Ask the Marauders > February 24, 2007

Name: Assenav (My name backwards ^_^)
If you could be any of the symbols on a standard muggle keyboard, what symbol would you choose and why?

Sirius: I want to be the asterisk!

James: Why the asterisk exactly?

Sirius: It's a star, and I'm a star, so it fits.

James: ...why do I even ask?

Peter: This is a really weird question. Maybe the tilde squiggly line thing? I don't know...

Remus: I think I'd be that swirly-a thing. Describes my state of mind with this bunch around.

Lily: And I thought Sirius would have been the exclamation point since he's always so loud. *smiles innocently*

Sirius: You're lucky Prongs loves you. *mock glare*

Lily: *giggles*

James: Actually, he should be one of the F keys.

Sirius: An F key, why?

James: You always F things up?

Sirius: *so not a mock glare*

James: *evil grin*

Name: Meggy S.
So I , of course, have to ask: Do you really think coconuts would make good bludgers?

Sirius: *Anything* would make a good bludger.

Remus: Actually, anything that is hard and can be thrown.

James: Which you've proved with just about everything in our dormitory and the common room.

Peter: And some things in the Great Hall, don't forget.

Lily: There was that time in Potions when...

Sirius: Yes, yes, well, see Meggy? Everything makes a good bludger. Ergo, so do coconuts. Logic! It's brilliant!

Name: JennyGranger
This is for anyone BUT James and Lily:
If those two were still alive, how many kids do you think they would have by now? *snickers*

Peter: ...

Sirius: That depends completely on Lils.

Lily: Why me?

Sirius: Because you're the one birthing the kids. Unless you find a way to make Prongs here carry a kid or two to term.

James: No thanks.

Sirius: See?

James: Wait! That makes me sound like all I think about is s-

Sirius: *raises an eyebrow* You going to tell me that it doesn't cross your mind at all?

James: ... I hate you.

Sirius: *grins*

Name: Midfielder-115
If you could save three things from your house if there was a fire, what would they be, assuming any humans, pets, and wands were in already out of the house and in your possession?

James: My broom, for one.

Sirius: I'd have to pick out some things from my pranking war chest. But if this is Grimmauld Place we're talking about, let the thing burn. Ugh.

Lily: Probably photo albums and the blanket my grandmother made for me when I was a baby.

Remus: I'd save what money I could and maybe a few books.

Peter: I have this model train my grandfather carved for me. That's the only thing I can think of.

Name: I'm Crazy
If you could choose the menu at Hogwarts what would be some of food choices?

Remus: The menu at Hogwarts is pretty good already.

Name: Tomoko
Just curious, boys: If you can play one Muggle video game, which will it be: Final Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, Super Mario Brothers or Legend of Zelda?

James: The Dungeons and Dragons video game was awful from what I heard.

Sirius: And which Final Fantasy are you talking about? There's been about a million of those things.

Lily: Thirteen or so core games, with a whole bunch of sequels and spinoffs. Something like that, but I know I'm not wholly accurate, so no flames, please?

Peter: Mario was always fun to play.

James: I'm not a huge fan of FF games simply because the battle system stuff always seemed dumb to me. If I'm going to fight someone, I'm not going to stand there and wait turns. I get bored very easily.

Lily: Oh, we know.

Remus: The FF games have decent stories with them, for the most part. I think they'd be more fun than the others, half the Zelda games are just the same plot.

Sirius: As long as I get to smite things, it's all good.

Name: Cap'n Trouble
When you guys were at Hogwarts, was Peeves a pain in the butt, or did he help you guys out with your pranks?

James: Both.

Remus: Sometimes both in the same day.

Sirius: Yeah, he would get kind of irritating, and would alert professors to us when we were still starting out.

James: But I think we won him over after a fashion.

Lily: He always did seem strangely fond of you all.

Peter: We amused him, I think. That, or he liked the competition.

Name: Serpentyna
Hi! This question is for Sirius. How come every time James and Lily have a "moment" you feel the urge to vomit?

Sirius: Have you ever witnessed them having a moment? It's so sickeningly sweet that I get cavities just thinking about it.

James: Thanks a lot, mate. *glares*

Sirius: It's true! I think anyone that's ever witnessed a gooey-eyed couple making eyes at each other would want to vomit on their shoes, too.

Peter ...why their shoes?

Sirius: I don't want to look up at them to vomit, plus cleaning shoes is really hard.

Remus: And here I thought it would be better to just vomit on the ground.

Name: Amanda Banana
Hello, there! OK, so between all of you about how many points on average do you lose your house a year?

Lily: *sigh*

James: Actually, it all balances out in the end, since we win a lot of points for being the dashing and intelligent gents that we are.

Remus: You mean, I win points for being intelligent.

Sirius: Plus, we learned how not to get caught by our second or third year.

Peter: Way to not answer the question.

Lily: It sort of answered the question. They go and loose 50 or more points on a big prank, but then win those points back by actually using their brains on occasion. Plus, there's James' quiddtich wins to take into account.

James: See? I can have my cake and throw it on Snape, too!

Sirius: What a waste of cake... *mourns the cake*

Name: Kitty
Hey Sirius... I've been looking through the ATMs and I've noticed that you seem to be flirting a lot with Remus, so I was just wondering... if you DID have a crush on him, then what would you do about it? How would Remus feel?

Sirius: ...

Remus: ...

James: I think you broke him, Kitty.

Lily: And made most of the female population of Hogwarts sigh.

Sirius: ...

Peter: Are you going to answer at all, Padfoot?

James: Probably not. I'll have to answer for him. He would most likely not know what to do with himself and be increasingly stupid to Moony. And Moony would not notice a different until Padfoot did something profoundly stupid.

Lily: You know, I think I read a fanfic like that once.

James: *stares*

Lily: What? It's not like I wrote it.