Ask the Marauders > March 29, 2005

From: Hazel
So Sirius, if you're God, then who's your evil henchman?

Sirius: Well, I'd have to give Prongs the option of that most awesome position.

James: No thanks, I'll pass. I don't do evil hencman-type positions.

Lily: You're more likely to have your own evil hechman.

James: Indeed. *wiggles eyebrows*

Lily: *shakes head and laughs* Weirdo.

Sirius: Then, of course, the option would open up for Moony. Whaddya say, Moony? Wanna rule the world as my right hand?

James: *snorts* Um, you mean second-in-command, yes?

Sirius: *blinks* Yeah, what else would I... I hate you, Prongs.

James: *grins* I know.

Sirius: So, restating my question, would you like to be my second-in-command, Moony?

Remus: If we're using the term second-in-command, I might as well. I'd at least have a chance to advise you against doing some stupid things merely for your own amusement. *grin*

Sirius: But I like doing stupid things for my own amusement. As well as the amusement of others. *evil grin*

From: Jenny
Sirius, do you like Sirius/serious puns?? (I do!)

James: Too much, I'm afraid. Though it got pretty old in the first hour we knew each other.

Remus: It doesn't help that most people use the puns as well.

Sirius: I siriusly doubt that you'd ever get tired of my jokes, Prongs. *grins*

James: I rest my case.

From: Debzie
Happy Birthday Moony! So, what did you get for your birthday? *smirks* Can I give you a big smooch from me to you?

Remus: I got a few books, as well as chocolate. It's about the same thing I get every year, just that the books are different. And if you want to give me a smooch there's no way I could stop you.

Sirius: Yeah, Moony's pretty easy to shop for. But Prongs is much more entertaining.

Lily: Any excuse to visit Zonko's, huh?

Sirius: You bet! *winks*

From: ouka the divine fist
Hey. *waves* Have any of you guys ever been to a renisance festival before?

Lily: I think Diagon Alley counts as one big RenFair, but to answer your question, no. I haven't been to one.

James: RenFair's where they have jousting and stuff, right? Always wanted to go to one of those.

Remus: I would like to go to one sometime, although Lily says it's a lot like Diagon Alley.

Sirius: Oooh, can I be the Black Knight?

Peter: *sigh* The puns abound today, apparently...

Sirius: *grins*

Peter: I haven't been to a RenFair either.

Robyn: I want to go, but I always hear about them *after* they're over.

Angie: Mwahaha! I've been to one. Granted, I was 5 or 6...but I went to one. ^^;;;;

From: Kuronue
So, Sirius, what do you talk about in your sleep?

Sirius: Come over tonight and you can find out. *winks*

James: Wow, you're being even more brazen than usual today. What was in your oatmeal?

Sirius: No more than the usual 5 spoonfuls of brown sugar, why?

James: *sigh* And Kuronue, you *don't* want to know what this one dreams up in his sleep. He says...things that are not suitable for this website.

Remus: We don't want to know what you dream up in your sleep either, Prongs.

James & Sirius: *in unison* What do you expect? I'm a teenage boy!

From: Lupin Lover
How do you feel towards Angie and Robyn making this site for you guys? Even you SNAPE! *pulls out fake wand and prods him in the cheek*

Snape: Must I go through this every time you fools get begged by your fans for an answer from me? *sighs heavily*

Sirius: Of course. It's because we just can't go a day without seeing your shining, happy face.

Snape: I hate you, Black.

Sirius: *grins*

Snape: *ahem* Angie and Robyn, though lacking taste in favorite characters, have done fairly well for themselves in this venture. And having seen some of the designs for the upcoming site-wide revamp, I must say that I am impressed. For a pair of muggles, that is.

Robyn: I'm touched, Snape. *grins*

Angie: We actually got a COMPLIMENT from Snape! *grins*

James: It's kinda neat that they made a website mostly dedicated to us. And they let us run amok, which is always fun. *smirks*

Remus: Although they do keep some of our antics within reason. Robyn won't let us run amok in such a way that would scare the younger fans. I like how we get to answer questions every few weeks or so.

Sirius: Or every few days if Robyn and Angie are actually on the ball for once. *winks*

Robyn: You try working a 40 hour week, then doing freelance work and volunteering for an anime convention. *sticks tongue out at Sirius*

Lily: I like how they have the forums and fan art/fiction sections so that visitors can have somewhere to gather and add their own ideas to Robyn and Angie's.

Sirius: It's pretty cool. Some of the older layouts were kinda meh, though. But Robyn's improved a lot in her design skills since then. *grins*

Peter: I'm just glad that pretty much everyone here gets along. And that I get to hang out, too. *smiles*

From: harnessed cane
If you had a pet what would it be?

James: Does Snape count?

Snape: Do I look like someone's domesticated animal to you, Potter?

James: Not yet. *takes out his wand and grins*

Snape: *glares* Pets are only good when they are useful, like owls. Otherwise, they are just nuisances.

Lily: I don't think so, Severus. Pets can be very good companions, giving you the unconditional love that most people need in their lives. I like cats, personally.

Remus: I like most animals, just not snakes. Ideally I'd have a cat as well as some birds, but keeping them in separate rooms.

Sirius: What, no squirrels? *evil grin*

Peter: No cats for me. *smiles faintly* Um, dogs can be fun, though a bit much to take care of at times.

James: Tell me about it. *grins at Sirius*

Sirius: Hey, it's not like you have to walk me every day and clean up afterwards.

James: True. That would be just weird...

Sirius: Dogs are the best! They're fun to play with and love to run and explore.

James: I'm with Wormtail and Padfoot on this one. Though cats can be kinda interesting, too. Apparently it's very relaxing to pet a cat. They did studies on this on this once.

From: Tomoko
How long does it take to answer a question? Just wondering. Maybe some of you (like Sirius) takes a second to answer or someone else (like Peter) will take days to answer one...

Sirius: Well..

James: *interrupts* As you can guess, Padfoot here always has something to say. Lily and I can usually think of something to say as well. Wormtail pipes up when he is directly asked a question or if he has something to add.

Remus: And I try to act as a voice of reason as well as answer. I think it works well.

Robyn: It takes us varying amounts of time to write an AtM, as you've seen in the past. Sometimes the answers just come to us immediately, and sometimes we're stumped for over a week. It depends on the questions, but it also depends on time contraints of other things that we're doing.

Angie: Real life lately has been ensuring that we don't get AtM out every week. And by lately, I mean the past few months.

Robyn: Yay real life! *stupid grin*

From: Moon Doggie
Which are better--robots or dinosaurs? I really need to know. A Marauder's answer is a guaranteed win to one side or the other and right now it's an ongoing debate that looks as if it'll never be settled...

Lily: Robots or dinosaurs? That's certainly a weird question.

Sirius: Are the dinosaurs intelligent? Can we teach them to do things, or are they just going to eat us?

James: I would wager they're just going to eat us unless we can enchant them.

Peter: Couldn't robots become more intelligent than us and then take over the world?

Lily: Ooh, that's a good point, too. This is a hard question.

Remus: I'll go with dinosaurs. We can keep them under control a bit easier.

From: Quidditch_Diva
If you guys could choose one nickname other that the ones you already have of course. What would it be?(Sirius? *Smiles Sweetly* Sorry but for you God is not a choice! Love Ya'all!!!)

Sirius: Bob.

James: Bob?

Sirius: Bob.

James: You're name's not Robert, though.

Sirius: So? I like the name Bob.

James: *rolls eyes* Weirdo. I don't know what I'd use for a nickname, I'm so used to Prongs now. Jamie or Jamsie is NOT an option, though.

Lily: But they're cute.

James: *pleading eyes* Lils...

Lily: Oh, alright...

Sirius: We could call Lily Tigerlily.

Peter: I think I've read that nickname in a fic before. And I was never good at coming up with nicknames. *sigh*

Sirius: Well, you can't have Bob. *grins*

Remus: We'll let you have Bob. I honestly don't know what other nickname I'd have, it's hard to have nicknames for "Remus" other than "Remmy".

From: Kathryn
How do you guys deal with the fangirls?

James: Depends on the fan girl.

Remus: Some fan girls are just scary--like the ones who write certain kinds of fanfiction.

Sirius: Some are just nice people that like us. That's pretty cool, and they're not hard to deal with at all. Say hi, accept a hug, pretty easy.

James: Other times, there's the excessive use of punctuation and capitalization, the begging for hugs/kisses/dat es/marriage. These are harder to deal with. In the rules for AtM, we disallowed these, answering them all at once on the general questions page. Of course, people still send in those types of questions. But we take other more interesting questions over those. Like this one, for instance. *smiles*

From: Doom!!!
FIGHT THE PRINGLES!!!!!!!!!!

Sirius: What the...?! This isn't even a question!

Peter: But they are so tasty...

James: Doesn't change the fact that this isn't a question.

Lily: Then stop answering it.

James: ...good point. Heh.

From: Minerva Mercury
If you guys had the power to go BACK in time, what era would you visit? Assuming you had the power to get back whenever you wanted?

Lily: Now I know we answered a question like this before...

James: You're just imagining things, Lils.

Sirius: No, actually I agree with her on this one. I think we answered something like this at one point... Yup, see! We answered this question back for the 2004 Halloween edition of AtM.

Peter: But the question asked Snape to answer as well.

Snape: Like I'm answering.

Sirius: Aww, c'mon Snape. Give the people what they want. *grins*

Snape: No.

Sirius: I think you'd like the Dark Ages. *snickers*

Snape: At least then I could have you put to the rack or some other equally painful torture device.

Sirius: *grins* Got an answer out of you!

Remus: Although I think we'd have slept better not knowing the answer.

Snape: ....I hate you all. *walks off*

From: Wolfina
What does ickle MEAN?

James: *grumbles*

Sirius: No, it does not mean... *immitates James grumbling*

James: *glares*

Sirius: *grins*

Lily: I think it can be defined as 'little', in the sense that you refer to your younger siblings, or someone less mature than yourself.

James: Like 'ickle little Padfoot'. *snickers*

Sirius: Whatever you say, Ickle Jamiekins. *grins*

James: *grumbles more*

Remus: Stop making Prongs grumble, Ickle Padfoot. They're such children...

Sirius: But you love us anyway. *grins*