Chapter 32

Last Prank of First Year

"The year is almost over guys." Sirius sounded as though he was announcing a funeral.

"I'm sure it won't be that bad, Sirius." Remus responded knowing it wouldn't help cheer the boy up.

"Maybe not for you." Sirius mumbled half hoping Remus wouldn't hear him, of course Remus did, but decided to ignore it for everyone in the room's sake.

"When are you guys going to start packing?" Peter asked as though he couldn't start until they did. Sirius moaned.

"We still have a whole day. Don't rush it."

"Sirius I know you're going to be miserable all summer, but wasting the last few days of school by being bummed is a really bad idea. You should at least try and enjoy your last few days of freedom." James walked over and sat on Sirius' bed beside where he was lying.

"I know, but I can't help it."

"I know what you need." James smiled. Remus knew exactly what James was thinking about just by looking in his eyes. That look always meant that some poor soul would be crying by the end of the day, or in some cases maybe it just meant that everyone would be laughing their heads off. Right now Remus was hoping for the latter he didn't want a detention to be carried over the summer. Sirius and Peter easily caught on to what James was suggesting.

"What do you have in mind, fellow Marauder." Sirius quickly got a similar look.

James looked under his bed for something for a while and when he found it he stood up and walked back to Sirius. "I got these from my mom for my birthday a few weeks ago. The inventor is a family friend of ours and gave her a pack for free before he sold them to the public. What do you think we can do with them?" Sirius took the small rectangular box, he looked at it, reading the words on the outside of the box, and thinking, before he got a wonderfully, evil smile on his face.

"Let's finish the year with a bang. Shall we?" He said before getting up to leave the room. James shrugged to the other two and all three of them followed.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

Half an hour later found the Marauders in the library. Calling them excited would be an understatement. Once Sirius had told them the plan, they quickly got to work.

"I found it!" Remus shouted excitedly before looking around to make sure the librarian wasn't around to hear his outburst.

"Yes! What is it?" Sirius looked over his shoulder to read the page he was looking at.

"Geminio, the duplicates aren't quite as good as the original but if we do it enough times it won't matter." Remus told them, looking at the duplicate spell in the book.

"Perfect, having them not as strong will make sure no one gets hurt." Sirius said before pausing. "Um.. Wait aren't I saying your line and you saying mine."

Remus reddened a little. "I was thinking that exact same thing." Sirius chuckled and James smirked.

"Wow Remmy, you're turning out to be quite the bad kid." Remus blushed.

"Stop teasing me and let's get on with it." Sirius laughed and messed with Remus' hair, who ducked away from Sirius' hand and began running out the door bringing the book with him. Sirius, James, and Peter followed him back to the dorm.

When they got back to the dorm they tried out the new spell on a few random objects, it wasn't a hard spell so it didn't take long.

"When are we going to do it?" Peter asked practically bouncing with excitement, this was going to be a good one.

"Obviously the end of the year feast, when else would we do it?" Sirius said bouncing on his bed. James smacked Sirius upside the head for being mean to Peter, of course Sirius had to retaliate causing them to start another wrestling match.

"Is the end of the year feast tonight or tomorrow?" Peter asked Remus ignoring the two boys rolling around on the floor.

"Tonight, then we finish packing, sleep, and try to get up early enough to eat breakfast before getting on the train back." Remus said also ignoring Sirius and James. Peter laid back in bed.

"This is going to rock." He said quietly.

OOOOOOOOOOOOO

The Marauders were sitting in the great hall waiting for the end of the year feast to begin. They could barely sit still. They had done the usual and stolen some paint from Flitwick who they were sure was starting to notice, as he kept it locked up this time. They decided over the break they needed to find a way to do it without paint, it became a personal homework assignment. Everything was ready, and it would start as soon as everyone began eating. They tuned when Dumbledore stood to speak.

"Well, it is time at last to say goodbye." Dumbledore said when the room quieted down. "There are, of course, a few things that must be said before we begin. First of all we must say goodbye to our elder students as they will not be returning to us again next year. Goodbye and we wish you well as you move on to better things." Dumbledore raised his glass as a toast to the seventh years.

"I feel bad for them, the fun has only just begun." James whispered to Sirius, referring to the fact that they only had one year with the Marauders in the building. Sirius laughed, nodding in agreement.

"And next." Dumbledore continued. "I would like to thank you all, for such a wonderful first year as Headmaster at Hogwarts." To his surprise the entire school, minus most of the Slytherins of course, exploded with applause. "Thank you thank you." He said quieting them. "Next I would like to inform you that the results of your exams, N.E. or O. will be given out by your Head of House in the morning and it will be your responsibility to contact them.

"Now that all the boring news is over I believe it is time to announce the winner of the House Cup." The school eagerly awaited the news. The Marauders cheered for Gryffindor to win with quite a few of the others, they had lost a lot of house points for Gryffindor, but always made it a priority to earn them back plus some. If Gryffindor lost it wouldn't be their fault. The only ones they were worried about beating was Hufflepuff. The boost they got from winning the Quidditch cup might have put them in the lead.

"The winners of the the House Cup is..." Dumbledore paused for effect, then clapped loudly and the entire Great Hall turned yellow and black. "Hufflepuff!" Sirius winced and James sighed.

"Oh well, they were really good fliers." James said.

"James you know there is more to winning the House Cup then playing a good Quidditch game, right?" Remus asked amused.

"Ya, but it sure helps." He answered.

"Congratulations Hufflepuff." Dumbledore said though the cheers coming from the house table. "Now I do think it is high time that this old man stopped boring everyone and we begin the feast don't you." Sirius chuckled and nodded to the Marauders and they responded likewise.

Oh no, do please go on!

The words appeared on the wall. To the Marauders delight many people looked around fearfully and pushed any food around them as far away as possible, knowing something was going to happen.

We felt the need to congradulate the students ourselves, of course. And we truly feel sorry foor those poor souls who will not be coming back next year! I hear it's going to be a real...

Sirius paused and wiped the paint off the wall. He did a count down under the table for James. Who sat by Sirius instead of Peter for once.

Smash!

Suddenly the entire room exploded. The students jumped off their seats but the explosions were coming from the floor its self. They couldn't get away from it, even the teachers were trying to get away, Sirius laughed evilly when he saw Professor Slughorn running out the staff, not bothering to attempt to control the explosions like the other teachers were. Most of the students began running for the doors which to their surprise were locked, many of them headed to the staff door which Slughorn had proved was not. The Marauders followed the crowd as not to arouse suspicion. When out of the Great Hall they found that if they stood close to the door it was loud enough that they could talk with out being overheard but quiet enough that they could hear each other.

"What were those things called again?" Sirius asked talking a little louder than normal.

"They were Exploding Snap Cards." James answered referring to the box, or more specifically what was inside the box that they had duplicated multiple time and spread across the floor of the Great hall, using a spell they had found in the same book as the duplicating spell to make them unable to be seen, though not invisible.

"Well tell your friend that Sirius Black want's to buy as many boxes as he can get his hands on!"

AN) I've been waiting to use the exploding snap cards in a prank. I hope it wasn't too unrealistic.

Thanks for the reviews I may upload really soon or I may wait a while, it just depends on how far ahead I am.