"Fred and George Weasley!" Professor Magonagall yelled across the great hall at the two laughing boys "See me in my office now!"
"Guess she found the flag." Fred and George got up from their seats high-fiving Griffindors as they headed up the stairs towards her office.
"What's wrong with the Slytherins?" Hermione asked glancing over at the Slytherin table. They were looking more spiteful than usual. Harry and Ron exchanged glances before bursting into laughter.
"Fred and George they..." Ron cracked up again "Slytherin common room..." He banged his hand against the table trying to control his laughter.
"Griffindor colours" Harry was now laughing as much as Ron
"What?" Hermione was confused but she had gathered that Slytherin had been the butt of another Weasley joke.
"Fred and George" Harry was beginning to regain composure but Ron continued to laugh hysterically "They charmed the Slytherin common room to burgundy and gold" he started laughing once more "and he transfigured the furniture to look like ours." Harry started laughing again.
"There's a huge Griffindor flag on the wall." Ron finally calmed himself down.
"You do realise" Hermione interrupted "That we have potions with the Slytherins first period" Harry and Ron's smiles dropped "And that they are going to be less pleasant than normal."
"Less pleasant" Ron was smiling again "That means that they were ever anything close to pleasant."
"You two are insufferable!" Hermione gathered her books and stormed off to potions 10 minutes early.
"Who's she partnered with?" Harry asked as Ron turned to finish off what Hermione didn't eat of her breakfast.
"Blaise Zabini"Ron and Harry locked eyes and broke into laughter again.
Hermione dropped her books onto the desk and carelessly scraped her chair along the floor, attracting looks from the other Griffindors who had chosen to arrive early. She was dreading a particularly intolerable Snape. Hermione stifled a giggle as Zabini sat down next to her sporting a well worn set of Griffindor robes. If they were anything Fred and George were thorough and Harry and Ron along with several other Griffindors were now on the other side of the room in stitches from laughing so much. The room grew silent as Snape walked in.
"I awoke to garish red and gold wallpaper..." Snape drawled "get on my nerves...make a sound...and I will personally see to it that you wont see daylight until you graduate." Draco smirked looking over at the Griffindors while Snape turned to the board "And that goes for Slytherins too." He spun around and Draco fell back into his seat.
Blaise seemed reasonably unaffected by the happenings. He wasn't happy, but certainly not as bothered as Malfoy, Nott and his goons Crabbe and Goyle.
"I don't see the big deal, it was just house colours" Zabini broke the silence looking over at Harry and Ron who were now bickering with Malfoy and Nott.
"And a flag." Hermione grinned.
"How'd you know about the flag?"
"Inside sources" Hermione and Zabini smiled and got back to their work not wanting to end up in detention with Snape.
"Did you hear?" Hermione looked up from her book as two Ravenclaws walked by "The Slytherins are planning a counter attack." The girl next to her gasped. "They're going to..." Her voice faded out as she walked into the next aisle. If she had been Harry or Ron she would've followed but she was sick of the animosity between houses. Hermione slammed her head down on her book and tried to close it shut over her ears. Stupid house rivalry. Slytherin was just going to get Griffindor back with something worse and it would keep going back and forth.