Authors Note: Okay… um, I have to begin by solemnly swearing never to touch the red cordial again. It was just so tempting, so easy, so wrong (sobs). Anyways, a big shout out to Black-Nyx for being the most awesome person in the history of the world. Black-Nyx has reviewed two times (both really, really long reviews), added this to story alert, and favorites. Black-Nyx is my god. Learn from their example readers. Alright now I have to apologize for the length of chapter five. It was originally twice as long but the second half needed editing (cause I screwed it up) and somehow I woke up on Tuesday morning and realized that I had put the first half of the chapter up at some point during the day before. I'm not quite sure how or why, it's all a cordial induced haze. So this chapter will be still officially called chapter six but in truth it's the second half of chapter five (plus all of chapter six because I'm on a roll here people). Also, college is hard. It takes up a lot of time (although not that much as of yet) and I repeat that it will be harder for me to write fan fiction over the next nine weeks. Then it will be easy because here in "de land of Aus" we college students get a fourteen week Christmas break. So yeah, that will be fun. Plus I can laugh at my younger brother who only gets six weeks. Lastly I would like to recommend you all read "A Past Experience" by Freedom isn't Free. "Why?" you all ask. Well, the real reason is because it is a brilliant story that inspired me to write this one (although mine is very different), but really I'm just suggesting it because she dedicated a chapter to me. ME! How cool is that! So if you do all listen to me and go read this story (which you should), keep an eye out for chapter 11 because that is MY chapter. MINE ALL MINE! Also, if you read Janet Evanovich fan fiction, read my little sisters story Twinness. Its funny and I promise she is updating soon. Okay, I think this is my longest Authors Note yet, so on with the other stuff.

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Chapter 6

10th October 1977

"I'm telling you Padfoot, it's an unfair advantage. The kid will use it against us, who knows what kinds of places you can access with that ability, not to mention, he can get every snake in the Forbidden Forest on his side. Arrgh! I can't believe Moony didn't add limits like that to the rules."

"Oh come one Prongs, why would it have been my responsibility? And anyway, how could I have known the little dude was a parselmouth?" Remus said crossly.

"Well…" James paused momentarily to think "You should have used your super moony powers to sense it on him!" He exclaimed triumphantly.

Sirius fell of his chair. The marauders tended to do that a lot. It was kind of their 'thing', although they didn't tell anyone that because it wasn't the best 'thing' to have. They could just imagine if everyone knew then to prove their marauder status they would have to fall off their chairs several times a day and it actually kind of hurts. So as it was, their public 'thing' was pranks. That is why they were the greatest pranksters of all time rather then the greatest falling-off-of-chairsters of all time.

They were all currently sitting in chairs around one of the desks on the far end of the room. The curtains on the newer Potter's bed were still drawn but they had cast several high strength industrialized silencing charms around it to be certain he wouldn't wake up and hear anything he wasn't supposed to. And before you ask, yes there are such things as industrialized silencing charms. Although that is someone else's 'thing'.

They really needn't have bothered though because it was already almost seven and Harry had left a while ago while they were still asleep. Of course they did not realize this because Harry is a very good sneakerouterer.

"Um, guys?" Peter said "I hate to interrupt your fascinating discussion but could we hurry up and have our planning session before Harry wakes up? It's a little disconcerting having to sit here worrying."

"Oh I'm sorry Peter, I did not realize we were straining your nerves. I promise I'll do better next time. Just please give me another shot!" Sirius pleaded getting up again just as James fell of his perch on the edge of the desk.

"Look, I spent some time thinking about this last night, taking into account our new knowledge of Harry's linguistic abilities, and I have several ideas." Remus began ignoring James as he pulled on the werewolf's robes as he struggled to get up. "I think we should start with some relatively simple plans just to get a feel for their abilities and where their weaknesses lie. Beginning with a few word jumbling jinxes, some colour enhances and some well located invisibility spells or anything along those lines."

"Sounds good." Peter said just as James managed to get up, dislodging Remus from his seat in the process. "But they have Snivellus on their team now and we know his weaknesses. Shouldn't we start out with a bit of a bang with him?"

"Yeah, if we get him big time after a few smaller ones on the newbies it may startle them a little and cause them to falter. They would interpret it as foreshadowing for things to come."

"But I think they may be prepared for that already," A slightly disgruntled Remus cautioned as he retook his seat "I mean they must realize we target him, or rather you target him, a lot or they wouldn't have added him to their team. They've probably got him well guarded."

"They may not realize actually, it may just be that he was the first non marauder senior student they met."

"I think they have just a smidgen more experience then that Padfoot, they wouldn't just choose out of convenience."

"You may be right Remy, but they probably haven't had time to go through all his weakest points and get them covered. If we strike now while the proverbial iron is hot, we may just get some good shots in." James countered.

Remus looked around at his friends who all seemed to be in agreement about this. He realized he would have to back down.

"Oh all right." He sighed "But the pranks are clever rather than humiliating, and we plan it out properly. Oh, and I'm not the one to cast any of the big ones on Snape. I don't want to be at the receiving end of anything they've cooked up as a defense before we've even been in this thing for twenty four hours."

"Oh sure Moony, count yourself expunged from the Snivellus force." James said cheerfully "So are we all in agreement?"

Remus nodded and saluted towards the wall. Sirius did some weird hand gesture that he'd probably picked up from the Billster. Peter fell out of his chair.

"Hey guy's what's up?" Harry said walking in the door looking far to awake for someone who could not possibly have gone to breakfast yet.

All four marauders did a slight double take at the sight of him before realizing that he could not have heard them from the door as Remus had cast an overall silencing charm at the last minute. But then, extendable ears can be mighty useful as Harry could have told them.

"Oh nothing much." James drawled doing his best to look nonchalant without whistling as that would be too corny. "What have you been doing?"

"The same thing we do every night Pinky, take over the world." Harry replied with an evil cackle. "Just exploring really. I get up early anyway for Quidditch and it's a hard habit to break."

"Oh you play quidditch?" Peter said "So do James and Sirius. Pity they've already filled all the vacancies on the team or you could try out."

"Nah, I wouldn't want to anyway. Although, maybe if I could get some other players from our time, we could have a match some time."

"Sound fun." Remus said sarcastically "But it's breakfast time now. You coming down with us Harry?"

"No thanks I've already eaten. Although actually, I think will come down to the Great Hall, if just to socialize and pick up my time table."

"Ah, okay then." Sirius said from over near his bed where he was collecting his books "When did you eat? They don't put the food out until seven."

"Oh I picked something up earlier." Harry called out casually as he made his way over to the bathroom, wandlessly conjuring a tooth brush and face cloth to follow him, although only Remus seemed to spot this. The lycanthrope stared after the powerful young man.

"We are soooo dead." He mouthed silently to himself.

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The marauders all sat rather cautiously at in their seats at the Gryffindor table, fear evident in their eyes. Four members of their opposition were all sitting calmly in their various positions around the hall talking to their neighbors (although none of them were eating as Remus pointed out to the others while he kept an eye out for Lily), but one person was not.

Ginny Weasley, they had all decided, was the scariest individual they had ever encountered. She was sitting between a small third year called Emily Blenkin, and the Billster. She was not conversing with anyone, despite repeated efforts from those around to include her. Instead she was staring avidly at the marauders with a large notebook in her hand. Every time one of them so much as moved she would instantly scribble something down before grinning triumphantly as though she had discovered the key to life on earth. Several Gryffindors, and Hufflepuffs, including Sirius had tried to see what she was writing but every time anyone did she would clutch the notebook to her chest and pin the offending individual with a death glare strong enough to inspire fear in the hearts of any well balanced dementor. At one point she did show it to her future older brother who laughed evilly and turned to whisper something to the first year next to him.

After the return of a quaking Sirius, the marauders decided to save their new prank planed until lunch time. This was lucky as Lily Evans would have been very pissed to know they'd started without her after all the effort they'd gone to so as to get her involved. As it was, a rather cheerful Lily who was completely oblivious to the actions around her plonked herself down between Remus and Peter.

"Good morning friendly infamous freaks!" She exclaimed "Now what nefarious plots have you Neanderthals concocted in my absence?"

"Ah, perhaps this isn't the best place to discuss them Evans," James said in a slightly strained voice "As it appears 007 there has us under observation."

A still smiling Lily glanced around and caught sight of Ginny, who instantly beamed and scribbled excitedly on her note pad. The smile froze on Lily's face.

"Potter," she ground out, trying not to move her lips "That girl, is scary."

"That's what we've been trying to tell you." He exclaimed.

"Look, there's a small room next to the transfiguration classroom that has complete silencing spells and the door seals and locks completely from the inside so it's impenetrable. How about we all go up there and fill Lily in on the details so far, plus she can add some more. Seventh years have transfiguration or COMC next anyway and Professor Kettleburn won't mind if Peter and Lily are late for that." Remus interrupted, trying to head off the impending argument.

"Fine" Lily pouted and, after grabbing two slices of toast, got up to lead the way out.

"Damn," Harry murmured from the opposite end of the table, pulling in his extendable ear. He had never been so grateful with Fred and George for insisting he carried a basic kit with him wherever he went. After the other five had left he got up and made his way towards Ginny. "What do you have oh commander of forces furtive?" He questioned, sitting down beside her.

"Not much." She replied, showing him her work.

Harry looked at the page in front of him.

Harry once dyed his hair green… I like pie… I want pie… If Draco doesn't cut down on the caramel he will get love handles… My hair is looking much better after I spent two hours treating it last night… Lily Evans is not very good at dorm room interrogations… Apple pie and ketchup do not go well together… Buy me a pony… She sells sea shells by the sea shore… Why oh why did I agree to be the one to do this… Oh year, because I'm good at the scary look… I do not like green eggs and ham… I do not like them Sam I Am…

This continued across three pages. All the first years, having heard from the Billster what was going on, were all grinning at Harry from their seats. Looking at them, Harry felt an idea forming in his head.

"Hey guys, how would you like some prankster training?" He questioned lightly "I know of five unwary fools you could practice on."

"Sounds sweet." The Billster answered for the others "When and where do we start training?"

"How about right now over near the transfiguration classroom?" Harry replied innocently.

"Have fun storming the castle fellas." Ginny called out distractedly without looking up from her notes as Harry led his troops into battle.

"What are they up to now?" Pansy questioned having been sent over by Draco and Severus.

"Crashing a party." Ginny responded

Pansy understood and ran back to the Slytherin table to where Draco and Severus had now grouped together. She said something to them and moments later every Hufflepuff in the vicinity shivered as evil laughs were heard clearly over the usual ruckus.

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"Okay, so we are all in agreement about the lunch time plans?" Sirius queried, and the others, including Remus all nodded. Lily had added some changes to their plan and now, they were certain it was perfect.

The five students began to gather their gear together and prepared to head to their classes. James casually went over to Lily.

"Hey Evans," She turned to acknowledge him "Those were really wonderful ideas. You're fairly good at this."

"Well one cant be at the receiving end of as many marauder pranks as I have and not pick up a few things." She replied with a smile.

Across the room Sirius rolled his eyes at Peter.

"She smiled," He whispered "Now he'll never shut up about her."

"Yes, well, sorry about all that." James looked a little uncomfortable "Tell, you what, how about you let me buy you a butterbear next Hogsmeade weekend to make up for it?"

Lily started to reply but then paused.

"Do you hear something?"

All five were silent for a moment and they all heard the next muffled thud.

"Yeah," Sirius replied "That shouldn't be possible, this room was built to have a complete two way block. Nothing should be audible from out there."

The next thud was slightly louder and the door shook slightly.

"What on earth…"

Boom.

"Is going on…"

Boom.

"Out there?"

A momentary silence before crash the door splintered open as a large pumpkin flew in and splattered about two meters to the left of James and Lily. From outside they heard a loud voice directing.

"Nice technique and strength Billster but make sure you aim carefully. Now, backup force, step around to my right, and… frontal attack, ready, aim… FIRE!"

With this shout a wave of tomatoes flew in the door. These were no ordinary tomatoes however, they were kamikaze tomatoes, design to seek out their targets and use any means necessary to meet their goal.

"Arrgh gross!" Lily shouted as two hit her in the back of the head. She whacked James hard on the shoulder with her satchel.

"Why are you hitting me?" James yelled wincing as two tomatoes hit him in the back of the knees almost bringing him to the ground.

"Because he's your son and you probably taught him everything he knows!"

"Nah, it's all Harry sweetheart." Came a reply from outside "Now, frontal, get ready, aim, FIRE!"

This time the marauders were ready and had cast shield charms. They began to move forward knowing the best defense is a good offence.

"First wave, retreat but keep shooting, back up forces, prepare!"

The marauders and Lily all began shooting out spells at the now visible Gryffindor first years. Several hit and they began to sprout abnormalities. The Billster for example now sported tentacles from his armpits, though he didn't seem to care. Maybe because he knew they would disappear in twenty minutes. The marauders seemed reluctant to use permanent spells on ickle firsties from their own house. It was then that they saw Harry.

Dressed in bright purple robes, similar to those worn by Dumbledore, he was standing amidst five eleven year old girls who apparently were the backup with a huge grin on his face. In his hand was a large overripe grapefruit. The back up team was holding straws with handfuls of frozen peas.

"Back up team… ATTACK!" Harry screamed and the marauders all ducked as their shield charms gave way to hard frozen peas, all well aimed to hit the areas most likely to bruise.

Harry waved at his father and launched the grapefruit which splattered strait in the other Potter's face.

"First blood to the future dudes." He cried out and the first years cheered but kept up their attack.

Peter and Lily sprinted down the hall and Remus, Sirius and James fought their way into the transfiguration classroom, slamming and locking the door behind them. There was silence for a moment before loud knocking could be heard. They ignored it but after two minutes it simply got louder.

"Piss off you little runts!" Sirius screamed. There was silence before;

"Mister Black, Mister Lupin and Mister Potter, while I appreciate your enthusiasm for my class would you mind letting me in to teach it?"

The three boys looked at each other before turning back to the door.

"Oh fu…"

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Okay, so there's my first prank in the war. Did you all like it? My sister read the Ginny Weasley part and thought it was good. Let me know please. Um, the fifth chapter would have ended with the "We are so dead" comment. Extra cyber cookies for people who know where I'm getting my chapter names (not just what, but who as well). My other story will probably go up before the next chapter of this one (probably), so please have a look at it and tell me what you think. It's a manipulative Dumbledore story, Harry walks out on the war and starts his own side. There is no pairing at this stage except that I can promise it's not HarryGinny. Again, my sister finds it amusing so hopefully she is a good judge.