Destiny- The First Year

Chapter 7: The New Marauders First Prank and The Full Moon

A fortnight passed quite uneventfully. Sirius seemed unconcerned about the big three headed dog and told them to forget it. Which was something they couldn't do easily. Harry asked him what it was doing in the school and Sirius accidentally let slip it was guarding something.

One chilly September evening found Harry and Charlie sat by the first in Sirius's office chatting with Sirius himself.

"You do know what Friday is don't you?" Sirius asked them

"No." Harry said puzzled "what is it?"

"It's the full moon!" Sirius informed them "we can go out and explore the grounds and stuff!"

"Cool!" Charlie smiled "will we get to see the shrieking shack?"

"Yup!" Sirius grinned "and perhaps inside the forest too!"

"Wicked!" Harry said excitedly

"So are you ready?" Sirius asked

He was answered by two pops and a loud neigh.

"I'll take that as a yes," he laughed at the horse and stag that were stood infront of him "you can change back now!"

There were two more pops and Harry and Charlie were back to there human forms.

"Okay then meet me here at eight on Friday night!" Sirius grinned

"Okay!" Harry agreed

Harry and Charlie headed up to the griffindor common room excitedly. Once inside they were met by Ron and Hermione.

"Where were you?" Hermione asked, "we couldn't find you anywhere!"

"What we need is a big first prank anyone got any ideas?" Harry asked casually

"We could make them say something like The New Marauders Are Here!" Charlie suggested

"Good idea!" Harry smiled "what about exploding toilets?"

"Yeah we could do that too!" Charlie grinned

"How about summoning all the quills in the whole school and hiding them somewhere so nobody can write anything?" Hermione suggested

"Great!" Harry laughed "any others?"

"How about we get each of the schools owls to drop a letter off for snape and inside each one could be a shampoo and conditioner sample!" Charlie smiled evilly

"Ooh good one!" Hermione smiled

"Okay then when should we do it?" Harry asked

"How about Friday?" Ron suggested

Harry glanced at Charlie and she nodded

"Okay Friday morning it is! Ive got a book in my trunk which could help, its from the marauders room" he added to Charlie

"The marauders room?" Hermione asked

"Its this room in our house that our dads made its got loads of prank items and stuff to help you with pranks it also has a never ending supply of food!" Charlie explained "we discovered it when we were eight when we were exploring our house!"

"Okay I'll get the book and we can read up on the spells we need, then tomorrow we can set up the toilets and stuff!"

They spent the rest of that night practising the summoning charm and reading the book Harry had brought.

The next day passed quickly and soon enough they were all gathered in the empty boys dorm (they tried the girls dorms but the staircase just turned into a slide when Harry and Ron tried to climb it!)

"Okay then Hermione you and Charlie take the girls toilets and me and Ron will take the boys ones charm as many as you can find but leave one toilet un charmed so you can use that one! We will do exactly the same. When you've finished go to the room of requirement, Charlie you know the one, and we'll summon the quills and charm the fireworks. Tomorrow morning we will give the school owls the letters just before we head down to breakfast!" Harry informed them all "ready?" he asked

"ready!" Charlie, Hermione and Ron chorused

"Lets go!" Harry said excitedly.

After several narrow escapes from filch the caretaker and his ugly cat Mrs Norris Harry and a wet Ron met Hermione and Charlie in the room of requirement.

"What happened to you?" Charlie asked Ron

"I accidentally set one of the loos off!" Ron complained

"Well at least we know they work!" Charlie laughed "here!" Charlie performed a quick drying spell on Ron's clothes

"Thanks!" Ron smiled

"Okay guys next we have to summon the quills! Everyone ready?" Harry asked

"Yup" Charlie smiled and Ron and Hermione nodded

"Accio quills!" Harry yelled

Nothing appeared to have happened Harry shrugged

"Lets try together after three, one... two... three...!" Harry yelled but before any of them had chance to say the spell several hundreds of quills began zooming into the room.

Once the stream of quills had stopped zooming in and they were neatly piled at the far side off the room they began work on the fireworks. Ron had managed to get hold of a box of doctor filibusters no-heat wet start fireworks from his twin brothers, they charmed the fireworks to exploded one every second so a different letter could be formed with each firework. The fireworks were charmed to stay until every one of them had exploded and people had time to read the message.

Finally the four of them headed to griffindor tower to go to bed and get some rest so they could be up at half seven to give the owls the letters.

Harry ended up having to pour water on Ron to wake him up (Ron didn't do early mornings) they met a very sleepy Charlie and Hermione in the common room. With their pockets full of letters, they snuck up to the owlery. They attacked a letter to every school owl that was there before sneaking to the great hall ready for breakfast. Nearly all the students were already in the great hall when the four of them arrived. They took their seats and began an innocent breakfast.

"After three" Harry whispered "one... two...three!"

The firework zoomed off around the room, then one by one they exploded, and they formed the words The New Marauders Are Here! Lets The Fun Begin!

Sirius was laughing and Harry, Hermione, Charlie and Ron exchanged evil grins as the morning post began to arrive. Snape was very surprised when over half of the owls entering the hall and delivering post dropped letters off for him. He began to open his letters and pulled out shampoo and conditioner sample after hair and conditioner sample. Sirius was laughing his head off and Remus was laughing weakly too (after all full moon was that night).

"You!" snape bellowed at Sirius "this was you! Only you would do something like this!" he yelled turning purple "I will get you back if it's the last thing I do!" he yelled before starting to storm out of the hall.

"Snape!" Sirius yelled

"What!" snape yelled back

"You forgot your samples!" Sirius shouted

Snape turned and stormed out off the hall.

"Did I say something wrong?" Sirius asked innocently

"Okay calm down please!" Dumbledore bellowed "please continue eating as you all have classes soon!"

The students quietened down and continued to eat their breakfasts before heading of to class. Harry, Charlie, Hermione and Ron had History of Magic first with Professor Binns and they would definitely need their quills!

As predicted the first thing Binns asked them to get their quills out. Several bags were emptied onto desks and there was lots of muttering about stupid quills. Hermione put her hand up carefully.

"Professor Binns?" Hermione asked

"Yes miss... er..." Binns said confused

"Its miss granger sir! I can't find my quill!" she complained

"Well borrow somebody else's then miss Grant!" Binns told her impatiently

"I can find my quill either!" Neville complained

"Me neither!" Lavender moaned

"Honestly haven't any of you brought your quills?" Binns asked annoyed

"I packed mine last night but its not here!" Seamus complained "mum will kill me if I don't find it!"

"I can not teach you if you don't have your quills! Class dismissed and tomorrow please ensure you all have your quills!" Binns droned

Harry and Charlie led Ron and Hermione down to Sirius's office to see if he was teaching or not. Fortunately, he was not. He was sat at his desk looking for something in one of the draws.

"Hey!" he smiled as Harry and Charlie walked in followed by a nervous Ron and Hermione. "Good job with the pranks this morning!"

"Thanks!" Harry grinned "looking for your quill?" He asked as he took a seat next to the fire and motioned for Ron and Hermione to join him.

"Yeah actually how did you guess?" Sirius asked

"We kind of hid all the quills in the school, that's why were not in History of magic!" Charlie explained

"Ahh!" Sirius smiled "what else did you do?"

"We put spells on the toilets to make them explode!" Harry told him.

"Good job!" Sirius smiled "I loved the shampoo and conditioner samples!"

"You were the inspiration for that one as you are always saying snape needs to wash his hair!" Charlie laughed "I wonder if he will take the hint?"

"Anyone want a chocolate frog?" Sirius asked as he extracted a box from his desk and carried it over to the fireplace.

"I will!" Harry said

"Me too" Charlie said grabbing one out of the box

"Ron? Hermione?" Sirius smiled

"Thanks" Ron said as he ripped the paper off his chocolate frog hungrily

"If I must" Hermione said as she pulled one out of the box.

"So is it just you four?" Sirius asked

"Yeah," Harry grinned

"Let me know if you want anything out of the marauders room and I'll get it for you!" Sirius smiled

"Okay" Charlie said through a mouthful of chocolate frog "ive got Dumbledore again!" she complained looking at the chocolate frog card she had just pulled from the paper "oh well" she stuffed the chocolate frog card in her pocket.

The bell began to ring for the end off the first lesson.

"Well you lot better be off to your next class!" Sirius grinned "what have you got?"

"Potions!" Harry complained "I hate snape" he added as an after thought

"Don't we all!" Sirius agreed "I'll see you later!"

The four of them left Sirius's office and headed towards the dungeons. They entered the potions dungeon to be met by several soaked slytherins ("the toilets are working!" Harry muttered to the others).

After a very dull and non exiting potions lesson where Neville managed to melt two cauldrons they had break and then double Herbology with the Hufflepuffs and transfiguration before lunch. After lunch, the Griffindors had Defence against the dark arts with Sirius and finally double charms.

Finally it was eight o'clock and Harry and Charlie snuck off to meet Sirius in his office. They all snuck carefully down to the entrance hall and out onto the grounds.

"First stop the shrieking shack!" Sirius whispered before transforming into a big black dog and negotiating his way through the branches of a whomping willow to press a knot on the trunk with a paw. Harry and Charlie followed Sirius through the hole that had appeared before transforming into Prongs the stag and Hooves the horse and following him to a staircase leading up to a trapdoor which Harry pushed up with his antlers. Sirius led out a bark of thanks and climbed the staircase first.

They met Remus in the lounge area or what Harry and Charlie presumed must be a lounge area as the furniture was all chewed and hardly distiguable. An old mirror stood in the corner and Harry glanced at himself in it. He decided his hair wasn't messy enough so he had a good shake. Sirius gave a kind of bark, which Harry interpreted as a laugh.

When Remus had sniffed Sirius, Harry and Charlie they headed out of the shack and into the forbidden forest. The forest was dark and shadowy it was similar to the woods around Pranksters Palace but at the same time a lot different. This forest was a lot more scary and foreboding.

Charlie decided to have a bit of fun. She kicked up her heels, neighed loudly, and began to cantor down a path to the left. Harry followed, followed by Remus and Sirius came last. They came to a clearing and Charlie turned to face the others she nuzzled Harry and ran. Taking the hint that she was trying to introduce a game of tag Sirius and Remus ran after Charlie and Harry followed.

After Having a great time playing tag and scaring the centaurs senseless (Harry decided it would be funny to charge at them with his horns!). the four of them headed back towards the shrieking shack for a rest. Remus curled up on a bed upstairs and Sirius, Harry and Charlie decided this was the time to leave as the sun was beginning to rise casting pale shadows over everything.

Sirius dropped them off at the portrait hole and a very sleepy Harry and Charlie headed to bed only to be woken up two hours later for breakfast.

A/n Thanks to all my reviewers! I was going to post this on Monday before I went to my grandparents house for a few days but my computer decided not to let me post it!

The Next chapter will be Harry's first Quidditch match!