maple syrup | remus lupin [1]

1. curiosities & biblioklepts

"DO YOU RECKON she's listening to them?" Peter Pettigrew curiously asked his three best friends from the Gryffindor table, eyeing a specific girl who was sat at the blue and bronze table a few yards away from the group of boys - the so-called Marauders.

"Who?" James Potter asked his friend as he continued to shove some mashed potatoes into his mouth.

"That Ravenclaw, Maple," Peter said as he realised that he didn't even know her first name.

Everyone at Hogwarts, except for a couple of people, called the girl Maple instead of her first name for, well, unknown reasons. She didn't really mind though, as her first name meant "lame" in Latin; and Claudia was determined that she was not a lame person.

Another one of her dumb father's ideas most likely, since he didn't even manage to get a son out of the biggest mistake he had made in his life. The man most likely channeled his inner hatred for her through her name, and her mother was most likely blinded by her love for the name.

"I dunno Wormtail, why do you ask?" Sirius Black asked his friend as he wore a suspicious look on his face, his grey eyes practically drilling holes into Peter's skin as the blonde boy coughed nervously.

"Just... curious," the blonde boy replied. That was not a lie, he was curious.

Peter had recently been potions partners with the Ravenclaw, whom he had a difficult time to understand. For some reason the girl had caught his attention ever since then, the way she was reserved and distracted one minute and cool and sassy the next. He couldn't quite place her out, something that annoyed him more than it should have.

"Oh, does Wormy have a little crush?" Sirius teased with a smirk, as Peter blushed furiously.

"Do not!" He exclaimed, much to nervously for it to come across as truthful.

"You do!" James joined in on the teasing, "Wormtail is in loveeeee!" He sang.

"I am not, honestly please just stop. I was just curious about her."

"Curious, aye?" Sirius smirked, James doing the same from the other side of the table as he grabbed a roll of bread and threw it towards Claudia. The bread roll hit her back, and she turned around due to the sudden commotion as James tried to speak:

"Hey, Wormtail here ha-" James yelled but was interrupted by Peter, who smashed his hand against James' mouth to make him stop talking. Claudia only looked confused as she gave James a quick glare for hitting her with a bread roll. She decided that he probably missed his target and got her by accident. She then turned back to her book and pancakes covered in golden syrup, her specialties in life.

"Stop it James!" Peter hushed angrily at his friend, who knew just the way to get out of his grip.

"Uh, did you just lick me?!" Peter said in a disgusted tone as his hand flew back down to his lap, his other hand grabbing a napkin to dry it off as James and Sirius snickered.