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Harry Potter and His Sixth Year
Chapter Thirteen: Pranking and Prankster

Harry and Lily went to planning their pranks right away. The needed to first figure out what type of prank they wanted to do, then they needed to look up any spell, and finally they needed to execute the prank. The mother and son pair decided to work together to get some ideas. Harry's prank for Sirius was to make him bark like a dog every time he went to talk. He also decided he would make Moony howl every time he went to talk. But Stags don't make any noises so he was stuck with what to do for his father. Lily suggested that Harry just cast a silencing charm on James that way he was like his animal, but Harry didn't think that was a good enough prank for the marauders. Instead Harry decided he would make antlers come out of James head. He would also give Padfoot and Moony fur and tails.

Lily was stumped with what to for the marauders. She was the one always stopping their pranks not organizing them. Any of her ideas that she came up with never seemed to compare with the one that Harry was planning or any of the ones the marauders completed. She thought of making the marauders into video game characters, but they really wouldn't understand that, and they would probably think that having all those gadgets would be cool. She needed something funny; something the marauders would appreciate. So she decided to make a list of what she knew the marauders all liked. She knew that they liked running in the full moon with Remus, she knew they like playing quidditch, she knew they like playing pranks, and she knew they adored Harry. After composing the list, Lily decided that the prank should have something to do with Quidditch. But what? The only thing she could come up with was to turn them each into a different ball. She would turn James into a Quaffle, Remus the Snitch, and Sirius the Bludger. She knew she would have to transfigure them into each ball, unfortunately transfiguration was not her strong point, so she decided to enlist the help of her son.

Harry and Lily came up with the idea of making them the balls of the Quidditch match which was to happen in a few hours. Harry told Lily that James had already taught him how to transfigure things like that during the special lessons. But Lily would need to charm the balls to act like normal quidditch balls. Lily said she could do that because charms is her strong point. Now all Harry had to do was find each of the marauders alone so he can transfigure them. He didn't want the marauders there at the same time because they would figure out what he was doing.

First, Harry found Remus. Remus was in his room reading elven books about werewolves. Harry carefully crept into Remus room under his invisibility cloak. Remus was so engrossed in his book he didn't even notice Harry's scent. Harry put the newly transfigured snitch into a case that would house the snitch until game time.

By that time, it was time for dinner. Harry, James and Sirius, were waiting for over fifteen minutes for Remus and Lily to come down. So Harry told them that he would go get Lily if one of them would get Remus. James said that he would get Remus. So Harry acted like he would go Library to get Lily, but then hid in a closet and watched James walk past to Remus' room. Once James was in Remus' room, Harry got out of the closet and also went to Remus' room underneath his invisibility cloak. He stunned James, that way he couldn't get away, then transfigured him into a quaffle.

Then sneaking back into the dining room, Harry transfigured Sirius into a bludger. He hoped that Sirius would get some sense knocked into him. He then took all three balls to his mother. Hoping that she had found the spells to make them act like real quidditch balls.

It had taken almost all day for Lily to find the spell to make the marauders act like real Quidditch balls. But she realized that all she had to do was an animation charm. It would take a lot of power but she thought she would be able to do it. If she didn't Harry probably could. When she saw Harry walk in with the Quidditch balls she knew how the boys felt right before they pranked somebody.

"Mom, did you find the spell?"

"Yup, I just hope I have enough power to charm all three."

"Well if you need any help just tell me. I'm going to be in the family dining room eating dinner."

"Okay, if I'm not down there in thirty minutes come check on me."

"Alright, don't forget the match starts at eight, and you still need to switch the balls with the ones in the crate."

"I know. I'll come get you when I'm done."

Twenty-five minutes later Lily walked down to the family dinning room with the three animated balls. "Ready to switch the balls?"

"You should do that Mom, it's your prank."

"I know I'll be back here in a jiffy."

Lily went to her room to dress all in black, she wanted to look like the spies in all the movies she used to watch when she was a child. She walked down to the Quidditch pitch and into the storage room. Since she was the Queen, she was allowed access into the ball crate. She carefully switched the balls, making sure no one saw her shrink the real balls into her pocket. She locked the ball crate, then went to find Harry and tell him that part two was complete. Now all they had to wait for was the game to start.