Chapter Twenty-Seven
Marauder's Code
Perfect by nature. Icons of self-indulgence.
Just what we all need,
More lies about a world that...
...never was and never will be.
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled
(Everybody's Fool - Evanescence)May 12th, 1973It did not take long for Mia to come up with a half-decent prank to pull on Regulus,
and Sirius was thrilled that it involved the rest of Slytherin House. Though she had been
fairly quiet about the details of said prank, she promised him it would be worth it, and that
all he had to do to help was borrow James's Invisibility Cloak.
When it came to pranking his younger brother with Mia, Sirius had only two
conditions: the first was that it was only the two of them that pulled the prank. Saying that
not only because he was not in the mood to explain to his mates why Mia had thrown
caution to the wind to sully her reputation as a humourless swot just to make him happy,
but because the four Marauders no longer fit under the cloak these days let alone squeezing
in a fifth person.
The second condition was that they set up the prank for the twelfth of May.
Mia never asked why at first, assuming it had something to do with scheduling their
misbehaviour around Quidditch practice. So, immediately after dinner on the twelfth of
May, she and Sirius slipped beneath the cloak and headed down the staircase, walking in
the direction of the dungeons.
She had never been this close to the Slytherin common room before but
remembered Harry's explanation and directions regarding how he and Ron had reached
the room on their quest to interrogate Malfoy about the heir of Slytherin during her original
second year. The memory of sitting in the hospital wing, Polyjuiced into a cat, made her
nose twitch in irritation. As they made their way deep beneath the castle, Mia was really
wishing she had the Marauder's Map with her.