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Chapter 34:
That night when the common room emptied, James turned to the other marauders, "ok – me and Sirius will go and steal the things I need for the transfiguration. We shouldn't be more than five minutes. If we are it's because we've gone and gotten detention."
They hid under the cloak and made their way towards McGonagall's classroom. "Do you think Minnie is asleep?"
"I hope so," James whispered in response.
They quickly entered the classroom and found a large sac of mice – these will do, James thought. They carried the sac through the corridors back to the common room. They got slightly nervous when they found Mrs Norris waiting for them down one corridor. Normally she would be screeching for Mr Filch but instead she was purring, rubbing her head on their legs, "shit! She can smell the rats!" Sirius whispered.
They ran away from the cat, down the corridors until they found the portrait hole. "Not you two again!"
James quickly transfigured each of the mice into fairies before Remus cast a charm on them so that they would whisper sweet nothings into the girls' ears all day. Then they took the sac of fairies with them as they went around the different toilets in the castle. They even went into the girls' toilets. "Ew – do we have to?" Peter asked.
"If you don't want to, you can stand watch outside," James threw the cloak at him.
They quickly cast spells on the toilets and left several fairies in the girls' toilets. They left the odd fairy in classrooms and corridors as they went. Once all the toilets were done they put a sticky spell on the benches in the Great Hall and left several more fairies in there. Soon almost all of the fairies were gone. They wanted to save a few for the Gryffindor common room. They hexed one of the steps, "you didn't do it permanently did you Sirius?" Remus asked.
Sirius gulped, "I thought it would be funnier if they couldn't undo it."
The boys laughed quietly. "Sure is!" James hit him across the head, "especially when we forget where it is!"
Sirius gulped again, "well I've done several on our way here. They're all over the school."
"You – you muppet. Well done… the marauders have just successfully pranked themselves." Remus laughed.
The next day, the boys made their way down to breakfast. Girls all around the castle were glowing bright red at the words that the fairies were whispering in their ears. James caught Lily's eye, she glared at him. He had chosen a pretty little fairy specifically for her and charmed it to tell her that he liked her. It was going to spend the week – not just the day – telling her that he liked her and that she should go out with him. It was going to annoy her so much and James couldn't wait.
They silently cast a spell of their part of the bench before sitting down so they wouldn't get stuck and began eating a ridiculous amount of breakfast; last night had left them hungry. Lily was the first to try to stand. She squirmed in her seat. "Potter! I'm going to kill you!" She shouted down the table.
"Why love? What have I done?" James asked innocently.
"You know exactly what you've done," Lily spat.
"Lilypad, I don't have a clue what you are on about," James said as he stood up and made his way towards her, "do you need a hand?" he whispered in her ear.
"Not from you," Lily cried.
"No one else is offering," he gestured around the room at everyone else who were equally stuck, "you could sit here stuck or I could help you. You might be waiting a while if you don't let me help you though. Might even miss potions…"
"FINE! Help me."
"What do you say, Evans?" James laughed.
"eurgh – please," Lily frowned.
James leant down close to her face and whispered in her ear, "I could kiss you right now."
"No – Potter don't you dare!"
"Why?" James asked innocently. "What will you do? Did the fairy tell you I think you're hot when you're angry?" James leant down and kissed her briefly on the cheek before walking away.
"Potter you said you'd help me!" The marauders followed him out of the Great Hall. As he reached the door he flicked his wand and several people fell to their knees as they struggled. Lily stood up and felt her cheek, he just kissed me!
The rest of the day was spent avoiding the toilets and the disappearing stairs. Some of the girls loved their fairies and asked if they could keep them. One or two of the girls asked the marauders out. James thought about it briefly, he was single again. He'd broken up with Rachel a week ago and was happy to say that he was single. They'd had several Quidditch practices and James had greatly enjoyed flirting with Cynthia and Renee his fellow chasers. Astrix was working them hard. Their first match was in October and he had them practicing every other day. James was exhausted. He'd tried adding that to his current practice schedule and had really struggled but after a couple of weeks, he'd finally gotten the hang of it. Astrix had even demanded that the other players join them in the mornings. Etta had tried to talk him out of it, "come on Trix. You've already got us practicing every other day but now you want every morning too. I'm never going to look this hot again am I?" Everyone laughed at the idea of Etta not looking hot. Sirius however, laughed, "Trix? Really?" For several days after that conversation, Sirius could be found calling Astrix, Trix wherever they went.
The Slytherins had been very quiet all month and had caused no trouble at all. The marauders were getting anxious, "what do you think they are up to?"
"Not sure, to be honest!" Sirius replied.
"Whatever it is, it's not good. We've been here a month and they've done nothing." Remus remarked.
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The First Quidditch Match...
Lily and Snape time...
The Marauders return to spying on the Slytherins...
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