Ask the Marauders > May 19, 2006

From: pranksta101
This question is for Sirius. Since you're in VeilDisney, how will you watch the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)?

Sirius: VeilDisney? *sniffles*

Remus: Well, where else could Disney possibly expand to?

James: Haha, do they have rides?

Peter: What about all those crazy restaurants? And turkey legs!

Lily: You know, since the dead watch the living, can't the dead just watch the movie that the living are watching?

Sirius: *perks up a bit* I'll just waft after Robyn when she goes to see it.

From: Jenna
If you could be any M.A.S.H character who would you be?

Lily: Well these two knuckleheads would be Pierce and Honeycutt, most likely. Sirius is more insane, so he would have to be Pierce.

Sirius: Hey, I resemble that remark!

Lily: *smirks* Exactly.

James: Then would you be Hotlips?

Lily: Margaret? Yeah, I guess so? Keeping you lot in line as I do.

Remus: I'd probably be Col. Potter. Attempting to keep everything running sanely, but not being really serious all the time.

James: Wouldn't it make more sense for *me* to be Col. Potter? Seeing as I am a Potter already?

Lily: Sorry, dear. You're not sane enough.

Peter: I don't know who I would be.

James: Radar's fairly quiet, maybe him? Though you do like to try and get out of things, so maybe Klinger. Though you're not quite that outgoing.

Sirius: And there's an understatement of epic proportions...

From: ~SQUIGGLY~
Hey y'all! This is for Lily and or James. Where did you two go on your first date? Sirius, Remus, and Peter, feel free to jump in at any time.

James: Just a restaurant in Hogsmeade. Moony managed to keep Padfoot contained. If he'd shone up to screw that up, I think I would have put him through a wall.

Remus: And you owed me a lot for keeping Padfoot away from that restaurant.

James: Yes, you have my eternal gratitude, etc etc.

Sirius: Thanks a lot, mate. *grumbles*

James: What? I'd been trying to get her to go out with me for *years*. You think I was going to let you mess it up with your crazy antics?

Sirius: ...fair enough. But still, ouch.

Lily: It was a nice enough dinner. You looked like you were going to faint in the beginning though.

James: I had never been more nervous in my life. I still couldn't believe you didn't completely hate me.

Lily: Well, it all turned out alright, didn't it?

James: I managed not to puke all over the place, plus you agreed to go on a second date. I consider that a victory.

From: Rhi
Ah, the infamous question: How did you spend your 'No Pants' Day?

Sirius: Without pants, of course.

James: He originally wanted to ride the Underground pantsless, but we talked him down.

Lily: And how is running through Diagon Alley without pants any better?

Sirius: There's weirder things there than a couple of blokes without pants. I don't think that many people noticed, sadly.

Remus: Probably because of said weirder things.

From: Hermione
Did James and Lily's first kiss involve mistletoe?

Lily: Actually, it didn't.

James: It was a completely uncoerced kiss. *grins* I'm amazing enough on my own that I don't need kissing aides.

Remus: Suuuuure....riiiiight...

James: How would you know, Moony? Do you stalk after me in the night, watching to see if I am kissed by anyone? Dodgy fellow, that Moony!

Remus: *rolls eyes*

Lily: *shakes head* Yes, well, it wasn't Christmastime anyway, so no mistletoe about. And I've gotten rather good at dodging the stuff.

Sirius: You are rather nimble. You should play quidditch.

Lily: Nah, more fun to watch you lot injure yourselves from the safety of the stands.

From: Miss Trickster
For those of you who visited the MM forum during the infamous 2006 April Fools prank, what are your opinions on the forum, its members and how its being run?

James: The lot of you are Scallywags!

Sirius: I was amused. Yarr! *grins*

Remus: It was amusing yet scary at the same time. So much insanity all in one place.

Lily: You all seem to be as insane as these boys, or as close to that level of insanity as humanly possible.

Sirius: Are you saying we're not human?

Lily: You do turn into a dog on occasion.

Sirius: ...fair enough.

From: Lobster Mobster
Remus, what are your plans for Book Seven? Or rather, the near future?

James: Oooh, I know! I know! Living!

Remus: Yes, living would be nice.

Sirius: I'd planned on living, but someone else thought otherwise. *sigh*

Lily: You know that Bella's not going to make it out of Book Seven without either going back to Azkaban or getting killed. Probably the latter as she's a total nutter.

From: Maayan
Is Lily bossy like Hermione?

James: ...yes and no?

Lily: *raises an eyebrow*

James: You do tell me not to do things all the time.

Lily: That's because what you want to do isn't always sane or safe or legal.

Remus: Or any combination of the above.

James: But you're not an insufferable know-it-all. Not to say that you're not really, really intelligent, you just haven't ingested the entire Hogwarts library like Hermione has.

Lily: ....I will take that as a compliment as I think that was meant to be one.

From: Mandy
If all of you are so good with the Marauder's Map, then how did Filch get it?

Sirius: SOMEONE who shall remain NAMELESS left it behind when we were fleeing the scene.

Peter: I already apologized about that. I was thinking more about getting out of there than about the map!

James: Meh, it did eventually make its way back to a prankster's hands, and even Harry's, so all's well that ends well!

Sirius: We did already know the castle like the backs of our hands anyway, so it wasn't a complete loss... But having it helped so much when we needed to know people's locations.

Remus: Although it didn't help so much all those times McGonagall caught you.

From: Sara
When I woke up this morning I couldn't find myself. Where did you put me?

James: In a box.

Sirius: Behind the rocks.

Peter: Next to the lox?

Remus: Near a fox.

Lily: With the load you lot spew, you could fill several crocks....

Boys: *grin*

From: Meee
I read this in an earlier answer to a question, Sirius, who's Birdie, and why were you so- umm, shocked I guess?- when Remus said something about her?

Sirius: Birdie is....a friend from an RPG storyline?

James: Is that all we're getting out of you?

Sirius: Do you want to upset the fangirls?

James: I like...err, liked living, so no.

Sirius: Thought so.

From: Maayan
What did you guys ever saw in Peter?

James: He was very shy when we met him, but seemed like a nice bloke.

Sirius: And I have this tendency to not let shy people be. As Moony can attest to. *grins*

Remus: You have a tendency to not let ANYONE be.

Sirius: Awww, you know you love it when I bug you!

James: I suppose there was a small part of us that liked having Peter around because he was so enthralled with us. It's horrible to think of it that way, but that could have been part of it. But I'd like to think that we were better friends than that, as we did defend him when the Slytherins were mean, etc. And helped with schoolwork when we could....or were doing it ourselves, as that wasn't all the time.

From: anything and everything
What would you guyes do if you were stuck on a deserted island together for a day?

Sirius: If there was no rum cache? Probably lounge on the beach and go swimming if the water's not infested with sharks.

James: If we didn't have food or water, lounging in the sun would be rather dumb. I say we'd locate those first, then lounge about. Or explore.

Sirius: Well, I kind of implied looking for refreshment when I mentioned the rum.

Remus: There's other kinds of refreshment besides rum.

Lily: Drinking alcohol dehydrates you even more.

Sirius: But it's so tasty!

Lily: *sigh*

From: Mimi
What happens to the happy memories when a dementor comes by? I mean are they like gone forever or just pushed really really far back?

Lily: They're just supressed really far down. Look at Sirius for example. He had been around dementors for years and yet he could, once away from them, still remember all the happy memories.

Sirius: Though even those hurt a bit now...