James fancies Lily and is sick of it. Lily misses Severus and is embarrassed by it. Sirius has fallen for his friend and is unaware of it. People outside of Hogwarts are disappearing till it's not just the outside world anymore.

It was well known enough that the Marauders had their shorthands—their branding if you will. When a friend group was famous/notorious enough to have perfect strangers collectively refer to their friend group by moniker, they began to form an idea of what they were like. James was the funny one who rocked at Quidditch. Remus was the smart one with a violent pet rabbit. Peter was