"Hey, James, quiz me on this, will you?"
James Potter gave a sigh of exasperation as Remus leaned across the Gryffindor table, transfiguration book held aloft over the goblets of pumpkin juice and plates of kippers.
"Moony, the exams aren't for one and a half months…" James scolded through a mouth full of toast.
"-Which is why I'm studying now!" Remus interjected, thrusting the book in James' nose.
Sirius leaned over the table, grinning. "Moony, we're not all study-freaks like you. Some of us-" he gestured grandly to himself "-pass the exams on pure skill. Now, if you nerds want some interesting action, I'd suggest you cast your eyes over the far side of the hall, where our brilliant friends, the Slytherins, are peacefully enjoying their breakfast. For now."
Sirius had a slightly malicious glint in his eyes as he said this, which James had come to know meant that he was definitely up to no good.
"OK, Padfoot, what have you done this time? You haven't got a firecracker under their table again, have you? I thought you said you ran out…plus, that's old. It was hilarious the first time though…"
James stared of into the distance, a vague look on his face, as he recalled the Marauder's last hijinks on the Slytherins.
Remus, however, was not so amused. "Really, Padfoot? You're going to get expelled, you know." He lectured, looking over the top of the Daily Prophet, eyebrows raised unapprovingly.
Sirius groaned, and mockingly placed his hand over his ears. "Enough lectures! Just watch, you'll enjoy it. Counting down, T minus ten seconds…nine…"
James whipped his head around and examined the table on the far side of the Great Hall. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary; there was Snivellus and his slimy git friends, and the rest of the malicious, cunning Slytherins…
"Four…three…"
James suddenly noticed that Sirius had intentionally sat them in a spot where they had a clear view of Snape and his cronies. Suspicious…
"One…Blast off!"
Sirius was exuberant as an echoing BANG erupted from the far side of the hall. James heard Moony gasp, and his own eyes widened, as Snivellus stood up sharply, and then sat down again, his hands covering his face.
The rest of the students had noticed the commotion at the Slytherin table, and were watching curiously. Sirius was resting, arms over head, on the table, shaking with laughter.
James' grin slowly widened as Snivellus stood up again, clearly debating whether or not to run out of the hall. Mulciber and Avery, seated either side of him, reached up and removed his hands from his face, causing the entire hall to erupt with raucous laughter.
Snape's nose, already hooked and protruding, was growing at an alarming rate. It must have been twenty centimetres long and still growing.
James tore his eyes away from the spectacle, roaring with laughter, and jabbed Padfoot in the ribs.
"Sirius…what did you DO?" He choked out.
"Oh, nothing really… I might just have slightly hexed his pumpkin juice."
James snorted, and turned around again. Snivellus' nose was now the length of his arm, greasy and bulbous. He attempted to make an escape, but his nose put him off balance, and he teetered over. He rose again, mouthing curses, ears scarlet.
A bit further down the Gryffindor table, Lily Evans was watching the proceedings with disguised interest. James watched as her green eyes flicked from him and Sirius, to Snape, then back to him and Sirius again. Her lips were slightly curved in a supressed smile, and she raised her hand to her mouth to cover it.
Lily thought it was funny.
And that, mixed with the fact that Snivellus was stumbling out of the hall like a lopsided elephant, just about made James' day.
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