Authors note: I do not own any characters created by J.K. Rowling. Full credit goes to her for all situations and information mentioned in any of the 7 books or interviews, etc. as well. However, the storyline of this fanfic is all me and the little voice in my head – and thus, of course, not to be copied by anybody else – that would be stealing my creativity, my ideas – and not very nice

*23/12/1976 - Sirius Black*

Oh.

Hell.

Yes.

It was that time of the year again, Festive Friday, Swinging Saturday, Seasonal Sunday, and that could mean only one thing:

it was time for

THE

Most awesome
Unbelievable
Proving our talent
Showing our inspiration
Honoring the Yuletide Season
Incredibly amazing

Prank War

Of all seasons.

You see, every year since I had started spending almost every holiday at James' place, we, the Marauders, would get together and get into this HUGE prank war - really, it was just: all things allowed, all persons allowed, all jokes allowed.

Mr. and Mrs. Potter were smart enough to make sure that they always just 'had to meet someone', 'had a dinner to attend', in short: leave the house long enough to make sure that they wouldn't have to eat their christmas dinner with blue hair or a snakes tongue.
Those 2 actually did happen: in our second year their plans were cancelled and they weren't able to leave the house until after we'd set all of our booby traps.
Unfortunately, we weren't aware that they were still present in the house, which resulted in some very interesting retaliation by Mr. Potter.
Although I must admit that it was James' mum that really shocked me: I never realized until then, that it was her that James got his talent for Transfiguration from...
Anyway, after that, they just decided not to leave the house at all anymore, because really, who wanted to be seen sporting blue hair, a pair of wings that wouldn't look too bad on a hippogriff, or a snakes tongue?
I may say it myself, but especially that last one was quite genius, a joined master plan of James and I...

Now, this year we had to adapt our plans slightly because Wormtail's parents decided they wanted to go on a "nice family holiday" to Spain (Spain of all places, even there it was freezing right now! If you're gonna go abroad, at least go somewhere nice, like the Bahamas or something like that!), so we planned the prank war before Christmas instead of between Christmas and New Year's Eve (gave us a nice opportunity to use our presents for the first time), but still -
It was going to be fantastic.

I was lucky to have met James on the train, really, because, well, let's be honest - who else would I have had to come up with all those awesome pranks?
Admitted: Remus occasionally had some good ideas, and even Wormtail could surprise me from time to time with his unsuspected sneakiness, but the real brains, that was James and me.

Which, naturally, also meant that he was the one I would have to watch out for the most - and would have to get back at the hardest...
So what could I possibly do?
Well, green was a christmas colour, and I just happened to be wondering what Prongs would look like in all green.
Or I could just turn him into Snivellus any time he coughed or sneezed.
Oh, or I could make him sing the whole soundtrack of The Loveboat to his dad - his mum loved that movie for some reason, and I was fairly sure that James already knew all the lyrics by heart...
And, oh, yes, this really was a good one, I could make everything shiny attracted to him - literally that is: anytime he walks into a room, all that's shiny, sparkly or glitters comes zooming right at him...

I'd have to find a way to exclude the christmas tree of that though.

Mrs. Potter would lynch me if I touched that thing.

Mental note to self: stay FAR, FAR AWAY from the Potter christmas tree!

Tomorrow it's Christmas Eve! I really can't wait, I just love all things Christmas - the music, the cold, the snow, the decoration, ... The only thing I dislike: the constant repeating of the same (by that time already annoying) Christmas tune in the super market - is there anything you dislike about Christmas? Please let me know what you thought! Seasons Greetings!