Marauder HeadCanons

Prank War

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if you don't think that lily and her friends pulled the worlds greatest pranks on the
marauders you are dead wrong

the girls had the kind of pranks that involved planning, patience and oftentimes involved professors, house elves, and every student they could manage to wrangle in. the ultimate goal was to drive the marauders into St. Mungos for an inexplainable case of insanity, and they were willing to wait to achieve it.

For example, in fourth year when James hexed a first year Hufflepulf who was being too bloody loud', Lily and Marlene charmed every object in the common room to be slightly louder than normal, and they would increase the volume marginally every few days. James flipped out and desperately asked people if they have noticed things being louder (to which all other Gryfl'rndors were instructed to act as if he was mad). The two girls eventually revemed the curse when James threw down his quill, covered his ears and screamed out that he was going off to Pomfrey to get his head checked. When Pomfrey came in to inspect the common room, James collapsed in hysterics when she noted that everything sounded 'quite normal, Mr. Potter'.

Or when Mary and Dorcas slipped a potion into Sirius' pumpkin juice every
morning that caused him to slowly lose his hair over the course of three months. They stopped once a puffyeyed, pouting Sirius came into the Great Hall with his head completely shaved. The girls held back giggles when they spotted Sirius in the library desperately flipping through books on male pattern baldness, and to this day Dorcas swore she saw him looking at a catalog of toupees.

And Lily's personal favorite: bribing the house elves, every professor and nearly every Gryflindor to ignore the marauders for a month straight. No eye contact, no speaking, nothing.

It ended with Sirius sobbing at Mcgonagall's feet in the middle of the Great Hall, James going to the kitchen every night to give the elves cookies that he spent all night baking in an attempt to get them to talk to him, Peter losing all his savings because he tried to bribe people into paying attention to him, and Remus. ..well
Remus seemed to enjoy the lack of attention, actually.

The marauders pranks were created to shock and to give them immediate
gratification. The Gryffindor girls took their time, waiting patiently as their victims
slowly lost their bloody minds.

---- A.N.- Please don't tell me if these are wrong unless you have actual proof, as I said in the bio, these are headcanons