Chapter Twenty Seven:
A plan that was already in action
A few weeks had passed. Defense classes were the favorites on most students' lists. Their professor's youth, passion, and style in the class kept the students entertained and listening, but they still got their important point across.
The marauders and the professors' pranks continued onward. Though for the marauders it was rare they could get anything past their professors without it either being imperfect or backfiring. In fact they had only accomplished it once.
They had managed to hit Draco with a cow reverberation hex; basically every time he tried to speak it would come out in one long high pitched MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Two out of three of their professors found this hysterically funny, but one didn't and quickly obtained his revenge. When he charmed them to sing his own rewritten version of 'We are the Champions' going something like:
I've made bad pranks
Time after time
I've made no sentence
That fits such a crime
And sad mistakes
I've made a ton
I've had my share of pranks
Backfired in my face
But I still pursue
cause I need to move on and on and on
We are the losers my friend
And we'll have horrible pranks til the end
We are the losers
We are the losers
No time for good pranks
Cause we are the losers
Of the world
I've taken my bawls
And my curtain falls
You've brought me shame and torture
And everything that goes with it
I thank you all…
Well something like that anyways. That was what had happened today at least. Draco had been incredibly smug at pulling off such a brilliant prank with little help from Harry and Ginny.
Lily laughed along with the rest of the class not so much because she hated James potter anymore it was more to do with the fact that they had been bested.
Yes it was true lily was no longer hating the marauders entirely. She did not approve of everything they did or stood for, but she was rather friendly towards the lot. James, she had decided really was growing up, or had been nothing like she thought. She decided to give him a chance at friendship and so far it was working well, but she could see that James wanted more. She just wasn't so sure yet.
She did not know what would happen if she accepted his request for a date. She did not even know were her feelings stood on the unknown territory. Lily was just waiting to see if things played out the way she wanted or not. She was not even certain if a friendship with James would last, or if they would be back to arguing soon.
The marauders themselves were mortified that they had been bested by their professors, but were in a WOW that they had come up with something like that. Even more they had gotten them, the marauders, pranksters of all time to fall for it. They certainly were on odd bunch, an odd bunch in which the marauders looked up to entirely.
James in particular looked up to his professors, he had always wanted to be an Auror and these professors of his made him even more passionate about fighting against Voldemort. They had a head strong attitude about things and spoke strongly against the dark side, especially Harry.
Something about Harry seemed so familiar to James, a characteristic that he had seen a million or so times before but could not lay his finger on it. He did not worry all too much about this at the current moment, as all he could focus on was lily.
She was coming around, he at least thought. Well they had gotten as far as friendship, who was to say that it could not turn into something more? He had wanted more then friendship from the beginning but didn't want to push lily into something she did not want. He contrary to what most thought was a courteous, caring guy, who was not just looking for a quick snog.
"Oy prongs" Sirius called out half-way through there lesson and after they had been given there payback.
"Mmmh"
"Snap out of it James and pay attention" Remus said.
James shook his head and turned his attention to what they were saying.
"Okay, after class we will approach Draco and ask to speak with him. we need to get those two together soon."
The others nodded and continued their whispered discussion.
Harry was watching his father from the corner of his eye, while Ginny was speaking to the class about the proper way to cast the blinding spell with your wand. He could see that the four boys were talking animatedly, but chose not to interfere, they were not doing any harm and he knew for a fact that they had mastered such a spell long ago. they had told him about how they had learnt it in order to give one of their pranks to the Slytherin's. Not to mention that it was his father, godfather, and friend; he would not have minded getting the rat in trouble.
He turned his attention back to Ginny who was now demonstrating the spell on Draco, who still looking extremely smug about his prank. He watched as her nose twitched in concentration, and her wand arm moved swiftly but gracefully in the air as she cast the spell.
'My god is she beautiful' he thought. He would not deny in his mind that he had loved Ginny Weasley for a good long while, but putting it into words and telling her did not seem to be an option. As every time he tried he would wimp out, or find another excuse for not doing what he should do.
Instead he settled for staring from afar at the beauty that still was not his, that unless he perked up the courage would never be his.
Twenty minutes later the bell rang signaling the end of the class. The marauders stayed behind as the rest of the class cleared out of the room, heading for dinner.
Harry and Ginny were busy cleaning up the room, as the marauders approached Draco.
James had a letter in his hand that he discreetly handed to Draco before turning around and saying, "Bye guys see Ya in detention Thursday."
"Bye boys" Ginny smiled, as Harry just waved at them, a smile on his face.
Draco looked strangely after the distancing boys before discreetly, as not to notify Harry or Ginny opened the letter.
Draco
Meet us in the abandoned classroom, on the third floor corridor tonight at 9:30; we have some planning to do.
Ps. Good prank but not good enough…
Signed the
Marauders.
Draco shook his head at their last remark but was pleased to see that they were ready to take action; it was obvious that it was needed. He looked over at the other two. He saw them both unobtrusively staring at each other, yes action needed to be taken as soon as possible.
A.N. Credit to QUEEN whose song I lyrics I switched up to the prank earlier in the chapter.
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