Rachel, Ariana, and Lily had been sitting in the corner of the common room ever since they had left the Great Hall; something very uncommon for anyone other than the marauders. The bit of information that would've been even more surprising was what they were talking about.

The twins had been, and continued to tell Lily about their other school. They naturally left some things out, but they were currently telling Lily about one of their favorite pranks - more like bits of revenge - that they had played on their worst enemy.

"And then he stood up, and got onto the table that he had been sitting at. That in itself was surprising, but when he started to sing a rather out of tune rendition of 'I'm a Little Teapot,' with all of the gestures, we couldn't hold in our laughter anymore. He was never completely able to re-" Ariana was cut off as Rachel had leaned over to whisper in her ear.

When Rachel sat back down again, Ariana nodded subtly and continued to tell her tale, "He was never able to completely regain his pride."

As Ariana finished her sentence, Lily glanced at her watch, and let out a quiet gasp. "I've got to go now. Prefect meeting. I trust that you two can find your way back up to our room?"

"Yes. We can find our way. Go ahead and leave us. It's fine." Before Rachel had even said the last word, Lily had run off to do whatever it was that was so important.

As soon as they were sure that they were alone they began to talk in hushed whispers.

"So then all we have to do is put that in his food?"

"Yep. That's all there is to it. With the exception of the cloak."

"But will he let us use it?"

"I think that if you ask him nicely and phrase it correctly, he will perfectly willing to loan it to us." Both girls grinned evilly then stood up. They skimmed the room, then noticed the marauder's coming through the portrait-hole.

Rachel marched right up to James, with her sister trailing a couple steps behind, as if unsure about what they were about to do.

"Hi James." Rachel said. "Can I talk to you for a sec?"

"Uh. Sure." He nodded gingerly, then turned to his friends. "Guys, I'll be right back." When the guys nodded, he tugged on Rachel's arm. "If you come with me, I know somewhere we can go where we won't be overheard."

Rachel let him lead her on, until they were in the room. "I have a favor to ask."

"Well?"

"Could we borrow your invisibility cloak?"

James almost fell over backwards. "M-my invisibility cloak?"

Rachel felt like her ribs would crack from suppressed laughter. It was all she could do to simply nod.

"How did you find out about that?"

Without skipping a beat, Rachel took a deep breath, then grinned, "You."

James really did fall over that time. He stared at her wide-eyed. Someone had found out about his invisibility cloak from him. That didn't make any sense, though. He hadn't talked about it once, this entire year. He thought for another minute, then realized that they had mentioned it once on the train in reference to a prank. But if they had heard about the cloak, then that would mean that they also knew about the prank.

"Fine. You may borrow it. Please be careful. C'mon, and I'll show you the way back to Gryffindor Tower."

"Thanks, Prongs."

James started, then continued walking out the door, making sure that Rachel was following, sulking to himself all the while.

~*~

They had traveled the entire way back to the tower in silence, and then James had gone up to his bunk and pulled out the cloak. He had handed it to Rachel, who had been waiting in the common room, then stalked off to be alone.

Rachel, as soon as she had received cloak, had rushed off to meet her sister in the corner of the common room.

Ariana was sitting in the corner of the common room with a small vial next to her, and a giant book on her lap. She didn't even move as her sister sat down next to her, waiting for her to be done with the book.

After about a minute, she shut the book gently, and handed Rachel the vial. Then she snapped her fingers, effectively banishing the book back into the locked case where the twins usually kept it.

The girls got up as one, made sure no one was watching them, then left the tower. Once they were out of sight of the Fat Lady, they pulled on James's invisibility cloak. Traveling as softly as they could, while trying to remember exactly where they were headed, was definitely a lot harder than it looked. However, the girls were well in practice of doing both at the same time, and eventually found their way to the painting blocking entrance to the kitchens.

"Just tickle the pear. That's what the Book said." Ariana whispered this while following her own directions.

"This is all too easy." muttered Rachel under her breath, as they stepped into the kitchen.

The two were about to pull of the borrowed cloak when a sudden snore from the corner of the kitchen made them both take a step back, surprised. They turned to recognize James.

James's head was almost inside a now empty carton of chocolate ice cream. He had obviously come to drown out his hurt pride in the kitchens with the ice cream, and had fallen asleep as soon as he had finished.

Realizing that nothing short of a bullhorn would wake the sleeping figure, the girls pulled off the cloak.

Immediately a house elf ran up to them with a grin that was too large for its face saying happily, "Is there anything Clumsy can do to help you?"

Rachel handed the elf the vial, saying "Could you please be careful to polish all of the silverware with this."

"Of course, misses. Clumsy would be happy to help you by polishing the silverware."

"Thank you, Clumsy."

Clumsy, with the vial held very carefully in its hands made its way to the drawers in the far corner of the kitchen. It set the vial on the counter then promptly fell on its face.

Stifling giggles, the girls turned around and left the room.

They made their way back to the common room with no problems. After quickly changing into their pajamas, they collapsed into their beds.

~*~

The next morning dawned gorgeous, but the twins missed it completely. They had finally woken up after Lily had used a spell to make water spill down on their heads.

The two annoyed girls had changed their clothes rather hurriedly, then sprinted down to breakfast, leaving a very shocked Lily behind.

Lily walked in rather dignified, a couple minutes later just in time for the beginning of the show.

The marauder's were standing on the table, singing 'I'm a Little Teapot' at the top of their lungs, while doing all of the hand motions. They were about as off-key as a person could get. The rest of the Gryffindor's were accompanying, although they were quite a bit closer to the right key.

The Ravenclaw's were also singing as loud as they could, although they were nowhere near as audible as the marauder's. If you listened, you could hear a very nice rendition of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.'

The Hufflepuff's managed to sing an interesting version of 'Row Row Row Your Boat.' It was actually rather pretty, since they were singing in a round.

Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape were standing on top of the Slytherin table, in positions similar to that which the marauder's were standing in. The only difference was that they were singing 'The Itsy Bitsy Spider.'

Lily looked around the room, then collapsed onto the bench right next to Ariana and Rachel. The threesome almost died of laughter in the short moment.

Dumbledore surveyed the room, and smiled. Pranksters in action always seemed to amuse him. Although, funny as it might be, the noise was definitely starting to get annoying. "Finite Incantem." he muttered, waving his wand.

Snape and Malfoy scurried out of the room as fast as their legs would carry them, their faces bright red with embarrassment.

James and Sirius, on the other hand, were taking as many bows as the could pull off, while Remus and Peter tried to pull them off of the table.

Rachel, Ariana, and Lily, were finally regaining enough breath, and were calm enough to eat their breakfast. There was absolutely no way that this could be pinpointed on them.

Or was there?