The Marauders Era

Are you serious?

"I can't believe you guys would even think that." Remus gave his friends a look between betrayal and, honestly, pure amusement. "Why would I chose chocolate over helping the old lady from being attacked by Peter?"

Sirius gave their friend his signature are you serious look. Anyone who's ever met Remus would know of his infatuations with chocolate. "So, you didn't choose chocolate over her, then?" That shut Remus up almost instantly. A grin spread across Sirius's lips as he crossed his arms, raised a single eyebrow, and sent the other boy a knowing look.

"I never said that."

A glimpse of guilt struck the boy's face, and his eyes moved down to his food, staring hard at that one chicken piece. James sent the two boys a knowing smile, knowing that Remus didn't feel guilty at all. It was a known joke in their group that if any of them ever were to go to Azkaban, it would be Remus probably for trying to kill anyone denying or taking his chocolate. Without his permission, of course.

"You guys should have been there. If anyone scared the old lady, it wasn't me. Sure I ran towards her, but he was grilling her about all the different sorts of chocolate they had. Honestly, it was kind of scary." The rest of the boys laughed as they heard the true story of what happened. Looking up from his plate, he gave Peter a look and slightly shook his head, thinking that his friend would have his back.

"Well.. thank you for sharing that, Peter." His three grinning friends looked at him and laughed once more. The group snapped out of their little bobble as the doors to the great hall opened, and they could see all the new first years walk in. As they walked their way down the hall, Sirius couldn't help but lean into Remus.

"Were we that small when we started?"

Remus turned his head, so he was facing his whispering friend. And a small grin along with a slightly mischievous look covered his face as he leaned slightly closer and whispered back."If I remembered correctly, you were smaller." Sirius took a sharp breath, and he looked as if someone had insulted his entire life. Pulling away from his friend, he put his hand on his heart and gave a disbelieving look.

"Take that back."

A smile grew on James's lips as he witnessed the banter between his two friends. Though he wasn't going to say it, he agreed with Remus. The former Black heir had been the shortest until he had hit his growing stage the summer before third year. James remembered it well, considering how much he used to tease his friend in second year as he was the taller. However, by the start of third year, Sirius thought it was an excellent choice to return James's favor and keep teasing him for months.After getting sick of the teasing, James decided to get back at his friend by getting Remus to teach him a shrinking spell. One day, while they were sitting in the great hall eating dinner, Sirius was as usually teasing James and talking about how tall he would be when he grew up, ignorant of the fact that James had whipped his wand out and muttered the spell underneath his breath.

Without realizing it, Sirius started to shrink at the same time as he continued to brag about his growth spurt. Peter tried hard to keep a straight face but failed miserably, ending up laughing so hard that he almost fell off his seat. That stopped Sirius, who looked at his friend, trying to figure out the cause of his laughter.

"What? Did something happen? Did Malfoy fall or something ?"

That only caused Peter to laugh harder, and at this point, even Remus had started to laugh a little, though he was a little more discreet than his friend. James just sat there, looking at his curly-haired friend, wearing a rather satisfied look on his face.

"What did you say again, pads? How much did you grow?"

The confident look returned to the boy's face as he started yet another one of his rambles. That only made the two other boys laugh louder, Sirius who had now noticed that Remus was also laughing, looked at his friends with a look of confusion.