Before anybody knew it they had started their second year course. On the Monday when they had received their time tables it had been a horror for them, as this year they had Potions, transfiguration and Defence Against the Dark Arts with the Slytherins and would you believe those lessons alone made up their Monday.
They were happier about the other subjects as they had one lesson with the Ravenclaws and two with the Hufflepuffs. The week was quickly escaping the group. The week that was filled with four detentions for Ginny and Amanda, two for James and Sirius and one each for Remus and Peter.
This really got to Sirius and James they had been beaten to the first prank and to having the most detentions in the first week. This was really going to be war.
On the Thursday their plans started. The Dragon Meat had arrived after Sirius had sent a letter to his brother asking for some. It seemed the runt still looked up to his brother, for the time being. Sirius went down to the kitchens with the meat and asked if they could cook it in time for dinner on the Friday, but not send it up with the rest of the food, he'd come and collect it.
The House elves agreed straight away since it was in their nature never to question, and they had met the Marauders the year prior and for some reason they liked the boys.
So Sirius left the kitchens and headed back up to the dorm room where the boys were sitting talking over their plans.
"Okay Pete it's going to be up to you, you're a bit smaller than James and so you can easily fit in the house elves corridors unlike some."
"I didn't know that my shoulders were too wide, I couldn't help getting stuck."
The other three laughed at James remembering the state he had been in. His head was stuck within the corridors and he had his bottom in the air as Sirius got hold of his waist and tried to pull him out. This image would be something to laugh about for months to come.
"Okay, so I have to put the blue potion into Alice's shampoo, but how do I know which one is hers?"
"Oh that's easy she uses the one called marinus" (A/N:I think that's right should be Rose in Latin)
"Okay and then I have to go into Ginny's trunk and pull out her makeup, and pour this solution onto it and that's easy. But what's the spell for Lily's robes?"
"Okay Pete, it's easy, we've written it down on the paper, you wave your wand three times and on the third one you say adfectio exiguus -a –um"
"Yeah and then I'll put the charm on her so she won't notice."
The boys agreed and Remus went with Peter to keep an eye out so nobody would notice the entrance while the other two went to keep the girls busy. Tomorrow would be a good day.
Remus and Peter quickly left the common room and walked over to a portrait of an Elvin human. He wore a long green robe with brown hemming and belt, his hair was blonde and fell to his shoulders and his face was handsome. It looked nothing like the house elves that used it.
Remus touched the stone in the bottom right hand corner of the portrait and it swung open. Showing a corridor, both boys stepped inside and the door swung back.
"Okay Pete now you remember which one it is don't you?"
"Yea Re! I won't be long about twenty minutes at most."
Then Peter moved away from his friend further into the corridor about five minutes later he came to a smaller door, where the corridor narrowed so that no people could go through, they never counted on a first year finding them.
Peter found his way to the girls' dorm, as all the doors out had the names of the years whose rooms they were.
Peter looked around, he'd never seen the room before, it looked identical to the boys except there was an extra bed. Quickly he moved into the bathroom and found the shampoo labelled marinus. He quickly added the potion and moved back into the bedroom.
He opened the trunk with the name Lily and pulled out the cloaks, to his horror though he pulled out a white bra, which he threw on the floor and tried to ignore it hoping it would disappear.
Pulling his wand out of his pocket he waved it three times over the clothes and said adfectio exiguus -a –um, and then placed them neatly back into the trunk, looking on the floor he carefully hooked his finger into Lily's bra and threw it in closing the trunk.
Lastly he opened up another trunk with the name Ginny on and pulled out the case that was filled with makeup. There was only one that had browns in it, and that would be what Ginny wore for lessons, so he carefully placed the solution onto each colour and put the things back.
Crawling back into the corridor he moved off until he reached Remus, smiling they headed back to the common room where they signalled to Sirius and James, they all bid the girls goodnight and went off to bed.