Ask the Marauders > June 13, 2006

From: Mimi
What is the most outrageous (or embarassing) thing you've ever done during a game of truth or dare?

James: If we're including Padfoot, this might take a while. I think an easier question would be what was the least outrageous thing he's done.

Peter: Actually, I think that could be just as hard. He's pretty outrageous.

Sirius: Ah, too true, too true...

Lily: And evidently proud of it...

James: I think the tutu was the most embarassing thing I had to do. Padfoot dared me to wear one while we played a game of quidditch at my house. Mum certainly got a good laugh out of it.

Sirius: You did surprisingly well in that game, though.

James: Naturally. You can't beat me in quidditch, tutu or no.

Remus: Going into the dangerous plant greenhouse in nothing but boxers was embarassing.

Peter: The Mickey Mouse ears you made me wear to History of Magic were pretty embarassing.

James: Well, Hogwarts is one of the most magical places on earth. *grins*

Lily: *groans* Oh, that was bad. I thought you promised me you'd lay off the puns for a while.

James: Sorry, it was just begging for it.

Sirius: I have too many outrageous moments to choose one, but none of them were embarassing.

Peter: At least not for you.

James: I still say that one time you tried proposing to Snape was worth some embarassment.

Sirius: If it caused him the smallest bit of discomfort, then it was worth any loss of dignity.

Lily: You are truly a god among idiots.

From: Mizz Moony Luver
If you could switch places with Voldemort for one day, what would you do?

Sirius: Get a toupée. That whole bald and scaly thing isn't doing much for his image.

James: Oh god....please, someone send in fanart of that. This I have to see...

Lily: I can imagine him as a really scary door-to-door salesman if he had a toupée. *giggles*

Sirius: What? I think that's part of his problem there. He went to all this trouble to become insanely powerful and stuff, but in the end he's still unhappy because he's got no hair and looks like the next logical step in Michael Jackson's evolution.

Remus: I'd send in a tape to one of those Muggle makeover shows and ensure that he was alone when they come to do the makeover.

James: I could see making the Death Eaters go pick flowers and make wreaths for each other to wear. Maybe a knitting circle...

Peter: Have them bring me the world's finest cheeses.

James: On doilies, of course.

Peter: Of course.

From: Hermione
Have you ever tried putting one of those white cone things on Sirius?

Peter: Moony threatened him with it once when he wouldn't leave him alone to study. Was that right before O.W.L.s?

Sirius: Yes, and he did it, too. *mopes*

Remus: That's what you get for not leaving me alone when I want to study.

James: That's what that thing was! You looked like you got your head stuck in an upsidedown lampshade. I just thought you were goofing about. Or been drinking.

Sirius: Might have made the situation more bearable...

From: Arkania
What's everyone's favourite alcohol? Angie, Robyn, Snape and Lily to answer as well as the Marauders, please! ^^

Sirius: Firewhiskey can be rather rough, but gets you sloshed pretty fast. Butterbeer is a better hangout drink.

James: Lily's dad had this really strong bourbon. It was kind of....well, I felt like I had swallowed burning embers.

Lily: I warned you. *grins*

Peter: I'm not much for hard alcohol. Butterbeer is fine for me.

Robyn: I'm rather partial to rum. Sake is an acquired taste, but the high quality stuff [like dai ginjyo] is pretty good. I actually don't drink very often, but I like mixed drinks better than straight alcohol. Beer is a no-go with me. Blech.

Angie: I'm partial to fruity rum drinks. I generally only drink alcohol when I have something to eat with it.

From: I'm Crazy
What did you guys do in Binns's class? Sleep? Eat? Set fire to the desks?

Lily: Oh god, they managed to do all three in one class.

Remus: Yes, we did.

James: Ah yes, the time we used Peter's chair for kindling and roasted marshmellows for s'mores before taking a light snooze. And did Binns ever notice? No.

Sirius: Yeah, it was McGonagall that gave us detention. She smelled the fire from down the corridor.

Peter: Best History of Magic class we ever had, though.

From: Miss Trickster
I've always been curious about this...after you flew off on Buckbeak in the end of POA, where did you go?

Sirius: Majorca and a variety of other tropical locales. Don't you remember the colorful bird I used for the post I sent Harry?

Remus: Where he probably sat on the beach and had rum.

Sirius: You forgot the bikini-clad native girls. *grins*

From: Olivia
So what'd you think of the Goblet of Fire movie? (Myrtle was weird)

Lily: Myrtle was an utter lech! Ugh!

James: That scene was rather disturbing. I feel bad for the actor. At least they had to have done that separately and edited it together for the ghost effects.

Sirius: Still not as retarded as the 'milky eyeball' Imperius curse. What the hell was that?

Remus: I thought 'what the hell was that?' referred to the face in the fire.

Sirius: Yes, I apparently also have asthma, considering how they had me talking via the burning ember pile of doom.

Peter: And I apparently have the guts to call You-Know-Who by his name to his face. No wonder I was in Gryffindor at school... *sigh*

James: I had a line in the movie, though! Go me!

Lily: As did I. Though I get to chew you out in the next film.

Sirius: Ah, young love.

James: At least they finally cast the rest of you. For a while I thought it was going to be me, Lils and Wormtail picking flowers and braiding each other's hair.

All: *stare at James dumbfounded*

James: *grins* I guess I win the random award this week, eh?

From: hpmangaotakuchan
Two paleontologists named a dinosaur in honor of the HP books (Dracorex Hogwartsia) recently (I read it at Veritaserum.com). Would you like a dinosaur to be named after one of you guys if they find another fossil?

Peter: I don't know. My name doesn't lend itself to being used as a dinosaur name.

Sirius: Besides, we're not the lizard-y type. Maybe you should ask Snape. *grins*

Remus: Or Malfoy. *grins*

James: It's keen though, getting a dinosaur named after your creation.

Lily: I don't think they're going to be finding a new species of dinosaur anytime soon. It doesn't happen all that often, I don't think.

From: Kite
So... The only thing that can kill Harry is Voldemort... And the only thing/person who can kill Voldemort is Harry? So why don't they just be friends and both live forever? *evil grin*

Lily: I thought that they really can't coexist forever and ever or something like that.

Remus: I think one cannot live so long as the other one does. Which pretty much means that one has to die.

James: Besides, no one ever said that nothing except Voldemort could kill Harry. I'm sure anyone could. Not that I want anyone to try.

Sirius: Are they going to go frolic in flower-filled meadows or something? *shudders at that thought*

Peter: Can we not think of You-Know-Who frolicking?

From: Katie
If you could write the fortune inside a fortune cookie, what would you write?

Sirius: Something really non-fortune-like, like 'You smell of elderberries,' or something.

James: Why would you want to do that?

Sirius: I don't know, but the last time Robyn got Chinese food, all the fortunes were not really fortunes. I think hers said something like, 'You are pretty.' Totally not a fortune.

Peter: And here I thought you were going to suggest, 'Beware rectangles,' or something equally silly.

Remus: What about 'Beware one-legged midgets carrying objects bigger than themselves'?

Sirius: Oh, that would work, too. *grins*

From: Lord Pen
Hello guys! Long time no see. So now that school is finally out, what will you be doing for the next few months?

James: Sleeping.

Sirius: Eating.

Peter: More sleeping.

Remus: Reading. Then yet more sleeping.

Robyn: Lucky gits. Some of us don't get months of vacation anymore. *melodramatic sigh*

From: Tomoko
I noticed there isn't any article regarding Marauding Mayhem on Wikipedia. So, ever thought on writing something on Wikipedia?

Peter: Wiki-what-now?

Sirius: It's that online version of Moony.

James: *snorts* You mean an online version of an encyclopedia. I thought Moony was a dictionary.

Sirius: Meh, he can be both sometimes.

Remus: *snorts*

Peter: But what would we even write about the site on there? I mean, it's not that huge a site in the fandom, and a lot of the time stuff on that site is either incorrect or vandalized anyway.

Sirius: It'd be kind of neat to see, but it won't happen. Angie and Robyn don't have time to maintain a page on Wikipedia along with this site, unfortunately.

From: Felony Melanie
Hey guys! This one's for all of you ... did Snape ever have a girlfriend?

Sirius: Yeah, your mom.

James: ....wow, that was lame even for you.

Sirius: Well, it's about as likely that Snivellus dated Felony's mom as any other female.

Remus: Good point.

Lily: I never heard of him going with any girls at school, and we wouldn't have known about any girls outside of Hogwarts.

From: Maayan
Did you know that the guy that is going to play Sirius, his really name is James?

James: Yeah, we saw that. I think there are two blokes named James playing Marauders. Though the one playing me is named Robert. How's that for irony?

Sirius: Irony would be the actor for Snape being named James. *grins*

Remus: That would also be extremely amusing. *grins*