April fool's day
When the fat friar agreed, the boys realized that this could be the biggest prank they were going to pull so far, and that was saying a lot.
Normally, their pranks were aimed at a specific audience (most of the time, Slytherin or Snape), but this occasion was going to be different, as the whole school, except for the ghosts, Peeves, the house elves and the four of them, were going to be exempt from the prank.
It was soon to be April Fool's Day, and after James' rambling during Professor Binns' class (it seemed that Potter's defense mechanism against boredom was to start thinking up pranks), he came up with the wonderful idea of turning the school into chaos and thus, for the rest of the week, not having classes.
As usual, after sharing that slight idea to Remus' ears, everything began to take shape; if they managed to get most of the ghosts on their side, they could reach every corner of every corridor, with the elves, who decades ago were not part of any fun, they could make a mess in the kitchens, the dormitories, and even the classrooms and Peeves; he only wanted to collaborate because he liked the marauders wonderfully.
Sirius' only prompting was:
“Tomorrow, do what you have always wanted to do against students or teachers, who have directed some disparaging remarks at you, just remember that among allies, we don't kill each other.”
That's how it all started and out of that came the wackiest day at Hogwarts.
Several members of the decapitated ghost club took the trouble to change the time on all the clocks, so some students woke up hours earlier while others arrived at the second hour of classes. The food served at the Slytherin table was crap, Ravenclaw was full of bread with nothing else, Hufflepuff with so many sweets as to cause diabetes and Gryffindor had tons of meat.
Various girls came running in after Myrtle started picking on them, stealing their clothes, makeup, or even pulling their pigtails. The teachers, who were initially alarmed, then realized that they weren't out of the joke either.
During the Care of Magical Creatures class, while Professor Ferox1 was explaining the properties of the caged pixies, Peeves arrived and in a second those creatures were pestering the students. In potions, everything was a disaster, because the ghosts kept pouring the wrong ingredients into the students' cauldrons, and even Slughorn, while teaching the preparation of the smoothing potion, managed to paint a student's hair fuchsia.
At the end of the day of constant fiddling, the whole spectacle ended beautifully in the great dining hall, with the ghosts entering hugging each other, while singing the Hogwarts anthem. Remus with Sirius, who already had his wand ready under the table, made a nimble movement, so that a large firework exploded above the great dining hall that read:
«WE BID A CORDIAL, LOVING, CONSCIENTIOUS AND AMUSING FAREWELL: THE MARAUDERS. »
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1)Another ATYD reference