Ask the Marauders > February 10, 2006

From: Teresa
Do you want me to help you kill the people who are talking about drapery, Padfoot?

Sirius: Nah, killing's a but extreme. *whispers* But it could improve some Slytherin's dispositions a bit....

Lily: Murder's not a good idea. Gets people put in Azkaban, you know.

James: And I'm sure that's just a lovely vacation spot.

Remus: Should I see if any guidebook has lovely holiday photos?

Sirius: I hear it's lovely this time of year.

James: Do send us a postcard.

Peter: It's not like there's a gift shop there.

Sirius: Now there's a thought! "I got sent to Azkaban and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

Remus: *chuckles* We are insane....

From: No Name.
Have any of you ever considered changing your name, and if so to what?

James: I haven't thought about it much. I don't know what I'd change it to, though. It's a pretty decent name, James, though it's kinda common. And things like 'Ickle Jamiekins' are kind of annoying, but this lot would come up with some strange names regardless of what my name was.

Sirius: This is true. *grins*

Remus: I wouldn't change my name. Remus is nice and unique.

Peter: I don't know, the name Michael is kind of nice. At least it's not a possible synonym for certain things. *sigh*

Sirius: ...I completely forgot about that! Haha!

James: What about you, Padfoot?

Sirius: Me? Nah, my name's pretty unique, and I like it. I'm a star!

From: Bella
Have any of you ever been bitten by a strange magical creature? (Moony, you do not need to answer this we all know about Greyback.)

James: Does Padfoot count as a magical creature? He's certainly strange.

Sirius: Hey!

Peter: I think I've bitten just about all of you by now as a rat, so I guess we all have been bitten, as Padfoot bit my leg that one time...

Sirius: That was an accident. I was going for the pant leg. Honest!

Peter: The teeth marks in my leg said otherwise.

Sirius: *whimpers*

James: We've all gotten injured by various animals curing Care of Magical Creatures class, too, come to think of it.

Remus: Even me.

From: Nymphie
Have any of you tried to give a Slytherin other then Snape a bad Hair Cut?

James: Better question - what Slytherin have we *not* given a bad hairdo?

Sirius: That's a hard one...

Peter: That one quiet girl, you haven't bothered her.

Sirius: I think it's because she doesn't say anything to us. We don't notice her.

James: Yeah, we don't go after Slytherins unless they actually annoy us.

Lily: You shouldn't be going after anyone at all.

James: ...but Snape is practically begging for it!

Lily: *glares*

Remus: You know they won't listen to you anyways, Lily. 1

From: I'm just a shell of my former self
So guys, what do you do when you are REALLY REALLY depressed?

Lily: Curl up on the sofa with a cup of cocoa and watch my favorite movies. Or read a favorite book.

Remus: Mope around, try to find some book to lose myself in.

James: Quidditch usually cheers me up. Or Padfoot tries to cheer me up with a prank or something.

Sirius: Same with me, only it's Prongs that's doing the cheering. Hitting Snape in the nose cheers me up a bit, too.

Peter: Chocolate cheers me up, usually.

From: I'm Crazy
What would you do if someone gave you a mullet, mohawk, or a fro?

James: Give it right back.

Sirius: In spades. *grins*

James: Probably rainbow?

Sirius: Or at least tinking.

Peter: Why can't you just undo the spell to right your hair?

James: Where's the fun in that?

Remus: *grins* It's more fun to give them an even worse hairstyle that tinks.

From: Nadia
What are the one thing Harry ever did, that you are most proud of?

Sirius: Well, all those times standing up to old Voldie is pretty impressive.

James: Not to mention being named to the house team in his first year. *grins*

Remus: I like that he stood up to that stupid Umbridge. She wouldn't have taught them anything worthwhile.

Sirius: That kid does a lot of impressive stuff, huh?

James: Runs in the family. *grins more*

Lily: You mean he gets it from me? *snickers*

James: *sigh*

From: Sarichi
I'm just wondering. Who's the fastest? James or Sirius?

James & Sirius: Me!

Peter: *sigh* I don't think that answered much of anything.

Lily: James is the better flyer, but Sirius probably is the faster of the two on foot.

Sirius: Yeah, because I've got longer legs that Prongs.

James: Fair enough.

From: valoncita
Do you like watching the stars on a clear new moon night, away from civilization's light?

Lily: I always liked stargazing. They're very pretty.

Sirius: Before or after you came to Hogwarts?

Lily: Before. My dad and I used to look at the stars and planets through a telescope on the roof. Petunia never wanted to climb out there. I wonder if she was scared of the heights, or of what the neighbors would say if she climbed up there with us.

James: Stars are alright. I never really gazed at them much until I had Astronomy class every week at school.

Remus: I like watching the stars sometimes. It depends on the day.

Sirius: I read a bit about stars when I was little. Probably because my family's a bit mad about star names. *sigh* But I'm still the brightest star in the sky! Haha!

From: Emelie
Do any of you guys enjoy ice-skating? While in human form or animagus, the choice is yours...

Peter: Can animals even ice skate?

James: There's a mental image.

Sirius: We did slide around a bit on the lake in the winter when it was frozen over around the edges. Had to be careful not to fall in.

Peter: Like I did?

Sirius: Well, we did save you.

Peter: True. I don't think I went near the lake for a week after that, though.

Lily: I like ice skating. I'm good enough at it that I don't fall down all over the place.

James: I'm okay at it. You're a lot better than me. But it was fun when you took us.

Sirius: Bodyslamming each other into the rink's walls was fun.

Remus: Maybe for you...not for the rest of us.

Lily: You'd make a great hockey player, Sirius.

Sirius: A what?

Lily: Hockey player. It's a sport that's played on ice skates, with two nets and a small round disc called a puck, and you hit it into the nets with hockey sticks. We can try playing sometime, but with some magical protection, I think.

Peter: I second the protection charms.

Sirius: Hooray! New game to play!

From: padfoot chic
If you could be any type of dessert, what would you be? (You're going to say pudding aren't you, Sirius? *smiles* Pudding does rule though!!!)

Sirius: You know me too well. Pudding is awesome. But the problem is, as it is so awesome, I would get eaten, and then I would be dead. And what fun is that?

James: You'd probably eat yourself if you were pudding. And that would be weird.

Sirius: I wouldn't eat myself. That would hurt!

Peter: *ignoring them* I'd be a trifle. Those are nice desserts.

James: If you're not going to be a pudding, what would you be?

Sirius: Something that people wouldn't eat, of course.

Lily: *also ignoring them* I rather like chocolate mousse, myself.

Remus: Chocolate-drizzled baklava would be interesting...

James: That being?

Sirius: ....something that Hagrid baked. What were those cookies? Rock cookies or something?

James: [fill in what they were later, as I need to look it up in the book]

Sirius: Yeah, those!

James: Well, you certainly wouldn't get eaten...

From: nobody
I was wondering...when you guys left Hogwarts, what did you do for a living? Or what did you want to do?

Sirius: Lesse...auror training took a few years, and once finally I got out of that, there was that whole thing with the Fidelius Charm, so I didn't get to do much after school. I did work for the Order, too.

James: Me, too.

Lily: I didn't work after I had Harry, but I did do some charm work for the Order, and James and I didn't really have to work because he had a decent mount of inheritance. He still wanted to do something, though.

James: I actually wanted to be a professional quidditch player, but I was putting that off for a while for the Order, and well, I don't think you can play when you're dead, so that was the end of that.

Peter: I had a cruddy desk job in the Ministry. Nothing flashy.

Remus: Be glad you got something. I ended up drifting from job to job in the Muggle world because no employer in the Magical World would dare hire me...

Snape: I didn't do all that much of note until I applied for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position at Hogwarts, only to get the Potions position instead.