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Auburn is NOT the same as red. It means that it has reddish-brown color. That's what it says in the dictionary when I looked it up, and dark auburn is how J. K. Rowling describes Lily's hair, as well as, if I'm not mistaken, younger Dumbledore's.
I am really glad that you like my story, and I think (and hope) it will get even better, so here comes chapter three.
Chapter three "Success depends on having a well thought-out-plan that's executed with precision"
The three first years kept working on the fireworks for a about a week until they managed to make them perfect, the same went for the color changing potion. Now, all they had to do was make a plan for its execution.
Sirius, James and Remus were walking in one of the many corridors of Hogwarts discussing their classes when, suddenly, they heard a few shouts from the other end of the corridor. The three of them broke into a run, and their faces heated with anger when they saw what was happening.
Snape was walking towards Peter Pettigrew in anger raising his wand, and preparing to throw a curse, when James and Sirius pulled out their own wands and pointed it at the greasy haired boy.
"What do you think you are doing!?" asked Sirius edging closer to Snape. Snape sneered at him.
"I have no need to explain my actions to you." He said, his wand still held high.
"Well, think again. Anyway, we are three against one, so I'd suggest you to leave." Said James.
"No, we suggest you to recount." Jim Wilkes, Fergus Rosier, Marcus Avery and Carlo Lestrange appeared around the corner and pointed their wands at James, Sirius and Remus. James was about to say something when Remus nudged him.
"James," he whispered, "a professor is coming, hide your wand!" James looked at him incredulously.
"Are you sure?" he whispered back. Remus nodded and soon they heard a few footsteps. And hid their wands just before professor McGonagall came in. She took in the scene before her; a Gryffindor on the floor, and five Slytherins pointing their wands at other three Gryffindors apparently without their wands.
"What is going on here!?" She asked furiously looking at the Slytherins who jumped and paled. Nobody answered her. She glared at them.
"Well, if none of you are telling me, I will make assumptions. Ten points each from Slytherin-"
"But professor-" Started Rosier.
"I don't want to hear it! Harassing students of other houses. you will all receive a detention, now I suggest you all leave. I don't want to see this happening again, do I make myself clear?" Nods from the students, and with one final glance she left.
The Slytherins turned back to the Gryffindors.
"You will pay for that one." And they left.
Sirius, Remus and James glanced at each other then laughed, while Sirius walked over to help Pettigrew get up. He looked terrified.
"W-why are you laughing?" he asked nervously.
The other traded glances and James spoke up.
"Because they have no idea what is coming for them. Let's go." He called Peter, who looked in the direction of where the Slytherins went, then back to the three boys and walked away with them.
From that they forward, Peter was always around James, Sirius and Remus. _____________________________________________________________________
The next day, the four boys sat together and after filling Peter in with all the details of the Prank they started planning its execution.
"Okay, so we have fireworks that are activated in thirty seconds. We'll have to put them over there, so that they get the whole table." The other nodded. "The problem is; how do we put them there without anyone knowing?" The others thought for a moment.
"We will have to create a distraction. We can position them during the morning or at night. During the morning we will have take everyone's attention from the area, and we'll have the risk of someone seeing us putting something there." Everyone looked thoughtful at what Sirius said.
"But at night, we can take the caretaker from that area and distract him while somebody else puts the firework into place." When Sirius finished, James grinned.
"I think I like option number two better. It looks like fun, as long as we don't get caught. What about you guys?" Remus looked like there was some kind of inner conflict, but, at last, he nodded.
"At night seems okay." Sirius cheered.
"That's just what I wanted to hear. What about you Peter?" Peter seemed nervous and scared.
"I-I guess I would prefer in the morning." Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Come on, Peter, please? It will be fun, you will see!" And at last Peter nodded.
"Okay, so we have to take into consideration the ghosts and. what's his name?" James asked the others, then he remembered, "ah, yes, Filch. Now, I have heard some older students who remembered him when he was apprentice. They say that he is always in a bad mood and punishes as much as he can. We are lucky that Dumbledore doesn't let him hang people from the ceiling anymore." The other looked at each other silently thanking the heavens that Dumbledore was made Headmaster. Sirius continued from where James ended.
"We also have to worry about Peeves. He can help sometimes, but be a terrible disadvantage at others." Remus looked a bit confused.
"Why is that?"
"Because he loves to annoy students, but he also doesn't like the caretaker and is constantly annoying him, so he might do something to us like shout where we are, but then do something to Filch so that he can't catch us." James continued.
"There are also ghosts, and some of them patrol at night for the teachers. Some portraits can help, as long as we are. nice to them. Sirius here is already friends with a few." James grinned to Sirius, who grinned back.
"So, any ideas?" Sirius asked the other two members of the group. Peter shook his head, but Remus looked thoughtful.
"One of the things we have to do is not make any noise, so we could use some charms around us that doesn't let others hear us, but let us hear each other. We also should separate, make two groups, one puts the fireworks in place while the other does the distraction, that way, while one is working, the other can stand guard and alert if they see anyone coming. We can trick Peeves into doing things we want, if that doesn't work. well I noticed recently that a really old statue disappeared, and I heard some older students saying it was Peeves." The others looked at him in shock.
"Remus, you should have been a Slytherin!" Said Sirius in awe. Remus paled a bit, but then continued.
"Now, the ghosts, the only way we can get rid of them is avoid them. Every time we see one, we should go to another direction or go in a hidden room or something. But, we have a card up our sleeve, Nearly-headless Nick, I hear, often helps the Gryffindors out, so we could get ask him to help us if anything happens, like if a ghost catches us, for him to persuade them to let us go." The others nodded, and James spoke up.
"Okay, Sirius, you are distraction, as usual and I will put the fireworks in place. I think it is better that Remus goes with me, as he has a very good hearing apparently, and that can help us if there is someone coming. Peter you go with Sirius, okay?" Peter nodded. "We'll have to take a few things with us, like Fogbombs, Dungbombs and smaller Fireworks, for emergencies and distractions." The others nodded. "Now, last thing we have to do is the kitchen problem. There is a chance that when the prank happens, the teachers are going down to the kitchens to ask if someone was down there, that is problem for us, so what we can do, is we don't do down together. I'll go first then Peter, then Remus and then Sirius. I can spray the potion on the food when I go down. The teachers won't be able to tell which one of us did it, so we can't be punished." All the others grinned at that. _____________________________________________________________________
It was late, and each boy was wearing muggle dark clothes (they are better for these kind of things," affirmed James firmly while Sirius rolled his eyes), and carrying a bag with plenty of Dungbombs, Fogbombs and Fireworks, except for James, who had to carry the ones they made.
"Okay, so we meet in front of the picture of the fat lady in two hours, okay? The other nodded and putting the spell on each other and saying good luck they left. _____________________________________________________________________
Sirius and Peter ran in the opposite direction of Group 1 (James and Remus), right to an area that he knew quite well, and had a few secret rooms as well as a few portrait friends.
They stopped in a corridor where several of the portraits were waving at Sirius, who waved back and they winked confidentially, one of them opened up for a secret room which Sirius made a gesture of thanks and went in, leaving a firework in the corridor to activate itself in thirty seconds. Both of them went into the secret room very fast and it closed. After a few moments they heard a shout on the outside.
"Those BLASTED students!! Marauding at night!! No respect, I'll get you for this!! I'LL GET YOU!!" Peter held on to Sirius's arm. Sirius rolled his eyes and started sniggering. Peter looked at him horrified.
"You think it's. funny?" He asked eyes wide. Sirius looked at him.
"Of course I do. Relax Peter, have a bit of fun. Hey Lucille!?" he called after taking the charm off. The woman that was in the portrait in front of the secret room appeared in one of the portraits inside the room.
"Yes, Sirius?" She asked looking down to her feet blushing. Sirius walked to her and smiled charmingly.
"Thank you for helping us on this tonight, but is Filch still out there?" Lucille blushed even more at the thank you and shook her head.
"No he left. He went to the right." Sirius wore under his breath.
"Thanks again for your help, Lucille, but we must get going now, okay? I'll see you later!" He put the charm on again and left indicating for Peter to come with him.
They both ran in the direction that Filch went, and when they found him walking furiously down the corridor in the direction of the staircase walking in the direction of a teacher, Sirius indicated for Peter to throw a Dungbomb. It worked, but now both, Filch and the teacher were running in their direction. Peter started panicking, but Sirius quickly got a Fogbomb out of his bag and threw in the middle of the corridor. Filch stared at it stupidly at then lot's of fog started coming out of it, and soon nobody could see anything. Sirius and Peter gave a high five and hid themselves behind a suit of armor.
Fifteen minutes later, the fog went down and Filch was angrier than ever, and was accompanied by two more teachers. He started shouting for them to help him make a complete search of the corridor, when the opportunity came, Sirius and Peter ran away, and went in an empty classroom.
"We still have fifteen minutes until me meet James and Remus." Peter nodded.
"Can't we go back now?" he asked nervously. Sirius grinned and put an arm on his shoulder.
"Why, already Peter? Don't tell me you are already tired of our little adventure?" Peter thought for a bit then nodded. "Look Peter, we can't go back now okay? Filch and some teachers are right outside, they will soon give up and try and look in another place, so we can go back. Don't worry."
And after a few minutes, Sirius opened the door a bit, gave a quick look outside and he and Peter left.
They ran, avoiding ghosts and soon found themselves in front of the Fat Lady. James and Remus were no where in sight.
"I hope they come back soon." Mumbled Sirius, then he heard a quite a lot of noise. feet running. James and Remus appeared around the corner panting, but with a satisfied smile on their faces.
"We did it!!" Said James and they all gave the password to the fat lady and went in the common room. _____________________________________________________________________
James and Remus started running down the corridor opposite to the one Sirius and Remus took.
But they weren't so lucky.
"Oh, ickle first years are breaking the rules are you!? Should tell Filch I should. Someone has to teach a lesson, they have." James and Remus looked at each other with alarmed faces, and took the charm off.
"Peeves, you don't like students, right?" Asked James hesitantly. Peeves smile faded a bit and he lowered himself.
"No, I don't." he said in an oily voice. James smiled to himself.
"And you would like to see them suffering or whatever. right?" Peeves nodded his smile fading a bit more.
"Well, we have a deal for you. You leave us alone, pretend you never saw us, and you will see something great tomorrow." Peeves thought for a moment.
"What if I don't want to?" Remus stepped forward.
"Then we tell the bloody baron AND professor Dumbledore who broke the statue of Tyrso the Coward." Peeves looked horrified and left singing and wrecking havoc as he usually does. James and Remus looked at each other and sighed in relief.
"That was close," said James and they both put the charm back on and made their way to the Great Hall, but stopped as they heard and angry shriek of Filch. They both laughed and continued.
"Looks like Sirius Black has already made an appearance." Remus laughed, then made James stop. Remus was a bit pale.
"Are there any rooms we can hide in here?" he asked James nodded. "Only empty classrooms." And he pointed to a door on their left. Remus grabbed James's arm and pulled him into the said classroom.
As soon as they went in, they heard some footsteps outside, in the corridor, and James looked at Remus incredulously.
"How." But Remus cut him off.
"It's okay, let's go!" And they quickly made their way to the Great Hall.
When they arrived, Remus started looking around, listening intently, while James positioned the Firework, working very fast with skill. After he put them in place, he called Remus over and started running back to the Fat Lady.
"We have. Twenty minutes to-" James stopped. The top of the stair case was full of fog. "That must have been Sirius! I bet they were about to come in our direction! Come, let's go up the other way, it will take a bit longer, but it's better than getting caught."
James and Remus started running in a different direction as fast as they could, and noticed they were going to be a little bit late. Soon, they were turning a corner were able to see Sirius and Peter waiting for them. They smiled, satisfied with their little adventure.
"We did it!!" Said James and they all gave the password to the fat lady and went in the common room.
They all sat down in front of the fire while James and Remus caught their breath.
"So how did it go with you two?" asked Sirius curiously. James and Remus glanced at each other and laughed.
"Well, we had a bit of a run in with Peeves."
"Almost got caught by a teacher."
"Yeah, it was very lucky Remus has this incredible hearing, or we could be in McGonagall's office right now."
"The positioning of the fireworks went perfect."
"Why are you two so tired?" Asked Peter.
"Because," started James, "a certain someone threw a Fogbomb in the corridor of the main staircase, so we had to take the longest way. How did you two go?" Sirius started explaining everything that happened to them.
"I wish there was a way for us to know where everything and everybody was at all times." Said James yawning. "We better get to bed. We still have a few hours to sleep." So that is what they did. _____________________________________________________________________
Tinkly the house elf was cooking the breakfast when suddenly someone came in. "Master Potter sir!! Does Master Potter want something? Master Potter asks, Tinkly gets it!" Master Potter smiled to the elf. Tinkly thought he seemed tired.
"Yes, could you get me a piece of chocolate cake" Tinkly went to get the cake for him. When she returned she saw him walking back from the direction of one of the tables. As it was not proper for a house elf ask questions, she ignored it.
"Thanks a lot Tinkly!" Said Master Potter, and he ate it quickly and left, so Tinkly went back to work on the breakfast.
A few minutes later, a small fat boy came in; he also looked tired and very nervously asked for some ice-cream. After eating it very fast, he left.
Tinkly went back to the breakfast and put a few things on the table when another boy came in. This one had sandy colored hair.
"Hello, I'm Remus Lupin, I was wondering if you could please get me hot chocolate?" Tinkly noted that he too seemed tired, and quickly got him some hot chocolate. He thanked her, and after drinking it, he left.
When Tinkly was about to go back to breakfast Master Black came in. He too seemed a bit tired, but not so much.
"Hey Tinkly, how are you? Could you please get me some chocolate biscuits, please?" Tinkly brightened at his greeting and went to get him some biscuits.
"Thanks Tinkly. Um. these are delicious!" Master Black said approvingly. Tinkly beamed.
"It was Tinkly who made them sir! Did Master Black like them?" Sirius nodded.
"Yes, Tinkly, they are great!! But I have to go now, okay? See you another time!!" He waved at the house elf who waved back at him enthusiastically, and then went back to work. _____________________________________________________________________
Sirius walked out of the kitchen smiling from ear to ear and eating his biscuits.
"Are all the Slytherins in the Great Hall?" He asked his friends. Peter nodded.
"I-I just checked, everyone is waiting for the breakfast to come." The other smiled and started making their way to the Great Hall.
When they arrived they saw that the Slytherins were already eating their breakfast. They would start changing in about a minute. They went in together with a group of older Gryffindors into the Great Hall, and James quickly tapped the fireworks three times with his wand. Nobody noticed.
Making the countdown in their heads, they made their way to the Gryffindor table and, trying to hide their grins sat down next to the others.
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Something flew along the Slytherin table, leaving it full of some red smoke. The firework changed direction and started writing: GRYFFINDOR RULES!!! And then there was an explosion of colors.
The teachers got on their feet prepared to do something about the mess, but suddenly the smoke went down and the Great Hall erupted in laugher.
The Slytherins were staring at their robes in disgust, then when they noticed that their skin had also changed color to gold they started shouting and asking the teachers to do something about it.
Dumbledore was sitting down in his chair chuckling at the scene with a twinkle in his eye. After a moment, when the laugher subsided he put his hand up for silence.
"I would like to congratulate whoever did this. First of all, because I heard of last night's events, and I must admit it was an incredible teamwork. Second of all, because in all the time that I have worked here, I can't remember seeing such magnificent and original presentation of fireworks. Last thing I would like to say is, a full investigation will be made. People affected by the smoke can go to the hospital wing where madam Pomfrey and other teachers will try and reverse it."
After laughing so much, the boys started eating their breakfast, talking to the Gryffindor girls about who it could have been that pulled the prank, and trading secretive looks.
James, during the conversation glanced up and Dumbledore, whose eyes were twinkling. James doesn't know if he imagined it or not, but he thought he saw the professor wink an eye, and then smile at him as though he knew everything that happened.
Auburn is NOT the same as red. It means that it has reddish-brown color. That's what it says in the dictionary when I looked it up, and dark auburn is how J. K. Rowling describes Lily's hair, as well as, if I'm not mistaken, younger Dumbledore's.
I am really glad that you like my story, and I think (and hope) it will get even better, so here comes chapter three.
Chapter three "Success depends on having a well thought-out-plan that's executed with precision"
The three first years kept working on the fireworks for a about a week until they managed to make them perfect, the same went for the color changing potion. Now, all they had to do was make a plan for its execution.
Sirius, James and Remus were walking in one of the many corridors of Hogwarts discussing their classes when, suddenly, they heard a few shouts from the other end of the corridor. The three of them broke into a run, and their faces heated with anger when they saw what was happening.
Snape was walking towards Peter Pettigrew in anger raising his wand, and preparing to throw a curse, when James and Sirius pulled out their own wands and pointed it at the greasy haired boy.
"What do you think you are doing!?" asked Sirius edging closer to Snape. Snape sneered at him.
"I have no need to explain my actions to you." He said, his wand still held high.
"Well, think again. Anyway, we are three against one, so I'd suggest you to leave." Said James.
"No, we suggest you to recount." Jim Wilkes, Fergus Rosier, Marcus Avery and Carlo Lestrange appeared around the corner and pointed their wands at James, Sirius and Remus. James was about to say something when Remus nudged him.
"James," he whispered, "a professor is coming, hide your wand!" James looked at him incredulously.
"Are you sure?" he whispered back. Remus nodded and soon they heard a few footsteps. And hid their wands just before professor McGonagall came in. She took in the scene before her; a Gryffindor on the floor, and five Slytherins pointing their wands at other three Gryffindors apparently without their wands.
"What is going on here!?" She asked furiously looking at the Slytherins who jumped and paled. Nobody answered her. She glared at them.
"Well, if none of you are telling me, I will make assumptions. Ten points each from Slytherin-"
"But professor-" Started Rosier.
"I don't want to hear it! Harassing students of other houses. you will all receive a detention, now I suggest you all leave. I don't want to see this happening again, do I make myself clear?" Nods from the students, and with one final glance she left.
The Slytherins turned back to the Gryffindors.
"You will pay for that one." And they left.
Sirius, Remus and James glanced at each other then laughed, while Sirius walked over to help Pettigrew get up. He looked terrified.
"W-why are you laughing?" he asked nervously.
The other traded glances and James spoke up.
"Because they have no idea what is coming for them. Let's go." He called Peter, who looked in the direction of where the Slytherins went, then back to the three boys and walked away with them.
From that they forward, Peter was always around James, Sirius and Remus. _____________________________________________________________________
The next day, the four boys sat together and after filling Peter in with all the details of the Prank they started planning its execution.
"Okay, so we have fireworks that are activated in thirty seconds. We'll have to put them over there, so that they get the whole table." The other nodded. "The problem is; how do we put them there without anyone knowing?" The others thought for a moment.
"We will have to create a distraction. We can position them during the morning or at night. During the morning we will have take everyone's attention from the area, and we'll have the risk of someone seeing us putting something there." Everyone looked thoughtful at what Sirius said.
"But at night, we can take the caretaker from that area and distract him while somebody else puts the firework into place." When Sirius finished, James grinned.
"I think I like option number two better. It looks like fun, as long as we don't get caught. What about you guys?" Remus looked like there was some kind of inner conflict, but, at last, he nodded.
"At night seems okay." Sirius cheered.
"That's just what I wanted to hear. What about you Peter?" Peter seemed nervous and scared.
"I-I guess I would prefer in the morning." Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Come on, Peter, please? It will be fun, you will see!" And at last Peter nodded.
"Okay, so we have to take into consideration the ghosts and. what's his name?" James asked the others, then he remembered, "ah, yes, Filch. Now, I have heard some older students who remembered him when he was apprentice. They say that he is always in a bad mood and punishes as much as he can. We are lucky that Dumbledore doesn't let him hang people from the ceiling anymore." The other looked at each other silently thanking the heavens that Dumbledore was made Headmaster. Sirius continued from where James ended.
"We also have to worry about Peeves. He can help sometimes, but be a terrible disadvantage at others." Remus looked a bit confused.
"Why is that?"
"Because he loves to annoy students, but he also doesn't like the caretaker and is constantly annoying him, so he might do something to us like shout where we are, but then do something to Filch so that he can't catch us." James continued.
"There are also ghosts, and some of them patrol at night for the teachers. Some portraits can help, as long as we are. nice to them. Sirius here is already friends with a few." James grinned to Sirius, who grinned back.
"So, any ideas?" Sirius asked the other two members of the group. Peter shook his head, but Remus looked thoughtful.
"One of the things we have to do is not make any noise, so we could use some charms around us that doesn't let others hear us, but let us hear each other. We also should separate, make two groups, one puts the fireworks in place while the other does the distraction, that way, while one is working, the other can stand guard and alert if they see anyone coming. We can trick Peeves into doing things we want, if that doesn't work. well I noticed recently that a really old statue disappeared, and I heard some older students saying it was Peeves." The others looked at him in shock.
"Remus, you should have been a Slytherin!" Said Sirius in awe. Remus paled a bit, but then continued.
"Now, the ghosts, the only way we can get rid of them is avoid them. Every time we see one, we should go to another direction or go in a hidden room or something. But, we have a card up our sleeve, Nearly-headless Nick, I hear, often helps the Gryffindors out, so we could get ask him to help us if anything happens, like if a ghost catches us, for him to persuade them to let us go." The others nodded, and James spoke up.
"Okay, Sirius, you are distraction, as usual and I will put the fireworks in place. I think it is better that Remus goes with me, as he has a very good hearing apparently, and that can help us if there is someone coming. Peter you go with Sirius, okay?" Peter nodded. "We'll have to take a few things with us, like Fogbombs, Dungbombs and smaller Fireworks, for emergencies and distractions." The others nodded. "Now, last thing we have to do is the kitchen problem. There is a chance that when the prank happens, the teachers are going down to the kitchens to ask if someone was down there, that is problem for us, so what we can do, is we don't do down together. I'll go first then Peter, then Remus and then Sirius. I can spray the potion on the food when I go down. The teachers won't be able to tell which one of us did it, so we can't be punished." All the others grinned at that. _____________________________________________________________________
It was late, and each boy was wearing muggle dark clothes (they are better for these kind of things," affirmed James firmly while Sirius rolled his eyes), and carrying a bag with plenty of Dungbombs, Fogbombs and Fireworks, except for James, who had to carry the ones they made.
"Okay, so we meet in front of the picture of the fat lady in two hours, okay? The other nodded and putting the spell on each other and saying good luck they left. _____________________________________________________________________
Sirius and Peter ran in the opposite direction of Group 1 (James and Remus), right to an area that he knew quite well, and had a few secret rooms as well as a few portrait friends.
They stopped in a corridor where several of the portraits were waving at Sirius, who waved back and they winked confidentially, one of them opened up for a secret room which Sirius made a gesture of thanks and went in, leaving a firework in the corridor to activate itself in thirty seconds. Both of them went into the secret room very fast and it closed. After a few moments they heard a shout on the outside.
"Those BLASTED students!! Marauding at night!! No respect, I'll get you for this!! I'LL GET YOU!!" Peter held on to Sirius's arm. Sirius rolled his eyes and started sniggering. Peter looked at him horrified.
"You think it's. funny?" He asked eyes wide. Sirius looked at him.
"Of course I do. Relax Peter, have a bit of fun. Hey Lucille!?" he called after taking the charm off. The woman that was in the portrait in front of the secret room appeared in one of the portraits inside the room.
"Yes, Sirius?" She asked looking down to her feet blushing. Sirius walked to her and smiled charmingly.
"Thank you for helping us on this tonight, but is Filch still out there?" Lucille blushed even more at the thank you and shook her head.
"No he left. He went to the right." Sirius wore under his breath.
"Thanks again for your help, Lucille, but we must get going now, okay? I'll see you later!" He put the charm on again and left indicating for Peter to come with him.
They both ran in the direction that Filch went, and when they found him walking furiously down the corridor in the direction of the staircase walking in the direction of a teacher, Sirius indicated for Peter to throw a Dungbomb. It worked, but now both, Filch and the teacher were running in their direction. Peter started panicking, but Sirius quickly got a Fogbomb out of his bag and threw in the middle of the corridor. Filch stared at it stupidly at then lot's of fog started coming out of it, and soon nobody could see anything. Sirius and Peter gave a high five and hid themselves behind a suit of armor.
Fifteen minutes later, the fog went down and Filch was angrier than ever, and was accompanied by two more teachers. He started shouting for them to help him make a complete search of the corridor, when the opportunity came, Sirius and Peter ran away, and went in an empty classroom.
"We still have fifteen minutes until me meet James and Remus." Peter nodded.
"Can't we go back now?" he asked nervously. Sirius grinned and put an arm on his shoulder.
"Why, already Peter? Don't tell me you are already tired of our little adventure?" Peter thought for a bit then nodded. "Look Peter, we can't go back now okay? Filch and some teachers are right outside, they will soon give up and try and look in another place, so we can go back. Don't worry."
And after a few minutes, Sirius opened the door a bit, gave a quick look outside and he and Peter left.
They ran, avoiding ghosts and soon found themselves in front of the Fat Lady. James and Remus were no where in sight.
"I hope they come back soon." Mumbled Sirius, then he heard a quite a lot of noise. feet running. James and Remus appeared around the corner panting, but with a satisfied smile on their faces.
"We did it!!" Said James and they all gave the password to the fat lady and went in the common room. _____________________________________________________________________
James and Remus started running down the corridor opposite to the one Sirius and Remus took.
But they weren't so lucky.
"Oh, ickle first years are breaking the rules are you!? Should tell Filch I should. Someone has to teach a lesson, they have." James and Remus looked at each other with alarmed faces, and took the charm off.
"Peeves, you don't like students, right?" Asked James hesitantly. Peeves smile faded a bit and he lowered himself.
"No, I don't." he said in an oily voice. James smiled to himself.
"And you would like to see them suffering or whatever. right?" Peeves nodded his smile fading a bit more.
"Well, we have a deal for you. You leave us alone, pretend you never saw us, and you will see something great tomorrow." Peeves thought for a moment.
"What if I don't want to?" Remus stepped forward.
"Then we tell the bloody baron AND professor Dumbledore who broke the statue of Tyrso the Coward." Peeves looked horrified and left singing and wrecking havoc as he usually does. James and Remus looked at each other and sighed in relief.
"That was close," said James and they both put the charm back on and made their way to the Great Hall, but stopped as they heard and angry shriek of Filch. They both laughed and continued.
"Looks like Sirius Black has already made an appearance." Remus laughed, then made James stop. Remus was a bit pale.
"Are there any rooms we can hide in here?" he asked James nodded. "Only empty classrooms." And he pointed to a door on their left. Remus grabbed James's arm and pulled him into the said classroom.
As soon as they went in, they heard some footsteps outside, in the corridor, and James looked at Remus incredulously.
"How." But Remus cut him off.
"It's okay, let's go!" And they quickly made their way to the Great Hall.
When they arrived, Remus started looking around, listening intently, while James positioned the Firework, working very fast with skill. After he put them in place, he called Remus over and started running back to the Fat Lady.
"We have. Twenty minutes to-" James stopped. The top of the stair case was full of fog. "That must have been Sirius! I bet they were about to come in our direction! Come, let's go up the other way, it will take a bit longer, but it's better than getting caught."
James and Remus started running in a different direction as fast as they could, and noticed they were going to be a little bit late. Soon, they were turning a corner were able to see Sirius and Peter waiting for them. They smiled, satisfied with their little adventure.
"We did it!!" Said James and they all gave the password to the fat lady and went in the common room.
They all sat down in front of the fire while James and Remus caught their breath.
"So how did it go with you two?" asked Sirius curiously. James and Remus glanced at each other and laughed.
"Well, we had a bit of a run in with Peeves."
"Almost got caught by a teacher."
"Yeah, it was very lucky Remus has this incredible hearing, or we could be in McGonagall's office right now."
"The positioning of the fireworks went perfect."
"Why are you two so tired?" Asked Peter.
"Because," started James, "a certain someone threw a Fogbomb in the corridor of the main staircase, so we had to take the longest way. How did you two go?" Sirius started explaining everything that happened to them.
"I wish there was a way for us to know where everything and everybody was at all times." Said James yawning. "We better get to bed. We still have a few hours to sleep." So that is what they did. _____________________________________________________________________
Tinkly the house elf was cooking the breakfast when suddenly someone came in. "Master Potter sir!! Does Master Potter want something? Master Potter asks, Tinkly gets it!" Master Potter smiled to the elf. Tinkly thought he seemed tired.
"Yes, could you get me a piece of chocolate cake" Tinkly went to get the cake for him. When she returned she saw him walking back from the direction of one of the tables. As it was not proper for a house elf ask questions, she ignored it.
"Thanks a lot Tinkly!" Said Master Potter, and he ate it quickly and left, so Tinkly went back to work on the breakfast.
A few minutes later, a small fat boy came in; he also looked tired and very nervously asked for some ice-cream. After eating it very fast, he left.
Tinkly went back to the breakfast and put a few things on the table when another boy came in. This one had sandy colored hair.
"Hello, I'm Remus Lupin, I was wondering if you could please get me hot chocolate?" Tinkly noted that he too seemed tired, and quickly got him some hot chocolate. He thanked her, and after drinking it, he left.
When Tinkly was about to go back to breakfast Master Black came in. He too seemed a bit tired, but not so much.
"Hey Tinkly, how are you? Could you please get me some chocolate biscuits, please?" Tinkly brightened at his greeting and went to get him some biscuits.
"Thanks Tinkly. Um. these are delicious!" Master Black said approvingly. Tinkly beamed.
"It was Tinkly who made them sir! Did Master Black like them?" Sirius nodded.
"Yes, Tinkly, they are great!! But I have to go now, okay? See you another time!!" He waved at the house elf who waved back at him enthusiastically, and then went back to work. _____________________________________________________________________
Sirius walked out of the kitchen smiling from ear to ear and eating his biscuits.
"Are all the Slytherins in the Great Hall?" He asked his friends. Peter nodded.
"I-I just checked, everyone is waiting for the breakfast to come." The other smiled and started making their way to the Great Hall.
When they arrived they saw that the Slytherins were already eating their breakfast. They would start changing in about a minute. They went in together with a group of older Gryffindors into the Great Hall, and James quickly tapped the fireworks three times with his wand. Nobody noticed.
Making the countdown in their heads, they made their way to the Gryffindor table and, trying to hide their grins sat down next to the others.
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Something flew along the Slytherin table, leaving it full of some red smoke. The firework changed direction and started writing: GRYFFINDOR RULES!!! And then there was an explosion of colors.
The teachers got on their feet prepared to do something about the mess, but suddenly the smoke went down and the Great Hall erupted in laugher.
The Slytherins were staring at their robes in disgust, then when they noticed that their skin had also changed color to gold they started shouting and asking the teachers to do something about it.
Dumbledore was sitting down in his chair chuckling at the scene with a twinkle in his eye. After a moment, when the laugher subsided he put his hand up for silence.
"I would like to congratulate whoever did this. First of all, because I heard of last night's events, and I must admit it was an incredible teamwork. Second of all, because in all the time that I have worked here, I can't remember seeing such magnificent and original presentation of fireworks. Last thing I would like to say is, a full investigation will be made. People affected by the smoke can go to the hospital wing where madam Pomfrey and other teachers will try and reverse it."
After laughing so much, the boys started eating their breakfast, talking to the Gryffindor girls about who it could have been that pulled the prank, and trading secretive looks.
James, during the conversation glanced up and Dumbledore, whose eyes were twinkling. James doesn't know if he imagined it or not, but he thought he saw the professor wink an eye, and then smile at him as though he knew everything that happened.