Ask the Marauders > June 24, 2006

From: Mua
Ok this one is for Mr. Snivellus. *laughs evilly* If you had to admit your astonishment at the boys (Sirius, James, and the others) creativity, what would you say their best prank was??? *shakes fist at you cuz you're evil*

Snape: Why would I ever be astonished by any creativity that lot has? Creative at torturing me for simply existing? Or perhaps inflicting embarassment and pain on others for their own amusement in new and 'creative' ways? What, Mua, do you think is creative about that?

James: *stonefaced* You know, I did try to apologize for all that after we graduated. I know we were a bunch of daft gits. But hey, you'll never accept an apology from any of us anyway. Plus, half of us are dead now, and the half that you hated the most. Guess you won, huh?

Snape: ... *glares at Sirius and James*

Sirius: You know, James may have apologized, but I don't regret a damn thing. Git.

Snape: *continues to glare at him*

Sirius: ...okay, I regret inadvertantly using Moony for that one prank, and have apologized an astounding number of times since then, but yeah, the rest? Not a single regret.

Remus: You have apologized an astounding number of times, but only to me. Git.

James: *sigh* Moving right along...

Name: Wenche
Have you ever played 'Put the tail on the rat'?

Peter: Eek!

Remus: No.

James: Erm, well, Peter's rather hard to catch, you see...

Peter: James! *tears up*

James: *grins* Haha, just playing, Wormtail.

Sirius: It's more fun to play horseshoes with Prongs's antlers. *evil grin*

James: Ugh... Go chase your tail or something useful.

Remus: Him? Do something useful? Not happening.

From: Dani
What's the biggest fight (as in row...in england :D) you've ever had? And with who?

Sirius: We know a fight is what you blokes in America call a row. And we've had several. Prongs and I get into fistfights fairly regularly.

James: No one ever wins, though.

Sirius: But you do scream like a woman.

James: I most certainly do not!

Peter: It's not that feminine of a scream. Mine on the other hand...

Sirius: Buck up, Wormtail. It's not all that bad. And we don't generally punch you. It's far more fun to punch Prongs, probably fun for him to punch me. But Moony, you fight dirty! You're all wiry and stuff.

Remus: *grins* So I'm all wiry and stuff. That's just how I am, and it's not fighting dirty.

Sirius: Let me clarify what I meant by you fighting dirty, Moony. The wiry comment had nothing to do with that. You scratch. And kick. Good god...

Remus: *smirks* I can't rely entirely on strength.

From: Arya
Have you ever danced in the rain?

Sirius: I've sung in the rain.

James: The shower doesn't count as rain.

Sirius: ...drat.

Peter: We've cavorted in the rain.

James: That's true. It's not always a clear night on the full moon. That, and pranking waits for no weather!

Remus: Especially not with us.

Sirius: And mudfights are great fun.

James: Except when you get McGonagall by accident.

Peter: You were lucky it wasn't full in the face like when you hit Snape.

Sirius: But McGonagall is still a ravishing vision when covered in mud.

James: Okay, I feel a bit nauseaus now...

Remus: Padfoot. Shut up now.

From: FIFA soccer fanatic
Do you have cable to watch the FIFA football games?  If so, who are you pulling for to win?  (Italy, Germany, England, or USA are mine, but mainly Italy)

James: How would a length of cable help you watch telly-vision?

Lily: No, cable is a type of television service you can get that offers more programming than the public channels.

Sirius: Are you talking about this World Cup that everyone's nutters over? I don't watch Muggle sports much. Like quidditch too much.

James: Me too.

Peter: I've seen a bit of it, but not terribly interested?

Remus: I've seen more of it than I wanted to.

Angie: Yeah, so I got sucked into it. :P And I'm pulling for Italy.

From: Hermione
If you could say only two lines from any HP movie all day (besides your own), which two would you choose?

James: That would require having had more than two lines in an HP movie, thank you very much.

Sirius: Oh, don't be that way, mate. You'll be in the next movie.

James: Yeah, yeah, I know. Lines to repeat over and over? How about 'Put it where?!' and that line about 'I can touch you!'. Those can be horribly taken out of context. Heh heh...

Peter: 'Put it where'? Where's that from?

James: That scene where Ron is helping McGonagall demonstrate dancing.

Sirius: Oh yeah... Nice job, Prongs.

JameS: I aim to please.

From: IMA GEEK
Who is your favorite character from the League of Extrodinary Gentlemen?

Sirius: The end credits. What a horrible movie.

James: It was pretty lame.

Remus: Just a typical movie of that type. Nothing special.

Lily: And I liked 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea... *sad sigh*

From: ~SQUIGGLY~
If hippies stick up for plants, and most of them are vegans anyway, why do they eat them?

All: *blink blink*

Lily: Um...they stick up for nature, I think, not plants specifically. Meaning that the natural course of life means that creatures live off of other creatures, so eating plants isn't as bad as eating animals?

James: That's a decent bit of logic there. Nicely done.

Lily: Thanks. It's a bit of a conundrum, though, isn't it? We're meant to be omnivores, meaning we were built to eat more than just plants in order to survive. Our bodies need a whole bunch of proteins in order to work, and they can only produce about 8 or 12 of them, so we have to ingest the rest. Meat has a lot, if not all, of them. Ah well. Haven't ever met a vegan that was dying from starvation. *shrugs*

Sirius: Wow...that was a lot of information.

Lily: Learn anything, then?

Sirius: Not a thing!

James: In one ear and out the other, eh?

Sirius: Exactly!

Remus: As always.

From: Mong e
Hey guys! I have this question in my head and it's begging me to come out. So lets say the whomping willow got cut down or was destroyed, would the whomping willow on the Marauder's Map disappear too?

James: Wow, I hadn't considered that one. Probably? It is a living creature, after all, and when someone's not at Hogwarts, they don't show up on the map. So I'd say yeah, it would disappear.

Sirius: Though, things like collapsed tunnels don't show on the map, so it might be ingrained in the map as part of the castle?

Peter: I thought we drew it as part of the map and the only things that changed were the people?

Remus: I think that if it disappeared, we'd still see the tunnel to it but the willow itself wouldn't be there.

James: It's interesting. Maybe I'm wrong? It's hard to be sure. Magic has a way of doing strange things sometimes...

From: M
Hello everybody? So I was reading the entries for June 13th and saw that question about truth or dare, isn't that a girly game for a bunch of boys to be playing (or are you boys?)?

Sirius: I can assure you, M, that I am very much a boy.

James: Same here.

Remus: Same for me and Peter.

Lily: *sigh* Truth or dare can be played by anyone. Generally, though, the boys never asked 'truth' questions, so it was really dare or dare, instead.

Remus: That's because dares are more fun.

From: Q
What is the Internet for?

Sirius: Why, the internet is for p...

Lily: Sirius Black, don't you dare say another syllable!

Sirius: But...!

Lily: *glares*

Sirius: Yes, ma'am...

Remus: Thanks, Lils.

James: *evil grin* It's for providing entertainment?

Sirius: Heh, you could say that.

Lily: I am surrounded by... by.... by BOYS!

James: Wow, that's terribly astutue of you, sweetheart.

Lily: *glares*

From: Midnight Moon
What is the stupidest thing you guys have ever done with fire?

Peter: Melted the mirror in our dorm?

Lily: You had only one?

Sirius: He's referring to one mirror, of many that are in our dorm but that not all of which were melted. And that was an accident.

James: You wanted to see if the mirror would reflect the fire spell. How is that an accident?

Sirius: I didn't know it was going to melt the glass?

Remus: Guess you managed to get the glass hot enough to melt.

Peter: And light the curtains on fire.

Sirius: Oh, I figured that would happen. *grins*

From: Tomoko
Wow...four years passed since the starting of the site, and you guys have been answering questions for three (or four?) years now. What are your feelings at the moment?

James: I'm hungry, personally. You?

Sirius: I've got this itch on my back that's been annoying me. *scrubs back against an edge of a chair* Ah, that's better.

Peter: Blah, I'm sleepy, a bit. Maybe I'm coming down with something?

Remus: Just a little bored. And wondering about where our sanity went.

Lily: *laughs and shakes head* I don't think that's exactly what she meant...

Sirius: What are you talking about, Lils? She asked us what we were feeling at this moment! *grins*

From: Cinders
Remus, Peter, Sirius, James, Lily, *gag*Snape*gag*, Angie, and Robyn all must answer this question. What is your most memorable injury?

James: The black-eye Lily gave me fourth year.

Sirius: That was one hell of a shiner.

Lily: I told you to bugger off. You don't listen very well.

James: *raises an eyebrow* I needed to be trained, then?

Sirius: I need a barf-bag now....

Remus: The bite from Greyback.

Peter: I don't have any really memorable injuries. Though that plant in the greenhouse almost eating me whole was rather memorable.

Sirius: I have this brilliant scar down my back where Moony got me. Wanna see it? *starts taking off shirt*

Lily: I think that's enough, Sirius.

Sirius: Bah, alright then.

Robyn: Injury? I guess my surgery and resulting scar? Only other 'injury' that I've had that was anything remarkable was when I slit my palm open on a door frame. Have a nice little scar there now.

Angie: Fell on the playground one year in grade school and cut my forehead open. Ended up having to go to get stitches for that one.

From: Sara
Who would you rather spend the rest of your life with; Jay Leno or Martha Stewart?

All: Leno!

James: That Stewart lady creeps me out.

Remus: *nods* She needs to get out of the house or something.

Sirius: She's too cheery...in a Stepford Wives sort of way.

Lily: You know what a Stepford Wife is?

Sirius: I *have* seen some Muggle things, Lils. There were those commercials all over the telly about that movie a while back. Right creepy, they were.