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Author's Note: Wow. I haven't posted in about a week which is just unbelievable for my part as I've been home for more than half of that week. *Ducks cabbages and tomatoes* Sorry!!! It seems that I post more when I have less access to the computer. Of course with my sister kicking my off every thirty minutes and my brother and my parents saying they're tired of seeing me sitting in front of the computer. *looks around, sees brother off trying to find a job, sisters upstairs, parents at work* What a perfect time to type!! So here's the next chappy!!
Chapter 8: The First Prank
James was mad. Actually, mad was an understatement. James was enraged. How dare that sniveling little snake bring up his murdering grandfather in front of me! James exclaimed to himself. He stalked up the stairs to the main floor, Sirius, Remus, and Peter following after him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Sirius and Remus exchange concerned glances. James sighed and he felt the anger dissipate out of him. He didn't want to worry his friends. Soon they came to the Great Hall where most of the school had collected for lunch. They sat at their usual spots at the Gryffindor table; James and Sirius on one side and Remus and Peter on the other. Sirius had a worried look on his face.
"You okay, mate?" he asked James, grabbing some food at the same time.
"I'm fine. I just...overreacted," James admitted also filling up his plate. Remus and Peter looked doubtfully at him and Sirius snorted. Seeing there was no fooling them he dropped the serving spoon abruptly. "Fine, you want the truth? I'm not okay. I want to go over there and punch Snape's bloody lights out." James said gruffly.
Sirius looked at him proudly. "That's the spirit!" Sirius exclaimed slapping him on the back. He leaned closer to the table and looked around at them. "You know what this calls for?" he asked them. Peter shook his head and Remus looked intrigued.
James of course knew the correct answer. His mischievous grin matched Sirius'. "A prank," James answered simply. Peter let out an 'o' and Remus raised his eyebrows.
"What sort of thing do you have in mind?" Remus inquired. He looked thoughtful. "Would it be on all the Slytherins or just Snape?"
"I'm thinking all the Slytherin first years. After all Bellatrix did call Lily a, a you-know-what," James didn't like to say the word, it was so foul to him.
"Good idea. Bellatrix's mouth needs a good wash out," as he said it Sirius's eyes lit up and he turned to James. "A good wash out literally." James smirked and nodded. His attention was drawn to the doors of the Great Hall where he saw Lily and the girls come in. He didn't really want them to hear them planning. "After lunch we'll go up to the dorm and start planning," he whispered to his friends, who nodded.
The boys tried to look casual as the girls came over. They didn't notice they're weird behavior and instead were looking at James with mixed apprehension. James sighed. "Look, I'm not going to go all off again so stop looking at me like that."
They smiled slightly and sat down. "So what are we doing after lunch?" Lily asked them munching on a sandwich.
The boys exchanged looks and Sirius said innocently, "We were planning on going up to the Common Room and doing our homework."
James, Remus, and Peter nodded, trying to convince them. Melissa raised an eyebrow. "Homework? We have the afternoon off and the rest of the weekend and you're going to do homework? Yeah, right," she said disbelievingly.
Lily was looking at them suspiciously too. "If you're doing homework then I'm sure you all wouldn't mind us joining you."
"No!" James cried and Lily narrowed her eyes at him. "I mean no, you shouldn't do homework. Go outside and enjoy the beautiful day like you said this morning."
Melissa and Lily exchanged a look of either amusement or annoyance and shrugged. "Well, we know where we're not wanted, right girls?" Melissa asked in mock irritation. Lily grinned, Shannon pursed her lips, and Kelly flipped her hair at them.
"Girls," Sirius and James muttered simultaneously. The girls giggled at this and continued to eat and talked about what they would do after lunch.
"We could go swimming in the lake," Shannon suggested taking a bite of her chicken.
"Shannon, do you really want to go in that lake?" Kelly asked her incredulously. "I mean think about it. There's that Giant Squid that Molly told us about. And I hear there's merpeople in there. Not to mention all the dangerous water creatures. What I was thinking is that we could go check out that Whomping Willow on the grounds that Pro-,"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," a pale Remus interrupted from next to her. Kelly gave him a look. "I mean it sounds like a pretty dangerous tree and we wouldn't want any of you to get hurt."
Everyone looked at him skeptically and he started to turn red. James hurried to help his friend. "You could go check out the Quidditch Pitch."
"What's Quidditch?" Lily and Melissa asked in unison.
Their friends looked at all them incredulously. James and Sirius exchanged panicked looks. "No one's told you about Quidditch?!" James exclaimed. Lily and Melissa both shook their heads. Immediately their friends all burst out into speech about the fabulous sport that is Quidditch. Lily and Melissa just sat their with their mouths halfway open. Soon everyone quieted down.
Lily turned to Melissa. "Did you catch a word of that?" she asked looking puzzled. Melissa just stared at her blinking every few seconds. "I'll take that as a no. Could one person please explain this Quidditch thing to us?"
Everyone looked at James. James took a deep breath and started to clarify. (A/N: I won't bore you with all the details. I mean if you're in the Harry Potter section and actually reading this story than you have to know something about Quidditch.) Lily and Melissa just nodded their heads every few seconds to show they understood. By the time James was done most of the students had cleared out of the hall.
"I think we get it now," Melissa reassured them. Suddenly the bell rang signaling to other students that they had to be in their class. "Come on girls lets go change. I'm not spending my afternoon in this," she said motioning to her uniform. The girls nodded enthusiastically and gathered their stuff up. The boys did the same as they were going to the Common Room to "do their homework". On the third day of classes they had managed to not get lost while going down to breakfast and making their way up to the Common Room from the Great Hall was pretty much becoming routine.
Once in the Common Room the girls went up their staircase to change and the boys dumped their bags on one of the tables. To convey the image that they would be studying they spread their books out on the table and took out pieces of parchment. The girls came down dressed in muggle clothing came over to their table.
"We're just going outside. We'll see you at dinner," Lily told them.
"Yeah. Er, have fun doing your homework," Melissa said eyeing them all dubiously.
Sirius gave her a cheeky grin. "Don't worry we will!"
The girls exchanged some more glances and said goodbye to them. The boys watched them go and didn't talk again until they were sure the girls were gone. James raised his eyebrows at them. "Let's get cracking, shall we?" he inquired. His friends all nodded enthusiastically and they began to plan the first of many pranks.
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By dinner time, Lily was sure the boys were up to something. She and Melissa had seriously doubting that they were doing their homework. The girls had enjoyed their afternoon outside though, and had not worried about it. They'd gone to see the Quidditch Pitch which Lily thought was fascinating. Despite Remus' warning they had wandered over to the Whomping Willow. The understood it's name when as soon as they got a little close to it, it started thrashing around.
Particularly the best part of the day was probably when they came across the humungous man who had led them to Hogwarts across the lake. The girls learned that his name was Rubeus Hagrid and he was the groundskeeper at Hogwarts. He invited them to his hut, on the edge of the Forbidden Forrest, for a cup of tea which they accepted. Of course, what they didn't expect was to get their teeth broken after sampling one of his rock cakes. Declining politely after he offered seconds they told him it was getting a little late and they needed to get ready for dinner. He understood and sent them off but not without them promising they'd come visit him more often.
Soon they returned to the half empty Common Room. Lily looked around but didn't spot their first year counterparts. "Where are the boys?" Shannon asked, voicing what Lily had been thinking.
"Well they're not here obviously," Melissa answered rolling her eyes at Shannon but giving her a smile to let her know she was joking. "They're probably around causing ruckus."
"I thought they were doing they're homework," Kelly said uncertainly before flopping down on one of the couches. The girls followed her and sat down.
"Kellllyyyy," Melissa moaned, exaggerating her name. "The boys definitely aren't doing homework. They're so planning something."
"What kind of something?" Lily asked her grinning.
"How should I know? Boys are weird. All I know is that they've been acting weird since Potions," Melissa explained. "I think is has something to do with that Snape kid."
Lily nodded, her mind on something else now. She had been shocked that Snape's grandfather had killed James'. Kelly and Shannon told her the story of how the two grandfathers had loathed each other. How Snape's grandfather was deep in the Dark Arts and how James' grandfather was an Auror, a magical law enforcer. They had been dueling and Snape's grandfather had cast the killing curse and James' grandfather was killed instantly. All of this was infront of James's father who had tried to get Snape's grandfather sentenced to prison but there was not enough evidence so Snape's grandfather was still out there. She'd been worried about James but he seemed okay at lunch.
Suddenly the portal opened and the four boys they'd been talking about burst in, all talking loudly. They stopped short upon seeing the girls looking at them quizzically. "I thought you were staying up here and doing your homework," Melissa told them, raising an eyebrow.
"We were at the Library looking up something," James replied seemingly truthful.
"Is that a crime or something?" Sirius asked Melissa, both of his eyebrows disappearing into his hair. "Or did you just miss us too much?"
Melissa colored and drawled sarcastically, "Oh yes, we were awaiting your return with much anticipation. I don't know how we sleep at night with being away from you."
The girls laughed at this and Sirius glared at them. James spoke up, "As funny as that is, I'm starving and dinner is just about to begin. Who wants to go down?"
Everyone opted to go and they made their way down the now familiar corridors to the ground level. Once in the Great Hall they took seats at their House table and waited for the food to appear. The rest of the school had arrived by the time it appeared. The strange thing was that the boys didn't start eating right away like they usually did. To Lily it looked like they were waiting for something. "What are you guys doing?" she inquired.
"We're waiting," James answered.
"For what?"
"For this!" he exclaimed quietly. Then he hissed to the rest of the boys, "Now!"
The girls watched as they took their wands out and, pointing them to the Slytherin table, started muttering a spell under their breath. Suddenly, bars of soap appeared above the heads of all the Slytherin first years. At first no one in the hall seemed to notice them, until a Hufflepuff at the next table pointed them out. The rest of the Hall watched in surprise and amusement as the soap bars went to the Slytherins and started washing their mouths. All the students started laughing and they watched the Slytherins struggle to remove the bars from their mouths. Then as soon as it had started the soap bars vanished. Lily stared open mouth as the boys gave each other satisfied high fives.
Before they could congratulate themselves more Professor Dumbledore stood up. He was unsuccessfully trying to look stern but a small smile graced his face. "Would those responsible for this act, please come forward?"
James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter walked up to the Staff Table still sporting victorious grins. Professor McGonagall looked appalled at them. "You boys did this?" she asked, her lips pursed angrily. They nodded. "I am ashamed. From my own house. 50 points from Gryffindor and you four have detention tomorrow and Sunday. Now go sit down."
As their peers watched them, they had no idea that this was just the beginning of several similar dinners.
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Yeah, I definitely started writing this on Wednesday and I'm only now posting it. I'm so pathetic. This is my longest chapter!! I'm not that happy with it though. It's kind of choppy so I don't know. Tell me what you think of it. Give me some suggestions if you want. Should I do different POV's? I'm not sure. Whatever. Click the lovely blue button and review!!