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Chapter 9- Welcome back

Three weeks later and the Marauders were back to their old habits, with one exception. Since they had sorted out their argument they hadn't pulled a single prank on anyone, not even the Slytherins; not even Snape.

'I'm bored, I need entertainment' Sirius whined. James rolled his eyes and yawned.

'You can't seriously have finished your homework already?' Remus asked suspiciously.

'Well… yea-no,' Sirius replied sheepishly; Remus gave him a look that made him shrink down in his chair.

'Ok, ok I'll do the essay just stop with the glares!'

James tried not to laugh as Sirius, muttering darkly, took out his homework and, still muttering, started to finish his essay. Five minutes later the girls walked in talking and laughing. At this Sirius almost threw his quill into his bag, the quill was shortly followed by his ¾ finished essay, he leant back in his chair and yawned widely.

'I give up, I really cannot be bothered and I'm far too tired. And don't even think about glaring at me' Sirius said to Remus; Remus sighed.

'I was actually going to agree with you' he said, he grinned at Sirius expression and put his homework in his bag.

'We haven't pulled a prank in over three weeks; we must be ill' James stated, following his friends' example.

'We've got to pull one soon or I will seriously crack.'

'Sirius, you've already cracked mate,' Remus said with a grin. James and Peter laughed.

'I've got a great idea!' Sirius said.

'What?' Remus asked warily.

'You know Peeves said he'd help us? Well why don't we pull a massive prank and get him involved as well?' Sirius asked.

'Let's get to the Room of Requirement' James suggested in a low voice as he saw Lily turn her emerald green eyes onto them, suspicion in their depths. The others agreed and they went upstairs to put their bags away. Remus was about to go downstairs when Peter stopped him.

'You don't know about our new… how shall I put it… accessory,' he said.

'What?'

James took out a long silvery cloak from his trunk and put it under his jumper.

'My dad sent me an invisibility cloak over, said he didn't want to give it to me at Christmas when mum would've seen' he replied with a grin. They walked down the stairs and out of the portrait hole; once outside James put the cloak around his shoulders.

'Am I covered?' his voice said from nothingness.

'Yep, now budge I wanna come under' Sirius said, soon the two boys were thin air.

'Come on Pete' James said, Peter stuck his arm out and a hand grabbed it and soon Peter, too, had disappeared.

'Come on Remus' Sirius said, his hand appearing out of nowhere. Remus sighed and grabbed Sirius' hand and was dragged under the cloak too.

'Do you think we're covered?' Peter asked.

'I think so, the cloak almost touches the floor so we should be fine,' James replied and the four boys set off at a slow pace towards the Room of Requirement. They reached it without any interruption; Sirius ducked out and walked back and forth in front of the wall; a door appeared and the four boys quickly dived into the room. It was fashioned like the Gryffindor common room and they each took a seat around a large table.

'So, who are we gonna prank?' Remus asked.

'Professor Richardson' Sirius said, almost instantly after Remus' question.

'All the professors' James said after Sirius.

'All of them?' Peter asked faintly.

'Is that wise?' Remus asked.

'Oh come on, we need to prove we're the best pranksters Hogwarts has ever seen and what better way than to prank the professors' Sirius said, 'Besides we need revenge for that lesson on werewolves.'

'Revenge?' Remus asked.

'You think we're gonna let that slide?' James asked seriously. Remus smiled thankfully.

'You know what?' Peter said, 'Since we've come through all these arguments and stuff I think we should make a Marauders vow.'

'What?' Sirius asked.

'Like a vow of friendship or something' Peter said quietly, he suddenly thought the others would think it was a stupid idea.

'Peter you are a genius!' James said; Peter blushed.

'Let's write it now before we plan the prank' Remus suggested, the others agreed and they set about making their promise or vow.

'Ok we'll all take the vow now; before our newest prank planning,' Sirius said, 'I'll go first.'

'I, Sirius Black, hereby make my vow as Marauder. I vow to stay true to my friends, to help them when they need my help, to be there for them in times of trouble. I swear that your fight is my fight, your troubles are mine. When you are lonely, call me, when you are sad, tell me; when you are happy, share with me, and when you are angry or hurt I'm here. So I swear as a Marauder.'

James brushed away an imaginary tear and the other three repeated the vow (but changing the name obviously). When Peter had finished a contemplative silence followed.

'Come on let's plan the prank and see if we can get it into operation by Thursday' James said.

Two days later and Thursday came, the Marauders sat down to breakfast as usual and the girls came in five minutes later and sat down with them.

'What brings you four to breakfast so early?' Diana asked.

'Ask us no questions and we'll tell you no lies' Sirius replied. James snorted and went back to his breakfast.

'How can you eat so much?' Rose asked.

'Haven't you learnt not to ask that yet?' Kasia said laughing; Rose smiled and the two girls went back to their breakfast as Sirius and James showed their ability to eat everything in sight.

'Seriously though why are you up so early?' Kasia asked them.

'Wait and see' Remus whispered to her.

'Now I'm worried…' she said. Sirius and James snorted and sprayed Diana and Lily with breakfast.

'Oopth..throrylilyIthidntmeantho' Sirius said.

'What?' Rose asked.

'"Oops… sorry Lily I didn't mean to"' Kas and Remus repeated simultaneously.

'Ah… I see Peeves kept his end of the deal' Sirius said as the poltergeist came into the Great Hall. People were looking at each other with raised eyebrows; Peeves had never come into breakfast before.

'Peeves?' Dumbledore asked as the poltergeist came up to the teachers' table.

'Begging your pardon Professorhead sir but may I ask you to give me a mirror sir?' Peeves asked in an innocent face. The Marauders tried not to laugh as Dumbledore obliged and conjured a mirror for Peeves. The poltergeist thanked him and flew to the doors; at that moment Sirius, James, Remus, and Peter aimed the same spell at a little timer above the table and the prank was put in motion. The hall burst into laughter as the teachers all underwent a makeover. Peeves grinned and flew back with the mirror and held it in front of each of the teachers. Richardson was dressed in a wolf skin with a wolf's head instead of a hat; Professor McGonagall's hair was bright pink and her robes had turned into a ballet dress, the Astronomy teacher now had an elephant's trunk, Professor Flitwick was now wearing a clown costume complete with makeup; Slughorn was dressed in a hippo costume, the Herbology teacher now had plants growing all over her robes and had a flowerpot instead of a hat; many other teachers had many other varieties of costumes and different coloured hair. Professor Richardson's hair kept flashing different colours and his wolf head kept howling; Dumbledore had a hat with a stuffed vulture on top, green hair and beard and was wearing bright pink dress robes with a lot of lace. Dumbledore was the only teacher who chuckled at the make-overs including his own; he stood up and the hall fell silent as people tried to hide grins and not to laugh.

'May I congratulate the students responsible for this prank, I must say it is the most inventive and daring ones we have ever seen. No punishment will be given to those responsible' the other Professors looked outraged at this, 'but I will ask you not to pull this prank again. In light of this I will also give you all the day off from lessons as your Professors will probably want to return to… err… normal before they teach you next. Enjoy this day off and I will offer my congratulations again to those responsible.'

His eyes rested for a few seconds on the Marauders and the hall cheered and started banging the tables. James saw that everyone was grinning, even the Slytherins, and even Lily Evans and the other girls. Kasia leant over to them as the hall applauded.

'Welcome back guys' she said with a grin and the students dispersed for their day off.

A/N: Hello, sorry I took a long time to update and sorry it's a short chapter. Well I had to have a big prank in there and what better time to have it than after they make up again? Dedications of this chapter go to Reth (for continuously badgering me to update and write, I hope your happy now) and to Katie (because you're my other fellow writer and good friend that keeps emailing me!) also to the Rum Runners. Now for personal thank you's for reviews:

Reth: Thanks for reviewing yet again. There will be no biting of teachers or attempted murdering of teachers in this story at the moment (I say that because there could very well be some later on in the story I don't know). I did say what month it was in the previous chapter and this is coming up to the end of the year and the next chapter will probably be end of this year going on into next year. I hope your happy that I've now updated and you can have something to read even if it is short.

Well that's all the replying to reviews I can do because no one is reviewing (glares at readers). I'm now giving cookies to all my readers and chocolate cookies to all those who have reviewed. I give you all gold stars! Anyway I shall try and update again soon.

Ciao for now,

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