The Almost Prank
chapter 6
Most lyrics are my own creation the inspiration for them come from many different areas though. I would like to thank afullmetalwar for his help.
songs are italicized.
The next morning Lily woke to find all four of the boys in the Gryffindor Common Room. She was glad that the experience of the night before had not caused James to revert back into himself. "So, Lils," James muttered looking up from the chair he was lounging in. "How are you feeling? You had a lot tougher night then we did."
"A little tired still," Lily admitted. "But breakfast is going to be served shortly. I figured a good breakfast wouldn't hurt before we go to classes. Are you guys coming?"
"You bet we are," Remus stated looking up from his book. "Come on you bums the lady has given us or orders."
"To the Great Hall we go," Sirius sang as he skipped up to the Fat Lady. (sang to 'Were off to see the wizened) "We're off to see the breakfast the wonderful breakfast of Hogwarts." Lily couldn't help it. She couldn't help laughing at the play on words Sirius was doing. It hurt her to laugh but she couldn't help it. Seeing Lily's reaction he linked his right arm through Remus left arm and his left arm through Peter's and skipped his two friends to out of the tower.
"Shall we join them," James asked Lily link his right arm through Lily's left.
"Why not," Lily replied still laughing.
"Were of to see the breakfast," all five friends sang skipping down the hall. "The wonderful breakfast of Hogwarts. We follower the slate plate hall and jump down the stairs. We're off to see the breakfast the wonderful breakfast of Hogwarts. It is it is the best there is if ever a breakfast was. we're off to see the break the break the wonderful breakfast of Hogwarts "
As the friends skipped and jumped down the hall the Hogwarts ghost were amazed that they could be so happy after the events that had accursed to them the night before. The fun however was nearly stopped when they almost tripped over one of the other students cats on the last flight of stairs. The five friends were still singing as they entered the Great Hall. "We're off to see the breakfast the wonderful breakfast of Hogwarts," the friends finished as they sat at the Gryffindor table.
Dumbledore could not help the smile that played at the corner of his mouth neither could the stoic McGonagall. "Your brave Lions are showing us how to have fun," Dumbledore whispered to the smiling Mcgonagall. "I think we should all take a cue from them."
"Headmaster, are you saying you condone this behavior," a startled McGonagall wondered. "But you are right they are rather cheerful. Just watch them. I fear they will be pulling another prank today. They are well over due."
"Now Minerva," Dumbledore scolded. "They have been having a rough couple of weeks. They might have finally grown up."
"Lupin, Potter, Evans, Black, Petegrew, come here now," McGonagall said in a harsh voice standing up.
The five friends link arms and start skipping and singing, "We're off to see the witch, the wonderful witch of our Gryffindor. We're off to see the Witch the wonderful Witch of Gryffindor."
"Silenco," McGonagall roars pointing her wand at the five friends.
They keep skipping up to the head table but silence is only short lived as the Headmaster and rest of Hogwart's excluding Snape sing, " Their off see the witch, the wonderful witch of their house." by now McGonagall is red faced with embarrassment.
When the five friends reach the head table McGonagall removes the silencing charm. "What are the five of you up to," she demands glaring at James, Sirius and Remus.
"Nothing," all five reply at once sweetly.
"You see Professor," James starts explaining a mile a minute. "We are only having harmless fun. We are just having a musical episode."
"Well you better not break out in song in my class," McGonagall replies. During this exchange Peter had taken out his wand and silently makes McGonagall's chair disappear. "Return to your table."
The five turn and start singing, "We're off we're off to our breakfast, our wonderful breakfast."
Shaking her head McGonagall lowers herself to sit in her chair only to fall flat on her butt to the roaring laughter of the school. ""Lupin,Black, Evans, Potter, Pettigrew, what is the meaning of this?"
"Damn, Wormtail, you were suppose to get the headmasters not hers," Remus hissed under the singing.
The five friends turn around and with a sweet voice Lily asked. "Of what, Professor McGonagal?
"To my office right after breakfast," McGonagall screamed.
"As you wish," Sirius stated with a bow. "We're off, we're off to breakfast," the friends sang as they skipped back to their breakfast. The five quickly ate their breakfast and as one they rose and linking arms again, this time making sure that Lily was in the middle with James on her right and Sirius on her left Remus was on James right and Peter was on Siruis left they skipped to McGonagall's office singing, "We're off to see the chamber, the torture chamber of the witch." They were almost to her office before McGonagall snaps and silences them again. Soon Peeves comes along and starts singing, "Their off to see the chamber, the torture chamber of the witch of their house."
"Peeves," McGonagall screamed.
"Yes, witch of Gryffindor House do you need help in your torture chamber," Peeves simpered.
"Peeves get out of here now," McGonagall yelled. "You five in here now."
McGonagall removes the silencing charm when they enter her office. "Explain yourself, all five of you."
"We are just having fun," they all sing. "And Peter has horrible aim," Remus adds quietly.
"For your little prank in there you all five have received two weeks of detention. If I hear anymore singing it will be a month. Miss, Evens since it is your first time in detention with me you only get a week."
During a moment of silence they heard Peeves singing down the hall, "They're in the witches office being tortured."
"Peeves," McGonagall screams running out to the hall. "You are dismissed. I do not want to hear another tone about it,Potter, Petttigrew, Lupin, Evans and Black."
The five again broke out in song, "We just survived."
"Three weeks," McGonigall screams back.
"Our most humble pleasure," Lily sings in a high note.
"Evans, I don't believe you," McGonagall calls back shaking her head.
The five friends skip down the hall to the Gryffindor Common Room singing, "We have survived the most wicked of them all. And have lived to tell the tail." They were soon joined by Peeves and the rest of the ghosts. As they came to the Fat Lady they stopped singing long enough to give the password. The Fat Lady was mildly perturbed at being interrupted from her humming of the tune.
As the five entered the Common Room they dissolved into a fit of laughter. The Common Room erupted into cheering for the five friends. Everyone had enjoyed the entertainment at breakfast. Seeing the good cheer in the Common Room the five friends broke into another song, "We the five have detention for the month. We the five have faced the dragon and survived."
"Black, Evans, Lupin, Pettigrew, Potter, what did I say," McGonagall screamed storming into the Common Room.
"Something about Peeves shutting up," Remus murmured.
"Something about our singing," Sirius joined.
"Something about detentions for a year are so," Lily supplied.
"Something about not wreaking your chair," James smirked.
"Something about having better aim," Peter jumped in.
"First of all Peeves was singing the verses that you sang," McGonigall said in an unpleasant voice. "Second I told you to shut up about singing. Third, it's a month not a year. Fourth, you should have paid better attention to who you chose to cast the spell. Finally," McGonagall started to scream. "Pick someone better then Peter to cast the spell. And Peter if you are picked again practice."
The Common Room cleared in a blink of an eye. "You really should stop yelling so much, Professor," Sirius muttered smiling bolting to the boys dormitory with the other four close behind him. "Think what it is doing to your voice."
"Not to mention you might get a stroke," James added as he followed Sirius.
As soon as the Common Room emptied McGonagal muttered, "You five are going to be the death of me."
That night the five friends headed to detention with Headmaster Dumbledore because all the other teachers were singing except McGonagall who had lost her voice yelling at Peeves and the five friends. They had managed to rack up a total of two months worth of detention with Dumbledore who seems to be taking it to heart, the singing that is. The detention consisted of having to dust all of Dumbledore's trinket's without the use of magic. This however didn't deter the five friends fro m their jubilation as they kept singing.
"We dust, we dust, we sneeze, we sneeze, we dust, we dust, we sing, we sing, we dust, we dust, we clean we clean, we dust we dust," the five friends sang and danced. After a while, Dumbledore conjured up some self playing instruments for accompaniment. With the arrival of the instruments the friends sang even louder. "We dust, we dust, we sneeze, we sneeze we dust, we dust, we sing, we sing, we dust, we dust, we clean we clean, we dust, we dust. Oh how fun it is to work for Albus Dumbledorrrrrrre." Dumbledore took a bow at the mention of his name. there was a twinkle in his eye. "We fight, we fight, we fight for Albus Dumbledorrrrrrre." The music was very infecters and Dumbledore started dancing and singing around the room. "They dust, they dust, they sneeze, they sneeze, they dust, they dust, they sing, they sing,they dust, they dust, they clean, they clean, they dust, they dust. Oh how fun it is to work and sing for me. They fight, they fight, they fight for friends indeed."
All the music woke one of the stoic pictures on the wall. The wizard in the picture rolled his eyes and muttered something about his great great grandson making a fool of himself. Seeing this Sirius went up to the portrait and said," Lighten up grandpa. Have some fun with us. Not all Blacks have to be gits like Mum." This of course brought yet another rendition from the friends. "We sing, we sing we dance we dance we sing, we sing we sing for a little fuuun. We sing, we sing we dance we dance we sing, we sing to tick everyone ooff."
"What is going on in here?" a disgruntled voice called from the fireplace.
"Ah, Rufus my good man," Dumbledore exclaimed. "Come join the party."
The five friends continued dancing and singing. "The potion master, the potion master, We got visited by the potion master."
"Really, Headmaster, this is suppose to be detention," Professor Slughorn retorted stepping into the room. "Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew, Evans, can you not stop that insistent singing for two minutes. What kind of detention is this anyway?"
"My kind, Rufus," Dumbledore replied.
"If you get detention, detention, detention, detention." the friends sang dancing around the room. "Serve it with Dumbledooore."
"Really Dumbledore you condone this," Slughorn said. "These five disrupted the whole school today."
"Come now," Dumbledore replied. "A little fun never hurt anyone."
"The potion master, the potion master has come for some fuuuun," the three friends again changed their song. "He can sing, he can dance, but not in front of his house. Come one, come all, come and have some fuuuun. Join the sang, join the song, have some fun, some fun. We dusted, we dusted, we sneezed, we sneezed, we dusted, we dusted, we sing, we sing, we dusted, we dusted, we cleaned, we cleaned, we dusted, we dusted. How fun it was to clean and sing for Albus Dumbledoooore."
"I have a question for Black, Evans, Lupin, Petigrew and Potter," Slugghorn interrupted. "How do all five of you know exactly what is next when you sing something different all the time?"
All five of them stop singing and look at Slugghorn and sang, "because we are smaaaart."
Slugghorn rolls his eyes and mumbled, "smartalecks."
They finished their detention singing and dancing all the while. "We,re done, we're done, we dusted, we dusted, we're done, we're done, we cleaned, we cleaned, we're done, we're done, we sang we sang. With Dumbledooooore's help."
Suddenly Professor McGonagall's face appeared in the fireplace looking very annoyed. Seeing this Dumbledore dismissed the five Gryffindores to their tower. They left the Headmasters office singing. As soon as they stepped out they were accompanied by the ghosts and Peeves. Who sang a long with them just adding the words, "They survived, the wizard of Hogwarts."
The Gryffindor common room was full of activity when the friends entered through the portrait hole. Everyone was excited because they were sure they would have a substitute teacher in transfiguration the next day. They also wanted to see what new song the five singers would come up with at this news. "We have destroyed the witch of our house," the friends sang. "We have survived the wizard of our school." Soon everyone joined in the singing and no one noticed that Lily and James had retreated to a chair in front of the fireplace. Suddenly Dumbledore's head popped into the fire to hear another sang and to thank the Marauders and Lily for the entertainment. As he was listening he noticed Lily and James by the fire. "Potter, Evans, please be so kind as to snogging for a while," Dumbledore said with a smile.
The three remaining Marauders broke out singing, "Stop snogging, stop snogging, stop snogging, so we can sing right now." Embarrassed Lily and James answered, "We'll leave, we'll leave, so you can sing all night. We'll leave, we'll leave, and head to the boys dormitory.
Dumbledor couldn't resist singing, "One more song, one more song, before you leave to the boys dormitory, boys dormitory... Hay!"
Everyone else broke out in song, "One more song, one more song before they leave for the boys dormitory boys dormitory...Hey!"
Not be outdone the five looked at each other and broke out, "Goodnight Dumbledore, goodnight Dumbledore. IT was so nice for you to come. Dream of the new song for us to sing."
Dumbledore replied, "Good night singing Gryffindors, Goodnight singing Gryffindors dream up more songs for us to enjoy. Goodnight singing Gryffindors, Goodnight singing Gryffindors. Potter and Evans go to the boys dorm. No snogging in public."
"Thank you headmaster, thank you headmaster," Lily and James answered as James picked Lily up and headed for the boys dorm. "We are headed to the dorm. Good night Gryffindor.
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