The Marauders: Upto No Good.

7. Gobbledegook

Precisely when the bell for the first class of the day rang, four students charmed four different teachers in four different classrooms to speak only in Gobbledegook. Whenever and wherever they opened their mouths, what came out was gobbledegook. And Sirius was quite amazed to find out, that professor McGonagall sounded quite good speaking the language of the goblins.

No sooner did the professors started the lessons, the classes were filled with a language that sounded not quite like human speech, but provided a great deal of amazement. The professors tried their hardest to stop whatever they were speaking, but unbeknownst to them was the fact, that when Sirius Black determines to do something, it is done.

The Gobbledegook continued all day long, and it was soon found out that, Dumbledore, who wasn't affected by the 'prank' was actually not in the school premises. Which, however, made it all the way more fun for the students, who purposefully decided to be more polite and well mannered towards the teachers that particular day. Each and every student that passed a teacher who they knew were affected by the 'Gobbledegook', which included professors McGonagall, Flitwick, Kettleburn and the poor new DADA teacher, professor Spleen, wished them a polite 'goodmorning' or just a 'hello' only to have the professors open their mouth and respond something that sounded like 'guhabudeli' or 'bladvak'. What resulted, was children bursting into laughter when the teachers realised what had happened and hurrying away.

When at the dinner, professor Dumbledore did make an appearance, he appeared to be quite amused with the whole situation. Even so, some students claimed that they heard Dumbledore purposefully converse with the teachers in Gobbledegook. However, he had to cut his amusement short, courtesy McGonagall's narrowing eyes, and perform the counter-spell (in English) on all the professors. Sirius claims that he saw McGonagall memorise the gobbledegook version of the anti-spell just incase something like this were to happen again.

Now, when all was back to normal, came the question of who was abnormal enough to do such a thing. And even though McGonagall's gut instinct told her exactly who it was, she lacked provisional proof and The matter was let go for the night.

That night as Sirius and James sat with a satisfied smile on their faces, amongst other who also wore similar kind of expression, owing to the fact they didn't have to do any homework for the day, the two pranksters were approached by Remus.

"Okay! I admit, it was quite funny. How did you do it?"

"Funny!? It was bloody fucking hilarious! That was what is was!" Sirius jumped up.

"Remus! You did not just praise them for that fiasco they did?" Lily came, a pointy finger directed at the two of them.

"Oh, c'mon, Evans, admit it. It was a little, teeny tiny bit funny. Wasn't it?" James asked her.

"May-maybe, it was. But just a little. But but... It isn't any excuse for what you did! The first years are scared as hell! First the were-rabbit stor-"

"Were-bunny, actually. But please continue." Sirius smirked.

Lily narrowed her eyes at him, but continued nonetheless. "Well, first the were- bunny story, and now this. Those first years think that professor Spleen actually bit the others and they were having side effects! Poor Ronnie Gotham from Ravenclaw supposedly peed in his pants when they heard your stupid story!" Lily finished, breathless.

"Peed his pants? That's a little extreme, don't you think Padfoot? Mind giving them the 'anti were-bunny' secret?" James smirked.

"There are no were-bunnies! Stop making stuff up!"  It seemed like Lily practically ripped James head off in her imagination with this statement.

"Of course they are real! Me and James and Remus and Wormtail fought one off in the summer of the third year!" Sirius said looking hurt that Lily forgot such an important event of his life.

"Yes. He was this big and furry and had huge teeth that went tuck-tuck... Tuck-tuck" James played along with his fingers, trying to imitate a rabbit's teeth.

"And we had our swords on, so we went like thiiiis and thaaat....." It was now Sirius's turn to climbed atop the table along with James and just like that they were both dueling, one with fake rabbit teeth and the other with a pencil, imagining it to be sword.

All Lily could think about was how these idiotic people even managed to make past all these years of education and not learn a single shred of decency. But the gobbledegook charm was preeety amazing. Her innerself was rather more compliant with the boys than she wanted to actually be. Only the normal one out of the four was Remus, and Lily pitied him for having to keep the other in control all the time. They were like untamable, wild dragons. Always creating a havoc. And even though Lily hated the boys equally, she hated James Potter a  tad bit more. And this had everything to do with all the years Lily had to spend with him trying to ask her out on a constant basis. And also, maybe, because of his humongous, inflatable ego. Which she was pretty sure was being multiplied at the moment as all the girls from the common room stared or rather gawked at either him or Sirius flexing their muscles and fighting like baboons.

Lily just shook her head at the two monkeys and went to sit beside her friends: Mary MacDonald, Alice Nott and Marlene McKinnon. These girls have stuck by her all the years they were at Hogwarts and they were always there when she had a fight with Severus or a bad letter from Petunia. The four of them went together like peanut butter and jelly!

"So, today was interesting." Alice said when Lily slipped beside her.

"Ofcourse, it was. Those doofuses ruined the whole day! We didn't study a single period." Lily said.

"Just let it be, Lily. Little fun sometimes is good. Even for little Ms. Prefect." Marlene joked.

"Anyways, what's up with you and Longbottom, Alice?" Lily asked turning the attention to Alice, who turned a bright shade of pink.

"Nothing." She replied curtly.

"Yeah, and I am not sleeping with Sirius Black." Marlene replied shaking her head.

"Actually you are not, Marlene darling. But if you want that can be arranged." Sirius said, appearing out of nowhere and plopping  down beside Marlene, his hands on her shoulders and wiggling his eyebrows.

"No, thank you, Black. But I rather fuck my brother than you!" Marlene spat.

"Ew, Mar, that's kinda gross." Said Mitchell McKinnon coming to sight from behind a blonde seventh year girl he was currently snogging.

"Shut up, you idiot and go back to eating your girlfriend's face, Mitch!" Marlene joked and turned her back to the gross site of her brother making out.

"So, what do you say, girls. Is anyone up for a super fun, non-vulgur game of truth or dare, huh?" Frank asked, sitting beside Alice, who was yet again pink all over.

"And we all know your motive for playing this game, which by the way, you thought was childish, until a year ago." Lily said pointedly and it was Frank's turn to blush.

"Frank's right, let's play!" James said flopping down beside Lily.

"Don't even think about it Potter." Lily warned in a slow voice, her eyes narrowing into snake like slits and James visibly squirmed away.

"Bad luck yet again, Prongs." And once again everyone burst into laughter, ending the night with a delightful tone.