Chapter 3
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Harry woke up in the middle of the night. He had been having a nightmare, but he couldn't remember much. He heard voices that felt strangely familiar and after that a flash of green light. He awoke feeling his forehead, but there was nothing there. He remembered what the hat had said and how it made him remember his second set of memories. He tried to think of them but couldn't. It was as if those memories had left his mind. These thoughts filled Harry's head until in the bed next to him James stirred.
"Harry your already awake?" questioned James
"Just woke up. Is anyone else awake?" replied Harry in order to sound like he had actually just woke up
"I just had a great idea. Wake up Remus!" said James excitedly
Groggily Harry walked over to Remus' bed and shook him up until he awoke
"Wah?" said a half asleep Remus
"Shhh…. Don't wake the others. James wants to talk to us"
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10 minutes later they were all assembled in the Gryffindor common room. Apparently no one else had woken up yet so the common room was empty.
"James, what do you want? It's 5 in the morning" mumbled Remus
"It's about Black. He doesn't belong here. I have an idea that'll make sure he won't cause us any trouble"
"Is it gonna hurt him?" asked the ever so thoughtful Harry
"Like it matters" replied James
"Okay this is how it's gonna work…"
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Sirius awoke feeling horrible. While he was sleeping he was hoping that this was all a dream and he had not been sorted into Gryffindor. Unfortunately for him he was there in the Gryffindor dorm. He got out of the bed intending to take a shower. As he opened the door a bucket of water fell onto his head.
"So I'm not welcome here" he thought to himself "how original" he added to himself sarcastically.
He walked into the shower stall and as soon as he turned the knob out came… glue? He yelled frustrated and stormed out of the stall. He left the room with only a towel on. Soon as he entered his own dorm another bucket fell on him. Except it wasn't water this time it was feathers. He was about to go to a different shower stall when someone (he couldn't figure out who) pushed him down the stairs.
By this time the majority of the Gryffindor house was awake and in the common room. Of course none of them could hold in their laughter when a first year covered in feathers came rolling down the stairs.
"Here Black" said James while sticking on a cone onto his nose. "Ummm…. have you noticed you look like a chicken?" asked James politely
"I guess when you're born from a family full of cowardly chickens it starts to rub off on you. Eh?"
Without a work Sirius punched James in the face and stormed back to his dorm. A stunned James sat there while the Gryffindor house laughed at both first years.
At that point a certain redhead came up to James and slapped him. The whole house burst into laughter again.
"That was really mean! Go apologize to him this instant!" yelled Lily Evans
"Only if you go out with me Evans" Harry groaned. It was their first day at Hogwarts and James had already made a fool of himself AND asked out a girl. Could James be any more of an idiot?
Lily stared at James with an open mouth and then immediately slapped him and stormed up the Girl's dorm
"Can I take that as a yes?" yelled James after her
A resounding "NO!" came the reply.
"C'mon James" said Harry while picking James up "Let's get some breakfast"
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At the Great Hall Peter came and joined them. "Did you guys pull that prank? That was SO awesome. Can I help with the next one? Please? I promise I'll do everything you say! Please just let me help you guys with your next prank"
James suddenly perked up "you'll do ANYTHING?" He suddenly seemed unaffected by the incident in the common room.
Peter looked up excitedly 'YES! Anything I'll do anything as long as you let me help"
Remus and Harry groaned while James had a triumphant smile. "Sounds great. I'll notify you when we have our next prank
It had been two weeks since Peter had joined their ranks. Remus and Harry still had no idea what was up, but they knew it wasn't any good. That night at dinner both of them found out.
A giant cloud of smoke appeared in the middle of the Great Hall. It took a while, but soon all the smoke had cleared.
Remus and Harry heard Peter ask James "Why am I doing this again?"
"You're the distraction. You promised to do this remember? Of course, unless you don't want to help us…"
"No, no it's fine. I'll do it"
Now everyone could clearly see what was happening. Peter was in the middle of the wearing a frilly pink blouse, a VERY short tutu, high heels, his hair had been extended and died hot pink, and to top it off he was wearing lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, blush, and some other feminine things Harry could not name.
After a moment the whole student body burst into laughter. As Harry glanced over to look at the teacher's table he could see that most teachers were not attempting to hold in their laughter. Dumbledore was silently chuckling to himself and McGonagall had a very… abashed look on her face, to see that this had happened to one of her own students.
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Harry felt a pang of sympathy for Peter, but a second later it was replace by pure anger for James. Another cloud of smoke had covered the Great Hall. After it cleared he noticed that ALL his clothes had turned green and silver. Even his hair and skin were green and silver. It was common knowledge that all Gryffindors hated those colors due to their rivalry with the Slytherins. He looked over at the Slytherin table to see that all of them had turned red and gold. Of course, they despised those colors for the same reason Gryffindors hated green and silver.
The Hufflepuffs had been turned into badgers and the Ravenclaws had been turned into ravens. The irritating fact was that they could not communicate. All they could do was squawk and squeal.
When Harry turned to the teacher's table he burst into laughter. All the professor's hair had been turned purple. It was HILARIOUS to see Dumbledore with his long purple beard.
That's when Dumbledore stood up and announced "It seems someone wanted to have a little fun. While this may be comical I do plead to whoever did this that I do not find this acceptable. As for now you will be left with a warning. Though I must say this purple beard actually looks quite…"
No one had heard what he said because the whole hall erupted into laughter. Dumbledore raised his wand, waved it once, and everyone turned back to normal.
"Now that dinner is over please proceed to your respective dormitories"
With that the whole Great Hall cleared out.
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When they returned to the common room James fell onto the floor and held his stomach while trying to stifle his laughter (which he miserably failed at).
"You should have seen the look on your faces! Priceless! Did you see the Slytherins? Luckily the don't know it was me or I'd be a dead man"
It was at that exact moment Lily Evans came over
"So? It was you, was it?" James nodded "Well… I must say it was a LITTLE funny. Not much though. DO something like that and you'll pay. I thoroughly did NOT enjoy having green hair." and with that Lily strode off.
Remus nudged James "So did you actually listen to what she said or were you too busy staring at her?" James punched him playfully on the arm.
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The rest of the week went off quite normally except one Potion's class.
"Why Mr. Snape that is an excellent potion you have brewed there. 20 points to Slytherin" Slughorn then looked over at James "Mr. Potter please do not doze off during my class. 10 points from Gryffindor" James scowled and threw a dirty look and Severus.
"Now everyone please bring me a vial of the potion you have brewed. After everyone has handed theirs in I will go around and scrougify the rest of your potions"
While Severus was walking towards the front of the classroom he "accidentally" dropped his vial on James' head. All of a sudden James' hair started growing out of control. Soon it covered his whole body. Slughorn hurried over, waved his wand and James' hair slowly grew back to normal.
"Please Severus, do be more careful" and with that he left, without even punishing Severus.
James ruffled his hair and looked at Snape who was sniggering. "So you think that's funny do you?" James snarled.
James lifted his wand, but not quite fast enough for Snape had already drew his.
Snape raised his wand and "Petrifi…"
Why James even drew his wand, Harry did not know for James didn't know any spells yet, but a look of fear drew over the young boy's faces. Slughorn had walked in.
"That will be enough! Such childish behavior will not be sanctioned in my classroom! Both of you come here for detention after dinner tonight." yelled Slughorn
Snape sneered "see you tonight Potter" he said the last word like it was filth
"I'll get you for this Snivellus, I swear upon it!" yelled James after him
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"James don't you have detention with Slughorn?" asked Harry
"Right… and you expected me to go?" said James
"I was afraid of that" sighed Harry "You realize your just gonna get in more trouble?"
"And what are the professors gonna do about it? Give me another detention so I can skip it again?"
"Fine, but don't expect Lily to be proud of you for this" and Harry left
James sighed and packed his stuff so he could get ready to serve detention with Slughorn. This was gonna be a long night.
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"I can't believe I'm being forced to work with this worm" as he reached to clean another trophy
"Look who's talking Potter", sneered Snape "you're the one that attacked me in the first place"
"If you hadn't spilt that damn potion on me in the first place we wouldn't have gotten into this mess"
"That's it!" He dropped the trophy he was holding and socked James in the face.
James reeled back and held his bleeding nose. James then punched Snape in the stomach and kicked him between the legs as Snape reeled over in pain.
Snape then proceeded to tackle James and they both fell to the floor trading blows with each other.
It was at that precise moment Slughorn came into check on them.
"Oh my! What have you boys done to each other? Hurry up I'm taking you to the Hospital Wing" and he lead both buys to the wing.
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"Hey Harry? Did James come back from detention last night?" asked Remus
"I don't know I fell asleep waiting for him. Maybe he's in the common room."
They quickly got dressed and went downstairs