A/N: A Quickie, and probably a silly one at that. R&R anyways, please. Disclaimer: It's all JK Rowling's.
"Wake up!" Sirius yelled, throwing boxers at James, Remus, and Peter. James caught a pair deftly, Remus picked them up from the floor, but poor Peter couldn't see where his went.
"On the head, Wormtail!" James told him, pulling his pair on along with robes.
"Oh, why are we getting up so early today?" Peter moaned.
"You can't very well pull pranks when people are looking, can you?" Remus replied logically. He ran a wet comb through his hair, tossing it at James who quickly gave up in favor of ruffling it again and putting his glasses on.
"You got the quills, right?" Sirius checked with Peter.
"What quills?"
The other three sighed.
"It's just as well. I was thinking it might be even funnier if instead of using any old quills, we use quills people have been looking for all day." To demonstrate, James reached into a sleeping Gryffindor's bag and pulled out a handful of quills.
"But then only Gryffindors will be in on the joke!" Peter cried. James's grin fell.
"Not so," Sirius stated, a light bulb flashing over his head, "We'll take them from the birds in Transfiguration!"
Laughing, the Marauders set about putting their plan into play. Remus silently performed "Alohomora!" on the Transfiguration door while Peter kept watch. James and Sirius rushed in, and started plucking the large, white, parrots, which started squawking annoyingly.
"Idiots!" Remus, shaking his head, silenced the birds with a charm, and, with a wave of his wand lifted the feathers from the birds' skin and dropped them in the bucket.
"What would we do without you?" Sirius said in awe.
"A lot more detention, I'm afraid." Remus chuckled. Then they rushed out, and the rest of the plan went perfectly.
"I hope this works!" Peter yawned as they dropped back into their bunks.
"So much doubt, it's sad." James replied, but no one was awake to laugh.
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Whoever had Transfiguration first must have had a talkative student among them, because the marauders started hearing rumors in second class.
"The birds! They're naked!" was heard throughout the school, "This prank is the best!" For an unexpected bonus was that there wasn't much to do in Transfiguration while the Professor attempted to charm the feathers back.
"They haven't seen the half of it, either." Sirius muttered.
"I wonder if they'd believe that part was last minute?" James asked.
Remus simply put a finger to his mouth, partly to 'shhh' them, and partly to hide his grin.
Peter was unusually silent today; some people could not be trusted to accidentally give things away ("Like that time when he told Harriet, who told Doug, who told Jake…" explained James when he placed the silencing charm).
They were the first to dinner, eager to see if their plan had gone into play. The dish that was being served that day was chicken. They waited a moment as the food arrived at the table and people started bursting into laughter. Indeed, the cooked bird mysteriously had large, white, feathers sprouting from it…