"Did you see that, the girls got the first prank of the year! We cannot let them get away with that, we'll have to get them back."
"Yeah James is right, but what can we do?"
"We'll prank them!"
The boys were sitting up in their dorm room. They had headed up straight away after they had entered the common room after a rushed goodnight to the girls. Peter and Remus were sitting on Sirius' bed facing James and Sirius who were on James' bed.
When heading up they found that they were still in the same dorm room from last year only now there was a sign above the door with the words second years. They had quickly gone inside and found their things already there.
They had been discussing the prank that the girls had pulled on Snape, they were still unable to work out how the girls had managed it but they knew that they would have to make their first prank a good one to get them back for it.
"So anybody got any ideas?"
The group sat there in silence for a while.
"I know lets slip Mand some dragon meat for starters during a meal."
James and Remus turned to stare at Peter as if he were mad. Dragon's meat what was the big deal, it was expensive and something that you wouldn't want to waste.
"Brilliant idea Pete, we'll get Mand with dragon's meat, and then umm… we can prank all the girls in one go, so come on any ideas for the others."
"Why dragon meat?"
Sirius and Peter smiled. Sirius looked between his two other friends wondering how they'd take this story.
"Okay, Mand's granddad had a pet dragon. It was hunted and turned into a dragon stake, well Mand won't eat dragon's meat anymore, you should have seen her at her father's dinner party. They served dragon and she just ran from the room. It'll be a great prank, if we make her eat it without her knowing what it is, but we need to prank the others any ideas?"
They sat there for a few more minutes in silence.
"Ginny has become obsessed with make-up over the summer, how about we put a potion in it, so that it turns her face a bright blue, and then it wares off after twenty four hours so she has to walk around with it like that all day."
"Remus that's a great idea, and Alice has this obsession about her hair, she's always putting products in it, to straighten it, or curl it. I swear it takes her twenty minutes just to do her hair no wonder the girls are always late if they're all like her. I think we should put something in her shampoo so that it turns her hair a funny shade. Maybe green streaks or something."
"Okay so we have dragon meat for Mand. Make-up that turns Ginny's face bright blue, and shampoo to streak Alice's hair green. What can we do to Branwen and Lily?"
They sat there trying to come up with something, when Sirius smiled.
"I know how to get Branwen, we'll slip a hair growing potion into her drink, but not one for all her hair to grow, one that will make her grow a beard, she can look like Dumbledore!"
This seemed a hit and they agreed on it. Lily however seemed like the tougher one to prank. None of them had spent the summer with her so didn't know any new obsessions, and they couldn't do anything to her school books, they'd be killed for that one, and they didn't want to repeat a prank.
"I know how about we put a spell on her robes, we can shrink all her robes and put a charm on them so that she can't change them back for twenty four hours."
"It won't work, she'll wear one of the other girls robes."
"Not if we charm her so she doesn't know its happening."
The idea was a hit, they knew exactly what they would do to each girl they just had to come up with a time to do it.
"What about a week today, gives us time to get everything we need."
"Okay then. This is going to be brilliant."
As it was a Friday night, the group stayed up long into the night making the potions they'd need to get the prank underway. It was going to be a great start to the new school year.