Ciara Wallace and Ebony MacGregor, both in their seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were on their way to their first lesson on Monday: Potions. They could hardly repress their grins. It was their last week at Hogwarts, and they planned to really enjoy it.
For today they had planned the most brilliant prank, and it would all start in Potions.
They took their seats and tried to calm down. The door to the room in the dungeon opened and Professor Snape entered the classroom. He reached the front of the room and turned to face the class.
"The fact that it is your last week in this institution will not excuse you for performing poorly in my lessons. Today we will revise some of the more important potions, starting with a strong Dreamless-Sleep draught. Instructions are on the board."
Everyone scrambled to get the stuff they needed and started on their potion. Ciara smiled to herself.
'This is a really easy one!'
Exactly thirteen minutes after the start of the lesson, the relative silence in the classroom was interrupted by an electric guitar. The riff of the song 'School's Out' from Alice Cooper resounded through the dungeons (and also the rest of the school, it had been quiet some work, to come up with the right spells for that). Snape's face was a carefully schooled mask that gave away nothing. He told the teenagers to calm down again. Then Alice's voice sounded through the castle:
Well we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin' all that noise
'Cause they found new toys
Well we can't salute ya
Can't find a flag
If that don't suit ya, that's a drag
The students were grinning and listening to the music. Snape ordered them to remain in their places and left the room in search for the origin of this sound.
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
The students were delighted by this musical treat, but the teachers were confused. None had found anything outside their classrooms and the song was still resounding in all the corridors and rooms.
No more pencils, no more books
No more teachers' dirty looks
The music could be heard in the whole school, even in the greenhouses and in the nearer grounds.
Well we got no class and we got no principals
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes
Dumbledore leaned back in his chair and decided to enjoy the song.
'This prank must be from the seventh years,' he thought amused. It was clearly more imaginative than similar activities of former years. And the spellwork was quite good. Someone obviously had done they're research.
School's out for summer
Scholl's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
Ciara and her friends were doing their best to act as surprised as the others. It was working quite well, because they'd thought one of the teachers would have put a stop to it by now. Apparently their combined spell wasn't all that bad.
No more pencils, no more books
No more teachers' dirty looks
Even Professor Flitwick hadn't yet been able to stop the music. The source hadn't been located so far, which made it a difficult task.
Out for summer
Out till fall
We might not come back at all
School's out forever
School's out for summer
School's out with fever
School's out completely!With one last chord the song came to it's conclusion and silence returned to the castle. Ciara and Ebony exchanged a triumphant look across their cauldron. This had really been a complete success! This 'Last Year Prank' would be talked about for some time!