Selenophile // Marauders

|13| Common Rooms, Second Year

March 17th, 1973

07:30 AM

"Merlin Riley, you really do wake up early..." Marlene said as she rubbed her eyes. "Ugh, it's Monday, again!"

"Motivated for the week?" Riley teased her.

"We have an Astronomy exam, Mary, wake up!" Marlene shook Mary so that she woke up. "You have to help me study, you're good at Astronomy."

"I won't help you if you keep waking me up like this!" Mary spat back as she put her pillow on top of her face.

"I didn't wake up on purpose, Riley opened the curtains... again!" Marlene said pointing at Riley. She rolled her eyes, shrugged, and continued to read her book. "Lily! Wake up!"

"What Marls?!"

"Wake up, we'll study Astronomy! Mary will study with us and help us pass, won't she?"

"I won't!" she yelled. She put the pillow back down from her face, her curly dark hair was all over her face. She had dark skin, and wore a bright red t-shirt as a pajama.

"Dorcas — wait, where is Dorcas?" Marlene said as she kept looking around. Her messy blonde hair was all over her face — just like Mary's — and her blue eyes glistened as the sunlight beamed.

"She's probably at the lake again..." Lily said.

"Why does she keep going there in the morning, it's stupid," Mary said. "And, didn't you study for Astronomy yesterday, Marls?"

"No, I was in detention with McGonagall."

"Why?" Lily asked with her soft and gentle voice. She brushed her dark red hair and made her bed. Mary was still trying to sleep. Riley's bed was a mess, as always. She never cleaned her side of the dorm which annoyed Dorcas.

"I forgot to turn in my homework. McGonagall was pissed."

The girls walked downstairs and Riley sat with James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter as usual. Peter was looking through their Astronomy textbook, trying to learn, Sirius was eating, James and Remus were arguing.

"Moony, it's not a stupid idea!"

"Yes, it is James! It's dangerous."

Riley sat next to Remus and realized they were talking about the animagi idea.

"We need to come up with new ideas for pranks," Sirius said, bored of James and Remus bickering.

"Exactly, we'll convince Moony later," Riley said.

"If we do something to the professors or Slytherins, they'll understand it was us immediately," Remus said.

"What are we gonna do then?" Peter asked.

"Maybe we can find a way to sneak into the girls' dorm!" James said loud enough for Lily to hear.

"Piss of Potter!" she replied with an annoyed face.

"We can flood the whole place with water," Riley suggested.

"And then nobody will notice because we'll also act annoyed and blame it on someone else," Remus completed. James, Sirius, and Peter looked amazed.

"These two are too smart for us," Sirius said.

"I agree," Peter said. "But how do we do that?"

"There are a couple of charms we can look at but are we gonna create a flood in the Great Hall?" James asked.

"No, even better..." Remus said with a smile. "But we need to finish it today, it's the full moon tomorrow."

"No problem!"