A/N: I've been thinking to force myself to update quicker, that I will update at least once a week. It could be any day of the week because there will be not set day. So for example: I might update on a Tuesday, the next week a Thursday or I might update on a Sunday and the next week a Monday (which is the day after). Or the one you're hoping I won't do, where I update on a Monday and the next week a Sunday. So hopefully this will last!

DISCLAIMER: Guess who doesn't own, Harry Potter or any of the characters that you recognise? ME. JK Rowling owns them wonderful characters.

-CONVERSATION OF THE CHAPTER-

ME: Well hello there.

MR PREWETT: Hello!

ME: So you're Grace's father?

MR PREWETT: Yes, as well as Molly's, Fabian's and Gideon's.

ME: Oh yes! How could I forget them! You're also going to become a granddaddy soon aren't you!

MR PREWETT: Granddaddy?

ME: Yeah, grandfather, granddad, granddaddy.

MR PREWETT: Oh…

ME: I hear you're also an Auror! That's so cool.

MR PREWTT: Yes- well thank you.

ME: No problem.

MR PREWETT: Well, I've got to go. We're going to Diagon Alley today.

ME: Oh- how exciting! Have fun.

MR PREWTT: Will do, bye!

*Mr Prewett disappears*

ME: No comment. ON WITH THE STORY!

A/N: Thanks to everyone that has favourite and followed so far, you're awesome! If you haven't so far please go and favourite/follow and REVIEW!

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'I can't wait to go back to Hogwarts this year.'

'Same. I've been thinking-'

'You? Sirius Black- thinking?' James gasped.

Sirius hit him over the head.

'Yes. I've been thinking we need a start of term prank.'

James perked up.

'Start of term prank?'

'That is what I just said, right?'

Sirius rolled his eyes and grabbed a sandwich Mrs Potter had left them for lunch. Mr and Mrs Potter were both a work.

'So this prank, what've you got in mind?' James asked, sipping some pumpkin juice.

'Well, what house is Regulus bound to be sorted into?'

'Gryffindor.' James joked.

Sirius hit him over the head again.

'Slytherin.' James corrected himself.

Sirius nodded in satisfaction.

'Yes, what is the symbol for Slytherin?' Sirius questioned.

'Snakes.' James said immediately.

'Exactly, we're going to throw snakes on him.'

'Isn't that a little harsh?' James wondered aloud.

Sirius fidgeted uncomfortably and gave James a look.

'Of course not. They'll be fake of course.'

James breathed a sigh of relief.

'Mate, you're starting to act like Remus.'

It was James's turn to hit Sirius over the head.

'Joking, joking.' Sirius muttered, swatting James's hand away.

'What if by off chance, Regulus is sorted into another house?'

Sirius gave James a doubtful look.

'We do it anyway.'

'C'mon boys! We're going Diagon Alley today!'

James groaned and heaved himself up.

Sirius -who was sleeping on a bed Mr Potter had made appear in thin air- also groaned from across the room.

'Letters must've come.' Sirius grumbled.

'Yeah.'

'Hurry up boys! Get dressed and then have breakfast, we haven't got all day!'

Both James and Sirius had both dressed and ate breakfast and both waited patiently by the fireplace to floo to Diagon Alley.

'Everyone ready?' Mrs Potter didn't wait for a reply. 'Let's go.'

'Diagon Alley!' Mr Potter went first, and then Mrs Potter until it was only James and Sirius left.

James removed his glasses and tucked them in his pockets, taking a handful of floo powder and throwing it in the fire.

'Diagon Alley!'

After the uncomfortable journey he had just been forced into, James stumbled out of the fireplace and put his glasses on.

The fireplace whooshed and Sirius landed next to him.

'Right, boys, here are your lists and some money. Buy yourself something to eat as well. We'll meet back here in 3 hours. Got it?' Mrs Potter said and handed their letters over.

'I can't take your money-'

'It's no trouble Sirius; we have too much money anyway.' Mr Potter assured him.

'I'll pay you back.' Sirius said firmly.

'No need,' Mr Potter clapped both of them on the backs and began walking away with Mrs Potter. 'Have fun, but remember- 3 hours!'

They walked into the crowd and out of sight.

'Where do you want to go first?' Sirius said as they began to walk down the street.

'Reckon we get school stuff first?' James asked.

'Might as well. Then we have time to do what we want afterwards.'

'To get certain things.' James added on.

'Yes.'

James swung the door to Florish&Blott's and they entered the old, dusty book store.

'Last thing to do.' James said happily as Madam Malkin measured them for their new school robes.

Both of them had had growth spurts over the summer.

The bell above the shop door rang, signalling that someone was entering the shop.

'I'll be with you in a minute!' Madam Malkin shouted over her shoulder as she adjusted Sirius's robes.

'Alright.'

That voice was familiar.

Very familiar.

'Gracie!' James and Sirius yelled as one of their best friends came into view.

She grinned and skipped over to them, her hair blowing behind her.

'Hey guys.'

As she got closer, James noticed him and Sirius weren't the only ones to grow over the summer.

'Hi.'

'Sir, you're done, Miss up on the stool now.' Madam Malkin ordere

James stepped down and Gracie hopped up.

'Nearly done shopping?' James asked taking a seat on one of the chairs placed in the room.

'Yeah. I'm just finishing up.'

'Are the twins here?' Sirius asked politely.

'Yeah,' Gracie shrugged. 'Dad's with them as well. Somehow he thought that those 2 were more likely to course more trouble than me.' Gracie said, sounding scandalised.

James and Sirius laughed.

'So, how's your summer been so far?' She asked.

'Really good. We played Quidditch a lot of the time, James here wants to try out for the team.' Sirius answered.

'See you at try outs mate.' Gracie grinned and high fived James.

'Right, you're both done.'

Sirius and Gracie hopped off the stools and the three of them paid her.

They left the store.

'Spoke to Remus and Peter?'

'Not in person no. a few letters though,' Gracie answered. 'Oh! Ice cream!'

Gracie ran forwards towards the bright and colourful shop that had 'Florean Fortescue' on it.

Sirius and James caught up with her and stared at the long list of different ice creams, toppings and sauces available.

Gracie stepped up to the counter.

'Chocolate and vanilla ice cream in a tub with marsh mellows, rainbow sprinkle and chocolate frog pieces please. Oh and a flake!'

Gracie bounced up and down in excited as she paid and waited for her ice cream to be scoped and made.

'I'll have mint chocolate chip in a cone with chocolate sauce, sprinkles, marsh mellows and a flake please.' Sirius order next.

'I'll have the banana sundae please.' James said.

'BORING!' Gracie and Sirius yelled, earning a few glares from people walking by and from James himself.

The worker behind the counter handed them their ice creams, glaring at them.

They ignored her and sat down at one of the tables outside.

'So how did you know we were coming here today?' Sirius asked, asking what James and he had secretly been thinking.

'What?' Gracie laid a hand over her heart in horror.

'Cut the crap Gracie.' Sirius didn't say it in a harsh way.

'Language!' Gracie scolded.

'You're sounding like Remus.' Sirius told her.

'WHAT?' Gracie yelled.

'He said that to me as well this morning.'

Gracie shook her head.

'So you two, any prank idea's?' She asked; scooping up some of her ice cream and eating it.

James and Sirius exchanged glances.

'There was one…' James trailed off.

'Continue.'

'Well, it isn't really a whole school prank. We're targeting my brother. So what will happen is this: Regulus will obviously go up and sit under the sorting hat and be placed in Slytherin. He'll sit down and the feast will carry on like normal. Nothing will happen. Now, everyone will still remember last year, or most people will, like the Dungbomb prank for instance and will be worried and waiting to see if anything will happen at the feast. Again, nothing will happen. So everyone will relax. But- everyone will leave the Great Hall after the feast and go into the entrance hall. Then- BANG! Lots of huge snakes are poured on little Regulus and he'll be so embarrassed.' Sirius explained.

'That's a really good idea, but what if Regulus is sorted into another house?'

'That's what I said!' James shouted, happy someone shared the same view as him.

'That won't happen.'

'It happened to you.' Gracie pointed out.

'It won't happen. But if it does, we do it anyway.' Sirius decided.

Gracie shrugged.

'Good with me. But if you do the prank won't it then be obvious that the prankers aren't in Slytherin house?'

'Yeah and everyone will automatically assumed that it's Gryffindor doing it because everyone knows that Gryffindor's and Slytherin's really hate each other and the Prewett's told everyone it wasn't them doing the pranks and the pranks started up last year so then everyone will suspect the Gryffindor's that were first years last year and then-'

Gracie cut James off by slapping a hand over his mouth.

'James mate, you're rambling.'

She removed her hand.

'Sorry.' He muttered weakly.

'We have to reveal are selves at some point, I think we should let everyone guess who it is, so really, we're helping them out by narrowing their options down.' Sirius said.

'That's true, but I just thought of another problem.' Gracie said sheepishly.

'What?' Sirius demanded.

'Won't it be obvious if we pour snakes on Regulus that whoever did it must have something against Regulus to do that? Perhaps, an older brother that's in another house and hates his family loads?'

'Yeah! Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall aren't stupid. They'll confront you and demand you to tell them if you did it or not, you'll try and resist but in the end you'll admit it and then they'll ask you if you had help and you'll say no but then in the end you'll admit that you did and say that we helped you and then we'll all get into lots of trouble and get expelled from Hogwarts. our parents will be so upset and angry at us for getting expelled, mainly for getting caught though and decided that we can never see each other again and send us all to different Wizard schools all over the world and stop us sending letters to each other and having contact with each other and everything and we'll never see each other again. Or even worse, they decide to tell the Ministry and they snap our wands and we'll have to live as Muggles for the rest of our lives without our wands and-'

Gracie once again slapped her hand over James's mouth to cut him off.

'James you're rambling again.' She told him sternly.

'Sorry.' He repeated after Gracie had removed her hand.

'No one likes Regulus though. It could've been anyone, I won't be suspected.' Sirius huffed.

'Sirius, that may be true and all, but most of Hogwarts wouldn't have met Regulus.' Gracie smirked.

'The prankers could've just picked some new Slytherin first year at random and Regulus happened to be that kid.'

'I like it.' Gracie nodded her head.

'I'm in.' James confirmed.

'Brilliant!' Sirius chirped. 'This can be our little get back from the other day remember?'

'Yeah!'

'Yes!'

'So you reckon we could get Remus and Peter involved?' Sirius questioned.

Gracie snorted.

'Peter will agree quickly, he agrees to anything you 2 do. Remus might be a little harder to convince though, you know him.'

'Yeah… we could always bribe him with chocolate!' Sirius suggested.

Gracie clapped.

'That's the best thing you've said- well suggested all day Sirius!' James cheered.

Sirius pretended to blush and be flattered.

'Oh really, it was nothing…'

'Hey! Does that 'that's the best thing you've said- suggested all day' include the prank Sirius suggested or not because I think that was a pretty awesome suggestion.' Gracie said.

'Okay, apart from that.' James grinned.

'Or we could say that I suggested 2 amazing things today or even better call me 'THE SUPER AWESOME SUGGESTER!'.' Sirius suggested.

'I'm okay with the '2 amazing things' part but not the 'call me THE SUPER AWESOME SUGGESTER!' part.' James admitted.

'Agreed.' Gracie said quickly.

Sirius frowned dejectively.

'I worked really hard on making up that nickname you know!' he whined.

'Yeah right you did.'

Sirius stuck his tongue out at them.

'Anyway, I'm guessing you want me to get you some snakes for the prank then?' Gracie asked.

'Yeah, but we don't want to keep them.' Sirius shuddered.

'I'll rent them then.' Gracie shrugged, but by the look on her face, James could tell she didn't want to keep the snakes either.

'Or we could let Regulus keep them.' Sirius suggested.

'Nah, then they will be really expensive.' Gracie put his idea down.

'Oh yeah…'

Gracie beamed.

'So I'll get them snakes for you then. Operation: S.O.R is under a go.'

'S.O.R?'

'Snakes on Regulus.'

'Oh.'