The First Prank

One-Shot #2

A/N: Yeah, this is no longer a single one-shot, I decided to make it a collection. I just wanted to get into more depth on The Golden Marauders and Ella's past. This one-shots takes place the day after last chapters, but most chapters won't be this way. Don't forget to check out my main story, How to Live Life, for much more!

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING PEOPLE!

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"James! You Bastard!" Fred yelled as he hit James with a pillow.

"Go away," James demanded, mad at being wakened up so brutally.

"No, I'm mad at you!" Fred fumed, still smacking James with a pillow.

"Mad at me? What did I do? I should be mad at you, you're hitting me with a pillow!" James snapped, evidently getting frustrated.

"What in Merlins name is going on?" Louis asked before he yawned, looking upon his two friends in confusion.

"We didn't do our prank at the feast last night because James was being a broken love-sick puppy!" Fred bellowed, hitting James harder with the pillow.

Louis' eyes widened in realization before he too, grabbed a pillow and started to smack James with it. "Guys, Come on! Please stop it!" James begged.

"No! This is all your fault!" Louis shouted.

"We can still do the prank!" James stated.

"It won't work, it had to be at the feast!" Fred yelled.

"What in Merlins name is going on in here? You lot woke up all of Gryffindor tower," Teddy exclaimed as he entered their dormitory.

All three boys paused what they were doing and stared at Teddy sheepishly, Teddy sighed, "What did James do?"

"I didn't! I didn't do anything!" James stated.

Fred scoffed, "Yes you did, we didn't do our prank because of you!"

Teddy sighed, "Guys, just make a compromise, but keep it down this time, will you?"

All three boys nodded before Teddy left the room, leaving them to make their compromise.

James sighed, "I'm sorry guys, but to be fair, you two forgot too. I was totally up to doing it last night, I just forgot because of… you know what…."

Fred and Louis looked at each other, "I guess you're right."

James smiled, "I have an idea though. Let's save that prank for the Halloween Feast. In the meantime, we can come up with an even better prank!"

Fred smiled, "Sounds like a plan!"

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"This year is going to be so lit!" Louis exclaimed.

James laughed, "lit?"

Louis nodded, "Muggle slang."

Fred laughed, "Please don't say that ever again, I beg you."

"Why not?" Louis pouted.

"Just don't, okay?" James laughed.

"Alright, Alright…"

"On another note, doesn't dear old Minnie just love us!" Fred exclaimed.

James laughed, "Did you see her face when we walked into the Great Hall yesterday?"

Both Louis and Fred nodded, all three still laughing until James caught sight of a certain redhead, his eyes lighting up as he rushed over to her.

Fred sighed, "This is going to be a mess."

He looked down at Louis to see that it didn't look like he heard a thing Fred just said, he was looking into his mirror fixing his hair, "Louis! Stop it!"

Louis looked up at his friend innocently, "What?"

Fred sighed, "Stop looking into that bloody mirror all the time."

Louis scoffed, "I just care about my appearance."

Fred laughed, and was about to respond, but a bang brought them back. They both looked over to see James on the floor, staring at Ella as she walked off.

Louis and Fred rushed over to him, "Mate, what happened?"

James looked at them confusingly, "You didn't see?"

Fred sighed as he helped his friend up, "No, Louis was too busy looking into that mirror of his, and I was too busy making him stop."

James laughed, "That sounds about right."

"So what did we miss?"

James frowned, "Well…"

- Flashback -

James skipped over to Ella with a huge smile on his face, "Hey! Smith!"

Ella turned her head to see who was calling her, but a frown quickly appeared on her face seeing whom it was, "What do you want, Potter?"

"Hey! Who said I wanted anything?" James grinned.

"Why else would you approach me?"

"Maybe I just wanted to see you?" James said as he brushed his hand through his hair, a habit he picked up from his father.

Ella scoffed, "You can do that from afar."

James sighed, "So maybe I do want something."

"And what would that be, may I ask?" Ella said, hands on her hips.

James grinned, "I wanted to ask you out on date!"

Ella removed her hands from her waist and pushed James over, "Sod off, Potter."

- End of Flashback -

"Oh James," Louis sighed.

"Let's just forget about it, okay. We have a prank to plan!"

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"Are you sure this is going to work?" Louis asked skeptically.

"We don't really have any better options seeing we hardly know any spells and only have a few WWW products," James laughed as he put his textbooks away for the day.

"I know, I wasn't saying it was bad. I was just wondering if we could pull it off."

"Come on, Louis, we're the Golden Marauders! Of course we can!" Fred exclaimed.

"Yeah, and we better get to bed early so we can set it up early in the morning," James said as he slipped into bed.

Louis laughed, "Come on, James, can't live on an hour of sleep any more?"

James sighed, "I could, but I wouldn't be very productive."

"Since when do you care about that?" Fred asked.

Louis laughed as he realized why, "Because, Freddie, our Jamsie doesn't want his dear Ella to hate him more!"

James blushed as Fred laughed, "James, you're pathetic!"

James hid under the covers, "Shut up!"

"Whatever, James," Louis said as he too, slid into his own bed.

"You guys going to bed early too?" James asked in surprise.

"Yeah, it's no fun unless we're all sleep deprived," Fred explained.

"Wait, I have an idea," James said brightly as he got up and made his way to his desk and started to write.

"What are you on about?" Louis asked as he and Fred walked over to their friend.

"I'm going to get Al and Lily to send us some more WWW stuff, we just don't have enough of the good stuff with us," James said as he finished his letter and gave it to his owl.

Fred smiled, "Brilliant."

"We'll probably have to wake up earlier now, though," James sighed.

"Well let's get to bed so you don't get on dear Ella's bad side," Louis laughed.

"Sod off," James blushed as he punched Louis playfully in the side, then climbed into bed.

James laughed, "Good night mates!"

"Good night!"

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James groaned as he looked at his clock, it read 4:30.

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"You get it James!" Louis groaned from his bed.

"Okay, fine, but you have to get up soon anyway," James said as he got up to answer to the owl at his window.

He was glad to see there was a box attached to it, he knew he could count on Al and Lily. He picked up the note…

James,

Wait… So you didn't do the big prank at the Welcome Back feast you were going on and on about? Why not?

Anyway, here are some stuff Lily and I found. It's all we could find on short notice at 9:30 at night.

We wish you the best with your first prank at Hogwarts, I'm sure it'll be great!

Al

James smiled as he read the letter, he missed his brother, though he'd never admit it to anyone. He knew he'd have to make up an excuse as to why they didn't do the prank the other night, he didn't want anyone outside of Hogwarts to know about Ella.

He then opened up the box to find many helpful pranks from his Uncles' shop.

"Fred! Louis! Get up you dolts!"

Both groaned, but got up and made their way over anyway.

James smiled, "We have a lot of planning to do, and we need to hurry."

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"Ouch!" Fred exclaimed quietly.

"Sorry," James apologized quickly, seeing he just stepped on Fred's toe.

"One day soon, we're not all going to be able to fit under this anymore," Louis laughed.

"Keep it down, Louis!" James and Fred hissed quietly.

The Golden Marauders were currently under James' invisibility cloak on their way to the Great Hall to set up their grand prank at 6:30 in the morning. It took quite some time for them to finish all their planning.

"I can't believe you got your dad to make another Weasley Wildfire Whiz-bang for us, they stopped making those years ago," Louis said once they entered the Great Hall and started to unpack their stuff.

Fred laughed, "I know! I didn't even have to ask, he just gave them to me and told me to put them into good use."

James smiled, "I don't know why they ever went out of stock, they were best sellers!"

Fred frowned, "We can blame Minnie for that, she made him stop, they were causing too much chaos at Hogwarts, apparently."

"Well, they're about to again. Of course it won't be as epic as what happened in Uncle George's seventh year when he and Uncle Fred first used them, but it still will be awesome!" James exclaimed.

"Keep it down, James," Louis hushed him.

"Sorry, sorry. I'll put the U-No-Poo in the drinks while you two finish setting the whiz-bang up," James said as he made his way over to the tables.

"Okay, that should do it with these. What's next?" Louis asked.

"I'll put the nose biting teacups out and get rid of the regular ones. Can you put the Creepy Crawlies around the tables and some Edible Dark Marks in food?" Fred asked.

"Yeah."

"James, when you're done, can you put the Rubby O' Chickens out. They're always a good laugh," Fred laughed.

"I'm on it."

After putting those products and many other out, the Golden Marauders rushed out, seeing breakfast started in only 15 minutes.

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"Is it hot in here, or is just me?" Louis asked as he loosened his shirt collar.

Fred rolled his eyes, "Of course we all are, we've been under this cloak for thirty minutes now."

"Do you think it's time to activate them all?" James asked.

"Yeah, it's pretty crowed in here now. I'd say almost half of Hogwarts is here. People are starting to vomit anyway, so we better start the other stuff," Louis said.

George and Ron taught them an activation spell before they went to Hogwarts, so they could set their stuff up before hand and have it go off later. It only worked on all the non-edible stuff.

"Let's do it!"

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"Is that rubber chicken dancing?"Victoire asked her friend Chloe, Ella's sister.

"Yeah, but why is it here?" Chloe asked as she took a sip of her tea.

"Ouch!"

"Chloe! What's wrong!" Victoire exclaimed.

"My tea cup just bit me!" She yelled.

Realization just dawned upon Victoire, "Shit."

"What? What's wrong?" Chloe asked worryingly.

"I think we're about to experience the Golden Marauders first prank," Victoire said, wide eyed.

Chloe groaned, having heard stories of them from Victoire before, "Come on, Vic, let's get out of here while we can."

"I think we're a little too late," Victoire said as she pointed to the corner of the Great Hall.

Chloe turned her head to see James, Louis, and Fred tip toeing out of the hall, only to stop by the entrance so they could peek in.

"How long do you think we have until an explosion?" Chloe asked fearfully.

Victoire shrugged, "I'd say about five seconds."

And four seconds later a big bang went off and chaos started to take place in the hall. Fireworks were going off, rubber chickens were dancing, spiders/rats were roaming, people were vomiting, noses were bleeding, teacups were biting, and Victoire felt… well… she felt constipated.

She immediately knew she must have consumed a U-No-Poo, growing up with the Golden Marauders, you get this a lot. The plus is that she had a reverse that she made her Uncle Ron give her many years ago, so she took it.

"Come on, Chloe, let's get out of here, these are like never ending fireworks. Look, McGonagall is trying to stop them, but she can't ev.. oh my Merlin…" Victoire trailed off.

"What?" Chloe asked anxiously.

"Somehow those tossers got ahold of some Weasley Wildfire Whiz-bang," Victoire said simply.

"What's that?"

"A WWW product made a long time ago, but was discontinued because McGonagall begged my Uncle to get rid of them," Victoire said.

"Then how do they have them?"

Victoire sighed, "I'm guessing my Uncle George wanted Hogwarts to see them yet again."

Chloe laughed, "Look at McGonagall, you can tell by the look on her face she knows what these are and is not happy about it."

Victoire smiled, "Come on, let's get out of here."

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"This is amazing!" James laughed.

"Totally!" Fred added.

Both expected Louis to chime in, but he didn't, "Louis, what do you think?"

Yet there still wasn't an answer. Then both looked down to see Louis staring into his mirror yet again.

James slapped his forehead while Fred grabbed the mirror, "Louis!"

Louis looked up at them innocently, "What?"

"We just did our best prank ever, and instead of watching it go down like James and I, you're looking into that damn mirror again," Fred exclaimed.

"Well like I've told you two may times, I care about my appearance," Louis said simply.

"Mate, you're one-eighth Veela, trust me, you don't need to worry about that. If anything, I do, look at my hair," James exclaimed.

Louis laughed, "It suits you, James. Wild and crazy."

James shrugged, "I guess, but come on, let's watch this prank!"

Fred sniggered, "Look at Minnie's face, she clearly remembers this, and she isn't to ha-"

"She sees us!" Louis interrupted.

"No she's doesn't," James sighed.

Louis shook his head, "No, I just made eye contact with her and she's marching right over to us!"

James and Fred looked up only to see McGonagall feet away from them, "Run!"

"Not so fast, boys," McGonagall told them.

All three boys paused in their tracks, James gave her a sweet smile, "Hey Minnie, isn't this a wonderful show?"

McGonagall rolled her eyes, "No, it isn't. You three will put those darn things out immediately!"

Louis pouted, "But Minnie…"

"How many times do I have to tell you three not to call me that!"

Fred winked, "You know you love it!"

McGonagall scoffed, "I most certainly do not! And as for your punishment, twenty points from Gryffindor for each of you, and detention for a week!"

"Oh come on Minnie…"James tried.

"No, Potter, this decision is final. And I expect you to help Filch clean this up," McGonagall told them.

"When?" They all asked.

"Right now," McGonagall said before walking off out of the Great Hall.

"Well this sucks," Louis stated.

Fred sighed, "Is was fun while it lasted."

"Come on guys! Don't let the detention get you down! That prank was legendary! Our best yet!" James exclaimed.

Louis and Fred smiled, "You're right."

"Aren't I always?" James said cockily.

Fred shook his head, "No."

James shoved him playfully, "Sod off."

Fred laughed, "Come on you two, we better get to Filch before he gets his knickers in a twist."

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A/N: So what did you guys think? Tell me in a review, I appreciate feedback, it really helps! Thanks for reading, I'll try to post another to this collection soon!

~~~Lanie~~~