Ask the Marauders > September 15, 2006

Name: Rawk on.
Hey, everyone! If you could wear one pair of shoes for a whole month, what would you pick? (Like brand, and color...) Please answer! Rawk on!

James: ...who would wear more than one pair of shoes in a given month? I mean, unless you had to go to something especially fancy?

Sirius: So long as they're comfortable and not, you know, bright pink or something equally awful, then we're good.

Remus: I think just regular shoes are fine. They're comfortable and all that.

Peter: Sneakers are pretty good.

Name: Goblet
Do wizards take a Myers-Brigg type exam to see what wizarding profession would best suit their personality?

Peter: You know, that would have been helpful...

Remus: Maybe, maybe not.

James: Nah, we just go for what we want to do, just like most muggles do. If we make the cut, then great. Otherwise we have to try something else.

Sirius: Though the professors try to discourage you if you want to try something they deam 'ridiculous.'

James: *raises an eyebrow* You told McGonagall that you wanted to be a superhero and live in a tower surrounded by evil-detecting devices so that you can ferret out and defeat all forces of evil.

Sirius: What's wrong with that? It would have been fun *and* useful to society!

James: Yeah, but you'd essentially be a vigilante. This is why she told you to try for the Auror program.

Peter: I think she also thought the training would knock some sense into him.

Remus: Which would never happen.

Sirius: Hah!

Name: Sherlock
Who's more evil: Teletubbies or Voldemort?

James & Sirius: Teletubbies.

Peter: Why do you say that? They've never killed anyone.

James: Yeah, but they brainwash children.

Remus: I'd rather deal with a murderer than someone who brainwashes children.

Sirius: And they're just creepy. I mean, Voldie's creepy, too, but not on the same level...

Name: Mong e
OK, so.... Bellatrix married Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolphus Lestrange)?!

Sirius: *blink blink* Not quite.

Remus: That's a new one...

James: And here Padfoot usually calls me that 'round Christmastime. *sigh*

Peter: Well, you are a stag, so you would look like a reindeer the most out of all of us...

James: Yes, well....meh.

Sirius: Would you prefer 'human-coat-rack'?

James: I would prefer neither.

Name: ~SQUIGGLY~
Do you have a secret handshake?

Sirius: If we told you, we'd have to kill you.

James: You know how these things are. Secret, and all.

Sirius: We've already said too much.

James: We were never here. *looks around shiftily*

Remus: *sigh* We don't have a secret handshake. We don't need one.

James & Sirius: THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK! BWAHHAHAHA!

Peter & Remus: ....

Peter: Off their nut again, I see...

Remus: Just a tad.

Name: Fabala
Hey Sirius, after you moved into your parents house in book five why didn't you just use magic to paint over your mother's mouth?

Sirius: That thought, and many others, did occur to me, but the shear force of the protection spells that woman had placed on her portrait kind of prevented that. Same reason we couldn't get the damned painting down.

Remus: Even I couldn't do anything about those protection spells.

James: Wow...your mother really sucks.

Sirius: Yep. Just like the rest of my family. The whole lot's rotten.

Lily: You do have some distant relation to the Weasley family, though. They're not bad people.

Sirius: Yeah, they're sane. I meant the part of the family that everyone thinks of when they hear the name Black. It's not exactly a good image.

James: Unless you like psychos...

Name: Emerald
Remus & Sirius, if you could have (as in, if Sirius hadn't gone to Azkaban and Remus was allowed to by the Ministry) would you have raised Harry yourselves when James and Lily died?

Sirius: That, or some itteration thereof, was the plan.

James: With some requests from Lily.

Lily: Yes, well I didn't want Sirius teaching Harry some horrible pranks or anything.

Remus: And she didn't trust my influence to completely cancel out Padfoot's.

Sirius: Aw, c'mon Lils! I wouldn't have corrupted Harry or anything. Besides, he breaks rules now, and that was BEFORE we ran into him his third year.

James: Makes his father proud. *grins*

Lily: *sigh* I'm surrounded by impossible gits sometimes...

Name: Fangs, Marlene, and AshLe
Hello! We were wondering, Lily, if your father was over protective of you, and if so, did he like James? And James, did he try to kill you, and if so, how did you react?

Lily: He wasn't any more protective of me than any average father. And he wasn't overly critical of James, though he did drill him a bit when he first met him.

Sirius: Ah, meeting the parents. I'm sure that was great fun, eh Prongs?

James: Yeah, that was kind of scary.

Lily: Scary?! My father was one of the nicest men on the planet. How could you scared of him?

James: ...um, he's your dad, and I'm dating his little girl. You do the math.

Lily: *grins* You're so cute.

James: *sigh*

Name: Diana
You have unlimited funds and you are planning a night out, what would you do and where would you go?

Sirius: Where wouldn't we go? Apparation rocks like that.

James: And funds are inconsequential. I mean, it does help in procuring supplies, but magic does make a lot of the fun all by itself. *grins*

Lily: And what would you do if you weren't planning on pranking Slytherins?

Sirius: ...probably party. Or just hang out in general.

Remus: Or hang out and plot pranks and party all at once.

James: We are simple men.

Lily: *giggles* Men....

Name: Shall_remain_unknown
Chemistry or Physics?

Peter: Chemistry is kind of like potions, so I guess I'll go with that one. I'm not bad with mixing things together.

Remus: Chemistry. Physics makes my head hurt sometimes.

James: Some of our pranks were a study in the combination of those two fields. But I think generally bend the laws of physics on a regular basis, so maybe chem would be my choice?

Sirius: Chemistry = explosions. What more reason do you need?

Name: Dog Lover
In regards to the comic, what did Sirius make to prove that he can't cook?

James: He murdered eggs.

Sirius: I did not murder them.

Remus: Yes, you did.

James: Then explain how they were both undercooked and burnt at the same time? I could almost hear them crying.

Peter: I think you'd have more problems if the eggs were actually crying...

Name: Shellelagh
(Anyone know how to pronounce "shellelagh"? Bet Remus does---) Anyway, has Remus ever hit anyone? I mean, really punched someone in the face when they were irritating him?

Sirius: Oh! Oh! He's hit be before!

Remus: Only when it is necessary.

James: You deserved it. I've punched you before. It's a common occurance, as you have this tendency to become intolerable when exicted about something.

Sirius: *sad puppy dog eyes*

James: *sigh*

Name: Lilithe Philaeneus
I hate my dad, and I think I should inform him of this. Of course that would require talking to him. Any ideas?

Lily: You don't really hate you dad, do you? I mean, he's your dad...

Sirius: Need I reference my family?

Lily: I like to think that you were the exception to the rule.

Remus: There are more of those exceptions than you might want to admit.

James: I wouldn't tell him that you hate him unless you have a really valid reason. [I can't think of a really valid reason to hate one's parents, unless they're ridiculous like Padfoot's family...]

Lily: Just don't do something you may regret years down the line. You can always make new friends, but your family is your family. You may be odds with him now, but you never know what the future holds. Don't say something that you may not get a chance to take back when you finally want to. Maybe talk to him about why you don't get along and try to fix things? It's worth trying, at least.