AN: This is my first story on fan fiction :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. All credit goes to J.K. Rowling.
The Marauders' were spending the Christmas holidays at the Potters, they had only arrived from the Hogwarts Express the day before and they were all tired from the train ride. It was the first time they had all stayed together for Christmas away from Hogwarts. Currently, three of the four boys were asleep - however Sirius Black had a mischievous grin on his face as he moved silently over to where his best friend, James Potter, was sleeping soundly.
Sirius quickly cast a silencing charm on James before shaking him awake. Wordlessly, Sirius handed James his glasses and gestured to their still – sleeping friends. A grin similar to Sirius's quickly spread over his face as he realized what he was doing. Sirius removed the charm on James, and together they moved to their friends, the werewolf Remus Lupin's bed.
"On three" mouthed Sirius, and James nodded. "One… two… three" They jumped on either side of Remus's bed, while yelling WAKE UP MOONY!" as loud as they could. The boy jumped about a foot in the air and glared at his two best friends, who were both grinning like idiots. "Very funny" Remus told them sarcastically. They looked at each other and Remus groaned - he knew that look.
They moved over to where their fourth friend, Peter Pettigrew, was sleeping. He had somehow stayed asleep through the noise that James and Sirius had made. As Remus buried his head in the pillow to try and protect his ears, they yelled "WAKE UP WORMTAIL!", while jumping on his bed as they had been when they woke up Remus.
"What time is it James?" asked Peter groggily.
"Umm… Sirius" James turned to his friend to answer.
He laughed. "I believe it is currently 5 o'clock in the morning Prongsie" said Sirius grinning.
"Why on Earth did you wake us up at 5 in the morning Padfoot?" groaned Remus as he flopped back down onto his mattress.
"A prank of course!" said Sirius, who was practically bouncing on the spot by this point. James's eyes lit up immediately, and Remus groaned again. His two best friends were among the most well known pranksters Hogwarts had ever seen.
"What should we do…" pondered James as he went back to sit on his bed with Sirius following him. Remus and Peter both got up as well, and soon the four of them were sitting on James's bed, discussing possible pranks.
"It will be at Hogwarts of course… the Teachers, Slytherin or the School?"
"It will be the teachers, defiantly. It's been ages since we pranked them. Speaking of them, did you see their faces when then realised we were leaving for the Christmas holidays?"
"Ages being a week Padfoot, and yes, their faces were rather funny."
"That was the whole school, not the teachers Moony. Now we need ideas…"
The planning continued for awhile, but with no good plan being made. Their meeting was broken up by Mrs Potter yelling "Breakfast!" form the kitchen.
"Food!" said Sirius at once before he jumped off the bed and bounded down the stairs, closely followed by James. Remus and Peter looked at each other and rolled their eyes before following their friends down the stairs to the kitchen.
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After a large breakfast of pancakes, Mrs Potter asked the boys if they had done their Christmas shopping yet. All of them shook their heads.
"Well why don't you do that today?" She asked before waving her wand at the dishes casing them to fly into the sink and begin washing themselves.
They agreed, and so an hour later they were all lined up at the fireplace ready to leave. "Be back here at 6." Mrs Potter told them. "Sure Mum." replied James as he took a handful of Floo Powder and stepped in to the fireplace, yelling "Diagon Alley!" The other boys copied him, and soon they were all standing in the bright sunlight of Diagon Alley.
James ran his hand through his already messy black hair as he turned to his friends and asked what they wanted to do. Sirius replied "since were shopping for each other, shouldn't we split up for a bit?" They all agreed. "Meet up outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor in an hour?" suggested and Remus and they all nodded before heading off in different directions.
Hehe, my spell check doesn't like names much. Please review and tell me what you think, or if I made any mistakes. I tried not too :S Also if this is the right rating, I'm not sure about that.