Footnotes

Entry #2: July 29th

One more day. One more bloody day until my last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry begins. Today was Diagon Alley day, as we dubbed it. Emma was spending time with her boyfriend Zachary Blasie, and her best friend Lily Evans. This left the Marauders with a perfect window of opportunity for some of the best mischief making.

"Daddy, can I go look at broomsticks with Sirius? Please?"

"No, you can go with Emma."

"But Emma is with mister metal head, and he scares me." (At this point the milkshake Remus was drinking came out of his nose causing a slight chain reaction. James got it the worse I fear, almost chocking he was laughing so hard.)

"Lily…help….I need mouth-to-mouth! Quick!" James cried. Lily gave him a disgusted look and shook her head. I turned my attention to Baby and her father. James continued to cough and choke and throw himself at Lily.

"Fine but please be careful," David said giving in. He let out a loud sigh and walked away. Baby and I watched sadly.

"He does that a lot these days," She said grabbing my hand. Suddenly there was a loud yell and I spun around to see James covered in yellow and pink spots. Emma, who was watching her father this whole time, had just noticed her brother's stupidity. She rolled her eyes. Milkshake came out of Peter's nose again.

"Hey Baby, what do you say we get into some trouble?"

"What kind of trouble?"

"The best kind of trouble," I replied leading her away from the slight chaos. We went into Flourish and Blotts where moments ago Lucius Malfoy had entered. Lucius was a pure breed snob of the worst kind. The Malfoy's never had a problem with the Potter family until the day Lucius ran into Emma. Lucius was in the Hospital Wing for a week and Emma walked away with a black eye. Ever since then not only have the Potter's gotten into fights, but the rest of the Marauders too, had it out for Lucius Malfoy.

"Ooooh, are we going to throw Bernie Bot's Every Flavored Beans at people and scream 'The British are coming?'"

"Nope, I've got something even better planned. You just have to do everything I say, and make sure you do it exactly right. Okay?" I said to her. She nodded happily and listened as I explained to her what the plan was. The rest of the Marauders were in on it, and even Emma would play a small role in it, though she didn't know that yet. Timing was the key here, if we were off by s second everything would be ruined.

"I didn't know you were into younger women Black. Nothing says 'lock me up in Azkaban' like dating your best friend's five ear old sister. Are you two picking out a picture book to read together?"

"Bite me Malfoy, I can read better than you can and you know it!"

"Whoa ho! Lookie here, someone has quite the mouth. Black you're a bad influence."

"Looks who's talking," I replied calmly. I nodded to Remus and James who hit Lucius with a spell we had found that makes the clothes invisible. Suddenly Lucius as completely naked, or so it appeared to the rest of us: He never knew.

The shop erupted in laughter and screams of shock or even delight. Lucius was still unaware that we all could see places where the sun don't shine. Baby let out a loud scream, right as Emma walked into the shop. Baby ran to her, and buried her face in Emma's cloak. Emma was gaping at the sight, very repulsed.

"What is your problem?!" Emma yelled at Lucius. He finally looked down and saw that he was in fact in the nude, a horrified look plastered to his face. He grabbed the nearest book and hid before bolting from the store, redder than a beat. I was sore I was laughing so hard, and James had collapsed on the balcony from laughter. Emma slapped me; obviously she didn't think the prank was that funny.

"What was that for?!"

"For just standing there and not doing anything to protect Baby! I trusted you to take care of her and this stuff happens!"

"Emma, it's okay, he covered my eyes, I didn't see too much…"

"Baby, stay out of this." Emma said as she frowned at me. She marched out of the store with Baby in tow. Baby blew me a kiss.

"Oh that was so worth it. It'll be all over the train and the school faster than you can say dungbomb!"