A/N: Finally, the prank, this chapter will have songs in it, there will be a list of the songs used at the bottom. Song lyrics will be in bold.
Extra Disclaimer I don't own any of the songs.
Chapter 7: Pranking
Remus's POV
"I can't believe we have detention tonight," Sirius whined. "Do you know what this means?"
"That we can't do the prank until Tuesday morning?" I suggested.
"Exactly! We needed tonight to prepare, now we have to wait an extra day before pulling our first prank as The Marauders!" James exclaimed.
"It's only an extra day," Peter said reasonably. "It just gives us more time to plan."
"Plus, we better get used to detention if we pull the prank," I added.
"We won't be caught," James said airily.
"Come on, we better finish our Potions essay, we have Potions second tomorrow," I pulled out my Potions text book.
"I'll do it later," Sirius said.
"Me too. Want to play Exploding Snap?" James asked Sirius.
"Do I get to keep my eyebrows this time?" He laughed, grabbing a pack of cards.
"Can you help me with essay, Remus?" Peter asked.
"Sure," we pulled out some parchment and began working.
The rest of the day was spent catching up on essays (me and Peter) or playing games (Sirius and James).
"Done," Peter said, rolling up his Transfiguration essay.
"Good," I said absently, watching Sirius and James play a very violent game of chess.
"I heard you have detention tonight," Steven said standing in front of me, flanked by Lily Evans and Alice Prewett.
"Honestly Remus, those boys are a bad influence on you," Lily sighed.
"Oi! What's wrong with us?" James demanded, looking up from his chess game. Sirius turned around too.
"You're so big headed Potter, to automatically think I was talking about you," Lily snarled.
"Please, how could you not be?" James grinned cheekily.
"You arrogant toe nail! You think you're so cool, just because you can get away with hexing Severus!" Lily yelled.
"Severus? I don't know a Severus, I know a Snivellus," James said.
"Pig! You're obviously only in Gryffindor out of default!" Lily shrieked.
"What does that mean?" James demanded, smile slipping off his face to be replaced with a frown.
"Well you couldn't be in Ravenclaw because you're not smart enough, you couldn't be in Hufflepuff because you're not in the least noble, and Slytherin was out of the question because you're as cunning as a spoon! There wasn't really anywhere else you could go!" Lily cried.
"I got into Gryffindor through courage!" James yelled, standing up to face her.
"Courage!" Lily laughed. "Jinxing Severus from afar instead of face to face, backed up by your friends, real brave!"
While they argued, Sirius challenged Peter to a game of chess; Steven and Alice sat down at my table and pulled out their Charms books, and I watched as James and Lily got more annoyed. It was far too normal to find them arguing that no one batted an eyelash anymore.
"Mr Black, Pettigrew, Lupin, and Potter, I hope you are ready for your detention," McGonagall said, interrupting Lily and James fighting.
"Yes professor," Peter and I nodded while Sirius dragged James away from Lily and out of the portrait hole.
"Tonight you will be cleaning the trophy room floor, no magic," she said, handing us mops and buckets before leaving us alone in the room.
"Better get to work then," James clapped his hands.
"Yeah, the more we do now, the less we'll have to do Tuesday night after the prank," I said.
"You're such a pessimist Remus, live a little," Sirius grinned.
"Does this count as 'living a little'?" I asked, throwing my bucket of water at the three of them.
"That's more like it," Sirius laughed, shaking water out of his hair.
"Water fight!" Peter yelled.
It was two hours later when McGonagall found us rolling on the floor laughing, looking like we'd fallen in the lake.
"What do you think you're doing?" She thundered.
"Waiting for she, we finished cleaning the floor," Sirius grinned at her.
"The floor is flooded!" She exclaimed.
"But clean," Peter pointed out.
McGonagall looked like she wanted to yell at us, but instead rubbed her eyes and told us in a strained voice to go to bed.
"See you tomorrow Minnie!" James called, leading the way out of the trophy room.
"Minnie? I love it! We have to give the rest of the teachers nick name too," Sirius laughed.
"I can't believe we got away with that," Peter grinned.
"I can't believe you called her Minnie!" I said.
"Thank you, thank you," James bowed.
"Tomorrow night, we begin our first prank, we better get some sleep," Sirius said, walking up to the dorms with us following.
First lesson was History of Magic, falling into the same routine as usual, Peter fell asleep in seconds, and Sirius and James frantically did their Potions essays for the next lesson. I managed to take down notes, resisting the impulse to sleep Binns seemed to put everyone under, though I didn't take as many as usual, instead I ran through all the spells we would need to pull off our prank.
The lesson seemed to pass slower than usual, maybe it was just because I felt a reckless excitement about what we would do that night, or maybe it was lack of sleep because of the detention the previous day.
When the lesson finally ended, we walked to Potions. Potions were taught by Professor Slughorn, a round bellied man who had taken a liking towards Sirius, James, Lily, and Snape. It was obvious though, that he didn't like me, I couldn't decide if it was because I was so hopeless at potions, or because I was a werewolf.
All the teachers knew what I was, it was sort of depressing, the looks they gave me, the pity, and I didn't want any of it. Slughorn was the worst because he didn't pity me…he feared me.
We trudged off to Defence Against the Dark Arts after lunch, it was my favourite class, I beat even Lily, James, and Sirius in that class. The only person I was competing against was Snape, but he didn't count because he didn't know much Defence Against the Dark Arts, he just knew a lot about the Dark Arts.
In class we learnt about the disarming spell, and then cast in on our partners. I was paired with Peter, so once I'd disarmed him he was supposed to do it back, but he didn't manage, he was given homework to learn the spell.
"This is it," James said happily.
The last person had left the common room, leaving just the Marauders behind.
"Time to set up our prank," Sirius grinned, picking up his wand.
"Everyone remember who they have to charm?" James asked.
"Remember, once you've cast the charm, think of the song you're attaching to the spell, don't say it out loud, make sure to set the spell to go off at seven o'clock," Sirius reminded, his eyes flickering towards Peter.
We'd had to practise the spell every night on each other, Peter took the longest to learn it and I think we were all worried he wouldn't be able to do it.
"Ravenclaw musiquest," I cast, thinking about the song we'd picked for Ravenclaw.
"Slytherin musiquest," Sirius cast.
"Gryffindor musiquest," James said.
"Hufflepuff musiquest," Peter said nervously.
"Severus Snape musiquest," Sirius cast with a smirk.
"Lily Evans musiqest," James grinned.
"Albus Dumbledore musiquest," I was a bit nervous about that one, but James had said his dad told him Dumbledore loved jokes.
"Prefects musiquest," Peter smiled.
"Minerva McGonagall musiquest," James laughed.
"Head boy and girl musiquest," Sirius finished.
"Almost done now, just need to do each other," Peter said.
"James musiquest," Sirius winked.
"Remus musiquest," James said, I didn't feel any different.
"Peter musiquest," I said.
"Sirius musiquest," I saw Sirius giving Peter's wand a nervous look, but once the spell was cast and he seemed ok, he looked relieved.
"Done, now at seven o'clock in the morning, people will wake up to the sound of music," Sirius grinned.
"Wait! We forgot someone!" James exclaimed.
"Who?" I asked, mentally going through our list of people.
"Clark," James said.
"He wasn't on our list," Peter sounded confused.
"No, but he needs a song," Sirius said.
"Right, well while you three think of one for him, I'm off to bed," I yawned.
Leaving Sirius and James behind to plot, Peter followed me upstairs to bed. I was asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow, knowing I would be woken up early to the sound of loud music.
Get your motor running, head out on the highway!
Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that had been away!
I took her out, it was a Friday night, I wore cologne to get the feeling right!
Four years, you'd think for sure, that's all you've got to endure!
I saw you walking down the street just the other day!
Groaning at our stupidity of making the spell go off so early, I sat up in bed.
"Well, the spell worked!" Sirius bellowed over the music.
"This is your fault?" Steven exclaimed, putting his hands over his ears.
"This is thanks to The Marauders!" James grinned madly.
After getting ready, we walked into the very noisy common room.
There you go, you're always so right, it's all a big show, it's all about you!
"Hey Evans! What do you think of the music?" James asked Lily as she stormed over to us.
"Did you do this?" She demanded, waving a hand towards the noisy common room.
Buddy you're a boy make a big noise!
"It was The Marauders," Sirius winked at her.
"What's going on?" Karen asked, walking over with Tyler.
I wake up every evening with a big smile on my face!
"Not a clue," Peter lied cheerfully.
"Karen! Tyler! Where's all this music coming from?" A fifth year prefect asked.
You just walk in, I make you smile, it's cool but you don't even know me!
Before we could be blamed, we escaped out of the common room and took a short cut to the Great Hall.
I wake up everyday it's a daydream, everything in my life ain't what it seems!
Brain fried tonight through misuse, through misuse, through misuse!
I almost got drunk at school at fourteen!
Another Friday night to get the feeling right!
"You four! What is the meaning of this?" McGonagall demanded.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, I've got flowers and lots of hours to spend with you!
"You!" A voice snarled from behind me.
Turning around – ignoring McGonagall – I saw Snape glaring at James.
Look inside, look inside your tiny mind, then look a bit harder!
"That's everyone, on the count of three!" James shouted at us, ignoring everyone.
"One," Sirius began.
"Two," I continued, pointing my wand towards the ceiling.
"Three!" We all cried.
Four red lights shot towards the ceiling from our wands, after the flash the words:
This prank is brought to you by The Marauders!
Enjoy the music for it will last until seven o'clock tonight! Have a lovely music filled day, the songs have been picked out just for you!
"The four of you, to Dumbledore's office! Now!" McGonagall glared at us.
Laughing, we followed McGonagall and Dumbledore out of the Great Hall. We stopped at a stone gargoyle, and after giving the password (Sugar quills) we made it to Dumbledore's office and each took a seat by his desk. The six different songs sung loudly in the air, on repeat.
"I have never seen such behaviour! Undo these spells at once!" McGonagall cried.
"We can't, there stuck until seven o'clock," James grinned.
"Twenty points off Gryffindor each and detention every night this week!" McGonagall exclaimed, storming out of the office.
"Ten points to Gryffindor each for using third year charms successfully and the good use of music and humour," Dumbledore smiled, his eyes twinkling at them.
We let out a sigh of relief, James's dad had been right; Dumbledore did like jokes.
"Could have been worse," Sirius said, lying on his bed in the dorm room.
Steven was downstairs trying to study with Lily, Alice, and Frank Longbottom. Trying being the main word since it was only half past six and the spell hadn't been removed yet.
"Yeah, but I'm beginning to regret it, I've had to listen to the same song again and again, I never want to hear these songs ever again!" James moaned.
"It was your idea," I laughed.
"At least classes were cancelled because no one could concentrate," Peter said.
"And in half an hour our first prank will be over," James smiled.
"Yeah, the school now knows us as The Marauders, we've made a name for ourselves," Sirius sighed happily.
As the clock chimed seven and the music faded away, we sat on our beds, counting out the chimes.
"Mischief Managed," I laughed.
"Mischief Managed," they agreed.
A/N: Here are the songs used in the order they appeared and who they were used for:
Born to be wild – Steppenwolf (Sirius)
The boys are back in town – Thin Lizzy (James)
What's my age again – Blink 182 (Remus)
High school never ends – Bowling for soup (Peter)
U.G.L.Y – Daphne & Celeste (Steven)
Shut up – Simple plan (Lily)
We will rock you – Queen (Gryffindors)
Gives you hell – American Rejects (Head boy and girl)
Stop – Spice Girls (Prefects)
Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal (Dumbledore)
Monster – The Automatic (Slytherins)
Almost – Bowling for soup (Hufflepuff)
The geeks get the girls – American Hi-Fi (Ravenclaw)
What's new pussy cat – Tom Jones (McGonagall)
Fuck you very much – Lily Allen (Snape)
If you want to know why I used any of these songs listen to them, and if you still don't know, ask me in a review.
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