"I need to make sure Slytherin does the hokey-pokey in the great hall for breakfast tomorrow. Who's in?" Sirius asked the remaining two the marauders, who were surprisingly still up. "Are you sure you want to do that without the brains of our group, Padfoot?" Peter inquired, holding his palm to his face as he sat. He held a quill in the other hand and was attempting to complete a potions essay.
"The spellwork can be somewhat difficult, but being 7th years, I'm sure we've got this." The grey eyed boy reassured, smirking. "I'm going to head off to sleep, so you'd have to do this without me. I've got a date tomorrow." James and Sirius nearly flipped when they heard this news.
"Wormtail, you never told us! Who's the girl?" James asked, wriggling his eyebrows.
"Dorcas Meadowes." Peter whimpered and rushed back to the dormitory.
Sirius sighed, giving up on completing the essay tomorrow and setting a plan for the prank instead.
"Mind helping me sort this out?"
"Mooooony, help me finish the charms homework." Sirius called, draping himself over the comfiest chair in the common room.
"I told you not to leave it until last minute." Remus rolled his eyes and laughed at his friend.
"I didn't have time to do homework last night." Padfoot whined, now craning over his essay.
"Because you were fooling off with Prongs and Wormtail." The brown-haired boy accused the animagus.
"Actually, wormy left before we had all the fun. Watch slytherin doing the hokey pokey today in the great hall. Now c'mon, we've got to catch up to James before he asks Lily out again." Sirius dropped his essay in his bag and they walked together to the great hall.
"I asked her out again," James proclaimed, grabbing another slice of bacon as it floated by. "And I could swear it looked like she was thinking about it." He looked over to the red headed girl that stood out from between her pile of friends.
"I doubt that, Prongs. Maybe she was looking at the dirt on your face or actually thinking about going on that giant squid date." Wormtail spoke, staring nearly cross-eyed at a fair skinned girl far down the gryffindor table. Lily just then looked over and, if by the heavens, was with poor effort, holding back a smile. Just then, all the slytherins stood up, jumped onto the table and started singing loudly and uncontrollably. "You put your left hand in, you put your left hand out..." The professors looked cross, scarred and possibly ready for another detention spree. One professor, however, professor Albus Dumbledore, had been smiling. Lily, much like the other professors, had looked cross. She stood up, walked over to the other end of the table, hands on hips.
"James, don't tell me this was your fault." Lily hissed, and James was not completely thrown back that she had assumed this. After all, she had a great reason to assume it.
"It was actually Sirius' idea." James pointed out, and Lily yet still had the same disappointed look.
"And you helped?" She asked, now pointing an accusing finger at James' chest.
"I can only tell you these things if you agree to go out with me, Evans." Prongs flirted, and Lily just flipped her hair and walked away.
"Remus, I'm afraid that Plan A won't be starting until James sorts out his big ego." Lily sighed, walking Remus in the potions room after the hokey pokey incident. Lily and James were partnered again, and the potion wasn't even close to completion. They both had been bickering like and old married couple. Peter was paired with Severus, to make sure Peter doesn't set fire to the potions room again.
"Looks like it's us again, Moony!" Padfoot called, grinning at one of his best friends.
"Yeah. This would certainly be interesting." Remus called back, smiling shyly at Sirius. He looked back at Lily, who stopped bickering and gave Remus a wink. Remus knew she had something to do with this.
"Everyone complete yesterday's essay?" Slughorn raised a questioning eyebrow as only half the class handed back scribbled pages. "That's a disappointment." He sighed, shoving the work in his desk and grabbing a purple vile from the top of his drawer. "Today we'll be brewing this. Any ideas as to what it is? It was suggested by the lovely miss Evans back there." Lily quickly shot up her hand and yelled,
"Amortentia sir, the most powerful love potion in existence."
It's most definitely not a good idea to put all faith in Lily Evans.