Ask the Marauders > March 17, 2006

From: Swiftfoot
Hey guys. I was just wondering. On Christmas Eve, does Prongs ever unexpectedly disappear and when you see him next is he worn out?

Sirius: Only when Lils is involved.

James & Lily: SIRIUS!

Peter: *snickers*

Remus: *laughs*

Sirius: Heh, I'm joking, joking!

James: *irritated sigh* And no, I don't go frolicking with Santa's reindeer. I am a stag, there is a difference.

Remus: Yeah. Reindeer don't have coat racks on their head.

James: I am not to be used as a coat rack! ...besides, I didn't think werewolves needed coats when they're off frolicking under the pale moonlight.

Remus: All I said was that reindeer don't have the same coat rack that YOU do on your head!

James: No love. I get no love.

Sirius: Except from Lils. But she agreed to go with you, so there's clearly something wrong there.

Lily: Har har... *rolls eyes*

From: Dessa
Yeah, I've been gone for a while... Ask Angie why...

Anyway... if you could have all of your magic based off of just one element, what would it be: Thunder, Ice, Fire, or Spirit? (you can pick the same one if you want). And I want Snape to answer, too! ((since I've been leaving him out... which means nothing for you to ridicule him with))

James: Spirit? What would that be like, exactly?

Sirius: I want fire! Dead useful, that.

James: Except that you can't heal anything with fire.

Sirius: Not true. You can cauterize wounds.

Peter: Where did you learn that?

Sirius: In a book.

James: *almost faints* You read a book? When did that happen and where was I?

Sirius: I read more than you think, and in this instance when you were off frolicking with your ladyfriend.

Lily: We don't frolic.

Sirius: Frolic, slurp all over each other's faces, whatever it is you two do when you're off together without me.

Peter: Ice might be useful. You could make ice by freezing water in the air and then you could have water when you melted it. You'd never be thirsty. And you could freeze people coming after you.

Lily: If spirit is someting like mental abilities, then I'll take that one. Telekinesis and telepathy would be interesting to have.

James: If that's what it really is. But fire or thunder sounds fun, too.

Remus: Spirit would be really nice to have, I think. Everything else is just stuff you find in nature as is, but spirit is different.

From: Chocoholic 2nd
Sirius, did you ever flirt with a Slytherin or teacher (not to escape a detention!)?

Sirius: Not a Slytherin. Unless it was part of a prank.

James: He flirts outrageously with McGonagall. It's rather amusing.

Remus: At least, until he winds up in detention for the entire year.

Sirius: Our private trysts are not for your eyes, young Prongsie.

Lily: *rolls eyes* I'm sure...

From: Tim
What happened to Andrae?

James: What *did* happen to Andrae?

Peter: You've been watching tellyfision with Lils again, haven't you?

Lily: It's television, firstly, and secondly, yes, he has. Project Runway!

Peter: Is that the one with the crazy tailors?

Lily: Something like that. Fahsion designer competition.

Sirius: So what happened to Andrae?

James: *grins* I think he's off crying to Moaning Myrtle in the bathroom. Snape asked him out to Red Lobster. That'd make anyone cry.

Sirius: You know, you're not quite right in the head.

James: What? It's not like you could come up with a better joke.

Sirius: At least I could make the joke work.

James: Heh, you could make it work?

Sirius: *grumbles*

From: Stephanie
Did you guys hear about National 'Get Over It' Day? (March 9) If you did, did you celebrate? If not, planning on celebrating next year?

Lily: How do you actually celebrate something like that?

Remus: Maybe you just yell at people to 'Get Over It'?

James: I don't think it's a real holiday.

Sirius: We get over things pretty quickly. Marauders don't hold grudges, unless you are a slimy git.

Peter: Or your family.

Sirius: Yes, well...them, too.

From: Kid
Are any of you guys double jointed?

Sirius: Wouldn't you like to know? *waggles eyebrows*

James: I don't think anyone here needs to see your joints, Padfoot.

Sirius: Like you haven't see more of me, you letch!

James: *deadpan* Oh, you have caught me for living in the same dormitory as you and having to be witness to your nekkid frolicking.

Sirius: I don't frolic. I prance.

Remus: You frolic, and prance, and nance about. Especially when you finally have a date for the night.

Lily: I hardly think there is a difference. But that must be why James made sure to warn me to knock, even if the door is open.

James: He has no shame.

Sirius: Shame is for pansies.

Peter: Flowers have little to do with it, Padfoot. Though a fig leaf would help the situation.

Remus: Or a loincloth.

From: Mome
According to my science teacher, it is impossible to have gray eyes. Have any of you ever heard of this?

Sirius: Erm, well, tell that to Robyn's eyes? They can look gray depending on the light?

James: And Padfoot's family is so inbred that anything's possible.

Sirius: OI!

Peter: I'm afraid it's true, mate.

Sirius: Yeah, but he didn't have to be so blunt about it. I didn't choose to be born into that family.

James: Meh, you turned out alright. No extra limbs or things like that. *grins*

Remus: And no really weird diseases. *grins*

Sirius: *grumbles* Some friends I have...

From: isshin
What dress color did Sirius wear, and how was it?

Lily: Wasn't it pink?

Sirius: I don't remember, I have scrubbed the incident from my memory.

James: It was a lovely pink number. You remember correctly, Lily.

Remus: Much worse than the yellow number I ended up in. And much funnier.

From: Gothalchemy
Are you destined for greatness or madness?

Sirius: Depends. There's a very fine line between the two.

James: One you cross daily.

Sirius: You cross it as readily as I do, Prongs.

Peter: Unless Moony or Lily talk some sense into him.

Remus: Which isn't often.

Sirius: In Lils' case it's beating some sense into him. *snickers*

Lily: I don't beat James.

James: You do have a mean right hook, though.

Lily: *sigh*

From: Chocoholic 2nd
Marauders: When you were in the Forbidden Forest, what happened when you "met" the spiders?

Peter: Moony kept us away from that part of the Forest, for which I am extremely grateful.

James: Yeah, I don't think werewolves like gigantic man-eating spiders more than the rest of us do.

Remus: I don't like spiders in the first place, let alone the gigantic man-eating ones.

Sirius: We try to stay away from a lot of Hagrid's 'pets'.

Remus: Hagrid means well, but his 'pets' are usually dangerous.

From: Katie
Who looks the best in a bathing suit? Sirius or Remus? Lily, we already know what your response would be!

Sirius: Me, of course!

James: *raises an eyebrow* What makes you say that?

Sirius: Moony has scars?

Lily: Scars can be sexy to some people.

Remus: Thank you, Lily.

James: Does that include Quidditch scars?

Lily: Of course. *grins*

Sirius: I have tattoos.

James: *snickers* Don't remind me.

Sirius: Har har...

Lily: Okay, so barring James from the options, I guess I would have to say Sirius, but that's the inbreeding. *grins*

Sirius: RAWR! I am not inbred.

James: Dude...your parents are second cousins.

Sirius: ...so not my fault.... *sniffle*

Remus: Not your fault, but they are inbred.

From: Toki-chan
Okay, after reading last week's AtM, I had to ask. XD James, Lily (and everyone else too I guess), how would you feel if Harry DID turn goth? Snape should answer too, since he's practically emo already anyway.

James: He's got every reason to be a goth at this point. Though, not so much after sixth year. I mean, what emo kid has a girlfriend?

Lily: I thought they weren't together at the end of the year?

James: Ginny's not going to give up that easily. She reminds me of another pushy redhead I know.

Lily: Har har.

Snape: I am not emo. I simply do not like you. Any of you.

Peter: Isn't goth and emo two different things, anyway?

Remus: Yes, they are.

From: random kid
Hey ya'll! I've been pondering on this for a while now, but when you guys are in animagus form can you understand what everyone else is saying?

Peter: Animals get a general sense of the tone you're using when you speak. But animagi understand speech better.

Lily: Yeah, besides, there's proof in the first book! Professor Dumbledore knows it's Professor McGonagall watching Petunia's house, and when he greets her by name, she returns to human form and asks how he knows it was her.

James: That's fairly solid proof, aside from the fact that we can say that we understand human speech when in animagus form. But we can't speak, so we can't understand each other. That takes a bit more body language.

From: that one kid
Hey James, are you a seeker or a chaser? The book says you're a chaser and the movie says you're a seeker, so which are you?

James: I'm a chaser. The movies took some....liberties with the books. We all know that, though. *winks* But yeah, I'm a chaser.

From: Just ME
Hey, do you get to choose which animal you become for your animagus or does it choose you?

Sirius: It kind of chooses you. It depends largely on your personality.

James: For instance, Padfoot here has a lot of canine qualities, in that he's loyal to his friends, playful, and easily distracted.

Sirius: Easily distracted?

James: Yes. Though, when you get your teeth into something, you certainly worry it to death.

Sirius: *grins*

Remus: And you tend to jump around all over the place when you get hyper. *grins*