Chapter 17
Last Victim
The Marauders were in their dorm laughing their heads off. If anyone saw them, they would think they had been hit with way to many cheering charms.
"I can't believe they are so worried about this!" Sirius said in between laughter.
"Of course they are worried about it, they don't realize how to fix it!" Remus couldn't hold it in anymore. "It took us five minutes to learn the spell and they can't figure out how to reverse it!" Remus was having a hard time breathing enough to speak. "The fully accomplished wizards can't figure out how to undo a spell that four eleven year old wizards who have been in school for two months put on a couple of students." With that Remus could no longer speak.
As soon as McGonagall's speech was over they had ran up to their dorm as fast as possible. Most people just assumed that they were scared. They got to their room and all worry about being caught and expelled was quickly forgotten. They hadn't stopped laughing since, James was starting to worry that they would die from lack of oxygen.
"Oh… that was good, defiantly worth all the worry." James said wiping a few tears from his eyes. "Did you see the look on Snape's face when we were looking at that chick? He looked like he was going to pee his pants. Oh that was to die for." The memory of Snape's face caused him to start laughing all over again.
"Aw, I missed that. Darn it." Peter would have looked disappointed, if he could stop laughing long enough to make the face.
"I saw his girlfriend's face, she was crying. She was clutching onto him so hard it looked like she was going to rip his arm off." Sirius said, laughing at Evans.
"She's not his girlfriend." James said, surprisingly quiet serious. "And I have no idea why the very notion of them going out disgusts me so much."
"I know why" Sirius said and was going to continue but James interrupted him.
"If you say it's because I'm in love with either one of them I'm going to kill you." Remus and Peter watched their conversation in amusement.
"I wasn't going to say that I swear." Sirius said laughing, his lungs were really starting to hurt. "It's because Snape isn't cool enough to have a girlfriend. Even one as annoying as Evens." James thought about that for a moment.
"Ya, that is defiantly why." They laughed again, still very giddy from McGonagall's speech. Remus happened to look at the time.
"Shoot!!!!" They all turned to Remus looking at him like he was going to explode. "We have three minutes to get to History of Magic." All laugher stopped immediately and they ran out of the common room.
"You would think that with students randomly being attacked they would call off all the classes." Sirius said as they ran as fast as they could. Remus had to remind himself not to go too fast in fear of getting Sirius back on the subject of his inhuman speed. They made it to history of magic. Not on time of course, but they made it. Once again, Mr. Binns didn't even notice them arrive.
They sat down in the back of the classroom. "Is this teacher deaf?" Sirius whispered to James, he laughed.
"Must be." James sighed and began doodling. He tried to pay attention, he really did. It just wasn't possible to actually listen to the man drone on. He would just read the chapter out of the book later. Probably learn more that way.
Remus managed to take notes. That was how he cured his boredom actually. He wasn't listening to Mr. Binns, he was taking notes out of the book itself. The chapter they were on was actually pretty interesting. The man probably could make a vampire attack seem boring.
When they got out of class, they decided to stage another attack just for no reason but to cure their boredom. They were going to use the plan they thought of earlier. Absolutely no one was out of their common room alone. No one they could find anyway. They found two Ravenclaws that would work just fine. They didn't seem to know where they were going one of them even had their nose in a Muggle Studies book. The Marauders followed them until they were in an empty hallway. They seemed to be heading for potions class a little early. This time Remus did the spell with James, though he kinda felt bad about it. They levitated both of them to the entrance to Mr. Slughorn's classroom. Thankfully, James had started carrying his bag with them everywhere so they didn't have to worry about it. This time Sirius wrote…
Its no fun if you don't even try!!!
Marauders:3 Hogwarts:0
"Put an apostrophe, you're driving me crazy." Sirius sighed and put the apostrophe there. They then levitated the other Ravenclaw to a broom closet near McGonagall's room. There weren't many people out most people were too scared.
"We need to stay away this time." Remus said as they walked towards the common room. "We don't have potions today and we have no reason to be anywhere near the classroom. It would be way too suspicious."
"You have a point; darn I wanted to see the reaction." James huffed.
It wasn't until they had been at the common room for an hour did they hear about the next attack. Apparently, the Ravenclaw girl was a seventh year. They felt rather proud of themselves. They just petrified a seventh year Ravenclaw, probably two. Lilly Evans was freaking out. They watched he rant to her friend about how much safer she thought Hogwarts would be for a full twenty minutes. They then went to their dorm.
"When are we going to tell them it was all a joke?" Remus asked. They needed to get the last part of their plan down. He took out the piece of paper that had their plans on it. "I swear I'm up to no good." He said the passphrase and pointed his wand at the paper. The words he wrote on it began to appear.
"The Halloween feast is the perfect time. The whole school will be there." Sirius said looking at the paper.
"But how are we going to tell them. We can't put a person in the Great Hall, before the feast. We will get caught, they spend the time decorating." James began to pace again, as Remus wrote this down.
"What if we just do the words? Sirius can levitate the brush and write the words on the wall." Surprisingly Peter came up with this idea. It may have been the first thing he had actually done for this prank.
"That's a good idea Peter; it wouldn't be hard to do. Especially if they suspect us as much as Dumbledore made it seem, which is not at all, Remus." Sirius added that at the end remembering that Remus wasn't there when Dumbledore told them it wasn't their fault.
"We should find a spell that allows the pain to disappear that way you can write without worrying about running out of wall space. I have a feeling they are going to ask questions. Are you going to answer them?" Remus said still writing.
"Ah sure, why not?" Sirius said and they headed for the library again. Thankfully, they quickly found exactly what they were looking for. It was another easy spell. They practiced it when they displayed the other Ravenclaw girl an hour later. It was good thing the learned it because Sirius almost spelled Marauders wrong this time.
We are going to win!!!
Marauders:4 Hogwarts:0
They decided that this was going to be their last one and looked rather sad at it. They had put this one in front of another classroom. In fact, the class had been about ready to end when they finished. They almost didn't get away in time. They did of course, and headed towards the Great Hall for the feast.
Watching their faces when they finally figured out what was going on was going to be hilarious.
A/N) Hehe, perfectionest Remus strikes again. Next chapter will be the revealing.