April 1, 1978
April 1st dawned clear and beautiful, completely the opposite of how it would end at Hogwarts. You see April 1st is April Fool's day. This was a sacred day, a day for religious prayers, a day for thanking everything and anyone for another year of wonderfully brilliant pranks.
The Marauders recognized the religious sacredness of the day and acted accordingly. The first course of action was always to prank the Slytherins, but that was painfully obvious.
It was the Marauders last April Fool's day at Hogwarts and it was go big before you go home time. As a result of this the castle lay in quiet anticipation. Even if they would never it admit, not even to themselves, everyone, teachers included, was excited for what tomfoolery the Marauders would get up to this year.
The only ones not excited were the Slytherins, likely because they almost always bore the brunt of the prank attacks. Instead the Slytherins lay in bed… but really itchy?
Yes, on that morning all the Slytherins, first years to seventh years, girls and boys, woke up scratching all over. It was horrible, they were scratching and scratching and there was no relief. The source of the itchiness wasn't discovered until later, when several of the Slytherins went to the hospital wing and had Madam Pomfrey look at them. They were all inspected and found to have fleas all over. Madam Pomfrey prescribed them a anti-itch potion, plus a spray of flea removal potion. As it was later revealed a third year Slytherin had seen a large black dog come into the common room. It was determined that the dog must have carried fleas and traveled to each of the rooms and spread fleas all over the beds.
Of course suspicion arose, as no one was known to have a large black dog who went to Hogwarts, but ultimately there was no proof that the Marauders were guilty, as Professor McGonnagal told them trying to suppress a laugh.
The next bout of troubles came at breakfast, when everyone's pumpkin juice turned strange colors. Disgust arose, but the drink was simply pumpkin juice just colorful. As it was rather harmless, no one was punished.
It was Saturday, so once breakfast was over students filtered out and returned to their common rooms to study or play games. The weather, which had been perfectly clear only the day before, was now raining quite severely. It wasn't until further inspection that the rain drops coming down, were not normal. In fact they had the faces of fools and jesters on them. Once this had been discovered people began to go outside and talk to them, they would tell a joke or two before falling into the ground and dissolving into the mud.
Around lunch the rain began to let up, but everyone was shuffling into the Great hall for lunch. But lunch didn't come. For nearly half an hour everyone sat in the Great hall with empty stomachs waiting for lunch. When the food finally did arrive it was in the form of solely cream pies, which began launching themselves around the room and hitting people in the face leaving funny shapes of whipped cream facial hair. This turned the hall into a raucous of noise and laughter, until a pie hit Dumbledore in the face. The hall collectively held its breath as the pie slid off of his face and left a magnificent unibrow on his smiling face. The hall erupted into cheers as they saw he was not mad, and he wiggled his brow merrily.
The afternoon's adventures began with a school wide conversion of all books into pygmy puffs. It was cute at first until people remembered they needed the books for homework, then the complaints went to McGonagall. Who smiled serenely knowing exactly the student capable of this level of transfiguration, and being extremely proud of that student. With a resigned sigh muttered the reverse spell and waved her wand.
With the books restored to being books, the next prank unfolded. Well prank is generous enough to say, it really was a harmless gift for Gryffindor common room. Many treats and drinks floated from the kitchens up seven flights of stairs to the Gryffindor common room. This was met with much happiness and excitement.
At dinner the Great hall's standard flags of all the houses' crests suddenly turned all into Gryffindor banners, including the Hogwart's crest flag above the teacher's table. This was met with much uproar, cheers from the Gryffindor table, and boos from all the other houses.
When the Slytherins returned to their common room it had been colored pink, everything down to the pens and the fire grate was a bright shade of bubblegum. This was the last straw and harsh words were yelled about certain seventh year Gryffindor boys. What they didn't know was that it was a couple of seventh year Gryffindor girls.
The day ended in near total chaos, several books remained as Pygmy puffs, treats scattered the Gryffindor common room, there was still some whipped cream in a few people's ears, the grounds were soaked with jokes, the Slytherins were still scratching themselves, and best of all the Slytherin common room remained extremely pink.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this April Fools special, couple of classic maraudering pranks, get excited for the next chapter because there will be much Wolfstar and you will slap your face because they are dumb! ;) LEaVe a rEvieW plEaSe! Alsoo let me know if you liked this zoomed out perspective or if you prefer a more zoomed in perspective! Love uou!