Aha, I know I didn't post last week - gommenasai! I've (not so) recently started watching Hetalia, and as always, a new obession = a whole new collection of fanfics. If you watch Hetalia - you have excellent taste, and if not you should go and watch it RIGHT NOW! Anywayyyy, between the reading and a couple of one-shots that I wrote (the plot bunnies, y'know...) I neglected to update this fic - again, super sorry!

What a tangent...back to the real reason I'm writing this lil' AN/intro-

Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter or Fairy Tail...

(and Merry Christmas! •^_^•)

Dinner on the first night of the Easter holidays was a rather awkward affair. Everyone who had been at the Manor at Christmas had returned, this time with the addition of Draco, Blaise and Meredy - and Narcissa and Bellatrix, who were already staying there, of course. What made it really awkward was the presence of Sirius and Severus.

The two men sat watching each other for the first half of the meal, making the whole atmosphere rather tense. That was, until Severus tried to lift a spoonful of chocolate mousse to his mouth, and missed because he was too busy focussing on his childhood enemy. It wasn't so much the chocolate smeared on his face - though that was quite funny - but rather the look of shock on the man's face that set Sirius off laughing.

Severus tried to look indignant, but lost the internal struggle and soon he was laughing as well. This went on for several minutes, and by the time both men had recovered, tears were streaming down their faces. Narcissa was hiding a smile behind her hand, and Bellatrix was grinning outright. The meal returned to normal - this time without the awkward atmosphere, and Sirius and Severus exchanged a brief smile before tucking into their meals again.

Later on, when the children had disappeared into their rooms, the Grangers, Blacks and Severus sat in the drawing room, Sirius catching up with his cousins and Severus having a conversation with the Grangers about their magical zoo.

"Wait, so Bella still has the mentality of a fifteen year old?" Sirius asked, smirking evilly. "Does this mean that she's still scared of clowns, then? I thought she'd gotten over that fear years ago, but it must've been the curse! Oh, this is brilliant, I still have that weird box thing that makes one spring out when you step on it!" He started cackling, and Bella went as white as a sheet.

"Sirius, I swear to god...if you dare use that blasted thing on me ever again, I will personally bring your mother back from the dead and tell her about that time you stole her favourite perfume and blamed it on Regulus!" Now it was Sirius' turn to pale, and Severus snorted in the background.

"No need to bring her back - there's a portrait of the old bat hanging in Grimmauld Place!" He said gleefully, enjoying the sight of Sirius passing out.

"Nooooo!" He yelled as Narcissa shocked him awake with a jet of icy water. "Anything but her! Anyone but her!" He turned to Severus, who was still smirking. "I feel so betrayed. How could you!" He clutched at his heart dramatically, and the potions master rolled his eyes.

"It's called being a Slytherin, Black. Maybe you should try it sometime," he sneered, without any real malice behind the words.

Sirius sat up, turning his head toward his old nemesis. "Heheheh!" He giggled, and Severus blanched.

"Whatever you are planning, stop right now. We are guests of Dan and Jean, and it would be extremely bad manners to use their house as the battleground for a prank war!" He said, backing away from the crazed Gryffindor.

"Heheheheh! You don't know!" He giggled, rolling around on the floor now. "That old goat didn't tell you!"

"What, you blasted idiot?!" Severus yelled, and Sirius rolled over so he was facing the other man.

"You're looking at the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher!" He announced, grinning madly at the horrified look on the potions master's face.

"You...oh god, no! How are you even qualified?" He said, not enjoying this new turn of events.

"You forget, I spent several years as an auror before being thrown into Azkaban! Also, according to old Dumbles, the teachers have set places, and the DADA professor always sits with the potions professor - so we get to sit next to each other at mealtimes, Sevvy!" Sirius seemed delighted that he was causing his new colleague this much discomfort.

"I think I preferred Snivellus to 'Sevvy'..." He muttered darkly. "I'll hand it to you, Black, you certainly know how to pull off a Slytherin manoeuvre if needed. I misjudged you." He offered the other man a hand to help him to his feet. "A truce, for now. The war starts when we return to Hogwarts, and is limited to only nonlethal pranks, and anything that would harm students is out as well."

Sirius shook his hand, grinning darkly as he began to run through all of the pranks he use on to his opponent.

Severus was also thinking similar thoughts, but he was also considering involving the Weasley twins on his behalf. Yes, he thought, mentally applauding himself. That's the best way to do this.

"Hey, Hermione?" Harry asked his friend at breakfast a few days later. "Why is Professor Snape here?"

Hermione, who had been falling asleep, jolted upwards, her eyes going wide. "I, uh...well, you see..."

Yukino sighed. "Just tell him. It hurts just watching you try and wriggle your way out of this one."

Hermione stuck her tongue out her friend. "Okay. Well, Harry, the truth is that Professor Snape is my great grandson from several years in the future, who was thrown back in time by-"

She was cut off by Sirius snorting, milk spewing from his nose as he tried, and failed, to contain his laughter.

"Yeah, no one's buying that, 'Mione." Harry deadpanned, but Hermione could see the corners of his mouth twitching as if he was trying to hide a smile.

She sighed, seeing no other option. "Kinda knew you wouldn't believe that one. Professor Snape has been sorta tutoring me in potions for a few months now. He's teaching me other stuff as well - like the Patronus charm. Mine isn't as good as yours yet, but it's getting there." Hermione braced herself for his outburst.

"Oh, cool." She wasn't expecting him to say that, and then return to his breakfast.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Manor, Severus was having a conversation with the Weasley twins.

"Wait, so to sum it up, you'll let us into your NEWT class no matter what our OWLs are, we can use your lab for our joke products whenever we want, and you'll take us on as apprentices if we want to pursue a Mastery in potions at any point? And all you want is for us to help you prank Sirius?" Fred asked, taken aback by the professor's offer.

Severus nodded. "I will do whatever is necessary to win this war."

The twins shared a smile at his serious tone. "Deal - except for the first part. If we make it into NEWT level potions, we want it to be on our own merit."

The potions professor was surprised, but agreed anyway. Whatever it took...

"Okay, here's the first plan..." For the next few hours, nobody saw him or the twins, and Hermione was on her guard for the rest of the day, expecting to be pranked at any moment.

After the first week of the holiday, Viktor and Petya arrived, along with Mila and Alyksander.

"My-nee!" They yelled, throwing themselves into their 'big sister's arms. She just laughed and spun them round, before putting them down to greet their older brothers.

"Welcome to Granger Manor, boys!" She said, linking arms with them and dragging them to the boys dorms.

"We shifted the rooms round a bit, so you two are in with Gajeel and Panther-Lily. Alyksander will either be in here with you, or he can stay with his sister in our room if he wants," she explained on the way, narrowly missing Gajeel's face as she threw open the door.

"Damnit, Frizzy! It's polite to knock, y'know!" He yelled, shoving his hands in his pockets.

Hermione rolled her eyes. "My house, my rules. Don't pout, Gajeel, it doesn't suit you."

The iron dragon-slayer tried to glare at her, but the effect was lost as she had already turned to leave.

"Ally will bring your bags up, so just come downstairs whenever - you can call her to show you the way to the drawing room," she said as she left.

That night, Hermione, the older Krum brothers, all the adults and most of their guests stood round a huge map of the manor grounds.

"So do you all understand?" Hermione said. "Natsu and Happy, you take this section, Harry and Gray go with Elfman and do the West garden, Lucy and Levy are with me doing the East garden. You adults can split into two groups and do the North and South gardens. The rest of you divide into groups of two or three and do the rest of the rooms marked on the map."

She handed them all baskets of chocolate eggs, and they set to work hiding them.

"Why'd you put some people in groups but let the others choose?" Lucy asked as the walked through the garden.

Hermione laughed. "Well, I gave Natsu and Happy the room with no breakable things, and the adults are doing the garden because I don't trust Severus and Sirius together either! I had to assign Gray to a team and location, because otherwise the bloody pinky would complain, and I just wanted you two with me."

"Fair point!" Levy said, grinning. "Natsu is a bit of a moron."

"Hey, that's my boyfriend you're talking about!" Lucy laughed.

Hermione's eyebrows shot up into her hairline. "Is he now?"

Lucy seemed to realise her slip-up, and backed away from the other two girls.

"I, ah...oh look, I've run out of chocolate eggs! Well, I must be getting to bed then, goodnight!" She yelled, and ran off back to the girls' room.

Hermione sighed. "Never mind, we can grill Natsu about it tomorrow," she said, and Levy nodded in agreement.

"Let's get these eggs hidden, and then we can go back, it's starting to get cold," the blunette said, shivering in her pyjamas.

Hermione was woken the next morning by a pair of excited twins. "My-nee! My-nee! Wake up, the Easter Bunny came!" They yelled, grinning madly.

Hermione smiled at them. "Did he now? Well then, we'd better go find those eggs!" She said, picking up her basket before waking the other girls. They all went outside, and joined the boys and adults, who had apparently been woken up by Alyksander and Mila's squealing.

Erza summoned one of her guns. "Ready? On your marks...get set...GO!" She fired it into the air, and the magic pistol made a pretty firework as everyone rushed off"

"Bet I can find more eggs than you, Sevvy!" Sirius taunted, making Severus roll his eyes.

"As if. I'm definitely going to beat you, Siri!" He had given the Gryffindor a nickname in an attempt to annoy him, but Sirius was more pleased with it.

"With the way you two boys are bickering, neither of you are going to win!" Bella taunted, rushing past with Narcissa.

Sirius and Severus stared at the pile of eggs the twins had amassed. "No way..." Sirius whispered. "Did they really get this many?!"

Hermione walked over. "Yeah, I was more than prepared to switch some of my eggs into their baskets - in fact, I kept a few spare just for that, but then they came back with this..."

"We have been well and truly beaten, Sevvy," he declared, shifting into his dog form before padding over to the twins and whining softly.

"...is he trying to beg for chocolate?" Hermione asked Severus, who nodded grinning.

"Wait for it," he told her, watching the scene with anticipation.

"Bad doggy! If you have chocolate, you get sick, and doggy can't get sick! So no chocolate for doggy!" Mila said, offering Sirius a bone instead.

Severus laughed so hard that he started to cry, and Sirius turned an accusatory glare to him. He ran at them, taking the potions professor down and sitting on him until he apologised.

"Okay...okay, Siri! I'm sorry! Please, I cant breathe!" He laughed, and the dog rolled off him, turning back into a human as he did so.

"That was mean!" Sirius said crossly, actually pouting.

Severus didn't have a chance to respond, because Bella suddenly ran over to him, cackling gleefully. "I got more eggs than you, cousin! You got twenty five, and I got twenty six!" She said with obvious delight before skipping away.

Sirius looked at his basket in horror. "Nooooo!" He moaned, putting his face in his hands.

"I beat Sirius Black, I beat Sirius Black!" Bella was singing in the background. Sirius turned into Padfoot, and chased after her, hoping to steal one of her eggs. "You gonna get me?" She giggled.

Soon Enyo joined the chase, as did the twins. "Bad doggy! No chocolate for doggy!" They were yelling as Sirius got closer to Bella's basket.

Severus watched the chaos with tears of laughter in his eyes, and Hermione just face-palmed. "And we haven't even had breakfast yet!" She muttered.

A/N - Bonus Easter chapter (even though it's Christmas Eve...)- did anyone get to reference to the DoM scene from OotP? The prank war will go down in Hogwarts history...or rather, Hogwarts: A History. Yes, Sirius is a very bad doggy for trying to eat the chocolate...my thoughts are going everywhere rn. Also, Sirius' nickname from 'Sevvy' - Siri, as in the annoying automated voice you may have heard of that almost always starts up when I sit on my phone *sigh*.

Mila and Alyksander would be very happy if you reviewed this fic •^_^•