Author's Note: Right, thanks… Now I know what knickers are… I was always confused about that before…

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= emphasis

italics= thoughts

-Week #4-

On Monday, September 24, Lily made everything Snape eat or drink taste like soap. He's washing his own mouth out with soap, she thought amusedly as he took a mouthful from his goblet that morning, then spit it out, spraying Malfoy and Crabbe in the process.

Remus had to "visit his mother" that day (AN: You know what I mean, right?).

Tuesday, she caused a Hufflepuff to trip and fall once every time she went to another class. The girl didn't get hurt, but it did cause her to be late to class (luckily, she didn't receive any detentions because she was a very good student).

Wednesday, Lily made a Gryffindor fifth year's quill write strange things. In Care of Magical Creatures, his letters got all mixed up and he somehow wrote about counirns and firgophifps instead of unicorns and hippogriffs.

On Thursday, her cauldron "accidentally" exploded in Potions class. The half-finished potion splashed Professor Brewer, and he turned into a half-llama, half-fish creature (luckily, the back half was the fish, or he would have suffocated). He was stuck like that for half an hour until someone got Professor McGonagall to change him back. That prank was her final well-known prank required for the bet.

On Friday, a third year Slytherin got drenched with water every time she turned around (she was dry again when she turned back around).

!!!

"Four days to go, Evans."

"Oh, now we're back to Evans?"

"Erm… yes?"

Lily shook her head. "Potter, you're an idiot."

"Why, thank you."

"That wasn't a compliment."

"Yet I don't seem to care."

"Four days and you're back to being a Marauder again. And I was enjoying this peace and quiet so much." Lily smirked.

"Haha. You know you're not going to think of anymore pranks. I'm going to win this bet."

"Right. And flaming squirrels will fly out of my robes."

"Ooh… look. I think I saw that one holding an acorn." James smirked in that infuriating way.

"Idiot."

"Thank you again. You seem to be just doling out the compliments today, huh, Evans?"

!!!

Saturday, there was green slime in front of the Great Hall. Everyone who didn't see it slipped (and got his or her shoes ruined in the process). No one fell, but there was definitely a lot of slipping and sliding going on.

Sunday, Lily did the same thing to Remus that she had done to James on the first day of their bet. The boy walked downstairs and looked at her. "You look good in blue," Lily said as Veronica stifled a giggle.

!!!

"Two more days, Evans. Do you think you can handle it?"

"Can you?"

"Of course. I'm me," James said pompously.

"Do you really want me to bring up the flaming squirrels again?"

"They were actually quite amusing."

TO BE CONTINUED…

Author's Note: Okay, short, but I have to go to school now, so… yeah.