Chapter 4. Halloween Hilarity

Disclamer: I realized I havent done this yet but Harry Potter isnt mine :( But the plot and any OCs that might appear throughout the story are mine.

October was nearly over and classes were becoming more difficult for the first years. James was writing his Transfiguration essay on the Transfiguration of an apple into a pear they did the other day and their observations (i.e. taste, color, shape, etc). He found the assignment boring even though it was easy, and he couldn't even ask Remus because he had had to leave. Something about his Grandma being sick. James didn't remember his grandparents very much as Charlus and Dorea Potter, his grandparents, died early in his life, (James's parents had had him later in life so it was expected). At least Remus would be back tomorrow.

James couldn't wait until Halloween and not just for the feast, which was supposed to be amazing. The prank they had thought up was going to be great and it was already being put into action. James couldn't wait until tomorrow.

He was interrupted from his thoughts by a loud, beautiful laugh. He saw that it came from the girl with flaming red hair and emerald green eyes, the one that hated him because she was friends with that git Snape, laughing along with the other girls she was talking with. Lily Evans. That was her name. He sighed wishing that he could be friends with her, especially since she hated him for something he didn't really do.

Summoning all his courage he put his quill down and walked over to the table the girls were sitting at.

"Hey ladies." he said casually as he pulled up a chair. All of the girls giggled. Except for Lily. She glared at him and it took all of his courage not to quail in fear under her glare.

"What do you want Potter." she spat out looking at him in disgust.

"I wanted to talk to you. Er... in private if that's okay." he said glancing at the other girls sitting next to Lily.

"Fine." she sighed. She got up and led him towards the bookshelves. She sat in an open chair and he stood against the wall.

"I wanted to talk to you." he repeated.

"That much is obvious." she replied scathingly. James ignored the comment.

"I wanted to say that I don't think you really know what happened a couple weeks ago. When you watched me hex Snape."

"Really? I was under the impression I watched you hex my friend. Oh yeah, that's probably because I watched you hex my friend."

James was tired of her angry remarks. "Well maybe if you had looked around then you would have seen three other Slytherins with him. Not to mention a kid from your House on the floor in pain. You wanna know why? Because your dear 'friend' and his cronies were beating him up because of his blood status. My friends and I only stepped in because we saw someone in our House, someone we share a dorm with, being beaten up, his wand taken away and his hands held behind his back while he was punched in the gut, cornered by four people. So yes, I hexed your friend, I hexed him because him and his friends were beating someone up for no reason and not even giving him the slightest chance of fighting back. Me and my trustful friends were hexing them so that Peter didn't have to go to the Hospital Wing. So maybe you should check the facts instead of being blinded and biased." James finished his rant and turned away from a shocked Lily Evans.

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One..."

The Great Hall exploded, pumpkin guts from the hundreds of jack-o-lanterns flying in all directions and covering all of the students and teachers. Fireworks exploded everywhere, multi-colored sparks and all sorts of magnificent designs flew around the Hall. A bunch of the sparks began to come together spelling out 'Happy Halloween Hogwarts!'. The Hall cheered.

Soon the fireworks were done and the teachers had gotten rid of the pumpkin guts. The whole school was buzzing as to who pulled off such a spectacular prank and not one of them expected it to be a group of innocent looking First Years.

They were walking down the corridor towards the Gryffindor Common Room when they heard Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore talking.

"Yes, it was quite the trick. Must've taken more than one person but even if we found out I don't think that they would need to be punished; it was all in good fun."

"I quite agree Albus, though do you have any idea who it was?" Professor McGonagall replied.

"I have a few ideas but whoever they are, they are very creative and very clever."

Their conversation continues after that but the group stopped listening after that, feeling quite pleased with themselves.

"We are good at this." James said to his friends as they walked through the portrait hole and towards their dormitory.

"Ha! I told you!" Sirius yelled happily. James pushed him. Sirius pushed back. This "fight" resulted in a small pillow fight which soon erupted into a full fledged, four way, pillow war which lasted for the next hour and resulted in a trashed dorm.

James sat on his bed breathing heavily looking at his three friends. Their books and clothes were strewn on the floor covered in feathers from their pillows.

"You fight honorably my friends." James said dramatically.

"You're not so bad yourself." Sirius said in the same voice.

"Don't kid yourselves the victory was clearly mine!" Remus said smirking in the same dramatic voice as the others.

"Are you kidding me Rem, you were like a piece of paper! I could have poked you and it would knock you over!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Nonsense, my strength and skills are far superior to yours!" Remus smirked not believing a word of what he was saying, he was just riling Sirius up. James caught on too and snuck past Remus and got right behind Sirius. He grabbed a pillow off the floor and then whacked Sirius with it, hard. He fell off his bed with an 'oof!'. They all laughed at this and Sirius pulled out his wand. He conjured at least a hundred more pillows and set them flying at his friends.

James and Remus levitated the pillows flying at them out of the way. Peter on the other hand, wasn't so lucky and was buried in pillows.

The war recommenced, more violent than before. One of the best parts was when their other dorm mate, Frank Longbottom, unexpectedly stumbled upon a war zone and had to fight his way back to the safety of the Common Room. Pillows broke windows, knocked over books, other things on shelves, and James's glasses. By the time they were done it was well past midnight and they all collapsed onto their beds exhausted.

As they all fell asleep, one by one, they were all happy, the seal of their friendship stronger, and not one of them expected how far their newfound friendship would go, how close they would all become, or how tragically it would end on the very same day, 10 years later.

A/N: Another chapter done! I dont remember when the last time i updated was but just in case Happy New Year! I hope you liked it, please review!