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Denise: No, I'm sorry, but I have no plans on writing a Hermione and Draco story. Sorry! But I don't really like to read or write any stories that have to deal with any of J.K's major characters. I really only like Lily and James stories, that way I can express how I think their personalities are, because J.K hasn't mentioned them very often. However, I am thinking about writing a Lucius and Narcissa story next summer. In case you may be interested in that, but you'll have to wait until June.
"So, Prongs, how's Lily?" Remus asked as James entered the dorm room that night. James had just been down to visit Lily in the hospital wing, after the incident in potions class.
"I didn't see her," James responded.
"Did that old bat, Lingwood, not let you in?" Sirius asked.
"She let me in," responded James.
"Then why didn't you see her?" Sirius asked.
"Lily wouldn't let me in," James told the group.
"What?" the three remaining Marauders asked.
"Lily said she didn't want to see me," James repeated.
"Why wouldn't she want to see you?" Peter asked.
"I don't know… I just can't understand that," James answered.
"Maybe she has other company, that's why she didn't want to see you. You know, maybe she wanted to see you alone," Remus suggested.
"Who else would she be seeing?" James snapped.
"That's right, I forgot that you're the only person in the world that she knows," Remus said sarcastically.
"But, but, I saw Scarlett, Marissa, Zoë, and Gracie down stairs," James replied.
"And God forbid that Lily can have other friends than just the four of them," Remus answered, with just a tad bit of irony in his voice.
"You know what Moony, you're absolutely right," James said with a smile. "She just wants to wait until she can have me all alone."
"Oh yes, Prongs, and the two of you will have hot, passionate sex, just because she wanted to see you alone," Sirius said with a smirk, knowing only too well that it would put a damper on James' hopes.
"You just have to spoil every thing, don't you," James said grumpily.
"Sure do," Sirius answered with a smile. And then said, "Cheer up, mate, I just thought of the perfect prank."
"Prongs isn't supposed to do pranks anymore, remember Padfoot. Lily would kill him for not taking his Head Boy responsibilities seriously," Peter remarked.
"Yes, but what Lily doesn't know can't hurt anyone," Remus said with a smile.
Peter smiled back, knowing that it would truly be a Marauder night that night.
"James, you in?" Sirius asked.
"What did you have in mind?" James asked with a smile.
…
As the four boys left their dorm room, they each had a determined, yet devious look on their faces. It was certainly the look of not only a prank, but trouble coming on.
"Where are you going?" came a voice from behind them. The four Marauders instantly recognized it as Zoë's, or it could have been Marissa's, the two had a remarkably alike voice.
They turned around, almost in unison, as if being caught snaking out of the house by a parent. They saw Zoë standing behind them, her hands on her hips, and a scowl on her face.
"No where," Sirius responded.
"It doesn't look like no where," she said.
"Well, it very well isn't any of your business," Sirius snapped.
"Is that so?" Zoë asked, "Are you off to go about on another prank, because I can guarantee, James Potter, that was one of the things that rather annoyed Lily. Always finding a way to humiliate another student for your own fun and joy."
'Damn, she knows us too well,' James muttered to himself.
"Actually, if you must know, we were off to visit Lily in the hospital wing," Peter said, thinking of the most realistic lie he could think of.
Zoë looked them over for a second, wondering if that was truly the truth or not. "James, you already went down there, and Lily said she didn't want to talk to you."
"How'd you know that?" James asked.
"She got bored down there and sent Gracie and owl saying so," she answered.
"Yes, well, I wanted to know why, that's why we are going down there," James lied.
"I can tell you that," Zoë answered, this would be the true test to see if the Marauders were really up to a prank or not. She figured that if they were, they wouldn't care what she told them, they'd still leave anyways. And if they truly were going to see Lily then they would march back up the to their dorm room.
"Well, what is it?" James asked, now he was actually interested.
"She doesn't want you to see her, because she thinks she looks hideous. She said that she was embarrassed that anyone should see her with half her mouth being disintegrated and all. And she'll be better tomorrow," Zoë told him.
"Really?" James asked.
"Yes," she answered.
"Well, she shouldn't care, it doesn't matter what she looks like… Besides, I've seen a guy get his thumb knocked off by a bludger before, and when you've seen that, you've seen everything," James commented.
"Eww, are you serious?" Zoë asked.
"Yeah, the stupid idiot was flying with a broken thumb, served him right," James answered.
"When was that?" she asked.
"At my house, a few summers ago," James told her, and then added, "Do you remember that Padfoot?"
"How could I forget, the thing almost hit me," he replied.
Zoë had a look of disgust on her face, and asked, "Who was it?"
"My cousin, the stupid dolt," James remarked. And then said, "Mum was pretty pissed, he got some blood on the new patio."
"You know, I'm not sure that I want to hear anymore of this," Zoë said.
"Understandable, it really grossed me out the first time I heard it," Peter told her.
Zoë gave him a smile and then left the Marauders, not wanting to hear anymore gruesome stories.
"Okay, she's gone, let's go," James said was Zoë was out of their hearing zone.
"No, we can't. We've got to go back up to the dorm, or she'll know we're up to something," Sirius told the group
"I don't know," Remus said with a doubtful look on his face.
"Trust me," Sirius said as the group of boys headed back up their dorm room.
…
"What was that all about?" Marissa asked as her twin sister came back to their spot in front of the fireplace.
"Nothing," Zoë replied. "Absolutely nothing."
"Okay," Marissa replied before flipping back to her fashion magazine.
However, Zoë couldn't get the thought of a serious prank coming into action soon. It would be the perfect time for a prank; none of the Marauders had done one in quite some time. But on the other side, they did go back to their room, not out to roam the halls.
…
"We're not going to fit under this thing, not all of us," Peter told them as each boy tried his hardest to cramp under the invisibility cloak.
"Wormtail's right, it's physically impossible," Remus agreed.
"But we need to do this, I'm in the mood for a prank," James complained.
"Okay, Peter, turn into Wormtail, then we'll be able to fit," Sirius suggested.
In an instant, where Peter had stood was a tiny rat instead. He scampered up Sirius's pant leg and onto his shoulder, as he didn't want to be stepped on.
Then the boys tried it again, tried to fit under the cloak they had come to love. And luckily, if the remaining Marauders in human shape hunched over, they were able to fit under the cloak.
By the time they managed to get down the stairs, they noticed Zoë sitting alone by the fireplace; her closest friends obviously having other stuff to do.
Sirius motioned his friends over to the girl. She was writing an essay for their defense against the dark arts class, and unfortunately ink was spilling all over her outfit. Sirius laughed a bit when he saw that, but quickly shut up when she turned her head in their direction.
When she saw nothing out of the usual, she went back to her essay.
But Sirius couldn't help himself any longer. Here was the girl that drove him insane ever since she made the quidditch team, and she was giving him the perfect opportunity. He whispered, "Wingardium Leviosa," while pointing his wand at the bottle of ink.
In an instant, the bottle was floating above Zoë's head, and she was completely unaware of it. Sirius smiled while the other Marauders watched. They knew what their friend was doing was mean, but it was all in fun nature, right?
With the flick of his wand the bottle fell, and all that could be heard were the screams of the Zoë Sutton.
Ink was sprawled all over her blonde hair, and slowly making its way down her forehead. She threw her paper in front of her, not wanting it to be ruined by the ink. Her hands went to her forehead, trying to wipe away the black ink. But all it did was spread the ink onto her formerly white fingertips.
"What the fuck," she cursed while spinning around furiously. She needed to see you the culprit was, but no one was there. Only a few fifth years playing a game of exploding snap, and they were half way across the room.
"Who did this?" she shouted.
There wasn't an answer, not even a sound from the boys playing exploding snap.
"Damn it," she said furiously as she ran up the stairs to her dorm.
Once she was out of sight, the Marauders made their way out of the portrait hole, and Sirius began to crack up laughing. Peter was laughing as well, at least as well as a rat could laugh.
"Did you see her face?" Sirius asked quietly, not wanting anyone to hear him other than his four closest friends.
"Yeah, Padfoot, it was riot," Remus said, although his face slightly disagreed with his words.
"What do you mean?" Sirius asked, sensing the lack of humor in his voice.
"She looked kind of upset, that's all," Remus replied.
"Oh, well, she deserved it. Do you know how much crap that girl has put me through? She's the reason that I lost about five shags in the past year and half, and all she does is insult me, not to mention annoy me," Sirius explained.
"You're just mad at her because she can beat you in quidditch," Remus remarked.
"No she bloody can't," Sirius loudly said, almost forgetting they were hiding beneath the cloak.
"Okay, fine, you win. She deserved the ink thing, and she can't beat you in quidditch," Remus said, although none of it was true. He only said it to avoid Sirius in a bad mood, as that was no fun at all. None of the Marauders wanted to be anywhere near Sirius when he was in a bad mood.
There was an awkward moment for a second, but then James said, "Why don't we go to Snivellus now?"
"Yeah, come on, the slimy git is probably around here somewhere," Sirius replied.
And with that said, the four Marauders made their way through the halls, just looking for their prime Slytherin to prank.
It wasn't long before they found Severus Snape; it seemed that he was walking back to his dorm room, probably just coming back from the library. He had a stack of books piled high in his arms, and the Marauders guessed they were all about dark arts, which Snape had recently become very keen on.
James took his wand out of his pocket, and whispered to his fellow Marauders, "Okay, time for some fun."
In an instant Peter had transformed back into his human shape, and Remus hid the cloak behind a statue of Liam the Great. All four boys had their wands out, and a devious smile on their faces.
And then James whispered, "Wingardium Leviousa," and the books in Snape's hands began to rise. He looked up at them, and even tried to pull them down, but it was no use. They were sailing high above his head, where not even Hagrid could reach them.
James smiled as he watched the books fall to the floor with a gigantic thud, and one even managed to smack Snape on the shoulder, which he grasped onto for dear life afterward.
"Who's there?" Snape asked, while holding his wand above his head.
"Your worst nightmare," Sirius answered with a grin.
Snape's face went deadly white. He knew that when the Marauders decided to pick and torment him, there was no stopping them.
"What's wrong Snivelly?" James asked in a mocking tone, "Did you drop your books?"
Snape said nothing, just stared at them, fury in his eyes.
"Shall I help you Snivellus?" Peter asked with a laugh as he flicked his wand and the books went flying down the corridor. "Oops," was all that Peter said to that, even though that was his exact intentions.
"Leave me alone," Snape muttered, "Or, I'll, I'll…"
"You'll do what? Wipe your greasy hair on us?" Sirius asked with a snicker.
"I'll hex you," Snape shouted.
"You wouldn't dare," James casually said while he magically pinned Snape against the icy cold corridor walls.
As the Marauders started to close in on him, a thought came into Snape's mind, "Potter, did you ever wonder why your mudblood girlfriend got the potion wrong?"
James' face twisted up and he sent a curse Snape's way, making him fall to the ground in an instant.
Apparently, that was not the best choice of words to use.
"What did you do?" James asked as he pointed his wand to Snape's throat.
"I didn't do anything," Snape instantly replied, not wanting James to do any more harm to him.
"He's just pulling your strings Prongs, ignore him," Sirius advised as he too surrounded Snape.
"If you let me go, I'll tell you who did it," Snape told them.
"Fine," James muttered, "But if you lie to me, I'll assure you that you'll wish you had never set foot in this school."
James then released Snape from the spell, and even backed off a few steps. But the Marauders were still surrounding Snape, making sure that he would try and make a run for it.
"What happened?" James demanded.
"I heard Roscoe Jamison bragging about this in the common room earlier today," Snape started, "He was saying that he had finally done it, finally gotten Evans badly. He said that while she was gaping stupidly at you, Potter, he slipped a few extra dashes of Dragon Fire extract in her cauldron."
"That fucking bastard," James cursed.
"There, now you know, and I'll just be on my way," Snape said quickly.
"Not so fast, Snivelly," Sirius told him.
"What? You said you wouldn't do anything," Snape said sharply.
"Yeah, but you called Lily, a, a, you know what, and nobody does that and gets away with it," Sirius told him.
And a second later the babbling curse had hit him. And not a single person could understand a word he was saying. Snape was running down the hallway saying, "uckin mard e a ler blo nop shek an bolf."
They all burst out laughing as they watched Snape suffer, knowing the curse wouldn't stop until lifted off. And unfortunately for Snape, he didn't have too many friends.
"So, I guess we couldn't do the big prank after all," Sirius said miserably.
"Yeah, guess we'll have to save it for another time," Remus said.
"Or, we could use it tomorrow, just on a different person," James told the group.
Author's Note 2: Okay guys, I hope you liked chapter 29! And you may or may not have noticed it, but I'm working hard on making my chapters longer (about the length of this one.) Anyways, I hope you guys liked this one, and please review!