Lily, who had received a note from Tom explaining the information he needed, spent the next few weeks copying down information for him & owling it to him, and searching the school for the mirror. She would only stop her "operation" to eat, sleep, go to classes, and do her homework. James, Sirius, and Remus noticed this withdrawal and tried to question her about it, but they were met with snappy comments about minding their own business.

"Hey, guys, have you noticed Lily being a bit…umm…preoccupied lately?" Sirius asked one day in the common room, only after looking around to make sure the stated wasn't present.

"Yeah, I have." James said. "I noticed her pouring over extremely old, and extremely thick books."

"Yeah, and she's been wandering around the school as if she's looking for something…" Sirius trailed off as he saw a certain redhead enter the common room via the portrait and plop herself down on the couch beside Remus, with an extremely satisfied smile on her face.

"You look happy!" Remus commented.

"Yup." She replied, looking at the fire.

"She looks self-satisfied if you ask me." Sirius said.

"Yup to that too."

"So you finally stopped pouring yourself over those old musty books?" he shuddered at the mention of books.

"It seems you never tried to even open yours, so I wouldn't talk if I was you!" she stated playfully.

"I am seriously wounded." Sirius said looking scandalized.

"I should hope you're Sirius. I pity anyone who wanted to impersonate you of all people," said Lily coolly.

"Oh, she got you there." Remus laughed.

"Oh shut it, Remus. Anyways, why are you so…umm…content, Lily?" Sirius said defending himself.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" Lily said, her eyes glittering.

"Well, I'll be darned to the wishing well!" Sirius said in mock hurt.

"Wishing well?" Lily asked bursting into laughter.

"Hey, it's more interesting than Halifax!" he muttered defensively.

"So, Lily, what have you been up to wandering around the school like a mad woman?" James asked.

"Nothing to your concern." Lily said shortly, ending further questioning.

"Geez, calm down."

"Does anyone feel like playing a prank on some particular unsuspecting Slytherins?" Lily said changing the subject.

"Guys, I think we've had a bad influence on her!" Sirius said.

"Nope, I was like this before I met you all." Lily said dryly. "Well, what do you guys think?" 

"Got any ideas?" James asked her.

"Me? Have ideas?" Lily said innocently, her eyes sparkling with a light that only she could have.

"Spill 'em." all three guys said together. (Peter was currently in the Hospital Wing due to an incident with Sir Coghan, a muffin, an inkbottle, and a flower.)

"Alright." Lily explained her plan to them. "First, take these and put them in the showerhead" she handed them a bag of hard candies. "Then, put this in their shampoo bottles." giving them bottles of dye, permanent of course. "To be sure that they," she paused to give a cough that sounded remarkably like Snape, "DO take a shower, spread this," she handed them bottles of molasses, ketchup, mayonnaise, honey, and any other kitchen condiment you could think of, "all over them. Any questions?"

"Only one." Remus said.

"Shoot."

"I don't want to rain on your parade, but how are we going to get IN the Slytherin dorms?" he asked.

"Oh, that's easy. The other day I was walking out of an empty classroom, and heard Malfoy muttered, 'Muggle Mud' to an empty wall, then enter some room. Naturally, I was curious, so I followed. When the wall opened up, I saw a bunch of chairs, couches and all, that were all green so I figured it was their common room." Lily said rather quickly.

"Glad she's not our enemy." Sirius muttered.

"What was that, Siri dear?" Lily said in a ditzy sickly sweet voice. The mentioned shuddered violently.

"That was scary." He muttered, getting the last of the shivers out of himself.

"Let's go!" She said, heading for the portrait hole.

"Wait!" James called out.

"Yes!" she said impatiently.

"You're gonna get caught going out there now." He said.

"Is poor James Potter scared of getting caught by a teacher?" she whined.

"No, but-ah shoot, let's go." He muttered.

They managed to get to the common room without any trouble, i.e. running into a teacher, ghost, Peeves, or Mrs. Norris. Casting three silencing charms on the boys, Lily handed them their supplies.

"Aren't you coming with us?" Remus asked.

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"Ummmm! Let's see, guys, sleeping, pajamas would be questionable, and my virgin eyes couldn't handle the sight of Malfoy and Snape in boxers." Lily said shuddering.

"Ok, but what are you going to do in the mean time?" Sirius asked.

"Oh, I think Narcissa Cleft and her friends would be very happy to join Malfoy and Snape in this matter." She said, her eyes glinting excitingly.

"Very well." He muttered, and with that the guys left.

In about 15 minutes, Lily was downstairs and sitting by the dying fire. The boys were hurrying down the steps as quietly as possible.

"What took you so long?" Lily asked playfully.

"Oh shut it, you didn't have to see Snape in his under knickers things!" Remus said.

"Or Crabe's nasty arm-" "Ok, Ok!" Lily interrupted James.

"Less Go!" She said, pointing to the door.

The boys filed out then turned waiting for Lily. As she stepped out, she turned and muttered, "Cloro Fliminium" pointing her wand at the shrinking door, before turning to the guys.

"What was that?" they asked.

"Oh, just a little present for our little friends." She said before turning to walk down the hall.

"Quick, in here!" Lily whispered, shoving her three friends into a dark classroom and locking the door.

"What was that for?" James asked indignantly, before Lily covered his mouth with her hand.

"Anyone here, my sweet?" they heard Filch's voice whisper silkily to his beloved cat, the warm glow from his lantern gliding under the door.

They waited a good half hour before Lily stuck her head outside to make sure that the path was safe. They managed to make it back to their dorms by 12:27 a.m.

"Well, good night to all ye faithful marauders." Lily said, walking up the stairs sleepily.

The next morning, Lily, and the guys hurried down to the Great Hall as quickly as possible to see it the prank had worked. Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus watched amusedly as all the 10 first year Slytherins entered the Great Hall with sticky-looking multicolored hair and wearing outfits ranging from Indian robes and moccasins to Japanese kimonos to Scottish kilts.

"I'd hate to see what really under THAT Scotsman's kilt!" Lily said pointing to a scarlet haired, kilt wearing, pale-faced Malfoy. The boys burst into a fit of unmanly giggles.

"Good one, Lily!" Sirius managed through the laughter. "But you're right, that would be scary!"

"But, at least we know Snape DOES wash his hair!" she added, only managing to cause the guys to laugh harder. Snape's hair was a violent purple, which clashed horribly with his Eskimo fur coat.

"Think you're smart, mudblood?" Malfoy's slick voice said from behind her, causing the boys to jump from their seats.

Lily motioned them down with her hand, "Oh, I'm sorry! Were you talking to me? It seems your small fragile brain can't handle even the simple task of remembering names. Oh, and Snape? I don't think purple is really your color." She added.

"Potter, you better watch out. She isn't a lily, she's a snapdragon!" Malfoy retorted.

"Actually, I think I'm more of a Tiger Lily." Lily replied truthfully, after all her parent's HAD named her after the Tiger Lily.

 "Either way, you're still you're still a flower!" Snape said finally, after about a minute of silence.

The subjects of the argument all stared at Snape, who blushed fiercely. Lily almost started gagging. Meanwhile, Malfoy was standing there with his mouth hanging open.

"Children, if you don't seat yourselves at your correct tables, 20 points will be taken from your house." the stern voice of Professor McGonagall said.

The Gryffindor students sat down, but Malfoy and Snape remained standing.

"Very well then, 20 points each from Slytherin and you both will have detention." She said, snapping them out of their trances.

"Way to go, Lil-I mean Lily!" Sirius corrected before Lily could do any harm to him.

"Does she look sick to you guys?" he asked, looking at Lily.

"Yeah, she looks a bit pale. Well paler than usual." James added.

"What do you expect, Snape just said she was a flower!" Remus said dryly, sipping his orange juice.

"Poor Lily. She'll be scarred for life. She'll never be able to love again. She'll go crazy and be put in St. Mungo's! She'll-"

 "Oh snap out of it, Sirius." Lily said shortly, "I'm not going crazy, I'll always be able to love, and I'm not scarred for life. It's not like he actually touched me or anything, though if he did, then you might be right." She said thoughtfully.

"Let's hope that never happens." muttered Sirius.

"Well, gotta go." Lily said, picking up her bags and heading to the Library.