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Marauders in pre-school. James is stuffing crayons up his nose. Sirius, coming from a house where as soon as kids are old enough to talk, they’re taught to only speak when spoken to. He’s nonverbal, sitting politely at his table for the first hour until James comes stumbling over with a crayon outstretched in his grubby little hand and then the rest of the day James and Sirius are maniacally laughing and running after a screaming Peter trying to stuff crayons up his nose like the both of them.

Lily is invested in the arts and crafts project they’re working on, making sure everyone in her vicinity is doing it the right way. No, Severus, you’re supposed to color the dragons first before you cut the paper. Here, you’re not holding the scissors right, let me do it for you. And he let’s Lily take over his project because he’s beyond thrilled to have undivided attention and guidance.

Mary is brushing Marlene’s hair and putting all these red clips in it, shaped like hearts and cherries and even finds a red ribbon from the craft table and attempts (poorly) to tie a bow into Marlene’s hair, all because Marlene had said she liked Mary’s pretty hair clips and Mary was sooo excited because she brought extra clips, and look Marlene, don’t you want to try them in your hair too? Red is my favorite color. Is it yours? I think red would look pretty on your hair too and Marlene is being brave, she’s not crying even though she usually cries when her mom brushes her hair but Mary promised to be gentle and told her it wouldn’t hurt at all and sometimes when Mary’s mom brushes her hair she tells silly stories about wizards and castles and I remember all about the stories can I tell them to you, Marlene? And Marlene is so busy listening to the stories she forgets to be nervous about the hairbrush.

Remus is crying silently in the corner, wiping his nose on his sleeve because he’s never encountered kids his own age coming from a small town and smaller family. He’s overwhelmed and can’t stand the screaming and the laughing and the coughing and the constant noise. And when Sirius sees him he pauses his pursuit of Peter, tugs on James’ sleeve and whispers in James’ ear. Because Sirius has seen a boy like him crying all by himself before, because Sirius Knows that Regulus will always cheer up if Sirius goes over to him and really, how different can it be cheering this boy up. So Sirius and James go over to Remus and Sirius crouches down and asks Remus if can run fast and Remus tells him he can’t run fast at all but there’s a big field behind his house and sometimes if his mom is cheering him on than he can beat his da in a race. James says that’s the kind of person who can help them catch Peter but Sirius is still crouching by Remus so Remus whispers to Sirius that he thinks his da lets him win and Sirius says that sometimes he lets his brother win games too but that’s only because he’s younger. And since Remus is the same age as them he must be just as fast as them and well, Remus can’t argue with Sirius on that, that makes perfect sense. So Remus ends up helping James and Sirius run around after Peter, but no James, I don’t think the crayons smell good I don’t want them up my nose and maybe Peter doesn’t think they smell good either and then James and Sirius are running even faster because, oh, they didn’t think about that and maybe they should say sorry to Peter but he keeps running and how can we say sorry if we can’t catch up to him?

And they all keep running until Peter runs right into their teacher McGonagall and she just looks at the boys behind him and they immediately stop and oh, it’s going to be a long year, go on, boys, go take your seats, crayons belong on paper not in your nose, it’s alright Peter, see, they want to be your friend, why don’t you go sit and color with them?

And by the end of the first day Lily has appointed herself assistant teacher and Severus, isn’t it so fun I’m a teacher now? And the four boys are talking about being best friends forever and they’re devastated when they have to say goodbye at the end of the day but Remus tells his parents he can’t wait to go back tomorrow to play with his new friends and they’re a bit shocked at this beaming boy who was all sniffles this morning when they dropped him off but they don’t let their surprise show to Remus, because see, didn’t we tell you that you’d have a great time?

Marlene goes home that day with a red ribbon all tangled in her hair and when Marlene gets dropped off the next day, McGonagall is expecting an earful from Marlene’s mother only for Mrs. McKinnon to ask McGonagall if she can thank the girl named Mary and Mary’s mother as well, because for the first time in Marlene’s life she didn’t burst into tears as Mrs. McKinnon worked on her hair to get that ribbon out. Although she would like to ask Mary if she would mind forgetting about ribbons and just use the hair clips next time, here, I bought some more clips for the both of you!

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defying gravity but it’s the black sisters as andromeda is leaving

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patiently waiting for 25 years from now when some guy drops an absolute banger about turning 30

Jonathan Larson (born in 1960) wrote 30/90 about turning 30 in 1990

Bo Burnham (born in 1990) wrote 30 about turning 30 in 2020

There’s a 5yo somewhere out there (born in 2020) who’ll write a masterpiece about turning 30 in 2050

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marauders as that scene from glee

Regulus: You did this to me. You told James Potter about my new tattoo.

Sirius: You get a tattoo when you get a cute little design. You got the dark mark.

Regulus: Yup, sure did. *Hexes Sirius*

Sirius: You can’t hex me!

Regulus: Oh, sure I can, don’t see your werewolf around to protect you, slut.

*Regulus and Sirius dueling*

Pandora: Stop the Violence

Narcissa: *enters* Hey hey hey! What is this? What happened to us being a family?

Regulus: Oh please, he has a family, he’s a Potter.

Sirius: Walk away, and roll down your sleeves before you get to class!