Ask the Marauders > March 5, 2006

From: Angel Cain
After reading about Remus in the yellow dress, there was another matter that was forgotten... What about Sirius and James in the PINK dresses?

Sirius: I do not wear dresses.

James: I seem to recall otherwise.

Remus: Same with me. You wore a dress once.

Lily: As do it. Served you right, what happened afterwards.

Peter: Was this that time he tried to trick the stairs into thinking he was a girl so he could get into the girls' dormitory?

James: The very same. However, I was not stupid enough to try it of my own free will.

Lily: That was a sight, you in a dress.

Sirius: He doesn't have the legs for it.

James: Like you did.

Lily: Sorry, dear, but you did deserve that bit of revenge. Oh, and someone asked where this dress thing started. Someone asked who would be the best cross-dresser out of the boys. I think it started there and just spiraled out of control. Poor, poor Remus...

Remus: *pouting* Thanks, Lily...

Sirius: Poor Moony? What about me?

Lily: You wore a dress of your own decision. You guys got Remus to wear that little yellow number.

Sirius: .....

From: me
Did you know Ron's parents or any of the younlings' parents from when you were in school?

James: Ah, I think Ron's parents are a bit older than us. I don't remember seeing them at school.

Lily: And obviously Hermione's parents wouldn't have been at Hogwarts.

Sirius: My 'lovely' cousins are all older than us. Narcissa was what? Five years ahead of us? Andromeda was a year or two ahead of her. We lucked out and missed Bella completely.

Remus: Which is a relief.

Peter: Were the Longbottoms at school with us?

Lily: Alice and Frank? I think so? I don't rightly remember really. They were in the Order with us, though.

Sirius: I guess the only kids' parents that we definitely knew during school were Malfoy's and, well, Harry's.

James: Of course you knew us, you git.

Sirius: *grins* I'm just summarizing.

Remus: Malfoy was always fun to pull pranks on, too.

James: Oh yeah, he was around for a year or two when we were at school, wasn't he? The git...

From: Anny Eily
This is for Sirius. I belive we all know to well things about your mother, but what about your father? You said in the 5th book that he put the anti-Muggle spells on the house. Can you tell me anything else?

Sirius: What is there to say? He was another pureblood nutter from my pureblood nutter family. It's kind of sick to read the family tree. He and my mum were second cousins. *sigh* But he wasn't quite as...loud as my mum was. And he died about two years before I was sent to Azkaban.

From: Shollop
Do vegitarians eat animal crackers?

Lily: I don't see why they wouldn't.

James: Unless they're meat crackers or something.

Remus: Something like that.

Peter: Meat crackers? That'd be what? Beef jerky?

Lily: I could see some very strict vegetarians and vegans not eating them if they have animal fat in them, and some don't even eat eggs, so that might rule out the cookies as well.

Remus: It depends on how strict the vegetarian is.

From: Katie
Lily and James, what did you guys do to celebrate Harry's first birthday?

James: Not terribly much. The war was still going on, so there wasn't much time for birthday parties. But we did have a small little party.

Sirius: And Harry managed to spit up on my robes twice.

Lily: I told you not to toss him about like a ragdoll.

Sirius: He liked it, though!

Lily: ...

Remus: It still wasn't a good idea.

James: Anyway, there was a small cake, some presents, and a nice quiet day at home. One of the few we had that year.

From: Rhi
Have any of you (excluding Lily for obvious reasons) grown any permanent/semi-permanent facial hair?

Peter: Padfoot grew a variety of goatees and things seventh year. Couldn't settle on anything.

James: That's because he looked ridiculous with each new one. You got too elaborate, mate.

Sirius: I was just having fun with it. At least I didn't look like a complete nutter like you did when you didn't shave for a week.

Lily: I have to admit, that was not a good look for you, dearest.

James: Yes, well, that didn't last long, now did it?

Remus: Thankfully for all of us.

Sirius: But, as we all remember, Moony tried to convince us all that he had always had a moustache.

Remus: *rolls eyes* That was the movie version of me. Not me.

James: He's talking about when you had that 'Grow Your Own Beard Kit'. I think that was after we saw the movie? Either way, wasn't a good look for you.

From: Voldemuffin
This is for Remus, Peter and Severus. If you were alive and free at the end of the current war, what would you do next?

Remus: I'd just go on with life, watch over Harry. Essentially, what I'm doing now.

Peter: Try and make up for everything that I did, hopefully.

Sirius: I'm sure you'll manage to redeem yourself somehow. You weren't such a bad kid, things just got complicated when we all grew up.

Lily: Not that you grew up, but that is neither here nor there.

James: What about you, Snivellus?

Snape: Be content that you are no longer around to call me that.

James: But I haven't been around for years. And Harry certainly doesn't call you that. ...even if he does hate your guts currently.

Snape: ...

Sirius: He's got you there, Snape. Ah well, somehow I don't see you living past the end of the war. No offense or anything. I didn't make it past the begninning.

Snape: Hmph.

From: um..what's a "NAME"?
Do you guys like J-Rock? (Personally, I love Dir En Grey. ^_^) If so, what's your favorite band?

James: J-Rock? Is that like those pet rocks that Lily told us about that one time>

Lily: I think that refers to rock music from Japan, dear.

James: Ah, that makes more sense. But as you can tell, we haven't really listened to it much. There wasn't much of it back in the 70's in England, after all.

Sirius: However, Robyn does listen to some.

Remus: So does Angie on rare occasions.

Robyn: Honestly, you'd have to talk to my boyfriend about it. But I do like Janne da Arc, and have had the opportunity to see T.M. Revolution, L'Arc~en~Ceil and Psycho le Cemu live here in the States. Fairly lucky within the space of two or three years, eh?

Angie: T.M. Revolution and some L'Arc~en~Ciel here. ^^; I don't listen to as much J-rock as Robyn's boyfriend, either.

From: Anna
This question is for all of you. How much alike are Harry and Ron to James and Sirius?

Sirius: Harry is like a mini-Prongs...with Lily's sense.

Lily: Thanks, Sirius. That was rather sweet of you.

James: He was a bit more reserved as a kid, but he's grown up a lot and does have the Potter Stubbornness Streak in him.

Sirius: You think Ron is like me, though?

Lily: You certainly weren't awkward with girls. But you and James did fight like Harry and Ron do. Remus usually had to try and get you two to stop being so childish, much like Hermione has to now.

Remus: Someone has to do it.

Peter: They do tend to go everywhere and get in trouble together a lot. That's a distinct similarity. Plus, Ron has been willing to protect Harry in the past, like Sirius has for James.

Sirius: Yeah, he and Hermione tried to protect Harry from me in the third book.

James: And they both tend to rush into things, with Hermione trying to get them to think first. Doesn't that bring back memories, Moony? *grins*

Lily: So, taking into account that they're different people, they are fairly similar in their friendship and qualities.

From: Arika Libra
Just a random question for whomever wants to hazard a guess... How old do you lot think Dumbledore is?

Lily: I believe Jo said at one point that he was about 150 years old during Harry's time at Hogwarts.

James: That seems about right. The books said that he looked older when Voldemort was at Hogwarts, and that was 50 years before Harry got his letter. And he always seemed kind of timeless when we were in school.

Remus: *chuckles* No one knows, since it's hard to tell how old Dumbledore is.

From: Mary Parker
Sirius, what was your parents first word or sentence after they found out you were in Gryffindor?

Sirius: *grins* Actually, they didn't speak to me for a while at first. My mum owled Dumbledore and demanded that I have my house changed as was proper. Of course that didn't work, but when I got home for Christmas holiday, I got quite an earful about how I was such a disappointment to the family, and that I should demand that I get my house changed.

James: That's like asking someone to change who they are. You can't help being who you are.

Remus: Padfoot always was more rebellious than the rest of his nutcase family.

Sirius: And the girls all love a rebel. *grins*

From: Nadia
To everyone BUT James (Sorry, sweetie): Have any one of you ever walked in on Lily showering?

James: WHAT?!

Lily: Calm down, dear, no one has walked in on my, to my knowledge.

Sirius: I know I haven't. Sorry, Lils, but I was never really interested in you that way. You were just the girl Prongs was obsessed with.

Lily: No offense taken.

Remus: I didn't either. I'm not THAT type. Besides, Lily would have hurt me if I had.

Peter: I don't think there was ever an occassion for any of us to do that. Aside from Prongs, but they were married, so that's really not unusual.

James: Glad to know that none of you peeped on Lily, intentially or otherwise.

Lily: Yes, we're both glad.

From: Musashi
Hey, out of the remaining Marauders, who do you think will be the next to die? [Or who wants to die next?]

Peter: Who would want to die?

James: I sometimes wondered if Padfoot had a bit of a deathwish.

Sirius: I did not. I was just a little on the rash side?

Lily: rash does not even *begin* to cover it...

James: In all seriousness, though, I think Moony will be the last of us to go. No offense, Wormtail, but you did pick a much more dangerous life.

Peter: *sigh* I probably will be the next to go. But maybe I can do something useful and good when I do go.

Remus: I think you will.

From: Paige the Insane one
What would you think if Sirius tried out for American Idol?

Sirius: American what now?

Lily: It's a contest on the telly in America where people compete to be the next big singing sensation. I think they get a recording contract at the end of it if they win?

James: I think Padfoot would do alright, but I don't know that he would win. There have to be people that sing worse than him.

Remus: Yes, there are.

Lily: I agree. He can be charming when he wants to be, and that's half of being a performer.

Sirius: But you all hate it when I sing.

Peter: You usually sing bizarre sea shanties or total nonsense.

James: Then there are the times when you are drunk and sing completely off-key on purpose...

Sirius: So I'll not be entering American Idol anytime soon, I take it.

Others: No.

From: Ginger Paws
If you could be one of these which would you be and why? Fuzzy kitty, adorable puppy, clumsy penguin, fierce tiger, powerful dragon, relaxed polar bear, or intelligent dolphin.

Sirius: I'm already an adorable puppy! *grins*

James: You're a small horse. That's no puppy.

Sirius: *pouts*

Peter: Polar bears seem to have it easy. But being a dragon might be fun.

Remus: I think I'd be the dolphin. Intelligence is a great thing to have.

Lily: I'm between the kitty and the tiger. Cats can be fierce, no matter their size.

James: I'm with Peter on the dragon. You'd get to fly *and* breathe fire. Wicked!