~~~With Lily and James~~~
They had just entered the Great Hall, unnoticed by any of the other students. After hiding behind a long curtain behind their chosen victims, Lily and James pulled out their wands.
"You sure this will work, Lils?" James said, a little skeptical about this whole thins, "I mean, we're only first years. This is like 6th year Charms were about to do."
Lily sighed, exasperated. "James, we've been through this a hundred times. I'm the one doing the complicated stuff. And you know I'm top of the class in Charms, I'm pretty sure I can handle this."
"Yeah, but wouldn't this kind of. I don't know. hurt you in anyway. What if you accidentally did something wrong?" James asked, still looking a little uneasy.
Lily turned and looked straight at him, raising one of her eyebrows. He silently kicked himself because of his own stupidity. If there was one thing Lily loved over he friends and family, it was Charms. She absolutely 'never' messed up on anything that had to do with it.
"James, are you crazy? And anyway, if I 'do' something wrong, that's one of the reasons you and the other two are doing that other curse. Your spell helps me and my spell so it's stronger so I actually 'can' accomplish it. 'If' I do something wrong, I can stop doing the spell, unharmed if you three stay with me through the whole spell." Lily said, assuring him that she'd be fine.
He slug one arm over her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "All right. Let's get this show on the road." Lily smirked and peeked out the curtains, catching Remus' eye and nodding to him. Remus understood and nudged Sirius, who had just starting singing out, loudly, his ABC's.
Lily turned back to James, smiled and nodding, "Right then. One the count of three, start saying your words.
"One." Lily said, softly. James took her hand and said, "Two." they half grinned, half smirked at each other and said together, "Three." James pointed his wand at Snape, while Remus, all the way across the room, pointed his at Avery, and Sirius pointed his at Malfoy, each muttering the same words at the exact same time over and over, almost incoherently. "materia slakeos areneksia coheman ouctpes"
On their fifth time saying it, Lily pointed her wand at the three Slytherians and started to say her spell. "Farias corhemious pixius, lepriconious transcourpous impendioumus, barbious dubious ditious" the tip of her wand started to glow after she said these words. She didn't stop, though; her words were getting louder, stronger, and more forceful. No one else in the Hall noticed any of this as Lily continued, "Sientein somplaout weekous!" James could feel Lily weaken so he put more effort into his spell. They went on for another five minutes, Lily saying different words. Then finally she finished the spell, saying, "CONTRACTIOUNS INFINITE!"
Immediately, everyone in the Great Hall stopped talking at once, seeing the Marauder's newest prank. Snape was no longer Snape. Snape was a fairy. Not a real fairy, mind you. He was dressed in a green pixie dress and even had little wings. He looked ready to kill when he realized what he was wearing. He opened his mouth to shout out something that would have made his mother die of shock, but all that came out of his mouth was nursery rhythms.
"Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and can't tell where to find them
Leave them alone and they'll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them"
When he finished, he looked as sour as ever and his face was scarcely close to that of a tomato. Everyone, other than the Slytherians and some of the teachers (McGonagall and Graves 'the Potions master and head of Slytherian house'), were laughing good-naturedly. "Hey Mother Goose, try looking up your ass, maybe you'll find your sheep up there!" someone shouted out, earning a stern glare from McGonagall. "Love the look, Tinker Bell!" a girl from the Ravenclaw table shouted. "Always knew you were a fairy, Sarah! Oops I mean Snape!" a third year Gryffindor boy shouted after.
Then, Malfoy stood up, indignant, though no one could really see him. He was about two feet tall and dressed in a leprechaun outfit. "Hey Darby O'Gill, where's your little people?!" another student shouted out. Another kid, he must have been a muggle-born because he knew the jingle, shouted out, "Heart, stars, horse-shoes, clovers, and blue moons," some more people gather in, "pots of gold, and rainbows, and the red balloons." Malfoy, like Snape, tried to shout out some bad words, but when he opened his mouth, he started to say in an Irish accent, much like the muggle commercial:
"They're always after me Lucky Charms!"
Most of the kids didn't understand what he meant by that, since they weren't muggle-born, but nonetheless they found it absolutely hilarious. After the laughter subsided, everyone turned their attention to Avery, who had yet to attempt to talk. He glared daggers at everyone, especially some Hufflepuff girls that shrieked quite loudly, "Like, oh my God, his hair is, like, so cuter than mine!" Another boy from the Ravenclaw table shouted, "Hey Barbie, look down to your right and you'll find your Ken!" (meaning Malfoy). Avery opened his mouth, forgetting what might happen if he did so, and he started to sing in a ditzy voice: "I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
Again, only the muggle-borns had ever heard of this so they were the ones laughing the loudest. Although, whether they knew the song or not, everyone else was laughing as hard as they could. You could hear the words "Queer." And "Cross dressers." among the crowd of people.
To make matters worse (for the three Slytherians) letters, bright red and gold letters, spelling out the words 'Gryffindor's #1!'. While everyone was still distracted by the message, Lily and James slipped out of the curtains and snuck over to the Gryffindor table, where Sirius, Peter and Remus were laughing so hard, tears were coming out of their eyes. When Lily and James slipped into their seats, they immediately started talking to them, "Brilliant! Simply brilliant. Who, again, came up with this clever prank?" Sirius wheezed out.
"That would be Lily. I must say Lils, that's pretty impressive." James said, not trying to hide the pride in his voice when he told Sirius that.
"Which parts the impressive one? The part where I came up with the prank or the part with me doing 6th year Charms?" Lily asked.
"Actually both were pretty impressive. Though, I don't understand why that's 6th year Charms." Remus answer for James, a little confused.
"Didn't I tell you?" Lily asked, but when she saw all four heads shake 'no', she continued, grinning widely, "Every time they talk, there supposed to say something that's related to what they're dressed as, there might be something wrong with that, though, I don't know if I got that spell totally right. So they may be able to talk normally for a while. And, this spell is going to last for one full week. No counter-curse." Lily finished smugly. That caused the other four to crack up laughing once again, blending in with the still hysteric crowd in the Hall.
Just at that moment, Malfoy stood up on his chair "POTTER!!! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!" he shouted out over the laughter in the Great Hall.
"Guess he 'can' talk for now." Lily managed to get out, she herself giggling.
"Potter, Black, Evans, Lupin, and Pettigrew! Come with me!" McGonagall said sternly. Lily looked up to where Dumbledore was seated to see his reactions. He, surprisingly, was smiling, trying not to laugh and look stern. Quite a different reaction to Professor McGonagall, who the five followed after, receiving applause and cat-calls from the many admirers. When the six of them reached her office, they all stood around her desk where she sat, nervously glancing at one another. McGonagall didn't hesitate to skip right to the point.
"I am absolutely disgusted with this rebellious act on your behalves. You're 11 years old. I would think that would be old enough to act a little mature, or at least act your age." She started, each one of the 11 year olds wincing with each word she said. "You will be given detention every night for the next 2 months for your lack of common sense." Lily immediately panicked. Two months! That was the worst punishment they had received yet! It was her fault they were in here in the first place. She came up with the plan. She talked the others into it (well mostly Peter, the others were practically giddy when she mentioned the word 'prank'). But that wasn't the point. They didn't really deserve the detentions, she did. After all, all they did was perform a curse to keep her strength up. That had nothing to do with what happened to Snape, Malfoy and Avery. Lily broke out of her train of thought when McGonagall spoke once again.
"This little war between you and the Slytherians has gone on for long enough. I suggest you all get your acts together if you would stay here for the remainder of the term" McGonagall said, sternly. "You may go". The five walked out the door, their heads hung in shame.
Once they were out of her office and walking back to the Gryffindor common room, the silence was unbearable to Lily. Though, if the corridors hadn't been so dark, she would have seen the smiles on the boys' faces. Instead, she thought they were mad at her. When they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, where there was more light so she could see where they were, she stomped her foot, tears threatening to spill. "This is 'all' my fault!" Lily said, guiltily. The four boys turned to look at her. "If it hadn't been for me, none of this would have happened. I came up with the plan, I did the spell, I- ," Lily rambled on.
"Lily! What are you talking about" Remus interrupted her.
"Yeah, and what are you trying to do? Take all the credit for our awesome prank. Nu uh, no way." Sirius said, with an amused glint in his eyes.
Lily's brow furrowed in confusion, "You're-you're not mad?" she asked them, disbelievingly. James raised an eyebrow at her.
"Mad for what? Lily, have you not been paying attention at all when Sirius or I talk?" James asked.
"Actually, it's probably a good thing. If she did pay attention every time you or Sirius talked, her IQ was drop probably down to her age." Remus joked.
"Ha.ha.ha" Sirius said, mock glaring.
"Anyway" James cut in, "Lily, we 'want' to get detention."
Lily looked confused once again, "Why?'
"Cuz, we're going to attempt to break the Hogwarts detention record. We have to reach over 500 while we're here. Thanks to this newest prank, we just got about 60 more." Sirius said, looking absolutely ecstatic.
"Thank goodness. I thought you guys would be mad at me or something." Lily sighed in relief. James looked at her straight in the eye.
"There is no way we could ever be mad at you, Flower." Sirius, Remus and Peter nodded in agreement.
"Yeah Lils, your just like a sister to us." Sirius said, flinging an arm over her shoulder in an act of friendship.
"I still can't believe my luck of befriending the four most wonderful guys in the world" Lily said, smiling widely at each of them. Inwardly, the four boys were thinking along the same lines about Lily. She was so close to each of them and they would cherish her friendship forever.
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A/N- how's that. Sorry I didn't post some of the things I had in the preview. I promise, next chapter, I'll include the rest in there. Thank you to all who reviewed and I'm so sorry it took a while for me to get this updated. Anyway, I got four reviews and you know what that means. Here's the four part preview.
*"I don't understand why you actually hang out with her. She's got no backbone and she's not even pretty." Cassandra said, snottily. James turned to her, his face contorted in a glare that would have scared off Snape.
*"Guys, I have to leave for a couple of days. My mom's sick and I'm going to visit her." Remus said, looking a little nervous. Lily noticed this, but didn't say anything.
*"What's so funny?" James asked, looking up. "I just saw Snape and Malfoy trying to tell of a first year Ravenclaw. It was hilarious!" Lily giggled.
* How shocked she was when approximately 50 owls made their way over to Lily, dropping the letters all over her, burying her in the process.
They had just entered the Great Hall, unnoticed by any of the other students. After hiding behind a long curtain behind their chosen victims, Lily and James pulled out their wands.
"You sure this will work, Lils?" James said, a little skeptical about this whole thins, "I mean, we're only first years. This is like 6th year Charms were about to do."
Lily sighed, exasperated. "James, we've been through this a hundred times. I'm the one doing the complicated stuff. And you know I'm top of the class in Charms, I'm pretty sure I can handle this."
"Yeah, but wouldn't this kind of. I don't know. hurt you in anyway. What if you accidentally did something wrong?" James asked, still looking a little uneasy.
Lily turned and looked straight at him, raising one of her eyebrows. He silently kicked himself because of his own stupidity. If there was one thing Lily loved over he friends and family, it was Charms. She absolutely 'never' messed up on anything that had to do with it.
"James, are you crazy? And anyway, if I 'do' something wrong, that's one of the reasons you and the other two are doing that other curse. Your spell helps me and my spell so it's stronger so I actually 'can' accomplish it. 'If' I do something wrong, I can stop doing the spell, unharmed if you three stay with me through the whole spell." Lily said, assuring him that she'd be fine.
He slug one arm over her shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "All right. Let's get this show on the road." Lily smirked and peeked out the curtains, catching Remus' eye and nodding to him. Remus understood and nudged Sirius, who had just starting singing out, loudly, his ABC's.
Lily turned back to James, smiled and nodding, "Right then. One the count of three, start saying your words.
"One." Lily said, softly. James took her hand and said, "Two." they half grinned, half smirked at each other and said together, "Three." James pointed his wand at Snape, while Remus, all the way across the room, pointed his at Avery, and Sirius pointed his at Malfoy, each muttering the same words at the exact same time over and over, almost incoherently. "materia slakeos areneksia coheman ouctpes"
On their fifth time saying it, Lily pointed her wand at the three Slytherians and started to say her spell. "Farias corhemious pixius, lepriconious transcourpous impendioumus, barbious dubious ditious" the tip of her wand started to glow after she said these words. She didn't stop, though; her words were getting louder, stronger, and more forceful. No one else in the Hall noticed any of this as Lily continued, "Sientein somplaout weekous!" James could feel Lily weaken so he put more effort into his spell. They went on for another five minutes, Lily saying different words. Then finally she finished the spell, saying, "CONTRACTIOUNS INFINITE!"
Immediately, everyone in the Great Hall stopped talking at once, seeing the Marauder's newest prank. Snape was no longer Snape. Snape was a fairy. Not a real fairy, mind you. He was dressed in a green pixie dress and even had little wings. He looked ready to kill when he realized what he was wearing. He opened his mouth to shout out something that would have made his mother die of shock, but all that came out of his mouth was nursery rhythms.
"Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and can't tell where to find them
Leave them alone and they'll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them"
When he finished, he looked as sour as ever and his face was scarcely close to that of a tomato. Everyone, other than the Slytherians and some of the teachers (McGonagall and Graves 'the Potions master and head of Slytherian house'), were laughing good-naturedly. "Hey Mother Goose, try looking up your ass, maybe you'll find your sheep up there!" someone shouted out, earning a stern glare from McGonagall. "Love the look, Tinker Bell!" a girl from the Ravenclaw table shouted. "Always knew you were a fairy, Sarah! Oops I mean Snape!" a third year Gryffindor boy shouted after.
Then, Malfoy stood up, indignant, though no one could really see him. He was about two feet tall and dressed in a leprechaun outfit. "Hey Darby O'Gill, where's your little people?!" another student shouted out. Another kid, he must have been a muggle-born because he knew the jingle, shouted out, "Heart, stars, horse-shoes, clovers, and blue moons," some more people gather in, "pots of gold, and rainbows, and the red balloons." Malfoy, like Snape, tried to shout out some bad words, but when he opened his mouth, he started to say in an Irish accent, much like the muggle commercial:
"They're always after me Lucky Charms!"
Most of the kids didn't understand what he meant by that, since they weren't muggle-born, but nonetheless they found it absolutely hilarious. After the laughter subsided, everyone turned their attention to Avery, who had yet to attempt to talk. He glared daggers at everyone, especially some Hufflepuff girls that shrieked quite loudly, "Like, oh my God, his hair is, like, so cuter than mine!" Another boy from the Ravenclaw table shouted, "Hey Barbie, look down to your right and you'll find your Ken!" (meaning Malfoy). Avery opened his mouth, forgetting what might happen if he did so, and he started to sing in a ditzy voice: "I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation"
Again, only the muggle-borns had ever heard of this so they were the ones laughing the loudest. Although, whether they knew the song or not, everyone else was laughing as hard as they could. You could hear the words "Queer." And "Cross dressers." among the crowd of people.
To make matters worse (for the three Slytherians) letters, bright red and gold letters, spelling out the words 'Gryffindor's #1!'. While everyone was still distracted by the message, Lily and James slipped out of the curtains and snuck over to the Gryffindor table, where Sirius, Peter and Remus were laughing so hard, tears were coming out of their eyes. When Lily and James slipped into their seats, they immediately started talking to them, "Brilliant! Simply brilliant. Who, again, came up with this clever prank?" Sirius wheezed out.
"That would be Lily. I must say Lils, that's pretty impressive." James said, not trying to hide the pride in his voice when he told Sirius that.
"Which parts the impressive one? The part where I came up with the prank or the part with me doing 6th year Charms?" Lily asked.
"Actually both were pretty impressive. Though, I don't understand why that's 6th year Charms." Remus answer for James, a little confused.
"Didn't I tell you?" Lily asked, but when she saw all four heads shake 'no', she continued, grinning widely, "Every time they talk, there supposed to say something that's related to what they're dressed as, there might be something wrong with that, though, I don't know if I got that spell totally right. So they may be able to talk normally for a while. And, this spell is going to last for one full week. No counter-curse." Lily finished smugly. That caused the other four to crack up laughing once again, blending in with the still hysteric crowd in the Hall.
Just at that moment, Malfoy stood up on his chair "POTTER!!! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!!!" he shouted out over the laughter in the Great Hall.
"Guess he 'can' talk for now." Lily managed to get out, she herself giggling.
"Potter, Black, Evans, Lupin, and Pettigrew! Come with me!" McGonagall said sternly. Lily looked up to where Dumbledore was seated to see his reactions. He, surprisingly, was smiling, trying not to laugh and look stern. Quite a different reaction to Professor McGonagall, who the five followed after, receiving applause and cat-calls from the many admirers. When the six of them reached her office, they all stood around her desk where she sat, nervously glancing at one another. McGonagall didn't hesitate to skip right to the point.
"I am absolutely disgusted with this rebellious act on your behalves. You're 11 years old. I would think that would be old enough to act a little mature, or at least act your age." She started, each one of the 11 year olds wincing with each word she said. "You will be given detention every night for the next 2 months for your lack of common sense." Lily immediately panicked. Two months! That was the worst punishment they had received yet! It was her fault they were in here in the first place. She came up with the plan. She talked the others into it (well mostly Peter, the others were practically giddy when she mentioned the word 'prank'). But that wasn't the point. They didn't really deserve the detentions, she did. After all, all they did was perform a curse to keep her strength up. That had nothing to do with what happened to Snape, Malfoy and Avery. Lily broke out of her train of thought when McGonagall spoke once again.
"This little war between you and the Slytherians has gone on for long enough. I suggest you all get your acts together if you would stay here for the remainder of the term" McGonagall said, sternly. "You may go". The five walked out the door, their heads hung in shame.
Once they were out of her office and walking back to the Gryffindor common room, the silence was unbearable to Lily. Though, if the corridors hadn't been so dark, she would have seen the smiles on the boys' faces. Instead, she thought they were mad at her. When they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady, where there was more light so she could see where they were, she stomped her foot, tears threatening to spill. "This is 'all' my fault!" Lily said, guiltily. The four boys turned to look at her. "If it hadn't been for me, none of this would have happened. I came up with the plan, I did the spell, I- ," Lily rambled on.
"Lily! What are you talking about" Remus interrupted her.
"Yeah, and what are you trying to do? Take all the credit for our awesome prank. Nu uh, no way." Sirius said, with an amused glint in his eyes.
Lily's brow furrowed in confusion, "You're-you're not mad?" she asked them, disbelievingly. James raised an eyebrow at her.
"Mad for what? Lily, have you not been paying attention at all when Sirius or I talk?" James asked.
"Actually, it's probably a good thing. If she did pay attention every time you or Sirius talked, her IQ was drop probably down to her age." Remus joked.
"Ha.ha.ha" Sirius said, mock glaring.
"Anyway" James cut in, "Lily, we 'want' to get detention."
Lily looked confused once again, "Why?'
"Cuz, we're going to attempt to break the Hogwarts detention record. We have to reach over 500 while we're here. Thanks to this newest prank, we just got about 60 more." Sirius said, looking absolutely ecstatic.
"Thank goodness. I thought you guys would be mad at me or something." Lily sighed in relief. James looked at her straight in the eye.
"There is no way we could ever be mad at you, Flower." Sirius, Remus and Peter nodded in agreement.
"Yeah Lils, your just like a sister to us." Sirius said, flinging an arm over her shoulder in an act of friendship.
"I still can't believe my luck of befriending the four most wonderful guys in the world" Lily said, smiling widely at each of them. Inwardly, the four boys were thinking along the same lines about Lily. She was so close to each of them and they would cherish her friendship forever.
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A/N- how's that. Sorry I didn't post some of the things I had in the preview. I promise, next chapter, I'll include the rest in there. Thank you to all who reviewed and I'm so sorry it took a while for me to get this updated. Anyway, I got four reviews and you know what that means. Here's the four part preview.
*"I don't understand why you actually hang out with her. She's got no backbone and she's not even pretty." Cassandra said, snottily. James turned to her, his face contorted in a glare that would have scared off Snape.
*"Guys, I have to leave for a couple of days. My mom's sick and I'm going to visit her." Remus said, looking a little nervous. Lily noticed this, but didn't say anything.
*"What's so funny?" James asked, looking up. "I just saw Snape and Malfoy trying to tell of a first year Ravenclaw. It was hilarious!" Lily giggled.
* How shocked she was when approximately 50 owls made their way over to Lily, dropping the letters all over her, burying her in the process.