It's the Marauders' first year at school, and it's going to be full of madness, mayhem, and above all, magic. (Sirius Black, Jamie Potter, Remus Lupin, and Petra Pettigrew.)
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There were still a few days to go until Hallowe'en, but the air was filled with the delicious scent of baking pumpkins, which could be smelt from all over the grounds.
Filch was to be seen dragging decorations all over the castle, grumbling and groaning as he did it. Sirius and Peeves took the greatest delight in sabotaging Filch's work, and causing mischief and mayhem all over the castle.
Jamie of course, had bigger plans though. She, Remus, Sirius, and even Petra and Frankie put their heads together to come up with a prank of epic proportions. 'We're going to go down in History as legends!' Jamie had exclaimed, pumping her fist in the air, snapping her fingers loudly.
'Even Binns couldn't ruin this,' Sirius had agreed, smirking, as she and Jamie high-fived.
Remus had a very disturbing vision of ghostly old Professor Binns floating through the blackboard, and teaching their legacy to a bunch of impressionable young wizards and witches. Not for the first time, she wondered if this was such a good idea.
It was because of this, that the five of them were scattered all over the castle at midnight, when they all should have been in bed.
The inspiration behind this prank was Professor Paisley's recent lesson on Boggarts. Despite the fact that it was often a topic covered in later years, Paisley had thought it was a good subject to cover, especially as it was so close to Hallowe'en. Remus stifled a chuckle, thinking that if Professor Paisley could see them now, she might have to rethink that.
A few corridors down, Sirius was also thinking. She'd seen plenty of Boggarts before. In a massive, magical house such as that of her family's, it was nearly impossible to avoid seeing a Boggart at least once.
Her parents had always dealt with the Boggart swiftly, getting rid of it before Sirius and Regula could get too worked up, over their petty little fears such as ghouls or spiders. Now, Sirius wasn't so sure what her greatest fears would be. Even though she was vastly inexperienced with dealing with Boggarts, counting Paisley's lesson in as well, she was sort of glad to be on her own.
She jumped as the visor on a suit of armour clattered shut to her left.
'Shut it!' she growled, aiming her wand light at its head. The suit of armour saluted to her amicably.
Sirius lowered her wand, and continued on.
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Jamie approached the rattling cabinet in the trophy room with trepidation. She wasn't sure of what she'd find. Perhaps it would be as stupid or simple, like a big spider or a clown. Or maybe it would be something unknown, but far more terrible.
Jamie didn't know. She'd never really faced anything too horrible in her life, living a sheltered, protected life with Euphemia and Fleamont Potter. She'd most definitely never faced anything that could be classified as 'her worst fear'.
She almost wished she hadn't split off from Frankie and Petra. The original idea had been to all separate and cover as much ground as possible. They would need a lot of Boggarts for what they had in mind. But Petra hadn't wanted to be wandering around the castle alone at night before Hallowe'en, and Frankie hadn't really minded, so the two of them had left Jamie and gone off together.
