The final Sunday morning of there first week saw them looking up the spell to turn the stairs into slides. They had meant to do it earlier but there hadn't seemed to be enough time. In between getting lost, annoying teachers and serving the many record breaking detentions they had earned, they had barely had a spare moment.

After a few minutes Remus found it, and they all immediately practiced it. Without specific wand movements it was hard, but they mastered it after a couple of hours.

'Good, we've got the spell, now how the hell do set restrictions,' James asked, 'we need to hurry up we have a detention at 5:00!'

'Its simple, see,' Remus said pointing at the book and sighing, 'Just say what you ant it to do immediately after the spell, but it has to be clear.'

They practised for a few minutes on the boys dormitory staircase, until they could ban practically everything. The good thing about Hogwarts statues was that they were so steep, no one could scale the slide with ease.

Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time to pull there master prank. They wanted a full day, and it was 4:00 already. They had also decided to pull it on a weekend, due to the fact that then the teachers wouldn't feel complied to change it back to quickly. But, with one hour to spare, James decided to address an issue that had been annoying him all week.

'I wish they'd give us maps of this place,' he sighed, 'I always get lost!'

'Its unplottable, they can't.' Peter explained, he too wanted a map, and had gone in search of one, which was why he knew this.

'The outside of the castle it, not the inside.' Remus said, again wondering if any of his friends were ever going to read Hogwarts: A History, 'they could give us maps but I don't think they can be bothered.'

'We should make one,' Emily added. Then as an afterthought she said 'I'm not writing. I can't draw. The castle would probably end up looking like a blob.'

'I can draw.' Peter volunteered. James through him a piece of parchment.

'We can do the Gryffindor tower first, and then go out at night to plot the rest.'

'Won't we get caught?' Sirius questioned, but his expression told them that he was relishing the challenge.

'Not if use my invisibility cloak.' James had revealed his cloak to them earlier in the week, but they hadn't had a reason to use it after hours before now.

'I don't think we'll all fit,' Emily said dubiously.

'We can just leave you outside,' Sirius teased.

'Yeah, you move like your invisible already.' James finished.

Remus smiled, but then thought of Professor McGonagall's expression when they had gotten lost on the way back to the dormitory, and knew that Emily not being under the cloak wasn't an option.

'I'll cast some expansion charms underneath.' Remus said, after a moment of consideration. They practiced this underneath the cloak until they were satisfied with the result, then realised it was 4:55 and they were at least 10 minutes away from there detention.

Although they ran the whole way, they got lost again and ended up being 10 minutes late for the detention, the result being they earned a another one.

It never seemed to end for James, Sirius, Emily, Remus and Peter.

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