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Guy's? guy's? what are you doing?

((Remus takes a look about the Common room, which is empty except for three figures by the fire place ))

Oh, Moony there you are! We were just discussing our latest prank!

It'll be great! Even better than ruining the Slytherin common room!

We're going to ask the house elves to put this potion ((and here Peter holds up a book with the potion title of Talking Backwards Potion))

Umm…I doubt that potion will work. I mean, it doesn't even sound like a potion!

Well, what else are we supposed to do? If they're talking back wards all week than they won't be able to say any hex's right!

And that would be amusing!

I guess so…but….I'm not sure….

Oh! Please Moony? This will be fun!

"Oh look! It's the half-blood!" someone snickered behind Remus. He was once again, alone, without his friends, and he was returning from the library. Remus gave a long suffering sigh. He had just gotten out of the Hospital Wing that morning. He was still a bit tiered and sore from his transformation.

"Go away Benedict," Remus muttered not stopping to even try and hex the lot behind him. It may have seemed cowardly to any body who was watching this interaction. The old saying of never turn your back on an enemy seemed to be thrown out the window by the Lupin boy. But Remus hardly cared about old sayings.

As a hex was shouted in Remus' direction, Remus had turned just in time to yell Portego before Benedict's hex could cause him any harm. Remus kept the shield up (which wasn't that hard for him) and glared at the lot of Slytherins. They were all a bit surprised to see that Remus had effectively beaten Benedict without causing the other first year any harm.

A yell from down the hall brought the attention of the group to see three more Gryffindor's running their way. They each had a glare on their faces and were ready to hex the lot of Slytherins into the next century.

"What the hell do you think your doing?" Sirius demanded. Remus let his shield go, he was tiered and did not feel the need to continue the shielding charm.

"We were just about to hex your friend here into oblivion," Benedict sneered.

"Oh? Well then, looks like you'll have to get through us first," James Potter glared and stepped in front of Remus. Peter stayed behind his friends, but only so that he could protect them from the rear if anything happened.

"Oooh! Does the Mud-blood need protecting?" Benedict opined, the lot of Slytherins laughed at this. That is, however, until Sirius hexed Benedict with the Bat-Boggie curse and watched as the other first year tried to get rid of it.

"Black! Potter! What in the name of Merlin are you doing?" Professor McGonagall strode up to the two groups of students.

"They were making fun of Remus!" James said as fast as he could. McGonagall got rid of Sirius' hex and glared at the lot.

"Oh? And pray tell, why Mr. Benedict?' she asked.

"Er—well…"

"I must assume by that statement that you were not goaded into this fight first, am I right?" she asked. (But of course she was, she had been watching for quite some time actually)

"Yes ma'am," Benedict said.

"Now, you lot," McGonagall glared at the Slytherins, "Need to get onto dinner," she glared as they made their way past the four friends. Once they were down the hall, McGonagall had softened her features and turned to her own students.

"I must also assume that you two cam in defense of Mr. Lupin?" She asked James and Sirius.

"Yes Ma'am, he was alone and we were supposed to meet for dinner. But we weren't far from the library and came to look for him," James started.

"And then we saw the Slytherins hex Remus first and he only blocked it!" Peter cried.

"I know, now, I am not going to punish anyone this time, but please, don't let this become a habit!" she said, before walking down the hall way that lead to the Great Hall.

Remus turned to his friends and smiled at them.

"Thanks guy's," he said.

"Hey, what are friends for?" Sirius clapped Remus on the back.

"I don't think we should go anywhere alone, with that bunch about," James said.

"Yeah, we should all stick together! Like glue!" Sirius punched the air with his fist.

"What about if we have no choice?" Peter asked. He really wasn't that good at shielding charms but was getting better at it with his friends help.

"Don't worry Pete! we'll have to avoid that, if we can," Remus said, trying to give the younger boy some measure of courage.

And with that, the boys headed down to the Great Hall, joking and laughing all the way.

Benedict scowled at his plate of food. He was not very happy and every one around him knew it. Severus Snape was reading a book, however, he caught himself thinking upon the story that Benedict had graced them all with when he had sat down at the table.

"You do know now that they aren't going to be traipsing about the castle alone, right?" he had put his book aside.

"I know, but no one else was around!" Benedict snarled.

"Severus is right," Bella said.

"He always is," Benedict glared at her.

"It will be best if you do not get in their way, we are all ready planning something to get them back with," Snape said.

"I want revenge," Benedict supplied.

"And you will, my dear man, but not at this moment," Lucius smirked. He cast a glance at his cousin, Sirius Black and his friends. Sirius seemed to be in deep conversation with Potter while Lupin and Pettigrew just ate their meals.

They would have to put their plan into action if they were to scare Sirius into rejecting his new found friends. Oh yes, this plan was perfect.

"And so, I tell Regulus to drink the potion because it will make him big and strong like our Dad…" Sirius snickered.

"What happened then?' James asked, he knew that Sirius hated his younger brother with a passion. Regulus Black was the favorite of Mr. and Mrs. Black.

"He drinks it, and then he sprouts big yellow feathers and starts squawking!" Sirius began to laugh, James followed. Sirius had an infectious laugh that got everyone going.

"He ran down stairs to Mum and Dad, and when they saw him, they went mad! They started screaming and everything! Finally, they had to call in Snivellus' dad in to make the antidote to the potion….there was just one problem…"

"What was that?" Remus asked, he was beginning to like this story.

"I made the potion up! I did all the research and everything! But I didn't research an anti-dote for it, it took Mr. Snape three weeks to figure it out!"

"Oh my, weren't you in trouble?" Peter asked.

"Naw! I talked my way out of it, even then Mum and Dad wouldn't believe little Regulus even after he was back to normal!" Sirius grinned.

"Hey, do you still have it?" James asked, a look of Mischievousness in his eyes.

"Maybe, why?" Sirius asked getting the same look as his friend.

Remus and Peter leaned towards their friends; they wanted to be part of it as well.

"I have an idea," James said, and began to whisper with his cohorts.

The next few days were filled with research, (besides school work that is). First of all, the four Gryffindor's had to find a way into the kitchens. In order for their plan to work that is. However, the potion would take quite a bit of brewing, which was done in their room, so James hardly worried about the timing.

Remus was curled up in the blanket his friends had given him on his first night back to the dorm, and he was reading a stolen potions book from the library's restricted section.

"I don't know about this," he said.

"Why not?" Sirius asked, looking up from his potion.

"It looks quite dangerous, you combining these potions," Remus said, taking down notes as he did.

"It'll work, if it didn't than Regulus would be dead and I would be free of the annoying twit," Sirius muttered.

"You really hate your family that much?" Peter asked.

"Yes, honestly, they keep pushing for me to be like them and condemn all half-breeds, Muggle borns and mud-bloods as possible. What they don't understand is that I am different!" Sirius stated.

"We know that," James said, looking up from his homework.

"So James, have you figured out the way into the kitchens yet?" Remus asked.

"I ask Mundungus Fletcher where it is, I had to pay him a galleon but it was worth it," James replied.

"Where is it?"

"Behind that portrait of the fruit basket, all we do is tickle the pear," James replied.

"This will be done in a couple more days," Sirius replied.

The boys laughed, they just couldn't wait for this prank to work, and then take all the glory for it. The detentions will be worth it, but hey, how else were they supposed to get Benedict to understand that no one attacks one of them and gets away with it?

The next few days were spent being really good. For one, Peter got ten points for the house after he successfully transfigured his quill into a frog. James got five fore answering a questions right in Potions, and Remus got twenty for performing a defense spell in Defense class. While Sirius got five just for picking up books that had scattered across the floor for McGonagall.

Late one night, the boys sat before the fire place in the Gryffindor Common room. Remus was once again wrapped in his blanket, and they were talking about their prank.

"So, how about this morning than? Mondays are always such a drag," Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Why not, the potion must be done by now," Peter said.

"Do we still want to take the glory for this? I mean, think about all of the points we'll lose," Remus said.

"Hmmm…it may be fun to see if we can't get away with this; I mean, we aren't going to be the only ones laughing at the duffers," Sirius winked.

"I can't wait! Let's get on it now, it may take us a while to hood-wink those house elves into believing us!" James said. He then ran up stairs.

There was no way they'd be able to fanny along the corridor's without getting caught by Rush. So, James knew that it was time to break in his 'going to school' present from his father.

"All right, you guy's ready?" James asked as he once again came down the stairs.

"Er—James? Where are you?" Remus asked, he couldn't see his friend anywhere.

"I'm right here," James laughed.

"No your not! Stop playing around and come out where we can see you!" Peter said.

"Aw Pete! you're no fun!" James winged but uncovered himself.

As the silvery material came off his body, the other gasped! James had been standing there all this time!

"James!" Remus' mouth hung open, "Is that an Invisibility Cloak?"

"Sure is! It's been in the family for generations!" James said proudly.

"Cor Blimey!" Sirius muttered, eyes wide with all the possibilities he had for that cloak.

"So, are we going to stop fanning around here and get to work or what?" James asked.

"Let's go!" Peter jumped up.

Remus took out his wand and pointed it at the cloak, he muttered a spell and it grew to a bigger size, now it would fit over all four of them.

"All right, Let's get crackin', shall we?" James laughed, and with the potion in hand, and the boys hidden, they exited through the portrait hole and made their way to the kitchens.

"Blimey, do I feel knackered!" Sirius said as he sat up in bed and yawned. The boys had gotten back late to their dormitories, and had gone right to bed. James sighed and threw the blankets from himself.

"Come on guy's, we don't want to look guilty or anything!" he said.

"Sod off, I'm sleeping," Peter mumbled pulling the blankets over his head.

Sirius and James looked at each other gave evil grins as one thought crossed their minds. James slowly got out of bed and took up the water pitcher. Together they stalked over to Peter's bed.

Without warning, the two pulled the covers off and James threw the water over Peter's head. The young boy sat up spluttering with disgust and shock.

"You bloody duffers!" Peter spluttered at the two.

"All right children, get dressed, or we'll miss breakfast and the surprise," Remus said, he was gazing into the mirror in order to make up his tie.

The other three quickly got dressed as well, and Remus made them tuck in their shirts and did up their ties as well. In five minutes, they were all ready to go down to eat.

James, Sirius, Peter and Remus looked like nothing in the world was going on, at all! They ate their porridge, had their toast and were on their second cup of pumpkin juice when it happened.

The sounds of squawking birds could be heard over the din of chattering, and then everyone in the Great Hall burst out laughing at the same, exact time! However, only the Slytherins seemed to take it personally.

It just so happened, that not only did the Slytherins looked like giant bird-people! But they had purple spots as well and giant yellow feathers! They had beaks and their arms were wings, but they couldn't fly at all. They squawked their protest, but no one paid any attention since they were all laughing!

"Hahahahaha!" Sirius banged the table. James, Remus and Peter were also in fits and even the Professor's looked as if they were about to go into laughing fits of their own.

"Oh, this is great!" James said through his laughter.

"This is gold!" Peter agreed.

"How crackin'!"

"How'd you make them have purple spots?" Remus asked.

"Oh, probably the toad stool," Sirius replied.

James grinned at his friends, this was perfect revenge for the other day. Now to see if they could get away with it!

PLEASE? Remus, we promise to be good!

Double please with chocolate on top?

This will be fun! Even bigger than actually showing what big chicken's those Slytherins are!

Oh all right! ((Remus gave in, but he had the feeling that he was going to regret it))

A LIST OF BRIT WORDS!

Fanning around – this means to procrastinate. I know it may not sound good in the first context of wandering the halls, but I like it there.

Cor Blimey – This is another way of saying how shocked someone is!

Bloody – we all know this one, it's a swear word. I'm American and I love to say it. It's better than some things I could say!

Duff/Duffers – I added the ers to the end of this word. It's another way of saying that someone an idiot or something along those lines (at least I think it does!)

Cracking – I got rid of the g on this one. I used it to mean Brilliant. However, it usually means that a girl is very good looking or dishy!

Knackered -- It means really drunk, but I used it to mean tired!

Sod off -- this is a way to tell someone to stop bothering you. It is quite rude.

Blimey -- Another way of saying how surprised/shocked you are.