Chapter 7- Revenge Is Not So Sweet!
"Are you sure this'll work?" Peter asked nervously.
"Of course it will!" James said while grabbing his invisibility cloak and walking down the corridor of the Gryffindor common room.
Today was Quidditch practice for the Slytherins and Snape was their Beater. He wasn't much good and the Marauders made sure he knew that!
The Marauders, under the invisibilty cloak which was quite difficult because of their height,went inoto the Slytherin changing rooms. The walls were green and had painted serpents painted on the walls.
"Pure evil," Sirius said as they saw a portait of Salazar Slytherin, " we'd better cover him up."
James covered the portait of the sleeping founder with a sheet he had just produced and carried on with what he was doing.
" Simpson...Smith...Snape!" James said pointing to the locker, "Crap! It's locked!"
" Don't worry, I know a spell," Remus said smiling, "Alohomora!"
The lock on Snape's locker suddenly broke apart and revealed inside Snape's school robes.
" Oh Moony! What would we do without you!" Sirius said while patting Remus on the back.
(All the Marauders had nicknames for themselves: James was Prongs, Remus was Moony, Sirius was Padfoot and Peter was Wormtail)
James then got out his wand and with a few carefully chosen words, Snape's shoes inside the locker started bubbling. Bubbling with a thick slimy liquid. Suddenly, the Marauders heard voices coming from a distance.
" Quick! Over here!" Remus said panicing, "Under this table! Repairo!"
The lock on Snape's locker repaired itself and they all then rushed under the large table.
" That was a good practice guys! Keep it up!" said the Slytherin captain, "Good work, Snape."
" Thanks, Johnson." Snape said with more of a nice tone of voice, " We'll show those Gryffindor scum!"
James clelched his fists.
" Especially those Mudbloods!"
The Slytherins sniggered but James was fuming!
He was trying to get up and say a few "words" to Snape but Peter, Sirius and Remus were pulling him down. While they were doing this Peter knocked the table leg which caused a lantern to drop off and break.
The Slytherins stopped laughing and stared staraight at them. They were still under the invisibility cloak but the Marauders were very nervous.
Snape walked over, still in his Quidditch robes, and bent down right in front of them. Peter was breathing very heavily but after a few serious stares from the others, he held his breath.
Snape, who was still right in front of them, raised his hand and reached out to them and narrowly missed Sirius's nose.
Snape got up and grabbed things from his locker, including his shoes which were still slowly bubbling, and said to the rest of the team,
" Come on, we shouldn't intrude in here."
The other Slytherins followed him straight away. Once they had all gone, the Marauders came from under their cloak and looked around. There was no-one there. They, once again, got back under the cloak and left straight away.
When they got outside, they came from under the cloak and saw a trail of slimy thick liquid on the floor.
"It's worked!" They all said together grinning.
They followed the trail until it stopped, there stood Snape in the Great Hall with bubbles at his feet. The whole hall laughing, all apart fom the Slytherins.
"So, Snape, you finally got some then!" James smiled.
"Some what, Potter?" Snape said quietly but angrily.
"Some shampoo of course!" James smirked, "but Snivellus, it's for your head not your feet."
Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were in hysterics. The Slytherins shouting odd comments such as: "Call yourself a pure-blood!" and "A disgrace to our kind!"
But James didn't care. At the Gryffindor table he caught Lily's eye, she smiled and mouthed something.
" What?" James mouthed back, he couldn't hear her.
Lily smiled again but then her face turned to shock and horror.
" JAMES! WATCH OUT!" Lily screamed pointing to Snape.
As James turned back to Snape, he was flung back against the wall and then his memory faded into darkness...