Operation Grease Buster

Operation Grease Buster: Chapter 1

Where's Wormtail?

"Y'know Wormtail spends an awful lot of time in the library these days," said Remus thoughtfully as the Marauders ate breakfast.

"I know, he's got this book he won't let anyone go near as well, I dunno...maybe it's a diary. I'll bet 15 Sickles I can get the book before anyone else!" shouted Sirius, Lily looked up from her toast.

"Leave him alone, if he doesn't want to show it to anyone that's his business."

Sirius snorted at her comment.

"He's a Marauder! We show each other everything!"

"Everything?" asked Lily, she smirked at Sirius's horrified face.

" No, no, not everything! Most things," he corrected himself and returned to his breakfast. James and Remus grinning at Sirius's red face.

" Well, is someone going to ask him? Or are we just going to leave him?" asked James, Remus cleared his throat.

" Well, why don't we ask him, then if that doesn't work we can-"

"-sneak up on him and take that book!" shouted Sirius triumphantly. A few students and teachers were giving him odd expressions, probably due to him raising his voice every five seconds. " Sorry," he said sheepishly.

" Well, maybe not sneak up on him...James we could use your dad's cloak to hide and see what he's doing in the library. If you don't mind us using it," said Remus, James put down his copy of 'The Daily Prophet' and looked at Remus.

" Fine with me, you in Sirius?" he asked, Sirius was struggling to drink his pumpkin juice through his nose.

" Sirius! That's disgusting!" Lily screeched, the Marauders were all laughing hysterically.

" So, after school finishes on Tuesday we go to the library," James stated, they continued with their breakfasts. Lily was now refusing to look in Sirius's direction; she was scared what he might be doing.

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"So, have you been collecting the information?" asked Snape, Peter sat at a table in the library smiling.

"I have Severus, I have been noting all of their pranks and possible plans in this book. You can be prepared for this one." Peter pointed to a diagram and instructions on the Marauders latest prank. It had been named 'Operation Grease Buster'.

" Excellent, thanks Peter. I'll take this book then shall I?"

" No! I need to keep writing in it, you've got no idea how many pranks they come up with everyday. Here, I made a copy of their next prank," said Peter, he handed Severus a piece of parchment with 'Operation Grease Buster' on it.

" Thanks, you better get going now, or they'll be getting suspicious," said Snape, he swayed out of the room, his cloak being thrown behind him. A few seconds later Peter also left the library and headed for his lesson with the other Marauders.

He soon arrived at Transfiguration and he sat beside Remus.

" Where have you been?" asked Remus, Peter shrugged his shoulders.

" Just, out and about." Peter replied. Sirius turned around to look at him.

" Y'know Peter, if you've got a girlfriend we'll stop interrogating you all of the time. If you've got a boyfriend...well, er, I guess that's fine as well," said Sirius, Remus rolled his eyes.

" I don't have a boyfriend!" Peter screeched, McGonagall looked up from her desk, the other students also looked at Peter.

" Well Mr. Pettigrew, that's always er, interesting to hear," said McGonagall, Peter sat back down and opened his books, not looking Sirius in the eye. Sirius was very sure he saw Peter mouthing 'sod off' and he grinned and turned back around.

" Now, somebody tell me they succeeded with the essay I set," said McGonagall, Lily's hand threw itself into the air.

" I did it Professor!"

" Well done Miss Evans, anybody else?"

Remus's hand raised into the air, followed by James's, Peter's; in fact the whole class had their hands in the air apart from...

"Mr. Black?" said McGonagall coldly. Her voice went straight through Sirius, he was quite ashamed to admit it, but he was very scared of Professor McGonagall.

"Er, well, Professor. There is a very simple explanation to why I have no homework."

"And what is that explanation?" McGonagall continued.

"Well, I was walking back to my dormitory from the library after finishing the essay, which took me three hours!"

McGonagall waited for the outrageous excuse.

" Then! This huge, smacking, great big, whacking, enormous, giant, immense, massive, jumbo, monstrous, towering, vast thing attacked me!" screamed Sirius, some students looked genuinely interested and frightened. McGonagall looked unconvinced.

" And what was it Mr. Black?"

" Er...Professor Flitwick," he gave a nervous smile.

" And Professor Flitwick attacked you did he?" she asked, Sirius thought quickly.

" Well, no but he did tell me that my charms essay was late, he threatened me... with a knife!" shouted Sirius, some of the students looked horrified.

" A knife?" asked McGonagall, still sounding completely unconvinced.

" More like a detention slip, they can give you pretty bad paper cuts though!" shouted Sirius; the other students had now lost all interest. Some were muttering about 'time wasters' and 'attention seekers'.

" Well, Mr. Black. Five points from Gryffindor and I expect that essay in on Thursday," she said.

Sirius breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Remus with a pleading look. Remus nodded his head as if to say 'yes Sirius I'll help you with your essay'. The class continued without further delay. When the double lesson ended Peter scurried quickly out of the room and ran away somewhere.

" Where the hell's he going in such a hurry?" asked Sirius looking in the direction Peter had run off in.

"No idea, maybe the library?" said Remus, he was holding a pile of books that covered his face. Just at that moment a third year Slytherin ran straight past them. The anonymous person's cloak trailed behind them and Remus took a step forward.

BOOM! KERBAM! CRASH! (Ok so that may be a bit over the top but I think we can guess that Remus fell over.)

"Woah Moony you okay?" said James helping Remus to his feet. A pile of books scattered around. Sirius helped pick them up and they all looked at one another.

" I think we should put Operation Grease Buster into operation a day early. Any objections?" said Sirius; he sounded very official; the other two shook their heads.

" We do it on Monday, you got the supplies James?" asked Remus, James nodded.

" Yep, I'm all ready to go,"