Lily's POV

"There will be four teams, with two people each. The girls will pick a name each," Remus explained.

We excitedly picked a slip of parchment each.

"Remus." Mary declared happily.

"Peter," Alice said, somewhat unhappily.

"Black," Marlene said, smirking. Uh-oh. I knew that look. She was up to no good.

"Well, that leaves....." Remus trailed off.

"James," I beamed.

He smiled brightly at me, and I couldn't help but laugh at his enthusiasm.

"If you two lovebirds are done," Sirius said, smirking.

"Stop being such a dog, Black," I said, glaring playfully at him.

The marauders fell to the floor, howling with laughter. I shrugged it off.

"Ahem ahem. The rules, please." Mary said impatiently.

"Right. First, there has to be a teacher involved in at least one prank. Second, five pranks minimum. Third, if a prank fails, you're disqualified. Fourth, if you get detention or deducted house points, you're disqualified. Last, no one should be seriously hurt. Let the war BEGIN!"

*Two hours later*

"Nah, they will expect something like that," James said.

James and I were on our evening patrol, and we were discussing the pranks we could play.

"We can play......... MUGGLE PRANKS!" I exclaimed enthusiastically.

"How's this? Let's put itching powder in their robes for one prank. Let's do the second one on Sirius. It involves hair getting ruined. What does the dog hate the most, eh, mister king of the forest?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

He paled and froze.

"What happened?" I asked, concerned.

"You know?" He asked.

"Know what?"

He gave a nervous sort of laugh at that. "That Sirius loves his hair the most? Of course, I do! He never ceases to miss a chance to talk about his hair, does he?"

"You're right." And we continued discussing until the end of our patrol. We gave the password to the portrait of our Head Dormitories and entered.

The prank on Sirius was amazingly simple.

The muggle prank on everyone was easily done. I and James begged the house-

elves to get the others' robes, and, amazingly, they agreed!

James, unsurprisingly, had an entire stock of itch powder. We put it in the others' robes,

and requested them to put them on the top of their piles, so that all of them would wear

them the next day, and our first prank, Prank Itch.

Our next plan involved extensive magic, using a complex charm that I had studied.

I would use it on the rest of the people, and, well, I'll not reveal that now.

After practicing that charm on James, who panicked, I also practiced the counter-

charm.

We decided that was enough for the night, and went to sleep, ready to do our new

prank in the morning.

Marlene POV

I and Sirius had planned our prank already.

I did a disillusionment charm on myself and Sirius, a modified version so we could be able to see each other.

Sirius winked at me, a movement which caused my insides to melt.

Truth was, I had had a crush on him since, well, the first year.

What I did differed from what I wanted to do.

I rolled my eyes and said, "C'mon Black. We need to get a move on if we want to do the prank tomorrow. We need to do two by tomorrow. James and Lily are going to do two tomorrow. I saw them planning, I'm sure they'll do two."

Sirius bowed and offered me his arm. He said, overdoing the theatrics, "Humble me,

Lady McKinnon. Let me escort the charming lady to the dungeons."

I slapped his arm but took it, anyway.

Sirius POV

I am having a major happiness attack. SHE TOOK MY ARM! SHE TOOK IT!

I had had a crush on her since the first time I saw her, flicking her hair behind

her back, laughing with her friends, her eyes glittering like a thousand stars.

I could go on and on about Marlene McKinnon, but if I do, I doubt I'll ever get to

explaining what we were going to do.

We were going to go to the dungeons and steal two potions from Slughorn's Store. One was for the prank, but the other was more of social service. It was to help two lovesick people understand that they loved each other. A difficult feat, since both of them, are stubbornly determined to say 'We're just friends!'

I suddenly stopped. Something was happening to Marlene. She was pale as a ghost,

and her eyes were cold, blank, and unfocused.

I heard an ear-splitting scream come from her mouth and rent apart the still night air.

Someone cursed her, most probably given her a potion, which was why it was showing up now.

She fell to the ground, writhing and shouting.

I shook my head. Not a prank.

I scooped her up and carried her up to the head dormitories.

I admit it; it was hard to carry a woman screaming her head off.

I reached Head dormitories.

I gave the password to the portrait and entered it. I yelled for Lily and James, and place.

Marlene on the couch.

They both came hurrying down the stairs.

Lily looked at Marlene and gasped.

She looked at me and lunged. She had her hand wrapped around my neck. She asked dangerously, "What did you do to her?"

"Merlin, nothing, woman! She just screamed and collapsed, doing that. I didn't want to bring her to Madam Pomphrey, so I brought her here."

Lily walked to James and said, "You two, go get the other girls and McGonagall. I'll figure out what happened to her."

I and James rushed off. James went for McGonagall, and I ran to the Gryffindor dormitories. Remus and Mary were sitting on the couch, studying. I ran up and said,

"Marlene's hurt. Get the others."

They got up and ran off.

I walked back to the head's dorm and saw McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Pomphrey

there as well.

Dumbledore told us all, "Someone has poisoned Ms. McKinnon. We must shift her to St. Mungo's immediately."

A/N

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