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Did you get caught?
Nope, Slughorn was asleep…
Just wait until tomorrow!
Those slimy gits won't even know what hit them!
That'll teach them to try and poke their big ugly noses into our business on the full moon!
No kidding…
"Uh-oh, look who's coming our way…" Peter said, he had looked up from his meat pie, and spied the Slytherin marching determinedly up to them. The once blond hair the older boy had was now a puke green color, and he was wet, very wet, and he smelled.
"What could it be?" Remus asked.
"YOU!" Lucius Malfoy yelled.
"Umm…excuse me?" Remus looked very puzzled, but Malfoy was sure it was a ruse to lull him into a sense of security.
"You did this to me. I know it was you!" Malfoy said.
"Whatever do you mean by accusing a friend of mine of an accident you happened to do to yourself?" James Potter stood behind Malfoy.
"I know one of you twats did this to me!"
"Oh Lucy, Lucy, Lucy; how can you be such an idiot! We would never pull such a thing, and on a prefect no less, we aren't that stupid," Sirius said.
"Speak for yourself!" Remus glared at Sirius, who gave him a shrug and a wink.
Lucius glared at them all and then sent a sneer their way. "When I find out who did this…"
"We know, you'll hex us," Sirius yawned. Lucius gave him a glare, before flipping his ugly hair and marching right back out of the Great Hall.
James sat down, and as soon as he did, he started to snicker.
"James Potter, what the heck was that all about?" Remus asked. He wanted to know why he had gotten into trouble when he had been no where near Lucius Malfoy for a good day and a half.
"Oh, I saw him going into the bathrooms," James started.
"I made his toilet blow up!" James started laughing right out as he delivered the punch line. Sirius joined in and soon all the four boys were laughing like Hyena's on steroids.
"Oh Jamie, I think I'm beginning to like you more and more," Sirius said.
"Sorry Mate, but I don't swing that way," James joked. Sirius and James launched into another fit of laughter.
"As good as that was," Remus said.
"I do believe that the Slytherins suspect something," he said. Sirius, who sat on the side of the table facing the Slytherins, saw them, a few that he knew, glare at him and his friends.
"Oh, forget them," Sirius said.
"Yeah, besides, they can't prove a thing," James smirked in the Slytherins general direction.
"I hope not, pranking a prefect can get a detention and points taken from the house," Peter said.
"I know that, what do I look like, an idiot?" James sighed.
"Hmm…." Sirius took a hard look at James.
"I didn't mean it that way! It was a rhetorical question!" James said, he threw some pudding at Sirius, who ducked. The pudding caught a second year HufflePuff.
"Er—sorry about that, it slipped," James apologized.
"Jamie, you have one heck of a bad sense of direction," Sirius shook his head.
"Shut up you bloody Mutt," James said and then dug into the food that Remus had put onto his plate.
Meanwhile at the Slytherin table….
"Bloody prats, who do they think they are?" Snape glared at the Gryffindor table.
"I bet Potter had his friends had something to do with my perfect Lucius getting his hair charmed puke green," Narcissa wailed.
"I'm sure they did, now all we have to do is prove it," Snape said.
"Oh? And how are we supposed to do that? Norah, a first year, asked.
"We'll have to follow them," Snape said.
"Hmmm…don't we have Care of Magical Creatures with them next?" Norah asked.
"Why yes, look, you stay with that Pettigrew kid, I'll keep up with Potter," Snape said.
"And the other two?" Norah asked.
"Crabbe, you take Black, and Goyle will take Lupin," Snape smirked.
"Don't do anything rash, all you need to do is watch them," Narcissa said.
"And hex them in case they try anything funny," Bellatrix put in.
"Right," Norah and Snape said at the same time.
Snape wanted to get Potter for turning his hair pink on the train. Getting him for Malfoy would just be the icing on the cake; and Snape had every intention of having his cake and eating it too.
Remus was currently jotting down the notes from the current lecture that the class was getting from Professor Hawkins; the substitute Care of Magical Creatures Professor since the original Professor had caught a rather bad magical cold. The current topic was Unicorns, which seemed the safest to discuss and to look at and to touch since this class was only first years.
Remus' elbow was jostled and the word that should have been Unicorn became Unicroon, Remus crossed it out and started again. He had no intention of failing any of his classes. However, the opposite could be said for his companions.
Sirius Black, and James Potter were bored stiff. They hadn't figured on this class being boring at all! But it was. It turned out that Professor Hawkins was a graduate of a University. Since this was her first class, she didn't want to jinx it and do something stupid. Like have a class with a very dangerous dark creature that could children who couldn't keep their mouths closed.
"Hey, do you think anyone would notice if we slipped off?" Sirius whispered to James.
"He might," James said, jerking his head in the direction of Snivellus Snape. Severus was glaring their way but when Sirius glared back, Severus went back to listening to the lecture. Sirius sniffed and turned back to James.
"Do you think something weird is going on?" he asked.
"Well, maybe they want to prove that we did something," James said.
"We? Don't you mean you?" Remus asked.
"No," James replied with an eye-roll.
"Maybe we should continue this later," Peter said. He had noticed, since they had walked out of the Great Hall after lunch that some Slytherin first years had followed them closely.
"I believe you're right," James muttered. He took a side long glance and marked where their enemies stood. Snivellus and a Slytherin girl stood to one side of Black, just a little ways off. Goyle stood at Remus' elbow, looking at the other boys notes much to the chagrin of said boy. And Crabbe stood behind Sirius, he couldn't see a blasted thing but obviously that didn't matter much.
James sighed, he did not want these Slytherins to hang about him and his new found friends much longer. They could have heard everything they had just said. But James hoped that Crabbe and Goyle were too stupid to do anything about it, or even remember what they were saying.
James put his hands behind him and began to sway forwards and backwards on the balls of his feet. Not only would this get the Slytherins but would add a bit to the class as well.
As slowly and non-threatening as he could, James slipped his wand from the hidden sleeve holder in his robe. He discreetly pointed it in Crabbe's direction, the other boy didn't know what hit him till the hex had started him to dancing a rather nice Irish jig.
"What is going on back there?" Professor Hawkins, she glared at the offending student.
"I can't stop!" Crabbe yelled. By this time James had slipped his wand back into his sleeves. He and other students backed up. They made room for Professor Hawkins to get to Crabbe. She uttered the counter curse for what she new was the spell Tarantallegra. By this time, several students were snickering.
"That will be enough, any more nonsense from any of you and there will be detention!" Professor Hawkins glared before heading back to her make shift podium to continue the lecture. Remus returned to taking notes, and Crabbe and Goyle back off from the four Gryffindor boys. (Much to the amusement of James and Sirius).
"Blimey, I am so glad that today is over!" James said, he collapsed onto his bed and threw a pillow over his head.
"Well, at least you didn't get that pudding in your face at dinner tonight," Sirius said.
"Sleazy Slytherins!" James muttered. Remus meanwhile had gotten a warm cloth and was whipping Peter free of the rather difficult chocolate pudding.
"I think I'm going to be put-off chocolate for a while," Sirius said, giving Peter a face, in which the younger boy returned.
"I knew they heard to much at Care of Magical Creatures this afternoon," Remus said.
"Can't they keep their ugly noses out of our business!" James huffed, sitting up in bed and crossing his arms. No one had seen James pout before, so this just made Sirius snicker while Remus tried to not smile.
"Still, one would think they'd get more than five points taken from them," Peter said.
"I think we should get them back, and not just me, but all of us!" James hopped to his feet.
"What do you mean by all of us?" Remus asked.
"Oh get a grip Remus! Chocolate also splattered all over your book, and the bowl was really aimed at Sirius, or me, so it is only natural for revenge!" James said, he looked at Remus as if he had forgotten his Transfiguration notes.
"Well, what do you have in mind?" Remus asked. He had serious doubts about this plan, but it might just be fun.
"Listen closely and though shall find wisdom," James smirked. The boys huddled together and started to plan….
No one knew who had done it, or how; however, that really didn't matter. What mattered were the moving pictures of the Slytherin common room. There were plenty for all and some how, even if someone didn't get one, they were handed one. The picture told the story of the Slytherin common room, there was a flash of a before which was clean, with a merry fire in the hearth.
Then it would flash to after. This told of how the room was vandalized, but not who had done it. The after picture, showed toilet paper everywhere, and above the mantle, painted in red were the words Slytherins are Slimy Gits! with plenty of stick figures being killed off by other stick figures. These pictures seemed to be very popular, and thanks to someone, they had circulated around the Slytherin table.
"You think this was the best thing to do?" Peter asked.
"It's done now, no going back," James said.
"But, what if they find out?"
"Let's hope that won't happen," Remus said, he then went back to reading his book that he had taken refuge in when breakfast had started. Sirius was dozing, taking a bite of porridge every so often and James was reading the paper that Remus had gotten.
The head lines were no different today than they were yesterday; however, there were several disappearances that were currently unexplained. James made a guess at who was behind them.
"Who does this guy think he is?" he finally asked.
"Who?" Sirius asked.
"Voldemort, doesn't he have better things to do rather than kidnap people and kill them just because he feels like it?"
"Let's not worry about that right now," Remus said.
"Why?"
"McGonagall is coming this way," Remus whispered.
"I want an answer and I want it now," McGonagall looked as if she were about to explode.
"Whatever has happened?" Sirius asked.
"That should be apparent, this is what has happened," McGonagall brandished a photo in Sirius' face.
"Hey! Is this what the Slytherins common rooms look like? And here I thought there would be chains hanging from the wall," Sirius said.
"You don't happen to know who did this, do you?" McGonagall asked.
"No Ma'am," Sirius said. James shrugged his shoulders and Remus looked Puzzled. Peter was too interested in food than in the photograph.
"Well, if you do know anything, be sure to tell me," she said before stomping off to have a word with Slughorn.
"That was bloody close," James muttered, bending over his bowl so as not to attract any attention.
"You could say that again," Sirius said.
"That was bloody close," James snickered.
"Prat!" Sirius hit James upside the head but it did nothing to deter the other boy.
"You think I'm being stupid? Sirius, you wouldn't be able to tell one end of your wand to the other," James retorted; which earned him a face full of hot porridge.
"Sirius Black you bloody git!" James yelled as soon as he came up form his bowl. Sirius took off at that moment and James followed after him, upsetting the table in his wake which in turn had Remus trying to save his new book and mop up the mess at the same time.
"Potter! Black! Both of you are gits!" Remus yelled after them. But the two boys had ran out of the great hall and didn't even look back.
Gee, I almost forgot about that prank!
That one was bloody brilliant!
And bloody stupid!
Oh, your just saying that Moony! You know you enjoyed writing that stuff on the wall!
Yeah, especially those stick figures…
It isn't my fault that I can't draw worth Pumpkin Juice!
Still, it was brilliant!
To Be Continued…
(Please Note that the insult of James' with the was given to me by MagicMuggle at thank you! And please review. As to one question that a reviewer has asked me…I'm not sure, but I may touch upon it some time later in this fiction)