Ask the Marauders > June 29, 2007

Name: Emily
This one is mainly for Black (of the Sirius variety): what do you think of my invention the Lollyphant, it's an elephant made of Lollies. D'ya like it?

Sirius: An entire elephant made of lollies? That's a lot of sugar....

Remus: Too much sugar for any sane person.

James: Way too much for you, that's for sure.

Sirius: Blasphemy! There's no such thing as too much sugar!

Peter: Wouldn't it make you ill to eat that much, though?

Sirius: I have a second stomach for sweets. And another entirely devoted to pudding.

James: Doesn't pudding fall under the 'sweets' category?

Sirius: Pudding's special. Plus, because I have an extra stomach for pudding, I can have twice as much since it can go into the sweets stomach, too!

Lily: That makes no logical sense.

James: You would be scared if Padfoot started making logical sense.

Lily: ...true.

Name: JennyGranger
So... what *was* James' and Lily's first kiss like?

James: Not as awkward as I worried it would be?

Lily: It was nice enough. I mean, first kisses are usually kind of strange.

James: At least I didn't go reporting to my friends that it was wet. What was that mess?

Sirius: No, you were just over the moon for at least a week.

Peter: He was certainly easy to get along with, that's for sure.

Sirius: Less whining and pining over our lovely Miss Evans.

Peter: Less pining, at any rate.

James: Do you mind?

Remus: We're just telling the truth.

Name: Axel
Hey Sirius, did you know that there is a radio station called Sirius satellites? Their logo is also a dog. Are you sponsoring and/or gave them the idea of naming the radio station that?

Sirius: ....I have a radio station now?

James: Yes. Even better to corrupt the children with.

Remus: And those who aren't children.

Sirius: Excellent.

Peter: Then what's a satellite?

Sirius: ...I'm not a details man. I just come up with the big ideas.

James: Which is why many of his plans are only half thought through.

Sirius: I resent that! Plenty of my plans are perfectly sound.

Peter: But not all?

Sirius: ...see if I let you listen to my radio station.

James: We've the WWN, what do we need your radio station for?

Sirius: But it's special. The Padfoot Power Hour!

Lily: *snicker* I don't think the world needs that.

Peter: I don't think half our readers will get that joke.

James: Ah, the bloom of youth. So many things still unknown.

Name: Matt "the demon Marluxia killed"
Have any of you been to amusement parks? If so which rides are your favorites? (mine are the roller coasters!)

Lily: I've been to a fair or two. I rather liked the carousel.

Remus: I like the water rides that are at some of those parks.

James: I've wanted to go on one of those coasters.

Sirius: You want to sit on a coaster? What are you, a frosty beverage?

Lily: No, not a coaster as in something you set your cup on, a coaster as in a roller coaster.

Sirius: Oh....what's that, then?

James: It's a ride. Kind of like the carts at Gringotts.

Lily: Only less fear of death.

Sirius: But fear of death is half the fun!

Peter: I like the bumper cars.

Lily: You're all madmen.

Name: Sephiroth
Ok, kind of a random question. What's the best tune to sing the Hogwarts school song to?

Peter: Mary Had A Little Lamb was always a popular one.

Sirius: 99 Bottles of Beer was a good one, too. Though we tended to get stuck singing for a while.

James: And drunk. Not sure why, as we weren't drinking at the time.

Lily: Ah, the power of suggestion...

James: Always a party with us around, huh?

Lily: Some of the students with Muggle relations would do a Beatles tune now and again. That was always fun.

Name: Bri
This question is for Lily, but anyone else can comment. So do any of your muggle friends know you can do magic?

Lily: No, they don't. We're not supposed to tell, as you can imagine the pandemonium that would erupt if people began to find out that there were witches and wizards about. The only Muggles that know about magic are ones that have immediate family that are magical, and the Prime Minister and other people in positions like his around the world. I would have loved to tell my friends, but I couldn't, sadly.

Name: I'm in love115
Do you read fan fiction, and if so which tale is your favorite?

James: Heh, well, there are some that are highly entertaining. Shoebox Project is always good for a laugh.

Sirius: If you don't mind the pairings later on. *sigh*

Remus: Can we not discuss those?

Peter: Well it's not all that bad. We've all seen far worse. It's very well written, at least. You can't argue with that.

Sirius: True.

Lily: I rather like Maya's Drop Dead Gorgeous. Even if it's impossible and not terribly appropriate for younger readers. I like her writing voice, I think. Very snarky.

Name: I'm Crazy
Out of the four boys, if you had a beauty pageant who would win?

Boys: Padfoot.

Sirius: While I'm flatter, why me?

James: Because you're the only one vain enough to *enter* the pageant to being with.

Sirius: Ah, too true. But you'd come in second, Prongs.

Remus: Only because I would not be near it.

James: And I'd get to take over your duties if you should become unable to fulfill them yourself?

Sirius: That's what I hear.

James: Done then. So long as I haven't got to wear a dress and tiara.

Lily: *giggles* I think that's required. I'm sure you'll both look lovely.

Name: I am me, me I am
So Padfoot.. You seen the new Pirates movie yet? I saw it today and I loved it. Want to know your opinion on the matter. :P And to all you others.. I am sorry.. but Pirates rule!!

Sirius: Aye matey, I have seen the new movie. It be a fine film, although everything seemed to have its own plot.

James: That's the second movie's fault. Kind of made it hard for the third to wrap it all up.

Peter: They added more random stuff into the third anyway, though.

Lily: Singapore was a little unnecessary, but Chow Yun Fat was an excellent pirate lord. And Johnny Depp, well, you could have gone for just him and been satisfied, I think.

James: You like the nancing pirate type with the eyeliner?

Lily: No, just Johnny Depp.

James: Feeling a little threatened here.

Lily: By an actor? I would think you would be flattered, as I am here with you and not off chasing him.

James: You do know how to sooth a man's jealousies.

Sirius: I'd be careful, Prongs. Lils is soothing men again.

Lily: I think he was referring to himself, there.

Sirius: *grins* That's what he likes to think, yes.

James: *smacks Sirius on the back of his head*

Name: Katie
What are Snape's good points? Everybody has some.

Lily: Well, he's certainly studious.

James: Always has his huge nose in a book.

Remus: And knows how to study.

Lily: And he's incredibly knowledgeable about potions and the Dark Arts.

Sirius: If you like evil in a guy.

Lily: And he seems to think for himself rather than follow others.

James: As he has no one to follow.

Sirius: Except that old Tom fellow.

Lily: And you wonder why he hated you two in school. *sigh*

Name: chocolate freak
Why do wizards like food with pumpkins so much? Pumpkin juice, pumpkin pasties, pumpkin pie...

Lily: I don't think it's a wizarding thing, more of a British thing?

James: Or maybe we just like pumpkin. Hagrid certainly grows enough of them.

Sirius: Big honking pumpkins. We should make a carriage sometime.

Peter: ...no, I am not pulling it.

James & Sirius: Huh?

Peter: Cinderella. The fairy godmother turned four mice into horses to pull the pumpkin carriage.

James: Ah. Well, we could always lash Snivellus to the front.

Remus: I don't think that would work...

Sirius: Or some of Prongs' fan club.

James: I have a fan club?

Sirius: Unless all the screaming girls on the pitch are for me, yes you have a fan club.

James: Heh.

Name: Local Sake
Hiya! Sirius, my love, have you ever flushed a cherry bomb down a school toilet and watched the big boom that results?

Sirius: Never thought to make a cherry explode. Think there's a charm for that?

Lily: A cherry bomb is a small explosive or firework that is traditionally used in lavatories to blow up toilets.

Remus: Don't let these two near them...

James: We need to get some of these fruit bombs.

Lily: Cherry bombs, dear. No other type of fruit.

Peter: Seems like a waste of good fruit to me.

Name: Danae
Since y'all were teenagers in the 70s, did you all ever wear bell bottoms or stuff like that?

Lily: I had a pair, though I tended to be wearing robes much of the time. Or skirts.

James: We all wore robes, being of wizarding stock mostly and not really owning much in the way of muggle clothing.

Sirius: I was a hippie for a Halloween party once. Having billowing pants was kind of odd, though.

Name: does any one read this?
If Harry tried to open the map without the password, how would it insult him, since he looks so much like James? Not that you all don't insult James but still. (Thanks! Hugs all but Snape)

James: The map doesn't know who's trying to open it. Snape kind of told it who was trying to open it, which just opened a can of worms.

Sirius: If you just try to open it repeatedly without a password and you don't tell it who you are, it will just be general insults.

Remus: It's general insults unless you are stupid enough to tell the map who you are.

James: I would have ended up insulting myself, I'm sure.

Peter: How's that?

James: if the map got up to making fun of his parents? You can imagine how silly that would be, considering.

Sirius: I would like to see that.

James: Why? You already make fun of me.

Sirius: But I want to see you insult yourself. Less work for me. *grins*

Remus: And it would be extremely amusing.

Name: M
To be or not to be?

James: That is the question.

Sirius: Whether tis healthier to wait hours, pining for the lavatory...

James: Wait, what? That's not in Hamlet's soliloquy. Even I know that.

Sirius: I'm making it more modern and edgy.

Peter: I think he just wants to leave.

Lily: You could have just said something and gone, Sirius. You needn't be, well, you.

Sirius: But the world is better for my interpretation!

Remus: Are you sure?

James: I'm sure Shakespeare would disagree...