Freaky Friday: Part IV
Sirius' fingers slipped through the boy's hair easily due to the amount of grease his hair had. He tripped forward, landing face-first on the hard floor. James tried to skid to a stop, but landed on top of Sirius instead.
"EWWWW!" Sirius moaned, gazing at his contaminated hand in disgust. "I touched him! I touched Snivellus! I'm gonna die a horrible, painful death!" wailed Sirius. He didn't even notice James was using him as a cushion. Sirius tried to rub his hand clean on his trousers, but that just made his pants achieve grease marks.
James finally got off of him, helping Sirius – who was whimpering – up. "I repeat - who the hell leaves bloody banana peels on the ground?"
"House-Elves, I bet," muttered Sirius darkly. "I mean, maybe they heard some students bashing on their food or something."
"Why don't they poison their food then?" pointed out James. "It's pretty easy to kill someone with one strategically placed poison-added apple - "
"HELLO!" Snape snapped, glaring at the two bickering boys.
"What?" Sirius glowered, still angry because he was going to have to wash his trousers – and hands.
Snape pointed a thin finger at his scalp. A small patch of hair was missing. Gazing at the ground, Sirius and James saw pieces of Snape's hair littering the floor next to the smashed banana peel.
James shrugged, rolling his eyes. "At least your hair is less greasy. We did you a favour."
Snape sent them a glare - If looks could kill, they'd be dead on the floor next to the banana peel and hairs – and turned on his heel, his long cloak billowing behind him.
"He kinda looks like an overgrown bat if you turn your head to the side." Sirius commented, narrowing his eyes and tilting his head.
James mimicked him. "Hmmm – yeah, I see it!"
Remus and Lily walked over to them then. Lily had a look of concern on her face but it was gone the second James glanced her way, and Remus just looked like he was about to burst into uncontrollable laughter.
"I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but Remus … I think we should undo the spell," sighed Lily, shaking her head like she couldn't believe what she was about to do.
"What spell?" asked Sirius and James in unison.
Remus shook his head at Lily, clearly disappointed. "Why'd you do that? Breakfast isn't even over yet!"
"WHAT SPELL?"
"All right, you don't have to be so pushy!" snapped Lily, the prefect in her coming out. Sighing, she continued, "Yesterday, we cast a 'Bad Luck' spell on you two," She flushed a little. "The salt thing was to just get in your heads."
"But – but, Moony!" Sirius whined, turning to the werewolf. "I thought we were friends?"
"We are, but you two have to admit you're pretty malicious towards Snape. We just wanted to teach you two a lesson."
"Well, we learned our lesson!" exclaimed James. "Next time, we won't pull any pranks on Snivellus … when you two are in hearing range." He muttered out of the corner of his mouth to Sirius who gave him two thumbs up.
Remus sighed … it'd have to do. Waving their wands, Lily and Remus said the incantation and a bluish hue surrounded the boys. After it was gone, James and Sirius looked down at their bodies in wonder.
"Wow! I feel great!" Sirius said, flexing his hands. "It's like a dark, haunting cloud that was above my head the whole time, flew away to bother some other poor sap."
James laughed, and shot Sirius a mischievous grin, his eyes twinkling and looking disturbingly like Dumbledore. "Now … how about we teach these two a lesson, eh Padfoot?"
"That sounds splendid, my dear Prongs."
Remus and Lily looked frightened as they edged away.