dorcas is currently filming in Greece, she sent me a picture this morning of the ocean. I am very jealous,” Severus comments with a small laugh, Sirius letting out a loud gasp.

“She sent you a picture?! I asked for a picture last week and still haven’t gotten a response,” Sirius huffs with a shake of his head, the audience chuckling.

“Because she likes me more than you,” Severus retorts with a smirk and Sirius gapes at him.

“Excuse me! I am a delight to have around!” Sirius says, making Severus laugh.

“He says like a petulant child,” Remus smirks and Sirius whips his head towards Remus.

“This petulant child is also your roommate remember,” Sirius glares at Remus who has started to laugh.

“Is that a threat Sirius?” Remus smiles, Sirius putting on an exaggerated glare.

“It’s a promise Lupin. Say goodbye to your books,” Sirius says in a threatening voice, the audience laughing and Remus grabs at his heart like he’d been shot.

“Not my books!” he wails and everyone laughs.

“Are you two done flirting now?” Peter asks with a raised brow, James smacking his arm.

“Don’t point it out! Now they’ll stop!” James stage whispers, the audience laughing.

“Ignoring these four idiots and back to the point! Marlene is filming in New York right now for some indie project which is why they aren’t here!” Lily says, gesturing to either side of her to the four Marauders.

“We prefer the term class clown, Evans,” Peter says into his mic looking over at Lily who shook her head.

“This is what we deal with on set by the way,” Lily states, the audience letting out a laugh.

“I think you mean entertained with!” James protests, Sirius holding his hand up above Lily’s head that James high-fives harshly.

“I know I’ve asked this before Regulus, but are you certain Sirius isn’t adopted?” Mary asks, looking at Regulus who bursts out in laughter.

“Stop questioning my birth McDonald!” Sirius calls as Regulus bites his lip to hold back his laugh.

“Reggie I swear if you say anything I’m stealing your books as well,” Sirius says pointing down the table at Regulus.

“Fine. I’ll be nice…” Regulus smirks, glancing over at Sirius.

“A true miracle for you,” Sirius smirks back with a wink to his brother, who bursts into a fit of giggles making Sirius beam.

“Awe Baby Black is laughing,” Mary coos along with the audience making Regulus blush, dipping his head bashfully.

“Don’t we have some questions to answer?” Regulus mumbles as Mary coos and rubs his arm.

“Yes we do!” Alexis says, perking up now that the cast had settled a bit, picking up her cards.

“Our first question is one that everyone wants the answer to. When are Andrew and Ben getting together?!” Alexis asks, making the whole cast turn to look at Sirius and Remus.

“Why is everyone looking at us? We’re not on the writers team!” Remus says with a laugh looking around at everyone.

“They think we know what happens, it seems….” Sirius stage whispers leaning in close to Remus, glancing down the table at the rest of the cast

“It appears so… Shall we just make something up you think?” Remus asks for all to hear.

“Definitely,” Sirius smirks.

“So now that Ben has run away from home he immediately calls up Andrew,” Sirius says looking at Remus who hums in response.

“Andrew answers and says ‘What’s up I’m gay!’,” Remus adds on trying not to laugh, making Sirius snicker.

“So Ben is like ‘Oh it’s go time’ and he decides to forego sharing that he’s run away and asks Remus out for the following night,” Sirius says with a shit eating grin.

“Andrew accepts but it's a full moon that night so part way into their date Andrew transforms and nearly kills Ben,” Remus says turning to Sirius who laughs.

“But he doesn’t, he just becomes a werewolf instead. So they run off to be in a wolf pack,” Sirius says with a nod from Remus.

“And the last shot of them is of the two holding hands before they kiss because I know that’s really what everyone wants,” Remus says pointing out at the audience who cheer.

“Yeah, I know about the fanfiction. I’ve seen the fanart,” Remus smiles looking around the audience.

“Why have you seen the fanart Lupin?” Severus asks, looking at Remus who shrugs.

“Everyone knows I am the Captain of the ship that is WolfPads, of course I’ve seen the fanart,” Remus laughs and Sirius wraps his arm around Remus’ shoulder.

“And I, your second, mate,” Sirius says looking at Remus who looks right back with a small smile.

“Of course,” Remus says softly, the two staring into each other's eyes for a moment too long.

“Anyway uh… the answer is we don’t know when, but at some point I’m hoping,” Remus says looking away from Sirius who just keeps watching Remus with his signature heart eyes.

“Alright next up. This is from Twitter from Jegulustrash37 who asks: Severus Snape, will Louis ever not suck? Love you, hate Louis,” Alexis reads off, making everyone laugh including Severus.

“Um, well I’m flattered but unfortunately I think Louis is just built to be awful,” Severus says bursting out with laughter.

“I mean he’s basically a stalker of Sophie, so… I think he’s… he’s got A LOT of character development to go through if he’s not going to suck,” Severus says with James humming in agreement.

“I agree though we love Sev, he plays an asshole oddly well,” James says, eyeing Severus suspiciously who laughs.

“I’m sorry!” He replies, smiling as they all turn to look back at Alexis.

“My next question is for Peter and Lily. You two are very popular on Tik Tok, what do you like about the app?’ Alexis asks, Peter smirking.

“I just love taking the piss. Oh and acting like I know spoilers when I don’t,” Peter says everyone laughing.

“I just like sharing things with fans,” Lily shrugs when James and Peter turn to look at her.

“I’m boring in my answer. I'm sorry!” Lily says and James pulls her into his side for a hug.

“You’re not boring, you adorable angel,” James says, kissing her temple, some of the audience cooing.

“Thank you Jamie,” Lily smiles.

“So when's the wedding?” Peter asks dreamily, watching the couple who laugh in response.

“You wish Pettigrew,” Lily says with a smile, Peter wiggling his eyebrows at the audience. Lily lets out another laugh leaning across James to lightly smack Peter’s arm.

“Next question please!” James asks, making the rest of the room laugh.

“Yes of course. Our next question is for the general cast, who is the early bird? Who likes early call times?” Alexis asks and everyone groans.

“James or Marlene. They’re freaks who love getting up at like five am to work out and stuff,” Mary says, getting nods of agreement from the rest of the cast.

“Yeah James will try and get me to come work out with him sometimes but it’s like six am and since I usually have to do shoots at night I don’t get to bed until like three. So I always have to tell him to bugger off,” Regulus says with a bashful smile making everyone at the table laugh a bit.

“Yeah James is always trying to get us to go work out in the early mornings but he seems to forget that most of us are night owls,” Remus says with a shake of his head giving a look of disbelief to the audience, Sirius still hung on Remus’ shoulder.

“I’m sorry I just want to spend time with my friends!” James squawks with wide eyes and Peter pats his head.

“There. There. Freak of nature,” Peter coos at James, who scrunches his nose at Peter.

“You lot are the weirdos, staying up until the wee hours of the night…” James mutters with a huff.

“Oh poor Jamie has to see the break of dawn alone,” Sirius coos sarcastically, James flipping him off with a laugh.

“Alright! Next question is for Remus,” Alexis says and Remus straightens up.

“Oh this can’t be good,” He says, getting a small laugh.

“Twitter user MoonyPad_woof wants to know: Remus, did the casting director just see your name and automatically give you the part of Andrew?” Alexis reads and Remus starts to laugh.

“No, I uh… I did have to audition, but I do agree it is quite ironic that my name is basically Wolfy McWolf and I play a werewolf. I actually didn’t originally audition for the part of Andrew funnily enough,” Remus says with a chuckle, Sirius perking up and furrowing his brow at Remus.

“I didn’t know that, who’d you audition for?” Sirius asks, studying Remus closely who meets Sirius’ gaze with a smirk.

“I actually auditioned for two parts. I auditioned first for Louis and then for Ben,” Remus says with a knowing glint in his eye and Sirius’ eyes widen in awe.

“No way! How have I never heard about this?! We live together!” Sirius exclaims, making Remus shake his head with a chuckle.

“You’ve never told me what parts you auditioned for,” Remus says simply as Sirius continues to stare wide eyed.

“Cause I got the part!”

“You’re telling me you only auditioned for the part of Ben and nothing else?” Remus asks with a tilt of his head.

“Yes! How on earth did you not get the part of Ben?!” Sirius asks incredulously, making Remus laugh loudly before turning a soft gaze to Sirius again.

“Something about not being handsome enough or something,” Remus says with a small smirk to which Sirius scoffs loudly.

“No way in hell it was because of that. You are so bloody hot Remus Lupin,” Sirius says, the audience wooing and cheering in agreement.

“See! Everyone agrees so it can’t have been that!” Sirius says, gesturing out to the audience making Remus flush.

“I actually don’t know why I didn’t get cast as Ben, but I have been told that before for why I wasn’t cast in other roles,” Remus says shyly and Sirius stares with his mouth slightly agape.

“When? For what role?!” Sirius asks and Remus flushes a darker red.

“You’re not gonna like the answer to that one,” Remus mutters as Sirius stares, imploring him to answer, making Remus sigh as he prepares for the inevitable reaction Sirius will have.

“A few years ago I auditioned for the role of Prince Caspian in Narnia, and I asked my agent why I wasn’t cast and after badgering the hell out of her she finally told me it was because I wasn’t handsome enough for the role,” Remus says looking out at the audience, some of them making pained oooing noises and a few laughing.

“And for those of you unaware, and I can tell there are a few because some of you look quite confused. Well… Prince Caspian was uh… played by none other than the lovely Sirius Black right here…” Remus gestures his thumb towards Sirius looking bashfully down at the table and biting his lip as Sirius stares, fully slacked jawed and wide eyed.

“You sexy bastard that is not true!” Sirius exclaims, making Remus wince slightly at the volume.

“Trouble in paradise everyone…” Mary says from down the table but Sirius ignores her.

“Did you actually audition for Prince Caspian?!” Sirius asks and Remus nods smiling.

“I didn’t expect to get it, I hadn’t done anything yet. I think the most exciting thing I had done at that point was a small role in like… two episodes of Doctor Who?” Remus shrugs as Sirius still stares.

“But you should have… You’d have made such a hot Prince Caspian…” Sirius says, staring intently at Remus’ face, licking his lips slowly. Remus blushes slightly and dips his head to hide his gaze from Sirius.

“Well you did make a hot Prince Caspian so it’s alright…” Remus says looking up at Sirius who Remus could have sworn was closer than a moment before.

“KISS!!!” someone shouts from the crowd and both Remus and Sirius break their gaze snapping back to reality as they look out at the audience.

“What did we say about not pointing it out?!?!” James shouts, making the hall erupt in laughter, Sirius removes his arm from around Remus then and instead rests his arms on the table in front of him, flushing ever so slightly as he scratches at his beard. “Honestly you people learn nothing,” James tsked with a shake of his head turning to look at Alexis who lifted her cards once again.

“Right. Since your show revolves around a group of troublemakers, who is the troublemaker on set?” Alexis asks and Severus lets out a snort.

“James and Sirius. They’re always conspiring about something. You’ll notice they’ve seated Lily between them to prevent them from pulling anything today,” Severus says, eyeing down the table at the two in question.

“A hundred percent agree. Once Lily, Marlene and I were filming a scene in the girls dormitory and James hid in one of the trunks at the end of the beds, right? And so I had to go grab something from the trunk for the scene… I think it’s the scene where they’re getting ready for the Yule ball actually. And so I open this trunk and James pops up and scares me half to death!” Mary says with wide eyes, the audience erupting in laughter.

“It gets worse though because I stumbled backwards and ended up slamming into one of the bookshelves and everything came toppling down! I felt so bad but it wasn’t even my fault really!” Mary explained, chuckling a bit along with the rest of the cast.

“Remember how we got him back though?” Lily questions with a smirk causing James to let out a groan.

“Oh god not this!” James bemoans, making Lily giggle.

“So for those of you unaware, James has a fear of spiders… So we took one of the prop spiders used in the Forbidden Forest, but it was one of the ones that hangs from the ceiling and lowers with any motion. So we hung it from his trailer's ceiling the next day and it landed on his head,” Lily shares with a laugh looking at James who huffs.

“This is why I vote you as the troublemaker Evans…” James retorts, crossing his arms and eyeing her with narrowed eyes.

“I have pulled maybe five pranks, and all in retaliation of what you’ve done, mind you!” Lily exclaims with a shake of her head. “So if you and Sirius would just behave…” Lily continues, raising her eyebrows in question at James who scoffs exaggeratedly making Lily giggle.

“To answer your question Alexis, it's the obvious answer,” Regulus cuts in with a nod at the moderator who humms in acknowledgment.

“It appears the casting director has made some very fitting choices,” Alexis smiles looking out at the audience who cheered.

“Or we’re just shit actors who are eerily similar to our characters,” Peter states with wide eyes while looking around frantically getting a good laugh from everyone.

“Nah I’m joking, I give an Oscar worthy performance, unlike the Black brothers,” Peter states with a dramatic hair flip making both Regulus and Sirius burst out laughing. Giving a moment to collect themselves Alexis then moves on.

“Our next question is for everyone, and it was also asked a lot on Twitter, who on the cast is single? Let’s start with you Regulus and work our way down,” Alexis questions leaning intently forwards, excitement rippling through the crowd. Regulus chuckles awkwardly and scratches the back of his neck nervously.

“Uh I’m actually seeing someone but that’s all I’m going to say,” Regulus blushes a bit as he looks down at the table and the room erupts in screams. Mary patts Regulus’ shoulder gently before answering herself.

“I recently got engaged actually to Fabian Prewett who you all know as Stefano Masciolini on Marauders,” Mary says with a big smile holding up her engagement ring. “He’s honestly my best friend and I couldn’t have a better person to share my life with,” Mary continues looking lovingly at the ring on her finger making the audience coo and awe.

“I am currently single,” Severus says, receiving a bout of loud cheers and screams.

“I don’t think you will be for long , mate,” Peter jibes, elbowing Severus who laughs quietly.

“Apparently not. What about you Pettigrew, are you… lucky in love?” Severus asks, raising a brow at Peter who sighed dramatically.

“Actually yes. I am pleased to say. After many lonely years I have managed to find a wonderful relationship,” Peter says with another hair flip, some of the audience cheering while others laugh.

“Yes, yes I know. Truly a shock to you all. But believe it or not some people like lookin at me,” Peter says with a wink, glancing over at James.

“Not you James. But some,” Peter says with a small shrug, James letting out a chuckle along with the crowd before leaning in towards his microphone.

“So I have some news…” James says, eyeing the crowd when they had settled down a bit.

“I am aware that I am on a lot of eligible bachelor lists… But I’m sorry to say that is no longer true. Nono! Hold back your tears! I know it is truly a devastating piece of news! Try not to take it too harshly! I am however officially off the market and in a committed relationship, so the love letters need to stop! I’m looking at you Severus,” James says with his usual dramatic flare, eyeing Snape who sighs dramatically in response.

“I suppose I can try not to write you any more sonnets, how I’m not sure yet but I will attempt for you, my unrequited love!” Severus exclaims, reaching out a hand towards James who blows a kiss at Severus.

“We’ll always have Paris!” James cries out as Severus pretends to catch the kiss, Lily in a fit of giggles beside James who turns to look at her for her answer to the question.

“Oh- um- Hi,” Lily stammers out between giggles, James poking her side with a smile.

“Hi giggle fit, what about you, are you seeing anyone?” James asks as Lily continues to giggle from the poking.

“You know who I’m seeing! He’s seated right next to you,” Lily says with a smile as she batd away James’ hand to prevent him from poking her again and the room erupts in screams.

“Are you and Peter really dating? Last I’d heard you were seeing a stunt coordinator,” Alexis asks after gaining control of the room.

“Yes we are. Very happily in fact,” Lily replies with a glance at Peter, smiling broadly.

“Yeah I lied when I put out that song about bringing a girl coffee in the morning and her bringing me inner peace. It was actually about Evans,” Peter states, winking over at Lily who giggles with a broad smile.

“And you all fuckin bought me saying it wasn’t about anyone. What a bunch of gullible sheep you look like now, huh?” Peter says, eyeing the audience who starts laughing.

“Yes, Peter and I are dating. But to your point about me dating a stunt coordinator Alexis. According to every news outlet I’m apparently dating any man I’m seen out with except my boyfriend. Did you know once a news outlet said I was dating this guy I was spotted leaving a pub with, but guess who the guy was? My cousin,” Lily said, getting a laugh from everyone.

“And despite what the royal family might say, I think dating and marrying cousins is weird,” Lily adds with a shrug as she glances at Sirius.

“Oi, only my character's parents are cousins!” Sirius retorts, making the crowd laugh, and Sirius tutt at Lily with a shake of his head.

“Honestly Lily, the insinuations you make,” Sirius huffs, crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair.

“Now everyone will think Reg and I are inbred babies,” Sirius states, Peter then starts to sing ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in a squeaky falsetto into his mic.

“You heard it here live everyone, Sirius and Regulus Black are incest babies?!” Mary says with a gasp and puts a hand up to her mouth in faux shock, Regulus glaring from the seat beside her.

“Careful McDonald. Reggie bites,” Sirius warned with a smirk and Regulus snaps his teeth together at Mary who scoffs.

“I think I can handle the boy who weighs maybe eighty pounds soaking wet,” Mary says, eyeing Regulus with his thin body and gaunt cheekbones.

“Forgive me for not quivering in fear,” she says, Regulus narrowing his eyes at her.

“Duly. Noted,” Regulus says sharply, giving a mischievous glance out into the audience. “Sirius answer the question so I can plot my revenge,” Regulus says with the cunning smirk his character, Timothee, was known for, screams echoing through the room.

“On it baby brother. Um, I am single. Unlike my brother, so have at that information,” Sirius smiles looking out at the audience and giving them a wink, receiving another round of screams. Sirius looks over at Remus smirking at him and nudging his shoulder.

“What about you Captain Wolfstar?” Sirius asks with a tilt of his head and the room erupts in ear piercing screams making Sirius’ eyes widen and whip his head towards the audience. “What? What did I say?” Sirius asks, whipping his head back towards Remus who is hiding his face behind his hands; his face turning beat red as he tries not to laugh.

“You said Wolfstar,” Remus says into his hands, unheard by the crowd due to them still screaming and Sirius just stares helplessly.

“And?? Isn’t that the ship name for Andrew and Ben?” Sirius asks wide eyed, making Remus laugh quietly into his hands before he takes a deep breath and pulls his hands away from his face.

“No. Wolfpad is Andrew and Ben. Wolfstar is you and me. As in actual us,” Remus says, still red in the face and biting his lip as Sirius seemed to process this and the realization dawned on his face. The screaming had died down now which meant they could actually be heard by the crowd once more.

“Oh. Oh this is going to be all over Twitter and Tik Tok now isn’t it?” Sirius asks, looking at Remus, his eyes seeming to have somehow gotten even wider than before making Remus laugh quietly.

“I’m afraid so mate…” Remus softly says, giving Sirius’ back a comforting rub as Sirius groans putting his head in his hands, the crowd cheering and screaming once again at the interaction.

“Why are they so similar?! I meant Wolfpad not Wolfstar!” Sirius exclaims incredulously, looking over at Remus with frightened eyes making Remus coo.

“It’s alright. It’s an honest mistake, right guys?!” Remus asks, looking out at the crowd as he continues to rub Sirius’ back gently. The crowd gave a mixed response of ‘yeses’ and ‘yeahs’ when one particularly loud audience member shouted “NO!”

“Is that the same person from earlier? My you have a set of lungs on you,” Remus chuckles, glancing at Sirius who seemed to be recovering from his blunder alright, so with a final gentle squeeze of the back of his neck Remus pulls his hand away.

“No but honestly I don’t think it’s fair that you guys chose two ship names that start with wolf. I mean I get it, werewolf character and an actor named Remus Lupin but c’mon guys surely there are other names. I mean Wolfpad is a bit basic, you’re relying entirely on Ben’s nickname for the second half. What else can we come up with?” Remus muses looking out at the audience.

“Barnes & Noble?” came from the audience along with several other shouts of different ship name ideas and Remus bursts out laughing.

“Did someone just say Barnes and Noble?! Like the bookstore? Oh- that works actually doesn’t it? Cause Andrew loves books and Ben’s last name is Barnes… But how is Andrew noble? No we can’t use that… But it is very clever! Unfortunately, I’m sure that is also copyrighted and trademarked so I don’t think we can use that… What else is there?” Remus asks, crossing his arms as he leaned back thinking.

“Purewolf maybe? Since Ben is from the purest family in the wizarding world? And Andrew is obviously a werewolf?” Lily asks, looking over at Remus who hums in thought for a moment.

“I guess… But Ben hates that he’s a Barnes so that seems cruel to make a ship he’s in about the blood purity thing…” Remus mutters, biting his lip in thought.

“What if you put their names together somehow? Maybe Bandy? Put a B in front of the nickname Andy?” Mary suggests some of the audience making noises of approval but Remus shakes his head.

“I don’t think it’ll top Wolfpad as a name though…” Remus says, starting to chew on his thumbnail mindlessly as he continues to wrack his brain.

“What about Cop and Robber?” Remus asks then, looking up at the audience again with a hopeful face.

“Cause Andrew is a prefect and Ben is always pulling pranks,” Remus elaborates. The crowd gave some sounds of approval but it clearly wasn’t a winner.

“Andrew pulls pranks too!” Sirius pipes up looking slightly offended and Remus chuckles.

“I never said he didn’t Sirius,” Remus replies looking at Sirius with that same soft smile he had been photographed giving him a million times before.

“You were implying he didn’t,” Sirius huffs, crossing his arms dramatically making Remus laugh again.

“I guess we’re stuck with Wolfpad and Wolfstar then, I tried to make it easier for you mate,” Remus sighs with a small shrug at Sirius who smiles at Remus with his heart eyes once again.

“I appreciate the effort regardless Lupin,” Sirius says with such a fondness that Remus’ last name sounded more like a pet name than a respectful addressing.

“So anyway, are you seeing anyone?” Sirius asks leaning closer to Remus who starts laughing again.

“I forgot that was the question. Uh… I am not, so I guess that gives everyone out there all the information they need for their fanfiction writing? There is no villainous partner keeping me and whoever you want me with apart,” Remus chuckles looking away from Sirius and back to the audience who cheer.

“Read a lot of fanfiction, have we Wolfy?” Peter asks, eyeing Remus suspiciously making the crowd laugh, Remus just shrugs.

“I’m a connoisseur of the arts, what can I say?”

“Sure you are… I’m on to you Lupin. I’m going to find your smut… You dirty boy,” Peter says, narrowing his eyes and looking over at Remus, who smiles biting his lip to suppress a laugh.

“No comment,” Remus says directly into his microphone and the room fills with screaming once again, Remus sharing a look with Sirius and the two burst out laughing.

“Well this has been an enlightening conversation…” Alexis says from the other end of the table making the whole cast start laughing.

“Yeah I’m guessing you weren’t expecting to leave this panel hearing about fanfiction smut,” Severus chuckles looking over at Alexis.

“I WAS!” someone shouted from the audience and Severus looked out into the sea of people.

“Alright well you might have but Ms. Shelley over here probably wasn’t!” Severus calls back with a smile and a gesture towards Alexis who laughs lightly.

“Actually I was ready for anything. Although Sirius mixing up ship names wasn’t on my list I will say,” Alexis admits as she switches to a new card with a small smirk.

“But anyway, moving on. Your wonderful show Marauders: Managers of Mischief is getting a new season this coming fall. Is there anything you can tell us about it? I know your team likes to keep things pretty tight lipped to prevent any spoilers,” Alexis asks with a knowing smile and the cast all think for a moment.

“It will be set at Hogwarts, still,” Sirius says with a smirk and James nods sagely in agreement.

“Indeed it is. It’s also still the 70’s! And we are still called the Marauders!” James adds with a shit eating grin making Lily roll her eyes.

“It will be the same magical chaotic nonsense you’re used to but with a bit more drama this season, since our characters are getting older and things appear to be changing in the wizarding world as a whole and not necessarily for the better,” Lily says using the talking points the cast had been given before going out on stage.

“Does this mean we will actually see some of these slow burns start to catch flame? I’m not just talking about WolfPad but yours and James’ characters as well?” Alexis asks, emphasizing the word Pad.

“I think you’ll just have to wait and see what happens this season,” Lily shrugs looking at James who nods noncommittally yet again.

“I’d say, I think the exciting part about any new season of a show you like is not knowing what’s going to happen the first time through. If you already know all the twists then you have no real reason to watch it now do you?” James asks, looking from Alexis to the audience.

“In other words be patient you little shits,” Peter says in an even thicker Scottish accent than normal.

“We’ll certainly try Peter,” Alexis laughs looking back at her cards.

“On the note of the show, did you all think it would be as big of a success as it’s become or did you all just think it was just gonna be a one off?” Alexis asks, looking at the cast expectantly.

“I certainly didn’t think my character would be so popular. I was just supposed to be in like two episodes originally but everyone loved Timothee so much they wrote me in more to the point that I’m in the main cast now,” Regulus says with a small smile.

“Which I’m very grateful for. I like working, even if it’s with my annoying older brother,” Regulus smirks and Sirius makes a sound of pain.

“Annoying?!? Regulus Black I am many things annoying is not one of them! Over the top? Perhaps. Boisterous? Certainly! But never annoying!” Sirius all but screeches at his little brother who was doing his best not to laugh.

“He’s just so good at proving a point isn’t he?” Remus chuckles, glancing from Sirius to the audience who were already nodding and laughing along.

“I’m sure I have no idea what you’re talking about Remus,” Regulus quips, looking from Sirius to the audience with a quirked eyebrow, the audience already laughing at the chaos before them laughing a bit harder.

“I’m electing to ignore that comment Mr. Lupin,” Sirius says, side eyeing Remus who chuckles.

“I just meant you’re so… Persuasive!” Remus adds with a devious smile, Sirius nodding along with a roll of his eyes.

“Uh, huh, sure you were. You’re lucky we’re friends,” Sirius says, poking Remus’ cheek with a smile.

“Am I?” Remus asks as his cheek is squished from Sirius’ fingertip.

“Yes! My god everyone is acting like they hate me today!” Sirius says in disbelief looking out at the audience.

“Or maybe we act like we love you every other day…” Severus deadpans ominously into his microphone, Sirius turning to glare at him.

“Always trying to ruin my happiness that one. My best friend everybody!” Sirius gestures with a sweep of his arm towards Severus who bursts out laughing.

“I’m joking. I’m joking I swear… Or am I?” Severus asks with a raised brow getting a good laugh from the audience.

“But getting back to Ms. Shelley’s question, I agree with Regulus, as someone who plays a villain who quite frankly behaves like plenty of twats I went to school with. I was not expecting the audience to actually like my character,” Severus chuckled looking over at Regulus who nodded in agreement.

“I’ve discovered that people love… How did I see it worded once? Broken emo boys?” Regulus says with a furrowed brow, looking up at the audience for confirmation who scream in response.

“I’ll take that as a yes then,” Regulus muses with a small smile.

“For me I wasn’t really surprised by its success honestly because I saw how immersive the world was, that I knew fans of things like Lord of the Rings and such would love it,” Mary said after Regulus had finished speaking, Lily and Remus voicing their agreement with Mary.

“I mean a whole magic school? With these really interesting characters and a whole political dilemma happening in the background? How can you not love that?” Mary asks with a smile and a twinkle in her eye.

“I’d have to agree with Mary, I don’t think any of us really thought that the show would fail. Especially because everyone involved was so passionate about the project. Thoughts of failure don’t really cross your mind when everyone around you is in wholehearted agreement that the show is amazing,” James says with a smile.

“Luckily we were right,” he added with a soft chuckle and ruffling his already messy hair.

“You certainly were if this crowd is anything to go by,” Alexis said with a look to the audience who whooped and cheered with applause for the cast.

“And we are eternally grateful for you all!” Lily says with a smile blowing a kiss out to the audience.

“Indeed we are,” Severus adds with a nod, smiling at the crowd.

“Without you I’d still be a waiter,” he chuckled with a smile, receiving a bout of cheers from the audience.

“That’s right, I forgot you were still waiting tables when we started the show!” Sirius said, looking over at Severus who nodded.

“I was indeed. Actually Mary and I used to work in the same restaurant at one point,” Severus said, glancing over at Mary who nodded.

“We didn’t work the same shifts much but we did work at the same place. Although I do remember one shift we worked together where you slipped on your way out of the kitchen and fell on your ass,” Mary laughed Severus shaking his head in embarrassment looking down at the table.

“Of all the things to remember, that's what you chose?” He asked looking over at Mary who gave a devious giggle.

“Sorry,”

“No you’re not. Look at her! Does she look sorry?!” Severus asks gesturing to Mary as he looks out into the crowd receiving a resounding ‘No’ in response, making Mary laugh even harder.

“Okay fine. I’m not sorry. But it was very funny! You spilled a whole pitcher of water when you went down and then kept slipping around on the floor. It was like watching Bambi on ice,” Mary giggles with a smirk making Severus hide his face behind his hands.

“I regret knowing you,” he groans, rubbing his eyes before sitting up straight again.

“Now that everyone knows about my boundless grace, can we move on?” Severus asks, turning to Alexis with raised brows who tries to suppress a laugh.

“Yes… We can certainly try. Um, ah here we are. You obviously have a lot of fun while filming so what is everyone’s favorite memory on set?” Alexis asks after a moment of scanning her cards before looking at Regulus who hummed for a moment.

“Honestly I think it has to be my first scene with Sirius because we kept cracking up. Our characters don’t interact directly very often so whenever we have a scene together we usually just try to mess with each other. Which everyone on set hates because we end up taking twice as long to get a single scene done,” Regulus smirks, crossing his arms.

“But yeah I’d say anytime Sirius and I just mess around on set,” Regulus concludes and Sirius coos from the other end of the table.

“Awe. Hear that everyone? He likes me! Ha! Eat that Severus!” Sirius beams, Regulus holding in a laugh.

“I’m regretting my answer suddenly…” Regulus sighs and Sirius objects.

“No! Too late! No take backs! You said you like spending time with me! It’s already all over Tik Tok now!” Sirius says pointing wildly and Remus grabs his arm pulling it down gently.

“Careful you’re going to take someone’s eye out there, wild man,” Remus says calmly, holding Sirius’ arm down until he deems Sirius won’t start gesturing widely again.

“Fine, no take backs!” Regulus huffs with a dramatic eye roll, turning to look at Mary who was still chuckling from the interaction.

“Um, my favorite memory would probably have to be the day I met Fabian? Cheesy I know but we just clicked so well and I couldn’t stop laughing the whole day,” Mary smiles fondly, getting lots of awes from the audience.

“Plus I got to see him shirtless that day because he was filming a scene in the Quidditch changing rooms, so yeah that’s a great day,” Mary smirked, wiggling her eyebrows, the audience whooping at the mental image of Fabian shirtless.

“Well my favorite memory is certainly not as… suggestive as Mary’s was, but I do have one. It was the day I got to film the scene where Louis gets levitated upside down by Aaron, because I had to be hooked up to wires for the scene. So, when I was just hanging around up on the wires, I got to do flips and stuff while waiting to start rolling. It was quite a fun time actually. Despite it probably being Louis’ worst day ever,” Severus says with a laugh.

“But I mean come on he kinda deserves it with all the shit he does to everyone,” Severus adds with a small shrug and a look on his face that said ‘Am I wrong?’ and no one in the room protests.

“Exactly,” Severus chuckles looking over at Peter who hummed in agreement.

“I too liked hanging Severus upside down by his knickers,” Peter says with a strong nod making Severus laugh.

“No, I'll give a real answer. Uh, probably one of our first weeks in rehearsals, when me and the other Marauders decided to have a sleepover of sorts to try and bond more since we have to be these close mates obviously, and boy did we get up to some mischievous antics. Do not leave us alone with a bottle of tequila I tell you,” Peter says with wide eyes and a shake of his head making everyone laugh.

“We will spare you all the details, but know that Sirius Black knows how to party, and Remus Lupin can be a right idiot when drunk,” James chuckles, glancing over at Sirius and Remus who were both glaring at him.

“Oh like you’re any better James!” Remus says with a scoff, James smirking.

“I didn’t say I was mate. Just seeing you try to open a jar with a twist cap when it’s a pull top for fifteen minutes was a sight,” James chuckles, sharing a knowing look with Remus who groans, hiding his face in his hands.

“While Remus implodes from embarrassment, I’d have to agree with Peter, that’s probably my favorite memory too. It was a fun night and things just got more chaotic the longer the night went,” James quipps with a knowing laugh.

“I don’t even want to know what you all did,” Lily says with a shake of her head.

“My favorite memory is probably that prank I talked about earlier, the fake spider landing on James’ head? He just screamed so loud it echoed across the lot,” Lily smirked looking at James who glared at her.

“You’re a menace Lily Evans,” James says with a glare, making Lily beam.

“Thank you! I do try my best!” she says with an air of gratitude, the audience chuckling.

“Alright enough about you Evans. My turn now! I have to say my favorite memory on set is the day I got to prank Reggie and Remus by replacing all their books in their trailers with the same books written in Sanskrit. And because both of them love to run on three hours of sleep most days it took both of them far too long to notice,” Sirius smirks, glancing at Remus who groaned.

“I forgot that you did that… I thought I was having a stroke!” Remus said looking over at Sirius incredulously who chuckled softly.

“I know because you came up to me looking half delirious because you actually were running on three hours of sleep and asked me if I understood the book. I then had to tell you what I’d done and force you into bed,” Sirius smiled looking at Remus.

“It was not three hours…” Remus muttered looking at Sirius who gave a knowing look back.

“It was four…” Remus mumbled, Sirius chuckling quietly.

“Oh I’m sorry, four hours of sleep. Such a huge difference,” Sirius says with a small smirk and Remus nodded.

“Yeah it is. It’s an extra sixty minutes,” Remus says as Sirius grabs the back of Remus’ hand gently.

“You still need to sleep more,” Sirius stage whispers, some of the crowd laughing while others screech at them.

“I’m fine, as long as people don’t mess with me,” Remus says with a glare directed at Sirius who just smiled back.

“I make your life interesting,” Sirius said softly, making Remus hum in response.

“I suppose you do…” Remus sighs, turning his hand over in order to squeeze Sirius’ hand gently before pulling away.

“My favorite memory is our first table read where we got to meet everyone for the first time. We had such a fun time and everyone clicked really well,” Remus says, turning to look at the rest of the cast with a smile but his gaze ultimately stops on Sirius with a fond smile.

“Yeah… Meeting you was pretty great…” Sirius says absentmindedly, clearly not meaning to say it out loud judging by his quick realization and wide eyes, the crowd screaming with pure joy.

“I meant because we get on so well! I mean we’re roommates now and we hang out together all the time! I didn’t expect to meet someone I’d get on with so well when I started the show! I figured we’d all be normal coworkers who only see each other on set,” Sirius tried to back track but it was too late. Sirius Black had once again said the first thing that popped into his head and it would be all over the front page that evening with even higher scrutiny of his and Remus Lupin’s true relationship.

“I’m really on a roll today aren’t I?” Sirius asks, looking at Remus with a sigh as Remus chuckles, setting his hand on Sirius’ thigh and giving it an assuring pat.

“It’s alright. Nothing we haven’t had happen before, right?” Remus says with a bright smile that Sirius looked at with such fondness.

“Right, guess I’m lucky you’re so laid back about getting questioned senselessly about dating me, huh?” Sirius asks with a small tilt of his head making Remus hum softly in response.

“It’s hardly the worst thing in the world to be asked,” Remus said soft enough to not be picked up by their microphones, Remus then giving Sirius’ thigh a quick squeeze making Sirius flush ever so slightly.

“No?” Sirius asked quietly, eyes big in wonder akin to that of a little kid, while the audience started to quiet down with direction from Alexis.

“I’ll get rid of that lack of self worth someday… Being asked if I’m your boyfriend is far from awful Sirius. Despite what you think you’re pretty easy to love… Trust me, I know,” Remus says with a gentle smile, squeezing Sirius’ thigh again who simply stares blinking in shock for a moment before giving his head a small shake to refocus himself and turn back towards the audience. Remus then starts to remove his hand from Sirius’ thigh but before he could actually retract it, Sirius took it in his making sure their arms didn’t obviously look like they were connected under the table. Sirius swallowed stiffly, his Adam's apple bobbing hard, not daring to look over at Remus just then as he tried to tune back into the conversation at hand. Peter appeared to be talking about some Tik Tok he’d made a few days ago when Sirius felt Remus lace their fingers giving his hand a strong squeeze before Remus started rubbing his thumb over Sirius’ hand soothingly and Sirius felt the stiffness in his body melt out through his toes.

“But that’s what I get up to on Tik Tok, so if you’re interested in… How was it you put it Evans? Unhinged chaotic fun? Then check me out at PeterPettigrew on Tik Tok,” Peter finishes up with a casual shrug.

“I’m sure most people here already do. But for anyone not following Peter out there, go check him out,” Alexis said with a smile.

“And with that we will now be moving on to fan questions so, if everyone who wants to ask a question could please make their way to one of the microphones on either side of the hall in a calm and orderly manner. Thank you,” Alexis says looking and pointing to the two microphones on each side of the room and people start getting up from their chairs to line up behind each.

“Wonderful! We will start with questions in just a moment then,” Alexis says watching people line up, and Peter lets out a sigh of relief leaning back in his chair.

“A moment to relax then until these hooligans ask us something insane,” Peter hums, putting his hands behind his head and closing his eyes, making the crowd chuckle.

“Don’t get too comfortable there Pettigrew,” James smirks and Peter flips him off, his eyes still closed making James chuckle.

“Alright. It looks like we’re ready. Let’s start with you on the right here, what’s your question friend?” Alexis asks with a smile to the person stood at the microphone dressed in a cosplay of the Tenth Doctor.

“Hi! Um so I’m sorry if you guys have answered this question before but I’ve never seen an interview where you’ve answered this so um… What are your guys Hogwarts Houses? Because obviously I know you guys joke about being similar to your characters but…” The Doctor shrugged with a shy smile making the whole cast beam at them.

“Ironically, I don’t think we have been asked that before you’re right Doctor,” James says with a nod to the person who lets out a little giggle.

“To answer your question love, I am as you can probably guess a Gryffindor, I think that’s pretty obvious due to my… Extroverted nature,” James smiles as the rest of the cast chuckled.

“I am also a Gryffindor due to my aforementioned boisterousness,” Sirius hums, squeezing Remus’ hand from under the table and glancing over at him.

“You’re a Ravenclaw right?” Sirius asked Remus who hummed with a nod.

“Yes, indeed I am. I feel that was given away by my constant book reading, although I don’t know if I fit the creativity, and originality aspects,” Remus chuckles, Sirius rolling his eyes.

“Because a name like Remus Lupin- That is his government name by the way! Doesn’t scream originality,” Sirius smirks leaning over to nudge his shoulder against Remus’ who shakes his head with a fond smile.

“Lies,” Remus says, scrunching his nose up at Sirius.

“I don’t think so,” Sirius replies with a smirk looking over at the rest of the cast.

“Well Lupin might not think he fits the characteristics of Creativity and Originality, I certainly do,” Peter says with a flip of his hair and a smile.

“You do just exude originality Pete,” Lily chuckles looking at Peter with a smile.

“I know I do Evans. What are you anyway?” Peter asks with a smirk and Lily chuckles, shaking her head.

“I’m a Hufflepuff, Pettigrew. I like yellow and black so I’m happy,” Lily says with a smile. Sirius smirks and starts to open his mouth but Remus pulls Sirius’ arm roughly by their joint hands making Sirius jerk to the side and Remus covers Sirius’ mouth with his other hand, those in the audience who were watching them chuckle. James looks over to see what they were up to before starting to chuckle softly.

“Speaking of Black, what about you Regulus?” James says turning the other direction and some of the audience screech at James saying Regulus’ name.

“That wasn’t even anything exciting I said, you guys are losing your touch,” James scoffs with a shake of his head.

“Regulus, Hogwarts House, go,” James says pointing down the table towards Regulus who was blushing and ducks his head.

“Uh… Slytherin, just like Timothee,” Regulus says quietly, glancing up at the audience.

“I’ve stolen a few of the jumpers from set actually,” Regulus confesses with a smirk.

“But don’t tell anyone,” Regulus says, glancing around the audience, getting a laugh from the crowd.

“Snitches end up in ditches remember,” Severus says pointing at the crowd making them chuckle.

“I’m getting a Slytherin vibe from you, Severus,” Alexis chirps looking at the man, who nods.

“You would be correct Ms. Shelley, I am in fact Slytherin. Which is unfortunate because I look rather good in blue,” Severus hums as Alexis chuckles.

“Well I think you suit green just fine,” she smiles at him giving Severus a wink.

“What about you Mary? What’s your house?” Alexis asks, making Mary perk up.

“My house is Hufflepuff just like Lily! Now that I think about it, we’re evenly split on the houses aren’t we? We’ve got two of each. I feel like that’s a good divide,” Mary states, glancing to either side of her to get the cast’s responses.

“Yeah but Dorcas and Marlene aren’t here so I think they would skew our balance,” James reminds Mary who hums in thought.

“Well okay yeah if we do the entire ensemble cast we probably wouldn’t be evenly divided but with just us eight it is,” Mary says with a shrug.

“Thank you for your question Doctor!” Lily says cheerfully as the Doctor cosplayer walks away from the microphone with a wave.

“Yes thank you! Let’s go to the other side of the room, what’s your question?” Alexis asks, gesturing to the left side’s microphone where a mother stood with her small child on her hip.

“Hi! I’m Erica and this is Sammy and he has a question for you all,” Erica smiled, bouncing Sammy on her hip before getting him closer to the mic, the entire table cooing and giving soft hellos to Sammy before he started to speak.

“What- what is- what’s your favorite class at-at Hogwarts?!” Sammy asked, stumbling through the sentence like most little kids before squealing with glee, making everyone awe.

“Well Sammy, my favorite class at Hogwarts is Transfiguration because Professor Maggie Smith is my favorite teacher,” Remus says with a smile and a scrunch of his nose at Sammy who threw his arms up.

“Mwagwie is a kitty!” Sammy exclaims with a bright smile on his face making Remus chuckle softly.

“You’re right! She is a kitty!” Remus says with a fond smile.

“My favorite class is flying because we get to ride around on brooms!” Sirius says, glancing from Remus to Sammy with a smile and Sammy claps excitedly.

“I like charm’s because you get to do all sorts of fun stuff!” Lily says waving to Sammy who waves animatedly back.

“I also like charms because I think Warwick is rather funny,” Mary says with a smile glancing to either side at Severus and Regulus.

“Um, my favorite class is Defense Against the Dark Arts…” Regulus says shyly, Sammy now turning his attention from the actors in front of him to his mother’s necklace.

“And he’s lost interest,” Peter chuckles, Erica also laughing lightly.

“Well he might have but I’d still like to hear everyone’s answers,” Erica said sweetly with a smile at everyone.

“Well personally I like the idea of Divination… Because it seems like a class you could just sleep through… And then claim you had an insane vision in your dream and still get an A. That’s the kinda low effort shite I like,” Peter says with a nod.

“Oh that’s brilliant mate,” James says looking at Peter slightly slack jawed.

“Oh I’d definitely do that if I were going to school there. I was all about not applying myself in school,” James says with a small smirk out at the audience.

“But to answer your question love, I’d say my favorite is maybe Care for Magical Creatures? Just because I like all the different animals you get to interact with. I mean what’s that one really cool bird thing?” James asks, turning to Lily.

“A hippogriff?” Lily asked with a furrow of her brow and James snapped his fingers.

“Yes! That. That seems like it would be pretty cool to ride,” James says with a triumphant nod.

“You would try to ride a hippogriff James,” Severus chuckles, shaking his head in exasperation.

“Hell yeah I would Sev. You’re telling me you wouldn’t want to ride on the back of a creature that can fly?” James asks, looking over at Severus with wide eyes, Severus shaking his head.

“No?! How would you even get on one? They’re very aggressive!” Severus says and James rolls his eyes.

“I’d learn that in Care for Magical Creatures obviously, honestly Sev use your head,” James tutts with a shake of his head making Severus chuckle quietly.

“Well my favorite class is Herbology because I actually love plants fun fact. My flat is full of them, in fact I had to leave my sister in charge of watering them while I’m here and I am rather nervous to see their condition when I return,” Severus says puffing his cheeks with a breath and a shake of his head, getting a laugh from the mom at the microphone.

“Well I wish your plants luck then. Thank you! Say bye Sammy,” Erica says with a smile and Sammy waves excitedly.

“Buh-bye!!” Sammy cheered, getting a laugh from everyone.

“Bye Sammy!” Mary said with a wave, cooing as the pair walked away and back to their seats.

“Thank you for your question Erica and Sammy!” Alexis says with a smile before gesturing to the right side of the room to ask the next question.

“Hello, I have a question for Remus. Are you aware that Andrew has been nicknamed ‘The Casanova of Gryffindor Tower’? And do you think this is accurate?” asked someone dressed in an Andrew cosplay making Remus smile at them.

“Uh, yes I am aware of this nickname. And I think it is absolutely accurate. I mean have you seen the amount of girls he’s hooked up with? Yes Andrew is definitely a Casanova,” Remus chuckles as Sirius smirks, gently letting go of Remus’ hand to lift it up and grab ahold of Remus’ chin instead.

“Also he’s got this beautiful face to look at. Who doesn’t look at this face and think, dreamy?” Sirius smirks, shaking Remus’ head gently as Remus shoves Sirius’ hand away.

“Ignoring him. Thank you for your question Mr. Garfield,” Remus smiled with a nod at the cosplayer who beamed before scampering off into the crowd. The next person in line on the left side gave a small smile.

“Hey there, uh I was wondering, since Remus and Sirius live together who is the messiest? Of course if anyone else has something to share please do,” says the woman in line with a smile, Sirius and Remus sharing a thoughtful look for a moment.

“See, the thing is we’re messy in different ways,” Sirius says, turning to look out at the audience.

“Remus is what I describe as cluttered messy. He has a lot of stuff cluttered about and it looks messy but he knows where everything is. Whereas I’m just messy, I never know where anything is ever and usually have to ask Remus to help me find things,” Sirius says, glancing at Remus.

“I suppose it’s what you count as messy, because if we’re talking about things looking put away and perfectly organized then neither of us are like that. If we’re talking about how quickly one of us could find something in our flat? Then Sirius is the messy one, plus he forgets to do his washing up all the time,” Remus says with a small shrug and Sirius shoves him lightly.

“I don’t forget that often,” Sirius huffs with a glare making Remus chuckle.

“If you call a mountain of dishes in the sink every week not often sure,” Remus hums innocently, Sirius smacking Remus’ shoulder.

“No it’s not often at all!” Remus amends with a chuckle along with the audience, Sirius glaring.

“You are a menace Remus Lupin,” Sirius says, Remus just smiling brightly back at him.

“Which is one of the things you adore about me I’m sure!” Remus says facetiously, Sirius glaring still.

“Only when it’s not directed at me…” Sirius grumbles the audience chuckling as well as Lily.

“Not enjoying being on the receiving end of the Marauders mischief are we?” Lily smirked, looking at Sirius who glared at her.

“Shut up Evans…” Sirius mutters slouching down in his chair with his arms crossed making Remus chuckle.

“What about you and Peter, Lil? Who’s messier?” Remus asks, nudging Sirius’ foot under the table gently and Sirius nudged it back, his grumpy features softening ever so slightly.

“Oh that’s an easy answer. It’s Pete. But he’s not terrible. Just like clothes on the floor and stuff like that,” Lily says with a shrug, Remus giving a hum of acknowledgement as he continues his game of footsie with Sirius.

“Do you wish to defend yourself Peter?” Remus asks, Peter letting out a low chuckle.

“Remus… We both know I am not that stupid,” Peter says, getting a laugh from the audience.

“Yeah, probably a smart answer mate. Mary, what about you and Fab? Whose messier?” Remus asks, looking further down the table as he hooks his ankle with Sirius’.

“Honestly it’s probably me. I am very guilty of what I like to call “the stuff creep” where I try to keep everything in a proper place but then months pass and I use items and suddenly things aren’t perfectly put away and so it’s seemingly creeped out onto the floor, or onto tables, etc. Meanwhile Fab actually is very organized with his stuff,” Mary says, putting air quotes around “the stuff creep”, Sirius giving a small chuckle as he sat up in his chair.

“Oh Remus does the stuff creep… He has stacks of books around our flat. Mostly because he has more books than bookshelves…” Sirius smirks, eyeing Remus who gives a weak glare.

“Now we’re even,” Sirius smiles, nudging Remus’ foot with his, Remus chuckling quietly.

“Now we’re even,” Remus repeats softly with a warm smile, nudging Sirius’ foot back. The two staring at each other for a long moment before Sirius turns away to look out at the audience clearing his throat.

“So uh… There’s your answer, thank you for your question,” Sirius chimes with a nod to the woman who gives a quick thank you and steps out of the line. Everyone’s attention goes to the right side of the room to the next person in line who looked up from their hands and took a steadying breath before starting to speak.

“Um… Hi, uh you can call me… Jupiter, and uh I was wondering, who’s the biggest simp?” Jupiter asks, tucking their hair behind their ears nervously and the cast chuckles.

“Are we talking our characters or ourselves?” Mary asks with a smirk.

“Because my answer is different depending on that,” Mary says, quirking a brow at Jupiter who shrugs.

“Both?” They say quietly, making Mary beam.

“I like your style Jupiter. The answer is Sirius, and Aaron,” Mary says, confidently leaning back in her chair with a smirk, James laughing loudly.

“You’re not wrong. Aaron does watch Sophie like she’s a goddess. And as he should honestly, she’s truly a force to be reckoned with,” James chuckles with a shake of his head looking over to Lily.

“I have to agree with Mary. I mean…” Lily says, eyeing Sirius curiously.

“What? Remus needs to be told how wonderful he is at least twice a day or he starts saying nonsense like he’s not handsome enough. This is my job as his roommate, friend, and co-star,” Sirius says, looking at Remus with big eyes.

“I think you just like talking,” Remus says with a smirk, Sirius scoffing lightly.

“Not true. I like talking about you, to you. You get all flustered when people compliment you,” Sirius smirks, poking Remus’ side making Remus squirm in his seat.

“Shut up…” Remus mumbles covering his mouth with his hand, leaning his elbow on the table making Sirius smile.

“Awe look, he’s getting all shy now. I’m sorry. You’re just very complimentable,” Sirius says, setting his hand on Remus’ shoulder and giving it a squeeze, Remus ignoring him as his face starts turning red. The audience giving a murmured response of awes and chuckles.

“If reminding Remus he’s truly the best human to walk the planet makes me a simp, I guess McDonald is right then,” Sirius shrugs looking at Jupiter who gave a quiet giggle.

“Yes she is. Thank you,” Jupiter says quietly with a nod before walking away from the mic and the next person starts speaking on the other side of the room.

“Hello everyone, my name is Jackson! I have a very important question that I’ve been dying to have you all answer! Who do you personally ship with your character? I promise not to assume that it means that ship is endgame either!” Jackson says with a smirk holding up his hand as if swearing an oath, making the crowd chuckle.

“Oh I like your energy Jackson,” Sirius chirps with a beaming smile making Jackson chuckle.

“Thank you. I’m told by my friends I am “The Ben Barnes of the group.” Outgoing to a fault with next to no sense of self control,” Jackson says, making Sirius chuckle.

“Yeah sounds like Ben alright, but to answer your question I think the answer is obvious. Obviously I want Ben and Andrew together. I mean every scene they share is filled with this underlying tension. Everytime we get a new script after doing our own first read through, Remus and I will go through every scene we share and every time we talk about how they’re just loaded with sexual tension,” Sirius says with a chuckle looking at Remus who is also chuckling.

“It’s true. When we finished a scene from this season we just kinda looked at each other like. ‘They’ve gotta be going somewhere with this right? Because there is no straight explanation to this’,” Remus chuckles, shaking his head.

“Oh and I’m sure you don’t need my answer but I’m with Sirius. Wolfpad is my hope for endgame,” Remus says with a nod to Jackson, who was still chuckling from the story.

“I think we all are. Here’s to hoping your production company isn’t too chicken to go gay,” Jackson shrugs making Remus laugh.

“I’m hoping as well, Jackson. Trust me,” Remus says with a sigh. “But back to your question. Lily, James? Who do you want Sophie and Aaron to end up with?” Remus asks, Lily having a smirk on her face.

“I still say you and Sirius give the scenes sexual tension on purpose Lupin,” Lily says, side eyeing the two suspiciously.

“But I think Sophie should be with Aaron. Obviously. She doesn’t see it yet, but he’s very loving, charming, funny, and clearly understands her as a person. I think if we give Sophie time she’ll realize Aaron isn’t as childish as she seems to think he is,” Lily said with a nod.

“Oh and he’s never called her a slur like her supposed best friend Louis has. On multiple occasions,” Lily says with a tense smile.

“Yeeeeaaaah… Honestly I’m really excited for the day Sophie kicks Louis to the curb,” James chuckles with a shake of his head.

“He’s just such a twat,” James continues exasperatedly with a shake of his head.

“So yeah I’m dying for Sophie to ditch Louis and finally see how wonderful Aaron is,” James quipps with a shug, Lily nodding in agreement.

“I have to agree, I’m hoping Sophie ditches Louis as well, and that Louis ends up alone,” Severus chuckles looking over at James and Lily.

“I just can’t see Louis turning it around enough to make me want him to get a happy ending,” Severus laughs, turning back to Jackson who nods along.

“Yeah, Louis just needs to end up alone,” Mary chuckles looking at Severus.

“I think for me though… I mean Sophia isn’t really hinted at dating anyone in the show. So I honestly have free reign with who I want her with,” Mary beams at Jackson.

“Although, I’ll be honest I’ve never really thought about Sophia’s romantic endeavors simply because it’s never seemed like a priority to her? Obviously we’ve seen Sophia make out with people at parties and go on dates, but it’s never been central to her character. At least to me. To find love. So I guess… I suppose I could do the cop out and just say I want her with Fabian’s character,” Mary says with a light chuckle.

“But I won’t, so I guess for now my answer is no one. Unless we introduce some other character that I think would just be perfect for Sophia!” Mary says looking to Regulus who was fiddling with the rings on his fingers.

“I guess I’d want Timothee to be with someone who’d encourage him to follow his true beliefs? So maybe Elle Fanning, Pandora’s character? I really like them as best friends tho,” Regulus shrugs a bit exasperated and Jackson has a smirk on his face.

“Are you aware of the ship between Timothee and Aaron?” Jackson asks with a mischievous glint in his eye and Regulus’ face screws up in confusion.

“Timothee and Aaron? But they’ve only shared like one scene together, actually have we even done a scene just the two of us Potter?” Regulus asks looking down the table at James who was looking a bit befuddled by Jackson’s question.

“I- Sorry Aaron and Timothee? Are you sure?!” James asks, leaning forward making the room laugh quietly at James’ clear perplexity.

“Oh, I’m very sure,” Jackson chuckles with a nod as the rest of the room fills with shouts of agreement.

“Okay, wow I just would not have clocked that one. Clearly. Um, no Reg I don’t think we have filmed a scene just us. In fact, I think we only have maybe two whole scenes together? One that I think is just me walking down the corridor with the other Marauders while Sirius and you glare at each other or something. But we don’t interact. And the other I think is… Is it during a Quidditch match? Do I insult you or something before the game along with Sirius? Yeah, I think that’s it,” James says with a confused nod, running through the show in his head to make sure he’s got that right.

“Yeah, you’re right. How exactly do you build a whole ship based on that?” Regulus asks, turning from James’ direction and back to Jackson who shrugs.

“I mean, a lot of it is just hypotheticals and using tropes that best apply. But yeah, it’s quite popular too,” Jackson says and Regulus blinks blankly for a moment.

“I’m honestly speechless…” Regulus says with a small shake of his head.

“Uh Pettigrew, what's your answer?” Regulus asks quickly before proceeding to stare down at the table in confusion, the audience seeing him mouth to himself ‘Aaron and Timothee??’ before their attention was pulled over to Peter.

“Ah yes. Saved the best fer last I see. Ah, I think Lewis should marry himself. Because no one is bloody well good enough for him. He’s always there fer his mates, he’s very funny- Like myself. And well I mean he’s very good looking I have to say. Have you seen that beautiful bastard that plays him?” Peter asks with an air of awe to his voice making everyone chuckle.

“I have,” Lily says with a smug smile on her face, getting another laugh out of the audience.

“Back off, I saw him first,” she adds with narrowed eyes, looking around the room before landing on Jackson, who chuckled lightly holding his hands up in surrender.

“I’m so sorry. He’s all yours! He’s all yours!” Jackson says dramatically backing away from the microphone before leaving entirely, making the cast chuckle.

“Thank you for your question Jackson! I think you may have broken Reggie, in which case I will have to charge you the repair fees,” Sirius says, eyeing his little brother at the far end of the table who was still looking a bit mind boggled.

“You good over there Reggie?” Sirius asks with a small chuckle making Regulus snap his head up and look over at Sirius.

“Huh? Yeah I’m fine. Uh… Who has the next question?” Regulus asks looking to either side of the room and the next person raises their hand.

“Hi my name's Elliot! I was wondering what everyone’s social medias are? Or if you have any?” Elliot asks, who has a little niffler plushie settled on his shoulder.

“Hello Elliot, I love your niffler shoulder buddy! Those are my favorite creature actually,” Severus says with a smile and Elliot blushes a bit.

“Thank you, I bought it at one of the booths today, his name is Jingle,” Elliot says with a small smile and Severus’ eyes widen.

“They’re selling them here? Well I know where I’m going after this panel,” Severus says, making Mary chuckle.

“To our scheduled signing right?” Mary asks innocently and Severus sticks his tongue out at her.

“Damn you and your rule following McDonald,” Severus said as Mary let out a bright giggle.

“Sorry Elliot. You didn’t ask about nifflers, you asked about social media. Uh I have a twitter but I rarely use it to say anything of interest. I might post a picture of my plants once and a while on there though. Yes, I know that’s what Instagram is supposed to be for! But I don’t want an Instagram,” Severus shrugs, making Elliot and the audience laugh quietly.

“I do have an Instagram! And I use it a lot so if you’re interested in what I get up to or seeing some of the shenanigans we get into on set give me a follow,” Mary says with a bright smile.

“When we’re not filming however it’s mainly just pictures of my fiance and cats, so be warned,” Mary adds with a chuckle and looking over at Regulus.

“What about you Reg, do you have any social media?” Mary asks, looking over at Regulus.

“Officially, I have Twitter and Instagram but I only really use my Twitter for promoting stuff. I sometimes use my Instagram but otherwise it’s just for promos. Sirius is the one who uses social media,” Regulus says, nodding with his chin in the direction of Sirius who leans towards his mic.

“Yes I do. I have just about everything, including a new Tik Tok I have yet to actually use. I tweet somewhat regularly, and I use Instagram like it's my personal scrapbook of memories,” Sirius chuckles.

“So if you like getting bombarded with notifications give me a follow,” Sirius shrugs looking over at Remus expectantly who chuckles.

“I don’t know why you’re looking at me, you know I don’t have any social media. I use Twitter without an account,” Remus chuckles as Sirius smiles looking out at the audience.

“That’s right, I forget you’re a luddite sometimes. If you want to see what Remus is up to also follow me. We’re almost always together doing something stupid. Just last week I posted a video I took of Remus lamenting over what suitcase books to bring on this trip. And yes you heard that right. He packs an entire suitcase of just books along with a suitcase of clothes whenever he travels. It is the most Andrew Garfield thing I’ve ever seen in my life, but apparently he’s always done this,” Sirius chuckles looking at Remus who shrugs.

“I like to read and I read very fast, so I go through books quickly, which is why I need multiples with me at all times. I still can’t believe you convinced me to leave It by Stephen King back home,” Remus tsked, Sirius shakes his head with a quiet scoff.

“Because it’s like a thousand or something pages, a hardcover and you’d read it before!” Sirius exclaims, really emphasizing his final point, Remus huffing quietly.

“That wasn’t the point…” Remus mutters with a glare, Sirius rolling his eyes.

“Oh I’m sorry for not letting your bag exceed the weight limit,” Sirius teases, Remus glaring at Sirius before he starts laughing and hides his face behind his hand, Sirius then also beginning to chuckle quietly. Soon enough the two were both laughing fairly loudly and Lily rolls her eyes fondly.

“While those two have their laughing fit, I’ll answer your question Elliot. I obviously have Tik Tok, as well as Instagram where I post about my cooking and whatever else I get up to,” Lily smiles looking to James who gives a nod.

“Right. Yes. I- Uh- I think I have an Instagram? I don’t really know, if I do I’ve forgotten the password for it and haven’t used it in five years. I’m not on my phone much, I pretty much use it as a camera, and a way to keep in touch with everyone. I’m a social guy not a social media guy,” James says with a smirk getting a groan from Lily at James’ lame attempt at a joke.

“I’m funny and you know it,” James smirks, Lily shaking her head.

“Let’s just move on so I don’t have to answer that,” Lily says with a sigh, Peter chuckling.

“If you have any sense of self respect you’d stay far away from all of them social media apps. Clearly, I have none, so naturally… I’m on all of them. But my favorites are the dumpster fire that is Twitter and the hellscape that is Tik Tok, truly two apps that make you feel good about yourself,” Peter jokes with a nod getting a chuckle from the audience, and Elliot smiling.

“Genuinely though, if it makes you feel shite get off of it,” Peter advises then, looking directly at Elliot who looks to be no older than fourteen.

“I’ll keep that in mind, thank you!” Elliot says with a nod giving another wave before making his little shoulder niffler wave as well and Mary coos.

“Bye Elliot! Bye Jingle!” Mary called waving at them before turning her attention over to the next fan.

“Hello! Alright so I have been sent up by my friend because she was too nervous to ask herself. So Abby wants to know, Remus, we are all aware that you are regularly active within the fandom and have talked about reading fanfiction, but have you seen fan edits before?” the person askes, standing confidently in a Ravenclaw sweater with their eyebrow raised in question.

“First. I love your jumper, where did you get it?” Remus asks, the person giving a bright smile.

“Uh I got it at Hot Topic I think,” they said and Remus gave a nod.

“I’ll have to order one then. I love wearing jumpers,” Remus says with a smile and Sirius chuckles quietly.

“That’s because you get cold easily. You’re like an old man, Honestly he keeps our flat at the very least 25 degrees, that’s Celsius by the way, you freaks,” Sirius says, eyeing the audience wearily before carrying on.

“But honestly, I think half the reason Andrew’s wardrobe consists of jumpers is because Remus kept complaining he was always cold,” Sirius chuckles, Remus shrugging casually.

“I like being warm alright? And it’s very rainy and cold back home, unlike here in sunny California,” Remus said with a shrug, getting a small cheer from the back of the room at the word ‘California’.

“Ah yes, blame the weather, like you weren’t wearing a jumper yesterday when we all went out for dinner,” Sirius teases and Remus scrunches up his face at Sirius in response getting some coos from the audience.

“Uh, sorry, what was the question? Oh, have I seen fan edits, right! Uh, yes I have and I feel bad that you all have such little to work with. I mean, you all get very creative to find ways to manipulate footage to look like something is happening or to tell a story, but it’s unfortunate you all have to edit lines or cut together different scenes to make a WolfPad edit. I really hope we can give you some good content in the future to work with,” Remus says with a warm smile to the crowd who cheer, Remus dipping his head as he chuckles, glancing over at the person asking for Abby.

“Thank you for asking Abby’s question my fellow Ravenclaw,” Remus says with a nod, the person giving a wave and a quick thank you before exiting the line as the next person starts to ask their question.

“Hey there everyone! My question is for the entire cast, besides your own, who is your favorite character on the show?” asks a guy dressed in a full Star Lord cosplay and Mary makes a hum in thought.

“Mmm… Professor Maggie Smith. I want to be her,” Mary beams with a nod turning to Regulus.

“Elle Fanning, is my favorite character,” Regulus shrugs, crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair, Severus leaning closer to his mic.

“I think my favorite is Aaron because he really is Louis’ foil,” Severus says with a quiet chuckle, glancing at Peter who hums loudly.

“Makin me pick a favorite when I can’t choose myself. How dare you Star Lord… I’ll go with Andrew and have Sophie as a close second. Just because Andrew is the second funniest Marauder, Lewis being the first of course. And Sophie is second because she puts up with that lot despite them never listening to a word she says,” Peter chuckles looking over at Lily.

“Not too unlike real life if I’m bein’ honest,” Peter concludes as Lily shook her head.

“Yeah, trying to get your four to behave when together is next to impossible,” Lily sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose glancing at Peter who smirks.

“My favorite character isn’t Lewis like you’re all probably assuming. Mine is Sophia, because she is the ride or die to Sophie and she needs that considering Sophie has yet to walk away from Louis,” Lily says smugly as Peter mimes getting shot through the heart, getting a laugh from the audience as James shakes his head.

“They don’t even need to get married at this point, they're already an old married couple,” James says with a smirk.

“My favorite character is Ben just because he’s so full of life and just a really well rounded character, and that’s thanks to not only our fabulous writing team but also Mister Sirius Black,” James says gesturing to Sirius who was giving a bright smile at James.

“Thank you Jamie. My favorite character, I think we all know the answer, say it with me,” Sirius says, holding his hands out to the audience who shouted at the top of their lungs.

“ANDREW!”

“Correct! You’ve been paying attention I see,” Sirius smirks looking over at Remus who just breathes a laugh.

“You truly are such a simp…” Remus chuckles, eyeing Sirius who merely smiles back.

“Only for you Moony,” Sirius says, making Remus shake his head.

“My favorite character is Timothee, and no I will not elaborate because I already know this one is going to throw a fit for me not picking him,” Remus says, gesturing to Sirius who was staring absolutely gobsmacked.

“You picked my brother’s character over MINE?!?!?” Sirius yells, making Remus sigh.

“See I told you. Carry on while I handle him,” Remus says, turning to Sirius with raised brows making the audience laugh.

“Um right… So on to our next question?” Alexis says unsure as Remus and Sirius had a, what appeared to be a rather comical murmured conversation that the microphones couldn’t pick up.

“Yes, next question,” Alexis says again, looking out at the audience and the next person waves.

“I have a question for Peter and Lily. What’s it like working with your significant other?” they question looking directly at Peter and Lily who share a look.

“Didn’t bother me a bit, what about you Evans?” Peter asks rather deadpan, making Lily laugh quietly.

“Nope, not a bit. I mean I always crack up when I’m shooting with Pete. Dating or not, he’s just got such killer delivery everytime you can’t help but break,” Lily chuckles as Peter pretends to look at his nails smugly.

“I know, I’m the new Lenny Bruce, it’s okay you can say it Evans,” Peter says, making Regulus choke out a laugh.

“Did you just make a reference to a comic who died in the 60s?!” Regulus coughs out, clearing his throat.

“And our show is set in the 70s, great history lesson Baby Black,” Peter retorts and Regulus shakes his head with a small laugh.

“It’s just such a random reference. I’d assume you’d say Robin Williams before Lenny Bruce,” Regulus chuckles, shaking his head.

“Sorry. Continue,” Regulus says, covering his mouth to laugh quietly.

“Right you wee bastard. Anyway, uh it changed nothing, Lily was just as brilliant as she always was, so get ready to watch her absolutely kill it this season as she does every season,” Peter says as Regulus choked on another laugh, Lily blushing slightly.

“Alright it looks like we’re running low on time everyone so we will do two more questions before we wrap up,” Alexis chirps with a smile to the next person with a question that was a woman dressed in a Batgirl cosplay.

“Oh, big pressure now, second to last question and all. Uh my question is for Regulus actually, I was wondering if you think Timothee will ever leave the Barnes family like Ben now has, or if he’ll stay?” Batgirl asks and Regulus leans forward in his seat, hands in his lap.

“I don’t think Timothee has it in him to disobey his mother. Unlike Ben, who doesn’t need or want their parents' approval, Timothee craves it and because of that he could never betray them like that, no matter how much he may wish he could. Especially now that Ben has run away, as we saw at the end of this previous season, that means Timothee will officially become the heir to the Barnes family. That means all responsibility will fall to him and I think in his own way… Taking that responsibility is his way of saving his brother. So no, Timothee will never leave, or if he does it must be something so terrible even his submissive character can’t bend to it,” Regulus says with a small shrug, looking down at the table quietly making the rest of the cast stare in a slight awe.

“That was beautiful Regulus,” James sighs with a soft smile and Regulus looks up with a shy smile.

“Ah… Thank you,” Regulus says quietly with a bow of his head, making the audience give a quick round of applause.

“It wasn’t that good…” Regulus mutters blushing a bit at the praise and Sirius rolls his eyes.

“Never can take a compliment. It was very eloquent Reggie,” Sirius says, looking behind everyone to catch a glimpse of Regulus who looks up at his brother. At this, Sirius gives him a knowing smile.

“You’re very bright,” Sirius says but there was clearly some underlying meaning between the brothers at the statement because Regulus looked almost choked up for a moment and gave a quick nod.

“Yeah I know I am, unlike you…” Regulus shots back, clearing his throat and looking back down at his hands, Sirius giving a dramatic affronted gasp.

“I am the brightest star in the sky thank you very much,” Sirius says with a dramatic flick of his hair, making Remus chuckle quietly.

“So bright it’s blinding,” Remus mutters and Sirius whips his head back to Remus.

“Oh okay mister I only have the moon of an asteroid,” Sirius says as Remus chuckles, shoving Sirius’ shoulder playfully.

“I hate to cut your banter short because we have to get to our last question! So our final fan question, please go ahead!” Alexis says, looking from the cast table to the audience where a woman stood with a ‘Moony Toast’ shirt, leather jacket, and some red converse on.

“Hi, my name is Elena, uh I hope my question isn’t too lame. Do you have any nicknames for each other? Do you use any of the nicknames from the show for each other in real life? Because I thought I’ve heard Sirius call Remus Andrew’s nickname of Moony a few times in interviews and on his Instagram,” Elena states with a smile and Remus chuckles looking over at Sirius.

“We actually have quite a few nicknames between the two of us. Most of them are just insults if I’m being honest. So scratching all the swear words we call each other, if I want to piss him off I call him Siri,” Remus explains, Sirius letting out a loud groan.

“See, it works far too easy in riling him up,” Remus chuckles, Sirius glaring.

“But what are some nicer ones… I don’t really call you Padfoot or Pads… Even though I could apply it, I suppose, with you being the dog star… But I think of that as Ben’s nickname so I don’t… Oh I know! I call him Glow sometimes because Sirius is Greek for glowing,” Remus says, looking away from Sirius and back to Elena with a smile.

“Also your question is not lame Elena, I think it’s very fitting,” Remus adds with a wink to Elena.

“Your turn Glow,” Remus then says in a quiet voice turning to look at Sirius who was just staring intently at Remus with a soft smile on his face.

“Uh… Right. What do I call you?” Sirius asked blinking rapidly to get himself out of his love-stricken daze and refocus on the task at hand, the audience giving an amused chuckle.

“You call me Moony,” Remus reminds him and Sirius smiles, perking up and looking out at the audience.

“Yes I do. I know it’s Andrew’s nickname, but I mean come on. His name is Remus Lupin, and there is a moon named Remus, I have to call him that! I also call him Wolf or Wolfy a lot… What’s one I call you if I’m mad at you?” Sirius asks, looking over at Remus then with furrowed brows, Remus thinking for a moment and letting out a groan.

“You like to call me Romulus,” Remus sighs, making Sirius smirk.

“I won’t deny that it’s funny, but the thing is it’s my younger brother’s name, because yes my parents are those people- Sirius you cannot laugh you and your brother are literally named after stars,” Remus states holding up a finger in accusation at Sirius who was now trying his best to suppress a laugh.

“I’m sorry- Y-you’re right…” Sirius chokes out between laughs.

“You’re awful, you know that?” Remus glares, making Sirius burst into a full fit of laughter.

“Someone please answer this question while I hit him,” Remus says, smacking Sirius’ arm as Sirius continues to laugh.

“Right. Well I get called pretty much every nickname in the book for James. Jamie, Jimmy, Jim, Jack, Jay. I’ve even been called Jam once!” James says with a chuckle, ruffling his hair.

“But uh no one calls me Prongs… Because… Unlike Aaron I don’t.. Turn into a stag…” James says slowly, with a chuckle alongside the audience.

“Sev, can I share your nickname?” James asks, looking at Severus who groans, hiding his face in his hands.

“Yes… Fine, go ahead…” Severus groans, rubbing his face before sitting up straight and steeling himself for the story.

“Okay, so we decided to have a movie night with the whole cast, and one of the movies we watched was The Notebook, and it really got to Sev. So bad he started crying, and I don’t remember who said it but that’s how he got the nickname Snivellus,” James chuckles, Severus groaning and hiding his face in his hands again.

“I will never live this down…” Severus moaned, getting a laugh from the audience.

“Yeah probably shouldn’t have let that story be told mate. That shits gonna be all over Tik Tok now,” Peter says, patting Severus’ shoulder gently.

“Thank you for that reminder Pettigrew,” Severus said in a deadpan voice.

“I believe Regulus has some nicknames, doesn’t he?” Severus says looking to Regulus, who adjusted his microphone.

“Yes I have some nicknames, most of them come from Sirius,” Regulus says, straightening his shoulders, and when it became apparent he wasn’t going to say what they were, Mary let out a frustrated sound.

“And those would be…?” Mary asks with raised brows, the audience chuckling as Regulus blushes slightly.

“Uh Reggie, Leo and Lion,” Regulus mumbles out, dipping his head.

“Don’t forget the occasional Simba!” Sirius calls from the other end of the table and Regulus blushes harder.

“Yes… Also Simba…” Regulus adds quietly, making Mary coo and she rub his arm gently.

“I’m assuming Regulus is a star in the Leo constellation then?” Mary asked, looking over to Sirius who gave a bright smile.

“The brightest star in the Leo constellation,” Sirius confirms with a hum.

“It brings so many lovely ideas for nicknames that way. When I was filming for Prince Caspian, I’d call him Aslan,” Sirius smirked looking at Regulus who had a small smirk creep onto his face and he looked up with a mischievous glint in his eye.

“So basically, I’m Jesus according to you,” Regulus says, eyeing Sirius down the table who lets out a groan.

“I walked right into that one didn’t I?” Sirius sighs, Regulus smirking proudly.

“Yes. You. Did,” Regulus says punctuating each word, the audience laughing quietly as Sirius puts his head in his hands.

“You’re never going to let me forget this are you?” Sirius says. Regulus hummed in thought for a moment,

“Mm… No, I don’t think I will,” Regulus retorts with a shake of his head and Sirius sighs leaning back in his chair, seeming to accept his fate.

“Does anyone else have a nickname to share? If not I’m afraid we’ll have to wrap up,” Alexis says with a sad smile.

“I have a few nicknames,” Lily says, lifting her hand slightly.

“It’s not a long list so I promise to be quick. I get called, Lil, Lils, flower, or Lily flower. And if this lot wants to piss me off, they call me Lillian, knowing full well it’s not my name. If my name was Lillian I’d spell Lily L-I-L-L-Y not L-I-L-Y. The amount of Starbucks coffee cups I’ve gotten with my name wrong on them is truly astounding,” Lily says with a huff, crossing her arms and getting a laugh from James.

“But your reaction is so worth it everytime we call you Lillian,” James smirks and Lily fixes him with a harsh glare.

“It is. Regardless of how much you glare at me,” James chuckles looking at her, Lily shaking her head in disapproval at him.

“Nightmares. All of them,” Lily says with a sigh, getting a chuckle from the audience.

“Excuse me Evans. I am a psychedelic dream, thank you very much,” Peter says, raising a finger in correction making Lily laugh quietly.

“Of course. Do forgive me,” Lily chuckles, Peter letting out an exaggerated sigh.

“Only because I love you,” Peter sighs with a shake of his head, getting a cheer from the audience.

“Oh thank you,” Lily says with an amused look on her face.

“That’s Pete’s new nickname. Psychedelic dream,” James says with a smirk.

“You know it,” Peter replies, giving James a fist bump and getting some laughs from the audience. A lull fell in the conversation making Alexis look down the table waiting a moment for anyone else to speak or add a comment. When no one did, Alexis turned to look out at the audience.

“Well then with that final question we will now be wrapping up the panel. Thank you all so much for coming. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did watching these guys chat. Don’t forget to check for any signings or photo ops these guys may be doing later today via the program schedule! Once again a huge thank you to the fantastic cast of Marauders: Managers of Mischief, again the new season will be dropping this coming fall. Let’s give them all one final round of applause!” Alexis says with a smile running through her spiel quickly, spotting a panel organizer, giving her the wrap it up signal, and the audience erupts in cheers. The cast all give a small bow of their heads and a quick round of thanks before everyone starts to get out of their chairs when Remus speaks up.

“Actually, before we leave I want to give you all a parting gift. So everyone get your phones out and start recording,“ Remus says, the audience’s cheering quieting down and looking rather puzzled but followed Remus’ instructions anyway.

“What are you up to Lupin?” Sirius asks with a smirk but Remus ignores him, carrying on.

“Alright, are you all recording? Great. Now I’m going to say this directly into my microphone so the audio will hopefully be decent. And no screaming until I’m done,” Remus says leaning forward to get closer to his microphone and clears his throat before speaking gently.

“I love you Ben Barnes,” Remus says with a smile on his face and a glance to Sirius who needed no further instruction and leaned into his mic with a bright smile on his face.

“I love you Moony,” Sirius says looking at Remus reverently and Remus smiles.

“Well then might as well… Gryffindor pride and all that…” Remus say into his mic, Sirius’ face screwing up in confusion.

“Moons what are you talking ab-'' Sirius started to reply when Remus grabs Sirius by the front of his shirt and pulls him in for a bruising kiss, Sirius’ eyes going wide for a split second before he went along with the action, slowly bringing his hand to Remus’ jaw and tilting it closer to him. Slowing the kiss down for good measure, to make the kiss more appealing for their rather large audience, before the two broke away breathing deeply as they looked into each other's eyes, beaming for a moment. Sirius rubs his thumb gently over Remus’ cheek, and Remus releases Sirius’ shirt before he turns to look out at the audience again with a huge grin.

“There. Use that for your edits now, instead of trying to manipulate different lines we’ve said and scenes of us kissing other people. You can scream now if you’d like,” Remus says with a nod and the room erupts in screams, making Remus smile so wide his cheeks hurt.

“You really are the number one Wolfpad shipper aren’t you?” Sirius smirks, leaning in close to Remus who chuckles, looking over at him.

“They deserve something real just in case the studio forces us to… Straighten up if you will. Plus. I just kissed the Sirius Black. I see this as an absolute win,” Remus says with a knowing smirk.

“You know you don’t have to come up with elaborate excuses to kiss me Lupin,” Sirius says with a smirk but his eyes were soft with love.

“No I suppose I don’t,” Remus smirks, glancing down at Sirius’ lips briefly before looking back up at Sirius’ eyes again.

“No you don’t,” Sirius smirks leaning in closer ever so slightly, feeling the warmth of Remus.

“Backstage?” Remus asks with slow breaths, as if holding himself back from doing something rash.

“Backstage,” Sirius breathes and the two shoot out of their chairs, giving a quick final wave to the audience before moving quickly to exit backstage, and some fans swear they saw the two grab ahold of the others hand just before they went out of sight.