Chapter 4: Pranks Galore
It was a good morning for James so far, one of the few where he woke up on his own without one of his friends having to shake him awake ten minutes after breakfast started. In the shower he had sung so loudly that the rest of the boys in there at the time had told him to hush up. Still singing he shook his hair dry and slipped into his Hogwarts robe. Peter knocked on the door and then came in; pausing shocked in mid-step when he saw James.
"What's the matter, James?" Peter joked. "Cat's got you tongue?"
Peter shook his head and tried to raise his hand to point, but his fingers just flopped by his side. "Ha..hai.." Peter stammered.
"What is it?" James asked, starting to get annoyed. He rustled through the trunk at the end of the bed, looking for his wand.
"Ha.hai." Peter stammered again.
"Will you bloody well spit it out?" James stood up with his wand in his hand. "We've only got three minutes until breakfast begins, and I can't WAIT to see the Slytherin's faces when they find the bit of pepper I put in their food the last time I went into the kitchen.
"HAIR!" Peter finally shouted, causing James to laugh.
"Oh, is that what you've been stammering about? I know it's unruly, it always is. I must say, I have an extremely bad case of bed head that just won't go away." James turned towards his mirror to try one last time to get the hairs that were sticking up to sit down. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!" he screamed, racing out of his dormitory and down to the girls.
The door flew open, and he was pleased to hear the screams of half-dressed girls from inside. Luckily the girl he was after, Lily, was sitting all ready on the bed. She was doubling over with laughter until he was standing over her.
"Well, Lily," he said, spatfully. "I guess you've got me back, huh? But you had to do a bloody Muggle trick, didn't you? All you had to do was put hair-dye in my shampoo and then my hair turned blue."
She looked into his eyes for a second, but couldn't hold her laughter and soon was sprawled on her bed, clutching her sides.
"You might think its funny, but you won't when I'm done with you." With that he stormed out of the room.
At breakfast James glared at Lily, who returned his furious glare.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked James. Sirius had gone to breakfast early because he had decided to take a detour to play another prank on Professor Binns, who knew who played the pranks and yet never got anyone in trouble.
"Well, Lily must have slipped some stinkin' Muggle hair-die into my shampoo because this morning I discovered my hair was blue. Peter did a spell to get it out, but she's still not going to get away with it."
"What are you going to do?" Sirius asked with his fork midway to his mouth.
"I don't know yet. That's what I was going to ask you."
"Well, I'll think of something." It was silent for a few minutes, both boys were thinking. "This is your chance to play an awfully good prank, if you want to," Sirius pointed out. James nodded thoughtfully, but didn't say anything.
After breakfast was Double-Potions, James' favorite class. It was the only class where he could easily pull a prank and pretend like it was just a fatal potions accident.
"Okay, class," Professor Thunklebottom droned from the front of class. "Today we will be mixing two highly flammable chemicals, Beoshaka and Womelswood. Mixed wrong it can blow up and be quite dangerous to ones' health." He droned on and on, but James blocked him out.
"This is your chance," Sirius mouthed to James.
"But it's dangerous," James mouthed back.
"When has James ever worried about danger?" Sirius mouthed. James shrugged and turned towards Thunklebottom, pretending to pay attention. Sirius did the same, although he was thinking how uncharacteristic that was of James.
Thunklebottom shocked Sirius when he said, "Okay, I'll hand out the ingredients and we'll get started," after only a twenty minute talk. Usually Thunklebottom talked for an hour or more.
Everyone's acting oddly today, Sirius said to himself. Over the cauldron he was sharing with James he said, "Well, have you decided what to do yet, Mr. Its-too-dangerous?"
"No, I haven't, but I think that something will come to me before Mrs. I- think-I'll-put-blue-hair-dye-in-James-hair strikes again."
"Strikes again?" Sirius asked, sounding surprised.
"Yes, strikes again," James affirmed. He said something else, but Sirius couldn't hear him over the huge explosion the shook the small dungeon that served as the classroom. The next thing either of them remembered was the fat professor standing over asking them if they were all right.
James groaned, muttered something, and then rolled over to his left side and saw Lily Evans bending at his side. He tried rolling quickly over to his other side, but felt a sharp pain in his back and decided that it would be in his best interest if he refrained.
"Are you okay?" she asked kindly. Her green eyes her kind and smile was irresistible. What are you thinking, James Potter? He yelled at himself. Starting to think Lily EVANS is pretty, you must have really bonked you head hard.
"What happened?" he finally managed to mutter.
This time a voice from behind him answered, "Nasty explosion, reckon while we were talking, James, that we didn't notice when we put two dabs of Womelswood in, instead of one. I was sent into the desks behind us, and you into the large shelf of chemicals." It was Sirius. "I, of course being my strong self, didn't get you. You, on the otherhand, passed out."
Everybody in the room chuckled and Professor Thunklebottom tried to help James up. Unfortunately, a plump, weak old man trying to lift a Quidditch playing jock doesn't really work, so Peter (being rather strong) helped in the end.
"We better send you to the nurse," Thunklebottom droned in his boring voice. "Doesn't look like you can go alone." he paused for a second, looking around the classroom. "Evans!" he called.
Lily looked up from the note Lisa had passed her, quickly hid it, and replied, "Yes?"
"Come here." Lily got up and jogged over to where James was standing up in rather an awkward position.
"Yes?" Lily asked, once there.
"James here need to go to the nurse, could you bring him?"
"Ummm.." Lily paused. Bring the despicable James to the nurse, on the other side of the school? Not in my lifetime, she thought. "Sure," she replied.
"Good, okay, off you go," he said, pushing them out the door.
A/N: I needed some way to get them to talk, without having either failing in the others best class and having them tutor, that seems too common. I'm going to comment on some reviews below, some that were for the 1st chapter. Sorry! I haven't gotten around to them yet.. Heehee
Anonymous wrote: It`s a great story!!!
I just thought u should know that James Didn`t have emerald eyes ,Lily did. oh,and they can go to Hogsmeade only in their 3rd year,not earlier(you wrote "You haven't gone to Hogsmeade ONCE with a boy yet and this is your third year")
THANKS ANONYMOUS! I CHANGED EVERYTHING AND HOPE IT'S ALL GOOD NOW!
Children,TheEmuIsNotAToy- YOUR DISGUSTING
Lavon- THANKS I LOVE HEARING COMPLIMENTS!
It was a good morning for James so far, one of the few where he woke up on his own without one of his friends having to shake him awake ten minutes after breakfast started. In the shower he had sung so loudly that the rest of the boys in there at the time had told him to hush up. Still singing he shook his hair dry and slipped into his Hogwarts robe. Peter knocked on the door and then came in; pausing shocked in mid-step when he saw James.
"What's the matter, James?" Peter joked. "Cat's got you tongue?"
Peter shook his head and tried to raise his hand to point, but his fingers just flopped by his side. "Ha..hai.." Peter stammered.
"What is it?" James asked, starting to get annoyed. He rustled through the trunk at the end of the bed, looking for his wand.
"Ha.hai." Peter stammered again.
"Will you bloody well spit it out?" James stood up with his wand in his hand. "We've only got three minutes until breakfast begins, and I can't WAIT to see the Slytherin's faces when they find the bit of pepper I put in their food the last time I went into the kitchen.
"HAIR!" Peter finally shouted, causing James to laugh.
"Oh, is that what you've been stammering about? I know it's unruly, it always is. I must say, I have an extremely bad case of bed head that just won't go away." James turned towards his mirror to try one last time to get the hairs that were sticking up to sit down. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!" he screamed, racing out of his dormitory and down to the girls.
The door flew open, and he was pleased to hear the screams of half-dressed girls from inside. Luckily the girl he was after, Lily, was sitting all ready on the bed. She was doubling over with laughter until he was standing over her.
"Well, Lily," he said, spatfully. "I guess you've got me back, huh? But you had to do a bloody Muggle trick, didn't you? All you had to do was put hair-dye in my shampoo and then my hair turned blue."
She looked into his eyes for a second, but couldn't hold her laughter and soon was sprawled on her bed, clutching her sides.
"You might think its funny, but you won't when I'm done with you." With that he stormed out of the room.
At breakfast James glared at Lily, who returned his furious glare.
"What's wrong?" Sirius asked James. Sirius had gone to breakfast early because he had decided to take a detour to play another prank on Professor Binns, who knew who played the pranks and yet never got anyone in trouble.
"Well, Lily must have slipped some stinkin' Muggle hair-die into my shampoo because this morning I discovered my hair was blue. Peter did a spell to get it out, but she's still not going to get away with it."
"What are you going to do?" Sirius asked with his fork midway to his mouth.
"I don't know yet. That's what I was going to ask you."
"Well, I'll think of something." It was silent for a few minutes, both boys were thinking. "This is your chance to play an awfully good prank, if you want to," Sirius pointed out. James nodded thoughtfully, but didn't say anything.
After breakfast was Double-Potions, James' favorite class. It was the only class where he could easily pull a prank and pretend like it was just a fatal potions accident.
"Okay, class," Professor Thunklebottom droned from the front of class. "Today we will be mixing two highly flammable chemicals, Beoshaka and Womelswood. Mixed wrong it can blow up and be quite dangerous to ones' health." He droned on and on, but James blocked him out.
"This is your chance," Sirius mouthed to James.
"But it's dangerous," James mouthed back.
"When has James ever worried about danger?" Sirius mouthed. James shrugged and turned towards Thunklebottom, pretending to pay attention. Sirius did the same, although he was thinking how uncharacteristic that was of James.
Thunklebottom shocked Sirius when he said, "Okay, I'll hand out the ingredients and we'll get started," after only a twenty minute talk. Usually Thunklebottom talked for an hour or more.
Everyone's acting oddly today, Sirius said to himself. Over the cauldron he was sharing with James he said, "Well, have you decided what to do yet, Mr. Its-too-dangerous?"
"No, I haven't, but I think that something will come to me before Mrs. I- think-I'll-put-blue-hair-dye-in-James-hair strikes again."
"Strikes again?" Sirius asked, sounding surprised.
"Yes, strikes again," James affirmed. He said something else, but Sirius couldn't hear him over the huge explosion the shook the small dungeon that served as the classroom. The next thing either of them remembered was the fat professor standing over asking them if they were all right.
James groaned, muttered something, and then rolled over to his left side and saw Lily Evans bending at his side. He tried rolling quickly over to his other side, but felt a sharp pain in his back and decided that it would be in his best interest if he refrained.
"Are you okay?" she asked kindly. Her green eyes her kind and smile was irresistible. What are you thinking, James Potter? He yelled at himself. Starting to think Lily EVANS is pretty, you must have really bonked you head hard.
"What happened?" he finally managed to mutter.
This time a voice from behind him answered, "Nasty explosion, reckon while we were talking, James, that we didn't notice when we put two dabs of Womelswood in, instead of one. I was sent into the desks behind us, and you into the large shelf of chemicals." It was Sirius. "I, of course being my strong self, didn't get you. You, on the otherhand, passed out."
Everybody in the room chuckled and Professor Thunklebottom tried to help James up. Unfortunately, a plump, weak old man trying to lift a Quidditch playing jock doesn't really work, so Peter (being rather strong) helped in the end.
"We better send you to the nurse," Thunklebottom droned in his boring voice. "Doesn't look like you can go alone." he paused for a second, looking around the classroom. "Evans!" he called.
Lily looked up from the note Lisa had passed her, quickly hid it, and replied, "Yes?"
"Come here." Lily got up and jogged over to where James was standing up in rather an awkward position.
"Yes?" Lily asked, once there.
"James here need to go to the nurse, could you bring him?"
"Ummm.." Lily paused. Bring the despicable James to the nurse, on the other side of the school? Not in my lifetime, she thought. "Sure," she replied.
"Good, okay, off you go," he said, pushing them out the door.
A/N: I needed some way to get them to talk, without having either failing in the others best class and having them tutor, that seems too common. I'm going to comment on some reviews below, some that were for the 1st chapter. Sorry! I haven't gotten around to them yet.. Heehee
Anonymous wrote: It`s a great story!!!
I just thought u should know that James Didn`t have emerald eyes ,Lily did. oh,and they can go to Hogsmeade only in their 3rd year,not earlier(you wrote "You haven't gone to Hogsmeade ONCE with a boy yet and this is your third year")
THANKS ANONYMOUS! I CHANGED EVERYTHING AND HOPE IT'S ALL GOOD NOW!
Children,TheEmuIsNotAToy- YOUR DISGUSTING
Lavon- THANKS I LOVE HEARING COMPLIMENTS!