All that Minerva McGonagall had been told was that the three Gryffindor boys were facing a 'current disposition'. She didn't realise that their 'current disposition' would be quite so entertaining. She told the Fat Lady the password and entered the Gryffindor Common Room once the portrait hole had swung open. She quickly crossed the room, walking up the stairs towards the boys dormitory. Once she had reached the door, she knocked.

"Mr. Potter, Mr. Pettigrew and Mr. Black," she called. "I presume that you are all decently dressed."

"Professor McGonagall. One moment, please."

"Certainly. But, let me tell you this, you will be attending your classes and Quidditch practice today, no matter what has happened. Else, I will return, and next time I shan't be quite so polite."

"Yes, Professor McGonagall."

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"Ugh," James sighed. "How did she know that we were planning on skipping?"

"I'm guessing it's something to do with those two blasted twins."

"They were the only ones who knew other than Remus. And Remus wouldn't have told her."

"He never would have done. I agree. Which means that it must have been those two twins. Exactly what I said earlier."

"We're going to have to go to classes, now, aren't we?" Peter asked, meekly.

"I suppose we don't really have any other choice. I'd have said that we could have left the dorm and gone and hid somewhere else, but… We can't really go anywhere else in case anyone sees us, can we?"

"Erm… Aren't people going to see us if we go to class?"

"Not if we cast a simple disillusionment charm."

"That's what we'll do then."

And so the three boys cast disillusionment charms on themselves to hide the boils. It had obviously worked as they couldn't see the boils on each other or on themselves when looking in the mirror. But honestly, did they really think that Fred and George, the masterminds behind Weasley Wizard Wheezes, the genii who had created 'sweets' such as Puking Pastilles and other ingenious inventions like Extendable Ears, were that dumb?

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James, Sirius and Peter walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast. They only had a few minutes to eat breakfast if they wanted to get to Quidditch Practice on time. There were only a few people eating breakfast this early, the Gryffindor Quidditch team, a few early risers and the few who needed to finish their essays. But despite how few of them there were, they still managed to make quite a large amount of noise when they saw the three Gryffindors. Because despite how clever they thought that they were being, attempting to conceal the boils with magic, Fred and George had been much, much, much cleverer.

Because, instead of hiding the boils like the disillusionment charm was supposed to, it had made it much worse, doubling, if not tripling, the amount of boils on their faces. Now, I know what you'll be saying, but earlier on in this very chapter, you said that the boils had disappeared and they couldn't see them, but that was because Fred and George had altered the charm so that if the person with the boils attempted to hide them with magic, then they wouldn't be able to see them. It really was quite clever.

And so, Padfoot, Prongs and Wormtail were quite shocked when everyone started to laugh at them. Even the teachers were laughing. And that included Professor McGonagall who was chortling quietly under her breath. She really couldn't believe that their 'current disposition' made for such good entertainment.

"Padfoot," James whispered quietly under his breath, "what's going on? Why are they all laughing at us?"

" I don't know, Prongs. But I don't like it…" Sirius replied, also whispering.

"Neither do I. We're supposed to be the cause of the laughter. But not when it's because two idiotic twins who've transferred decide to pull a prank on us and get the better of us."

"No. They haven't gotten the better of us just yet."

"What do you mean, they haven't? They clearly have. Our prank was so much worse! Everyone can see that they've outdone us."

"Yes, but that doesn't mean that they've gotten the better of us. It just means that we're going to have to enlist the help of Remus so as we can prank them back. And it'll be a better prank."

"Yeah. Enlist the help of Remus. Phrase one of Operation Prank the Williamsons."

"Um… Guys… What does enlist mean?" Peter asked pitifully a few seconds after the end of that conversation.

"Never mind, Pete. Never mind," Sirius said, disparagingly.

"Anyway, you want to grab a bowl of cereal?" James asked.

"Sure," Sirius agreed, and with that the three boys headed over towards the Gryffindor table.

They sat down next to the rest of the Gryffindor team. They were within a meters distance. Hence why what happened next, happened. Boils spread across the faces of the Gryffindor team.

"Argh!" shouted one of the Chasers, Alexander Bell, his voice echoing across the Great Hall. One of the girls had collapsed onto the floor in shock and another was being comforted by her friend. "What am I supposed to do? I have a date with my boyfriend tonight. We were going to go to the Astronomy Tower and he promised that it would be romantic. But I can't let him see me like this!"

"Don't worry. I'm sure he won't care. By the way, who is he?"

"He's a Hufflepuff. You won't know him. But what am I supposed to tell him?"

"I don't know? You could say that… That… erm… Maybe…"

"I can't go out and see him tonight! What if he laughs at me?"

"He won't laugh at you, I'm sure. Otherwise he wouldn't be the boyfriend that you think he is, would he?"

"But what if he doesn't tell me that I look beautiful? He always tells me that I look beautiful!"

"I'm sure he'll still say that you look great."

"But I don't look great! Can't you see! I look ugly with all of these boils!"

"I wouldn't say that you looked ugly. You don't look quite as good as you normally do-"

"There, you admit it! I look ugly!"

"NO! I just said that you didn't. That you just didn't look quite as good as normal."

"That's a sure euphemism for 'you look ugly'! Oh, tell me the truth! I look ugly, don't I?"

"No! How many times do I have to tell you that you don't?"

"BUT I DO! I look AWFUL!"

At that point a Hufflepuff, sixth year entered the Great Hall and crossed over to the Gryffindor table. "Petrova? What's wrong? What's up with your face?"

"SEE! I told you that he would say I looked ugly!" Petrova screamed.

"Wait! You're dating William Fletchley?"

"Of course I am!"

"I can't believe you'd do this to me!" Angelica, the other girl, shouted.

"What did I do to you? Stop trying to turn this conversation around to yourself, anyway! We were talking about me!"

"I really can't believe you! You're dating the guy who I've loved since third year! We're in the fifth year, now! TWO YEARS! I've loved him for TWO YEARS and you DARE to date him?"

"Oh puh-lease. You don't love him. It's only a silly little crush. Now, how can I get rid of these boils?"

"I DON'T KNOW! AND I CERTAINLY SHAN'T TELL YOU EVEN IF I FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET RID OF THEM! YOU DESERVE FAR WORSE THAN A FACE FULL OF BOILS! I HATE YOU!" Angelica stormed out of the Great Hall.

"Well, that was rather melodramatic, wasn't it?" James asked.

"You," Petrova whispered venomously. "This is all your fault. My best friend hates me now. All because of you!"

"Wait? How is this James' fault? I don't understand?" Sirius butted in.

"It's not just his fault. It's yours and Pettigrew's, too."

"How's it our fault?" James asked. You could tell from his voice that he was getting angrier and angrier.

"You were the one who managed to cover my face in boils! It must be contagious!"

"That only explains how your face is covered in boils. Not why your best friend hates you."

"Don't you see? If my face hadn't been 'covered in boils' then my boyfriend wouldn't have come over to ask what was wrong. THEN, Angelica wouldn't have found out that I was dating William and then she wouldn't hate me!"

"No offence, Petrova. But lies and secrets aren't the best things to base a friendship on," Sirius said.

"YOU! You shut up! Just keep your big mouth CLOSED!" Petrova, too, began to walk away.

"Petrova, Quidditch practice is this morning. It's a little late to tell Angelica to come back, but you will not be excused," James called after her.

"Tell you what, Potter, screw Quidditch! I DON'T CARE!" And with that she turned on her heel and stormed out of the room.

"Um, James," Sirius started. "You realise that that means that we're only going to have one chaser at practice today, what with Petrova and Angelica gone. And Lizzie has gone and fainted and Alex looks a little too angry and stressed to be able to play. That leaves us without a keeper and our other beater. Which means that we're four players down. And in all honesty, the rest of the team, consisting of one person, doesn't look too happy with us either." Sirius was right. The rest of the team looked positively mutinous.

"Er, tell you what folks. Quidditch practice is cancelled today," James said, sheepishly, before standing and running away at full speed, with Sirius hot on his tail. Peter, however, decided, rather unwisely, to finish off his bowl of cereal. As the three members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team remaining in the Great Hall walked out, they dumped their bowls of cereal over Peter's head. Hence, why it was rather unwise.

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Madam Pomfrey had noticed a sudden influx of students coming to her begging her to get rid of their boils. However, before she had opened the door to this amount of students, she had questioned them about where they had gotten their boils from.

"Wait, don't you dare come in!" she said to one student. "Where did you get those boils from?"

"I caught them off someone, Madam Pomfrey. Please, can you get rid of them?"

"You say you caught them off someone? How soon did they come up?"

"Within a few seconds."

"Then, no, sir, I cannot get rid of them for you because you are not permitted to enter the Hospital Wing. And tell everyone else that. And no, you are not allowed to miss lessons because the boils don't seem to have any adverse effects on your health. Now. Go to lessons, please."

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Despite the fact that Quidditch Practice was cancelled, it did not mean that the whole school day was cancelled. And as Madam Pomfrey had already informed many students already that day, students were not allowed to miss lessons. That was why many students were now attempting to go to lessons whilst still staying away from any of those who had caught the 'case of the boils'.

"Paaaddie," James whined.

"Yes, Prongs," Sirius replied, his teeth gritted with annoyance at being called Paddie.

"Why is everyone avoiding us?"

"I don't know."

"Is it cause of the whole boils thing?"

"Maybe… But it's already halfway around the school, so there's no particular reason to avoid us."

"You know, you two," Remus interjected, "you two really are idiots. Everyone's avoiding you because everyone's angry at you two, and let's not forget Peter, for starting to pass around the boils. Everyone saw that it was you three who started it. Idiots." Sirius and James replied with a mere 'oh'.

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That night, Fred and George felt very satisfied. Their prank had been very successful. James, Sirius and Peter had been completely avoided by everyone in the school. Even the teachers had tried to keep their distance. And that was why their prank had been so successful. Within an hour or two, their popularity had completely gone.

"You know, my dear brother, Fred, we did a very good job with that prank, didn't we?"

"We did, dear old brother of mine. We did."

A/N: WOW! How long ago did I put up the last chapter? This is ridiculous! I was sort of struggling at the end but I felt that that was a half decent place to end the chapter.

Oh, and whilst I remember, last chapter, you'll remember that I used the charm 'Furnunculabantus', I would just like to point out that it makes no sense grammatically in Latin. The 'bant' in Latin means 'they were…' whilst the 'us' at the end means 'having been…'

So yeah, I was just pointing that out before someone else did.

And, thanks for the comments and favourites and whatnot… I love 'em!