The four of them walked out of the portrait hole quietly. Quickly, James flung the cloak around the four of them and they carefully descended towards to library. At the entrance, they saw their target walking out of the library, his long nose hidden behind the book he was reading. Sirius grinned, and motioned them to follow him. He went right next to Snape, went right next to his ear, and made a quiet evil laugh.

Severus dropped his book in horror. James quickly reached out from the Invisibility Cloak and seized it, hiding it with them. Snape then began to run away from whatever was stalking him when Sirius jabbed his foot out. Snape fell to the hard stone floor with a crash. He hurriedly sat back up, whipping around in every direction looking for the predator with his wand held up for defense. James handed the book to the frightened Peter who looked at it as if it was about to explode and shoved it to Remus, who rolled his eyes as he took it. James aimed his wand at the nervous Snivellus and muttered a spell that Remus had noticed him practicing earlier in the Great Hall or the common room on random people. Snape suddenly froze up and fell to the ground once more, just like all of the other victims of James' mischief.

Sirius and James smiled with an evil grin on their faces. Sirius raised his wand upwards and muttered a few words. Remus looked up to the direction his friend's wand was pointed at and saw a bucket come into view as it began to tilt over the side of the ledge it was sitting on. Then, a rushing stream of ice cold water flowed down from it and fell on the frozen Slytherin as he lay helplessly on the ground. Sirus and james grinned at each other then moved the four of them closer to their victim. Snape's eyes widened in terror as some invisible creature began to drag him into a storage closet. After a bit of more mischief, the four friends then took the cloak off of them and roughly slammed the door behind them and locked their victim in complete darkness, not caring if they knocked his head into a wall or crushed his frozen fingers. Then all four of them quickly ran back up to their common room preparing to act innocent if Professor McGonagall were to run up there demanding an explanation of Snape being locked in a closet with a dirty bucket on his head, drawings all over his face, and rude notes written all over his book.

They entered the common room and sat on the chairs in front of the fire. Remus threw the book onto the table and fell into one of the chairs next to his friends. They sat there happily reminisced the past events when they heard someone entering through the portrait hole, sounding extremely angry. James bolted upright and immediately stuffed his Invisibility Cloak under his cloak. Then the four of them began laughing and talking like nothing had happened.

Professor McGonagall marched in angrily, drawing the rest of the Gryffindors to look at her warily, hoping that they weren't the ones who were in trouble. Looking towards the fire, she spotted the four boys, who, everyone knew by now, were a hurricane of utter destruction. She fumed and stomped madly over to them.

"Hi, Professor," James said innocently. "How are you?"

Professor McGonagall looked at them with rage which answered his question fully.

"Well, that's good!" he exclaimed. "Now, what did you want?"

"What…did…you…do…?" she said, attempting to restrain herself from attacking the four first years.

"Um…" Sirius thought. "Sit here and be darling little angels?"

Everyone one around them snickered, knowing they were they complete opposite of angels.

"Outside," she fumed. "Now."

"Absolutely," Sirius smiled as he and James stood up proudly and began marching behind McGonagall. Remus and Peter looked at each other, worried. Remus sighed, and grabbed Peter's arm to force him outside as he followed his two friends.

Once outside, Professor McGonagall calmed herself down a little and began to talk sternly to them.

"Now, I know you know what you did was wrong, and that I have no hope in keeping you from doing anything like that again," she lectured. "And I also won't waste my breath giving you a speech on behavior because I know you won't listen. But I still have to give you punishment which will be detention on…the Saturday after the next."

The first two parts of her talk were normal for James and Sirius, but at the last part, they looked up curiously.

"Why can't it be next Saturday instead of the one after that?" James asked with Sirius wondering the same thing at his side.

Remus knew why she didn't put it on next Saturday. It would be the full moon at that time and he wouldn't be able to do the detention which would cause more suspicion with his friends. Hoping she would think of a good excuse he looked up at her who, coincidently, was staring back.

"Because…I'm busy then," she lied to the three boys. "Now, good night."

Professor McGonagall turned swiftly away and walked towards her office in a hurry.

They looked at where she was standing earlier with a dumbfounded look on their faces with only Remus looked at them, hoping that his friends wouldn't suspect anything. They probably didn't because they then turned to the portrait and waited for the Gryffindor's praises and applauses once they entered the room.