Howlers In Hogwarts

Howlers for McGonagall's transfiguration class

Lily, of course, had ended up with full marks on her transfiguration test, and Sirius and James, as much as Lily hated to admit it, were actually really good as well. Almost better than her bookworm friend Remus, and way better than Lily herself, though she'd never tell anyone that.

As much as she studied and read about the subject, she just could never do it perfectly. James and Sirius, on the other hand, never ever studied for anything and any homework that the two were given was either done last minute, sometimes at the beginning of the class it was due in, or just got Remus to do it. He used to refuse, but the two brother-like boys discovered his weakness, chocolate. They had piles of it to give him whenever they needed some work completed. This just made Lily wonder. How were they so good?

she was determined to find out. So, she went off and up the stairs to their dorm. She didn't really want to know what was going on in there because she could hear all sorts of bangs and fizzes and pops from the other side. She looked up at the sign on the door.

DO NOT ENTER

MOONY WORMTAIL, PADFOOT AND PRONGS,

and underneath that, a list of some sort. It had all of their handwriting on it, so she tilted it up to her eyes and scanned the contents of it.

The Marauders proudly present: THE RULES

Her eyes widened at this title. the Marauders? She knew they called themselves that, everyone did. But what surprised her was the fact that they had rules. Whatever for? she wondered.

RULE 1: YOU CANNOT ENTER UNLESS YOU ARE A FRIEND OF THE MARAUDERS

RULE 2: YOU MUST SWEAR ON YOUR LIFE THAT YOU WILL NEVER TELL ANYONE OF WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS ROOM.

RULE 3: YOU MUST HAVE PERMISSION TO ENTER THIS SACRED ROOM FROM US

RULE 4: JAMES LOVES EVANS SO I SUGGEST YOU ALL GET LOST.

This one was roughly scribbled and half crossed out, under it saying: Piss off sirius

At this, she grinned.

RULE 5: DO NOT ASK SIRIUS BLACK OUT BECAUSE HE IS VERY TAKEN ALREADY AND IS ALSO GAY SO YOU CAN TAKE YOUR MISERABLE LITTLE LIVES SOMEWHERE ELSE, GOODBYE LADIES

She definitely laughed out loud at this

She didn't read the rest, but knocked on the door, all sound ceasing.

"Password?" Came the unmistakable sound of Sirius Black's voice.

"I don't know your bloody password, Black," she rolled her eyes.

"Evans? Wait a second-"

After several minutes of random shouts and thumps, Remus politely opened the door and let her in, sitting back down.

Sirius was lying across his bed, only wearing a pair of seriously ripped jeans. He smirked when he caught her staring.

James was sitting on the floor, propped up against his bed post, writing something on an ancient looking piece of parchment, which Lily could only guess was the map that she knew they had cleverly created.

Remus was also on the floor, but was reading what looked like a potions book, whilst also holding up a charms book to his eyes.

Peter was, and this intrigued the Gryffindor Prefect the most, stirring a cauldron.