Chapter 6: A Prank Gone Wrong
"Mr. Potter!" shouted the potions teacher, Professor Raymond. "After class!" he said strictly. James sat back in his chair and slumped. "Mr. Anderson you may go to the hospital wing." A boy got up, he was covered in what seemed to be green acid, and it was eating through his clothes, he hurried out of the potions class before the acid ate more of his clothes.
"That was too obvious," Peter whispered to James, as Professor Raymond continued his lesson, but he kept glancing at James.
"I know," James said. "I did it like that purposely."
"Why?" Peter asked.
James shrugged slightly. "My own reasons . . . I can't control the way my mind goes," James said pointing to his head.
Peter rolled his eyes.
From across the room, Sirius turned around and gave James the thumbs up sign. James grinned.
At the end of class, James headed to the front of the class to the teacher, Lily stayed behind and seemed to be cleaning up all her ingredients slowly. Professor Raymond glared at James.
"Did I do anything wrong, Professor?" James asked.
"Don't play dumb, I know you did that!" snapped Professor Raymond.
James looked over at Lily, Lily glared at him, while James just smiled slightly.
"Sir, look at it logically, he was hit from the front, I sit behind. There is no way I could have done it!" James shrugged.
"Mr. Potter, that is the third time this week and the fourth time todayyou've disrupted my class!" he said irritably. "Detention, Mr. Potter! Starting next week, for two weeks! Get going!"
"Wait! Two weeks?" James asked alarmed, he didn't see why it had to be so long.
"Yes, Mr. Potter, even though school just began two weeks ago, you've been harassing all the students in here non stop! Unless you have an amazing excuse Mr. Potter, I'd appreciate it if you continued to your next lesson!"
"Professor – I would like to say, that you are a great teacher! The best, my favourite, and I have never done anything wrong in this class. I listen to every word that comes out of your mouth! I don't see any reasons why I would do something like that!"
"Potter," said Professor Raymond through gritted teeth, "I'll see you at detention!"
"But- sir!"
"OUT!" he shouted. The one thing about Professor Raymond, is he had NO patience with the Marauders.
James glared at his teacher, and turned around quickly and stormed out of the potions classroom. He walked briskly down the dungeons and slowed down his pace. He put his hands in his cloak pockets. He sighed. Two weeks of detention. He had to think of a way to get back at Professor Raymond.
Just as he was thinking of a plan, Lily walked quickly by him.
"Hey Evans! Did you have fun eavesdropping?" James called out after Lily.
Lily turned, looking furious. "I wasn't eavesdropping, Potter," she spat.
James raised his eyebrows. "Oh really! My mistake! . . . Then, what were you doing there after class?"
"I was cleaning up after myself! You know cleaning? Something that you should seriously think about doing!" Lily shouted.
The two were both glaring at each other harshly, about 15 feet away from each.Students passing, feeling the tension, hurried by, without looking.
"Potter, you honestly think I stayed after class just to listen to you get told off? I've heard it happen too many times before to even want to stick around for that!" Lily said simply.
"Get off me Evans," James said moving from his firm position, to move past Lily, and walking quickly further down the hall.
Lily turned and watched him walk down the hall. She frowned and crossed her arms.
"Tonight?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah, tonight!" James exclaimed, rubbing his hands together.
Sirius shrugged. "He'll know you did it," Sirius said.
"He won't have proof though," James reasoned, while Sirius turned around, not really caring. "Come on! You're joining me!" James said excitedly.
"Nah! I have a date," Sirius said.
"Your going to pass up this opportunity to prank, for a girl?" James asked outraged.
Sirius sat down on his bed and smiled. It was later that night in the dormitory, and James was telling Sirius his plan on how to get back at Professor Raymond for his two week detention.
"Yeah, I'll come," Sirius said finally.
"Great! I'll go ask Peter and Remus!" James exclaimed happily, as he raced out the door, and down the stairs to the common room. He bumped into a girl, James stopped.
"Hey!" she yelled.
"Sorry," James said smiling at the girl.
He walked over to the fire where Remus and Peter were playing chess. They didn't look up when James arrived. James watched impatiently as Remus' queen attacked one of Peter's knights and Peter let out a small whimper.
"Ok, I have a plan!" James whispered frantically.
"Hold on!" Remus said. "Tell us after the game."
"But – that's not for a while," James said looking at the position of the chess game.
"It won't be long," Peter sighed.
James frowned, and sat down to watch the game.
When the twofinally finished their game, Remus and Peter sat back, and listened to James' plan.
"I'm not going," Remus said after hearing the plan.
"Why not?" James asked upset.
"Because it's stupid," he said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"So? Sirius thinks its stupid, and he's still going," James said truthfully.
"I'm not stupid like Sirius," Remus retorted back.
"So?" James said quietly. "Peter?"
Peter thought. "Ok, I'll come," he said.
James smiled. "Alright, upstairs we go!" he exclaimed, and he rushed up the stairs, with Peter far behind him. When he got up to their dorm, he found Sirius sleeping soundly on his bed. "Sirius, up!" James said loudly enough, for Sirius to jump out of his sleep.
"You took too long!" Sirius complained. "I just want to sleep now, I'm out!" he grumbled.
"Sirius come on! You can do whatever you want with the prank!" James insisted. Sirius sighed and rolled out of bed.
James grinned, and went into his trunk and pulled out some supplies, as did Peter from his trunk. Sirius crawled to his own trunk, and slowly took things out, and put them into his arms. James grabbed the Invisibility cloak and the map.
"This better not take long," Sirius said. "An hour the most," he said.
James threw the cloak over the two other boysand himself, and they quietly exited down to the common room. James looked around, and saw Remus talking to Lily. James rolled his eyes, and quickened the pace for Sirius and Peter to hurry up.
When they got down to the dungeons, James started to move at a slight run, just as Sirius stopped. James moved out from under the cloak, and stopped. He then heard, the taunting cackling.
Peeves.
Peeves was bouncing around down the dungeon corridor, when he saw James he smiled a wicked grin.
"Ooh Mistereee Flich! Student out of bed!" he cackled loudly.
James winced, and quickly ran to find Sirius. Sirius lifted up the cloak, so James could get under.
Loud footsteps were heard in a distance running, as Mr. Flich came to their view. Sirius grabbed Peter and James' arm and pulled them into the potions classroom, closing the door a bit too loudly.
They could hear Mr. Filch cursing outside the door that he forgot something. They heard his footsteps move past the door.
Peter let out a breath of relief.
"Let's get this over with," Sirius said. He put all the pranks on one of the desks and started sorting through them.
"This will take forever," Peter whined, looking at all the jokes they had brought.
"Wait," Sirius said smiling. He then turned into his animagus form, a dog. Padfoot started wagging his tail happily.
"Why didn't I think of that?" James asked happily. He then turned into his stag form, knocking a few desks over while he changed.
Peter was the last to change into his rat form.
And that was it. The animals went wild. They tore the dungeon apart.
Prongs rammed his antlers into the potions cabinets and smashed everything. Padfoot chewed on all the wooden desks, and Wormtail was mostly trying to stay clear from Prongs and Padfoot's way.
After a while Prongs and Padfoot stopped and listened when they heard an unfamilliar noise. Foot steps sounded through the door anddown the corridor. The three animagus froze. The footsteps stopped outside the potions classroom door. Keys were heard fumbling in someone's hand, as the sound of a key fitting the lock and locking the door. Then the footsteps moved away from the door, and out of hearing.
Sirius turned back into his human form, and he slowly walked to the door. He tried to open the door, but it was locked, he pulled out his wand and tried to unlock it but it would budge.
"Shit," Sirius muttered.
"We're stuck?" Peter said.
"Yeah," Sirius sighed. "Genius plan," he said to James.
"We're going to get caught," Peter said, starting to panic. "We never get caught!" he said.
"We're not going to get caught!" Sirius snapped. "We've been caught before."
"Not in these sorts of pranks!" Peter said.
"How do we get out of this, Prongs?" Sirius asked sarcastically.
"Er . . . I don't know," James said.
"Great!" Peter exclaimed.
Sirius shook his head.
"I should have stayed with Remus," Peter muttered. "What are we going to do?" he asked.
"Think," Sirius said.
Peter looked at his watch. "It's 8:50, classes start in ten minut! The doors don't open till the bell rings!" Peter said.
"Why do they lock the doors?" James complained, asking allowed.
"Because they know an arse will drag his idiot friends down to the dungeon classrooms to do a stupid prank," Sirius snapped.
"They never did this before!" James said, ignoring Sirius.
"Probably because Raymond knows we steal ingredients," Sirius shrugged.
"They started it this year," Peter said.
"They don't do it upstairs," James said.
Sirius sighed. "Well, now we're going to get detention, which means double detention for you Prongs!"
James groaned.
"Seven minutes!" Peter said.
"Shut up," James muttered.
After Peter counted down the minutes, until the bell rang, and the students all walked into the classroom. James, Sirius and Peter all stood in the middle of the torn apart classroom. Everyone stopped to look at them. Remus was at the front of the line, and tried to hold back his laughter. Everyone was staring shocked at the three boys in the class looking guilty for the situation they were in.
"Potter!" Lily's voice could be heard behind the class as she pushed through to the front."What?" she said looking around, her eyes wide.
The whole class moved into the classroom, looking around at the disaster.
Sirius looked around at everyone. "RUN!" he said the James and Peter, and the three boys raced out the door.
Lily stood in the middle of the classroom in disbelief.
The Gryffindors and Hufflepuff's, were looking at the damage. Most seemed happy, knowing that potions would be canceled for the morning.
"They completely destroyed it," Lily said.
Remus looked at the damage of the class. "Everything is ruined," he said, smiling slightly.
"Remus we're prefects," Lily said. "We have to do something about this! I'm getting Potter!" She said annoyed.
"No! No, I'll get them," Remus said quickly.
Lily opened her mouth to say something, when Professor Raymond walked in.
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