Chapter 8- The Tournament

"You guys have to help me get this off!" James cried. The Hogsmeade trip was now over and the marauders were sitting in there favorite seats in the Common Room.

"No Prongs!" Sirius said passionately, "She disfigured your face! This is not to be taken lightly!"

(You guys lost? Here's a flashback)

Flashback

The crowd was chanting even louder and James was leaning closer, Peter and Remus were holding the placard like maniacs. Sirius was laughing uncontrollably. Lily's sweat was dropping profusely and everyone else was looking at them anxiously.

'Damn it! What do I do?' Lily thought to herself. She gazed at James eyes and felt a longing to kiss him too.

'No! This is wrong! James is the enemy!' and at that thought a strong fist hit James squarely in the eye. Lily feeling triumphant walked away nonchalantly.

"Ow! Padfoot it was not supposed to go like that!" James cried.

"Well… She is feisty… Isn't that supposed to be a turn on?" Sirius said hesitantly.

"Dammit! When are we ever going to use this?" Remus held out a placard saying, "OOOHHH"

"Or This…" Peter too held out a placard saying, "Applause"

"James, when are you finally going to kiss Lily Evans? So we can stop holding this out every time" Remus held out the placard that said, "Kiss". "We've been holding this ever since 3rd year!"

End Flashback

"I must admit Prongs it was very rash of her…" Remus added silently.

"Exactly!" Sirius exclaimed with a weird glint in his eyes, "We must get back at her! Someone is threatening to disfigure Prince Prongs face, ("Isn't it disfigured already?" Remus said and he got hit by a pillow)-excuse me? - Well as I was saying… Someone is threatening to disfigure James face and we can't allow James to take that lying down will we? We must squash Lily like a bug and leave her evil little body dumbfounded at the powers of the marauders!" The rest except James clapped in agreement.

"Hello? This is Lily were talking about! You know? My soul mate and we don't want to deprive her of her physical attributes and ability to move before we even date, marry and have a kid we would call Harold and besides it would be easier if we just get this black eye off!" James snapped. Yes, he has been thinking of his future life with Lily as his wife. They would live in Godrics Hollow, they would have a boy that would have his fantastic good looks, natural abilities in Quidditch and Lily's marvelous eyes, and he would be named either Harry James or Harold James like his Grandfather. Yes, he was that obsessed.

"A kid called Harold?" Peter asked disbelievingly.

"I've been thinking of my future so sue me!" James reasoned causing Sirius and Remus to double in laughter.

"What's so funny about that? I haven't seen you laughing when we caught you mumbling about proposing to that Hufflepuff girl you were smitten with in your sleep!" James said angrily.

"How could he forget about that?" Remus said in between fits of laughter. "Oh Arabella! Will you marry me?" Remus did an impression of someone disabled proposing.

"Knock it off!" Sirius demanded.

"Yes Remus, Knock it off. You are doing the wrong impression!" James corrected " It goes like this!" James lay on the floor, and did an exaggerated proposing formation and dramatically bellowed, "Oh Arabella! Will you run off with me in the glorious sun that will turn our bodies into ashes before we even have our 1 hour kiss?" and James ended it with a loud smoochy sound. Sirius was about to hex James when a certain red head interrupted.

"Tell me James… Who is this Arabella whom you have found more fascinating than I?" Lily said and James jumped back quickly and collided with Lily.

"Good idea, Lily Flower" Sirius said looking impressed.

James ran a hand through his hair and said, "Yes Lily, wonderful idea but you didn't have to do that it's quite obvious that your jealous…"

"What? Why would I be jealous?" Lily yelled.

"It's quite obvious so don't try to hide it… You came here just when I was doing an impression of proposing in the hopes of charming me to forget Arabella but to make it look like you didn't care…" James replied coolly. Lily stared at James in shock and at loss for words.

"Am I right?" James said giving Lily his famous Potter grins.

Lily seemed to have her voice back and hissed, "For your information Potter I do not give a damn even if you do as much as to snog a girl in front of everyone here!" James was about to retort when Arthur Weasely, a 7th year student interrupted.

"Wizard and Witches of Noble Gryffindor!" he started, "I wish to announce the beginning of the wonderful tradition Gryffindors have become accustomed to, The Prank Tournament!" he was welcomed by loud cheers and applause.

"Well… Now that that is over I'm here to once again announce the mechanics…" another student said.

Anyone above the 4th year is allowed to join.

You can sign up with any of the judges, Arthur Weasely, Frank Longbottom and Alice Clementine.

You can only have one house to target the pranks to, does not include Gryffindor.

You must leave calling cards with your codename in the scene of the prank that only the judges can identify.

The awards are the title, King and Queen of Pranks.

The Basis for winning is how you execute and how big the prank is.

The end of the tournament is on October 29 and the announcement of the winners is October 30.

Deadline for signup is Wednesday.

As soon as that was over the rest of the Gryffindors were all psyched up.

"Of Course I'm gonna enter! I won last year!" Sirius said proudly.

"Don't forget that I was the one who won during our 4th year…" James interrupted.

"Well… don't expect competition to be easy mate…" Sirius said threateningly.

"I'm not entering" James said simply. Sirius let out a genuine gasp and almost had a heart attack.

"Help him! He's Hyperventilating!" Peter screamed.

"I'm on it!" James aimed his wand at Sirius and a jet of water flew from his wand drenching Sirius from head to toe.

"Thanks… I think I had a nightmare… You said you weren't entering the Prank Tournament…" Sirius gasped.

"It was not a dream Sirius…" James said and Sirius handsome face distorted in shock and he fainted.

"I'll get the smelling salts…" Peter volunteered.

"No need Wormtail… we can just help Duke Faintfoot here later…" Remus then turned to James, "Why are you not entering?"

"I'm much do busy doing more important stuff…" James said casually.

"Does that important stuff happen to be "The 50 First Bumps"?" said Remus.

"Of Course!" James said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world and maybe it was. Without Lily he'd probably end up Hyperventilating like Sirius.

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