A/N: Thanks to my wonderful reviewers. I've decided to keep going since my feedback ended up positive. I think I'll keep the switch for next chapter, and finish up the prank along with some more James/Lily bickering for this one.

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James stepped quickly into the threshold of the castle; he couldn't stand another moment outside with the thestrals. He shivered and moved towards Sirius who had carefully hidden some very questionable items in his pockets.

"When do we go?" he whispered?

"Slip away right before sorting, back at the end of it." Sirius whispered back promptly.

"Righto." Remus said popping up next to them.

Peter was not a part of the prank after he had shown too much enthusiasm and Sirius had booted him from the compartment very angrily questioning the sanity of his friends for allowing such a wastrel to befriend them.

Soon enough, professor McGonagall was ushering them into the Great Hall, the marauders on the other hand moved to the side carefully waiting for most of the crowd to disperse.

James kept his invisibility cloak concealed in his robes and when no one was looking he whipped it out enclosing the three boys in the shimmery silver folds of cloth.

Remus held the marauders' map whispering directions and warnings as to problematic professors and ghosts who were making rounds of the castle.

Soon enough they were right outside a painting of a bowl of fruit. Looking both ways, Sirius reached out and tickled the pear. It squirmed back and forth in uncontrollable laughter and turned into a doorknob. Looking both ways once more, he reached out and pulled the door open, as they hurried inside.

Thousands of little faces popped up behind dishes. Most of them looked very stressed out, as they had been preparing extravagant dishes for the back-to-school feast. Sirius nodded to Remus and James and quickly moved over to one of the house elves.

"So are you er, about done preparing the feast Twinkly?" Sirius asked in a rather cool manner.

"Oh, Master Black, how is you? We is almost done, only a little more, what can we do for you Master Black? So wonderful to see you and the Masters Potter and Lupin as well!" Twinkly squeaked very excitedly and all in one breath, toppling backwards as the effort knocked the wind from her.

"Oh we're fine, so if er, you aren't too busy is it too much trouble to order 1,000 cream puffs? We're having a party up in the Gryffindor tower." He said.

Twinkly's eyes brightened, as she looked around at all the other house elves.

"Of course Master Black, it is no trouble at all!" and at once all the elves scurried about collecting ingredients for 1,000 cream puffs.

Remus and James quickly went to work looking at all the dishes, counting them to see which one would end up on which table and soon enough, the ones to the very left appeared to be the ones for the Slytherin table.

"Snivelly's favorite is the Tuna Casserole, after careful scrutiny of him every single year, he is always the first to that dish and ends up finishing the entire thing himself since no one else really wants to touch it after he does." Remus said smiling.

"Excellent." James said shortly, examining the casserole and pulling a bag of concoction that Sirius had whipped up with the ingredients they had picked. Glancing in both directions he emptied the entire bag into the casserole.

Sirius looked back at them, James gave him a thumbs up sign, Sirius nodded and replied to the house elves. "It would be great if you guys could deliver this to the common room as we really need to get back to the feast."

"Of course, anything for Master Black!" chirped another elf happily.

The three boys ran down the corridor under the invisibility cloak.

"Professor Flitwick is about to enter the great hall, if we're lucky we can slip in after him," said Remus who had consulted the map.

As per the map's instruction they slipped in after him.

"There's three seats over there!" said Sirius

Remus waved his wand causing a blue fog to erupt from it completely masking the area much to the confusion of the students, they hurried into the seats and Sirius erupted some fireworks from his wand just as James whipped off the invisibility cloak and Remus lifted his wand causing the blue fog to disappear.

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled "Quite an impressive show boys, but please don't make so much of an uproar next time. As I was saying…" he continued on with his speech and Sirius, James, and Remus slapped each other high fives. "Let the feast begin!"

With that, food appeared on the table and the boys dug in. Moments later, there was an upheaval at the Slytherin table. Severus Snape's nose had turned into a giant beak about 5 feet long. He stood up squawking as giant multicolored wings exploded from his arms. With that, he flew over to Professor Trelawney and stood upon her head doing a fantastic Irish River Dance.

Snape opened his beak very wide and strange music began playing causing everyone to clap their hands over their ears. Snape flew to the ceiling and flapped about continuing the eerie music until after dessert when Flitwick was finally able to coax him to the ground. He was then sent to the hospital wing.

Only three boys did not seem shocked by these goings on and calmly ate their food shooting occasional mischievous looks at each other.

Although the teachers very well suspected who had done the deed they decided to hush up about it, seeing as it was very impressive magic. Mysteriously there seemed to be 50 points in the Gryffindor hourglass when all the others had none.

When they were adjourned for dinner, everyone was talking about the amazing prank. Only one person was not amused.

"POTTER!" Lily screeched. "I know you did this!"

James looked over at her hiding his hurt, "Yeah? And?"

"I knew you hadn't changed one BIT!"

"You never gave me a chance!"

"There's no point, you'd go and screw it up!"

"Why do you care anyway he's a snivelly git who called you a mud blood!"

"Why because I'm head girl and I don't tolerate such behavior in my school!"

"You'll never change Evans! Never any fun, never any friends."

"You'll never change Potter! GOOD FOR NOTHING!"

And with that, they both stormed angrily into the Gryffindor tower and up to their respective dormitories.

Remus and Sirius exchanged looks.

"Had to see that coming." Said Sirius.

"Yeah, definitely." Replied Remus.

"We'd better wait down here and let some steam cool off." Replied Sirius.

"You said it." Said Remus yawning and sinking into a couch by the fire.

MEANWHILE

Severus Snape lay brooding. Ugh! Potter and his friends! They'll never let me live this down. I need revenge. What should I do? He thought angrily.

I could punish Potter and the mud blood in one straw! But what? But he was never able to finish that thought as Peeves the poltergeist swooping in.

Snape was one of the few students Peeves actually listened to. No one knew why Peeves singled out students in that manner, but Snape got lucky.

Excellent! He thought. Peeves always has interesting ideas! He motioned the poltergeist closer and the two began to whisper excitedly.