American Arrival
Chapter 4: Beginnings of a Prank War
Disclaimer: You know the drill. Anything you recognize from Harry Potter isn't mine. Emily, Reuven, Sandra, and Amanda are however.
I want to thank Lady of Masbolle so much. You have once again reviewed another of my chapters. I'm so happy that you have liked my story enough to keep reading and reviewing every chapter. I just want to say thank-you and that I appreciate the fact that you take the time to review.
I'd also like to thank everyone else who reviewed. I'm sorry that I didn't list your names, but I will in my next chapter.
Also, I need to say thanks to my sister, Sarah, who helped me with this chapter.
The days past into weeks, and before Emily knew it, their first month at Hogwarts had passed. Emily, Lily, Sandra, Amanda, the Marauders, and Reuven were all sitting in the common room talking one evening.
At the moment Sirius was telling a rather stupid joke. He'd just delivered the punch line and he and Peter were laughing at his joke hysterically, while everyone else just chuckled politely.
"So, what are you Marauders going to do next. It has been an awfully long time since you pulled a prank on anyone," Sandra asked.
"Well, we have a prank in mind at the moment," James answered, grinning.
"What is it? Who are you going to pull it on?" Amanda asked.
"Well, that is a surprise. We can't divulge the secret prank ideas of the Marauders. Otherwise, you wouldn't be surprised when it happens," Sirius answered. "Right Remus?"
Remus nodded from behind his book.
"What are you reading?" Lily asked.
"It is a book on dark creatures, you know, vampires, dementors, werewolves, that kind of thing."
"I absolutely adore werewolves. I think they're fascinating," Emily said.
"Really?" Remus looked up from his book for the first time that night.
"Yeah. I mean, I know they're dangerous when transformed, and I wouldn't want to meet a transformed one, but all the same, I'd love to meet a real werewolf," Emily sighed.
Remus nodded and started reading his book again, a small smile on his face.
"Well gents, I think we ought to be heading up to bed. Night," James called to the girls, as the other boys echoed their goodnights.
"I wonder why they're going to bed so early. It is only ten o'clock. They usually don't go to bed until midnight," Amanda said.
"It is pretty obvious. They are getting ready for the prank. I bet they are going to pull it tonight," Lily replied.
"Yeah, I bet you're right. Should we head up to bed too, then?" Sandra asked.
"Sure," Emily answered.
Up in the boys' dormitory, the Marauders were putting the finishing touches on their prank, while Reuven watched from his bed.
"Do you have to pull the prank on the girls? I mean can't you do it on the Slytherins or the rest of the school? They are going to be so mad at you," Reuven told them.
"We have to pull the prank on them. We haven't pulled one on them yet, and we've done almost everyone else in the school," Sirius answered.
"But don't you think it is a little bit cruel? The girls haven't been anything but nice to you, and this is how you repay them. By pranking them. I just don't think it sounds right." Reuven answered.
"Listen, we are pulling the prank, not you. We can pull it on anyone we want to, and if you say another word against it, we'll be sure to pull one on you," James said.
"Fine," Reuven answered, pulling the curtains around his bed shut.
"I'm sorry Reuven. I didn't mean it," James apologized.
"I don't care if you meant it or not," Reuven replied. Then he grabbed a small book and a quill from inside of his nightstand before muttering a locking and a silencing spell on his curtains before James could say anything else.
He sat propped up against his pillows and opened his journal to the first clean page and wrote:
Friday, October 5
James is being a real prat. I'm getting rather fed up with it actually. Sirius and Peter aren't being loads nicer or anything, but Remus is still being pleasant. I don't think he is capable of being mean.
I can't believe that he is actually going along with them on this whole pranking thing. I wouldn't care if the prank was on the rest of the school, but to prank the girls! I'm glad I'm not included in this. I tried to warn them. The girls aren't going to be very forgiving about this, and I don't blame them. I don't know what the prank is. They wouldn't tell me because they figured that I would tell the Emily about it. I'd only tell her about it if it were really cruel.
Still on the topic of Remus, he has been acting rather odd lately. He has been absent twice so far this school year, claiming that his mum has been ill and that he must go visit her. I do hope that she is all right. When Remus returns, he is always very pale and sickly looking. Well, more so than normal anyway. He also has all of these scars on his arms. I saw them one day when he rolled up his sleeves. I asked him about them, but he just said that he had just fallen, and that it was no big deal. He said it was just him being clumsy. I for one know that Remus J. Lupin is not at all clumsy.
Oh well. I guess I'll ask him some other time.
Back to the prank thing, maybe I shouldn't give them any more ideas if they are going to use them against the girls. Emily is my best friend, no offense to the guys or anything. I just feel comfortable around her. I hope she'll believe me when I say that I had no part in this prank. Maybe she will think that it is funny, but I highly doubt it.
As he finished the entry, he heard the door to the dormitory open, and the unmistakable sound of the Marauders come in. They were laughing and whispering to themselves, as they got ready for bed.
Reuven opened his curtain and put his journal away before extinguishing his lamp and going to bed.
The next morning, he woke up very early. Remus wasn't even awake yet, and he was always the first to rise. Reuven grabbed his clothes and headed to the bathroom to get ready.
He walked down to the common room with a book, but as soon as he sat down, he heard shrieks and screams coming from the girls' dormitories.
Reuven placed his book on the couch and ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitories to see what the commotion was about.
It appeared he wasn't the only one who wanted to see what was going on. Dozens of girls were poking their heads out of doors and into the halls, asking each other if anyone knew what was going on.
Reuven walked to the door that said first years' on it. He knocked on the door, and it was opened by Emily. Upon seeing that it was Reuven, she opened the door wider and allowed him to come in.
"Who screamed?" he asked.
"It was us," Amanda said on the verge of tears.
"What happened?"
"The Marauders filled our beds with mice, snakes, frogs, and spiders," Emily asked.
She led him toward her bed, which was still occupied by the said creatures.
"Do you want me to get rid of them?" Reuven asked.
"Yes please," Sandra replied.
He said a spell, and the mice, snakes, spiders, and frogs were gone.
"Thank-you so much. When I find those Marauders, I swear I am going to strangle them all," Lily said.
"Wait a minute. You told me that you usually come up for the ideas of the Marauders pranks. You didn't have anything to do with this one did you?" Emily asked, glancing at Reuven accusingly.
"No, I had no idea what they were going to do. They wouldn't tell me because they figured that I would tell you," Reuven answered.
"I have an idea. Reuven, are you on our side, or theirs with this whole prank thing?" Lily asked.
"I'm on your side," Reuven answered immediately.
"Then, would you help us think up a prank to perform on the Marauders? You don't have to help us pull it, just help us come up with an idea," Lily replied.
"I don't know. I don't think I'd feel right, plotting against them," Reuven said.
"We won't tell them that you had any part in it at all. You'll just act surprised when we pull it. Just don't help them think up a counter attack," Sandra said.
"Okay then, I'll help," Reuven answered.
Emily hugged him and said, "Thanks a ton. We'll have an awesome prank now that you are helping us."
Reuven smiled at the girls and left, saying that he would meet up with them later. He went down to the common room and grabbed his book. He took it up to his dormitory and saw that the other boys were awake.
"Where have you been?" Remus asked him.
"With the girls," Reuven replied.
"Did they find our little surprise?" Sirius asked, grinning.
"Yeah, and they are extremely ticked off. I wouldn't go anywhere near them if I were you," Reuven responded.
He walked over to his bed and gathered his notebook that he usually wrote down prank ideas in, a bottle of ink, and a quill. He started to walk towards the door when James asked, "Where are you going?"
"It is none of your business. I am simply going on a walk," Reuven stated.
"You're going on a walk with a bottle of ink, a notebook, and a quill?" James asked.
"Yes," Reuven answered shortly before exiting the room.
"Do you think he is mad at us?" James asked his fellow Marauders.
"Yes. We did prank Emily, and you know how close they are. Plus, I don't know if you remember or not, but last night you were being a complete arse, James," Remus replied.
"I figured he would have forgiven me for that by now," James said.
"Let's go down to breakfast," Sirius said. "I'm famished."
When they reached the common room, they saw the girls. As they were walking over to them, James called out, "Hey girls! Did ya'll sleep well with the critters?"
Amanda leapt up from her position on the couch, and before the other girls could stop her, she'd punched James in the nose.
James sank to his knees, nursing his bloody, and probably broken, nose.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Sirius asked. The girls reached Amanda and grabbed her by the arms to keep her from punching Sirius.
"She is a little angry from the prank this morning," Emily replied coldly.
"A little angry? She just broke James's nose! I think that is more than a little angry," Peter replied wide-eyed, as he moved behind Sirius for protection.
"If I were you, I'd take Potter to the hospital wing. He is getting blood all over the carpet," Lily said nonchalantly before letting go of Amanda's arm and walking out of the portrait hole, closely followed by the other girls.
When they were out of hearing distance from the boys, Sandra said, "Amanda! That was bloody brilliant! I didn't know you could punch that well!"
"My dad taught me how to fight when I was younger," Amanda replied in a tone of voice that made it sound like it was no big deal, but she was grinning broadly.
The girls continued on their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast. When they arrived, they sat in their usual seats, and relished the fact that the Marauders, James now having a bandage on his nose, sat as far away from them as possible.
When they finished breakfast, they walked out to the lake, and saw Reuven sitting against a tree, scribbling furiously in a notebook.
They walked over to him and sat down.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked Reuven.
"I'm just thinking up some ideas for pranks," he answered.
"What are your ideas so far?" Emily asked.
"Well, some of my ideas so far are, stealing the Marauders underwear and hanging it in the Great Hall, putting dye in the pipes that lead to our showers so that the Marauders are dyed bright pink. For that one, I'll take a shower before you put the dye in. Another idea is slipping something into their pumpkin juice so that they have to sing opera music for a week, but I thought that one might be better for the Slytherins. We could also do something with the pumpkin juice, so that they'd have to dance on the tables in the Great hall, singing muggle songs," Reuven answered. "But I am still plotting."
"I like the dancing on the tables, and the dye one," Sandra said.
"Oh my gosh! I just had a stroke of genius!" Reuven exclaimed.
He motioned for the girls to come closer, and he whispered his idea. Identical evil grins broke out on all four girls faces.
"Now, the only problem is, how do we go about doing it?" Amanda asked with a devilish grin on her face.
Author's Note:
I didn't like this chapter very much. The next one should be loads better. I really didn't like the Marauders prank, but I did like the part where James gets his nose broken. I usually love James, but I decided that he was getting a bit cocky, and needed to be brought down a few notches.
That is one reason I love writing these stories. I get to decide what happens to the characters. Please review and tell me what you think so far.
Swizzle Stick
Chapter 4: Beginnings of a Prank War
Disclaimer: You know the drill. Anything you recognize from Harry Potter isn't mine. Emily, Reuven, Sandra, and Amanda are however.
I want to thank Lady of Masbolle so much. You have once again reviewed another of my chapters. I'm so happy that you have liked my story enough to keep reading and reviewing every chapter. I just want to say thank-you and that I appreciate the fact that you take the time to review.
I'd also like to thank everyone else who reviewed. I'm sorry that I didn't list your names, but I will in my next chapter.
Also, I need to say thanks to my sister, Sarah, who helped me with this chapter.
The days past into weeks, and before Emily knew it, their first month at Hogwarts had passed. Emily, Lily, Sandra, Amanda, the Marauders, and Reuven were all sitting in the common room talking one evening.
At the moment Sirius was telling a rather stupid joke. He'd just delivered the punch line and he and Peter were laughing at his joke hysterically, while everyone else just chuckled politely.
"So, what are you Marauders going to do next. It has been an awfully long time since you pulled a prank on anyone," Sandra asked.
"Well, we have a prank in mind at the moment," James answered, grinning.
"What is it? Who are you going to pull it on?" Amanda asked.
"Well, that is a surprise. We can't divulge the secret prank ideas of the Marauders. Otherwise, you wouldn't be surprised when it happens," Sirius answered. "Right Remus?"
Remus nodded from behind his book.
"What are you reading?" Lily asked.
"It is a book on dark creatures, you know, vampires, dementors, werewolves, that kind of thing."
"I absolutely adore werewolves. I think they're fascinating," Emily said.
"Really?" Remus looked up from his book for the first time that night.
"Yeah. I mean, I know they're dangerous when transformed, and I wouldn't want to meet a transformed one, but all the same, I'd love to meet a real werewolf," Emily sighed.
Remus nodded and started reading his book again, a small smile on his face.
"Well gents, I think we ought to be heading up to bed. Night," James called to the girls, as the other boys echoed their goodnights.
"I wonder why they're going to bed so early. It is only ten o'clock. They usually don't go to bed until midnight," Amanda said.
"It is pretty obvious. They are getting ready for the prank. I bet they are going to pull it tonight," Lily replied.
"Yeah, I bet you're right. Should we head up to bed too, then?" Sandra asked.
"Sure," Emily answered.
Up in the boys' dormitory, the Marauders were putting the finishing touches on their prank, while Reuven watched from his bed.
"Do you have to pull the prank on the girls? I mean can't you do it on the Slytherins or the rest of the school? They are going to be so mad at you," Reuven told them.
"We have to pull the prank on them. We haven't pulled one on them yet, and we've done almost everyone else in the school," Sirius answered.
"But don't you think it is a little bit cruel? The girls haven't been anything but nice to you, and this is how you repay them. By pranking them. I just don't think it sounds right." Reuven answered.
"Listen, we are pulling the prank, not you. We can pull it on anyone we want to, and if you say another word against it, we'll be sure to pull one on you," James said.
"Fine," Reuven answered, pulling the curtains around his bed shut.
"I'm sorry Reuven. I didn't mean it," James apologized.
"I don't care if you meant it or not," Reuven replied. Then he grabbed a small book and a quill from inside of his nightstand before muttering a locking and a silencing spell on his curtains before James could say anything else.
He sat propped up against his pillows and opened his journal to the first clean page and wrote:
Friday, October 5
James is being a real prat. I'm getting rather fed up with it actually. Sirius and Peter aren't being loads nicer or anything, but Remus is still being pleasant. I don't think he is capable of being mean.
I can't believe that he is actually going along with them on this whole pranking thing. I wouldn't care if the prank was on the rest of the school, but to prank the girls! I'm glad I'm not included in this. I tried to warn them. The girls aren't going to be very forgiving about this, and I don't blame them. I don't know what the prank is. They wouldn't tell me because they figured that I would tell the Emily about it. I'd only tell her about it if it were really cruel.
Still on the topic of Remus, he has been acting rather odd lately. He has been absent twice so far this school year, claiming that his mum has been ill and that he must go visit her. I do hope that she is all right. When Remus returns, he is always very pale and sickly looking. Well, more so than normal anyway. He also has all of these scars on his arms. I saw them one day when he rolled up his sleeves. I asked him about them, but he just said that he had just fallen, and that it was no big deal. He said it was just him being clumsy. I for one know that Remus J. Lupin is not at all clumsy.
Oh well. I guess I'll ask him some other time.
Back to the prank thing, maybe I shouldn't give them any more ideas if they are going to use them against the girls. Emily is my best friend, no offense to the guys or anything. I just feel comfortable around her. I hope she'll believe me when I say that I had no part in this prank. Maybe she will think that it is funny, but I highly doubt it.
As he finished the entry, he heard the door to the dormitory open, and the unmistakable sound of the Marauders come in. They were laughing and whispering to themselves, as they got ready for bed.
Reuven opened his curtain and put his journal away before extinguishing his lamp and going to bed.
The next morning, he woke up very early. Remus wasn't even awake yet, and he was always the first to rise. Reuven grabbed his clothes and headed to the bathroom to get ready.
He walked down to the common room with a book, but as soon as he sat down, he heard shrieks and screams coming from the girls' dormitories.
Reuven placed his book on the couch and ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitories to see what the commotion was about.
It appeared he wasn't the only one who wanted to see what was going on. Dozens of girls were poking their heads out of doors and into the halls, asking each other if anyone knew what was going on.
Reuven walked to the door that said first years' on it. He knocked on the door, and it was opened by Emily. Upon seeing that it was Reuven, she opened the door wider and allowed him to come in.
"Who screamed?" he asked.
"It was us," Amanda said on the verge of tears.
"What happened?"
"The Marauders filled our beds with mice, snakes, frogs, and spiders," Emily asked.
She led him toward her bed, which was still occupied by the said creatures.
"Do you want me to get rid of them?" Reuven asked.
"Yes please," Sandra replied.
He said a spell, and the mice, snakes, spiders, and frogs were gone.
"Thank-you so much. When I find those Marauders, I swear I am going to strangle them all," Lily said.
"Wait a minute. You told me that you usually come up for the ideas of the Marauders pranks. You didn't have anything to do with this one did you?" Emily asked, glancing at Reuven accusingly.
"No, I had no idea what they were going to do. They wouldn't tell me because they figured that I would tell you," Reuven answered.
"I have an idea. Reuven, are you on our side, or theirs with this whole prank thing?" Lily asked.
"I'm on your side," Reuven answered immediately.
"Then, would you help us think up a prank to perform on the Marauders? You don't have to help us pull it, just help us come up with an idea," Lily replied.
"I don't know. I don't think I'd feel right, plotting against them," Reuven said.
"We won't tell them that you had any part in it at all. You'll just act surprised when we pull it. Just don't help them think up a counter attack," Sandra said.
"Okay then, I'll help," Reuven answered.
Emily hugged him and said, "Thanks a ton. We'll have an awesome prank now that you are helping us."
Reuven smiled at the girls and left, saying that he would meet up with them later. He went down to the common room and grabbed his book. He took it up to his dormitory and saw that the other boys were awake.
"Where have you been?" Remus asked him.
"With the girls," Reuven replied.
"Did they find our little surprise?" Sirius asked, grinning.
"Yeah, and they are extremely ticked off. I wouldn't go anywhere near them if I were you," Reuven responded.
He walked over to his bed and gathered his notebook that he usually wrote down prank ideas in, a bottle of ink, and a quill. He started to walk towards the door when James asked, "Where are you going?"
"It is none of your business. I am simply going on a walk," Reuven stated.
"You're going on a walk with a bottle of ink, a notebook, and a quill?" James asked.
"Yes," Reuven answered shortly before exiting the room.
"Do you think he is mad at us?" James asked his fellow Marauders.
"Yes. We did prank Emily, and you know how close they are. Plus, I don't know if you remember or not, but last night you were being a complete arse, James," Remus replied.
"I figured he would have forgiven me for that by now," James said.
"Let's go down to breakfast," Sirius said. "I'm famished."
When they reached the common room, they saw the girls. As they were walking over to them, James called out, "Hey girls! Did ya'll sleep well with the critters?"
Amanda leapt up from her position on the couch, and before the other girls could stop her, she'd punched James in the nose.
James sank to his knees, nursing his bloody, and probably broken, nose.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Sirius asked. The girls reached Amanda and grabbed her by the arms to keep her from punching Sirius.
"She is a little angry from the prank this morning," Emily replied coldly.
"A little angry? She just broke James's nose! I think that is more than a little angry," Peter replied wide-eyed, as he moved behind Sirius for protection.
"If I were you, I'd take Potter to the hospital wing. He is getting blood all over the carpet," Lily said nonchalantly before letting go of Amanda's arm and walking out of the portrait hole, closely followed by the other girls.
When they were out of hearing distance from the boys, Sandra said, "Amanda! That was bloody brilliant! I didn't know you could punch that well!"
"My dad taught me how to fight when I was younger," Amanda replied in a tone of voice that made it sound like it was no big deal, but she was grinning broadly.
The girls continued on their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast. When they arrived, they sat in their usual seats, and relished the fact that the Marauders, James now having a bandage on his nose, sat as far away from them as possible.
When they finished breakfast, they walked out to the lake, and saw Reuven sitting against a tree, scribbling furiously in a notebook.
They walked over to him and sat down.
"What are you doing?" Lily asked Reuven.
"I'm just thinking up some ideas for pranks," he answered.
"What are your ideas so far?" Emily asked.
"Well, some of my ideas so far are, stealing the Marauders underwear and hanging it in the Great Hall, putting dye in the pipes that lead to our showers so that the Marauders are dyed bright pink. For that one, I'll take a shower before you put the dye in. Another idea is slipping something into their pumpkin juice so that they have to sing opera music for a week, but I thought that one might be better for the Slytherins. We could also do something with the pumpkin juice, so that they'd have to dance on the tables in the Great hall, singing muggle songs," Reuven answered. "But I am still plotting."
"I like the dancing on the tables, and the dye one," Sandra said.
"Oh my gosh! I just had a stroke of genius!" Reuven exclaimed.
He motioned for the girls to come closer, and he whispered his idea. Identical evil grins broke out on all four girls faces.
"Now, the only problem is, how do we go about doing it?" Amanda asked with a devilish grin on her face.
Author's Note:
I didn't like this chapter very much. The next one should be loads better. I really didn't like the Marauders prank, but I did like the part where James gets his nose broken. I usually love James, but I decided that he was getting a bit cocky, and needed to be brought down a few notches.
That is one reason I love writing these stories. I get to decide what happens to the characters. Please review and tell me what you think so far.
Swizzle Stick