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Chapter 18~ Surprising Pranks
The Marauders woke up at 8:30am on Sunday morning. Breakfast was at 9 o'clock. As James and Remus
hastened to get ready, Sirius remained in bed. Remus finished first and the job of getting Sirius out of bed fell
to him. "SIRIUS! FIFTEEN MINUTES TILL BREAKFAST!"
Sirius dragged one eye open, still feeling tired - even after sleeping through a whole day - and murmured,
"Shut up Remus, you eejot! It's Saturday!"
Remus snorted. "I hate to tell you this, but today is in fact Sunday. You slept through Saturday."
Sirius let out a short bark of laughter. "Yeah right, like I'm going to believe that!"
"Ah, well. Miss out on our huge prank explosion then. Our last ever Hogwarts prank and you're not going to
be there. What a shame." James was checking what appeared to be a small black box. It was roughly the
size of a ring box, all the sides were smooth, and there were no openings apart from a small hole in one face.
The hole was at the top of the box. After a few minutes James seemed to be satisfied and carefully placed the
box in his pocket. He was just in time - Lily walked into the dormitory.
"Are you guys coming to breakfast? I mean I know you don't usually bother, but as it's our last one - "
Sirius cut across Lily. "LAST ONE?!!" He bellowed, bolting upright in bed, jumping down to the floor and rolling
to the bathroom. "He is crazy, my beliefs are confirmed." Lily exclaimed, then, with a grin, "Nice six-pack
though."
James flexed his muscles. "Nowhere near as good as mine though." Lily walked across to James and lifted up
his t-shirt. "Mmm.. nowhere near as good as yours Jamie." She hugged him and reached up to kiss him,
whispering in his ear. "I love you."
"I love you too." They pulled apart so that James could put on his robes. Sirius emerged from the bathroom.
He pulled his robes on and used a spell to dry his hair. He turned around with a grin set across his face.
"What are we waiting for?"
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They used a secret passage to reach the Great Hall and arrived for breakfast five minutes early. The whole
school was having breakfast at 9 o'clock because it was the Seventh Years' last breakfast. After breakfast the
Seventh Years were going home - they had finished their NEWT examinations, so there was no point in staying
at school. They would be owled their results.
Remus sat at the side of the Gryffindor table that was nearest to the centre of the room. Sirius plonked himself
down opposite Remus. James sat next to Sirius and Lily sat on James' other side. James carefully removed
the black box from his pocket and passed it to Remus. Remus checked it, as James had before, and let out a
snort. James grinned. "I couldn't resist." Remus slid the box across the floor so that it halted close to the
centre of the room. He checked his watch. "Perfect, it will start 10 minutes after breakfast starts."
Sirius grinned. "Cool."
Lily was highly suspicious, but decided not to say anything.
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The teachers were all seated and waited until every student had arrived for breakfast (except those in the
hospital wing). Nobody seemed to notice the black box in the middle of the room. Dumbledore rose from his
seat and the students fell silent.
"As you all know, today is the day that we say farewell to our Seventh Year students. I would like to
congratulate them on the superb job that I'm sure they have done in the NEWT examinations. I would like to
thank the Seventh Year prefects for their hard work over the past three years: Remus Lupin, Wendy Destipy,
Reeni Tramp, Rubin Cherry, Samuel Sayers, Reasion Arkle, Pink Woods and Christians Sands." The hall burst
into applause, as the mentioned prefects blushed with embarrassment.
"I would also like to give a huge thank you to this years Head Boy and Head Girl, James Potter and Lily Evans."
The pupils burst into applause once more. James and Lily grinned at the crowd and James stood to take a bow.
The crowd burst into laughter. All of a sudden the hall went dark. People turned their heads towards the
bewitched sky, which had gone pitch black. Stars began to shoot across the sky. Most people jumped as a
singular firework exited the small black box on the floor, soared into the sky and exploded with a loud bang to
display the message:
WELCOME ONE AND ALL
James groaned. "Sirius, what's with the 'ONE AND ALL'? It's not a pantomime!"
The little black box emitted a huge display of original fireworks. A face made up of stars that smiled and
winked. A huge red dragon that swept over the students before exploding into an array of red stardust, which
fell onto the Gryffindor students. A huge hyena, which actually filled the hall with laughter before popping
above the Slytherin students in a shower of green slime. A deer galloped across the sky before bursting into a
shower of yellow above the Hufflepuff students. A dog jumped and rolled across the sky, skidding to halt
above the Ravenclaw table, sending blue stardust down to cover them.
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When the display had finished, the hall broke into applause once more, which came to a scattered halt as the
students stared at one another in disbelief. The Gryffindor students all had scarlet hair with glittery streaks of
gold, the Ravenclaws had blue hair with streaks of bronze, the Slytherins had green hair with splats of silver
and the Hufflepuffs had yellow hair with streaks of black. The students looked sharply up again as a rain of
Marshmallows pelted down on them and an array of stars filled the sky. A group of golden stars arranged
themselves into a statement that read:
Remus would like to thank everyone at Hogwarts for watching this fine display.
A group of red stars arranged themselves below the gold stars.
James would like to add that everyone should love marshmallows, especially in hot chocolate.
Another group of gold stars joined them.
Sirius would like to add that 9 o'clock is far too early for breakfast.
Another group of red stars joined the bottom.
James would also like to add: I LOVE LILY EVANS!
Lily turned to James and hugged him. The whole hall was talking excitedly. The letters in the sky slowly faded
and the black box emitted a last set of stars, which formed the last message.
THE MARAUDERS (A/N this would be underlined, but I don't know how.) GOODBYE TO HOGWARTS!
Dumbledore decided to finish off his speech. "And thank you to Remus Lupin, James Potter and Sirius Black for
that astonishing and enlightening display! I wish each and every one of you the best of luck for your chosen
careers and the future."
The students started to eat. A Slytherin attempted to speak - an insult - and found a stream of horse poo
being released from his mouth instead. Everyone (excluding the Slytherins) laughed and laughed even harder
when the other Slytherins tried to insult the laughing people and found horse poo escaping their own mouths
as well. Several people at the Gryffindor table erupted with overenthusiastic laughter and found that they
couldn't stop - however hard they tried. Many people, including Lily, floated towards the ceiling after eating
some of the fallen marshmallows. Sirius kept glancing towards the Hufflepuff table and it soon became evident
why - a group of snobbish sixth year boys eating bacon turned into pigs. Several heads hit the table and loud
snores could from Ravenclaw students that had eaten baked beans. The Marauders were laughing hysterically,
while Lily floated around near the ceiling. Dumbledore looked amused and let the chaos continue for a while
before finishing some of the spells. He woke those who were sleeping and helped the people who were
laughing hysterically. Professor McGonagall sent the pigs to the hospital wing and tried to help the Slytherins,
who kept talking a load of crap (A/N I couldn't resist!). In the end the Professors had to ask the Marauders for
help. The Marauders told them, through laughs, that the spell would wear off when the Seventh Year students
boarded the Hogwarts Express to go home. Each person floating near the ceiling had to be floated down to the
ground slowly, to prevent them from incurring any injuries. Lily hit James repeatedly.
"You could have told me, you great git! I do not appreciate floating near the ceiling like I'm some sort of
helium balloon!" James couldn't help it - he laughed even harder, which only infuriated Lily even more. He
stopped laughing when he received a large envelope containing some sort of deeds, but continued with his
laughter after he had read the documents.
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The Seventh Years boarded the Hogwarts Express after packing and saying goodbye to the teachers and
younger students. James still couldn't contain his laughter and sat in a train compartment talking about the
morning's events with Remus and Sirius. Laura and Lily, who were bored stiff and rather annoyed by the
morning's events, sat in a different compartment. Lily was particularly peeved that her hair would remain
scarlet with glittery gold streaks for an entire week. James came looking for Lily when his laughter had finally
subsided. "Lily, I'm sorry. I should've warned you about the marshmallows."
"It's okay James."
"And I wanted to give you these." He held up a set of keys. Lily stared at them in silence, then -
"What are they - "
"Keys."
"I know that, I'm not that stupid! What are they for?"
The train was coming to a halt at the station. James stepped out of the compartment carrying both his and
Lily's suitcases, which he had previously made featherlight.
"I'll show you what they're for."
Lily and James walked to The Leaky Cauldron, where they used floo powder to arrive at a pub near the
Thames. James handed Lily a small piece of paper, which had 'JELP: Number 10, Waterstar Apartments,
London'. Lily thought about the words and an apartment block arose in front of her. James opened the door to
the lobby and entered a lift to take them to the top floor. Lily unlocked the door and stepped inside. James
looked nervous as he awaited her opinion. "Do you like it?"
Lily looked into his hazel eyes. "James, I absolutely love it."
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THE END!
I might write a short fanfic about James' proposal to Lily, the wedding preparations, the wedding and the wedding reception. I didn't write Moony, Prongs and Padfoot in the sky part in the Great Hall because people would've known that James was Prongs which could've led to suspicion. Thank you to Delia Black, 1MonkeyGurl1, Ti, NTonks1, LJstagflower4e/Jctigerwolf4e, Fir3fly, Maraudertimes, Karen and slate07
for reviewing chapter 17. Please review this chapter!! Thank you once again, Happy New Year, Happy 2004 and farewell, until my next fanfic, from me.
Twelvegrimmauldplace (aka Tanya)
Chapter 18~ Surprising Pranks
The Marauders woke up at 8:30am on Sunday morning. Breakfast was at 9 o'clock. As James and Remus
hastened to get ready, Sirius remained in bed. Remus finished first and the job of getting Sirius out of bed fell
to him. "SIRIUS! FIFTEEN MINUTES TILL BREAKFAST!"
Sirius dragged one eye open, still feeling tired - even after sleeping through a whole day - and murmured,
"Shut up Remus, you eejot! It's Saturday!"
Remus snorted. "I hate to tell you this, but today is in fact Sunday. You slept through Saturday."
Sirius let out a short bark of laughter. "Yeah right, like I'm going to believe that!"
"Ah, well. Miss out on our huge prank explosion then. Our last ever Hogwarts prank and you're not going to
be there. What a shame." James was checking what appeared to be a small black box. It was roughly the
size of a ring box, all the sides were smooth, and there were no openings apart from a small hole in one face.
The hole was at the top of the box. After a few minutes James seemed to be satisfied and carefully placed the
box in his pocket. He was just in time - Lily walked into the dormitory.
"Are you guys coming to breakfast? I mean I know you don't usually bother, but as it's our last one - "
Sirius cut across Lily. "LAST ONE?!!" He bellowed, bolting upright in bed, jumping down to the floor and rolling
to the bathroom. "He is crazy, my beliefs are confirmed." Lily exclaimed, then, with a grin, "Nice six-pack
though."
James flexed his muscles. "Nowhere near as good as mine though." Lily walked across to James and lifted up
his t-shirt. "Mmm.. nowhere near as good as yours Jamie." She hugged him and reached up to kiss him,
whispering in his ear. "I love you."
"I love you too." They pulled apart so that James could put on his robes. Sirius emerged from the bathroom.
He pulled his robes on and used a spell to dry his hair. He turned around with a grin set across his face.
"What are we waiting for?"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~
They used a secret passage to reach the Great Hall and arrived for breakfast five minutes early. The whole
school was having breakfast at 9 o'clock because it was the Seventh Years' last breakfast. After breakfast the
Seventh Years were going home - they had finished their NEWT examinations, so there was no point in staying
at school. They would be owled their results.
Remus sat at the side of the Gryffindor table that was nearest to the centre of the room. Sirius plonked himself
down opposite Remus. James sat next to Sirius and Lily sat on James' other side. James carefully removed
the black box from his pocket and passed it to Remus. Remus checked it, as James had before, and let out a
snort. James grinned. "I couldn't resist." Remus slid the box across the floor so that it halted close to the
centre of the room. He checked his watch. "Perfect, it will start 10 minutes after breakfast starts."
Sirius grinned. "Cool."
Lily was highly suspicious, but decided not to say anything.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~
The teachers were all seated and waited until every student had arrived for breakfast (except those in the
hospital wing). Nobody seemed to notice the black box in the middle of the room. Dumbledore rose from his
seat and the students fell silent.
"As you all know, today is the day that we say farewell to our Seventh Year students. I would like to
congratulate them on the superb job that I'm sure they have done in the NEWT examinations. I would like to
thank the Seventh Year prefects for their hard work over the past three years: Remus Lupin, Wendy Destipy,
Reeni Tramp, Rubin Cherry, Samuel Sayers, Reasion Arkle, Pink Woods and Christians Sands." The hall burst
into applause, as the mentioned prefects blushed with embarrassment.
"I would also like to give a huge thank you to this years Head Boy and Head Girl, James Potter and Lily Evans."
The pupils burst into applause once more. James and Lily grinned at the crowd and James stood to take a bow.
The crowd burst into laughter. All of a sudden the hall went dark. People turned their heads towards the
bewitched sky, which had gone pitch black. Stars began to shoot across the sky. Most people jumped as a
singular firework exited the small black box on the floor, soared into the sky and exploded with a loud bang to
display the message:
WELCOME ONE AND ALL
James groaned. "Sirius, what's with the 'ONE AND ALL'? It's not a pantomime!"
The little black box emitted a huge display of original fireworks. A face made up of stars that smiled and
winked. A huge red dragon that swept over the students before exploding into an array of red stardust, which
fell onto the Gryffindor students. A huge hyena, which actually filled the hall with laughter before popping
above the Slytherin students in a shower of green slime. A deer galloped across the sky before bursting into a
shower of yellow above the Hufflepuff students. A dog jumped and rolled across the sky, skidding to halt
above the Ravenclaw table, sending blue stardust down to cover them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~
When the display had finished, the hall broke into applause once more, which came to a scattered halt as the
students stared at one another in disbelief. The Gryffindor students all had scarlet hair with glittery streaks of
gold, the Ravenclaws had blue hair with streaks of bronze, the Slytherins had green hair with splats of silver
and the Hufflepuffs had yellow hair with streaks of black. The students looked sharply up again as a rain of
Marshmallows pelted down on them and an array of stars filled the sky. A group of golden stars arranged
themselves into a statement that read:
Remus would like to thank everyone at Hogwarts for watching this fine display.
A group of red stars arranged themselves below the gold stars.
James would like to add that everyone should love marshmallows, especially in hot chocolate.
Another group of gold stars joined them.
Sirius would like to add that 9 o'clock is far too early for breakfast.
Another group of red stars joined the bottom.
James would also like to add: I LOVE LILY EVANS!
Lily turned to James and hugged him. The whole hall was talking excitedly. The letters in the sky slowly faded
and the black box emitted a last set of stars, which formed the last message.
THE MARAUDERS (A/N this would be underlined, but I don't know how.) GOODBYE TO HOGWARTS!
Dumbledore decided to finish off his speech. "And thank you to Remus Lupin, James Potter and Sirius Black for
that astonishing and enlightening display! I wish each and every one of you the best of luck for your chosen
careers and the future."
The students started to eat. A Slytherin attempted to speak - an insult - and found a stream of horse poo
being released from his mouth instead. Everyone (excluding the Slytherins) laughed and laughed even harder
when the other Slytherins tried to insult the laughing people and found horse poo escaping their own mouths
as well. Several people at the Gryffindor table erupted with overenthusiastic laughter and found that they
couldn't stop - however hard they tried. Many people, including Lily, floated towards the ceiling after eating
some of the fallen marshmallows. Sirius kept glancing towards the Hufflepuff table and it soon became evident
why - a group of snobbish sixth year boys eating bacon turned into pigs. Several heads hit the table and loud
snores could from Ravenclaw students that had eaten baked beans. The Marauders were laughing hysterically,
while Lily floated around near the ceiling. Dumbledore looked amused and let the chaos continue for a while
before finishing some of the spells. He woke those who were sleeping and helped the people who were
laughing hysterically. Professor McGonagall sent the pigs to the hospital wing and tried to help the Slytherins,
who kept talking a load of crap (A/N I couldn't resist!). In the end the Professors had to ask the Marauders for
help. The Marauders told them, through laughs, that the spell would wear off when the Seventh Year students
boarded the Hogwarts Express to go home. Each person floating near the ceiling had to be floated down to the
ground slowly, to prevent them from incurring any injuries. Lily hit James repeatedly.
"You could have told me, you great git! I do not appreciate floating near the ceiling like I'm some sort of
helium balloon!" James couldn't help it - he laughed even harder, which only infuriated Lily even more. He
stopped laughing when he received a large envelope containing some sort of deeds, but continued with his
laughter after he had read the documents.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~
The Seventh Years boarded the Hogwarts Express after packing and saying goodbye to the teachers and
younger students. James still couldn't contain his laughter and sat in a train compartment talking about the
morning's events with Remus and Sirius. Laura and Lily, who were bored stiff and rather annoyed by the
morning's events, sat in a different compartment. Lily was particularly peeved that her hair would remain
scarlet with glittery gold streaks for an entire week. James came looking for Lily when his laughter had finally
subsided. "Lily, I'm sorry. I should've warned you about the marshmallows."
"It's okay James."
"And I wanted to give you these." He held up a set of keys. Lily stared at them in silence, then -
"What are they - "
"Keys."
"I know that, I'm not that stupid! What are they for?"
The train was coming to a halt at the station. James stepped out of the compartment carrying both his and
Lily's suitcases, which he had previously made featherlight.
"I'll show you what they're for."
Lily and James walked to The Leaky Cauldron, where they used floo powder to arrive at a pub near the
Thames. James handed Lily a small piece of paper, which had 'JELP: Number 10, Waterstar Apartments,
London'. Lily thought about the words and an apartment block arose in front of her. James opened the door to
the lobby and entered a lift to take them to the top floor. Lily unlocked the door and stepped inside. James
looked nervous as he awaited her opinion. "Do you like it?"
Lily looked into his hazel eyes. "James, I absolutely love it."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ~
THE END!
I might write a short fanfic about James' proposal to Lily, the wedding preparations, the wedding and the wedding reception. I didn't write Moony, Prongs and Padfoot in the sky part in the Great Hall because people would've known that James was Prongs which could've led to suspicion. Thank you to Delia Black, 1MonkeyGurl1, Ti, NTonks1, LJstagflower4e/Jctigerwolf4e, Fir3fly, Maraudertimes, Karen and slate07
for reviewing chapter 17. Please review this chapter!! Thank you once again, Happy New Year, Happy 2004 and farewell, until my next fanfic, from me.
Twelvegrimmauldplace (aka Tanya)