I've decided to do another Sirius birthday thing! Cool huh? Anyway, this one is first year. James and Lily already hate each other because of events that occurred on the train ride. Soooo…. What will happen?
Disclaimer: All I own are the prank ideas! Cheerio!
Chapter 1: crazy early bird
"Wakie wakie, Jamsiepoo!" yelled an overly hyper twelve year old boy.
It was the morning of April the 15, said twelve year old's birthday. This boy went by the name of Sirius Black. Sirius bounced up and down on his best friend's bed, trying to wake him up at five in the morning, something James Potter was not in the least bit happy about.
"Geroff moron!" James mumbled from under the covers of his extremely comfortable four poster bed.
Remus Lupin, Sirius's other best friend, sat up sleepily while trying to comprehend what was going on.
"I don't think I've ever seen Sirius up so early, except that time he slept walked out the window. But he wasn't this loud then." Remus mumbled standing up and heading toward the bathroom.
"Yeah" came the muffled reply of James, still being attacked by Sirius, "He's normally not up till like twelve, even on bloody Christmas."
"Well, don't I have the best mates in the world!" Sirius said sarcastically, "First, they forget my bloody birthday. Then they talk about me like I'm not even here! Blimey! Why am I so cursed!"
"Spare us the drama, mate" Remus replied as James literally fell out of bed and landed with a thud on the floor.
"Is James alive?" Frank Longbottom asked as he wiped sleep out of his eyes and glanced at the mound of blankets that covered James.
"Ah, He's fine." Sirius waved his hand dismissively, "Morning ritual. But I know how to liven things up a bit!" Sirius found his wand and muttered a charm at the blanket mound. Then he said another that made the blankets move slightly revealing a mess of jet black hair covered with an ivy wreath.
"Hehe" Sirius whispered evilly.
"Now would be a great time for me to take that shower now." Remus said slipping into the bathroom and locking the door. Meanwhile, Peter Pettigrew, the last boy to mention, snored on loudly from the last four-poster in the room.
A grunt, first sign of life, came from James Potter as he lifted his hand slowly to the top of his bedside cabinet and began groping around for his round glasses. As he found them he stood up and stretched before stumbling across the messy room toward the mirror.
"Ahhhhh!" James yelled as he stared at his reflection, "Why in Merlin's name do I look like a bloody Greek?"
James did in fact look like a Greek king, complete with toga, strappy sandels and ivy wreath. He rounded on Sirius who was doubled up in fits of laughter.
"Change me back you bloody git!"
"Why Jamsie!" Sirius stated straightening up, "I happen to think you look perfectly dashing in that outfit!"
James glared at him as he slowly walked toward the prankster, bending down to grab a lethal looking metal object.
"Come on now Potter! You can't hit the birthday boy!" Sirius chukled uneasily as he eyed the metal thing warily, "It's not fair!"
"Have I ever been fair?" James whispered dangerously.
"Cool!" Frank muttered as he silently wished he had popcorn for the show, and perhaps a metal shield.
Girlish screams emitted from the first year Gryffindor boy's dormitory at Hogwarts that morning, waking everyone except of course peter Pettigrew. The Gryffindors were of course used to the loud footsteps that shook the walls as running and tackling was taking place behind the closed door.
Two hours later, the five first years entered the great hall and found seats at the Gryffindor table. James was now, thankfully, toga free and wearing his usual school robes.
Sirius, however, wasn't so lucky. He was unfortunately wearing Happy Birthday underwear over his robes making him look like a five year old's attempt to be a super hero.
Sirius ignored the giggles and began piling the food onto his plate. Suddenly, a girl with long blond hair and a bad case of acne tapped him on the shoulder. He slowly turned around and looked up at the girl.
"Um… Hi Sirius!" The girl said shyly, "I'm Susan. Happy Birthday!" She awkwardly shoved a letter into his arms and hurriedly joined her giggling friends at the Hufflepuff Table. (Sirius and James are not yet popular)
Sirius turned back around to face his sniggering friends. He carefully opened the card and his eyes widened slowly as he looked at what the letter contained.
"So?" said James impatiently as Sirius continued to stare at the letter with a horrified expression. James sighed impatiently and snatched the letter from his friend's hands. As he opened the letter a scene of two people getting married popped up, like in children's pop up books. James laughed loudly as he saw that Sirius's and Susan's heads were attached to the paper with what appeared to be glue.
"You know how bloody weird that is?" Sirius asked as he stuffed the letter back into his bag so no nosey eyes could ever see it. He planned in his mind to burn it later in a big bonfire.
"Awww!" James said in a mock baby voice, "The little baby has a little fan club!"
"Yeah Sirius," Remus said smiling mischievously, "Soon you'll have your own paparazzi and everything!"
"Sod off!" Sirius snapped as he ate his huge breakfast in mere minutes, "Food!"
"Oh come on mate, you know you would have died if it had been Marlene McKinnon." Peter teased.
Sirius looked down the table at the small group of first year Gryffindor girls. Among them was Marlene McKinnon who was the prettiest girl Sirius had ever seen. She had short brown hair and gray eyes that were always sparkling with mischief. She was funny and the best girl prankster Sirius had ever met. Unfortunately, her best friend happened to be Lily Evans.
Lily and James had been the worst of enemies ever since that first train ride.
Flashback:
Sirius stood on the platform of nine and three quarters on September 1. He was finally going to Hogwarts and leaving the "Ancient and Most Noble House of Black." Sirius looked around at all the people on the platform. A lot of the older kids were meeting with their friends they hadn't seen all summer while others, like him, were looking around shyly.
His gaze stopped on a rather skinny boy about his height who was wrestling his way out of a tight hug from a tall brunette lady Sirius assumed was the boy's mother. As the lady loosened her grip she leaned down and kissed the boy on the cheek. The boy made a disgusted face and tried to wipe the kiss off with his sleeve while saying something that made the lady laugh.
Sirius turned toward the entrance to the platform and saw a small redhead girl emerge from the wall. She looked around the platform timidly before trying to drag large trunk toward the train. She was soon met by a rather short girl with short brown hair who said something to the redhead before helping her with her trunk.
Sirius turned back to the skinny boy, who had very messy short black hair and round glasses, leave his smiling parents and start making his way toward the train. Sirius decided to go meet the boy, and began dragging his own trunk in that direction.
"Hey! My name is Sirius." He said once he reached the boy.
"Oh, hi! I'm James Potter." The boy said while dropping his trunk and holding out his hand. Sirius shook it and both boys made their way to an empty compartment chatting about Quidditch and other interesting things. They found a compartment near the back of the train and put their trunks in the racks.
"What house do you want to be in?" James asked as he sat down across from Sirius.
"Gryffindor! Definitely!" Sirius replied excitedly, "If I end up in Slytherin I'll commit suicide! My whole family's been in Slytherin. Pureblood freaks the lot of them. Blacks you know. They think I'm a disgrace and I think their insane, but hey, who cares?" Sirius looked at James to see his reaction to finding out he was a Black.
"Right on." James said encouragingly.
"Cool! So, how about you?"
"Gryffindor! Duh!" James said immediately, "Where else? I hate slimy Slytherins. I know some gits who dream of being in Slytherin. Bloody losers!"
"My little brother is one of those. Insane little git!" Sirius made a face of disgust, "I love to do pranks on him at home."
"Hey lets prank them at school! Then we can use cool spells and stuff!"
"Awesome!"
Just then their compartment door swung open and the two girls Sirius had seen on the platform stood came in.
"Do you mind if we share this compartment?" The brown haired girl asked, "Everywhere else is full."
"Uh sure" The boys said scooting over to give the girls room.
"Thanks! I'm Marlene McKinnon by the way." The brown haired girl said. She pointed at the redhead and explained, "And this is Lily Evans."
"I'm Sirius Black"
"James Potter"
"Cool" Marlene said.
The group talked about many different things, explaining most of them to Lily who was muggle born. After about an hour the food trolley came and a plump witch asked them if they wanted any sweets. James and Sirius jumped up at the mention of food and bought a little of everything. Marlene helped Lily pick out some good sweets.
"How about we do a little prank on the girls?" James whispered to Sirius who nodded excitedly.
James took out his wand and muttered a spell at each girl's pumpkin pastry right before they ate them. As Lily and Marlene swallowed the last bite a popping noise sounded. Sirius looked over at James who was smiling mischievously. Lily's hair was turning a bright green like her eyes and Marlene's was turning white. Then a large purple boil started to form on each girl's head. They looked at each other and screamed before looking at the boys in horror. Lily looked as if she were about to cry as they ran out of the compartment to find an older student to fix them.
When they were gone James and Sirius broke into fits of loud laughter not unnoticed by the girls. After a few games of exploding snap between the boys, leaving a burn mark beneath James's eye, the girls returned with anger in their eyes.
"That was really mean you stupid git!" Lily yelled at James who looked back at her dumbfounded.
"What did I do?" He asked.
"You cursed us moron!" Marlene yelled also joining the fight.
"We saw you whisper it! He didn't do anything." Lily yelled then pointed at Sirius.
"I didn't do anything, but whatever. You girls can think whatever you want." James sighed.
"aarrgh! You know I'm going to teach you a lesson! You won't ever think to mess with us again!" Lily said as she pointed her wand at James whose eyes widened in fear. She then said a complicated charm that Sirius had never heard of before. Sirius looked back at James and laughed as he saw James's ears grow 20 times as big as normal and turn a pretty shade of violet.
James gasped in shock before turning to glare at Lily. "I'll get you for that Evans!"
Lily just turned on her heel and said "I'd like to see you try Potter."
End Flashback:
That was a long memory Sirius thought as he saw James's hand waving in front of his face.
"Daydreaming about McKinnon?" James asked grinning, "You might have had a chance with her if she weren't friends with Evans. Evans won't allow it because you're friends with me. Idiot."
"Puh-lese" Sirius said giving James a knowing look, "We all know you're in love with Lily."
James sprayed the pumpkin juice he had just drank right back in Sirius's face.
"What! You've got to be kidding me! I'd never like that monster!" James said starring at his friends in disbelief, "The day I like her is the day they find out who this Voldemort guy is."
"Riiiight" Remus said standing up, "Come on, we have to go to Transfiguration."
A/N: Well that's done! Next chapter should be up soon. I already have it planned out in my mind. Might be two weeks though because I'm going on a rather long vacation! So while I'm gone take your little mousey thing and click that pretty little purple button that says review. If you do you will become a member of the all so exclusive cha cha slide club! LOL