Chapter 13
Up to no good.
"What are you reading Rem?" Sirius asked and peeked over his shoulder. He knew that Remus didn't mind when people read over his shoulder.
"It is a book I brought from home. You wouldn't like it." Remus was sitting on his bed covered in blankets. He seemed to be cold for some reason. No matter how hard Sirius tried he couldn't figure out what was wrong with Remus. He was extremely hot. He also didn't understand why Remus had such dark rings under his eyes. Compared to usual he had slept pretty well. It also couldn't have been from poor nutrition. At Hogwarts you would have to be literally starving yourself to have poor nutrition. He also looked paler and skinnier.
What worried Sirius the most is that Remus didn't even notice. He was obviously sick, but he didn't even seem to care. It drove Sirius crazy; when he was sick he made sure everyone knew it. He complained a lot when he wasn't feeling good.
"What are we going to do for Halloween?" James asked breaking Sirius from his thoughts.
"What?" Remus asked confused.
"Well it is tomorrow?" Remus still didn't understand. Sirius did though.
"I don't know, but it has to be good." Sirius said
"What has to be good?" Remus didn't like feeling confused.
"The prank of course, we can't just change something random colors or something. It has to be really good. We also need to do it to everyone, not just the Slytherins." Sirius rolled his eyes playfully.
"Oh, I should have known. Do you guys thing of anything but that?" James laughed already knowing Sirius' answer.
"Only when I have too." Sirius answered laughing also. Remus just shook his head and chuckled, Sirius had a one track mind.
"It can't be the traditional make-the- Slytherins- life- miserable kind of prank" James said. Remus got out a piece of parchment and a quill.
"What are you doing?" Sirius said getting up and looking over Remus' shoulder again.
"Writing down ideas, this time we are going to do it right." Sirius raised an eyebrow at him.
"Right?" If Sirius was sure of anything it was that they were excellent pranksters.
"If we are going to do a really good one we need to make sure there are no holes. Trust me it will be better this way." Remus said and labeled the paper.
Marauders Halloween prank year one
"What if someone sees it?" James asked.
"Ohhh, I know how to make sure they can't." Sirius said practically beaming.
"How?" Remus said. Anything that he could think of had way too advanced magic for first years.
"My mother taught me how, we need a password."
"How did she teach you? Isn't it against the law to do underage magic outside of Hogwarts?" Remus asked.
"There is a loophole in that law that no one cares about. The law doesn't count until you get of schooling age. They didn't care about the once younger because they thought they were too young to really do much. My grandpa found about it, and they have been using it ever since."
"Does the Ministry of Magic know about that?" James asked surprised that someone could manipulate the law like that.
"Ya, but it is too difficult to change the law and still don't think much of children so they don't bother." He explained as though it was everyone should know that.
"Weird" They said at the same time.
"To do it we need a password to make the stuff on the page show up." Sirius reminded. They all thought about it for a while.
"Does it have to be a single word?" Peter asked. Sirius shook his head. "What about our names?"
"Way to easy, what about 'The Marauders'" Remus asked.
"Still too easy, but I like the multiple word idea." Sirius said.
"Up to no good." Remus tried again.
"Um, I don't know. It doesn't sound very good." James said flopping down on his bed.
"It needs more." Sirius agreed
"I swear I'm up to no good." James improved.
"Oh, I like that. Now we need one to hide the information on the page."
"Well, obviously when we use it we will be up to no good, so when we are done with it we finished what we were doing." Remus thought out loud.
"Way to state the obvious Rem." Sirius teased.
"Mischief Managed." Remus smirked, knowing that they would like it. He wasn't disappointed. They smiled huge smiles.
"Perfect." Sirius and James said at the same time. Peter cheered.
"Cool, I'll show you how to do it." Sirius said and attempted to teach them how to do it. Peter was the only one who couldn't quite figure it out.
If Walburga knew how Sirius would use the spell she taught him she would have had a heart attack.
A/N Wow that was a short chapter, I don't like that. Oh well the next one will be longer.
Did I make them learn that spell to early? It seems like it should be a lot more advanced, but it just kinda fit. Oh well.
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