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Chapter 4- The Award Ceremony

James and Sirius endured a day of humiliation. Even when they had ruined someone else's prank, they couldn't enjoy the flash that accompanied that success, because they knew they'd be bald in the picture, and they were too busy trying to hide the messages on their heads that changed constantly to enjoy any of their own pranks. One of the worst had to be when Sirius was around a Hufflepuff girl that he was working himself up to ask out and 'beware of the VD' flashed out of nowhere.

They had tried going to the school nurse, Poppy, for a remedy. She informed them it would take her couple days. A complete lie, but she figured they deserved it after all the students they had sent to her in just this past year alone with pranks they had pulled.

After all the agony, though, the time had come for them to get the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. They made their way to the room of requirement, the one place they could all meet without the teachers knowing, for the ceremony. James and Sirius sat down in the seats Peter had saved for them, and Remus was standing up about to start. Nothing could ruin this. "Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and jokers!" There was applause and Remus waited with expertise for it to peak then come back down a bit. "Tonight, we are gathered to celebrate this sacred day known as April Fool's day. And to start out we'd like to present an award new to this year. Since we charged for entry this time, we understand that many were unable to enter, though we have a solution for this as well. This new award goes to the best unregistered prank of the year. And the winner is…"

"I can't believe they're giving anything to Snivellus," Sirius commented, thinking nothing could beat what he did to them, even if he didn't want to admit that anyone had out done them, least of all Snape.

"…Tonks for the dung bombs in the teacher's lounge!" The first year girl with Gryffindor colored hair walked up and accepted the award with a handshake.

"Maybe Snivellus isn't considered human enough to get anything," James said as they applauded.

They moved onto the other lesser categories; best food prank, best attempted prank (which went to a first year that had set up a trap that James and Sirius went around without a problem), worst backfired prank, and most mean-spirited, "goes to… James, Sirius and Peter for 'bloody-nosed git' played on Severus Snape."

They let Peter go accept that award, since it was miniscule next to the Goofster, and James leaned over to whisper in Sirius's ear, "I guess they'll allow us two prizes for that one."

"Yeah," Sirius responded. "It was pretty good."

There were a few more categories, then Remus went on to talk about the legend of the Goofster and called for a moment of silence. After a minute where you could hear a pin drop Remus said, "Arthur Weasley may have graduated, but he is always with each of us pranksters in spirit. This year, with a generous donation from our new sponsors Zonkos, and the entry money the Goofster will also get a prize of 437 Galleons, 16 Sickles and 4 knuts. So without any further ado, I have the privilege to announce this year's winner… " James and Sirius started to stand triumphantly, "…Lily Evans for 'Hair Hyjinxes' played on two of our former holders of the Goofster, Sirius and James!" Both sat down and looked at each other, baffled, as the word 'Loser' appeared on both of their heads Flash Flash. .

Lily got up and graciously accepted the award, Remus declared it over, and people started to disperse. James went up to the judge of the contest. "How could you have given that to her? Didn't you see all the pranks we pulled?"

"It's all about quality, James, not quantity. You should know that better than anyone. Now I suggest you stop being as your head is now advertising, and congratulate her."

"I think I will," James smirked and walked over to where Lily was defiantly.

Lily had set her stuff down and was talking to Sirius. "Please Lily? Please?"

"Oh alright then," Lily chuckled and did the counter charm for the spell she had done in their shampoo.

"Thanks Lily," Sirius said, looking at himself in a mirror, and wandered off.

"Hey Evans, aren't you going to do that to me too?" James asked approaching her.

"No, I think I want to count my money first," she said, picking up the bag of coins and fingering through them. "I think this was your sickle," she said examining a silver coin. "And this could have been your knut, don't you think?"

"Ha ha," James said, running a hand through his invisible hair. "Come on, now, you can't keep me like this."

"I very well could," Lily retorted. "But I suppose," she said taking out her wand and muttering the counter charm again. "Just remember that the next time you try anything with me!"

Lily turned around to gather her things so she could go back to her room. James took this opportunity to sneak up behind Lily, turn her around, dip her down, and lay one on her Flash. "Congratulations," he said before lifting her back up.

Almost two decades later

A sixteen year old Harry sat on his bed, looking at the pictures in his mother's diary, which had been recovered and recently given to him. He had been reading all of her planning and preparations for this, and it was great to see the results. He enjoyed seeing an oblivious James, a humiliated Sirius, and the final one of his dad kissing a shocked Lily. He chuckled as Ron came into the room and looked at himself in the mirror.

"What you laughing at?" Ron asked.

"Nothing," Harry replied.

Ron examined his appearance and stated, "I hate having red hair."

"I have a solution for that," Harry said, smirking. Ron didn't notice.

"Really? Can we do it now?" he asked eagerly.

"Sure," Harry said with a straight face. Before getting his wand, he read one more entry in the diary:

April 1, 1979

Dear Diary,

Today rocked!

A/N: I thought having a Ron/ Harry moment would be a funny way to end this. Hope you all liked it. I had to write this chapter twice, because the computer I'm on doesn't save or recover well and there was a power outage here at work, I hope that this one is better than the first I wrote, but none of you will ever really know.

Thank you:

Mell Minamoto: Here's the conclusion. I hope it meets your standard!

Angul-gurl: I get the impression that you don' like this kind of humor. I'm sorry if you didn't enjoy it, but I think it's funny… so I hope you do too.

Katkit: I love how Lily manipulates the situation so well. I hope you like the ending.

JamieBell: The answer is in the chapter here, but yes Lily does get the pictures. I loved McGonagall's little part there. 'You need to sensor your scalp' I had that one planned from the beginning. I like how all the teachers are in on this, even though the boys don't know it.