Chapter 9: Mischief
Sometimes, there are no
'Next Times'
No
'Time Outs'
No
'Second Chances'
Sometimes, its Now or Never
Monday, September 20th, 1979
Lily's heart pounded. She had never done anything like this before. Sneaking around the castle past twelve? Never. She was Lily Evans, and it simply wasn't done. Yet she found herself crawling into the Slytherins' common room past midnight with James' hand pulling her in. Lily stopped once she got in. Sarah pushed her aside so she could get in too, slinging her black bag over her shoulder. It was dark and dreary, not at all like the Gryffindor common room. The seats were dark green and made out of some material that Lily wasn't sure she wanted to know. Peter sat down in a chair, so he could see the entrance.
"How do we know if they're all asleep?" Lily whispered, trying to keep an eye on the two doors on either side of the common room, most likely one led to the boy's dorm and the other one to the girls'.
James pulled out a blank piece of parchment and whispered, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good," and tapped it with his wand. Lily peered over his shoulder to look at it.
Messrs. Padfoot, Prongs, Moony, and Wormtail Proudly Present the Marauder's Map. James opened the parchment to reveal a map of Hogwarts.
"How did…?" Lily said astonished.
"Shhhh," Sarah hushed her.
"They're all in their dorms, presumably asleep," James told her. We'll do Snape and his gang first."
Lily and Sarah followed James to the 7th Year Boys dorm with Sirius behind them. When the came to the door with the silver plaque with '7th Year' on it they opened it carefully. They each pointed their wand at a sleeping Slytherin and said "dorme." They would sleep for three dreamless hours if they weren't already asleep, and if they were they would stay sleeping. The four sneaked into the dorm and carefully shut it, careful not to wake any of the other years. Imagine that, four Gryffindors being caught in the Slytherin's dorms. Disastrous.
"Silencio," James said, pointing his wand at the cold stone walls of the dorm.
Lily pulled out a piece of parchment with spells written on it. She had spent a few hours with Sarah in the library looking up some of them. James, Sirius, and Sarah pulled an identical list out of their pockets as well.
"Sirius and I will take care of their clothes," James whispered to Lily. She shivered as his hot breath tickled her ear. She nodded.
"Oh wait," Sarah said, and slung her black bag down onto the floor. "I have…" she rummaged through her bag, "gloves!" she exclaimed quietly as she pulled them out. "Here, put these on," she told Lily, James and Sirius as she handed each of them a pair of white medical gloves.
"Where did you get these?" Sirius asked her as he eyed them suspiciously.
"My cousin's mother's work. They're cool, so I grabbed a box of them. I knew I got them for a reason. This way we don't have to actually touch them. That would be nasty."
"Very," Lily said.
Sarah pulled out a bottle of Madame Heyele's Rambunctious Razzle Red Hair Spray out of her black bag and grinned. "I hope this stays on Snape's greasy hair. I'm not sure if it will, it's so slick the color might just slide right off," Sarah said and began to spray Snape's hair.
"Do his eyebrows too," Lily suggested.
"His eyebrows are huge," Sarah said.
"You wouldn't happen to have any tweezers, would you?" Lily asked Sarah with a grin.
"As a matter-of-fact, I do," Sarah responded, producing a pair of tweezers from her bag. "I'll have to dispose of them later."
"I wouldn't want them afterwards either." Sarah handed the tweezers to Lily, and she began to pluck the black hairs of Snape's eyebrows while Sarah sprayed his hair. "Should I pluck his unibrow too?" Lily asked.
"Of course! Who wants a unibrow? Especially that one…" Sarah replied.
"Ew. Look at his skin, it's all red where I plucked it!" Lily exclaimed. The skin began to swell from all of the plucking of his once huge eyebrow.
Sarah tilted her head and looked at Lily's work. "Well, at least now he has two instead of that one!" she said and giggled with Lily joining in. "Maybe you should thin them out…they're too…manly yet."
Lily stifled a laugh and plucked his eyebrows even more. "This has to hurt…"
"But at least it's not us!"
"I would kill you if you ever did this to me in my sleep."
"Good to know."
"Ok, I think I'm done Sarah. How do they look?"
"B-e-a-utiful Lilei! I've never seen such fine work," Sarah said.
"Including me?" Sirius asked from across the room, looking at her instead of the clothing he was turning red.
"Not," Sarah replied not looking at him.
Sirius grinned.
"What colors did we decide then? Besides red." James asked.
"Red and hot pink," Lily replied.
"Wicked," James said and grinned. He pointed his wand at the clothing in a draw. "Scarletus."
"Celisicus," Sirius said, also pointing his wand at the Slytherins' clothing turning half of it hot pink.
Lily and Sarah walked to their next victim of makeover, Zane. "Lilei! We should spike his hair!" Sarah said eagerly remembering the photo she had showed Lily of her and a guy named David she had met in the States.
"Yeah!" Lily agreed. "Can you guys hold Zane up while I do his hair?" Lily asked James and Sirius.
"Sure," James said. He and Sirius walked on either side of Zane's bed. They pulled him upward to a sitting position. Lily started to form spikes on Zane's head with the help of Madame Heyele's Magnificent Mousse that Sarah had dug out of her bag.
"That stuff smells," Sirius said.
"Good or bad?" Sarah asked as she rummaged through her bag.
"Good," Sirius decided. Sarah smiled as she pulled a bottle of gold nail polish from her bag.
"His nails look really bad," Sarah said holding up Vance's hand up tentatively showing the three of them his nails.
"Ew," Lily said.
"This is disgusting. This'll have to go too. Too bad, I really liked this colour," Sarah said painting Vance's dirty nails.
"It is pretty," Lily agreed.
"They look like they could poke someone's eye out," James said as Lily worked on the last spike on Zane's head.
"I bet they could," Lily said, finished.
"Probably," Sarah agreed.
Lily pulled out her wand. "Cenmtify. Didaimont. And they'll stay right like that for two days. Done."
"What should we do with Rodo?" Sarah asked nodding her head to the last bed which held Rodolphus Lestrange.
"Haircut?" James suggested.
Lily grinned. "Perfect. Sarah? Scissors?"
"Duh," Sarah said as she shoved the nail polish into Sirius' hands before hunting through her bag yet again. She placed the scissors into Lily's hand before recovering her nail polish.
"Guys will you hold him up?" Lily asked them. They moved on either side of Rodolphus' bed and pulled him upward like they did with Zane.
"Almost done," Sarah said happily as she painted the second to last nail on Vance's hand.
Lily started hacking away at Rodolphus' head. "Ew this is nasty. I bet he doesn't wash his hair, just like Snape," Lily grimaced.
"I'm done!" Sarah announced. She tilted her head and watched Lily cut Rodolphus' hair off. "Nice job Lilei."
"Thanks," Lily said as she finished his hair. They all started to laugh. Roldolphus' hair was completely gone at some parts and was left bald. What little hair remained was cut unevenly and wasn't the same length. Sirius and James let him fall back onto his pillow. Sarah threw the rest of her supplies into her bag while Lily cast the spell on Vance and Roldolphus.
Sirius and James went back to changing the color of the boys' clothing.
"Lilei, let's write a note and put it on Rodolphus nightstand, " Sarah whispered in Lily's ear.
"What?" Lily asked, confused.
"I'll write 'thanks for the great night.'!" Sarah whispered excitedly.
"What do you mean?" Lily asked.
"Lilei, come on. Like it's from Bella. Or whoever else he's sleeping with."
"Sarah! You're so mean!"
"I know."
"Put lipstick on and kiss the parchment!" Lily suggested.
"Great idea!" Sarah agreed and wrote out her note for Rodolphus.
R,
Thank you for an amazing night.
-
Sarah wrote and kissed it with red lipstick on, only a few shades off from the colour Bella wore. Sarah put the note on his bedside, but as she turned to walk away from his bed, she tripped and fell on the floor.
"Sarah!" Lily exclaimed as quietly as she could.
"Are you ok?" Sirius asked her.
"I'm fine," she said as Sirius pulled her up from her spot on the floor. She brushed herself off, and picked up the shoe she tripped on. "Know what we should do with this?"
"Ruin it?" James asked.
"Fill it with potatoes?" Sirius asked.
"Shrink it?" Lily asked.
"No. But good ideas. Colour it gold. And shrink it," she smirked.
They all grinned. Lily pulled out her piece of parchment and scanned down the list until she found the spell she wanted. "Golitus. Reducio. Didaimont." She repeated the spells on all of the boys' shoes.
"Are we done?" James asked.
"I think so," Lily replied.
"Ok, let's get out of here then," James said. They crept into the hallway that led back into the Slytherin Common Room with Lily in the lead, way before Sarah, Sirius and James. When she opened the door and walked into the room she froze. Someone was standing in the middle of the common room. The others were still way behind her. The person in the common room began to walk towards her. quickly. Her mind screamed but her feet wouldn't budge.