“A dragon!” I said aghast. “Sirius, you have to be kidding!”

“What?” Sirius said, looking innocently at the baby dragon sitting on the table. “He’s harmless.” Somehow I doubted that saying a dragon was harmless was accurate. The dragon burped suddenly, setting fire to the sleeve of Sirius’ robes. He hastily patted the fire out.

“Harmless.” I snorted.

Of course it was Sirius’ idea of a joke. Placing a dragon in the teacher’s lounge. By the morning it would be over a foot long. The teachers would have a hard time persuading a baby dragon to leave. I just stared hard at Sirius, to see the real reason he would want to terrify the teachers.

“James, come on, this is classic.” Sirius said to me. Of course, being in the seventh year, our pranks were more dangerous.

“Sirius! What is that!” yelled Remus, walking into their dormitory and seeing the dragon on the makeshift table I had conjured up. Peter’s mouth was open in shock.

“Please tell me that flew through the window, and you don’t actually own it.” said Remus, sitting on his bed. Peter just stood by the door, still in shock.

“Oh no, I own it.” replied Sirius. I shook my head, drawing attention.

“James, you didn’t have anything to do with this, did you?” asked Remus.

“Nope, not this time.” I replied. Remus nodded as if not quite believing me.

“What are you planning on doing with that dragon?” Remus continued.

“Oh, put it in the teachers’ lounge.” shrugged Sirius, as if commenting on the weather.

“Sirius, you can’t be serious?” said Remus, realizing too late his mistake.

“But I am Sirius.” he replied seriously. Remus growled at the old joke.

“You know what I mean.” Remus said. I was sensing a fight was about to break out, so I stepped between them.

“Come on, lets go to bed. Sirius, you should get rid of that.” I said. Sirius nodded his head, picking up the dragon and transfiguring the table into a box and placing the dragon into it. He walked over to his trunk and pulled out his broom. He jumped on and zoomed out the window. Remus scowled as he climbed into bed.

I walked over to my trunk, surreptitiously pulling out the Marauder’s Map. I climbed into my bed and pulled the curtains shut before I opened the paper. Once the lines settled, forming hallways and side passages, I began to look for Sirius. I instantly spotted him zooming around the castle.

I almost thought that he would listen to me and take the dragon to the owlery and send to Romania. Almost. I knew Sirius better than that. I followed him around the castle three... four times before he flew into an open window and I had to fold the map back on itself to see where he went. I finally found him again in the teachers’ lounge and had to smile. I closed the map and tucked it under my pillow.

I woke with a bang the next morning. Literally. Sirius had emitted a loud series of firecrackers from his wand and woke up the whole dormitory.

“Shut it!” said Remus throwing his pillow in the general direction of Sirius.

“Get up.” said Sirius, picking up the pillow two feet in front of him, and throwing it, with accuracy, at Remus.

“We’re up.” I said, shutting my trunk after changing and putting the Marauder’s Map in it.

“Yeah, yeah.” grumbled Remus, as he and Peter got up and dressed.

The Marauders went down to breakfast in the Great Hall. Sirius kept looking around as if expecting something, which no one, except me, noticed. Once everyone in the school made it to te Great Hall, Dumbledore stood up, which was uncommon.

“We would like all students to return to their dormitory, and all teachers to the teachers’ lounge.” Dumbledore said, as calm as ever. All the students stood up, talking, and questioning what was going on. Remus and Peter looked at Sirius accusingly.

“What?” he asked innocently. They shook their heads as I tried to stifle a snort of laughter. We swung by the teachers’ lounge on our way up to the common room. I got a glimpse through the open door of all the professors’ with their wands out. Fire suddenly shot from one corner and enveloped a teacher before someone else shot water at them.

“Wicked.” Sirius said, lounging in the common room. “A whole day without classes.”

“Sirius, this is the last prank you can pull.” said Remus, who wasn’t as mad anymore.

“And why not?” asked Sirius, sitting up straighter in his chair.

“This was by far the best one, you can’t top it.” I said, grinning hugely.

Sirius unconsciously grinned back while saying, “It’s too bad your right Remus, this is the last prank.”


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