marauders: nO

james: hahaha guys i canT bELiEvE YoU GuYS wOuLD dArE mE tO Do ThIS bUt i WonT SaY nO

during the summer of 4th year they spend a few days at each of their respected homes (minus sirius, of course, who apologises constantly about it and is clearly incredibly upset that he can’t give them the same hospitality that they gave him - but everyone loves him and tells him not to blame himself)

at peter’s house mr pettigrew brings out an old, smelly and ancient board game of othello to which peter is massively mortified and groans and is like ‘not again, dad, they’re not going to be interested’

but james and sirius take one look at the game and think its FASCINATING and immediately ask mr pettigrew how to play it. peter and his dad explain the rules and they’re really amazed and interested at the game

they each have a game, starting with james and sirius (because they’re ADAMANT TO GO FIRST because they’re really excited lol bless them) but the game is rather long since the two boys keep forgetting the rules and peter and lily (who later admits she’s really good at the game) have to comment now and then about the rules - lily and peter (ofc) are the reigning champions, but james does pretty well and is very chuffed with how well he beats mary

when they go to lily’s she brings out scrabble and james and sirius are enthralled again 

but sirius is eliminated because he tries to use french words for everything

remus wins that game, but mary does bring out the big guns of ‘quizzify’ to which everyone is really impressed)

when they finally get to mary’s james and sirius have already heard so much about monopoly that they’re literally bouncing on their feet from excitement 

sirius immediately sees the dog and claims it, james ends up with the iron and is incredibly gloomy about it 

mary, remus, sirius and lily keep going to jail and dorcas buys all the train stations except for ONE which james buys at the very last chance. there are hotels and double houses on almost every single space and it’s like EVERYONE IS THE ENEMY 

they end up playing the game for almost four hours (by that time mary’s already ran out of money and sirius and peter quickly follow) dorcas becomes the champion because everyone keeps landing on her stations and they STILL talk about the game all the way back at hogwarts and all the pure bloods are like ?????//

it becomes a Thing they do each summer and then in sixth year peter runs into common room one day with this ecstatic, excited look on his face, carrying a package. it’s monopoly and even though it’s 10pm on a wednesday evening, the group decide to play it again

needless to say - they’re still playing it at 1am, the train stations are divided between mary, sirius, peter and remus, the hotels and houses are everywhere, there’s an insane amount of money in the middle and allies are made and broken 

Sirius at 11pm: hey lol don't you think sloths are like, super weird?

Sirius at 11.30pm: I SAID DON'T WAKE ME UP PRONGS GOD

Sirius at 12am: why is there read, red and read and tear and tear and see and sea but hose and José?

Sirius at 1am: I SAID I'M TRYING TO SLEEP MOONY WOW DOES NO ONE LISTEN?

‘how does a train eat?’