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Snowballs - from Harry Potter

Sirius and Remus are just sitting inside looking out the window at Lily, James and Harry having a fake snowball fight, and it's a few days before the Potter's are supposed to go into hiding and Sirius starts talking about how unfair it is that Harry won't be able to do normal stuff and then Remus is just like, "I'm so tired of You-know-who's bullshit. I mean we should just bewitch snowballs to constantly hit him in the face".

So Sirius basically stares at his face for a moment and then he goes, "You have come up with some hilarious pranks in the last few years, the 'Remus in a wheelchair down the stairs' being one of them, and you have also congured amazing plans to thwart you-know-who, but that, that right there, that has been the most utterly BRILLIANT THING YOU HAVE EVER SAID".

And then the two of them basically make plans about how they are gonna do it, but obviously, they aren't able to, right?

So, around twelve years later, Remus is in the staff room and McGonagall just happens to recall the time when the Weasley twins bewitched the snowballs to hit the back of Quirrel's turban (which is basically voldemort's face) and Remus's face just goes from amusement, to disbelief, to earning for a time when two of his best mates were still alive, and he was making plans for pranks with the third, who was at that time, not a traitor.

Now imagine Sirius's amusement and pure delight when he heard this, and the pride when he hears from Lupin that the plan he had made had been executed by two boys who basically thought he, along with his friends, was one of the best pranksmen ever, and the relief and happiness that the map was being put to great use in brilliant pranks.

Now, imagine the sheer amusement on Sirius's and Lupin's face when the twins find the letter 'Messers Padfoot and Moony' left for them, which both congratulats them on great pranks, and gives them ideas for more.

(Bonus - the letter gave them the idea for the fireworks during an exam.)

Also, when the marauders tell Fred who they really are (imagine Remus and Sirius saying it with James in the back), and also tell tell them how awesome the snowball prank was, Fred just looks at Remus and Sirius and goes, "You goddamned taught me DADA, and YOU! We stayed in the same bloody house, and you can't even leave us a letter say who you - oh. Oh, you sneaky. . . wait. . .did harry know? Oh, when I see that boy again, he is not gonna hear the end of it! No. No, I'm not having that from you, Lupin. Not one of the three of you and - bloody hell".

And then Lupin is like, "Well, damn. He didn't take that good. Now I owe the two of you 15 Galleons each. Goddamn, Fred, couldn't you have been calm?"

And then James just steps up, looking so much like harry that Fred doesn't even answer back to Remus, and he just says, "Well Fred, we're currently short one man. If you wouldn't mind, it would be a great honour."

And Fred just stares at him and the only thing he can think of is how he never realised how young James and Lily were when they died and how he always just assumed that they had been older, and he felt a shiver run down his spine when he realised that Harry was only four years away from being the age James died at, and for the first time in his life, Fred just shakes James's hand and says under his breath how the world was ripped of a great pranker far too soon, and though Remus and Sirius thought he was complimenting James, and James, James just. . . GOT IT.