First year- Balloons
Remus’s Lupin
Remus has been trying to come up with more excuses to get out for the night, during the moon, he thinks he'll just say hes visiting his mom. Yeah, that'll work, plus Sirius already knows she's sick so he’ll just think Remus is helping her.
“Remus, hello? Earth to Remus' ' Sirius is saying, waving a hand in front of Remus
“ what were you saying?” Remus asks squinting his eyes to focus on Sirius.
“Merlin's beard, Remus, I was asking how we should prank Snivellus,” Sirius shakes his head and clicked his tongue to the roof of his mouth. "Come on catch up” he rolls his hands together in a rushing manner.
“Okay for christ's sake, what? Why exactly are we pranking snivellus?” he furrow his brows.
This question causes Sirius to look at James and James to look at Peter. Peter look at Remus confused and he gives him the exact expression back.
“Am I missing out on something here?” he looks at the three of them.
“Yeah what the bloody hell is going on, did he say something?” Peter asks
“What? No, no of course not” James jumps up.
“James, you're a horrible liar, what happened?” Peter asks.
“It's just,” Sirius pauses. “He punched James's beautiful face and we can't have that happen, now can we, James?” Sirius says jokingly, looking at James.
“Yeah, we can't have people punch James’s beautiful face how else am I going to get Evans to fall in love with me?” James quivers his bottom lip sarcastically.
“Ugh fine, what do you guys have in mind?” he sighs sitting up.
“Yes!, so last time was amazing and all, but we need to go bigger this time,” Sirius says grinning stretching his arms, implying that they need to go bigger.
“And now we're so much better at magic so we can do better," Peter chips in.
"Yes Pete, now Remus you're the one that brainstormed it last time, so any ideas” Sirius raises his eyebrows to Remus
“Ugh, why do I have to always be the brains of the operation, it's your idea” Remus groans
“Well this is a group assignment so I accept ideas from everyone”
“Oh my Merlin, what are you professor McGonagall now?” Peter snorts.
“Why thank you, I take that as the highest of compliments Minnie’s the best” Sirius puts his hand to his chest in flattery.
“Minnie?” he asks
“Minerva McGonagall,” Sirius says as if they should have known what he was talking about.
“Her first name is Minerva?” James asks.
“Yes, honestly how do guys not know this?” Sirius shakes his head.
“I'm sorry I didn't know we were on a first-name basis with our professors “ Peter widens his eyes sarcasm coating his voice.
“Very disappointed in the lot of you” Sirius continues shaking his head, Remus can tell he's holding in a laugh.
“Okay, so I'll grab books from the library and well start from there, okay?” Remus suggests, sitting up from his bed.
“Now that's the spirit Remus” Sirius jumps up, and Remus gives him a glare for the nickname.
“Yeah yeah, come on lads to the library we go ” He waves a hand for them to follow.
They spent the rest of the day in the library looking around for possible things we could do to get back snape.
“Ugh, I can't find anything” Sirius groans, slamming his book dwn onto the table.
“Shhh,” The librarian hisses at Sirius.
“Yeah yeah,” Sirius waves her off, muttering under his breath.
“Can't we just go to dinner?” sirius asks.
“Yeah we've been here for hours” James adds.
“Exactly James, we've been here for hours and we haven't found anything good enough,” Remus states putting his book down.
This makes Sirius elbow James.
“Ow, what?” James rubs his side.
“You're not supposed to make a point James, we're trying to get out of here” Sirius hisses through his teeth.
“You know I can hear you right, and this prank thing was your idea” remus glares
“Well, I didn't think you'd want to make this into a study sesh,” Sirius exclaims, flapping his hands to his side.
“Mr black if I have to tell you to quiet it down again you're getting kicked out of the library, hush,” The librarian says harshly.
“Right, sorry,” Sirius says looking back at the librarian, rolling his eyes when he looks back at us.
“Fine, let's go to dinner,” He says, he glad that he finally gave in, because his stomach is rumbling.
***
They get down to dinner and start eating.
“So you're telling me he's afraid of balloons? What is he three?” Marlene asks Lily, laughing hysterically.
“Stop making fun,” Lily whines, wacking Marlenes' arm.
“No this is hilarious, is there a specific kind of balloon Snape is scared of or is it just all kinds of balloons?” Mary snorts.
Marlene laughs again.
Remus looks at the boys to see if they've taken notice of the discovery he has just found out about Snape, but they all have they're stuffing their faces with food.
“Stop it, I didn't tell you guys so you could laugh about it” Lily elbows both of their sides.
“C’mon lils you can't tell me you don't find at least a little bit funny” Mary smiles, looking as though she's about to burst into laughter, same with Marlene.
“Okay, okay fine, it's a little bit funny” Lily breathes out a soft laugh.
“Okay so you don't need to answer this, but is he scared of every kind of balloon?” Marlene asks biting down on her bottom lip to stop herself from laughing.
“Oh my Merlin, yes, yes every kind of balloon” Lily holds the bridge of her nose with two fingers.
Marlene can't contain herself from abruptly laughing, and Mary laughs along.
“You two are insufferable, “ Lily shakes her head.
“Aw c'mon lils you know you love us” Mary pouts.
.
“Yeah, lils” Marlene gives lily puppy eyes.
“Oh my god, you guys are killing me slowly” Lily rolls her eyes.
After dinner, remus happily walk to the common room
James and Peter already had walked to the dorm, Peter insists they get back early so they can get a hold of the chessboard before anyone else.
“What's up with you?” Sirius asks, walking next to him
“What?” Remus asks.
“You seem cheery, is that a smile on your face?” Sirius inspects my face squinting.
“I'm cheery” Remus scoffs
“No, usually you're a big grump, what’s happened ?” Sirius asks.
“I've got an idea to get back at snivellus,” he says proudly.
“since when? We were just at the library for ages and you're telling me this now” Sirius has his jaw dropped.
“Well, I couldn't have told you when I was in the library” Remus answers.
“Why not?”
“Because I figured it out during dinner” Remus shrugs
“Well, tell me” Sirius raises his eyebrows motioning Remus to continue.
“Okay, so I found out that Snape is afraid of balloons” Remus looks behind him to see if anyone's listening in, “And I was thinking maybe we could like fill his dorm up with balloons”
“Merlin's beard! Remus, you're a genius” Sirius says overly excited.
Remus smiles rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
“They're going to flip when they finds this out, come on I’ll race ya” Sirius waves a hand for Remus to follow after him. He's already far ahead of him running back to the common room
“No Sirius I don't run!” Remus whines, out of breath trying to keep up.
Remus stops at the entrance, there stands Sirius with a large grin.
“Slowpoke,” Sirius says, poking at remuss shoulder.
“Oh shove off” remus scoffs
The two get to the common room and James and Peter are sitting on the floor with a chess board in front of them.
“Check,” Peter says proudly sticking his nose up.
“Awe come on” James whines.
“James, Pete, you will not believe what Remus just found out,” Sirius says, throwing himself onto the common room couch.
“What?” James looks up from the board.
“Hm?” Peter hums not looking up
“Well, sniv-”
“No, Sirius not here,” Remus say s looking around at the other people in the common room.
“Right, right, cmon, wouldn't want this genius idea getting loose “ Sirius says.
James and Peter stand up. Peter puts the chess board and all the pieces back into the box
“I win,” Peter nudges James.
“ I'm gonna beat you next time,” James says certainly
“In your dreams, Potter” Peter snorts.
They get to their dorm.
“Okay so Remus figured it out,” Sirius says.
“Figured what out?” Peter asks,
“Snivellus, how to get him back,” Sirius says proudly.
This makes Peter and James widen their eyes intrigued.
“What, how?” James asks, adjusting his glasses.
“Get this, the wuss is afraid of balloons.” Sirius chuckles
This makes Peter and James burst out laughing.
“Wait- how do you know this?” James asks, trying to keep himself together from laughing.
“I have my ways” Remus shrug.
“See, brains of the operation” Sirius states pointing a finger at Remus.
“So what do we do?” Peter asks, looking at me.
“Okay, so I was thinking that we would like, to fill his dorm up with balloons,” Remus suggests
“ That's brilliant,” James says.
“So you're sure he's afraid, ?” Peter asks.
“I think so, the girls seemed pretty sure of it” Remus answers.
“Remus Lupin, you got some lady friends that we don't know of” James wiggles his eyebrows
“Yeah, Lily Evans head of her?” Remus says sarcastically and James' face drops.
Remus sees Sirius smirks, all knowingly of his sarcasm.
Peter's face makes a quite confused look, as to why He was talking to Lily Evans in the first place.
“What!?” James asks, he doesnt know whether he's surprised, knows Remus being sarcastic, or is mad. He just has his mouth open, and his eyes widened.
“Oh my god, James, I'm joking, you nutter, chill out, I overheard Lily, Mary, and Marlene talking about it at supper,” Remus says, James, face instantly resting.
Sirius makes a huff of a laugh, looking to me then to James.
“Ohhh,” James makes an o with his lips and pulls out the word.
“Okay back to the prank, I was thinking we could get balloons and multiply them in his sleep. So when he wakes up smothered by them.” Remus states
“Brilliant, absolutely brilliant,” Peter says, smile widening.
“This ought to be the best idea I've ever heard,” James said
“ Bloody hell Remus, I mean I already knew the plan like a half-hour ago, but still, fucking genius innit.” Sirius claps his hands together.
“Well when shall we do it?” James asks grinning.
“We could do it tomorrow night, I'll get the balloons,” Remus says.
“Okie dokie” james says
“Yes! this is going to be wicked,” Peter says.
***
We all go to sleep with excitement to do the prank the next day.
Remus wakes up to James pretending to play the trumpet and making a tune come from his mouth.
“James I swear to Godric, I'm going to kill you” Sirius groans.
“Wakey wakey you big old grump,” James says to Sirius.
“Come on, wake up, we got a big day planned!” James shouts to them
“James Fleamont Potter shut it!” Peter hollers to James.
“Early bird catches the worm “ James coos
“James sod off, and let us sleep!” Remus groans into his pillow “Wow, you lot are very unappreciative, I mean I'm over here taking the time out of my day, to wake you up at five in the morning, so we can prank snivellus”
“It's five in the morning?!” Sirius Peter and Remus groan in unison
“Yes! Get up” James claps his hands together.
“No you wanker” Sirius says, then murmurs some unrecognizable words into his pillow.
“That's it,” James says grabbing Sirius by the leg and yanking Sirius out of his bed.
“Noo!” Sirius says grabbing onto his pillow “Fine! I'm up, I'm up!” Sirius says, putting his hands up in surrender.
“Thank you,” James nods.
Which causes Sirius to roll his eyes, “Tosser” Sirius mumbles.
Remus and Peter sit up.
“You're insane James, no one wakes up this early,” Peter says rubbing his eyes.
“Actually, I've been thinking about joining quidditch next year, and they always wake up early,” James adds.
“Oh god,” Peter whines, putting his hands to his face, shaking his head.
“Oh come on it's not that bad to wake up early” James tilts his head.
“Says you” Sirius joins in.
“You lot are very crabby in the morning” James states looking around the room at the three of us.
“ whose fault is that?” Remus glares.
***
Remus gets through the day and hes in his last class, potions.
Right behind him are Snape and Mulcibler. Remus can hear their remarks and laughs from behind him. Most likely talking about him but he doesnt give it any more thought.
Remus likes to get to class early, so no one is sitting next to him, because not everyone's here yet. and no one dares to sit next to him besides his friends.
Until he sees a head of red hair come up to him.
“Hey, Remus” Lily sits next to him.
“Oh uh hi,” Remus chokes out nervously.
“How are you?” She asks.
“Brilliant, you?” he asks back.
“Brilliant” she answers, nodding shortly.
Remus sees James, Sirius, and Peter enter the room, they look at him their eyes widen a bit.
Sirius raises an eyebrow at me and he just shrugs/
“Uhm lily?” he questions.
“Yes?” She furrowed her eyebrows, turning a head to look at him.
“Why'd you sit next to me?” Remus asks.
She shrugs “I don't know, you were sitting here alone, and my friends aren't here yet” she smiles lightly.
“Oh” Remus adds shortly, mirroring her smile.
“I thought snape was your friend,” he asks.
“Well yeah, but he's sitting with mulcibler and he doesn't like me very much” Lily shrugs
“What? Why?” he asks
Remus get inturupted by someone kicking the back of his chair. He turn around to see Snape glaring at him
“What are you looking at? Loony lupin” Snape spits at me.
“Yeah loony lupin,” Mulcibler laughs.
Remus rolls his eyes, turning back around. He feels more feet kicking the back of my chair.
"Do you mind?" Remus asks harshly.
"Mind what" Snape shrugs.
"Fuck off" he hisses whipping back around to look ahead.
Remus feel another kick, which is harder than the other two, it causes his chair to move forward, scraping againsts the flor
Remus sees Lily wince at the noise.
"I swear to god" Remus sighs
"Remus, don't mind them " lily whispers to him
"No," he says, turning back around.
"Hey Snape, did you. Not hear me I said 'fuck off'" Remus repeat.
"Oh we heard you, but we don't listen to dirty half-bloods like you" Mulcibler laughs again, and Snape laughs along.
Remus hear a loud sigh come from next to him. Lily
Lily whips around "go to hell" she hisses at muilcibler. Causing him to start kicking lilys chair
"Oh for fucks sake,” Remus sighs. "Didnt you hear her?" Remus spits out , turning himself around. Mulcibler shuffles his feet back. Remus turnes back around. thinking he'll leave it at that.
"Hey scarface, " Mulcibler says with another kick.
He feels the anger bubbling back up his throat.
"Ha, scarface," Snape laughs.
"Come on scarface, why don't you go back with the loonies bin back home" Snape raises his voice ever so slightly, laughing even more. "I mean I even heard your own father left you because of how loony you are" This makes Mulciber erupt with laughter.
There it is.
That's all he needed.
To stand up and let the anger get the best of him
"Fuck you!" he shouts. All heads turn towards Remus
Snape rises from his seat and the same with Mulcibler.
"Oh come on, Loony Lupin, can't take a joke?" Mulcibler laughs
It's like Remus isnt even controlling his mind . His fist rises up , meeting with Snape's face.
And Mulciber pushes me. Remus pushes him back . Snape fist colliding with remuss face , he does the same, punching him again and again again.
Mulciber punches him again and he can feel blood streaming down his lip, and the smell of it sends shivers down Remuss spine.
Remus pushs Snape again, Which causes the slightly shorter boy to fall to the ground.
"Don't talk about my father! Or me, keep my name out of your mouth" he keeps punching.
Remus is on top of Snape now punching him repeatedly, he can feel Mulcibler trying to pull him off.
Snape at this point is calling Remus all kinds of swears.
"Enough, enough!" Says Slughorn pulling Remus off of snape.
" What in the world are you doing?" Slug horn says, looking at remmus sternly.
"He started it" Remus spits at him.
"What! No, you did, he's crazy professor " Mulcibler whines.
Slughorn looks to snape who is in worse condition than him
Remus wipes the blood that's spilling from his nose, with his robe.
"Okay, Mr. Mulcibler, bring Mr. Snape to the infirmary, and Mr. Lupin I'll be talking a hundred house points from Gryffindor. You'll go to detention at Professor McGonagall's."
Remus almost laughs, points? what the hell do I want points for. he thinks
"Wow, you've royally fucked it up this time Remus," the voice in the back of his head says.
Remus doesnt know what's wrong with him, he can never control his anger.
Slughorn walks back to his desk. “Class dismissed” he sighs.
Remus grabs his stuff and walksout.
Anger is running through his body. Remus just trys to steady his breath.
“Remus!” Sirius says running after him. James and Peter following behind.
“What?” Remus hissess.
“That was wicked” Sirius laughs.
“It was not wicked Sirius, it was horrid,” Remus says, bringing a hand up to cover his face.
“Oh don't feel bad about it Remus, come on, it was well deserved, “ Sirius pats Remuss back, he feel more shivers run throughout his body. “ I can't believe me and Pete are the only ones that haven't given him a good punch” Sirius balls his hands into a fist and grins widely.
“This isn't a joke Sirius, can you be serious for once in your life?” he says pushing him away.
“What do you mean? Sirius is my first name,” Sirius snorted with a laugh.
“Oh, er mwyn fucks” Remus murmurs under his breath, not even noticing his welsh had made an appearance
“Did you just speak welsh?” Sirius furrows his eyebrows and laughs questionably.
“Piss off,” he scoffs
James and Peter are now right behind Remus
“Remus, that was wicked” Peter laughs.
“Right, that was amazing,,” James added.
“That's what I said” Sirius huffs a laugh
“You guys are ridiculous, ” he sighs, walking away from them.
He doesnt want to talk to anyone, he just wants to be alone.
Remus goes to detention and there stands McGonagall.
“Again Mr. Lupin,?” She asks, shaking her head.
“Yep, “ he says looking at her, putting his bag down and sitting down at the desk.
She looks up to remus and her eyes widen “Oh my let me call Poppy- Madam Pomfrey , she corrects. "give me a minute” She rushes over to the phone on her desk. “Yes poppy, Mr. Lupin is here and he's got blood all over his face, could you come over darling?” Professor McGonagall says softly.
Darling?
Why is she calling her darling?
After a while, Madam Pomfrey comes. With her bag of medical supplies.
“Oh Remus, what have you gotten yourself into now?” Madam Pomfrey comes up to remus examining his face.
“Okay it looks like you don't have any serious injuries I just need to clean you up, Minnie could you pass my bag dear?”
Remus almost lets out a small laugh at the nickname Minnie, guess Sirius isn't the only one that uses it.
McGonagall brings over the bag and watches Madam Pomfrey clean the blood off his face.
“You got to stop getting yourself in trouble like this Remus” Madam Pomfrey says softly.
“I know,” he says back weakly, almost in a whisper. “It's just sniv- Snape he was calling me scarface, and kicking my chair, so I got angry, I'm sorry” he apologizes looking down at his shoes, not making eye contact.
“Oh sweetie ” Madam Pomfrey makes a slight frown, and he looks into her eyes, and there full of worry.
“I mean it is true, I am a scarface but -I don't know it's stupid,” Remus mumbles looking back down.
“It's not stupid dear, here look at me,” he looks back up to her as she continues “ it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about you, it only matters what you think of yourself, isn't that right Minnie?” Madam Pomfrey says looking back to Professor McGonagall.
“Right- yes right, “ Professor McGonagall says mannerly.
“And we don't solve things with our fist, or with anger, alright,” Pomfrey asks softly, smiling, eyes soft. And rubbing her thumb on his fist.
he nod shortly, he knows this probably won't change anything about his short temper, but I can't help but feel his anger drift away.
He feel this motherly nature from both of them, and it makes me feel like hes back home.
Having his Mom comfort his, and tell him it's going to be alright.
Madam Pomfrey leaves after talking to McGonagall for a while.
Remus sits in silence for a while, then he hears a bang outside the door. It makes remus turn his head and he see three heads in the window of the door.
oh godric
They keep banging on the door, and remus looks to Mcgonnagal, whos trying to ignore them her head down looking into a book.
“Let our boy go” he hears Peter protest.
"Oh christ" remus mutters, dragging a hand down his face.
“He didn't do anything wrong!” James yells.
“Free Remus! he's innocent!" Sirius yells.
The banging is continuous.
“Oh my Merlin, just go,” She sight , bringing her hand to her forehead.
Remus snorts a laugh lightly and quickly grabs his bag heading towards the door.
“What are you lot doing, you're going to get me in even more trouble” he looks at them.
“Well we couldn't have you sit there, all lonely without us,” James says.
“Jeez Remus you've got like a huge bruise on your eye” Peter inspects his face closely.
“Yeah it looks badass,” Sirius says grinning, amazed.
Remus shrugs smugly “Well yeah you should see the other guy”
We start walking back to the dorm when he stops in the middle of the hallway, right next to the secret entrance. Which makes the three boys turn their heads to me, and pause their walking.
“What? What is it” James asks curiously
“Let's do that prank,” He says determined.
“Hell yes,” Sirius says clapping his hands together.
Remus walks in the entrance and when he gets into honeydukes and rushes to the balloons, grabbing bags of them.
“Let's go boys, James you get the I.C, “ Sirius says snapping his fingers at James.
“What in the world is an I.C?” James asks.
“Invisibility cloak, cmon James I . C” Sirius slaps his hand to his forehead and shakes his head.
"how am i supposed to know that?" James brings his hands up in confusion.
They return to the dorm grab the cloak and head down to the Slytherin chambers.
Everyone’s already setteling down and getting into bed, and snape seems to already be asleep. They start blowing up balloons and filling the room up with them, once everyones asleep. They place a bunch around snape.
“Should we wait here or go back to our dorm?” Peter asks.
“We should stay here, to see his reaction” Sirius nods.
“Yeah” James adds.
“What do you think Remus?” Sirius asks Remus
“right, we should stay here” remus answers.
They stay there for the night, sitting against the wall under the cloak, bundled up on the floor. After a couple of hours, James has already dozed off, and shortly after Peter does as well. Peters leaning his head on James shoulder as he sleeps and James lays his head ontop of peters
“Guess it's just the both of us, eh” Sirius whispers, nudging remus with his elbow.
“Guess so,” Remus says looking straight ahead of him
“So, you didn't tell me you spoke welsh” Sirius laughs a little.
“Yeah, I used to speak it a lot more when I was little” he shrugs.
“Why’d you stop?” Sirius asks.
And a lump forms in my throat, He only spoke welsh when he was small because his father is Welsh. “My fathers welsh, he taught me how to speak it,” he says forcing the words to come out his mouth, without sounding hopeless “ I don't know, I just didn't feel like speaking it still after he-” he stop himself from talking to much, from revealing to much.
“After he what?” Sirius asks.
“After he left,” he say, more quietly than he was already speaking.
“Oh,” Sirius says, understandingly. “Did you know I speak french?” Sirius sticks his nose up proudly.
“Oh yeah ?” he asks, raising his brows.
“Oui oui Je parle couramment,” Sirius says in french, and this takes remus by surprise, he speaks so naturally. Remuss welsh is pretty good but pretty broken down since he doesnt speak it much.
“What’d you say?” he asks furrowing his eyebrows
“Yes, yes, I speak fluently “ Sirius translates “What did you say earlier?” Sirius asks in a whisper.
“Uhm” he tres to recall his words from earlier “ I believe I said, for fucks sake,” he says bluntly.
Sirius snorts a laugh.
“Hey look, the sun's rising, James ought to be up in a bit” Sirius whispers, letting a small laugh escape his mouth.
“Surprised he's not up yet, he usually wakes up at the crack of dawn” Remus adds
“Hm?” James groans voice still groggy from sleeping.
“Well speak of the devil, morning Jamsie,” Sirius teases.
“Morning? What are you doing up still?” James questions.
“Obviously I'm too excited to sleep if I get to see the look on snivellus’s face” Sirius snorts a laugh.
“Right, hi Remus” James directs his eyes to remus adjusting his glasses he never took off.
“Hiya” remus responds.
he look forward again and he sees snape starting to move around in his bed.
“Guys I think he's waking up,” He says in a whisper.
“Oh, my merlin it's happening, Pete wake up, Peter” James nudges peter.
“Huh, what?” peter answers . “it's happening, c’mon, get up,” James says softly.
Snape continues to adjust himself, He sits up and lets a scream out, looking around himself.
This causes the other people in the dorm to get up. “What the hell” Mulcibler groans. Looking around to the balloon-filled room.
Remus can hear Snapes breathing from where hes sitting, “No, no” he says panicky. “Are you afraid of balloons Severus?” Avery asks squinting his tired eyes at him . “What? No!” Snape says in distress.
Everyone in the dorm laughs hysterically, except snape, who looks horrified.
He see Mulcibler pick up a balloon, the color drains from Snape's face, “Don't . you . dare” Snape warns pointing a finger at him. Mulcibler smirks and throws the ballon at Snape. And snape shrieks.
Everybody else starts laughing again. Along with Sirius James Peter and I. “Who did this?” Snape glares at everyone.
“Dunno, but obviously whoever did, knows your afraid of balloons,” Avery says finishing his sentence with a laugh. He sees see Snape furrow his eyebrows.
“No, She couldn't have told anyone,” Snape says quietly. “Who?” Mulcibler asks. “She couldn't have told anyone” snape repeats, this time he looks angry.
Jesus
“Guys we should get out of here,” remus whispers the boys are still giggling.
“Right yes,” James says his laughter dying down. “Okay be quiet, ready?” He says the boys all nod. they all stand up in unison and tiptoe out of the dorm.
Once they get back out into the hall Sirius speaks first “Oh my merlin that was wicked! Did you see his face?” Sirius laughs.
They get to their dorm and collapses onto their beds tiredly.
“Oh sweet bed I missed you,” Peter says into his pillow.