Living up to your name:

James Sirius Potter was the eldest son of Harry and Ginny Potter and was named after two marauders who were big pranksters one of them was Harry's father and James's grandfather while the other was Harry's godfather.

So when Harry named his first child after the two fatherly figures in his life he thought it was great until James started living up to his name.

James was the biggest prankster in the Weasley and Potter family no one could escape him except for grandma Weasley because James had seen her wrath when his Uncle George had put a firework in the chicken coop at the burrow.

One of the family who was on the end of a prank more often then he would like though was James's uncle Ro n.

James was sitting in his bedroom thinking it was only two days until he went off to Hogwarts he was excited because he could try out his pranks on his teachers but sad because he would have to leave his family.

Albus walked into James's room at this point and saw his brother just laying back on his bed hurriedly Al checked for any trip wires 10 years living with James had taught Albus never to trust him and to always look carefully into a room before stepping into it.

James sighed then seeing the frightened look on Albus's face laughed and said.

"I don't even have to do anything to mess with your mind now!" still laughing he ignored the punch Al gave him.

Calming down James sat up and looking at Albus suddenly had a great idea turning to his brother he said.

"Al do you know that prank me and Fred did on Rose ages ago" Albus thought for a second and then remembered.

"Oh yeah the one where you put the bucket of joke paint on the door and when Rose opened it it splattered all over her and turned her green for a week" Albus laughed at the memory.

Rose and Hugo had come to stay while Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione went away for the week Fred had managed to nick some of the joke paint from his dad which once it stuck to something didn't come off for a week .

Rose and Hugo had arrived when Harry and Ginny went out quickly to fetch something and on arriving back they had found Rose pummelling James within an inch of his life.

For the rest of the week Rose didn't leave the house and Harry was relieved when she was no longer green when Ron and Hermione came back and never told Ron about it because he would just blame Harry.

James and Albus remembered the event of that week and how they couldn't stop laughing whenever they saw Rose.

"So" James said coming out of his thoughts.

"I thought we would do it again but this time on Uncle Ron" Albus looked at his brother eyes wide.

"Are you crazy Uncle Ron would kill you then Dad would bring you back to live and kill you again" James just smirked and said.

"They can't do anything to me because I'm going to do it the day before i go off to Hogwarts"

"That's brilliant" Albus said because he knew perfectly well that James would be home free as soon as he got on the train.

It was settled then the whole family was coming to the Potters house the day before Fred and James went off to Hogwarts and knowing that Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, Rose and Hugo were always late they would set it up before they came in the door.

It was the day of the party and everyone was in the living room of Ginny and Harry's house everyone except Ron, Hermione, Rose and Hugo.

James counting on his fingers how many people was there nodded to Albus and unbeknown to the adults slid over to the door and getting a can of joke paint out from under the sofa perched it percaurisly on top of the door.

Just in time because at that point they heard the front door open and close and steps coming down the corridor not realising that there was only one set of feet James and Albus scurried away from the door waiting in anticipating for Uncle Ron to walk in.

The door swung open and the person who had walked in had the whole tin of paint splashed all over then and dried quickly on to the person who was now bright pink.

James and Albus stared in shock as Grandma Weasley looked up and down at herself covered in pink paint.

Recovering Molly looked up at scanned the faces of everyone in the room when she got to James and Albus's she saw the guilty looks on their faces and striding over took them both by the upper arm and dragged them out the room.

The rest of the family watched this in shock no one moved or said anything Harry only moved when he felt a sharp tuck on his trouser legs and looked down to see Lily looking up at him and holding out her arms bending down he scooped her into his arms.

Ron walked in and seeing them all silent and standing absolutely still said at the top of his voice.

"What's up with you lot" and seeing no response from any of the adults Teddy piped up and said.

"Grandma Weasley's pink with fury" this statement got all the kids laughing and it was not long before the adults were as well.

The incident with the paint was not forgotten too easily unfortunately for James and Albus and found themselves grounded for two months and every Sunday more for Albus then James going to the burrow and doing any jobs that Molly dished out.

The paint disappeared after a week but at the tips of Molly's hair could still be seen slight tinges of pink which whenever James an Albus saw her made them curl up in a ball with guilt.