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This is for Caroline.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Finally she comes online so I can upload it!

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James confessed that he snuck into Slughorn's private stores on last night's patrol duty and used the Polyjuice potion from in there. He sent a boy in to call Malana out, pretending she had to see McGonagall. He ambushed her on the way there, gave her a sleeping potion, dragged her into a broom cupboard and plucked a few hairs out to add to the potion.

'Right,' said Lily, 'You can go help the third years with their charms homework. They seem to have difficulty.'

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'Alright then Lily,' James muttered, and he got up and walked over to a table where some first years were sitting, trying to do their charms homework.

The laughter had now subsided and Sirius was still cursing James under his breath. He sat down at a lonely table and pulled out his transfiguration homework McGonagall had set him for playing around in class.

'I'll be watching you Potter to make sure you are actually helping.'

'So, third years, what seems to be the problem?' James asked.

'Well,' said a boy sitting opposite James, 'We're trying to fill this cup with water, but it doesn't seem to work.'

'Is the spell something like acquamenti?' Asked a girl with long blonde hair.

'Not exactly, but close. It aguamenti.'

'Ohh…so we've been saying it wrong…pfft! Can you show us how it's done?'

James glanced at Lily.

She was still watching James.

She gave him a you-have-to-show-them look.

James sighed, 'Fine. See my wand, I just swish and point, not swish and flick.'

'Swish and point,' muttered the black haired girl.

'Show us please.'

'Ok.' James swished and pointed his wand and muttered, 'aguamenti.'

'OWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! SH-'

Instead of the cup filling with water James's eyebrows caught fire and he leapt out of his seat howling like a monkey.

'OH SHUT UP POTTER! QUIT SWEARING! THERE'S FIRST YEARS HERE, AND IF YOU ARE ANY SMARTER YOU WOULD PUT THAT FIRE OUT!' Lily, who was trying not to laugh, yelled over the second howls of laughter and James's swearing.

James pointed his wand at the fire and immediately the fire was put out by a jet of water.

James swore under his breath while rubbing his eyebrows and shuffled back to punch his laughing friends.

Lily brushed passed him to the table where the third years were.

'Here, let me help you. The Potter Prankstar is having trouble with his wand. What help do you need?' Lily asked.

The boy with that was sitting opposite James was laughing very hard, his face beetroot red. He tried to answer Lily, but found it very hard.

'We...water…cup…'

He couldn't go on.

The floor underneath him was wet.

His chair was wet.

His robes were wet.

Sirius howled even louder. 'OH MY GOD! HE PI-''

'YOU MIND YOUR LANGUAGE TOO BLACK!' Lily turned and faced the maroon face and spoke in a gentle voice, 'I think you should go into the bathroom and clean yourself up.'

The boy rose up, still shaking with laughter and embarrassment, and leaving a wet trail behind him.

Lily cleaned up the trail with a flick of her wand.

The boy came out about fifteen minutes later, grinning embarrassingly.

'Well,' said Lily as nothing had happened, 'here, give me the cup.'

The blonde-haired girl handed Lily the cup.

Lily swished and pointed, 'aguamenti.'

Her eyebrows also burst into fire.

The crowd behind her howled once again with laughter. This time there were tears running freely and swiftly down most of the faces.

Lily put it out by using aguamenti again.

'Alright, what did you do with the cup?' laughed Lily.

The blonde-haired girl looked up sweetly and said in an innocent voice, 'Nothing, we just charmed it so that whoever tried to fill it up with water would have their eyebrows on fire.

'Oh very smart!'

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Meh, boring as it may be, but there was nothing going through my mind that I could put on pap - err…online. Credit goes to… (drum roll please…) Alice! Congratulation, you have just won…err… credit to HPOS Sufferer's 8th Chapter. Everyone, give her a big round of applause!

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