July 31, 1975
MARY: All right, I got it this time, I got it-
REMUS: Fire away.
MARY: Watch and learn, Lupin.
MARY arches her wrist and tosses a smooth stone across the surface of a calm lake. The stone skips over the still water several times before sinking below.
MARY: Ha! Beat that, Prefect boy.
REMUS: (grabbing another stone from the ground) Come on, I thought you said you weren't jealous.
MARY: Me? Jealous? You think I want to be Prefect? Is that some kind of sick joke?
REMUS: I don't know, you seem pretty good at bossing people around. (He tosses another stone, which skips across the water a couple times as well).
MARY: Well, I am, but I'm also not in the mood to be responsible for first-years and all their nonsense. God, it sounds like a nightmare.
REMUS: I think I can handle it. (He kneels down and carefully runs his hand across the cool water).
MARY: So Lily did end up getting it, then?
REMUS: Yeah. We were all expecting her to get it.
MARY: Of course. Who were they gonna give it to, Marlene?
REMUS: (laughing) Yeah, I guess it'd be a freak show with her in charge.
MARY: (sitting down next to REMUS and gazing out into the hot summer afternoon) This year's gonna be the best one yet. I can feel it.
REMUS: Oh, yeah?MARY I have a sense about these things. Just you wait.
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The Marauders Unite (III)
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