Chapter 4, The Ultimate Prank

Lily was out of the infirmary by the end of the week, but she never forgot about the incident. She just decided that it was one of Siruis's jokes. She made Catherine swear not to tell anyone. It was Saturday, and she had no homework because she was working on everything while the days in the infirmary passed by.

She went down to the Great Hall for breakfast that morning, knowing that she wasn't going to have anything but toast because breakfast wasn't exactly her favorite meal of the day, but Catherine had made her come down.

When they got there, James and the rest of the Marauder's were sitting all the way at the end of the Gryffindor table, closest to the doors. Lily and Catherine usually sat there. Sirius called Catherine and Lily over to sit with them, Catherine went straight over to them, but Lily took as long as possible to get there.

"Feeling better?"

"Fine," she said grabbing a piece of toast.

"Is that all you're eating?" asked James.

"No Potter, I'm probably going to have another one before I become full," was all that was Lily's reply.

"Lily has never had anything besides toast for breakfast, she just won't eat. Believe me, I've tried. Oh, lookie the mails here," said Catherine.

A thousand of owls flooded the great Hall looking for their owners. "Hey there, Juniper, whacha got for me today?" Lily asked her owl. "Here have some toast," she said as she untied the letter and opened it.

"Who asked you today?" asked Catherine eating her eggs.

"Stephen," she said crumpling up the letter and throwing it over her shoulder. "Hey Stephen! My answer is no!" she yelled all the way across the hall.

"What was that about?" asked James.

"Nothing, Lily's just been getting asked out everyday by some guy ever since fifth year," was Catherine's answer, "Oh, here, I almost forgot, this was all your mail from last week."

"Thanks." She said as she opened up letters. "Oh my God, I have gotten at least three letters from Stephen, one from Josh, and one from- holy heaven- Diggroy (probably a joke or a bet). Gross. I don't know why they keep on asking me? It's not like I'm pretty, or the perfect size six," asked Lily.

"Lily, how many time must I tell you, you're beautiful, and mot every guy is as shallow as Malfoy. Then again, he is a slytherin." Rin said with a ditainful look on her face.

"Yes, yes. I know, I know." Lily replied in a dull, disbelieving voice.

"Hey Lily how come you never go out on dates?" asked James.

"Because I don't like them, and I don't know if I'm ready?"

"You're plenty ready, c'mon, I know you have been eyeing Ross over in Ravenclaw," Catherine said slyly.

"Look, I've got my reasons why, and if you must know I don't want to because- why in Gods name am I telling you this with them around? I'll tell you later if you really want to know." Lily knew Catherine would never remember because she had a horrible memory, almost like a fish. She got up and left.

The day passed by exceptionally fast for Lily, and soon it was dinner. She had no idea what would happen that during this meal.

It was loud when she walked into the hall for dinner. She saw Catherine sitting next to the Marauder's again. She walked over to her and sat down, and grabbed a plate and a piece of steak with mashed potatoes and peas, and started eating. When she finished she put her head down, she hadn't said a word though out dinner.

"Anything bothering you Lily?" asked a concerned Remus.

"No just tired," said Lily without taking her head off the table.

"I know something that will wake our Lily up," said an excited Sirius.

"Oh, and what would that be?" said Lily picking her head up off the table and looking at Sirius.

"This."

He pointed his wand directly at the Slytherin table and muttered a spell. Lily saw Snape go into a sort of trance, and walk forward toward the head table. Then once he got there he put his feet on his head and started saying "Fishy!" at the top of his lungs, then he did a hand stand to reveal very ugly, very stinky, very dark-used-to–be white underpants. At this some people started to look a little green, because they just finished eating. Then he got on his hands and knees and crawled up to people and started asking "Fishy?"

A couple of 'Fishy's' later, he started to turn into a huge yellow, purple, orange, and green bird with blindingly white eye's. After that, Sirius's last stage of the prank was in commencing. With a pop Snape turned into a rubber ball and started bouncing all over the hall. They were lucky that there was no food on the tables because there would be food flying everywhere.

When it finished was when Snape bounced back into his seat and turned back into a human, not a bird or a ball. It took about fifteen minutes for everyone to stop laughing, but once they did Dumbledore stood up. The Hall became uncannily silent.

"Some fifth year prefects have asked for permission to have a Christmas ball. The head students and the other prefects will be organizing it, and it is for all years. You will be required to wear dress robes."

"Lily! Oh my God, this is going to be so much fun," said a very giggly Catherine.

"Speak for yourself," grumbled Lily walking out of the hall.

"So you never did tell me why you never wanted to go out on a date," said Catherine.

"Damn, you weren't suppose to remember, and I'm not going to tell you."