I do not own Harry Potter. If I did, Snape, Remus, Sirius, and Fred, would not have died. :(

Fifth Year

Sunlight shone through the windows of Gryffindor tower and into one of the dorm rooms where five fifteen-year olds were sleeping. Autumn Whitmore lay awake under her red and gold covers, however she kept her dark brown eyes closed, wanting to get a few more minutes of rest before being rudely "awakened" by her roommates.

A couple more pleasantly peaceful minutes passed before Autumn sensed someone approaching her canopy bed.

"Come any closer and you die." she said, keeping her eyes closed.

"Good morning to you too." a slightly amused male voice spoke from next to the bed.

Autumn turned over and opened her eyes to look up at the boy. He was tall and wiry with shoulder length curly black hair and silvery grey eyes.

"Sirius, I know you have a good memory. So why is it I have to remind you about our rule every couple of months?" she glared at him.

He smiled innocently, "What rule?"

Autumn continued to glare, "The rule about no boys within five feet of my bed when I'm asleep."

"But you weren't really asleep."

"But you thought I was."

"But-"

"Shut it, Black."

Autumn picked up her wand from the nightstand and pointed it at him, Sirius swallowed hard.

"I'll spare you this time, but next time you might not be so lucky." she put the wand back on the nightstand, "Now if you would kindly move so I can go get dressed..."

After Sirius practically leaped out of the way, Autumn flung back the covers so she could swing her purple pajama clad legs out of bed. She put on her fuzzy blue slippers and opened her trunk at the foot of the bed to get some clothes for the day. She glanced over at the bed next to hers and saw that Sirius was cowering on it.

The boy who occupied the bed where Sirius sat, was Remus Lupin, he was a tall lanky boy with longish straight brown hair and amber eyes, he also had scars visible on his face and neck.

"You're the only girl he's afraid of." said Remus, looking amused.

"Oi!" Sirius exclaimed, forgetting about being scared, "You'd be afraid of her too if she threatened you with that spell!"

"What spell?" Remus raised an eyebrow.

Autumn, who was already on her way to the bathroom, called over her shoulder.

"Let's just say it would be an embarrassing injury for Madame Pomfrey to fix."

Remus's face became red tinted.

"Oh..."

"See!" Sirius said.

Autumn laughed as she closed the bathroom door. She quickly put on a pair of blue jeans and a long-sleeve green top before brushing out her wavy shoulder-length golden brown hair. After gathering up her pajamas she went back out the door and deposited them into her trunk.

"I'm glad we didn't get stuck with a girl who takes forever in the bathroom." James Potter spoke up from his bed.

Autumn smirked, "What about Sirius?"

"Oi! I'm not a girl!" Sirius glared.

"No, but you do take a long time in the bathroom." Remus teased.

"I have to make sure my hair looks good."

"You're a guy." Autumn shook her head, "You shouldn't care."

"But the ladies do." Sirius flashed a smile and ran a hand through his hair.

Remus and Autumn exchanged eye rolls.

James chuckled quietly, choosing not to make a comment on his best friend's antics, instead he got out of bed and stretched his tall wiry frame.

"So why didn't anyone wake Peter up?" Autumn nodded at the snoring mound of blankets in the bed on the far end of the room.

James shrugged and ran a hand through his short unruly black hair.

"Sirius tried, but you know how Peter is sometimes."

"Well we need to try again, because I have an announcement for everyone!" Sirius was practically bouncing with excitement.

"You're going to start acting your age?" Autumn suggested.

He shot her a glare, "Har har. Thank you, Feathers."

"Anytime, Padfoot." she smirked, returning the favor.

"So are we gonna wake him up or not?" James impatiently shoved his round spectacles closer to his hazel eyes.

"We are!" Sirius jumped to his feet and grabbed Remus's hand, "Come on, Moony!"

All four teenagers ran over and jumped onto their roommate's bed.

Peter Pettigrew woke with a start and rubbed his watery blue eyes before peering at his friends.

"What's going on?"

"We're waking you up so you won't miss Padfoot's announcement." James explained.

"Oh." Peter reached up and ruffled his short blonde hair with a slightly chubby hand, "So what's the announcement?"

"Well, since you all seem to have forgotten..." Sirius gave each of them a mock disapproving look, "I wanted to remind you that it's time for the Annual Epic Marauders Prank."

Three pairs of eyes whipped to the calender hanging on the wall, to see that it was indeed April Fools Day.

"So do you already have a plan?" Peter asked brightly.

"Not yet, Wormtail, not yet. For if you'll remember, we usually come up with it together."

"Right..."

There was silence for a few minutes, which was rare for the Marauders, and then Autumn spoke up.

"Guys, I've got an idea." she grinned mischievously.

Everything was ready, and it was almost dinner time, which meant that everyone would be in the Great Hall to witness and become victim to the Annual Epic Marauders Prank. It had been decided that an aerial demonstration would be part of the prank. James, Autumn, and Sirius were to perform it, since Remus possessed poor broom flying skills and Peter none at all.

At dinner time, students filed into the Great Hall and took their seats at their respective house tables, while the teachers sat up front at the staff table. Then, as everyone was about to dig into their food, a whoop was heard and three people zoomed into the hall flying in formation on Cleansweep brooms. In the front was James, followed on his right by Sirius, and on his left by Autumn, they pulled out their wands and bombarded the tables below them with spells.

Autumn flew the length of the Slytherin table, blowing up dishes of food and splattering the sour looking students. Several of the Slytherin's pulled out their wands and tried retaliating, but being one of the star Quidditch players, Autumn easily dodged the various curses. One of the students that did not try to fight back was a tall and thin sallow skinned boy with longish black hair, he simply looked up at Autumn with ebony eyes and shook his head, a ghost of a smile on his face.

James meanwhile, was blasting the Ravenclaw's with jets of water, thoroughly soaking them. Some of the girls dived under the table squealing and trying to escape, while the boys fumbled to pull out their wands and deflect the spells.

And when Sirius started shooting firecrackers down the Hufflepuff table, most of them dived for cover, but a few of the braver ones tried sending the firecrackers back at their attacker. They failed of course, accidentally sending several of them up to explode above the staff table, and the others under the Ravenclaw table, driving out screaming girls.

The Gryffindor's watched all of this in amusement, thinking that they of course weren't going to be targets because the Marauders were in their house. They thought wrong. For suddenly, their pumpkin juice began to volcano out of the goblets, thanks to a smirking Peter. One of the Gryffindor girls, a pretty red head, just rolled her eyes. What would Potter and his friends come up with next?

And now the flyers descended to the ground and dismounted their brooms, watching in amusement as each of the teacher's hair changed to match their robes, courtesy of Remus. Dumbledore seemed quite amused with the whole thing, even his new blue hair, but Professor McGonagall was furious, not at all happy with green hair.

"Detention for all of you." she said coldly, standing up, "I cannot believe you would do such a thing!"

"But Minnie, it's April Fools, of course we had to do something." Sirius gave a lopsided grin.

McGonagall narrowed her eyes, "That's Professor to you, Mr. Black."

He was about to reply, but Remus elbowed him in the ribs.

"Don't push it, Padfoot." he muttered.

Sirius shut his mouth, and McGonagall spoke up again.

"I will see you all in my office after dinner." she said cooly and took her seat.

"Yes, Professor." Remus said quietly.

After depositing their brooms against the wall, the Marauders sat down at their table, ignoring the whispering of other students.

But suddenly the room became silent, Dumbledore had gotten to his feet and they all wanted to hear what he would say.

He started off by smiling at the Marauders, "I would like to congratulate you on your prank. That took a lot of planning."

McGonagall looked at him in shock, but he kept talking.

"I must however agree with Professor McGonagall, this kind of behavior will not be encouraged." he paused and there was a twinkle in his eyes, "But as long as they aren't harmful pranks, I won't discourage them either."

Having said this, he snapped his fingers and the mess was instantly cleared away, being replaced with fresh food and drink. Once Dumbledore sat back down, the students started chattering again and everyone dug into their food.

"Fifth Annual Epic Marauders Prank completed." Sirius said dramatically.

"And a darn good one, if I do say so myself." Autumn said.

"Don't forget I suggested flying in." James spoke up.

"Yeah, but I came up with most of it."

"Alright children, settle down." Remus smirked.

But Autumn got in the last word, so to speak, by very maturely sticking her tongue out at James, who just laughed.