A loud scream was heard echoing through the walls of Hogwarts. A very
familiar scream actually. Sirius Black. He was bored. Very bored. Nothing
was going on. His family had, thankfully FINALLY decided that he was a Lost
Cause though. But none of the Marauders had recently done any pranks! This
was making him very vexed. He had noticed that Moony had become friends,
who knows HOW, with Lily Evans, Prongs on the other hand has been too busy
mooning over Lily himself. Actually, now Sirius thought about it, that was
pretty clever. With that he skipped down the halls of Hogwarts trying to
find either Moony or Prongs. As said, he was bored.
Walking, or skipping past the common room, he decided to go to the Head's Dorm, he'd most likely find Prongs and Lily there. Thinking about Lily, he decided that she was actually quite pretty, but not at all his type. Too smart, too serious. Unlike me, he thought, but that's my name! He laughed to himself. He suddenly stopped and his stomach growled. With the primordial call of the wild, he started hopping to the kitchens for something to eat, completely forgetting his mission.
~*~*~
Lily on the other hand, was in her room lying on her bed watching the enchanted ceiling change colors. These days, both James and Remus were on Suicide Watch. Her Suicide Watch. It was hard to do anything with both of them on her tail all the time. Even though Remus knew about her being who she was, she still liked to paint alone. It got kind of unnerving when people keep staring at you while you paint, unless you were painting a model. James on the other hand was puzzling her. She didn't know what he was thinking most of the time. Lately, he got upset whenever she talked to other guys, even though that rarely happened, and he kept staring at her when he thought she wasn't noticing. It was unsettling. A mystery.
She still had no female friends. And was that was most likely not to happen in the near future, all the girls who haven't graduated in Hogwarts hated her guts for seizing the attention of two of the hottest guys in school. She was feeling better these days though, she wasn't alone in school anymore and with the Marauders with her most of the time coupled with the fact that she now had the guts to take points of and hand out detentions, she managed to escape whatever the Slytherins usually dealt to her.
The full moon was coming soon, she thought. She wanted to see the animagus transformations of the boys up close. She wondered if all the animagus transformation sequences were the same. Then a really random thought occurred to her. She had never once in her career painted herself, in anyway.
The hypnotic swirls on the walls made her feel strangely comforted. She drifted off slowly in to a deep sleep, with some of the strangest dreams about the Marauders doing the weirdest things. With the only in-character person being Sirius.
~*~*~
The two of the aforementioned men whose attention Lily had supposedly stolen were in the library doing research for a potions project. They had no mood for pranks these days, but life was getting very monotonous in the castle these days. They were honestly bored and tired of doing homework.
To break the silence between them, James said, "Moony, is it just me, or have you just been very spacey lately?"
"That was random."
He pouted, "Well, yeah. I'm bored and I miss Lily. She told me to do my homework and not come back before I'm done. I don't think she likes me that much. She's frustrating me to no end. One time she'll say something and another time she'll say something completely contradictory to what she said in the first instance! I don't understand the female mind I tell you. It's too complicated! And I miss her."
"Prongs my friend, no male can ever understand the female mind. Even gays don't fully understand what's going on in the gray masses in their head. Lily is even more complex than most of the flaky bimbo's you and Sirius usually date, she probably has a higher IQ than all of them combined. Not to mention, she's talented and has one of the nicest dispositions you've ever come across, except for the depression and the suicide thing. But I think she won't try in again in the near future though."
"I know Moony, I know. That's what makes it so hard! I don't know what to do! How do I win her over?"
"Prongs, stop it. You're starting to get as bad as Sirius, a serious Sirius, but Sirius nonetheless. It's rather annoying of late. I think that's why Sirius hasn't been joining us lately."
"Really? I just thought it was because he thinks that homework is evil and that it shouldn't be done as it'll damage your brain."
Remus rolled his eyes at his friend's antics. They had gotten to be better friends with Lily, but he knew that she didn't fully trust any of them yet. Her heart was still hurt from whatever she had experienced in her young life. Even his knowing of one of her secrets was kind of belittled by the fact that she knew their secrets as well. Jordan still continued to produce paintings, and Remus took delight in the fact that her paintings were becoming less lonely and brighter, filled with a kind of hope in them.
James however was bemoaning the fact that Lily still hadn't noticed that he liked her and hasn't given any indication of her feelings towards him. Did she hate him? Did she like him? Was he just a friend? Or something more? It puzzled and annoyed him to no end. He wondered why no other guy had ever noticed her before. She was so pretty, and she was so nice. All the other girls he'd ever dated before, he found shallow in comparison. They only cared about their looks and that everyone knew that they were dating James Potter, Star Quidditch Player. Lily didn't care. She treated him like a person, not an object. Even now, he could visualize her red hair spread out on her bed as she lay on her bed, and her bright emerald eyes shining as she looked at the many changing colors on the ceiling.
~*~*~
Sirius was happy. He had just eaten a big bowl of beef stew. He was full, and all set to meet up with the rest of the gang to tell them of his brilliant plan. Running straight into the library and slamming the doors open, completely ignoring all of the librarian's protests and headed right to the two sitting quietly in the corner covered by a pile of books.
"Hey guys! I just thought of the most brilliant plan ever!"
The two looked at each other apprehensively, the last time Sirius said something like this they ended up serving detention with Filch for a month. This did not sound good. Coupled with the fact that Sirius had been bored lately since he had just broke up with his last girlfriend and wanted to stay of the girl scene for a little while, meaning a week, meant that he had time to concoct all sorts of hair brained schemes. Emphasis on Hair- Brained.
"What..." James took the initiative to ask, "Do we even want to know?"
"Of course! This is going to be perfect!"
"God. This doesn't sound good." Remus whispered to James.
It wasn't a little known fact that of all the Marauders, Sirius was the spacey one. Not that he was stupid, it was just that he had a short attention span. His grades were pretty good (surprisingly), but he just was very very spacey. Usually, the person who comes out with the pranks in the group was James, Remus did so occasionally, but whenever Sirius came out with a prank, it could swing two ways, stupid or brilliant. They hoped it was the latter.
"I was in the kitchen. And like a message from heaven, it came to me! We should put something in their food! The whole of Slytherin wouldn't know what had hit them! We should make Snape and Lucius make out with each other and and and have the rest of the Slytherin's dance to the funky chicken and sing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. It'll be sooo funny! And after they finish kissing. Turn Lucius into a bouncing ferret and Snape into a teddy bear."
The two boys looked at each other and sighed. This might actually work. The only snag was that how were they supposed to watch Lily and do this at the same time.
"What about Lily?" The two boys said in union.
"Oh! I've got that figured out too!!! We take turns. We can plan the prank in twos! We can rotate watching Lily."
It seemed that Sirius actually put thought into the whole thing. Fortunately all the house-elves in school had a fondness for the three of them. Especially since they spent most of their time in the kitchens feeding Sirius's voracious appetite, and the house-elves liked someone who appreciated their food.
The prank of that scale would take some time to organize. James liked it for the reason that it would give him even more time alone with Lily, Remus was getting a little bored, even if he didn't want to admit it, of the monotony in school and Sirius was just bored. The three of them knew that this had to be after the full moon. The full moon was a week and a half away so they had to also plan on what they were going to do then. They considered asking Lily, but they wondered how to do it. James and Remus were all for it. Sirius didn't really care.
They planned late into the night. Remus noticed that it was getting late, he glanced at the clock and realized that it was two a.m in the morning. They still had classes the next day and their classes started early tomorrow.
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Fangboy: Okay. I finally on my ass and wrote a chapter. As with the rest of my chapters it's not terribly long. With my last chapter. I got my first flame. -_- Ah well. I suppose it had to come sooner or later. But I wonder. If you don't like the fic, why did you read it? Why do flamer's bother to flame? I realize the prank wasn't terribly original, but my brain has stopped working. If you have any other pranks you want to see or want to suggest any thing, I'm open to all suggestions. ^^ Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read this, and if you'd kindly press the button below, I'd be even happier.
Disclaimer: I wish I did but I don't. If I did, Harry would be with Hermione and Ginny with Draco. But we can't have everything. I only have two dollars HK in my pocket. The rest of my allowance goes into the pockets of the people in the comic stores in Wan Chai and Causewaybay. Thank you.
Walking, or skipping past the common room, he decided to go to the Head's Dorm, he'd most likely find Prongs and Lily there. Thinking about Lily, he decided that she was actually quite pretty, but not at all his type. Too smart, too serious. Unlike me, he thought, but that's my name! He laughed to himself. He suddenly stopped and his stomach growled. With the primordial call of the wild, he started hopping to the kitchens for something to eat, completely forgetting his mission.
~*~*~
Lily on the other hand, was in her room lying on her bed watching the enchanted ceiling change colors. These days, both James and Remus were on Suicide Watch. Her Suicide Watch. It was hard to do anything with both of them on her tail all the time. Even though Remus knew about her being who she was, she still liked to paint alone. It got kind of unnerving when people keep staring at you while you paint, unless you were painting a model. James on the other hand was puzzling her. She didn't know what he was thinking most of the time. Lately, he got upset whenever she talked to other guys, even though that rarely happened, and he kept staring at her when he thought she wasn't noticing. It was unsettling. A mystery.
She still had no female friends. And was that was most likely not to happen in the near future, all the girls who haven't graduated in Hogwarts hated her guts for seizing the attention of two of the hottest guys in school. She was feeling better these days though, she wasn't alone in school anymore and with the Marauders with her most of the time coupled with the fact that she now had the guts to take points of and hand out detentions, she managed to escape whatever the Slytherins usually dealt to her.
The full moon was coming soon, she thought. She wanted to see the animagus transformations of the boys up close. She wondered if all the animagus transformation sequences were the same. Then a really random thought occurred to her. She had never once in her career painted herself, in anyway.
The hypnotic swirls on the walls made her feel strangely comforted. She drifted off slowly in to a deep sleep, with some of the strangest dreams about the Marauders doing the weirdest things. With the only in-character person being Sirius.
~*~*~
The two of the aforementioned men whose attention Lily had supposedly stolen were in the library doing research for a potions project. They had no mood for pranks these days, but life was getting very monotonous in the castle these days. They were honestly bored and tired of doing homework.
To break the silence between them, James said, "Moony, is it just me, or have you just been very spacey lately?"
"That was random."
He pouted, "Well, yeah. I'm bored and I miss Lily. She told me to do my homework and not come back before I'm done. I don't think she likes me that much. She's frustrating me to no end. One time she'll say something and another time she'll say something completely contradictory to what she said in the first instance! I don't understand the female mind I tell you. It's too complicated! And I miss her."
"Prongs my friend, no male can ever understand the female mind. Even gays don't fully understand what's going on in the gray masses in their head. Lily is even more complex than most of the flaky bimbo's you and Sirius usually date, she probably has a higher IQ than all of them combined. Not to mention, she's talented and has one of the nicest dispositions you've ever come across, except for the depression and the suicide thing. But I think she won't try in again in the near future though."
"I know Moony, I know. That's what makes it so hard! I don't know what to do! How do I win her over?"
"Prongs, stop it. You're starting to get as bad as Sirius, a serious Sirius, but Sirius nonetheless. It's rather annoying of late. I think that's why Sirius hasn't been joining us lately."
"Really? I just thought it was because he thinks that homework is evil and that it shouldn't be done as it'll damage your brain."
Remus rolled his eyes at his friend's antics. They had gotten to be better friends with Lily, but he knew that she didn't fully trust any of them yet. Her heart was still hurt from whatever she had experienced in her young life. Even his knowing of one of her secrets was kind of belittled by the fact that she knew their secrets as well. Jordan still continued to produce paintings, and Remus took delight in the fact that her paintings were becoming less lonely and brighter, filled with a kind of hope in them.
James however was bemoaning the fact that Lily still hadn't noticed that he liked her and hasn't given any indication of her feelings towards him. Did she hate him? Did she like him? Was he just a friend? Or something more? It puzzled and annoyed him to no end. He wondered why no other guy had ever noticed her before. She was so pretty, and she was so nice. All the other girls he'd ever dated before, he found shallow in comparison. They only cared about their looks and that everyone knew that they were dating James Potter, Star Quidditch Player. Lily didn't care. She treated him like a person, not an object. Even now, he could visualize her red hair spread out on her bed as she lay on her bed, and her bright emerald eyes shining as she looked at the many changing colors on the ceiling.
~*~*~
Sirius was happy. He had just eaten a big bowl of beef stew. He was full, and all set to meet up with the rest of the gang to tell them of his brilliant plan. Running straight into the library and slamming the doors open, completely ignoring all of the librarian's protests and headed right to the two sitting quietly in the corner covered by a pile of books.
"Hey guys! I just thought of the most brilliant plan ever!"
The two looked at each other apprehensively, the last time Sirius said something like this they ended up serving detention with Filch for a month. This did not sound good. Coupled with the fact that Sirius had been bored lately since he had just broke up with his last girlfriend and wanted to stay of the girl scene for a little while, meaning a week, meant that he had time to concoct all sorts of hair brained schemes. Emphasis on Hair- Brained.
"What..." James took the initiative to ask, "Do we even want to know?"
"Of course! This is going to be perfect!"
"God. This doesn't sound good." Remus whispered to James.
It wasn't a little known fact that of all the Marauders, Sirius was the spacey one. Not that he was stupid, it was just that he had a short attention span. His grades were pretty good (surprisingly), but he just was very very spacey. Usually, the person who comes out with the pranks in the group was James, Remus did so occasionally, but whenever Sirius came out with a prank, it could swing two ways, stupid or brilliant. They hoped it was the latter.
"I was in the kitchen. And like a message from heaven, it came to me! We should put something in their food! The whole of Slytherin wouldn't know what had hit them! We should make Snape and Lucius make out with each other and and and have the rest of the Slytherin's dance to the funky chicken and sing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. It'll be sooo funny! And after they finish kissing. Turn Lucius into a bouncing ferret and Snape into a teddy bear."
The two boys looked at each other and sighed. This might actually work. The only snag was that how were they supposed to watch Lily and do this at the same time.
"What about Lily?" The two boys said in union.
"Oh! I've got that figured out too!!! We take turns. We can plan the prank in twos! We can rotate watching Lily."
It seemed that Sirius actually put thought into the whole thing. Fortunately all the house-elves in school had a fondness for the three of them. Especially since they spent most of their time in the kitchens feeding Sirius's voracious appetite, and the house-elves liked someone who appreciated their food.
The prank of that scale would take some time to organize. James liked it for the reason that it would give him even more time alone with Lily, Remus was getting a little bored, even if he didn't want to admit it, of the monotony in school and Sirius was just bored. The three of them knew that this had to be after the full moon. The full moon was a week and a half away so they had to also plan on what they were going to do then. They considered asking Lily, but they wondered how to do it. James and Remus were all for it. Sirius didn't really care.
They planned late into the night. Remus noticed that it was getting late, he glanced at the clock and realized that it was two a.m in the morning. They still had classes the next day and their classes started early tomorrow.
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Fangboy: Okay. I finally on my ass and wrote a chapter. As with the rest of my chapters it's not terribly long. With my last chapter. I got my first flame. -_- Ah well. I suppose it had to come sooner or later. But I wonder. If you don't like the fic, why did you read it? Why do flamer's bother to flame? I realize the prank wasn't terribly original, but my brain has stopped working. If you have any other pranks you want to see or want to suggest any thing, I'm open to all suggestions. ^^ Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read this, and if you'd kindly press the button below, I'd be even happier.
Disclaimer: I wish I did but I don't. If I did, Harry would be with Hermione and Ginny with Draco. But we can't have everything. I only have two dollars HK in my pocket. The rest of my allowance goes into the pockets of the people in the comic stores in Wan Chai and Causewaybay. Thank you.