The time has come for a punishment to be drawn out. As painful as that sounds, the Marauders must stick together thru the rough times, the not so easy dilemmas that are thrown at them from the front, the sides and from behind. But this pain came from a simple fact that a prank was played by the Marauders but landed in the wrong hands…a prank gone badly.

The evidence was clear; McGonagall was at the wrong place at the wrong time, the hallway at Hogwarts. “She should have been in her classroom staring over the rims of her glasses and none of this would have ever happened,” a direct quote from Mr. Potter himself.

Now, the torture begins as the Marauders must take the painful guilt and do as McGonagall has instructed them to do – give dance lessons for those students who need them and request them. In just a couple of days, Hogwarts will find themselves in a new atmosphere full of music, dancing and promenade, the End of Year Celebration.

Our story begins with the Marauders walking into what was known to them as McGonagall’s classroom, transformed conveniently into a disco night club. Applaud by the massive appearance, the four Marauders must do as they are told and become dance instructors for the lovely students at Hogwarts, leaving McGonagall to attend to her broken ankle caused by the flying skateboard – only intended for the Slytherin House of course.

PS – Lily is liked by two people, James and Snape. James has done everything in his power to win the heart of the beautiful redhead and she finally accepted, but now feels terrible that Snape wanted to ask her as well. She is torn between the two and does not know who she likes more, James or Snape.

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Characters:
James – LadyNerd (Stacey)
Sirius – Blackened (Chris)
Remus – Mamushkaleontti (Rhea)
Peter – Loki (Marie)
Lily – argentinaz_angel (Niky)
Snape – i m a potter fool (Le)
Regulus – Darkangel77 (Evs)
Bellatrix – Eerised (Aria)
McGonagall – LadyNerd (Stacey)

Made Up Characters:
Fay – (Gryffindor – 3rd Year) - Mamushkaleontti (Rhea) - Sirius's #1 Fangirl!
Caleb – (Gryffindor – 1st Year) – Mamushkaleontti (Rhea)
Amy – (Gryffindor – 7th Year) - Granger1814 (Sabs) - Remus' girlfriend
Tess - (Gryffindor? - ) - Padie (Tess) - Chasing Shirtless Sirius but not slapping him!
Christina (Gryffindor - 3rd Year) - Loki (Marie)
Audria Erienne Ludovicus - (Slytherin) - XoxXTinaxox09 (Tina)

*stalks* May be be lucky Miss Lily?

Stacey: Added!

Okay people, I'm IIIN! I'll play Tess as usual and I'll edit this post soon enough with her bio if you want me to.

By the way *cough* Let's erase from our memories the sad time when I certain person slapped Sirius on the face, shall we? XP

Stacey: *snickers and runs*

*snickers* Thanks Staceh! And yes, she'll be a 7th year Gryffindor XP

Oooooh! YAY. Totally in. May I please have the Snapey Snape?

Suuuure you can =)

Stacey: OMG! LarryLe!! You may have Snapey Snape with no problems!!

*sneaks in* Can I have Peter pwease and I'll add a made up Christina (3rd year Gryffie). I will post a bios later but I promess I will

Stacey: Done and done!

Name: Christina Layden
Age: 13
House: Gryffindor
Height: 5'
Weight: 112
Eyes & hairs: Brown



History: Christina is from a muggle family who have troubles with the fact that she is different. She have a huge struggle since the day she receive her letter from Hogwarts and her parents continuously ask her to turn down this side of her that they are afraid but she knows that deep down she can't and that's why she still go at Hogwarts. She feel there more at home than in her real home. She doesn't have any siblings but she have tones of cats which make up for it. It's not totally the same but she loved them very much. One of her bad habit is to twitched her hair when she feel uncomfortable. She's a go get kind of girl and not hold on anything back. She even put herself in troubles for speaking too much.

The first time she met the marauders she first taught that they were cool but the more she learn to know them the more she thought that they were total bratt. She was probably one of the few girls that couldn't care less about Black.

Le gaspeth!!!! Marie you stole my Peter!!!!

Umm... I dunno if I should bring Ali back into this one, lol.... I might. xD

I have to. Alanna (Ali) Malee (Gry-7th) is joining the cast

ooc: EMILY!!! *tackles you and smoothers you with kisses* I'm sorry about that! Let me know if you want to use Ari or not and I will add her.

I'm looking for one more person to take over the role as Regulus or add another character to the growing family and then we can start.

I'm going to start this anyway because it has been too long for us to take up where we left off So without further a due, let's begin.

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James took in a deep breath and sighed. The fact that he was missing a day of watching the beautiful Lily Evans to partake in such a dreadful disaster was painfully wrong. He stared ahead as his glasses fogged up from the large sigh of depression. He quickly removed them and began to clean the lenses using his untidy shirt tail as a rag. He raised them up to the light, “still dirty,” he mumbled to himself as he breathed his raging hot breath for a cleaning solution. Carefully rubbing them down with his shirt once more, they reappeared to his eyes once more.

“I cannot detest how much I loath doing this,” he muttered again, hoping his friends were in close enough range to share his loss. “I mean, couldn’t she think of another appalling ritual to bring us into?” He took a short backwards glance and chuckled. “Maybe a few swats with the ruler might have been less painful, I assume.”

James stopped short for a moment, realizing someone was on his heals. "Worm," he spatted out of anger, "do you have to walk so dang close? I need my space and will you please pay attention to what is going on." He turned slightly so he was halfway facing Peter and began massaging his head. "I know somewhere in that head of yours lies a hallow brain. Use it!"

James turned on his heals again and staggered towards McGonagall's room as he heard Remus speak. "Yeah. Push her right out the door," he muttered under his breath and rolled his eyes in disgust.

"And why don't kids know how to dance?" James asked as he noticed a sign on the wall. "I mean they know magic but-" he inturpted his train of being a smart mouthed teenager to look towards the nasty little note that flashed in big bold letters. He paused once more, this time his arms folded across his chest.

"This is not funny." The look on his face was priceless as he reached up and tore the note from it's grasp of magical tape. He growled and said nothing else for a few moments.

Teresa sighed, shaking her head as she saw four of her friends walk down the hall, none of whom seemed to be particularly happy. Though she usually was easily amused by their silly and yet imaginative pranks, this one had been quite too much. One thing was to make the Slytherins get what they deserved, another was to hurt a professor; to hurt their own Head of House!

However, she couldn't sincerely say that she was disappointed with their behaviour. Not until she spoke to them and found out what was on their minds that is. She just couldn't truely believe they had done that on purpose even if that was what it looked like.

At the sound of Amy's voice, Tess turned her head to face her friend. 'Who can?' She inquired with a shrug. Patting her friend on the back, she attempted a smile. 'C'mon, I want to know what McGonagal decided to make them do'

Bellatrix smirked as she leaned against the wall of the corridor. Ickle Sirius and his best friends in trouble again? How predictable. It was pathetic really how they almost always got caught; of course, what could you expect from Gryffindors.

The four boys were reading the sign their Head of House had put up earlier. She wondered what their punishment was this time. Running a hand through her long, black hair, she pushed herself off the wall and sauntered up to the four boys.

"Well, well, well," she sang out, "look who we have here. Tsk, tsk, baby cousin; caught again, I see? Isn't that cute." She siddled up to Sirius and tilted her head to rest on Sirius' shoulder. "Tell me, ickle cousin, what terrible punishment have you been given, hmm?" She giggled. "Dear cousin, if you were smarter you wouldn't get caught so often...ah, but then again, it's to be expected: Gryffindors are always so reckless and stupid." She glanced at Peter as though this were proof enough of the stupidity of Gryffindors. Sneering at the pathetic boy, she flung an around round her cousins shoulder. "Of course, if you were to spend more time with your family and less time with---" her lip curled as she cast her eyes towards Potter "bloodtraitors and pathetic little pipsqueaks." She glared at Pettigrew, before her eyes fell on Remus Lupin. She smiled sweetly. "Of course, some of your friends aren't so bad," she simpered. "But really, dear cousin, come back to the family; I'm sure we could figure you for being a silly little Gryffindor-- after all, the Sorting Hat's the one that put you there."

She grinned sweetly, her dark eyes giddy with a sick kind of pleasure at her cousin's misfortune.

Amy's expression remained partly anxious and partly disbelieving as Tess patted her on the bak in a comforting manner. "I'd really love to give Remus a piece of my mind." She muttered, knowing that he would be remorseful for what he did, but at the moment, not caring about that little fact.

After all, how often does someone injure their own Head of House?

Tossing her hair back over her shoulder, Amy nodded once, somewhat grudgingly. "Alright then. We'll go see what sort of punishment they'll have to endure this time." Not like they don't deserve it, she added silently.

"Well, well, well," Sirius mimicked her way of talking, which was bordering on insane, in his opinion, "if it isn't bloody you." He made a face, showing exactly the amount of contentment he was feeling on her arrival. Why did Bellatrix always have to come and ruin his daydreams? Why did she always have to ruin everything, while at that? It was a shame such people were allowed to exist.

Her head on his shoulder made him even more disgusted. He wanted to know nothing, see nothing, and hear nothing of that person. Her very presence repulsed him - but to have to bear her touching even the smallest fraction of his body was beyond limit. "I'd be very much obliged if you'd find somewhere else to rest your serpent head," said Sirius quietly, removing her from his vicinity. "I have no interest in being contaminated."

"And if you were smarter, you wouldn't be here, on your own," Sirius shot back, gripping his wand tightly in his pocket. It took all the patience in the world not to take it out and inflict at least the minimal amount of pain that she deserved. But he knew it would not do; not even Sirius Black could, or would handle more than one punishment at a time. And Bellatrix wasn't worth even that.

"Insults are everything you ever had, Bellatrix. And I have never, and will never, sink to your level." He looked from James to Remus and Peter, reassuringly. He hoped they were mature enough not to pay heed to her venom; well, Peter aside, really. Then again he was never the one to be insulted by anyone's words; it takes a certain level of understanding for that to happen, and Peter had always lacked in that department, as well as others.

There was no point in replying to any of the following. Sirius had heard it time and time again, and to what avail? Same petty arguments, same worthless attacks upon his friends, same failure to understand that it was 'the family' that was both silly and little.

"Are you done?" He asked in tones of boredom. "If not, don't say I didn't warn you..." Sirius added as he took out his wand slowly, considerately, and began playing with it.

Teresa's smile vanished at the sound of Amy's words, letting her arm fall to her side. She should have known that Remus would be on her friend's mind in that particular moment since he too had been dragged to detention. 'You do know, of course, that no matter what you say he still won't be able to control either James or Sirius' She stated. After all, she believed that every single friend of theirs had at least attempted to place a bit of maturity inside those boys' head (Remus had been the most persistent, it seemed) but nothing had made them change so far.

As her friend agreed with her, the smile appeared on her face again. 'That's the spirit' She chuckled, ignoring Amy's mood. And so, without thinking for even a second, Tess started to walk down the corridor in the same direction as the four boys had just a few minutes previously.

Once she spotted the figures of the boys, she narrowed her eyes and stopped dead on her tracks. They weren't alone. Bellatrix was there too.