There was a slight wind, then there were two people sprawled out on the hogwarts grounds, under an oak tree, these two people were familiar to the grounds and castle, but not to many of the people there. These two people were Juliet Callista and Katrina Willows, both born in 1959, both complete opposites, and they were best friends. Heck, they even looked alike, Raven black hair, same height of 5'7'', same color skin, the only real physical differences were that Kat had vibrant blue eyes and Juliet had storm cloud gray eyes, and that Juliet's hair was all the way down her back, while Kat's hair was only to her shoulders.
The real differences these two had were on the inside. They were nothing like each other, anyone would know that if the knew them. Kat was a mischievous prankster, and Juliet was a quiet book worm. The only reason they had ever become friends was because Kat had decided that Juliet needed to be a walking billboard for gryffindor one day in third year, and they had been friends ever since. Weird way to become friends you say? You obviously have no clue who Kat is. Kat, or the queen of pranks as some of her friends call her, is very well known for making friends in odd ways.
The most well known way for her to make friends is through being in detention with them, which is where she spent most of her time during term time. Heck, she was in detention more than in class, weather it be for a planned prank, or just her temper getting loose at a bad moment for it to do so. But, she has made friends by way of pranking them before, some people don't know how to laugh at themselves, but some do, and she tended to be friends with the people who were big enough to laugh at themselves.
Well anyway, back to the story, who really cares why Kat becomes friends with people anyway, right? Kat sat up, you could tell it was Kat because she was the one with shorter hair. There was a large cut on the left of her forehead, it was oozing blood, and she put and hand to it to stop it's bleeding some. "Hey Jules, get up! Something weird happened, we're outside" you could hear her saying to her unconscious friend.
Okay, okay, she's a bit on the loony side, so? This is coming from a girl who thinks all sane people belong in insane asylums. But anyway, Juliet looked up, so maybe she wasn't that loony after all. Juliet sat up and looked at her friend.
"Kat? What happened? Oh, what did you do? How in bloody hell did you get us out here, are you really that bad at potions?!" Juliet asked her best friend, then amended "Sorry, I didn't mean it like that"
"S'ok, I have no clue what I did, all I remember is an explosion, then we were here" Kat said, shrugging at her friend. Kat looked around again as Juliet tried to stand up. She wavered on her feet and almost fell, clutching a tree for support. Kat immediately stood up, she wasn't all that steady on her feet herself, she made a grab for a branch she knew was there on the oak tree… and missed it and fell.
"What the heck?! The tree grew, at least three feet" Kat exclaimed, standing up again and leaning on the tree, looking up at the branch that was now higher up on the tree.
Juliet looked up at the tree "Your right! I didn't know trees grew that fast!" she then looked at Kat again, and saw the cut "We should go find someone to help us out, maybe the hospital wing, or Dumbledore, we need to figure out what you did wrong for sure." Juliet told her friend, as always, Juliet was the sensible one.
"Yeah, your right Jules, we should go to Dumbledore, but I'm not, under any circumstances, going to go to the hospital wing, the nurses hate me, remember?" Kat said to her best friend.
"Right, I forgot, them come on, lets get up to Dumbledore's office" Juliet said, she and Kat supported each other as they started to walk up to the castle, both woozy and unsteady on their feet, Kat still bleeding. As they mounted the steps and entered the castle they noticed that no one looked familiar, they had no clue who anyone was.
"This is weird, I usually know everyone, for my pranks, but I… don't recognize anyone here…" Kat said, looking around uneasily.
"Yeah, I don't see anyone I know either, well, lets get to Dumbledore, he'll have some answers" Juliet said to Kat, who nodded and they went on their slow way toward the headmaster's office.
"Hey! You two, are you new here? What happened to get you so beat up?" They heard an unfamiliar girl address them. Kat looked at this girl suspiciously, she had bushy brown hair and brown eyes, and was wearing a gryffindor uniform, though the uniform was different than what Juliet and herself were wearing.
"Are you a library rat or something? No, we're not new here, we're seventh years. The name's Kat, but most of my friends refer to me as the queen of pranks" Kat said, a smirk appearing on her face as she looked at the girl with an appraising glance.
"I've never heard of you, you two should probably get to the hospital wing, you both look like you need it" The girl said in a know-it-all tone, this made Kat scowl.
"Actually, we were on our way to see Professor Dumbledore" Juliet amended quickly, not giving Kat a chance to do anything Kat-ish to this girl. Kat did mock eye-role and glared at her friend, her eyes were clearly stating that Juliet had ruined her fun.
"Well, I'll help you get there, you really should be going to see the nurse though. I'm Hermione Granger, by the way" Hermione introduced herself, she had the heir of someone who know what was best for these girls more than they did.
"Juliet Callista, and we won't be needing help" Juliet said politely, she wasn't really liking this girl.
"Come on Jules, I just hope he didn't change the password" Kat said, and her and Juliet started up the stair case that would bring them to the right floor. But no such luck, Hermione followed.
"I'll go with you anyway, in case there are any problems, I'm a prefect, it's my job to sort out problems" the brown haired girl said.
Kat chose to ignore the girl and said to Juliet "Hey, I thought the new Gryffindor prefects were Lisa and Rob?" those were the names of the sixth years who were prefects in Gryffindor after all.
Juliet shrugged "Maybe Dumbledore changed them?" she looked a bit confused though. They hurried on their way, they wanted to know what was going on, Hermione following after, trying to figure out something about the 'new students'. They were making good progress, considering that Juliet and Kat could only walk so fast.
"Well, well, well, the mud blood has made some new friends" a voice drawled from behind them. Kat turned around immediately, letting go of Juliet as she did this, and Juliet had to lean against the wall to support herself. She saw Lucius Malfoy, or at least she thought it was Lucius.
"Go away Malfoy, unless you want me to do to you something similar that I did to your dear Narcissa, if I remember correctly, she won't be out of the hospital wing for another week" Kat said immediately, she hated anyone who used that word, there was nothing wrong with being muggle born. The fact that it was Malfoy, well, lets just say if he didn't beat it this wouldn't be pretty.
Malfoy raised his eye brows, apparently surprised. "Don't talk about my mother like that, and I doubt you could do anything to her, or me for that matter, why should I 'go away'? I'm a prefect, detention Miss…" he told her, obviously peeved by Kat's reaction to what he said.
Juliet smirked and gave off a 'heh' then said "Bad choice, now your gunna get it", and smirked at her best friend, Kat had an evil grin on her face.
"The name is Katrina Willows, and I won't be getting detention. You say dear 'Cissa is your mother? Lucius, what are you trying to pull here? I just don't get it, I mean, it's a pity I had to turn her into a slug, yes, but do I really have to do the same to you?" Kat said, her grin turning into a smirk as she saw that Malfoy was outraged.
"Lucius, that's my father's name, what are you trying to pull? That will be two detentions then, and you will address me as Mr. Malfoy, Sir, or Draco, though I doubt you will ever have the honor to call me Draco, I don't let many people use my first name" Draco told her, his voice was in a near hiss.
"Draco?!" Kat said, amused, she cracked up laughing just to annoy him. Juliet had an amused smirk, she knew what was going to happen and for once she wasn't going to go away or intervene. Draco pulled out his wand.
"Oh, the little Malfoy bastard has a wand, I'm so scared" Kat said, drawing her own wand. "I never knew dear 'Cissa was such a slut, by the looks of you, she would have had to have had you when she was around 6, so I guess your father has had this infatuation for longer than I knew." she added, pointing her wand idly at Draco.
"Don't talk of my parents like that" Draco said, obviously incensed, Kat was just smirking.
"Hey Jules, looks like little dragon here is angry" Kat said to her friend, then looked at Draco again and said "Temper temper".
Draco said a spell, an odd one, but Kat shouted "Protengo" before it hit her. She was well practiced in duels. She then muttered a spell, it hit him, and he was turned into a giant slug. "What color Jules?" she asked her friend, Juliet would know what she was talking about.
"I'm rather partial to blue myself" Juliet replied, she didn't usually take part in pranks, but this guy seemed to deserve it.
"You got it" Kat said, then muttered another spell, making the slug that was Draco start to glow a florescent blue. "Come on, lets get to Dumbledore." She said, putting her wand away and going over to Juliet again.
"Right" Jules said, and they went back to supporting each other and walking down the hall way, they had sort of forgotten about Hermione. But Hermione, well, she hadn't forgotten about them.
"How'd you do that?!" she asked, catching up with Kat and Juliet.
"It's called charms and transfiguration, you might want to practice spells every once in a while" Kat replied coolly, she found that it wasn't going to work, ignoring this girl. They kept walking, and were soon at the gargoyle that was the entrance to the headmaster's office.
"Licorice" Kat said, the gargoyle didn't move. "Damnit! I was just here last week too! He had to change the password, huh?" she almost yelled. "Start naming candies" Kat advised them, this was going to take some thought.
"Candy cane, chocolate bar, drouble's best blowing gum, fizzing wizzbys, uh.. Acid pops, sugar quills, chocolate ink, gum drops, grape heads, umm.." Kat wracked her brain for candy names.
"I think it's chocolate frogs" Hermione chipped in, the gargoyle still didn't move. Kat continued to rattle off names of candies.
Eventually, when she said "Laffy Taffy" the gargoyles jumped to the side, Kat smirked at Hermione then stepped onto the moving stair case with Juliet. To both girl's dismay, Hermione followed, muttering something about "He must have changed it…". Oh well, they were there now, it didn't really matter, they needed answers.
Kat just opened the door and went right in without even knocking, she didn't feel like waiting, and when Professor Dumbledore looked up from something, he dropped his quill and said "Gods!". This was the first time any of the girls had seen the headmaster startled by anything. But Dumbledore was obviously startled, and it wasn't just because Kat just barged into his office, he had seen Kat and Juliet, and his eyes had widened, and he had dropped his quill, one question was going through Kat's mind "Has he finally gone nuts-oh?"