Ask the Marauders > June 10, 2005

From: LauraWolf
Remus, do you transform every time you can actually see the full moon? Because sometimes you can see it during daytime as well. So will you transform during daytime? Or does it only happen when it's dark?

Remus: The transformation occurs when it's dark and there's a full moon. Somehow the wolf knows when it's a full moon even when it's cloudy, so that doesn't really matter TOO much. Moonlight just makes things happen quicker.

From: Queen of Flames
*hugs Sirius* Hello! What was the best prank James has pulled on you?

James: I rather liked the pirate hat from last year.

Sirius: I didn't. *grumbles*

Lily: Pirate hat?

James: Remember when Padfoot skipped class one day, claiming he was sick?

Lily: That was a lot of days, actually.

James: One of the days in February.

Lily: Okay...

James: Anyway, I'd hexed a pirate hat so that when Padfoot inevitably put it on, he grew a gigantic handbar moustache and couldn't take off the hat himself.

Sirius: I do not look good with a handbar moustache.

Peter: I thought you looked pretty...amusing, that is. *grins*

Lily: *giggles* Interesting image, that.

Sirius: Well, I got Moony to get that damned thing off my head after an hour. He refused to do it before he left for class, so I waited for him to get back.

Remus: I knew how long it would take to get the hat off your head. Who do you think helped Prongs cast that hex on the hat?

From: pink rabbit
How good are you at tongue-twisters? Say for example, "Snape sells snake cells at the steak store?"

James: Snake cells? Why would someone be selling cells at a steak store?

Sirius: I think the more important question is why is Snape working in a steak store?

Remus: And who hired him to work at the steak store.

Peter: I thought the question was about how good we were at tongue-twisters.

James & Sirius: *glares*

Peter: *smiles*

Lily: Sirius usually sounds like a tongue-twister, the way words come flying out of his mouth at incredible speeds.

From: Erica
Did it hurt the first time you transformed to animagi?

James: Didn't really hurt so much as it felt really wonky.

Sirius: Suddently smelling everything very distinctly was kind of disturbing.

Peter: At least you didn't shrink down to floor-level. That was unnerving.

James: My head itched a lot, too. Probably the antlers.

From: Confused
Lily and James, what's the most embarassing thing you've done on a date together or in each other presence? *smiles innocently*

Lily: Had too much soda once and burped quite loudly.

James: Actually, I was really empressed. *grins*

Lily: Yes, but I got some nastly looks from some of the older people in the restaurant.

James: I still say you're cute, even counting the burp.

Lily: Biased.

James: Damn straight. And as for something embarassing I've done in Lily's presence? What hasn't been embarassing? *laughs nervously*

Sirius: That's such a hard question, Prongs.

Remus: Prongs had his head in the clouds a lot when Lily was around, so he did more embarassing things than usual.

James: I think it was third year when I tried to get her attention on a broom and ran into a wall of the castle.

Peter: You made quite the impressive splat upon the wall.

Lily: And I can now admit that it was a cute splat.

James: Surprisingly, my glasses survived the splat.

Sirius: That's because you weren't looking at the wall when you hit, hence the reason why you hit it in the first place.

James: *sticks tongue out at Sirius*

From: Hermione
James and Lily, what was your first fight as husband and wife about?

Lily: My, we're certainly getting a lot of questions this week.

James: What can I say, we're a popular canon couple.

Lily: What did we fight about? Was that the laundry fight?

James: Something about leaving clothes all about the house.

Lily: Something about dirty clothes and messes in general. It wasn't a real big fight, though.

James: Most of them aren't. *smiles*

From: Katie Hough
How old was Sirius when Harry was born?

Sirius: How old was I? That's a weird question. Consult the timeline!

Boys: Consult the timeline!

Sirius: According to this, I was turning 21 that year. [Note: We still don't know Sirius' actual birthday yet, but JKR states that he was 22 years old when he went to Azkaban when Harry is a year old.]

James: I think we were all 21 that year. Depending on time of year, of course.

Remus: I was already 21. My birthday would have passed already by July 31.

From: Dan
James, what was the most heart-crushing thing Lily ever said to you?

Sirius: What is with all these questions for Prongs?

James: What can I say? They all like me more than you.

Sirius: And yet I have more fan sites than you do.

James: You died last book. I was dead before the first one started.

Peter: So because Padfoot was around more in the books, he gets more fangirls?

James: Seems that way. But yes, to answer your question, Dan, while Lily has told me to drop dead on several occasions, and other more colorful things, I think the most heart-crushing thing she's ever said was a long monologue detailing every one of my faults and how I would never fix them, etc etc, so on and so forth, and how no one, least of all her, would ever think of seriously dating me.

Lily: You were quite the prat back then.

James: Of course, a year and a half later she agreed to go out with me. *grins*

Lily: *rolls eyes* I was very angry with you that day. I don't clearly remember what set me off, but it was the culmination of over 5 years of little irritating things.

James: But now you can see past my little irritating things?

Lily: You've actually gotten past quite a few of them. *smiles* And I always did like you, but I wasn't going to admit that to you or myself while you were acting like a huge jerk.

From: The walking glasses
How do you all look in James' glasses?

James: *beams because this is seems to be a James-themed AtM*

Sirius: I look kinda nerdy...in a hot way.

Peter: I don't look very good in glasses.

Remus: This is...different. Better than future me's moustache.

Sirius: Anything's better than that moustache. Even the one I got from that hat.

Lily: I look crosseyed, since the prescription is on the stronger side.

James: You look cute in glasses, actually. *grins*

From: ChiefOfWeird
Ok, since summer is rolling in, what do you all have planned? Pranks? Picnics? *grins*

Sirius: Sleeping?

James: I think they mean when you're not sleeping or eating, Padfoot.

Sirius: But a picnic would involve eating.

James: ...true.

Peter: I think my family wanted to go to France this summer.

Remus: My family might be going around Scotland among the unsuspecting muggles.

Sirius: I'm not going anywhere with my family, luckily. Mostly hanging out at Prongs' house, as always.

James: You're all going to be over at some point. My mum likes having you lot around, no matter how much we drive her crazy.

Remus: Just make it when there's no full moon.

James: *winks at Moony* 'Course! I think there's a week in the middle of the lunar cycle when we don't have relatives coming to visit or a trip planned, so that should be good.

Lily: Oh, a picnic would be nice, actually. *smiles*

James: Picnic time! Hurrah!

Sirius: *makes a face*

From: Gothalchemy
Which would you rather have: Eternal youth, great wealth, true love or emmense power?

James: Um...are you guys going to hit me if I say love?

Sirius: Nah, I'm kind of expecting it at this point. Still slightly nauseating, but accepted nonetheless.

James: Thanks...I think.

Remus: Love's actually the most logical one to have out of those.

Peter: Eternal youth wouldn't be any fun to have if all your friends didn't have it, too.

Sirius: I have a lot of money. It's not all that it's cracked up to be.

James: And emmense power never got anyone anywhere. Look at old Voldie, for example.

Sirius: Ugh, does that mean all that's left is love? *sigh* Well, I suppose I could put an add in the Prophet.

Peter: You sure you want to open that can of worms? There're a lot of girls in our year *alone* that would gladly respond.

Sirius: That's why the interview process is so fun. *evil grin*

Remus: *long sigh*

From: tomoko
How will you celebrate MM's third year anniversary? Pranking Snape is NOT an option.

Sirius: If we told you, it wouldn't be a surprise.

James: Assuming we have a surprise.

Sirius: We have one. I think. *looks at Robyn*

Robyn: Don't look at me. You're the one who wanted to do something. Do it yourself.

Sirius: No fun. *pouts*

Angie: Deal with it. *immune to Sirius pouts*

From: I've Lost It Too!!
Sirius and James: If insanity and detentions were measured in dollar bills, how rich would you be?

Remus: Better to NOT ask.

Sirius: Richer than J.K. Rowling?

James: Richer than Bill Gates?

Peter: Richer than the gross domestic product of China, Japan and America combined?

From: Loving you Remus
Has Remus ever done anything crazy? I mean really wild. *grins*

Sirius: Moony?

James: Do something wild?

Sirius & James: Naaaah!

Peter: Unless you goad him into doing it.

Remus: That's because I'm more logical and responsible than you.

From: The coconut girl
Greetings my beloved Marauders! For a while I've though about Sirius' brother, Regulus. There is just nothing from him. Nobody ever talks about him. Who is he? I mean, did you, James, Remus and Peter, know him, too? Tell me about him.

Sirius: He was a total prat.

James: He was a couple years behind us, I think. Slytherin, too, wasn't he?

Sirius: Probably. Everyone else in the family was, almost.

Peter: We didn't see him all that much. Padfoot generally tried to ignore him completely at school.

Remus: I avoided him as well, as well as most of the Slytherins. The smarter ones among them would have figured out the werewolf business.

Sirius: He was 'a good boy' according to my mother, so that meant that he was a stuck up pureblood that looked down on everyone else. But he could never really follow through on anything. He became a Death Eater to only try and back out afterwards. *sigh* He was alright when we were little, though. Followed me around a lot as a toddler and stuff.

From: MWPP
Reading the previous AtMs, I was wondering why you refer to Orlando Bloom as the "nancing elf"?

James: Because he is a nancing elf?

Remus: Because his MOST famous role is the nancing elf from Lord of the Rings.

Peter: How does one nance, exactly?

Sirius: You bound around, you know how elves prance about.

Lily: They're just graceful when they move.

James: That's why they're nancing.

From: Parvati
I have a problem. My best friend and I are becoming really distant. She went to a different school and she is acting, I dunno, strange lately. You guys have probably been in fights, so can you help me?

Sirius: Maybe she's having trouble adjusting to the new school and being away from all her friends, including you.

James: How far away does she live from you now? You can try to arrange for you and maybe some of your other mutal friends to go visit her. Phone calls and letters are good, too.

Lily: Basically, you're going to have to talk to her in order to find out exactly what's wrong. It might not have anything to do with you directly, but like we said, moving can be hard when you have to leave your friends.