Ask the Marauders > August 4, 2004

From: Shawki
How many pranks have you played that involve a...disturbing item?

Sirius: Um...all of them?

James: That's not true. That time with teh chocolate syrup wasn't so disturbing.

Peter: And the banana wasn't all that bizarre either.

Remus: And the tinking charm also isn't bizarre. That's the most common one we use.

Lily: I think when you enchanted my hairbrush to color my hair purple was irritating, but not disturbing.

Sirius: Then maybe 75%, if you count Snape as disturbing. *winks*

From: Dana Black
Ok I know you've been asked a question like this before, but this one is for everyone, INCLUDING Robyn and Angie! ^^ What is your favorite book? Mine is Away Laughing on a Fast Camel! I love Louise Rennon's books.

Sirius: 101 Odorless Potions and How to Prank with Them.

James: You never gave that one back to me, did you?

Sirius: Heh, oops?

James: Well, discounting that one, which has been lost for all eternity in the hole that Padfoot calls his bedroom...

Sirius: Hey!

James: *ignores Sirius* ...I'd have to say Quidditch Through The Ages.

Lily: Saw that one coming a mile away.

James: *grins*

Lily: You're impossible. *sigh* Favorite book? And I can't even remember what I said last time! Let's see...I was reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen the other day...

Remus: I have to pick ONE? I can't pick just one book!

Robyn: Other than Prisoner of Azkaban, I think my favorite books of all time are the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I've loved them since I was little and my mom read them to me. *smiles*

Angie: My favorite book is Exile's Honor by Mercedes Lackey. Great novel if you ever want to pick it up.

From: Me!
Hey Lily if you think that Astrology is stupid then how did you know what James was?

Lily: Any muggleborn worth her salt would know the astrology signs. Besides, Petunia was always obsessed with horoscopes and so forth when we were younger. *shrugs* Hard not to pick up the basics.

James: That's my Lily, very well-rounded.

Sirius: . . .

James: ...don't go there if you wish to remain pain free and in one piece.

Sirius: Heh. *grins*

Remus: He already went there, Prongs.

From: Chileea
Sirius: How would you react if some one wrote a fanfiction story where your daughter falls in love with Harry? (James and Lily answer too. I want to hear there reaction)

Sirius: Well...

James: Wait, who let him procreate?

Lily: Certainly wasn't me.

Peter: Me neither. Moony?

Remus: It also wasn't me.

Sirius: Thanks guys...and if I were ever to have a daughter, which seems kind of impossible due to my current status as veil-food, I guess I would be okay with her liking Harry. He's a good kid.

From: Contenta
I was actually dropped on my head when I was born. What does that say about me, according to you?

James: Says that you were dropped on your head when you were born?

Lily: You know, I always wondered if Sirius had been dropped on his head as a baby.

Sirius: Nah, my mum never really touched me, and when I was that young she still cared what happened to me so any servant that even made me cry was...dealt with. But once I grew up, she didn't like the way I turned out too much. Heh.

Peter: Though I think we may have dropped him on his head a few times at school. *grins*

James: Yup, we've caused him plenty of head trauma over the years, but usually it's his fault. *grins*

Sirius: HEY! *scowls*

Remus: *grins* Well, it was your fault most of the time. You kept running into the stone walls, remember?

Sirius: And why do I remember someone hexing me so that when I turned right, my body would go left, and so on?

From: Melissa
Ok everybody, do you tan, burn, freckle, or what? Or maybe you use SPF 50 everywhere you go? Just curious.

Lily: *sigh* I freckle. A lot.

James: I tan, though I tend to burn during practice when we're out a long time.

Sirius: I don't burn, I just tan. Mum was always furious when I'd come home for summer holiday with a tan. *grins* Didn't care to stay inside and be all pasty white like the rest of the family. Feh.

Peter: I kind of do all three. The burns are not fun at all.

Remus: I tan more than anything else.

From: bordem
Do you wish you were an Oscar Meyer weiner?

James: Every day.

Sirius: *music starts up* Oooooh! I wish I was an Oscar Meyer weiner! That is what I really want to be!

Lily: SIRIUS!

Sirius: What? Would you rather me sing 'I Have a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts'?!

Lily: ...no, actually that would scare me more.

James: I'd rather see Snape sing it....

Sirius: Next Welcoming Feast. *grins*

Remus: *groans* Thanks for the warning...

From: tomoko
Which of you guys will most likely be the most lovely looking cross-dresser? Snape's not included.

Sirius: He's not? There's something to be thankful for...

James: I think Padfoot would make a better looking woman than I would.

Peter: What makes you say that?

Sirius: You calling me a girl?!

Lily: Or he's saying you're better looking than he is.

James: I'm saying neither. Based on your cousins, you'd probably be pretty good looking.

Sirius: Ugh, Narcissa and Bellatrix?

James: No, Andromeda, you goofball.

Sirius: I see your point. But I still don't want to wear a dress. I'll leave that to those who actually look good in dresses. Like Lils.

Lily: Thanks, Sirius.

Remus: It's also easier on all of our eyes to NOT see Sirius cross-dressing, too.

Sirius: I wouldn't want to see me crossdressing either. *sticks tongue out at everyone*

From: Dana
Snape, have you ever tried to play a prank on James or Sirius?

Snape: *mutters* How do I end up here time and time again? *sigh* Tried to prank those two idiots? Yes, if you must know, in my youth I did try revenge. But I quickly learned that turning them into the professors was far easier, and less dangerous to my person.

Sirius: Spoilsport. *grins*

From: Con
Um... hello. I had this great question for you, it was funny and everything, but I've forgotten it! Is there any spell that can make it come back?

James: Wormtail? You're the one forgetting things all the time. You got any spells?

Peter: Um...well there was this one charm...but I forgot it. Hehehe...sorry.

Sirius: Hey Moony, you got anything?

Remus: Nope. I can't think of any charms that really help out all that much. Ask Lily, she's the charms genius.

Lily: There hasn't been much luck in reversing things like Memory charms and so forth. And it's even harder when you naturally forget something.

From: Moony
If you could change one thing about your future (or past, whichever one you want) what would it be? Please, everyone answer.

Lily: Other than the obvious, I would hope.

James: What, you mean the whole not dying thing?

Lily: Yeah. Or getting rid of Voldemort.

Sirius: Then let's me and Prongs open a prank store.

Lily: You've got to be kidding...

Sirius: Of course I am. If we can't get rid of old Voldie, let's make him a cranky old Muggle that has to play Santa Claus every winter in malls. *grins*

Lily: I don't think that's what 'Moony' had in mind...

Remus: I don't like that someone's using my nickname. But if I could change something..I'd change things so I wouldn't be bitten.

James: Can we change it so that Padfoot doesn't charge off to the Minstry in the fifth book?

Sirius: Yes please!

Peter: I'd change what I did, obviously. Or fix it somehow in the present or future.

From: abcdefghi
How old is every one at this date?

James: Um, I'm not aging anymore. But I was 21 at the end of it.

Lily: Me as well.

Sirius: Hahaha! Robyn and Angie are almost older than you two now! I was what? 35? 36? Something like that.

Peter: That would make me 36 or 37 now or something. I haven't been keeping track.

Remus: Same age as Peter here.

Angie: Yeah, I'm closer to 22 by now. :P

Robyn: By a month only. :P

From: Sarah
Who came up with the name 'The Marauders'?

James: Actually, we never called ourselves the Marauders. We named the map the Marauder's Map because pirates and other troublemakers can be called marauders. Fans just extrapolated the name onto the four of us after the third book came out.

Sirius: Yar!

Lily: You had to mention pirates, didn't you?

James: *sigh* Sorry Lils.

Sirius: YARRR! *grins insanely*

From: frazzle
If you guys had to choose a sense you had to be without which would you choose?

Sirius: Ooooh, that's hard! I definitely wouldn't like to be blind because then you wouldn't be able to see anything, like pretty girls such as Lils here.

Lily: Thanks, I think.

Sirius: And if you couldn't hear you wouldn't be able to listen to music or hear the screams that result from a prank that you've pulled.

James: Snape's shrieks of terror. Music to my ears.

Sirius: If you couldn't smell, food wouldn't taste as good, and you wouldn't be able to smell a pretty girl's perfume. Though you wouldn't have to smell the things that we have to make in Potions class. Or Snape.

Snape: I heard that.

Sirius: And taste would be missed for the joy of eating. And nibbling on a girl's neck, too. *grins*

Lily: Do you mind? There are young ones about.

Sirius: Oh, alright.... Where was I? Yes, touch. Now touch I suppose you could go without, but then again for the older among us, I don't think going without the sensation of touch would be fun either.

James: Then which would you go without?

Sirius: *shrugs* How about common sense? *winks*

Lily: You've never had that to begin with. *sigh*

Remus: That's why it's a perfect sense for him to be without.