James potter was sitting on the edge of his four-poster bed in the boy's gryffindor dormitory. James, remus and peter sat across from him.

"Why are we here, prongs?" asked sirius leaning back against the headboard and kicking his legs out in front of him, nearly pushing remus and peter off the edge of the mattress.

"Anyone care for a prank?" asked james almost rhetorically. The marauders were always up for a good prank. It's what made them, them.

"Weren't we already pulling that one with stephen and the love potion?" asked remus

"Well yeah." answered james "but this is better. A prank on lucius malfoy and old snivellus snape."

"I thought you weren't going to pull pranks on severus anymore?" remus looked confused

"Didn't you promise lily?" asked sirius

"I know, i know. and look guys, this isn't just another prank because i don't like him. This is- it's-" it made james furious to even think about. Old snivellus and luci were lucky all they were getting was a nasty prank, because James would sure like to see how they responded under the crucatious curse, The bloody gits. Oh and the prank would be nasty, for sure. The nastiest.

"They-" james tried to start again, but just ended up stopping in frustration again and pulling on his hair.

"Oi," said sirius "don't do that, mate. When you've got such luscious locks you've got to take care of them. Now, what's got you all riled up?" james took a deep before finally saying "they- snape and malfoy, i mean- they… they were using the cruciatus curse… on lily."

This certainly earned reactions from the other marauders. Sirius sat up from his comfy position, remus was actually speechless for a moment, and peter issued a loud gasp.

"Why haven't you told anyone?" asked sirius

"Well, i sorta promised lily i'd let her handle it… but she hasn't done anything yet and i'm tired of waiting."

"When was this?" remus finally asks.

"It was the hogsmeade weekend."

Remus said calmly "when you stayed behind to 'study?'" while sirius nearly yelled "almost three whole weeks ago?"

Peter simply squeaked.

What happened was, even though they were friends and all, james hadn't talked to her in a couple days and had really started to miss lily.

Which was sort of odd, because she was still there at school, they still said hello to each other in the halls and stuff, but james wanted to talk to her again. Really have a conversation. So when he heard that lily wasn't going into hogsmeade that weekend he canceled his trip too. It was a great change to be alone with her. He had told remus he was studying when confronted, of course. He was pretty sure they all knew he still carried quite a torch for lily, even though he had stopped the incessant flirting, but he hadn't flat out told them he really liked her.

"Why didn't you tell us before?" asked sirius after a few moments "she's our friend too, you know." this was true. Lily had started hanging out with the other marauders quite a bit. even sometimes when james wasn't there.

"Oh I don't know." James said. "It just didn't seem… I don't know, right I guess."

They were all silent for a few moments before Sirius spoke up and said "so what kind of prank were you thinking of?"

Lily sat in the library, writing an essay for her defense against the dark arts class.

She dipped her quill in the ink, but stopped with it only halfway to the paper. She was still trying to think of a just retaliation against those slytherins. Mainly lucius. It had been him who had cast the curse, after all. Not that snape did anything to stop him. Lily's grip tightened around her quill in anger and the red ink stained her fingers.

It had been almost three weeks, and you can be sure that lily wasn't even close to forgetting. She was trying to hurry up and think of something before james just decided to take matters into his own hands, but nothing lily could come up with was quite horrible enough. Nothing legal, anyway. And revenge on lucius malfoy was not worth getting expelled for.

Lily shook her head and re-dipped her quill. Thinking about revenge wouldn't get her good marks on her report.

The plan was fool-proof, and quite brilliant if james did say so himself. It had taken the better part of the week to finally decide on the right prank and master it, but the wait was well worth it. Or at least it better be.

The marauders had learned to cast an enchantment spell that made all heavy things really light and all light things really heavy, but only to lucius.

For once james was glad he and lucius had nearly the same exact class schedule.

Right now he and the other marauders were headed down to breakfast. They had cast large letters in the air, right over the ravenclaw table that said "MALFOY SUCKS!". now they would know exactly where he was in order to cast the prank spell on him.

They had agreed that peter and sirius would head to one side of the table, while james went to the other and remus went over to the slytherin table, just in case malfoy hadn't taken the bait, although james didn't think that was very likely.

James was seriously hoping that he would get to be the one to cast the spell. After all, most of this was his plan, though he had to give certain credit to remus as well for actually inventing the spell.

James scoured the heads of the slytherin students, looking for that greasy blond hair. He looked and looked, but didn't see lucius anywhere.

after about five minutes of looking James felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see remus.

"I found him," said remus "the spell has been cast." and he smirked. James smiled back, but he was disappointed he wasn't the one to cast the spell. The two of them weaved back through the crowds to the gryffindor table. Sirius and peter were already there.

Peter was twiddling nervously and sirius was just stuffing his mouth with buttered toast.

James and remus took seats next to them, occasionally glancing at the slytherin table, but not enough to seem suspicious.

James caught lily's eye from where she was sitting with her friend Mary MacDonald. The two were looking over each others homework. James nodded towards where malfoy sat at the slytherin table and lily turned her head to look.

Malfoy didn't try to pick anything up for a few moments, though, and lily turned back to james with a inquisitorial glance. James just pointed back at lucius, though. And it just so happened that as soon as lily looked back over towards him he tried to pick up a piece of toast.

James smiled in amusement when he could barely lift it to his mouth. He had to use both hands and even then could barely keep it up.

Peter was giggling nearly uncontrollably and lily looked back and james and offered a satisfied smile.

The marauders had designed the spell to wear off after around five hours, so at lunch later when it suddenly wore off, they could watch the same effect take place all over again.

James eventually forgot all about eating and just ended up watching poor luci struggle with everything. He couldn't seem to quite figure out the pattern to what would be monumentally heavy and what would not.

He was having so much fun watching, that he was the last marauder to leave the dining hall for class. He was nearly late, but it was worth it because just before he left lucius gave a little too much effort in picking up his book bag and ended up punching himself in the face, which in turn led to him falling backwards right on top of snivellus, who spilled his pumpkin juice all over himself and the fifth year girl next to him. so after sniv ruined her robes with his juice, the fifth year girl punched him in the face, leading him to just fall right back against malfoy, who had only just righted himself after falling the first time. It was quite a humorous chain of events to watch and james was still laughing when he walked into transfiguration class, right on time.