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Chapter Nine: The One Where Peter is Deemed Worthy

"Psst! Guys, wake up!" Peter whispered. Sirius stirred. He sleepily pulled his pillow from under his head and covered his face with it. He swore into the pillow and mumbled incoherently.

"I didn't catch that, Sirius." Peter said as he pulled Remus's blankets off his bed. Sirius grumpily sat up.

"Why are you waking us up this early?" he moaned. Peter shushed him.

"Quiet. I don't want to wake the others up." he explained quietly. He tried yanking James's blanket out of his tight grip.

"Just us, huh?" Remus sighed. Peter nodded eagerly and he gave another tug at James's sheets. James was clearly much stronger than Peter.

"But it's a Saturday. There are no classes on Saturday. That's the beauty of Saturday: no classes. What's going on?" James complained. Peter gave one last tug and he toppled over. James had given up.

"I did it." Peter responded. He stood up and not so neatly folded up the blanket. Remus slowly climbed out of his four-poster bed.

"Did what?" he questioned. Peter pointed to the dormitory door and led them out. James, Remus, and Sirius followed out of curiosity. James finally spoke

"What are you showing us?" he asked. Peter held up a finger to his lips.

"I did the prank. The one you guys told me to do. You know, with the Slytherins, Snape, and the Hufflepuff girls. Keep it down, though. If we wake up teachers while we're there, I'm toast!" The trio followed Peter into the Entrance Hall. At the sight of the prank, Sirius, Remus, and James could only gape.

The Slytherins were no longer sleeping in their dormitories. They and their beds have been moved into the Entrance Hall. In fact, all of the furniture in the Slytherin House was in the Entrance Hall.

"How did you do this?" James asked with bewilderment.

"I don't remember," Peter responded, "it was a very long night." Remus nodded approvingly.

"Very clever. What did you do with Snape? I don't see him or the Hufflepuff girls here."

"Huh, I can't remember what I did with Snape."

The early sunlight streamed into the dormitory. Severus lazily rose from his slumber. He gently rubbed his eyes. When his eyes were focused, he noticed that his surrounding seemed unfamiliar. Everything was…

"Yellow?" Snape questioned out loud, "Why's everything yellow?" His gaze shot down to his bed. Green. His bed was in the middle of a Hufflepuff dormitory. He hopped off his bed and looked around. It was a girls' dormitory.

"How did I get here?" he asked himself. He ran over to the door but stopped when he heard one of the girls yawn. He froze to the spot as she stretched and finally saw him. She let out a blood-curdling scream. The other girls woke up.

"Is that a Slytherin Boy?"

"Omigod!"

"What's going on?!"

"What's he doing here?!"

"Eeeek!"

"Did another Hufflepuff let him in?"

"Can they do that?"

"Get out!" The five girls grabbed their pillows and began pummeling Snape. He tried keeping his eyes closed; some of the girls weren't dressed completely. He groped for the doorknob and sprinted out.

"And stay out!" one of the girls called after him. He tripped and tumbled down the staircase. He landed painfully on the Hufflepuff Common Room rug. Several boys were playing Gobstones on the coffee table.

"Aren't you a Slytherin?"

"How did you get in here?"

"Er…" Even Snape didn't know how he got into Hufflepuff, let alone with his bed. The Hufflepuff boys charged at him. He managed to scramble out of the Hufflepuff entrance without getting too clobbered.

"So, have I proven myself worthy to be your friend?" Peter asked in an undertone.

"I dunno," Sirius said, "I still don't see how the Hufflepuff sixth year girls are involved in this-" Sirius turned to watch Snape sprint down the Grand Staircase and head towards the dungeons. Snape stopped once he saw all of the furniture in the Entrance Hall.

"What is going on?" he questioned in a frustrated manner. His eyes locked on Sirius.

"You. Was it you that put me in the Hufflepuff girls dormitory last night?"

"No, it was Peter." Sirius corrected.

"Yeah, right." Snape scoffed.

"Uhh…"

"Peter, you should be proud of what you have done! This is truly amazing!" James convinced him. Peter swelled his chest in pride.

"Wait, he did do this? Pettigrew?"

"I did it." Peter said proudly. Some of the other Slytherins woke up. They looked around with confused looks on their faces.

"How did this happen? Who did this?" one of the Slytherins questioned aloud.

"I did it!" Peter proclaimed loudly. All of the Slytherins were staring at Peter in disbelief.

"You did it? Alone?"

"Yes, I did!"

"In one night?"

"Yep! I did it!"

"Who did this?" asked a stern voice from behind Peter.

"I did!" Peter exclaimed. He turned around to give the person behind him a wide smile, but it soon faded. Behind him was Professor McGonagall. She nodded curtly and exhaled sharply.

"I see. Well, I will get Professor Dumbledore, and you stay here." She said. She turned and climbed up the grand staircase. Peter groaned pathetically and looked at Remus, his eyes were pleading for help. Remus felt a surge of pity.

"James, Sirius, we've got to help him. If it wasn't for us, he wouldn't have done this. All he wants is to be our friend." James and Sirius nodded in agreement.

"I guess it couldn't hurt," Sirius spoke up, "I mean, this was a pretty cool prank."

"Yeah," James agreed, "we could use any more creative ideas he has."

"What happened here?" Dumbledore inquired as he descended down the grand staircase. All of the Slytherins furiously pointed to Peter, who whimpered in trepidation.

"I, er, er, erm, I, er," Peter stuttered, "I, er, please don't expel me!"

"Did you do this alone?"

"No, he didn't." James walked over to Peter's side and placed a hand on Peter's chubby shoulder.

"Yeah," Sirius joined James, "we helped him." He gestured to the three of them.

"Ah ha! I knew it!" Snape shouted happily. Professor McGonagall raised an eyebrow at him.

"Do not think that you are off the hook, Mr. Snape. I heard about what happened in the Hufflepuff girls' dormitory. The five of you will be punished." Snape opened his mouth to protest. "Not another word!" Professor McGonagall rebuked him.

"I think a month of detention would suffice." Dumbledore told them judiciously. "Yes, that seems quite fair. Your first detention will be tonight after dinner. Please return to your houses." Some of the Slytherins were confused as to where to go.

"Er, do you want us to stay here with all of the stuff, or do you want us to go into our empty house?"

"Do as you please." Professor McGonagall replied. Dumbledore smiled merrily and leaned over to her.

"I think that I might have to make a barrier on the girls dormitories so thatyoung mencan't get in."

"What about the boys dormitory?"

"Well," Dumbledore said as the pair walked into the Great Hall, "there have never been complaints about a girl sneaking into the boys dormitory." Remus, Sirius, and James headed towards the Great Hall for breakfast as well.

"Can you believe our luck? Only a month of detention!" James enthused as he pushed the doors open. They seated themselves in three vacant seats.

"Snape got in trouble too, and he was-"

"Hey," Remus interrupted, "look at Peter." James and Sirius craned their necks to look down at the far side of the Gryffindor Table. Peter had isolated himself from the rest of the Gryffindors. His head was lifelessly resting on his hand. The other hand was idly stirring his oatmeal.

"He looks a little sad." Sirius concluded.

"It's our fault that he's depressed," Remus explained, "he did that prank to become our friend." James suddenly got up from his seat and grabbed his plate.

"C'mon, let's go." he said. Remus and Sirius picked up their plates and followed James to Peter's side of the table. James pulled up a chair to Peter's right.

"Hey." greeted James.

"What are you guys doing?" Peter asked halfheartedly.

"We're hanging out with you." said Sirius. Peter dropped his spoon into his oatmeal out of surprise. He looked up at the three boys, wondering if this was true.

"What? Why?"

"Because," Remus said, "that's what friends do."

"What do you think they'll have us do for our first detention?" Peter asked his new friends. They took a left at the first floor corridor.

"Not sure. Maybe we'll do lines, because that's what I had to do for my last detention." James commented. Sirius let out a loud bark-like laugh.

"What would they make us write? 'I will not rearrange Slytherin furniture?!'"

"Well, let's hope that we do lines and not something worse." Remus remarked. Peter shrugged. He didn't care about what they had to do, because he had friends now. The four of them met Filch and Snape at the top of the Grand Staircase. This was the first time that any of them had seen Filch smile.

"We're not doing lines, are we?" Remus groaned. Filch shook his shaggy head slowly, still grinning.

"Nope. You five have to move all of the Slytherin furniture back into the dormitories and the common room without magic. I'm just here to make sure that you don't…hurt yourselves." Filch explained seriously, even though it seemed that the idea of them getting hurt didn't bother him at all. The students rolled their eyes and walked over to the furniture. They picked up the large coffee table with all of the strength they could muster.

James looked back at Filch. He was occupying himself with getting dirt from under his nails. Surely he must have better things to do, James thought, what a sad life he must lead. James looked back at Sirius, who smiled impishly and nodded towards Snape. Snape was the unfortunate student walking backwards at the head of the table. James and Sirius turned the table a bit to the left. Snape cursed softly as he bumped into a sleeping statue of a disgruntled, stout wizard. The statue awoke angrily and slapped him across the back of his greasy head.

"Ouch!" Snape rubbed his head. He put down his end of the table disdainfully.

"Sorry about that, chap!" James said jokingly.

"Yes, we lost control of the table." Sirius lied. Snape glared at the two of them, obviously not buying their story.

"Don't bother me." Snape whispered indignantly. "I shouldn't even be here. I didn't do anything wrong."

"Of course you did, you pervert." Sirius corrected him, "You were in a sixth year Hufflepuff girls dormitory"

"I don't even remember even going in there, or how it happened."

"Don't worry, we believe you, Sevvy," James held back his laughter as he spoke, "by the way, we'll never finish this detention if you don't pick up your table end." Snape rolled his dark eyes and lifted his end of the table. Remus glowered at the pair of them and shook his head. James and Sirius silently agreed not to bother Snape, which was basically ignoring him.

The detention seemed to be interminable. Hours seemed to pass each time they carried the heavy, four-poster beds. Snape wanted to strangle Filch each time he laughed at their struggling and pain. He called out to them.

"Tomorrow, you wait for tomorrow's detention." This was not news to the group, as Filch has said the same thing for the past few hours.

Once the detention was over, the boys headed to their dorms. Sirius flopped onto his bed and was asleep within seconds. As James and Remus slipped under their covers, Peter broke the silence that existed since Filch dismissed them.

"Thanks guys. I've never had friends before."

A/N- Awwwww... we love this chapter. It was so sweet! Poor Severus though. Please tell us what you think!

Preview of Ch. 10

"Turkey sandwich."