Great Times There
By Lady Lupin
A/N: This is a short chapter because my friend, who shall remain nameless *cough*Ax*cough*, was really anxious for the chapter, so I took a bit from the chapter I am working on and came up with this. A longer chapter will be put up soon, but I'm making no promises.
Disclaimer: All that is from the Harry Potter world is JK's and I wouldn't dream of saying it was mine, Lenora, Nyah, Scarlett, Icis, and William, however, are mine, and if you would like to use them please ask permission first.
Chapter 4: The Afternoon of Halloween
Not too long after their flying lesson everyone got into the normal routine of taking classes doing homework, and playing pranks on Snape. It was a basic kind of life and the seven friends enjoyed it immensely. Soon they had been there for almost two months, and it was Halloween. The day of October the 31st happened to be a Hogsmeade day, so the first and second years had the run of Gryffindor tower. In the common room sat James Remus Sirius and Peter. Remus and Sirius were playing a game of wizard chess, and James and Peter were being biased commentators. Sirius was loosing horribly, but Peter was making it out to sound like he was just faking. Remus was an excellent chess player and James was not exaggerating even slightly about the wonderful game he was playing. A crowd of students had gathered around them as they were going through the final moves.
"Ahhhh and Remus wins this Chess match spectacularly, against his horrible opponent, Sirius." James said in a loud annoying voice. Remus stood up, bowed and grinned. Sirius sat in his seat, a bit surly from loosing. Peter smirked.
"Ah well, even my great commentating couldn't save you this time Sirius." He said, patting him on the back. The week before in a game against William, Peter had been commentating and had distracted the boy so that Sirius was able to win.
"Oh well, no one can beat Remus, so that makes it alright I suppose." He conceded.
"Hey Sirius, have you seen your sister today?" James asked after everything had settled back down. Sirius shook his head.
"No, why?" He asked. James frowned.
"Well I overheard Scarlett tell Icis that she heard Lenora talking about a prank for tonight, and I thought Len might have mentioned it to you," He told him, running his hand through his already hopelessly messy hair. Sirius made a face.
"Lenora tell me anything? After we stole their prank that time? Ha! That's a good one. They could be planning to kill someone and I wouldn't know. All three of them can hide their emotions so well." He explained.
"Well you know there is only one thing to do then, don't you?" Remus asked. The other three shook their heads. "We have to do a big prank, one that will outdo anything that the girls can come up with." James grinned.
"You're right, we haven't done anything really bad since Lizzy and the blue hair incident," Sirius agreed.
"Alright, up to the dorm, we've got some brainstorming to do." James stated, clapping his hands together. They trouped up the stair and headed to the 1st years dorm.
"Now, we need something huge, that they'll remember for a while." Peter said, flopping onto his bed.
"First things first. Our target?" Remus asked.
"Snape!" Sirius exclaimed immediately. James rolled his eyes.
"How about just the Slytherins in general?" He offered. Everyone agreed.
"James, grab your book, I've got an idea." Remus said pacing around the room.
"Oooooh, everybody stand back, master Remus is going to blind us with his awesome plan!" Sirius crooned as James found the book. Remus just rolled his eyes, and flipped through the pages of the huge book.
"Ahh here it is." Remus said, pointing at the page. The other three read it over.
"Remus! You're a genius! This is perfect. But how do we pull it off by tonight?" Peter exclaimed.
"Here is what we are going to do," Remus began, leaning over the book.
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"Ok Nyah, is everything ready?" Lily asked, looking up from a piece of parchment.
"Just about. All we need to do now is to put everything in place." Nyah said grinning. Just then Lenora appeared in the room.
"The guys know we are pulling something. I was coming back from putting some of the stuff in the hall and I heard them. They actually think they can out prank us!" Lenora said, putting her invisibility cloak at the bottom of her trunk.
Lily rolled her eyes. " They also think they can play quidditch better than us. What do you expect?"
"Well they do play better than I do. I don't know about this, what if we are caught?" Nyah asked.
"Don't worry, we planned it out just right. Besides, even if we do, it's only a detention." Lenora said, waving her hand about. Nyah grinned at her.
"I guess you're right. And it really will be worth it to see everyone's reaction. This really is a great idea Lily." Nyah admitted.
"Of course it is! What else would you expect from me?" Lily asked, sounding pompous. Lenora grinned.
"Anything but?" She said not so innocently. Lily threw her pillow at Lenora. Who ducked and it hit Nyah instead. Nyah threw it back at Lily, who charmed it to fly around like a bludger. Lenora did the same to the rest of the pillows, and they spent the afternoon bashing the pillows around at each other. They enjoyed it immensely.
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Down in the kitchens the guys were preparing their prank.
"So Minky where are the Slytherin's tables?" James asked a young house elf. She looked at him suspiciously.
"Why is James Potter wanting to know about Slytherins when himself is a Gryffindor?" She asked. Sirius stepped in smoothly. All of the house elves loved him.
"Ah Minky, you know how James is, always curious! He won't do anything to mess up your tables!" Sirius said, all smiles. Minky grinned at him.
"Well alright, if Sirius Black is sure, then Minky will show you where the tables is." She said, walking towards the back of the kitchen. James and Sirius followed, smirking at each other. "Here is the table we use to send the Slytherin's food." She said, gesturing at a green and silver table. James and Sirius then both coughed loudly. At that moment Remus and Peter burst into the room, complaining about needing lots and lots of food. Immediately all the elves, including Minky, ran over to them, shoving food in their hands. James and Sirius winked at Peter and Remus and then performed two charms over the Slytherin table. They then hurried back over to Remus and Peter.
"Well we must be going now. Thanks very much for your help." Sirius said, as they back out of the room.
They stayed silent until they were sure they were out of earshot.
"That….went….perfectly!" James gasped in between laughs. The other three nodded, laughing too hard to reply.
"Let's head up to the Common Room, we still have about two hours before the feast," Peter said after they had finally calmed down. The boys nodded in agreement and ran in the direction of the Gryffindor Tower.
A/N: There you go, happy now Ax? Are you curious yet? Don't worry, you'll find out what they are up too soon enough…….Muahahahahaha