A/N: I feel like I'm rushing this story to meet my deadline but I really want it finished so I'm sorry if you feel like it's rushed as well.

-CONVERSATION OF THE CHAPTER-

ME: Hi Filch!

FILCH: Hello.

ME: You know I wanted to talk to you about the way you have been treating the students of Hogwarts.

FILCH: Oh really? And what-

ME: This is what I have to say- you miserable old git! Don't you have anything better to do than stroll down the corridors all day and night trying to get students into trouble? Don't you need to sleep? Weren't you a kid once? And that cat!

FILCH: Don't you say a word against Mrs. Norris.

ME: I won't say a word against her; I'll throw my foot against her. In a nice kick. (A/N: Just so you know, I wouldn't do this to a cat in real life.)

FILCH: How dare you!

ME: Oh I dare.

FILCH: Detention!

ME: See this is what I'm talking about. Now you better go before I really do something to that cat. You see you've left her unattended, she's not her with us and I suspect, or rather I know that there are many students at Hogwarts would like to give that cat a good-

FILCH: Alright, alright! I'm going! Just take me back to Mrs Norris! Please!

ME: Okay.

*Filch disappears*

ME: Thank Merlin he's gone. ON WITH THE STORY!

35

Remus disappeared again for a few days at the end of the month with the poor excuse that his mother wasn't very well again.

Really, James thought, these lies were getting really hard to believe.

So when they were walking back from there detention with McGonagall.

It turns out, that swimming in the Black Lake was against the school rules.

So 2 weeks of detention had been handed out to each of them.

'So I've been thinking, for our end of term prank-' Sirius announced to James and Peter on their way back from detention. (Remus was away and let off detention and Gracie had been caught eating sweets in detention and had to stay behind.)

'We're doing an end of term prank? First I've heard of it.' James said.

'Same.' Peter agreed.

'Well I decided we were last night,' Sirius shrugged. 'And I was thinking what can we do that won't cost us money?'

'What do you mean?' James asked.

'Well I don't know about you mate, but my parents don't just hand out money to me anytime I want it. Especially now I'm a Gryffindor.' Sirius replied.

'Oh right. Sorry.' James mumbled.

Sirius waved his hand in a forget about it motion.

'So how?' Peter spoke up.

'Well I was thinking we use stuff we've already got.' Sirius grinned.

'What stuff?' Peter questioned, curiously looking at Sirius.

'Well I got prank items and such for my birthday and Christmas, James did as well, Remus did and so did you for Christmas anyway.' Sirius notified.

'So we're going to use our prank items then?' James asked excitedly.

'Well yes,' she began slowly, his eyes twinkling and a smirk appearing across his face. 'But we're only going to use one particular item.'

'Which happens to be…?' James trailed off.

'Dungbombs.'

The Dungbombs had been counted. James had 32, Sirius had 18, Remus had 7 and Peter had 14.

In total, 71 dungbombs.

'It should be enough.' James said, eyeing the pile of dungbombs on the floor of their dormitory.

'Yeah but how big is the Hogwarts express?' Peter asked.

'The Hogwarts Express has 4 carriages. Around 1000 students are at Hogwarts so on average 250 students are in each carriage. Inside the carriages, there are separate compartments for the students to sit in.' Remus said as if he was reciting it from a text book.

'How do you know that?' Sirius demanded.

'Well for one I'm observant-' Remus began.

'I'm observant as well!' Sirius protested.

'Do you even know what observant means?' James snorted doubtfully.

'Yes! It means looking and watching!' Sirius said.

'To put it mildly yes.' Remus praised.

'See James.' Sirius poked his tongue out.

James did the same.

'You two,' Remus shook his head. 'So immature.'

'We're not immature! I'm not immature! He's immature!' James and Sirius said.

At the same time.

'Merlin's beard…' Sirius whispered with wide eyes.

'We're- we're- we're becoming Fabian and Gideon.' James stuttered.

'I want to be Fabian!' Sirius shouted immediately.

'But- what?' James gaped.

'Fabian has this really cool earing…' Sirius explained.

'Hey! No fair! I want an earring!' James cried.

'Ha! You snooze, you lose!' Sirius lectured and started laughing.

'Remus!' James whined.

Remus decided to take charge.

'None of you are Fabian,' he scolded. 'You,' he pointed to James. 'Are James and no one else. And you,' he directed his finger to Sirius. 'Are Sirius and no one else.'

'But-' Sirius said.

'No buts.' Remus insisted.

'But I really want a cool earing!' Sirius revealed.

'I want one to!' James added.

'Oh, can we get one? How do you do it Remus?' Sirius nagged.

'It really hurts.' Remus tried to change their minds weakly.

'No pain. No gain.' Sirius said.

'That rhymed!' Peter chirped in unhelpfully.

'Not now Peter,' Sirius rolled his eyes. 'Where do you get one Remus?'

'The Muggle world. I don't know if you can get it done with magic. I wouldn't risk it anyway, you could end up with a huge hole in your ear, or worse your ear disappearing.' Remus admitted.

'Defiantly Muggle way then.' James commented.

'Agreed. So how do they do it?'

'You're not going to like it.' Remus predicted.

'Oh really? We'll see about that.' Sirius scoffed.

'Well, first of, if you're under 18 you have to have permission from a parent or guardian.' Remus started explaining.

(A/N: I think you have to be 18, it may be 16. I'm not sure, I have had my ears pierce twice, when I was 3 and 12, but my mum/dad was there both times. But anyway, let's just say 18 for the sake of the story, whether it's true or not.)

'We'll work around it.' James said carelessly.

'How do they do it?' Sirius repeated.

'Well first off, they mark your ears or in this case, ear in black pen so they know where to pierce it. Then they get this gun needle type thing and put it to your ear where the mark is and used the needle thingy to pierce a hole right through your ear and there you go, you have a hole in your ear and an earring in it.' Remus explained.

(A/N: Again, I don't know if this is how they pierce ears in the 1970's. but once again, in this story they do. Carry on.)

'A needle?' Sirius paled.

'Yes quite sharp as well. It must be, to make a whole right through your skin.' Remus said thoughtfully.

'Sounds painful.' Peter pointed out.

'Not it doesn't,' Sirius denied. 'Okay only a little bit. Not that much.'

'We can do it. I mean, like Sirius said before, no pain, no gain. Right?' James assured them.

He seemed to be assuring himself more than them though.

'So I reckon we wait few years.' Sirius decided in a lame attempt to put it off.

Seems James wasn't the only one that was worried.

'Okay. I'll remind you then. I won't forget it. Ever.' Remus vowed.

'Right so back on to the prank. We'll need to split the dungbombs up and put some in each carriage.' Sirius said.

'How are we going to do that?' Peter asked.

'Sneak onto the train before everyone else?' Remus suggested.

'We probably won't be able to do that. I mean the trolley lady and the conductor will probably be on the train and could see us.' Sirius said smartly.

That's surprising; Sirius pointing out something Remus forgot or didn't know.

Whoever guessed Sirius could be smart?

'We'll use the indivisibility cloak of course. No one will see us then.' James announced.

'But how are we going to get on the train earlier? the carriages all leave seconds after each other. Even if we got the first carriage to the train, everyone would've arrived by the time we would be starting on hiding the dungbombs in the second carriage.' Peter stated.

Everybody's surprising everyone today. Who knew Sirius and Peter could be so smart?

'We'll have to do it during the train ride then. The cloak will be used. We'll go around under the cloak half way through the train ride. Then we'll return to the compartment. We'll try and get a compartment in the 2nd carriage of the train. I'll explain in a minute. There's four carriages and 4 of us. Each of us will be in a carriage to set the dungbombs off. ' James told.

'That's sounds good. Why do we need a compartment in the 2nd carriage?' Sirius said.

'So after the dungbombs have been set up, Peter you'll stay in the carriage our compartments in. You'll set them off and return to the compartment. Sirius you'll take the 1st compartment, the Slytherins are normally there I think, and I know you'll handle them well but you'll take the cloak with you as well for safety reasons. Remus, I know you can run/walk the quickest, you proved that when we ran to Professor McGonagall's class for sweets, you'll take the last carriage. That leaves me with the 3rd carriage.' James finished telling them his plan.

'Well you have this all plan and sorted out.' Remus commented.

'What can I say?' James grinned. 'I'm a genius.'

'I can't believe the game is tomorrow!' Alice said.

The 10 of them were sitting outside, enjoying the weather and trying not to start an argument with each other (well that was really only James and Lily).

'I know. It's come so quickly.' Mary agreed.

'Am I even going to wake up on time tomorrow? The game's really early.' Gracie said thoughtfully, more to herself than anyone else.

'Probably not.' Marlene replied.

'Lily you'll have to wake me up then.' Gracie told her friend.

'I wake you up every morning anyway.' Lily pointed out.

'You have to wake Gracie up in the morning?' James asked surprised.

'Yeah,' Lily answered rolling her eyes. 'Gracie's really hard to wake up. She loves her sleep.'

'I do.' Gracie confirmed twirling a daisy she had picked from the grass in her hands.

'Sometimes it takes ages and it'll be really hard to wake her up. I've thrown a bucket of water over her more than once.' Lily admitted.

Gracie shuddered and placed the daisy in her hair.

'Why do you have to use cold water? What ever happened to warm water?'

'I don't know if warm water would work the same as cold water.' Lily said.

'What do you mean?' Frank questioned.

'Well cold water gives you the shock of the temperature. Would warm water or hot water do the same?' she explained.

'Probably not.' Frank chuckled.

'Plus it's funny to see your reaction and-'

'Reaction?' Sirius asked.

'Yeah. She gets really surprised and jumps up and into another bed in our dorm that isn't occupied. Lily just threatens to throw more water on her again. Gracie gets up in a flash.' Alice laughed.

'You try having freezing water poured on you when you're sleeping. Let's see how you react.' Gracie smirked.

'No thank you. I'm fine.' Alice chuckled nervously.

'Are you sure? Because-'

'I'm sure. Totally, absolutely, positively sure.' Alice said.

'Okay then. Tell me if you change your mind.' Gracie answered.

'So this game. Everyone's prepared right?' Lily stared at them in each in turn.

'Yes we are Lily. We've been practicing loads.' Mary reassured her.

They had been practicing loads. Sometimes even up to 4 times a week. Anytime the Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff 1st year teams weren't using the pitch to practice or the real Quidditch teams , Lily booked the pitch for the Gryffindors.

'I know. I just want to win.' Lily stressed.

'Why? We're playing against Snape, your best friend.' Gracie said bitterly.

Lily blushed.

'Well I want to win for the points and Gryffindor.'

'And?' Gracie raised her eyebrows.

'Sev and I have a bet on.'

'I knew it!' Gracie cried in triumph.

'I still want to win though! We are in different houses. Speaking of, did you find out who's playing?' Lily said.

'Of course. I gave James the list ages ago.' Gracie boasted.

James dug into his pocket.

'Yep. Here it is:

Snape: Seeker

Malfoy: Chaser

Black: Chaser

Nott: Chaser

Warrington: Keeper

Mulciber: Beater

Avery: Beater.'

He read out from the slip of parchment Gracie had given him.

'Did you tell Snape who was playing on our team Lily?'

'No Mary! I wouldn't do that!' Lily argued.

'Good. It doesn't matter though. We'll still win.' Frank said.

Gracie laughed.

'Of course we will. Victory will welcome us with open arms.'