Chapter 5

The First Prank.

Sirius caught up to James and the others quickly, some how without getting lost they managed to get to the great hall for lunch. Sirius decided to celebrate this memorial occasion.

The four of them sat in what had become their usual spot. Remus thought it was strange that Sirius didn't instantly fill his plate with food, but chose to ignore it when he turned from the watching the staff table to eat. He figured that it couldn't really matter, until heard a very loud farting noise coming from said staff table and Sirius burst into laughter.

"What the..." James didn't finish his sentence as he watched Professor McGonagall stand up quickly and pick something up that seemed to be on her chair. As soon as the picked it up a large amount of the students burst into laughter. McGonagall's face turned very red though whether it was from embarrassment or anger James couldn't tell.

"WHAT IS THIS?" She yelled glaring at the student body. Professor Dumbledore seemed to be holding back a laugh.

"It seems to be a muggle object that makes noises when one sits on it." Professor McGonagall looked at him still holding the object like it was killing her to touch it. She looked back to the students.

"WHOSE IS IT?" All of the students began laughing, excluding most of the Slytherins of course. Sirius stood and started walking to the staff table trying as hard as he could to control his laugher.

"I's mine, Professor." Some of the students quieted watching the murderous face on Professor McGonagall's face.

"What?" She really hadn't expected anyone to own up to the prank.

"It's mine, I bought it off a student yesterday and put it on your chair before you came in." The students were still laughing. McGonagall looked at him for a moment, and couldn't help but admire his bravery.

"Not anymore it isn't." He didn't look surprised.

"Thats ok it was really cheap anyway." Sirius started laughing again.

"And you have earned yourself a detention and ten points from Gryffindor." Sirius nodded. He had already made up for the ten points he lost earlier this morning and the ten points she had just taken away so he wasn't worried about that, and he didn't mind having detention. "This had better not happen again."

Sirius laughed "Of course not, I never use the same trick twice." He winked at her and went back to the table. As he walked back some of the students began clapping. Sirius smiled and bowed towards the house tables. Professor McGonagall sighed, this was going to be a hard seven years.

Sirius walked back to where his friends were sitting they were all staring at him in shock. "What?"

"Why did you do that?" James was the first one to get his mouth to form words.

"Because we actually didn't get lost on our way to the great hall. I felt the need to celebrate. And because it was funny."

"Getting a detention was funny?" Remus was surprised at how little Sirius cared about being in trouble.

"No, but it was worth it." Sirius' smile widened.

James laughed. "It was pretty funny. The look on her face was priceless."

"See what I mean, detention is a small price to pay for the priceless moment." Sirius was glad one of his friends agreed.

"I can't believe you actually went up there and admitted that you did it." Sirius looked at Peter like he had just been slapped in the face.

"Peter I'm insulted, what did you expect me to do, blame someone else?" Peter nodded. "I would never! What good is pulling a prank on someone if they have no idea you are the one who did it?"

James laughed. "Ok but next time I want in on it too." Sirius smiled even wider.

"All right." They gave each other a high five and continued eating. Remus banged his head on the table. It would figure that his new best friends ended up being troublemakers. At least he still had Peter.

"I want to help too guys." So much for Peter.

"What about you Remus?" Remus looked up to see them watching him.

"No, I will not get involved." They looked sad. Sirius even went as far as pretending to cry. "Absolutely not."

"Please Remmy." Sirius resorted to begging.

"No, and when did you start calling me Remmy."

"Just now, Please." he continued to beg. Unfortunately James and Peter decided to as well. Peter even managed to get tears in his eyes.

"No guys. If I get a detention my mom will kill me, she is already going to be mad that I got into a fight."

"So, my mom is going to kill me to, but I'm not going to let her ruin my fun." James argued and Peter nodded.

"Please Remmy, just one prank, if you don't think it is worth it then you never have to do another one again."

"Sirius... Fine just this once." They cheered.

"Great, we need a plan." Sirius and James began planning. Peter continued to eat, he was very proud of himself, he felt very brave, agreeing to prank someone took a lot of guts in his opinion. Remus suddenly didn't feel like eating. His mum would be so mad if he got in trouble so soon. But Sirius was right, it did look a lot of fun. Just watching was fun, it would be a lot funner to actually prank someone. Remus decided to help them plan.

"Ohh lets throw someones clothes in the lake or something." Remus decided that as the brains of the group, he would need to sort out the plans that were possible and the ones that weren't.

"Whose clothes." They both looked at him and thought for less then a second, they both answered together.

"The Slytherins" They looked at each other and gave the other another high five. Remus laughed, now that sounded like fun.

"One problem," There smiles left as they looked at him. "How do you plan on obtaining their clothes. If the Gryffindor tower has a password, then I have a feeling where ever the Slytherins are they will have a password also."

"Crud, and we don't even know where the Slytherin common room is." James tried to figure out a way around this.

"Why don't we just follow one of the Slytherins to their common room?" Sirius suggested.

"Won't they get suspicious as to why the four of us are following them around everywhere?" Remus immediately saw the flaw in this.

"Not if all four of us don't follow him. I can do it, I can wright the password down and then we can all come back later tonight and grab some of their clothes."

Remus didn't like the tonight part. "What about curfew" Sirius shrugged

"It has to be at night or the Slytherins will catch us."

"But if we are out after curfew we will get in huge trouble." This time it was Peter who was worried.

"Not if your with me you won't." Sirius smiled at them. He was very confident of himself.

"How do you know that Mr. Ego?" Sirius laughed at James' nickname.

"Because, I'm good thats how." They all laughed and finished their lunch.

"What class is next, Remus?"

"Sirius, have you ever even looked at your schedule?" Remus gave him a dark look. But Sirius laughed.

"Of course I have, but I didn't memorize it and you did so I didn't think I needed to carry it around with me."

Remus sighed. "We have charms with the Slytherins." Sirius smiled.

"Yay, we get to charm some Slytherins, do we have a free period after that?" Remus nodded "See I did look at the schedule. I will follow one of the Slytherins to their common room after charms." James cheered he was really looking forward to this.

"How will you know that they are going to the common room?" Peter asked as though he was sure that Sirius would just know or something.

"Hmm I'm not sure, I'll probably just have to guess." Peter looked disappointed. Remus was worried that Peter was going to become Sirius' number one fan.

"Crud, a dead end." They stopped and saw that James was right. They were once again lost.

"Darn, we were on a roll there." Sirius sighed and they turned around.

"I don't think it was that much of a roll, we only got to where we wanted to be without getting lost once."

"Once is better than none, Remmy." Sirius was trying to figure out which way to go.

"Don't call me Remmy. Lets go left." They went left.

"This would be much better if we had a map." Sirius stopped for a second.

"Map." They stopped to see what was wrong. "Oh I forgot, I need to ask you something."

"Ask us on the way we need to find our class." Remus continued walking, the rest of them followed.

"Ok, I was wondering if you guys wanted to help me make a map of the school."

"What?"

"Do you want to help me make a map of the school? I'm going to try it anyway but it would be easier with help."

"Is it even possible to make a map of Hogwarts?"

"No." Remus answered as they found another dead end. "The school is unplottable. That means mapping it is impossible."

"Not necessarily. My house is unplottable, but I made a map of my room once." James gave Sirius a funny look.

"Why would you make a map of your own room?" Even James' room wasn't big enough to get lost in and he had a big room.

"It was a treasure map for Regulus, I told him that if he could find my stash of candy than he could have half of it, and made a map of my room to help him."

"Who is Regulus?"Remus asked as they entered a familiar hallway. "Crud we are right back where we started."

"He is my little brother, lets just ask for directions."

"Who are we going to ask, the wall?" James pretended to ask the wall for directions.

"Very funny James, see we wouldn't be lost if we had a map." They climbed up a staircase and saw some other first years. "Yay, we found intelligent life." One of the students turned around. "Or not so intelligent life." It was a Slytherin. The Slytherin sneered at them and walked into a classroom. They followed hoping that the Slytherin was in the right class.

They saw Professor Flitwick standing on a large pile of books. Remus looked at his watch. "Hey, we're not late."

"Sweet." They sat down to wait for the class to begin. "So will you guys help me?"

"Help you with what?" James looked though his backpack and got out his books.

"With the map, gosh do you pay attention to anything?" Sirius was starting to get mad.

"Calm down Si, I was just messing with you. Are you sure it is possible?" Sirius glared at him for a second.

"No, but it can't really hurt can it?"

"Ah, why not I'm in, like you said it can't hurt." James nodded and they looked at the other two.

"I still don't think it is possible, but it's worth a try." they gave Remus a quiet cheer. "What about you Peter." Peter smiled at them.

"I'm in."

"Ya, that's everyone." James and Sirius high fived each other again and charms class began.

Professor Flitwick was a good teacher and they quickly began to like his class it wasn't their favorite but still a good class. Sirius and James got a few good shots at the Slytherins and only got caught once. By the time class was over five Slytherins had pink hair and one was hanging by a nail in the wall (that was the time they got caught.) Sirius had also decided which Slytherin he was going to follow. Of course he picked one that was most likely to hex him. When class was over he waved and went after her trying to look inconspicuous.

OOOOOOOOO

Sirius followed the 7th year Slytherin girl he was having no trouble at all. She was in the middle of a large crowd nobody at all noticed that he was there, except a few Hufflepuff girls who were watching him dreamily. Strangely enough no matter where he was it was still the same girls watching him, he was starting to worry that the Slytherin wasn't the only one being followed. He ignored them when the Slytherin girl went into one of the dungeons and stopped in front of a bare stone wall.

"Always pure" the girl said to the wall Sirius guessed that this was a password as the wall opened like a door. He considered going inside to see what it looked like but he looked over his shoulder and saw two of the Hufflepuff girls were still behind him.

Sirius sighed as the door to the Slytherin common room door closed and smiled. If you can't beat them... he thought as he walked over to the girls and put an arm around each of their shoulders and walked towards the Gryffindor common

OOOOOOOOO

Remus was starting to worry he was sure Sirius was taking way too long, but when ever he tried to express his worry to James he just brushed it off saying Sirius would be fine. Peter wasn't much help either, he just agreed with whatever James said like James knew everything or something, it was driving Remus insane.

"That's it I'm going to go look for him." He said storming towards the door.

"Remmy calm down." James got off the couch and walked over to Remus.

"Not you too! My name is Remus not Remmy!" Remus was not in a very good mood.

"Sorry." James looked over to Peter. "If you are really worried than we can go look for him but we promised to wait for him here, so I think we should wait here for as long as we can stand." Remus looked at the ground for a second and nodded, they did promise and he hated breaking a promise.

Just then the door opened to reveal Sirius waving at a couple girls who looked like they were going to faint. He walked in and shut the door behind him.

"Hi guys." They stared at him for a while.

"What took you so long?" James asked. Remus was seething he knew perfectly well what had taken Sirius so long.

"The Slytherin common room is clear down in the dungeons it took a very long time to walk back up."

"Especially with two girls slowing you down." Remus pointed out still very mad causing James to laugh.

"Oh them, I caught them following me and they were third years so they could help me find my way back without getting lost." Remus looked surprised

"Thats it?" He was ashamed of even thinking that Sirius would make them wait for a couple of girls.

"Ya, I don't even know their names."

"Oh, sorry." Sirius shrugged and laughed.

"No big." Remus felt better "Like I said the Slytherin common room is in the dungeons and I have the password memorized, its really easy, so all we have to do is sneak out probably after midnight." James and Remus nodded Peter started to look scared.

"What if we get caught?"

"We won't get caught Peter, don't worry."

"Are you sure?" Sirius and James nodded. Remus looked a lot less confident than them but smiled at Peter showing him that he agreed. "Ok if your sure." He still looked scared.

"We had better leave early for potions in case we get lost." Remus said and headed to the door.

"Right." Sirius and James said in unison and followed. Peter followed quietly.

"Speaking about being lost, when are we going to start that map?" Sirius looked exited.

"When is your detention?" Remus asked. He couldn't believe he was asking this question. If his mum found out his new friend had a detention so early in the year, well he couldn't imagine what she would say, but he was sure that she wouldn't want him to be hanging out with Sirius anymore, but he couldn't bring himself to be mad a Sirius at all.

"Not sure yet, she hasn't told me." Sirius shrugged like he got a detention every day.

"If it isn't tomorrow we can do it then, but there is a lot we will have to do before we start drawing the actual map you know that right?" Remus looked at Sirius' now confused face.

"Like what?"

Remus sighed. "There are a lot of things we have to figure out like are we going to make it a scale model or is it just going to be a rough sketch?"

"It has to be scale because a rough sketch would be inaccurate." James joined in the conversation.

"Are we going for accuracy or are we just trying to get a better grade?" Remus asked as the walked into the potions classroom. "hey, we didn't get lost." They cheered. It seemed they were one of the few that didn't get lost because more than half the class showed up late. They came in in small groups all swearing that they got lost.

"Well we wasn't to get a better grade but that doesn't mean we should do any less than our best. Which means it needs to be as accurate as we can get it." Sirius answered his question when they had sat down.

"So we wasn't a scale map then, that leads to a lot of other things to think about, like what scale are we going to use, and how are we going to measure the entire school?"

Sirius thought about this. "Hmm I think we should wait on the scale until we find out how big the school is compared to the parchment that we are going to use. As for how we are going to measure the school maybe we can look up some kind of spell in the library after class or something." Remus nodded while chopping up a few ingredients for the potion they were working on.

"That sounds like a good idea, but lets wait till tomorrow, I'm exhausted and if we are going to be up by midnight I need a nap." The others nodded and worked on their potions. James and Sirius spent more time cracking jokes about Professor Slughorn's name than actually working on the potion, but still managed to be the only ones that got the potion perfect and thus earning 10 points each for Gryffindor.

"Green, my potion turned green!" Remus hid his face in his hands.

"It wasn't that off." Sirius was trying to make him feel better, but it was completely hopeless especially since he was trying not to laugh at what a big deal Remus made this.

"IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RED! RED SIRIUS, THAT IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF GREEN!" Sirius took a step back he was not officially scared of Remus.

"Calm down Rem, at least yours didn't start exploding like that kid's, what's his name, did."

"His name is Zachariah Weasly, and I suppose your right." Remus visibly calmed down. "And don't call me Rem."

Sirius laughed. "It is either Rem or Remmy choose."

"Why can't you just call me by my name? Is Remus really that hard to say?"

"No but I like nicknames, so deal with it." Remus stuck his tongue out at Sirius who did the same back, and Remus ignored Sirius the whole way back. Once they were back in the common room (they got lost four times then Sirius found a second year girl and 'charmed' her into showing them the way. He mostly just stood there and talked to her and winked a couple of times, Remus was worried she was going to faint.) they started to head up to their dormitory

"Man I wish I could do that." Peter looked admiringly at Sirius.

"Do what?" Sirius asked

"Get girls to do whatever I want just by winking at them." Sirius laughed.

"Ya, it rocks."

Remus yawned "I'm taking a nap." He took some pajamas from his trunk and changed behind the curtains around the bed. (It is like eight pm so wearing PJs isn't that weird.)

"That sounds like a good idea." James commented and went to do the same. As soon as he saw James doing it Peter did the same also.

"I think I am going to go to the library and look for a measurement spell until curfew." Sirius decided that he wasn't tired enough to sleep.

Remus poked his head out of the curtains and looked at Sirius. "Will you be ok at midnight?"

"Ya I've stayed up all night before." Sirius headed towards the door. "And I might get some sleep after curfew or something."

"Alright bye." Remus ducked back under the covers and attempted to sleep.

OOOOOOOOO (two hours later.)

Sirius walked back into their dormitory and sat a small pile of books on the floor beside his bed. He found a few books that seemed promising but he ran out of time before he could look though them so he brought them back. He looked behind the curtains of the other three's beds to make sure they were still there and asleep. They were, though Remus looked like he could wake at any time. He got into his own bed and pulled down the curtains, he thought about going to sleep, but decided not to as he only had two hours of sleep and someone needed to wake up the others at midnight.

Sirius reached out to the book pile and grabbed the one on top. "Lumos" a light lit at the end of his wand, he learned that spell from his mother and was surprised that it worked so quickly. He skimmed the pages hoping to find something that could help them.

When he had gone though one hour and three books he started to get frustrated, he hadn't found anything at all.

"Sirius?" He jumped at the sound of Remus' voice and turned to see Remus peaking though the curtains at him. "Sorry didn't mean to startle you."

"It's ok just didn't expect anyone to be up for another hour." Sirius decreased the light coming from his wand when he noticed Remus was squinting. "Why are you up already?"

Remus shrugged "I don't sleep very well." he sat down on the bed and picked up a different book. "Any luck."

Sirius groaned "No, I can't find anything."

"You have to give it some time, you can't find everything immediately." Remus laughed and opened the book to search. Sirius sighed and did the same. It was half an hour before any of them found anything. Sirius found a spell that causes your wand to point north. It wasn't what they were looking for, but it could help so they practiced it until midnight. They woke up the others, they had a little problem with Peter when they found out that he was a very heavy sleeper and they had to knock him off the bed to wake him up, but by twelve thirty they were in the common room ready to go.

Thankfully the Slytherin common room was in a dungeons so it was easy to find and they got to it quickly. Though not quite quietly, Peter was freaking out.

"What if we get caught by a teacher? What if we get a detention? What if we get caught by a Slytherin, they will kill me, I swear they will..." He never stopped the entire way. Thankfully he was whispering. Sirius was starting to get angry.

"Shut up or we will get caught, and trust me Peter if you get us caught it won't be a Slytherin that kills you, it will be me." Peter instantly shut up with a look of terror on his face. They were now standing in front of a bare wall.

"Did we hit a dead end?" James turned around.

"No it's right here." He stood in front of the wall "Always pure." The wall opened like a door to reveal the empty Slytherin common room. "Good it's empty lets get some of their clothes."

"Boys or Girls." Remus asked.

"Boys." They walked into the boys dormitories.

"Lets stick with the younger students, that way if they wake up they can't do as much to us." Strangely enough Remus was not near as worried as he thought he would be, he was actually enjoying it, Peter wasn't though. Peter was still freaking but he managed to keep quiet.

"Aww, I wanted to go after a few seventh years." Sirius teased quietly as they walked up to one of the first years dormitories.

"Please tell me your kidding." He was starting to worry that Sirius was suicidal. First with the Womping willow now this.

"Don't worry I'm kidding. Even I'm not that stupid." They all went quiet as Sirius opened the door and began walking to a trunk. James followed, they read the name on the trunk and barely caught themselves before they started laughing. Sirius waved Remus and Peter over to see who's it is, Peter refused to move but Remus slowly walked over. He was starting to get scared. What if one of them woke up what would they do then? Remus got over to James and Sirius and read the name on the trunk. He looked back at Sirius, and Sirius mouthed the word revenge at him.

The trunk belonged to Severus Snape. Remus smiled and looked back at the trunk, he forgot that Snape was a Slytherin. This would be fun. James opened the trunk, thankfully it wasn't locked. Then Remus realized a huge flaw in their plan, unfortunately he realized it way to late. They had no way of carrying the cloths down to the lake. It seemed James realized this too. They looked at Sirius who somehow knew exactly what they were thinking. He rolled his eyes, pointed his wand at the trunk, and muttered a charm that neither of them knew. The trunk instantly was small enough to fit in his pocket. Sirius did the same to the other four trunks and hurried towards the door. Once they were out they found it safe enough to talk.

"What did you do?" James whispered

"I just reduced the size of the trunks. My mother taught me how to do that."

"Wow." Peter stared at Sirius like he was his idol.

"Lets do the other first years and then throw them in the lake. I don't want to risk anyone older until we can defend ourselves." James took two of the mini trunks and stuck them in his pocket. Sirius tried to argue. "I know you know how to do a lot of different types of magic Sirius, but Peter, Remus, and I don't yet." Sirius looked a little sad but agreed, he didn't want anyone to get hurt either. So they got all of the first year Slytherin boy's trunks and went back to the common room.

"Should we do the girls too?" James asked and Sirius shook his head.

"No girls I've met a few of the Slytherin girls. Going into their room at night would be nothing short of suicidal." James nodded and they left the room

"Now we need to make them bigger before we through them in the lake or no one will ever find them." Sirius said as they climbed out of the dungeons

"Isn't that the point?" Peter asked he still wasn't completely relaxed but it was better that he wasn't in the common room now. Sirius shook his head in disbelief

"Peter what is wrong with you? No that isn't the point, they have to be able to find them or they will think that the house elves took them or something. What is the point of playing a joke on someone if someone else gets the credit." Sirius said as they walked out the front doors towards the lake.

"But then we will get in trouble." Peter was very confused

"Not if they can't prove it." Sirius looked smug as they stopped by the lake.

James laughed. "Your logic doesn't make sense, if they can't prove it then how are they going to know it's us."

"He is saying that after a while we will build up such a reputation that everyone will know that we are the ones that did it, but they have no proof so they can't do anything about it." Remus explained though he wasn't positive about it himself.

"Exactly." Sirius nodded and recited a spell that made all the trunks return to their original size, this scared Peter of course.

"What do we do till we build up that reputation?" James liked the idea of having a reputation of a trickster.

"I don't know, I'm just going to wing it."

James laughed "Alright."

"Most people are going to suspect it's you anyway Sirius because of what you pulled at lunch."

"Sweet."Sirius was very proud of himself.

"Do we have to get caught in order to make a reputation." Peter opened one of the suitcases and stared at it as James dumped the clothes into the water.

"Nah, just hanging out with the bad kid here will do that." they all laughed

Remus and Peter cheered when Sirius and James worked together to throw the last suitcase in the lake. They observed their handiwork for a while and gave each other a high five.

They headed inside looking over their shoulders every once in a while.

"Race you back to the common room." Sirius laughed and started to run.

"No fair you got a head start." James ran after him.

Remus laughed "Come on Peter." He said as he started to run as well. Peter quickly followed, afraid to be caught outside after curfew.

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(AN) Hi y'all. This is probably the longest chapter I have ever written. I still need ideas for pranks and stuff. Especially if you thought this one was lame. I did this instead of the underwear from the flagpole thing which Becca S. suggested. I think the flagpole thing is very overused. But they gave me the idea, so credit goes to her. If your reading this thank you and I intend to use your other idea also, though it may be a while.

Thank you to my reviewers (all 2 of them)

Becca S.

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