Author's Note: Hi! Um… since you guys seem to like this story, I guess I'll type this chapter up now.

Title: Role Reversal

Rating: PG

Spoilers: There aren't too many spoilers in chapters 1-12. The whole story has some spoilers, but how else do you write a fanfic? The chapter with major spoilers is "Old Friends".

Summary: James and Lily make a bet. Lily has to pull a bunch of pranks and James can't do any.

Disclaimer: I, of course, do not own Harry Potter or its characters. If you're reading this, you should already know whom it belongs to anyway.

Setting: This story is set in MWPP years. If you don't know what that means, you probably shouldn't be reading this fanfic.

!!! = setting change

italics= thoughts

italics = emphasis

-Week #2-

On Tuesday, September 11, Lily pulled a prank on a Hufflepuff. All her words came out completely scrambled unless she was talking to a teacher—after all, Lily didn't want to ruin the girl for life.

Wednesday, she gave Peter a piece of cake. He took a bite of it, then promptly spit it out. Lily had made it taste like paint mixed with grass (she apologized to him afterwards).

Thursday, she blew up a crystal ball in Divination—apparently, Professor Graves wasn't as good a fortune-teller as she thought she was.

On Friday, the green-eyed girl decided to do something else to Snape and Malfoy. Malfoy's robes now flashed the words "I play with my sister's dolls." Snape's said "I hug my teddy bear every night," (which was actually true).

On Saturday, Lily did something to James's glasses. All he could see now was a blurry rainbow. He tried to change them back, but only succeeded in adding a pot of gold to the image. After two hours of staring at the colorful picture, he decided to take off his glasses, because he was getting a headache. He stumbled around half-blind for the rest of the day—much to everyone's amusement.

Sunday, a Gryffindor second year was the victim of Lily's daily prank. The twelve-year-old saluted to everyone he encountered that day.

!!!

Lucius Malfoy had gotten on James's nerves that week. The Gryffindor had been all set to turn the Slytherin into a rabbit, when he remembered the wager he had made with Lily.

Now, he was entering the common room, cursing under his breath. "Darn bet. I must have been crazy when I agreed to it."

"Talking to yourself now, Potter?"

James whirled around to face—who else?—Lily.

"Hi," she said.

"Hello," he replied dully.

"What's wrong with you? You sound like someone just told you your pet fish died."

James was puzzled. "I don't have a fish," he said.

Lily sighed. "It's an expression."

"Oh. Still, nothing's wrong. I just miss playing pranks on people."

"Well, you can always give up and let me win the bet."

"No way, Evans."

"Well, it was worth a shot."

James smiled. Wow, I never noticed before. He has a great smile, Lily thought. Wait, what am I thinking?

You're thinking he looks nice when he smiles.

Shut up! she told herself. This is Potter we're talking about.

Well, technically, it's thinking, not talking—

I thought I told you to shut up!

But I'm you, remember?

"Oh, say, would you happen to know if Veronica likes anyone?" James asked.

"Why?"

"I'm asking for a friend."

"Would that friend's name happen to be Remus Lupin?"

"As a matter of fact, it is."

"Yeah, Veronica likes Remus."

"Great! Moony likes her too."

"Should we tell them?"

"I don't know."

"I think it's safe. I mean, since they both like each other…"

"Okay."

"Well, I'm getting tired. Goodnight, Potter."

"Night, Evans." He nodded to the saluting boy, then headed upstairs.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Author's Note: This chapter's pretty short, so I'm going to post chapter 7 along with it.