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Chapter 29: Hallowe'en Feast

Sirius has come on leaps and bounds with his sword training over the last couple of weeks. Charles Goodwin had taken him to practice on Salamanders last night, and he'd come back buzzing. I'd just found him and James planning new pranks in the common room. I sat down between the two Marauders, before speaking.

'Ready for the feast?' James and Sirius glanced up from their plans at this point: James spoke first, a little louder than necessary, so I assume Sirius's good mood is infectious.

'Absolutely! I'm famished!' I smirked, glancing over the parchment that James and Sirius had been working on. I felt the two Marauders watching me, and a moment passed, before I commented on their plans.

'That's a very bad idea.' I pointed to the section of the plan, which mentioned experimenting with Amortentia, so that they could make the whole of Slytherin house fall obsessively in love with Peeves. James raised his eyebrows as I commented.

'Why?' I smirked.

'Because 1. You'll both end up high on Amortentia fumes... and 2. It'll likely backfire and the whole of Slytherin will be in love with you.' I glanced towards Sirius, who just looked dumbfounded as he stared back at me. Sirius didn't speak so I turned to James, although, as I did I became lost for words. James was sat there with his mouth hanging open, as if he wanted to respond, but knew I was right. It's the exact expression that I was used to seeing on Harry's face, when I'd either corrected or criticized him. The next second, I'd thrown my arms around James, just like I'd done many times to Harry. James automatically wrapped his arms around me, and sounded a little shocked as he spoke.

'Uh, Mynee?' I continued to hug James, and there was a moment of silence, before I spoke.

'You're amazing James Charlus Potter.' I pushed James away, a little embarrassed, meaning I swiftly continued talking. 'Is that the time already?! The feast will be starting soon!' I grabbed Sirius's hand, pulling him to his feet and dragging him towards the portrait. Sirius slowed me down as we descended the stairs, and as I fell into step beside him, he spoke.

'What was that about with Prongs?' I pulled Sirius's arm around me, and whispered into his ear.

'Sorry. He caught me by surprise... for a moment he really reminded me of Harry.' James caught up with us at this point, forcing himself between Sirius and I. Sirius smiled at him, as he threw his arms around the two of us.

'You know something, Pads?' Sirius stared towards James, who in turned glanced towards me before continuing. 'Whenever you wanna make Mynee my sister-in-law that's fine by me.' Sirius smirked, probably because I'd turned bright red once again. There was a moment of silence, before Sirius tripped James, sending him down the remaining four steps. I watched James scramble to his feet as Sirius spoke.

'Perhaps she won't want to be your sister-in-law.' James shook his head.

'Course she does, I'm amazing.' Sirius and James both laughed. I left James and Sirius making fools of themselves and entered the Great Hall, taking a seat beside Remus. Remus smiled at me, though his smile dropped when he noticed my red face.

'Mynee, what's wrong?' I mumbled.

'I've just realised that I might become James's sister-in-law someday.' I could see amusement in Remus's eyes, but he didn't laugh like Sirius and James had. Speaking of James and Sirius, they'd just managed to join us: Sirius hopped into the seat beside me, wrapping his arm around me and kissing me on the cheek.

'You love us really.' I smirked.

'Hmmm unfortunately I do... even if you're a bunch of immature prats.' I glanced in turn at the three Marauders who where present. James and Sirius grinned like little kids on Christmas morning: Remus frowned.

'Hey! I'm not a...' He was interrupted as Dumbledore began his speech. I grinned at the werewolf, who was now shooting me death glares for calling him an immature prat. I stuck my tongue out at him, before leaning into Sirius's side. Dumbledore's speech was the usual Halloween speech; he wished Nearly Headless Nick a Somber Deathday and rambled on about his newfound love for muggle candy corn, before summoning the mountains of food.

The feast was in full swing, and everyone was gorging themselves on the copious amounts of food when the doors to the Great Hall flew open. Everyone's heads snapped up, glancing towards the doors, which had seemingly opened by themselves. A moment passed, and most people had returned to their plates, when a rather peculiar noise echoed through the Great Hall: a snipping sound. The sound had everyone's attention again, and as everyone stared towards the doors of the Great Hall for a second time a swarm of scissors floated into view. I glanced towards the Marauders: I didn't know they'd planned a prank for this evening. None of the Marauders acknowledged me, and before I could speak the swarm of scissors zoomed through the air towards us. The first to scream was a Slytherin girl: the scissors snipped at her hair, chopping off quite a large lock. Further pairs of scissors then proceeded to attack other students, it didn't seem to matter which house they belonged to. Soon the sound of screaming drowned the snipping of scissors, and hexes where being cast at the scissors in self-defense. I dived under the table, followed by the Marauders, Lil, and Dorcas: Lily screamed at James and Sirius.

'If this is your idea of a prank, it's sooo not funny!' Sirius retaliated.

'This wasn't us, we're not malicious enough to cut people's hair.' I watched Lily open her mouth before closing it: Remus spoke instead.

'So... What do we do now?' The screaming around us continued, and it was a moment before I realised that everyone was staring at me. I frowned.

'What?' James spoke.

'You're a walking spell book, sis.' I gave James an annoyed look, before sighing.

'Fine... and don't call me that.' I climbed out from under the table. It was utter chaos in the Great Hall, with many students now sporting rather haphazard haircuts. I scrambled up onto the table, before casting into the air.

'Immobulus.' The scissors all froze, and the screaming around me stopped. I thought for a moment, before disposing of the scissors, by casting a hex that would cause them all to explode like fireworks. I didn't understand why none of the professors attempted to stop the scissors, though, as I climbed down from the table Dumbledore's voice echoed through the Great Hall.

'Excellent Miss. Granger... 50 points to Gryffindor.' I glanced towards Dumbledore, a little surprised to see that his beard was now several inches shorter. Professor McGonagall spoke next, once Dumbledore had returned to his apple crumble as if nothing had happened. I know the headmaster's a great wizard, but sometimes I do find myself questioning his peculiar behaviour.

'Potter! Black! Pettigrew! Lupin!...I expect to see you in my office immediately.' James and Sirius shrugged, before heading off out of the Great Hall: Remus looked a little bit more annoyed that they were being blamed for something they didn't do: and Peter, as per usual, followed obediently behind his friends. The Marauders were in the common room when we returned from dinner, and it was obvious that they were scheming. I slid into the seat beside Sirius, whilst speaking.

'What happened with McGonagall?' Remus answered my question, as I ran my fingers through Sirius's hair. Sirius seemed a little irritated now.

'Gilderoy bewitched the scissors, but he told McGonagall it was James and Sirius.' I raised my eyebrows.

'And she believed him?' Remus nodded. McGonagall had given James and Sirius detention, and the agitated Marauders were now out for revenge.

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I was in the library the following evening, practicing my meditation. I didn't see Gilderoy approach me, because I had my eyes closed, so he scared me as he spoke.

'Potter and Black aren't as untouchable as they think.' I opened one eye, gazing towards Gilderoy.

'James and Sirius would never do something so malicious.' This stumped Gilderoy for a moment.

'It's just hair, it'll grow back.' I smirked.

'It's James and Sirius, they'll get their own back... I'd sleep with one eye open if I was you Gilly.' I watched Gilderoy's face fall.

'Is that a threat?' I shrugged.

'Knowing James and Sirius it's a promise and some decent advice.' Gilderoy seemed frustrated at this point and walked away without speaking. I wandlessly cast a harmless transfiguration spell to remove Gilderoy's eyebrows, mumbling the incantation under my breath. The spell hit the arrogant twerp just before he walked around the end of the bookshelf. That foolish Ravenclaw's messing with the wrong group of Gryffindors.

A/N: Hey! Happy Halloween Everyone... think it was pretty good timing that I happen to be publishing this particular chapter today :P Anyway, hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks for the continuous support of everyone who's reading this story and those of you who have spent time to review. It's means so much to me that people are enjoying this story. Next chapter Hermione and Sirius shall be going into the Chamber of Secrets, so that's a little something for everyone to look forward too, hopefully if everything goes to plan you'll get the next chapter tomorrow. Love RoxannetheLaugh x.