A/N: The best way to read this next chapter and the next two could be to copy and paste it into a word document. I used a different font for the words the Marauders wrote on the wall, it isn't near as cool with out it. What you would have to do is put all of what the Marauders wrote in the downloadable Parseltonuge harry potter font and put it at size 28. I really really wish i could use it on this site, but I can't. It really looks so much cooler that way. *pouts*

Chapter 15

Halloween

They all woke early, early enough that they were sure that if they left and started working on their hoax that there would be no one around for another few hours.

"There is a problem, if there is no one out then who are we going to petrify." Remus asked as the sneaked out of the common room. The curfew was in effect for another hour and a half.

"The prefects are out." Sirius said confidently. Remus stared at him for a while.

"We can't attack a prefect!" He said as urgently as he could, though he was whispering.

"Why not?" Sirius rolled his eyes. Even after all this time, they were still no more than armatures. James answered for Remus.

"Their fifth years and up Sirius."

"So?"

"There is no way we could beat a fifth year." Peter joined the conversation once again looking terrified.

Sirius sighed and shook his head. "We don't have to beat them you dolts, we just have to get the first hit in." he said with a strange desire to bash his head against the wall. "And doing a prefect first would be perfect; everyone knows prefects are in the top of the class. They will think that if a prefect couldn't even protect themselves against the 'attacker' than none of them can, thus causing more fear." They looked at each other wondering why they hadn't thought of that.

"How do you think of this stuff?" James asked.

"Years of experience, James." He stopped for a moment. "How are we going to find any of the prefects, they could be anywhere in the school." They thought about this for a moment.

"Oh, Amos Diggory is on the first floor near the entrance." Remus remembered a few of his friends asking Amos where he would be on parole tonight. Sirius looked confused for a moment.

"I thought the Ravenclaws had it tonight?"

"One of the Ravenclaw's prefects broke their arm in Quidditch practice so the Hufflepuffs are switching with them." Remus said and they headed towards the entrance of the castle.

"Oh." Sirius remembered someone mentioning that earlier. "When did Quidditch practice begin?"

"That was their first practice. The first game is Saturday." Remus answered and suddenly realized that he was having a normal conversation, without even trying to whisper, while they were out after (or before really) curfew. He sighed; he was getting way too used to this.

"Oh sweet! I can't wait." James and Sirius said as quietly as they could muster.

They were nearing the entrance now. They peeked out from behind a wall. Diggory was there, he was reading a book. He obviously didn't expect anyone to show up.

"Way to easy" Sirius said smirking at the Hufflepuff. "Who wants the honors?" He looked around.

"I'll do it." James said pulling out his wand. "I met him in Diagon Ally, when we went school shopping. He laughed at me because I couldn't tell the difference between frog eyes and newt eyes." Sirius nodded, completely understanding the need for revenge.

Amos Diggory didn't know what hit him. One second he was reading the next, he was petrified. James and Sirius cheered and gave each other a high five. They walked over to him. To none of their surprise Remus picked up the book he was reading and looked at it. He chuckled.

"He was studying for his O." Sirius shook his head. Only Remus would care about what Diggory was doing when they attacked him.

"Leviosa" Sirius levitated Diggory and began walking towards the Great Hall. The decided they wanted the biggest audience possible for their first show. The rest of the Marauders followed. Remus was still caring Diggory's book.

"I'm still worried that the teachers will get to the Great Hall first and hide the scene from everyone else." James said quickly catching up to Sirius.

"Ya, but I have an idea that may work. What if we put him just outside of the Great Hall? The teachers all use the back entrance, while the students use the main doors. If we do that then the teachers won't see him until a student tells them about it." Sirius looked at them as though he was asking them if it was all right. They agreed, Remus thought about how good Sirius was at this. He could easily get a career as a muggle detective with the way his mind worked.

"Great idea, Peter did you bring the stuff." They were nearing the Great Hall now. Peter nodded; thankfully, James' mom had gotten him a bag that could fit almost anything inside it for his eleventh birthday. So they put the jug of dragon blood in that. It made it much easier to carry as the bag always weighed the same, no matter what was in it.

They placed Diggory in a spot that was easily seen from each hallway leading to the Great Hall, but could not be seen from the great hall itself. Sirius got a brush that they had also bought and began levitated it so that it wasn't too low to the ground. He didn't want it to look like a first year did it, and he wasn't tall enough to reach all that high.

"What are you going to write?" James asked rather exited.

"You'll see?" He said with a smirk. He took the blood-covered brush and began to write in sharp letters. Remus was glad that Sirius had the thought to change his handwriting. James was just ecstatic that Sirius had used so much that the blood started to drip, though the letters stayed readable. Sirius laughed as he wrote…

Lets play a game!!!

"Should I put this as from the Marauders, or are we going to take credit directly." He turned to them

"I think we should use the Marauders, we don't want to take chances with this one." Remus noticed all their eyes flickering to him as James said this. He sighed, Sirius nodded, and continued.

Marauders: 1 Hogwarts: 0

Sirius put the brush down and smiled at his handy work. He looked more excited than a five-year old on Christmas morning.

"Let's get back to the dorm for an hour or two; we don't want to be the first ones seen here." James suggested. They nodded and started to head back; Remus looked back and stopped for a second.

"What?" Sirius asked worried.

"You forgot the apostrophe in Let's." Sirius looked at him for a while and started busting out laughing. "What's so funny?"

"There is a note written in blood, and a prefect petrified under it, and you're worried about my apostrophes." James and Peter laughed as well. "Come on, Mr. Perfectionist." Sirius said half-dragging Remus.

"Aren't you going to fix it?" Remus knew it was dumb but that was probably going to drive him crazy.

"Do you think a mass murderer cares whether his apostrophes are correct?" Sirius asked.

"Probably not." Remus answered.

"Exactly" Sirius said as they walked up to the Gryffindor tower. Remus sighed, and decided to attempt to ignore it. Sirius was right of course.

They went straight to their dorm. It wasn't really early but they knew it would still be a while before anyone was really up. None of them would have been able to go back to sleep and none of them tried. Sirius messed with the map, Remus read Diggory's book (he forgot he had it and accidently brought it back to their dorm), Peter and James played wizard's chess. It was one of the few games Peter could actually win against James. James really stunk at it. He enjoyed watching the pieces rip each other apart too much, and sacrificed way too many of his players, by the end of the game the pieces were considering mutiny. After an hour and a half they couldn't take it any longer and went down to breakfast, walking slowly hoping there would be a crowd before they could get there. They were in luck; there were a ton of people who were there.

They started to worry when many people stared at them as they neared the large group of students.

"What?" Sirius asked, easily faking disinterest. More people stared at them, and the crowd split to show them the body of Diggory and the note exactly the way they left it. They pretended to freeze at the sight of it. For the life of him, Sirius could not figure out why they were looking straight at them. Remus did though. He started freaking out. He was just as good at acting as he was at lying, though still not as good as Sirius with the former

"I told you!" He yelled, they were confused, but Peter was the only one who showed it. Thankfully, everyone ignored him. They were staring at Remus. "I told you they would get mad if we told anyone, but NOOOO. You were so sure they were bluffing." Remus yelled and ran to the Great Hall to get a teacher. It took a while but they finally remembered that they had told Professor Dumbledore that The Marauders threatened them.

"I thought…" Sirius didn't finish "I was so sure that…" He seemed to be unable to form full sentences. James and Peter just stayed silent, knowing their acting skills weren't near as good as Sirius' and Remus'.

Remus came back with Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore. McGonagall ran over to Diggory and checked to see if he was alive.

"Petrified," She said and attempted the counter curse; James had to try his hardest to keep from smiling when she found that it didn't work. Dumbledore addressed the students.

"Everyone into the Great Hall, The prefects and the Head boy, and Girl will be in charge. I want everyone to remain calm; we will tell you what to do during breakfast." Half the students ran straight to the Great Hall. No one seemed to be able to remain calm. When everyone was in the Great Hall, the Prefects managed to get some people seated at their house tables while the Head boy and Girl attempted to calm people down. Students began asking questions. The Marauders had never had so many people try to ask them questions. All of which required lies, Remus and Sirius answered most of them, Peter answered none. He looked terrified. Which was actually true, he was scared of being caught as usual. So his acting skill, or lack thereof, didn't make anyone suspicious.

"Do you think they will go for you next?" Was the last question they heard before Dumbledore and McGonagall came into the room with the other head of houses. The students attempted to ask them questions as well. None of them spoke until they were in front of the room.

"I want everyone's attention please." Dumbledore easily got his wish, as he spoke everyone was quiet as death. "I want you to remain calm, the castle will be searched. If we find anything abnormal, it will be removed. I assure you, you are all safe." As he said this, a many people calmed down. Dumbledore was very well trusted. "Amos Diggory will be fine, it may take a while, but we will figure out how to get him back to normal." Sirius was excited when he heard this, everyone else thought it was because he was worried about Diggory's safety, but the truth was that statement meant that they wouldn't be able to wake him back up. He would be out all day. He gave James a smile; James knew exactly why Sirius was happy. Dumbledore continued.

"Did anyone see anything suspicious lately?" He asked the student body, which in turn stared at the Marauders. Sirius sighed.

"Look, all we know is that we saw them wondering around the halls the night they changed the Slytherin common room colors. We over heard what they were going to do and they caught us eavesdropping. They then told us that if we told anyone that they would hurt us, and only us, if we told anyone. They then proceeded to do some strange battle cry calling out their name and disappeared." James elbowed him with a confused look on his face when he said this last part; he mouthed the word later to him. Nobody seemed to notice this little conversation. Remus bashed his head into his hand.

"I told you this was a bad idea," he said glaring at Sirius. "Why does no one listen to me?" He looked like he was going to have an emotional breakdown.

"I'm sorry, I underestimated them." Sirius attempted to defend himself from the fake statement.

"I want to see you four in my office, the rest of you are to finish your breakfast and then the head of each house will escort you to the common rooms you will stay there until we search the castle." Dumbledore said. Many seemed to calm down, seeing their headmaster so calm made it easy to stop worrying. Remus stiffened.

"Don't worry; he just wants to ask more questions. He doesn't think it was us." Sirius said, he could tell by the look Dumbledore gave them when he asked them to come with him.

"That's not what I'm worried about." Remus didn't lighten up; the rest of the Marauders looked at him in confusion. "We left the err…stuff on my bed" He reminded them. They instantly understood what the stuff was. If anyone found the jug of dragon blood that was now lying on Remus' bed, everyone would know it was him. Of course, they wouldn't let the blame fall on just Remus; they would all take the blame for it. Still, they weren't fond of the idea of getting expelled after only two months.

"What are we going to do? You don't think they are going to search our rooms do you!" James said starting to sweat really bad. If he got expelled his mom would kill him.

"Of course they are going to search our rooms!" Remus looked like he was going to start crying.

"Shhhh," Sirius said, "I'm going to go get it. Tell Dumbledore I went to the bathroom."

"No!" Remus held him back. "Dumbledore knows you wouldn't miss getting involved in something like this, I'll go, I'm a lot faster, and I think there is less chance of him getting someone to find me." He said and didn't give them a chance to respond before ducking under the table and crawling the length of it towards the doors. He was so small no one noticed him down there. They also didn't notice him run out the doors.

"Why wouldn't Dumbledore send anyone to find him?" James asked Sirius shrugged and continued eating. He was one of the only ones who were actually eating. Peter was looking at him as if he was invincible. They may be facing expulsion and he was eating as if nothing was happening. Peter felt like he was going to puke out what he ate yesterday let alone trying to eat now. James noticed this too. "Does anything faze you at all?"

"What?" Sirius said in between bites.

"How can you eat? Aren't you worried at all?" Sirius stared at the food on his plate. He was worried, very worried in fact. He was worried about being expelled. He was worried that he would be seeing his mother faster than he thought. He was worried also worried though that this may be his last meal in a long time. His mother had a thing about giving punishments by refusing the 'bad kid' food. He had gone more than once without anything to eat for a long time. However, he certainly wasn't going to tell them that.

"Sure, but we still have to pretend that we aren't to blame for this." He said quietly so no one would over hear them. "So I am attempting to eat something." James stared at his own plate now as if trying to force it to appear as though he was eating it. He tried to take a bite, strangely enough the food actually made him feel a bit better. Maybe it was just because it was distracting him from the worry. Peter tried as well it didn't help him though, and he found he couldn't eat more than a few bites. Nothing could distract Peter from the worry. Remus still wasn't back by the time everyone was escorted to their dormitories, which was a very bad thing. The teachers taking the students to their dorms meant that they had already searched them. They really didn't like how long it was taking him.

It wasn't long before the only ones in the room where the three of them and Dumbledore. They walked up to him.

"Remus had to go to the bathroom." James said not waiting for Dumbledore to ask. Dumbledore gave him a curious look.

"And did anyone think to go with him?" He asked, James moaned. Thankfully, Sirius had already distracted Dumbledore.

"Of course, he went with a sixth year that also had to go. What kind of friends would we be if we let him go alone with these freaks after us?"

"This doesn't necessarily mean that their after you, Sirius"

"Who else could they be after? They warned us and we ignored them, it's our fault Diggory was hurt." Sirius looked down at his feet; he was having a little trouble lying to him. Dumbledore was one of the kindest people he knew.

"Trust me Sirius, it wasn't your fault." Dumbledore placed a hand on his shoulder. This comforted all three of them. His voice was so sincere that there was no way he didn't trust them. It also make Sirius feel bad for lying to him, but there was no way they could get caught now, not when they were the only ones that knew that no one was in any real danger. They walked over to Dumbledore's office, and to their surprise found Remus waiting for them. He smiled when he saw them and ran over to them. This smile instantly killed all of their worries. Remus had successfully hidden the stuff. Sirius noticed he had his wand out as though ready for an attack. Sirius chuckled quietly; Remus was very good at this, almost as good as him.

Dumbledore said the password and a spiral staircase opened which they assumed led to his office. Sirius made a mental note to remember this password.

They followed Dumbledore up the staircase and walked into the office feeling very confident in their selves.

A/N I'm really rather proud of this chapter, and the next was actually pretty easy to write. Also This is the only prank that I thought up by my self. I can't wait for you to read the next ones.

I wonder how many people will actually listen to what I put at the begining of the chapter and use the cool font. I'm not kidding it looks so much cooler that way.

Thanks to all reviewers. They really make me happy, I feel quite popular. ^_^