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Year 1971, 1st Year
Peter's Prattle:
Quote of the Day: Most things are best attempted under an Invisibility Cloak…
Now that we could use James' Invisibility Cloak all kinds of possibilities were open to us, and if we were careful we would never be caught. That was the beauty of it, we could get away with things right under the teachers' noses and we'd never be caught if we were cautious. At night sometimes James and Sirius would go about Hogwarts under the cloak, I didn't know where they went, and sometimes Remus and I would accompany them on their little adventures. It was one of these times when we all went out under the Invisibility Cloak that we prepared one of our first major pranks. We had planned it ahead of time so we knew what to do.
"I'm not sure we should do this guys…" Remus said as we took off the cloak once we had stopped outside the Hogwarts kitchens, which we had found quite by chance when we were exploring the castle a couple of days earlier.
"Oh come on Remus, don't go all soft now," Sirius replied pulling his wand out of his robe pocket.
"I'm not it's just…"
"Just what?" James asked impatiently.
"Well, I don't know… we shouldn't be doing this," Remus answered slowly.
"Remus, don't be so prissy, it'll be hilarious tomorrow morning when everyone goes to eat breakfast," Sirius said.
"Oh all right then," Remus said finally agreeing.
"Good, now let's go in," I said, wanting to get inside.
Sirius tickled the pear and suddenly the painting opened to reveal the kitchens of Hogwarts. There were four main tables in the kitchens, they were set out like the Great Hall above and food was put on them to be sent straight to the house tables in the Great Hall. Clean plates and cutlery were all set up on the tables ready to be filled with food. The kitchen was empty save for a few house elves here and their cleaning up, all the rest of them were cleaning about the castle.
A house elf with a nose that looked like a small carrot and large eyes that were as big as tennis balls shuffled over to us as we walked in.
"Would the masters like something to eat?" The house elf asked.
"Yes please," I said eagerly.
Sirius glanced at me. "Peter, this is not the time for eating, we're on an important mission," Sirius said as the house elf went to get some food.
I blushed.
The house elf had returned "Would the master like us to wraps it up for later?" the house elf asked, holding a cluster of food in its hands.
I nodded eagerly and the house elf shuffled off again.
"Right, now that Peter has his food, could we start?" James asked impatiently.
"Yep, what's that spell again Remus?" Sirius asked.
Remus showed us the said spell for our planned prank.
"Right, I'll do the Gryffindor table," James said indicating to the equivalent of the Gryffindor table, "Remus, you can do the Ravenclaw one, Peter you do the Hufflepuff one and Sirius can do the Slytherin one," James went over to the Gryffindor table.
Sirius smirked and went over to the Slytherin table, Remus walked over to the Ravenclaw table and I made my way over to the Hufflepuff table.
Our plan was to make everything levitate above the tables, (cutlery, plates, goblets etc) so that whenever someone would try to grab their plate or fork the plate would fly away and just keep levitating, but it would be only for a day or so, (the spell we knew would only last a day, if that) just to annoy the hell out of everyone, although there was one major flaw; our plates would also be levitating. Remus pointed this out to Sirius and James but they said it was well worth it so they didn't care. They also reminded him that if our plates were the only ones to stay on the table the next morning it would be very difficult to appear innocent, even with our 'angel faces' as Sirius liked to put it.
I started to charm the plates and cutlery on the Hufflepuff table to levitate in the air. To start off with I had a bit of trouble with making the things levitate, after all, this charm was harder than the Wingardium Leviosa spell because it required the object to stay up in the air without the spell caster's wand aimed at it for a longer amount of time.
James had come up with the idea for this prank, he had the idea of levitating things and Sirius had the idea of doing it at the Great Hall at breakfast time and it sort of developed from there.
So then we asked Professor Flitwick about what spell would make objects stay in the air for longer than the Wingardium Leviosa spell and he showed and taught us this handy little spell, I think that he was so happy that we wanted to learn an extra spell that he didn't care what we used it for, but I do believe that he must have had a pretty good idea about what we would use it for. But it's all in good fun anyway, and I don't think Flitwick minds so much about it as long as we can do the spells.
As you probably know, for a simple prank to be pulled off successfully requires careful preparation and planning, and this one was no different. It took us the better part of a week to master the spell required for the prank, of course James mastered it quickly because he had already mastered the Wingardium Leviosa spell, Sirius and Remus mastered it pretty soon after as well, only with a couple of mishaps, and I, as usual, was the last one to master the spell, well it was a pretty hard spell.
Flitwick had said that we wouldn't be learning it until a lot later in the year, but with the help of James, Remus and Sirius, I mastered it eventually. It's hard because it involves a swift and precise wand movement, not just the swish and flick of the standard spell.
Thinking about this I moved my way along the Hufflepuff table, carefully charming each object, and soon, I, along with Remus, Sirius and James, had finished charming our set tables. We all stood back to check if everything was right.
"Sirius, what did you write 'Slytherin Sucks' on your table for?" James asked.
"Because they do," he replied simply.
"Yeah, well, they'll know it was one of us that did it now, you git," James said.
"Who cares? We have to show the Slytherins exactly what we think of them, we have to put them in their place," Sirius said.
Remus muttered something like, "He'll never learn," but before Sirius had the chance to reply the house elf that had given me food earlier had returned and was looking over at the tables we had charmed."Er, sirs, Pippy couldn't help but notice what sirs have done to the tables," The house elf obviously named Pippy said.
"Very observant," Sirius said sarcastically, the house elf, however, beamed in delight.
"Thank you sir! You are too kind! But, er, Pippy is wondering exactly why sirs are doing this to the house tables," Pippy said nervously.
"It was direct orders from Dumbledore," Sirius said looking at the house elf.
"Oh! But, why would Dumbledore order such things?" Pippy asked.
"Oh, you know Dumbledore," James said, bending down to Pippy's height, "He always wants to have a bit of fun when the houses get together," he said.
"Oh! Oh, Pippy understands sir!" Pippy said proudly.
"Yes, that's right," Sirius said.
Without another word the house elf scurried off and resumed cleaning.
"Strange," Sirius commented as we watched the house elf retreat.
"And gullible," I added.
"Hey, we forgot the staff table!" James pointed out as he stood up again. He was right, we had forgotten to do the staff table.
"Do you really think we should charm the staff table? I mean, we don't have to," Remus said, somewhat uncertainly.
"Yes, come on Remus, every table has to be charmed to make it look less er- obvious," James grinned.
Remus rolled his eyes (a trait that he still has today) and said, "fine then, but I don't think McGonagall's going to like this one bit."
"Who cares?" Sirius said as he made his way over to the staff table and started to charm the objects there. Remus, James and I followed closely behind him.
Once we had all finished on the staff table we stood back to admire our handiwork. Goblets, plates, knives, forks, spoons, serving bowls, platters and every other random culinary ware were now levitating about three feet above every equivalent table that people ate at in the Great Hall.
"Oh this is going to be good… yep… this will be very good," James said with a grin, as he looked around at our handiwork.
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Stupid question of the week award goes to Snivellus; for the question: "What is this bloody owl doing?" when an owl was pecking the heck out of him for 'unknown reasons'…
The next morning when we walked into the Great Hall for breakfast we found, to our immense amusement, that everything was in a complete and utter chaos.
"Looks like it worked!" I said, grinning, as I looked around the Great Hall.
Plates, goblets, knives, forks, spoons, bowls and various other implements were all levitating around the house and staff tables, whenever someone went to grab a plate it flew out of their reach and collided with another implement with a loud smash. Breakfast was still available, but it was all sitting on the tables without plates, bowls or platters to support it. Kippers, eggs, bacon, toast and other bits of food were all lying on the table without so much as a bowl underneath it. Students and staff alike were waving their hands and wands around dumbly trying to get the levitating objects down from their place in the air (Dumbledore looked like he was having the time of his life and McGonagall wasn't present yet, luckily). The hall was filled with utter confusion and noise. To add to the mayhem the daily owls had just come flying in with loud screeches only to collide with the nearest plate or bowl.
James, Sirius, Remus and I all surveyed this amusing scene with delight and suppressed laughter as we walked over to the Gryffindor table.
"Not your daily breakfast scene is it?" James said with a look of utter amusement on his face.
Sirius, James, Remus and I burst out laughing as the owls begun pecking the teachers and students in their confusion.
"Oh Sirius, that's disgusting," Remus said looking at Sirius, whom had picked up a piece of bacon from the table and begun to eat it.
"Wha…? I gotug ep yo' kno," Sirius said, chewing on the bacon.
"Yes, but you don't have to eat off the table! That's gross, you don't know what's been on there," Remus said disapprovingly.
"Yes mum," Sirius said as he picked up a piece of toast and proceeded to eat in front of Remus' face, just to annoy him.
"Get out of my face," Remus said pushing Sirius away.
"Hey, look, Snivelly is staring at us," I said, nodding over to the Slytherin table (which indeed did have 'Slytherin Suck' written on it in glowing bright red letters). Snivellus was glaring over at us with a look of loathing in his eyes; Sirius gave a very rude sign in answer and before he could make any kind of reprisal against Sirius Snivellus was forced to look away due to an owl pecking him.
"This is too good to be true," I laughed as we watched the owl peck Snivellus to our enjoyment.
"Who needs entertainment when we've got this?" Sirius said throwing his arms up to indicate the mayhem that was present throughout the Great Hall.
"My friends," James said in the midst of the turmoil, "this is our first successful prank."
"Yes… let it be known by all here present today that," Sirius said in a mock formal manner, he looked around at all of us in turn, then continued "James, Remus, Peter and myself (of course) will hence have a reputation as the pranksters of Hoggie-Warts. During our years here we will make the teachers cringe, the students whinge and the ghosts…" Sirius looked at us for ideas for a word that rhymed with 'whinge'.
"Tinge?" I suggested.
Sirius raised his eyebrow, "Oh well, that'll do. During our time here at Wartie-Hogs, we will make the students whinge, the teachers cringe and the ghosts, uh…tinge…"
James stood up and put his hand on his heart like he was taking an oath or something, "We will be a nightmare to whoever stands in our way, we will prank like no one has ever pranked before, and we will annoy the hell out of all Slytherins (especially Snivellus)."
And so we did…
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Author's Notes: Hi! I've finished my exams, but there'll be some more major ones coming up later in a couple of months so it's all work work work from here on out, groans. There's the next chapter for you, hope you liked it! All they seem to be doing at the moment is pranking and generally doing stupid things (this is a MWPP story after all, what did you expect? Heh) okay, seriously (pun not intended) there's going to be some drama later on- involving Sirius and who else but his family, oh and something involving earlier chapters will be tied up so to say.
Hannanora-Potter: Heh. Glad you liked it! Yes Sirius proved that he can scream like a girl, heh, but it's all in the art of acting! (Or so we think, heh) I read your chapter 12, you should have got my review by now though so you know what I thought of it.
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Anarane- Glad you liked it! I have to admit I like Sirius' prank more than James' as well, but I am a bit biased in things concerning Sirius. I wrote Sirius' payback later because the chapter was too short, and I ended up liking that part more than the original chapter with just James!
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Paddfoot911- Thank you very much! I'm glad you like the way I write. Heh, you have the whole Peter's Prattle Sirius' Story thing down pat, next time it'll either be Sirius or Remus… or James, so in other words, anyone other than Peter who just had his turn! Heh. I'm glad reading this gives you something to do!
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Goldilocks31890- Heh. So glad you liked it! Sorry but it was Peter up next, but it might be Sirius or Remus next chapter! Yes I have seen King Arthur! I watched it yesterday; it was great, except I didn't like the last battle because my favourite knight died! He shouldn't have died! Wah! He's too hot to die! Heh. (I hope you know who I'm talking about! I don't want to spoil it for anyone)
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Raye Caouotte- Glad you liked the prank! Lol, you don't sound too sick, I think the same, some hot tail in the HP movies would be a good thing. If only they made a movie about MWPP. That would be good. But they should let the fans do the casting! Heh.
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