Pranking the Marauders: The Tale of Melissa Hunter

by TwoDramaNerdsInABoat

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. When James, Peter and Remus try to prank Sirius by locking him in a train car with a Slytherin girl, they don't know that they have just started the largest prank war in the history of Hogwarts. (And no, we're not counting anything Peeves has done.) It's all the Marauders against Melissa, the girl from the train, who Sirius may have a crush on.

3. Chapter 3

Chapter 3

In which Severus, Melissa and Lily hatch a plan

Lily POV

I was glaring aimlessly at the Black Lake when I saw Sev coming down from the castle. He looked like he was in a deep thought, or maybe hatching some plan. You see, when he does he has a certain look on his face, and if you get to know him you can eventually find out exactly what he's thinking.

"Hey." I called over to him.

"Hi." He replied a little startled. He doesn't like being awoken from his deep thoughts.

I sat next to him and look into the depths of the water. For a moment, I thought I see a merman, or a tentacle of the Giant Squid, but it turned out to be nothing. Just a trick of the light. "What were you doing talking to Melissa Hunter the other day?" I asked.

"Who?"

"Melissa. Light brown hair, freckles, green eyes, always kind of looks like she wants to kill you. That Melissa."

"Oh, her." Severus waved the thought away with his hand. "We were just talking."

"Severus Snape. You never talk to anyone. Anyone."

"I talk to you," He said.

I rolled my eyes in exasperation. "You only talk to me. And even now that can be rare nowadays. You're spending more and more time with-" Well, I didn't need to finish my sentence. Severus knew who I was talking about. The creepy boys that gathered and talked about purebloods as though they lorded everyone else because of intermarriage, who used words like mudblood. They'd gotten into many a fight over how much time Sev spent with them.

"If you have to know," Severus said finally, "I was planning to pull a prank on someone. She came up with the idea. We're hoping to execute it together."

"Who?"

"You know them. Pettigrew, Lupin, Black, and Potter. She seems to have been locked in a train car by them, and she has sworn to enact revenge."

Melissa POV

A Slytherin always gets their revenge. It's just what we do. Like how most Gryffindors are jerks (there are exceptions, like Lily) and Ravenclaws are procrastinators and Hufflepuffs really, really like cake, Slytherins have something we all share. When someone gets us, we get them back. Except when we get them, they feel our pain ten times over.

That may give you an idea of what I'm planning.

Severus POV

I briefly explained to Lily what we were planning. I tried to keep it short.

Enchanted flying pies, the Great Hall, mass humiliation. The whole lot.

Lily was a little concerned.

"Is it really nice, though?" She asked, "I mean, Sev, do we really want to go this far?"

"You've called James Potter an insufferable pile of blast-ended-skrewt scat ten times this week. I think you can answer that question for yourself."

Lily nodded, smiling. "You're right. Let's do this."