Ask the Marauders > September 22, 2006

Name: Irene Norton nee Adler
Have any of you read any of the Sherlock Holmes stories? Let's here from Snape, too.

Snape: I do not have the time for such silly pursuits. And if you do, your time would be better spent concentrating on your studies.

James: Oh lighten up, Snivellus. Besides, what if they have to read it for class?

Snape: I fail to see what class that would be required reading for.

Lily: I would wager it would be for a literature class. Granted, they don't have those at Hogwarts, but they're required courses in pretty much all muggle school systems.

Remus: Likely some English literature class. I think Angie mentioned that she had an English literature class at one time.

Snape: Hmph.

Sirius: That's that detective bloke, right? I haven't read any of the books, but I think Lils has. Mentioned him once, I think.

Lily: Yes, I've read some of the books. They're interesting.

Remus: I've read a few, it was an experience.

Name: Sad about pluto not being a planet anymo
So guys, if you could have a cell phone, what color, ring tone, background, etc, would it be???

James: They come in different colors? It's just a phone. I'd be find with most anything, except maybe a Slytherin-themed phone. I don't think 'slime' is a good color for technology.

Sirius: Cellphone? Is that a phone you get in a jail cell?

Lily: ...no. It's short for cellular phone.

Sirius: So it's a phone that's in your cells? Or lets your cells call each other?

Lily: Do you do this on purpose?

Sirius: Only some of the time. *grins*

Lily: A cellphone is a phone that you can carry around without needing to be plugged into a wire to make a call. It's portable.

Sirius: That's handy! And you can have it make different noises? Oh, the things one could do with one...

James: I can hear McGonagall now...

Lily: "Mr. Black, 50 points from Gryffindor and a week's detention"?

James: *grins* More or less.

Remus: Which is why neither one of them will ever have access to a cellphone.

Name: Professor McGonagall
Where'd you put my socks?

Sirius: Why Professor, why would I ever take your socks? *innocent puppy face*

James: *mutters* Yeah, since it would be far more fun to just enchant them and leave them where we foudn them.

Sirius: *to James* Shhhh! Don't give away our plans!

Remus: I'm not going to help you try to get out of detention.

Peter: No, I'm not doing it. She'll eat me alive! *shudders*

Name: M
What's your favorite season due to the food served during it?

Sirius: Winter, of course! Though autumn is a close second.

James: There are a lot of fruit pies and things that are only really good in the summer, though.

Sirius: Hmmm, that's true...

Remus: But winter also has all the wonder Christmas goodies...

Peter: A lot of good cheeses are made in the late summer and early fall.

Name: Ponderer
Hey guys, when you answer people's questions, do you feel like you're taking a really long exam or quiz that you didn't study for?

Peter: Exams...... *looks faint*

James: Wormtail doesn't like exams much.

Peter: I'm just not good in a testing environment...

Remus: I don't feel like this is an exam. More like a nerve-wracking interview.

Sirius: I guess it feels a little like an exam since we're under pressure to say something amusing, myabe? But honestly, I wish my exams were this easy.

James: Plus exams aren't usually fun.

Name: Dessa
So I was trying really hard to think of a good question for Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I couldn't... So I guess my question is how do you get past writers block/brain-farts/whatever you wanna call it?

Sirius: Butterbeer.

James: No, that's how you get over anyone's reservations about a prank of yours.

Sirius: No, you're thinking of my devilish charm.

Peter: Actually, you're both wrong. It was firewhiskey...

James: Ah yes, firewhiskey...

Remus: And all the fun watching you and Padfoot's drunken adventures.

Sirius: But enough about our alcohol-induced adventures. Generally, if I have a mental block, Prongs'll come up with something. Same goes for when Prongs runs out of ideas. And if both of us are out of ideas, we can usually weasel something out of Moony. He usually holds out on us.

Remus: Of course I do!

Name: Miss Trickster
If you could make up a musical about yourselves, what would some of the songs be called/be about?

James: A musical about us? Wow, um, not sure what songs there would be.

Sirius: I'm sure there would be some horribly sacchrine love song in there. With lyrics about fiery redheads and emerald eyes and all that sort of fluff.

James: *glares, but is beginning to blush slightly* Padfoot, I'm sure there will be just as much in this musical to proclaim your idiocy to the world, so you needn't worry about that sort of 'fluff' drowning you out.

Sirius: Just so long as we're clear on that, then. *grins*

James: *sigh*

Peter: Maybe there would be some songs about our exploits at Hogwarts? I'm sure there would be one about Padfoot sending Snape after Moony.

Remus: *glare* Hopefully more about our OTHER exploits.

Sirius: ...y'know, just to head you off before you say anything Moony, I realize how dumb that was. And I think I've apologized to you enough by now...

James: Yes, and his weight in chocolate helped, too, I'm sure.

Sirius: Actually, it was my weight.

Remus: And yes, it did help.

Name: Lilithe Philaeneus
James and Lily, how do you feel about people refering to your son as a 'whiny emo boy'?

Lily: Whiny emo boy? I suppose he does get a bit whiny sometimes. But you should have seen James before I agreed to date him. He would get rather mopey sometimes.

James: When did you see me be mopey?

Lily: You know, I did see you when you didn't think I was looking. I'm not blind. You're very cute when you're mopey.

James: ...*sigh*

Lily: But yes, Harry can be emo, but he sometimes has reason to be. Though he seems to have grown a bit out of it now. Everyone has an 'emo' period, I guess. Or at least a lot of people do.

Name: Anya
Severus, do you ever feel jealous of the Marauders for being such a close-knit group of friends? Be honest...

Snape: ...honesty does not usually get you much in this world. One does not put his innermost thoughts on display for all the world to see.

James: Way to avoid the question.

Snape: *aggrivated sigh* That lot gives me little to be jealous of. Now leave me be! *storms out of room*

Name: Q
In your opinion... Is everyone a little bit racist?

Lily: Everyone's a little bit prejudiced about something. But I suppose it's better that you realize that you have prejudices and acknowledge them while trying to overcome them than to go about thinking that you're totally unprejudiced. The world might be a bit of a better place if everyone tried to be more understanding of other people.

James: And stopped killing each other. But that's another problem...

Lily: Yes and no. It usually stems from some prejudice or another. I don't know that it's even possible to have a prejudice-free world, but I suppose it's something to work towards.

Remus: I would rather see people try to get past their own prejudices before trying to deal with everyone else's.

Name: Emeline
What is your greatest strength/weakness?

Sirius: Now why would we state that here for the public to read?

James: Yeah, that's just asking for Snape to exploit those weaknesses.

Sirius: Or work to defend against our strengths.

Remus: Or inform any of the other Slytherins while we're at it.

Lily: Your strength and weakness are the same thing. You're both idiots.

James & Sirius: Hey!

Lily: What? *smiles*

Name: Emerald Isle
Slugs have 4 noses. Does that mean that they can smell better then say, I don't know, a certian dog that is currently in Veil Land?

James: Veil....Land? Hahaha!

Sirius: It's not that funny, Mr. Also-Not-Among-The-Living-Any-Longer.

James: Oooh, that's a long title. I feel special now.

Sirius: *grumbles*

Lily: I don't know how strong a slug's olifactory nerves are, or how much their brains can process, so I don't think they're really that much better at smelling than a dog. Probably not as good.

Name: Coffee High
Accorns were used as a coffee supliment during the American Civil War. If any of you like coffee, then how disgusted are you to hear that?

James: Squirrels eat accorns... That's all I know about accorns. I wouldn't know what they taste like.

Sirius: I'm not a big fan of coffee?

Lily: Good. You don't need any caffeine in your system. You're hyper enough as it is.

Sirius: *grins*

Remus: That wasn't a compliment.

Lily: I'm not that surprised about the accorn thing. I'm sure they cleaned them off a bit and used it to stretch what coffee grinds they did have. Things like that happen during war. Rationing and so forth.