AN ok guys hopefully this chapter will be slightly longer than all the others, I'm doing it whilst babysitting 2 boys and a puppy (sooo cute lol) so I hope they'll give me some inspiration. Also I'll spell potter right in this chapter.

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Pranks and news

Lily was showing Chessy round Griffindor common room and the dormitory for seventh year girls. As she explained where all her stuff went and was heading back down towards the common room Grace, Lucy and Katie showed up. Lily made the introductions between everyone and they all sat down to get to know each other a bit better.

"Australia! Wow!" exclaimed Katie. "How do you cope with having Christmas in the summer, I mean that must be so . . . wired!"

Laughing Chessy replied, "it's just what you're used to isn't it. I mean I'm used to hitting the beach whilst I'm sure that you're used to snowball fights."

"In England? Yeah sure!" Grace said in a sarcastic tone.

Everyone was laughing at this comment when the four mauderers came in interrupting their conversation.

"Having a good time here?" asked Sirius as he sat down next to Grace.

She swiftly replied causing him to frown, "Was till you four showed up."

The five girls laughed as the boys shrugged it off.

"Oh well!" exclaimed James. "We'll just go then, we have plans to make anyway".

"Oh no James Potter, you four are not up to some prank again are you?" questioned Lily. "Remus, you said that you were going to put a stop to this!" she moaned.

"Lily, if you knew what I had to cope with you'd understand that there was nothing that I could do," explained Remus. And with that the four boys made their way to the boy's dormitories to carry on with their plans and to generally gossip. Even though that particular sport was reserved for girls, these four boys were very good at it. In fact, it was due to the gossip that they heard and shared, most of their pranks came about. Because you always have to get your own back one-way or another don't you.

BOYS DORM

The boys were in their dorm discussing the day's events and also putting the finishing touches to 'bad hair day'. This was the latest prank on the Slytheryns for basically causing so much agro for them for the six and a bit years that they have attended Hogwarts. It was a small one but they had to finalise security in and out of the Slytheryns common room. This small prank was designed that they would all be so embarrassed that they wouldn't think about teasing, joking or making fun of anyone for at least 48 hours, and by that time the mauderers would of come up with another endearing plan to get their own back on that particular house.

Whilst they were doing this they were also talking about one interesting topic, which came up practically every night – Lily Evans. This time however it was not James who brought up the topic.

"So," Sirius enquired. "With Chessy on the scene does that mean that one Lily Evans is out of the question, or are you just trying to make her jealous by getting it on with the new girl?"

"No, I genually like Chessy, she's fun and easy going. Plus unlike Lily she actually thinks I'm funny and nice. I thought a lot about what you said the other night, and I think you're right, I –"

James got cut of by Sirius, "What is this? James Potter admitting that he's wrong and that his best buds are right? Wow I truly believe in miracles now, there is a God!"

Laughing James carried on, "as I was saying, I think that you have a point when you said that I needed to move on from Lily, there are other fish in the sea, or in this case, other girls in the school."

"He's finally noticed," piped up Remus. " You would never of thought the way he's obsessed with Lily over the last six years and to think that we have finally got through that thick skull of his after all." He laughed and the other boys joined in, as James looked on bemused.

"Ok jokes over, and I'm not just saying that because it's on me, " he added after seeing Sirius' look. "We need to finalise these plans, now I think that we should use Galleons as a safety precaution, not real ones, ones that we charm so when Peter spots someone we don't need to bump into, or anyone at all then he can send the message through the coin. Now I think that we should have different colours, for example, red for a teacher, blue for a prefect or head boy or . . . Lily, green for another student outside of Slytheryn, yellow for a ordinary Slytheryn and purple for a Slytheryn that we are going to be turning in to. How does that sound?" he asked after finally pausing for breath.

"That sounds brilliant!" said Peter who was jumping up and down with the excitement of it all.

"Ok calm down Peter, or I won't be able to allow you to join in on this," James warned. "And we need you to keep an eye out on the map so we can do this undetected. We need the three of us to be able to pull this prank quickly. Now I say that we leave under the cloak when Remus leaves for his 'prefect duties', that way no one will suspect a thing, least of all Lily." He added with a worried look in his eye.

" Tell me again how we're going to keep Snape, Avery and McNair (sp?) Away from their common room and dorm, I mean if any of their friends come from the common room where they have been talking to them and then see us in the dorm they're going to be a bit suspicious aren't they!" questioned Remus.

"Maybe they thought that they apparate (sp?)," said Peter.

Getting angry and turning all his pent up aggression on Peter, James practically shouted, "You can not apparate in the Hogwarts grounds, how many times in the 7 years do I have to tell you?

Sirius pulled James away from Peter, "Ok mate, calm d down, you're just a lil stressed, the whole thing will work out fine, we'll have a great laf as usual, and Lily will still hate you. Ok? Man I don't know why after 6 years in this school you're suddenly getting all stressed out over the smallest prank that we've ever pulled off."

" Me neither, if I were a girl then I would blame the hormones, but as I'm not . . . well I just don't know. Lets go and check on the polyjuice potion, see if it's finally ready. I knew it would come in handy."

Laughing the four boys left to pull of the best prank ever.

GIRLS DORM

"Welcome to Hogwarts!" proclaimed Grace as the seven girls had a 'small' party before Lily had to go and do her duties. "This year is going to be fantastic, I can feel it."

" I can see that you've already met James Potter and gang, he seems to really like you, mind you he is a total prick so you might be best to stay well clear of em all." Lily pointed out.

Upon seeing Chessy's confused facial expression Katie explained, "you see, James has had a everlasting crush on Lily since the train ride to Hogwarts back in the first year, Lily hates James, James loves Lily. They fight a lot, but have never gone out. It's the way it will always be."

Laughing Chessy said to Lily, "Well so far they all seem like all right guys, a bit showy off but I guess that's because I'm new –"

Lucy interrupted, "Not just because you're new, they're always like that"

Smiling she continued, " They're funny and James is cute –"

Lucy cut her off again, "Ooooh looks like someone has a crush on James Potter, don't worry you're not the only one."

Blushing Chessy said, "Yeah but he'll never go for me, I mean you all admitted that he'll only ever have eyes for Lily, don't stand a chance." She stole a worried glance at Lily.

"Trust me," Lily said. "You are most welcome to him, I don't care in the slightest. Anyway," she added standing up, "I've got duties to attend to. See ya later."

With that Lily stood up and left the dorm wondering if her time with James has passed. Why should you care, that's what you've wanted for as long as you've known you were a witch. Chessy was right when she said he was cute, I mean the messy hair, chocolate brown eyes, tall broad, and increasingly annoying, arrogant and full of himself. Oh shut up, she told her brain as she saw a couple of hufflepuff boys roaming the corridor.

As Lily lay in her bed she was thinking about James again, and how much she really hated Chessy. Then she was thinking that she shouldn't hate Chessy, as she had done nothing wrong. It was only then that she realised, she hated Chessy not because she was horrible and mean, but because she had taken James' attention away from herself. She finally admitted that she loved the attention that James gave her, in fact, she loved James. Where that had come fro she didn't know but she had started to analyse her feelings when James was around. She felt hot and bothered and jittery and when he smiled . . . he had a wonderful smile. And with that thought she drifted of to a quiet sleep, which revolved heavily around James Potter's smile.

That morning the Slytheryns turned up in the great hall to a chorus of giggles and pointing fingers, it turned out that the prank 'bad hair day', involved the Slytheryns hair turning all sorts of ridiculas patterns and colours depending on the mood of that person or the amount of laughs the hairstyle received. As the Slytheryns were all in very bad moods, it meant that all their hair were bright colours and funky patterns and styles, In order to get the most attention. All the students in the house wore a shade of red on their cheeks, but no more than the one on Snape. His hair was red and gold and bore the Griffindor house symbol and every 30 seconds it yelled 'Clean me!'. So far none of the teachers could make it stop shouting and a lot of students were patting James, Sirius, Remus and Peter on the back.

At that moment however the room had started to go silent as loads of owls flew into the great hall as the morning post was delivered. Hushed voices started to speak as Lily got handed her daily subscription of the daily mail. She read the front page quickly and then gathered Grace and Katie together as she told them what had happened.

Her beloved husband Neil of 41 years found the body of one Elizabeth Dewey, in her house. They lived in a small house on the outskirts of Plymouth. There were no markings of any kind and after being examined at St Mungos the cause of death was finally identified, Arvada Kedaraver (sp?). This seems to be the work of death eaters. These followers of he who must not be named have gone into hiding and cannot yet be found. However the ministry of magic has requested that we remain calm and we carry on with our normal lives . . . . .

" Wow, another attack. This is really starting getting out of hand, I can't believe that he could have so much power, isn't there anything they can do?" Katie asked in a panicked voice.

James replied in a monotone, "There doing everything they can, we just have to hope for the best."

At that time not even the Slytheryns hair could crack a smile in the room as the students lost themselves in their minds and how more and more innocent people are dying at the hand, or rather wand, of he who must not be named and his followers.

AN: Ok guys hope you like, I really am trying to make these chapters longer and I apologise if it all seems disjointed, I kind of lost my rhythm towards the end.

Anyway please review, I'm feeling lonely and I really want some more ideas, I have some but I need more. Lol. So review and enjoy! 