A/N: Thank you to everyone that has reviewed. The storyline is moving on a lot faster now hehe I like it!!! On with the story!!!

Chapter 18

James and Sirius quickly got over the detention and Kate and Robyn. They didn't really care. A detention was well worth seeing the looks on people's faces when they pulled pranks on them. Especially Lily's. James said that she looked like an overripe tomato that just wanted to burst. He constantly teased her, about her hair especially. She hated it and he loved watching her get mad, it was like a hobby to him.

Sirius had a thing about pranking Slytherins. He said it was much more educational than playing tricks on Lily and their own house. In their dormitory he had 3 boxes; one labelled 'Snivellus' another marked 'Malfoy' and the last said 'general slytherin scum.' Inside were Sirius' cleverly chosen assorted jokes and tricks that he and James easily found and used whenever they were bored.

"So after we've baked the cake with the dung bomb inside we hand it to Malfoy and say 'Happy Birthday.' So when he eats it, it all explodes in his face! What do you think?" Sirius said excitedly.

"Well I do have a few suggestions…" started James. "One: neither of us can bake, two: we have no dung bombs left, three: Malfoy might get suspicious if we randomly give him presents, four: I have no idea when his birthday is and five: how can you guarantee that the bomb will go off in time?"

Sirius' face fell and he thought for a while. His face lit up again and he said "ok! So we, on flying carpets, go into Malfoy's dormitory and place a cake, which we have baked with a dung bomb inside, in there. So that when Malfoy eats it, it explodes! So, what do you think?" James rolled his eyes and looked at Remus. They both struggled not to laugh.

"Right, now class, I expect the flowers on these plants to change from white to any colour at first and then after that we will concentrate on changing them to a specific required colour. Listen closely, this WILL be on your end of year exams. The incantation is 'verandeer' repeat after me, verandeer." Professor Dreamstone said to her first year transfiguration class.

"VERANDEER!" the chorused.

"Very good. Now the wand movement is simple. You do a figure of eight going left first and then back the other way, then you say the incantation and flick. Like so:" she said showing them the 'uncomplicated' wand movement. Lily sat at the front of the class with her mouth open wide. There was no way she would be able to do it. Gemini sat next to her looking puzzled.

At the back of the class Sirius was drawing a cartoon of Malfoy walking along and then falling down a hole and James was asleep, slumped on the desk. "Yeah, verander-whats-its-face, that's the one!" he mumbled. Sirius sniggered and poked him. He opened a sleepy eye and saw that Sirius had an evil grin on his face.

"Right! When Malfoy goes to do the spell we blow the plant up and make it look like his fault." Sirius said.

"But we don't know any spells to blow things up Siri!" James said, going back to sleep.

"Ah, but Remmie here does." Sirius said, smiling.

"Ok, one: my name is Remus, not Remmie and two: what makes you think I want to use my knowledge to get someone into trouble?" Remus said from beside Katie.

"Please Remus! Pretty please! Pretty please with a cherry on top and sugar and ice cream and wonderful things!" Sirius pleaded. Remus looked uncertain. "Remus! I'll do anything! I'll do something really embarrassing! Anything! Just tell us the spell please!"

"Ok, ok, but you have to promise, anything!" Remus said, giving in slightly.

"ANYTHING!" Sirius said.

"Ok then, point your wand directly at what you want to explode and say 'fare esplodere!'"

"Thanks Remus! Fare esplodere!" Sirius whispered. All of a sudden Malfoy's plant blew up in his face. He was left with random leaves and bits of soil in his hair.

"Mr Malfoy, I don't know what you think you're playing at but it isn't funny. Detention I think will do the job. Now class get on with turning your plants different colours." Professor Dreamstone said looking up from her marking at the front of the classroom.

Lucius turned round angrily and glared at Sirius, James, Remus and Katie who were silently laughing. He mumbled something and James went back to sleep as Sirius turned the flowers different colours. He was quite close to getting them all the same colour, they were all slightly different shades of purple and although he was actually thinking of orange he was still proud.

Lucius Malfoy whispered to his friend, pointed his wand directly at Sirius' plant and said 'fuego.' He did it all very secretly so that Professor Dreamstone or any Gryffindor noticed what he was doing, just as Sirius had done when he blew up Lucius' plant. He laughed evilly and went back to trying to change the colour of the flowers on his plant.

All at once Sirius' plant set alight. "AGH!" he yelled, "Professor Dreamstone! HELP ME!" The plant blazed every shade of red under the sun. The powerful flames reached up and tickled the ceiling.

Professor Dreamstone looked up from her marking to find out what all the commotion was about. She saw the towering inferno and saw everyone to calm down. She ran over to Sirius' desk and shouted "disfuego!" a waterfall of silver fell from her wand and extinguished the fire. She sighed with relief, "Who did this?" she looked round, expecting someone to answer. Of course, no one did. "Well then, Mr Black and Mr Potter, you will both join Mr Malfoy in detention. Class dissmissed, clear up this mess you two!"

Their detention was scheduled for a the following Monday. James was annoyed about all of this, but didn't say anything. One, it wasn't his fault about any of this! He had just been sleeping the whole time! and two, it wasn't even really Sirius fault, well, maybe it was. James figured that this detention made up for all the other times he'd pranked Lily and not got caught.

Sirius and James arrived at the detention before Lucius. Professor Dreamstone explained their task. To remove all of the Drooble's Best Blowing Gum remains from the bottom of the desks, without the aid of any magic. She then left because she had some important business to attend to with Professor Dumbledore. She told them to explain everything to Malfoy when he finally arrived.

James thought about this 'important business' it had to be urgent, no teacher would leave Sirius and James alone in a room and expect them to do any work. Unless they were insane of course.

"I don't think Malfoy's going to show," said James eventually.

"Neither do I" said Sirius.

"So, what do you think this important business is then?" James asked, to hear Sirius side on the story. He already knew what Sirius was going to do though.

"OOO ALBUS!" he screeched in a high, falsetto voice, "Come and work your magic on me!" and the two boys burst out laughing, with awful pictures imprinted in their minds.

There was twenty minutes left and James suddenly thought of something. "Sirius, I have something to tell you, you might not agree with it, but listen anyway." Sirius looked horrified and pushed his chair away, "I'm sorry James, but I don't think of you in that way. It's probably best that i stay over here for now."

"What?" asked James, thoroughly confused, "EWWW! NO SIRIUS! NOT LIKE THAT! You know we were talking a while back of what we should do to get noticed, well I've had an idea!" Sirius leaned in, it sounded good. "We should make a pact, to set a new record before we leave school, to get the most detentions that anyone has ever seen!"

"We'd be so popular!"

"And respected!"

"We'd get all the ladies!"

"We'd be the Kings of Cool!"

"The Princes of Pranking!"

"The Lords of the Rings!" They both laughed.

"Let's do it!" Sirius said.

There was only five minutes left so James and Sirius decided to leave, it was unlikely that anyone would miss them if they left. They collected their things and went through the door. As they did a flashing light and sirens went off and the voice of Professor Dreamstone appeared from nowhere.

"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING? YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE DETENTIONS EARLY! THAT WILL BE ANOTHER DETENTION! YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THE DETAILS SHORTLY BY OWL!"

James and Sirius grinned at each other and high-fived.

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