"On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… ten lords a-leaping…"

"You have a plan? Why am I suddenly very worried?" James said, not only was he worried but he looked it as well.

"Well since having the cancan dancers was a nono I thought I'd borrow their clothes and we could get some girls we know to dress up."

"Great idea Siri!"

"You'd have thought so, but none of the girls we know want to do it."

"Ah."

"So I got stuck with these outfits, and I thought to myself: now who can we get to dress up?"

"No Sirius, don't go there. I won't be a part of this plan." James was slowly edging towards the door. So would the rest of the boys in their dorm had they known what Sirius' plan was.

"Voila! Nine lady-boys dancing!" Sirius chirruped to the Gryffindor common room the following morning.

"I can't believe we're doing this." James said to Remus through gritted teeth.

"Oh lighten up. This is for Lily remember." He replied as he pirouetted sweetly before being whisked into a quick waltz with Sirius.

"Oh. Dear. God." He desperately wanted the ground to swallow him up. That is until Lily tapped him on the shoulder.

"Lovely dress James, certainly is your colour." She giggled. "Such a pretty green."

"Matches your eyes." James said, almost shyly. He was wearing a green cancan dress; he figured he might as well be a bit bolder. Lily blushed.

"I know, lets get a photo of you all!" She almost squealed as she dashed up to her room to get her magic camera. When she returned she got the boys to pose as if to do the cancan. When she had taken her shot she thrust the camera into the hands of her unsuspecting friend and grabbed James.

"We're going to have a quick dance." She whispered to him. "And you're going to take a picture!" She called back to her friend. Had he not had Lily in his arms at that moment James thought he might of collapsed from sheer embarrassment. As it was he thought he might collapse from sheer joy.

With only three days left of their Christmas vacation, a Hogsmeade trip had been scheduled for the students to gather the extra inks, quills and parchment that they would require for the coming year.

Lily had decided not to go into Hogsmeade as she was all set for the coming school term. The boys however were not. In their excitement over organising Lily's presents they had completely forgotten all about school.

They set off later that morning, after the boys had changed out of their dresses. Sirius had suggested they go to Hogsmeade the way they were. The rest of the boys threw stuff at him. James had Lily's camera safely around his neck. She had asked him to get the photos developed but she had a few shots left so she offered them to James. He had gladly accepted the chance to play with a camera. He was sure he could get the Slytherins into trouble with it somehow.

After they had stocked up on school supplies the Marauders had the rest of the afternoon to explore the New Year's offers. They had already spend a fortune on pranking equipment and were on their way to spend the rest of their money on sweets when they spotted Lucius Malfoy and his cronies looking extremely shifty. While James remembered that this was not exactly a new occurrence he suspected that something mischievous was afoot. He poised his camera ready to take any incriminating shots, should the opportunity arise.

They we standing outside the Three Broomsticks for what seemed to be an eternity. After a while Remus, Sirius and Peter decided to go on ahead while James continued to stalk the Slytherins. Sirius commented that he was beginning to have what he called "an unhealthy obsession." James replied that enjoying dressing up as a woman couldn't be that healthy anyway so who was Sirius to talk.

Soon after they left, workers from the ministry of magic started to pour out of the pub, they were soon hit by an exploding dung bomb which caused them to leap rather high in the air. James caught the event on camera. Not only the ministry members leaping, but also who scared them into doing it: Lucius Malfoy. Oh he was going to get in trouble for this one.

A/N So James got his Lords leaping, and gets Slytherin into a bit of trouble. Must have been his lucky day… well apart from the dressing up as a cancan dancer. But you can't have everything can you?

Thank you all for reviewing, it's nice to see that you're sticking with me to the end. Hurrah!

And to answer a question: there are quite a few versions of the song so I'm just going by the one I found first lol.

Speaking of different versions, I altered this song ages ago to have a PC theme. I may post it…but only if you want me too… :P