Mischief Managed

House pride

The next prank will tell you about happened at the end of the Wizard Prank Wars. After the Slytherins had cheated during the key Quidditch match, they had earned themselves over a hundred house points, thus overtook Gryffindor in the House Championship.

We could not leave things like that and plotted the destruction of their triumph. With their cheating, they had earned to be the target of our final and greatest prank.

We all knew that Slytherin would win the House Cup now because they had a lead of 40 points, which we could not catch up in time. The mood of Gryffindor house was, as one might expect, not very good. The other houses, except Slytherin, joined in the mood because nobody wanted the cunning house to win.

The Slytherins, on the opposite, were cheering since they had won the match. Whenever a Gryffindor passed them, they made disparaging remarks and made fun of them.

It was enough to make us crazy!

So, after the Marauders and I had walked past another Slytherin, we decided to preserve Gryffindors dignity and respect.

For some time, we came up with the most incredible ideas to humiliate the house of snakes. Unfortunately, none of them was possible to be completed in time.

Because the days went by and it was not much time left until the end-of-term Feast, we bunked off a few lessons to get the prank in time. It was a wonder no one else did because the Wizard Prank Wars was not yet over and this Slytherin-situation was perfect for an end prank.

When we sat in the library, trying to procure books that would help us in this situation, Remus had a stroke of genius (more genius than normally).

"Guys! I've got it! I've found a way!"

The four of us, who had not have been that intelligent, turned and looked at Remus in excitement. In moments like this, you once again see why Remus is unbelievably important for us. He made up half of our pranks.

We all came rushing for him and sat down at the table he was sitting at. Our eyes were probably wide, and we all leaned over the table so we wouldn't miss a single word of his plan.

"Okay, our goal is to preserve Gryffindor's respect, right?" he said to everybody around already knowing the answer. We nodded dutifully and waited for him to go on.

"So, why don't we make the other houses cheer for us?"

That caused confusion between us because none of us understood what Moony was saying. 

"But Moony, even if we get Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff to do that, Slytherin wouldn't. And they're our target. It doesn't make sense," Padfoot replied.

"Because you've not understood it by now. We can colour their robes red and gold, change the banners of Slytherin, that are supposed to be hung. Maybe we even get to decorate the Great Hall in our colours!" Moony looked really pleased with himself and I could tell that he had a good plan, I just didn't understand it by now.

But time went by and the plan got intelligible to me.

We planned everything in minute detail and got the gear we needed to conduct our plan.

***

The night before the end-of-term Feast had come, and I lay in my bed, listening for the regular breaths of my roommates to make sure they were asleep. When I knew that I got up and tiptoed downstairs as silent as possible.

Then I stood there in the Common Room, shaking with excitement, and waiting for the Marauders to appear. By the time they appeared, I had already feared something had gotten wrong. Unfortunately, we were running low on time and had to hurry.