Disclaimer: the plot is mine, as well as a few of the characters. The rest are from J.K Rowling.
Chapter 4: Head rooms for us!
"Everyone, please settle down. Welcome to another year at Hogwarts. I would like to remind you that the Forbidden Forest is of course, forbidden. I would also like to draw attention to this year's Head Boy and Head Girl; James Potter, and Lily Evans," said Dumbledore in the Great Hall. Lily and James stood up.
Sirius whooped and Remus smiled and clapped loudly. They could also hear cat calls. Directed at whom, they didn't know. Chris whistled at Lily.
James stared at him narrowing his eyes.
"The Head Boy and Girl are to meet me after the feast, now, let the feast begin," he said lastly.
"FINALLY!" exclaimed Sirius. Sirius and James began snatching food and eating like they hadn't eaten for days. Lily looked at them several rows down in disgust.
"So Lily" Chris said sitting across from them "Do you know when the next Hogsmead trip is?"
"Ahh no, but I'm sure Dumbledore will tell us after dinner" said Lily smiling.
"So...what did you do over the summer?" questioned Lily.
"We went to Australia! It was actually very cool. We got to go to the beach and stuff."
"Yeah well, I basically stayed home for the summer. My sister Petunia is getting married so we basically prepared for it." said Lily.
"Oh my gosh Lily did you see Sirius asking me out?" said Victoria happily and now joining Lily and Chris.
"No" said Lily truthfully.
"Imagine his surprise when I said no" said Victoria.
"Really? I thought you liked him!"
"Just between you and me, I do, but I don't want to be just some girl he dates for a week and then dumps" she said quietly so that Chris couldn't hear.
"well you are probably the first" said Lily smirking.
"yeah, I think I am" Victoria said a little sadly.
"Both you will be sharing the Head's dormitories" said Dumbledore as the students filed out to their common rooms.
"James you know where it is I presume?" said Dumbledore with a smile.
"er—yes sir," he said a proudly.
"Great the password is walloping weasels but you will need to change it to one only you two will know for safety reasons." said Dumbledore.
"When are we going Hogsmead?" asked Lily.
"Yeah and when's our next Quidditch game" asked James
"We will discuss both of those things at our prefects meeting tomorrow" said Dumbledore.
Lily nodded her head. "Come on Lilykins" said James clutching her hand and pulling her in the direction they were going.
Lily released his hand "Don't touch me Potter and don't call me Lilykins" she said aggressively.
Dumbledore chuckled and left them.
"Right sorry" James said not wanting to argue with her.
"Walloping weasels" he said out loud at the door. Lily gasped as she entered the common room. It had a large golden fireplace with a soft red rug and dark green sofas. They were Gryffindor colours no doubt. It was large and cosy at the same time. It had a piano, which Lily could figure out why, but never-the-less it was a nice grand black piano. It had a large rectangular desk at the other end of the large room, which Lily assumed was probably for studying.
"This is fantastic" said James in awe as he made his way to the piano. Lily watched as he ran his hands through the keys of the piano.
"Our rooms!" Lily said excitedly, now turning to James.
They ran upstairs saw one door that read Lily in golden letter and another that read James with golden letters as well. They entered their rooms and shrieked. James and Lily ran around skipping for joy and interlocked arms.
"We have the coolest rooms ever!" said Lily happily
"And their all ours!" said James jovially.
As soon as they realized that they had interlocked arms they immediately let go and glanced nervously away from each other.
Lily's room fit her personality completely. It had yellow walls and a small desk and a large four poster bed that was wooden. She had a picture of her parents and herself on her bedside table.
James' fit his personality as well. It was red—a dark crimson red and it was well lit. It had Quidditch posters on the walls. He had a small desk for writing and also a four-poster bed. He had a picture of Lily on his bedside table, along with some pictures of his friends and parents. Adjoining their rooms was a bathroom with two sinks and green walls.
As James opened the bathroom door on his side, Lily opened her door on her side.
"Looks like we'll be sharing a bathroom then" said Lily a little disappointed.
"Yeah" said James "well night then" he said before he went back in his room and shut the door.
"Wow, this might work well after all!" thought Lily happily at James' quick departure. She shrugged and went into her room.
The next few days went by pretty quickly. James had suspiciously all the same classes as Lily. James of course, took advantage of the situation and tried to talk to Lily as much as possible.
" Prongs! When are Quidditch tryouts? I'm thinking of trying out this year" said Sirius eating breakfast in the Great Hall along with Peter, James, and Remus.
"Brilliant, we need a new chaser! We'll probably have it next week or of the sort. You know, just to kind of get everyone settled in and everything first."
"So what are the chances you think I'll get on the team" asked Sirius smirking at James, who by the way, was the new Quidditch captain.
"Not very good considering I only let good people on the team" joked James.
"Ouch, Prongs, that hurt right here" said Sirius, dramatically clutching where his heart would be.
James rolled his eyes and smiled.
Lily and her friends walked in the Great Hall just then and James and Sirius leapt up.
"Viccyyyyyyyy I've misssedddd youuuuuuuu" screamed Sirius running up to her and giving her an enormous hug.
"Get off me Black" said Victoria throwing SIirus onto the floor.
"Feisty this year eh? No matter!" said Sirius excitedly getting up.
"How are you?" asked Remus shyly to Angelica. Angelica turned pink.
"G-Good"
"Oh, Remus, has James told you about the prefects meeting today at six?" asked Lily.
"er—no" said Remus staring pointedly at James.
"Oh yeah, sorry about that mate, kind of slipped my mind" said James.
Lily hit James on the back of his head. "Ouch" laughed James rubbing his head. "What was that for?"
"You're supposed to be responsible!" said Lily giving him a fierce glare.
"Cheers Lily" said Remus. "I'm finally not the only one saying that for a change."
The next morning, James creeped into his old dorm room.
"RISE AND SHINE!" yelled James.
"What the---James? What are doing here? Bloody hell, its five o'clock in the morning" whined Sirius pulling his blankets over his head.
"It's phase one of our prank. REMEMBER!"
"OH YEAH!" said Sirius jumping up.
"Oi! Moony, Wormtail! Wake up" said Sirius pouncing up and down on their beds.
"Sod off Padfoot" groaned Remus.
"What time is it?" asked Peter rubbing his eyes.
"ITS PRANK TIME!" yelled James jumping on their bed as well.
"Okay, so bird seeds," read off James.
"Ahhh check" said Peter.
"Wands?"
"Check" said Sirius.
" Streamers?"
"Check" said Remus holding them up.
"Instanca glue?"
"Check" said Peter.
"Okay boys, I think we ready to set up our materials starting..now" said James. The boys walked out of the dormitories and into the hall.
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"That was close" said James under the invisibility cloak
"Yeah, Filtch would've caught us! Lucky you have this cloak" squeaked Peter.
"So we have like…" Remus looked at his watch that read 7:00 A.M " an hour" whispered Remus under the cloak.
"Yeah" whispered Padfoot as they walked into the Head's dormitories.
"Do you guys hear something?" asked Peter.
James, and the rest of the marauders creeped into the Head's common room and walked spotted Lily and Victoria.
"Lily! OMG! So this is what the Head Room looks like!" cried Victoria plopping down on the comfortable squishy couch.
Lily laughed. "Hold on, letting me get my Potions book," Lily walked into another room.
"You are so lucky! Not only do you get the coolest rooms ever, but you're with the second hottest guy in our year!" yelled Victoria
"See that James! Told you I was the hottest!" exclaimed Sirius.
James rolled his eyes and motioned for him to keep quiet.
"You don't like James.. do you?"
Victoria gave Lily a weird stare. "Are you kidding me, of course not. We already tried going out our fourth year and it didn't work out."
"You did?" Lily said curiously.
"Please, the only girls he hasn't gone out are of very little quantity, one of them being you"
"yeah, well he's just so full of himself, and all…"
"Okay, maybe, but you have to admit he's cute," said Victoria
"Yeah okay he is," said Lily going red. "So what's with you and Sirius?"
"She thinks I'm cute!" whispered James triumphantly.
"Shut up, she's gonna talk about me!" whispered Sirius attentively.
"Good grief" whispered Remus.
"What about him?" said Victoria indifferently.
"Well you haven't exactly argued with him yet. Do I see a glimmer of hope?"
"Well…."
There was suddenly a loud thump behind them.
"What was that?" asked Lily.
"Not sure, let's go get breakfast, I'm starving!"
"Ya ok" she said slinging her rucksack across her back.
As soon as the girls left, Sirius slapped the back of Peter's head.
"Ouch what was that for?"
"Are you kidding me? She was about to tell Lily if she fancied ME or not, and you HAD bloody well trip over couch!" exclaimed Sirius.
"Don't be so harsh, Sirius, he didn't do it on purpose" said Remus
"Yeah I know, sorry Peter."
"Its ok" squeaked Peter.
"So..who's ready to see are prank in action?" asked James giving a devious grin.
The boys smiled and strode down the hall.
"Okay, Sirius, you wingardium leviousa the bag and drop it on them." ordered James behind the grand doors to the Great Hall.
The boys entered the Grand Hall with big grins and sat down at the Gryffindor table.
"Brilliant, just brilliant" whispered Sirius under his breath.
James was humming happily while buttering toast.
"Hey Victoria?" said Lily
"Yeah Lils"
"Have you noticed that Potter and Black look especially happy today?"
Victoria looked down the table at them.
"That's never a good sign" said Vicotoria seriously.
"uh-oh" said Lily with her eyes widening, "you know what that means."
"Unfortunately Lily, I do." said Victoria.
Not just a second later, the Slytherins were covered in thousands of seeds from an unknown source.
"That's it?" demanded Victoria.
But then…came the post. More than three dozen owl flew in and soared directly at them.
Lily and Victoria took one look at each other and burst out laughing. The entire school broke out into laughter watching the beautiful sight of Luscious Malfoy and Snape being attacked by killer owls.
Sirius and James were on the floor clutching their stomachs from the pain their laughing was doing them.
The memory of Snivoulous, trying to avoid being eaten by killer owls, will be the epitome of my best reminiscences of Hogwarts" declared James loudly.
"the best!" said Sirius.
The marauder stood up and high-fived each other.
Lily could have sworn she saw Dumbledore chuckling.
Then, a spectacular boom reverberated just outside the windows, and all the students, including Lily, looked outside and saw "Courtesy of : THE MARAUDERS" in blue glowing letters in the sky.
The Slythrins, trying to get away from the owls, ran out of the Great Hall and the owls followed them.
Occasionally, one would hear someone cheering on their owl.
"GO GET SNIVOLOUS LIGLO!" shouted Sirius.
"MR, BLACK, POTTER, PETTIGREW, AND LUPIN!" screamed McGonagall.
"You called Mins?" said Sirius, earning a furious look from McGonagall.
"You have each earned yourselves three weeks of detention!"
"Come on Minnie! It wasn't our fault!" said James.
McGonagall raised her eyebrows.
"It was the owls! They're out of control! Okay so maybe it was"
"See you at detention" stated McGonagall.
The marauders gave their bows to the cheering classmates after McGonagall left and made their way to the table to eat breakfast.
Just as James passed Lily, he gave her an attractive wink and she smiled back to him.
"wait, who just took over my body and smiled to Potter?" said Lily to herself. "why did I smile to Potter?"
SO? What do u think?REVIEW! Hmm… I thought the prank was funny, but then again, I wrote it so of course I think it's funny! And Lily is slowly starting to discover that she likes James! Yeay!
-Missmarauder5