Chapter 55: Oh. My. God.
"I got seven O.W.L.s!!" James boasted.
"I've got six." Sirius said. "I can't believe I didn't get it for C.O.M.C." Sirius did not score well for Care of Magical Creatures because it was a three-month long project. Each individual had to take care of a magical creature of his or her choice. Sirius had chosen the Blast-Ended Skrewt, which he thought was the easiest to take care because of its nature. But the health of the Blast-Ended Skrewt had been deteriorating since it had come under the hands of Sirius.
"I've got six as well." Remus said. "I didn't get it for Potions. Porky must have hated me a lot."
"Well, he finds every possible ways to deduct our points." James pointed out.
"It isn't that bad, right??" Sirius said.
"Mine is the worst, I only have five O.W.L.s." Peter said quietly.
"Don't worry, Pete. You got it for Transfig., Charms, Herby, Divination and C.O.M.C.." James comforted.
"I guess it's ok. I only kinda expected to get three initially." Peter said quietly.
"Well, don't think so lowly of yourself. You're doing really great!! Top in Herbology once again." Remus said kindly.
"Thanks guys." Peter said and looked at his result slip. It's because of them that is why I achieved what I get today. How could I do something so bad and mean to them??
"Wow!! Both of you got seven O.W.L.s!!" Arabella said enviously.
"You aren't that bad with six O.W.L.s either." Lily said humbly.
"I'm hating Potions more and more by the day." Arabella said crossly.
"Porky is like that. Don't mind him." Stefanie comforted.
"I've got six O.W.L.s as well." Joey added. "I didn't get it for Transfig."
"I think this is worth a celebrating actually. It's difficult to get above five O.W.L.s." Lily said nicely. Arabella was still looking rather crossly at her result slip.
"I agree. Well, don't think about it. Don't forget our party this Friday." Samantha added.
"Yeah right. I'm really looking forward." Lily said enthusiastically.
"It's such a sunny Monday. Let's get outdoors." Arabella suggested, putting her result slip on her table.
"That's the spirit, girl." Stefanie said supportively. The five girls left their dormitory after putting their results slip aside.
"Wear the protection now." James instructed and covered himself with a piece of beige colored cloth, which have a rather waterproof feature. "Cover every nook and cranny of the skin." He then muttered a charm to make the cloth stick onto his skin like a second layer of skin, making holes for his eyes, nostril and mouth.
"I'm starting to perspire already." Sirius commented, he could feel his droplets of perspire beneath the cloth.
"Let's wear our oldest shirt and boxers." Remus said, digging for an old set of clothes. The four guys put on their rag-like clothings.
"I looked like a beggar. What would people think when they see me wearing this??" Sirius complained and looked at himself in the mirror.
"We're going to be invisible." James said and rolled his eyes. He wore an old white shirt, which he had always worn to sleep whenever the weather was cold.
"Here's the potion." Remus took out two vials. "Drink with five minutes interval. The visibility one first" Remus held out the white vial.
"Let's do a final run-through." James said. "We must make sure none of the Professors will ever come in contact with this." James pointed at the four one-liter bottles of glistening green liquid at the entrance of the dormitory.
"Sir and I will go and deal with the Slytherins first, then the Ravenclaws." James nodded to Sirius. "Then Rem and Pete will go to the Hufflepuffs and then come back to deal with the Gryffindors." Remus and Peter nodded together. "Don't forget to leave some lying around the steps and common room as you leave. Handles and whatever you think someone is likely to touch that morning. After which we shall gather here. I think two hours should be enough for us to do the job. Latest we meet here at four."
"So everyone geared up??" Sirius asked the three.
"This is going to be the most exciting prank of the century." James agreed.
"Last year prank was supposed to be the prank of the century. But I think this is better." Peter praised.
"Definitely. We're the legendary Marauders."
"Don't forget the spray." Remus reminded. Each of them took a small bottle of whitish liquid.
"Confident about this??" James asked the three Marauders.
"Definitely." The three guys chorused.
Remus poured an even amount of the white liquid into four goblets.
"Cheers." The four goblets were raised high above them and 'clinged'.
"Even after so many times of drinking this, I still have the weird sensation after drinking." James commented as he rubbed his stomach.
"Let's wait for a few minutes then we drink this." Remus said and he poured out the light blue liquid into four even portions.
"Cheers again." The same thing happened to the four goblets.
"Time to start now." James instructed as he checked himself in front of the mirror. "Five hours before this invisibility potion wear off." There was no reflection of him in the mirror.
"Five dungbombs with me. Should be enough to shoo everyone up. Lock our dorm with a charm, just in case." James said. Remus, who was the last to leave, charmed the door to make it impossible for anyone else to open because it was password protected.
"Packed most of the stuffs already??" Lily asked her roommates she stuffs the unnecessary things into her trunks.
"Yeah. Left the makeup, some clothes, underwear and toiletries only." Arabella said.
"We seem to have more stuffs the older we get." Stefanie commented, filling up her second suitcase. Stefanie usually brought one large trunk when school starts, then she would go home for Christmas empty handed and returned with another trunk.
"I think it's because we need more stuffs now as compared to when we were eleven." Joey said, checking the cupboard and drawers for any left out items.
"Just look at our bathroom. There's like not enough space until we need to magic out a shelf so we can put our other necessities." Samantha said, trying to rearrange her stuff so that it required lesser space although she had already enlarged the inside of her trunk magically.
"Well, five shavers of all sorts in the bathroom. Not to mention other shaving stuff." Lily joked, dividing the toiletries to the respective owners.
"You know one thing I'm going to miss most after we graduate is being roommates together." Joey said suddenly.
"I know. We always have so much fun together." Lily agreed wholeheartedly.
"We can have gatherings now and then. How about we fix a date?? Every year we must meet up at least once??" Stefanie suggested.
"It's a great idea. Then we can keep in touch via owl post." Arabella added excitedly.
"Shall we stay up slightly later tonight just for another slumber night??" Joey asked.
"I'm ok."
"Me too."
"Sure."
"Why not??"
"We're going to spend the whole day sleeping anyway since we're staying up to makeover tomorrow night."
"I've got some food from the kitchens after dinner." Lily said. "Should be enough to last us until five."
"I think more likely can last you until five. We seldom eat supper except you." Stefanie teased.
"Don't anyone get hungry at night??" Lily asked.
"No." The four girls chorused.
"Pure blood." James said to the portrait. They slipped into the Slytherin common room quietly. Some people were in the common room and they skipped them and headed up to the sleeping dormitories together.
"Guys." James mouthed to Sirius. He nodded and they walked across the common room silently, avoiding the people.
They went into the first-year dormitory first. The five first-year Slytherins were sleeping soundly in bed. The two guys went towards the bed and dropped a few drops of the liquid onto the sleeping boys. They nodded at each other upon completion and left the dormitory.
James pointed upwards. The two guys went up the spiral staircase and ended up at the second-year dormitory. They repeated the same procedures from first to fourth year.
"Higher dosage." Sirius mouthed to James and he nodded in understanding.
"Did I hear the door opening??" Severus asked his three other roommates.
"It's probably the hinges." Lucius said nonchalantly as he continued to comb his hair.
James took out the spray bottle from his pocket, so did Sirius. They walked in front of the four boys and sprayed several times in front of each of them directly on their faces. The four guys barely had time to respond and dropped backwards and started snoring.
Sirius made a face at James and they grinned. They dropped several generous droplets of the potions onto each of the four guys. They tried to hold back their laughter and left the room quickly.
They went up the stairs and went to the sixth and seventh years, doing the same things to them since they were all awake. Along the way was a fourth year coming up the stairs, they sprayed straight on his face, drop a few droplets and left him on the stairs, sleeping soundly and snoring a little.
They went down the steps and found some students still lingering around the common room. They proceeded on to spray them and made them looked like they were sleeping in the common room. They left and went towards the girls' dormitories.
They repeated the procedures on all the Slytherin girls with the similar dosage. After about one hour, they covered every Slytherin in their dormitories and continued with those in the common room. After which they left some droplets everywhere lying around the entire common room.
They sneaked out of the Slytherin tower and turned over to Ravenclaw common room.
"Apple strudel." James said the password because Sirius could not stopped laughing at the password. It was suggested by a seventh-year prefect, which originated from a joke to the password of their tower.
Since it was around two something when they reached Ravenclaw tower, most of the students were already sound asleep. Hence, their work was completed faster then expected. After sprinkling those droplets everywhere around the common room, they left the tower and ran back to Gryffindor tower as soon as possible.
"Expelliarmus." James said and both guys walked into the tower and headed straight up to their dormitory. Andrew thought that it was better to use important Charms as the password because it could help everyone to remember them.
"Hey guys." James greeted Remus and Peter who were in their dormitory having a game of Wizard Chess.
"How was it??" Remus asked, looking up at James and Sirius while Peter was having his turn.
"Everything went smoothly." Sirius claimed as both guys removed their old clothes and stripped their protection coat and threw it at the corner along with the bottles of potions. Then they muttered the spell, which was used to throw their stuffs to the 'rubbish chute' of Hogwarts. Then they muttered a cleaning spell to remove any traces of potion.
"Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day." James said and went into the bathroom for a quick shower.
"How is it with the Gryffindors??" Sirius asked curiously.
"We managed to do it on everyone except those fifth-years." Peter said.
"Why not??" James asked, coming out of the bathroom still wrapped in his towel while Sirius went in.
"They locked their room with some charm that none of the door-unlocking spell work. We tried many times. The last time was only a few minutes before you guys returned. No avail." Remus explained.
"How about the windows??" James asked.
"No use either. We checked every mean of opening into the fifth-year girls dormitory. It just doesn't work." Remus said.
"Did they know we were up to something??" James asked.
"I don't think so. Maybe they're up to something themselves." Remus said.
"Maybe they're just doing their girlie stuffs inside. Anyway we covered the entire student population." James said.
"We better head to the kitchens and get some food to last for the entire day." Sirius suggested coming out from the bathroom.
"It's four in the morning!!" Remus exclaimed. "Are you sure there is any food??"
"Good point. Let's do it during the breakfast hour so we can avoid the crowd." James said.
"I just wonder if they still have the appetite to eat after seeing themselves in the mirror." Sirius said grinning.
"Sirius, I don't doubt that one." Remus agreed.
"So when can we get food??" Peter inquired.
"Tomorrow morning before breakfast. Two of us can go and get food for all of us which can last the entire day." James said.
"I'm not going." Sirius said and jumped onto his bed.
"I need to sleep." Peter said.
"Alright then, Rem, wake me up later. Then we go down to the kitchens at about seven." James said and went to bed.
"Leave the game alone and get some sleep." Remus told Peter. They left their half-played game for their much needed beauty rest.
"AAAHHHH!!"
"HEELLLPPPP!!"
"OOOHHHH NOO!!"
"OOOHHHH MMMEEERRLLLLIINN!!"
"WWWHHAT THE HELLLL??"
"Gracie!! Look at me!! Something is wrong!!" Gracie looked at her roommates and then looked at herself and screamed.
"What on earth happened to my gorgeous body?!?" Gilderoy looked in the mirror in horror. The rest of the boys in his dormitory were all looking utterly shocked at themselves as well.
"Wake up!! Something's wrong!!" Jun shouted at her roommates. They stirred in their sleep but no one woke up. She looked at herself in the mirror and screamed. This time, her roommates woke up.
"Andrew. This can't be happening!!" Kenneth asked his best friend in their dormitory.
"I don't know. But I'm sure we're not dreaming." Andrew replied his roommate in an equally shocked tone.
"Loucelle. My-my-my.. are missing!!" Loucelle's roommate shrieked.
"So are mine!!" Loucelle screamed and touched herself. "And I've a-a.." Then the girls in the whole dormitory screamed.
"What's the noise??" Remus stirred in his sleep and sat up. They had soundproofed their dormitory and sealed all means of entrance from outside. Why are people screaming at such hours in the morning?? Remus thought dreamily and cast a charm to keep outside noises out of their dormitory. The four boys were sleeping so soundly that their breakfast was forgotten.
"Something is wrong outside." Arabella thought and sat upright in shock.
"I hear screams." Samantha was sitting upright as well, though still looking a little sleepy.
"I wonder what happened." Joey stirred and muttered sleepily. She sat up too.
"Did something happen??" Stefanie asked the three awaken girls.
"How can Lily sleep with all these deafening screams??" Joey said in amazement.
"That's the benefit of being a sound sleeper." Stefanie said as she got out from the bed.
"Let's wake her up." Samantha suggested and headed towards Lily's bed.
"LILY!!" Arabella shouted.
"W-what??" Lily muttered sleepily and turned over.
"WAKE UP!!" Stefanie shouted.
"It's too early." Lily said and covered her head with a pillow.
"SOMETHING IS WRONG!!" Joey shouted and snatched Lily's pillow away.
"What's wrong?? Settle later." Lily muttered and pulled the comforters over her head.
"THIS IS IMPORTANT!!" Samantha shouted as she started tugging Lily's hand.
"Get off me. Five more minutes." Lily muttered and pulled back her hand and hid under the comforters.
"Let's pull her out." Arabella suggested. The four girls nodded and jumped onto Lily's bed and lifted her up and swung.
"AAHHH!! I'm awake!!" Lily surrendered finally and sat upright, still hugging her pillow, eyelids closed.
"Can you hear??" Stefanie asked. The screams did not subside; instead, more screams were heard.
"People cheering." Lily muttered. "Let me sleep." She dropped backwards onto the bed again.
"Something happened. People are screaming!!" Arabella said urgently.
"Huh?? What happened??" Lily asked more awake than before.
"We don't know." Samantha said.
"Let's check it out??" Arabella suggested.
"Let's get change and then we go and check out what's happening." Stefanie said and with Joey, they pulled Lily off the bed.
"Okie okie. I'm up. Skip the violence." Lily held up her hands and walked towards the bathroom.
"You too??"
"What happened??"
"I don't know. It happened overnight."
"I don't like this feeling."
"Neither do I."
"Hey girls, what happened??" Lily asked some sixth-years and seventh-years.
"We changed sex overnight!!" Loucelle said in a rather panic tone. Her voice was distinctly lower in pitch which soundly a little manly
"WHAT??" The five fifth-years chorused.
"What happened??" Lily asked, observing that the girls were now apparently breasts-less.
"I don't know. I woke up with a penis and two balls!!" Penelope said, looking almost tearful. She had rather marcho looking features now. Her hourglass figure now looked like a V. Her delicate features looked a little manly with the slight unshaven look.
"Isn't it worst when you wake up and realize that you become penis-less and ball-less and ended with two boobs??" Andrew walked over to join the discussion. Everyone stared at his chest beneath the white v-neck tee he was wearing. His original chest muscle had become two B-cup breasts, which looked unsupported.
It would have been a good joke if not for the fact that every other guy in the common room had breasts instead of chest muscles or fats.
"Do you think my breasts look better or Andrew's one look better??" Kenneth came over and showed his uncovered A-Cup breasts. The girls looked in amusement at the way the rest of the guys were comparing their boobs.
"Do you think I can borrow a bra or something??" Daniel Thomas asked. His newly formed boobs seem to be weighing him down even though it was merely B-cup sized. The group laughed at his little joke as well.
"I wonder how do you guys survive with something stuck between your legs." Lily asked the guys. She noticed the other girls were sitting in the rather odd manner.
"How come the five of you look so normal??" Loucelle asked the five girls.
"We don't know either." Arabella replied.
The fifth-, sixth- and seventh-year Gryffindors were gathered together in the middle of the Gryffindor common room while the first- to fourth-years be scattered around. It was a rather rare scene to catch most of the seniors sitting together in Gryffindor common room before breakfast on a Friday morning.
"Where are the Marauders??" Andrew asked the group.
"They're probably hiding in their dorm." Lily joked.
"What's this greenish thing??" Stefanie asked the rest as she noticed some greenish liquid scattered around the floor and table and chairs.
"Don't touch!!" Arabella called out.
"It could be the potion that causes the sex change." Samantha said.
"Is this permanent??" Joey asked.
"What I know about the Sex-changing potion is that it's temporary. Only last for one day at most. It transform you to the other sex and you'll get to see how you look like when you're in the other sex." Andrew explained.
"You guys learnt that??" Lily asked.
"Nope. I read that somewhere. Quite a complicated potion. I'm surprised that any student here can actually managed to make it. It takes about a week for the whole process and the ingredients needed are rare and expensive." Andrew explained to the rest of the students. Some of the lower-year students were listening to their conversation as well.
"It must one of the Marauder's plans." Arabella concluded.
"I don't doubt that. They're capable of such stuffs." Stefanie added.
"I wonder how was the reaction to the people from the other houses??" Lily remarked.
The large group of twenty over students dispersed from the center of the Gryffindor common room and headed towards their respective destination.
"Let's go back to our dorm." Lily told her four roommates and they excused themselves until they reached the dormitory, being careful not to touch anything around.
"I believe they did something on the railings too." Stefanie said and eyed the glistening greenish handrail.
The five girls returned to their dormitory and they checked their bodies to make sure that they were still hundred percent females before doing anything else.
"I'm fine."
"So am I."
"Bell, luckily you suggested us to seal our dormitory."
"Otherwise we would end up like the rest."
"Let's stay in here for the day. I think the guys had contaminated the entire school with the potion."
"Lils and I can go and get some food for all of us to last us through the day."
"Thanks. I don't think I wanna feel like a guy."
"It would be weird without breasts."
"It would be even weirder with penis and balls."
"Hey Bell, let's go get some food. Most of them should have gone for breakfast by now."
"Be careful."
"Don't worry. We're going invisible." Lily said and muttered the charm to make themselves invisible. They held each other hand to avoid getting lost in the crowd. Both girls left their dormitory and the Gryffindor tower and headed towards the kitchen as record speed.
Lily tickled the pear and both of them went into the kitchen. Lily muttered the visibility charm and both girls reappeared.
"Hi Scooby, we need some food to last five girls though the entire day." Lily said, panting slightly.
"Right ahead, Miss Lily and Miss Arabella."
"By the way can you keep our appearance here today a secret?? We don't want the guys to know we come down today." Arabella told Scooby.
"Sure." Scooby bowed.
"Thanks Scooby." Lily and Arabella said together.
"Ten house-elves returned with ten big bags of all sorts of food which they did not bother to open to check what they were. Lily muttered a reducing charm and the ten bags became finger-sized. Each girl took five packets and kept them in their pockets.
"Thanks you everyone!!" Lily and Arabella called out. "Thanks Scooby. See you around." Lily said and she took Arabella's hand. She muttered the invisibility charm and they left the kitchens and hurried back to their dormitory. They reached the Gryffindor tower within five minutes.
Lily and Arabella muttered a charm to open their door, and then they sealed it with a few charms again. It was needed mainly to prevent the Marauders from entering. Lily then muttered the visibility charm and both girl reappeared.
The girls took out the ten packs of stuffs from their pockets. Lily muttered a charm and the bags returned to it original size once again.
"Wow!! Chicken and Mushroom omelets for breakfast!!" Lily took out a small box from a plastic bag labeled breakfast and passed the bag around.
"We're going to have a great time indoors today." Arabella said grinning. The nine packs of food standing still in the center of the five girls.
"We gotta pop out sometime in the afternoon to see what's going on. It would be the first year-end prank that we escape." Stefanie commented, enjoying her omelet.
"Let's finish our breakfast so we can continue to sleep." Lily remarked.
"Sleepyhead, we should do something more worthwhile than sleeping." Samantha said.
"It's nine in the morning!! Do you know how unearthly this hour is?!?" Lily said grinning.