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A/N From now on I'll try and cut down on the Author's notes, although I like a story with Author's notes in it. Oh well, I'll live.
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Ok, I own Marie, Claire and Carlotta. Happy? Good.
Chapter 6- A prank, a play and a… quidditch match?After a not-so-peaceful night of very quiet celebrating in the Dormitories, Lily made her way down to the common room at 5:30am in the morning fully dresses with her wand, (as she thought that she would most likely need it), to plot the Marauders grand entrance to the world of Hogwarts detentions.
When Lily arrived in the common room, she noted the dozen or so spell books scattered around one of the tables near the fire. James and Remus were already there, but Sirius appeared to be still in the dormitory.
"Oh, Hi Lily!" James called, looking up from the spell book he had been flicking through.
"Can you give us a hand getting Sirius up?" Remus asked, rolling his eyes.
"We tried to shake him up but he started groaning and talking in his sleep, and when I put my hand over his mouth to quieten him, he bit my finger!" James told Lily.
"Try shooting him with a jet of water, that should work," Lily suggested, picking up one of the spell books.
"We thought of that, but last time I tried that spell fire came out instead of water!" James exclaimed.
"Good thing I was pointing at our water fountain then." He added as an afterthought.
"Anyway," he went on, "we were hoping that you could try, as Remus and I haven't had much luck."
"All right, I'll try." Lily replied. "But if Sirius ends up with burnt hair, it's his own fault."
Remus and James exchanged glances.
"Here, take this if you're going up to the boys dormitories, just in case." James said, holding out a silky cloak, which seemed to have an odd shimmer about it, as if it held many secrets within.
"It's an invisibility cloak," he added, seeing Lily's puzzled look, "whoever or whatever it covers becomes invisible! My dad gave it to me."
The three present Marauders crept under the cloak and made their way up to the boys' dormitories to give Sirius his wake up call.
They crept up the stairs and into the dormitory, hardly daring to breath lest someone should wake up and get suspicious.
When they were safely behind the curtain of Sirius' bed, they took of the cloak and Lily giggled at the sight of Sirius, who was curled up in bed with a teddy bear and was sucking his thumb!
"Does he always do that?" Lily whispered to James.
"Unfortunately yes," replied James in a disbelieving whisper.
"Well, still, here goes everything," Lily said, pulling out her wand.
"Aquadulcis," said Lily in an undertone.
A jet of water shot out of Lily's wand and hit Sirius full in the face.
"What, who, where am I?" Sirius spluttered in indignation.
"Shhhhh," whispered James, "you'll wake the others!"
"Now come on Sirius, out of bed, get dressed," Remus said.
"Okay okay, but Lily, go back down to the common room," Sirius said groggily.
Lily crept back down the stairs, once again hidden by James' invisibility cloak.
About five minutes later, Lily spotted James and Remus half leading, half dragging Sirius down the stairs.
When they were all safely down in the common room, they sat themselves in armchairs near the spellbooks James and Remus had fetched from the library.
"Now," James said, standing up and looking round at everybody
"Look for anything silly or funny, just to embarrass the Slytherins" He gave an evil laugh, "Don't try anything too fancy since we haven't learnt anything yet, just something to tell the Slytherins, "We're here and we're comin da getcha"
They looked through the spellbooks for about half an hour, with Sirius dropping off to sleep every so often, and James giving him a sharp poke with this wand.
"I've got it!" cried Lily.
"Shhhhh, not so loud," said Remus.
"Oh, Sorry, but anyway, we could change the passwords in the Slytherin common room to something they'll never guess, and make them all have something like, "Gryffindor rules" tattooed on their foreheads! It's all right here in "Hogwarts uniquely strange spells and charms!" It's very simple, so, what do you guys think?"
"I think it's perfect," Sirius said, finally wide awake.
"It's almost dawn, so we should get cracking! We'll have to split up to get it done on time, said Remus.
"Okay, first we'll go down to the dungeons, that's where I saw the Slytherins go after the feast," said Lily, glad to know something about Hogwarts that the boys didn't.
They had to enlarge the cloak so that they would all fit under it, since Sirius was very tall, with the help of Lily.
They crept down to the dungeons, and after a bit of looking around, James found the entrance.
"But what's the password?" asked Remus.
"Think Slytherin," said Sirius darkly.
"Mudblood," said James instantly.
The stone wall shrunk to reveal a door, made of what looked like rotting wood.
"Come again?" asked a rather puzzled Lily.
"A mudblood is a very offensive term for someone with a non-magical, or muggle, family. Most Slytherins hate people with a muggle family, indeed, Salazar Slytherin himself wasn't going to allow muggle-born witches or wizards."
"Oh, thanks, so if Malfoy says that to me I'll just shoot a jet of water at him, or get you to try so he'd end up with singed hair!"
"Yup!" replied Sirius, "couldn't have put it better myself!"
They entered the Slytherin common room and gathered round one of the tables.
"Right," said James in an undertone, "Remus and Lily, you turn all the colours in the dormitories red and gold, and Sirius and I will take care of the common room and password. Meet back here in one hour."
Remus and Lily headed up the stairs to the dormitories.
They set to work using spells to turn all the Slytherins curtains, robes and walls red with gold lions on the.
Remus placed "Dr. Filibusters No-Heat Wet Start Firworks" in all of the Slytherins beds, and Lily charmed them to go off as soon as the Slytherins woke up.
Lily and Remus took a side each of the dormitories and tattooed "Gryffindors rule, Slytherins drool!" on all of their foreheads.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Meanwhile, in the common room~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Sirius set to work turning everything in the common room red and gold, while James changed the password to, "'Gryffindor is the best house ever, and all of us think the Marauders are brilliant and their pranks on us are always brilliantly original!" something James knew the Slytherins would never ever say, especially after the Marauders were finished with them!
When the Marauders had done all their assignments, they reported back to the SLytherin common room and exited.
"It's 7:45, so get back to the common room and start to go down to breakfast." Sirius said.
"It doesn't matter if the Gryffindors know we've been doing pranks, they wouldn't tell on us and risk loosing 200 points from Gryffindor!" he added, seeing the dubious look on Lily's face. (A/N I like that word, dubious lol okay okay, no more author's notes until the end of the chapter.)
The Marauders went down to breakfast to await the arrival of the Slytherins.
Just as they went into the Great Hall, they heard a chorus of "YEOW!!!!!!!!!!!" coming from the dungeons. The Slytherins had apparently woken up.
The Marauders stifled giggles as they joined the other early Gryffindors at the Gryffindor table.
Lily introduced herself to Claire DeLonce, Marie Keenan and Carlotta O'Brian, three girls Lily had seen in her dorm, but had never really talked to properly.
The rest of the Marauders sat on the other side of Lily laughing about the Slytherins.
After about five minutes, a group of very disgruntled looking Slytherins walked into the great hall, in red and gold robes.
The Great Hall fell quiet and Lily turned her attention back to the Marauders.
"1, 2, 3…" Sirius said under his breath.
The four Marauders yelled "HAPPY START OF TERM!!!!!!!" and erupted into maniac laughter.
The rest of the hall soon cottoned on and started to laugh, and soon Professor Dumbledore erupted too, but stopped abruptly after a look from Professor McGonagall.
"Would the four culprits of this ingenious prank…" another look from Prof. McGonagall, "I mean uh… act of disobedience please report to my office immediately.
The Marauders got up and walked after him, still giggling hysterically.
A/N Coming next chapter:
What happened in Professor Dumbledore's office?
What will the next prank be?
Is the moon made of cheese? Lol no.
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