A'N:
PADFOOT just warning any of you. before you delve into the begining chapter/prologue of our story. we are HARRY POTTER purists normally...
PRONGS and we are mucking around with this story. we decided to have fun and not dwell on the tragedies... well not all of them from HBP
PADFOOT yes anyway as this is the prologue, we have brought in new characters and this explains the title
PRONGS and the characters personality
This story starts in the middle of the night at White Sands Academy of magical learning.
"Hey Prongsie, its time to get up and start our work" whispered Camille, a current sixth year student at White sands.
"Yeah, Yeah I m up, I up. Geez Padfoot it's the middle of the night" sighed an obviously tired Ellen, another current sixth year student.
"I know that dumb ass I just want to make sure we finish it before dawn is all, and besides I think professor Jones might actually like this one, although we will have Chewy on our backs for ever" sniggered Camille as she put her Brown wavy hair in a messy high pony tail. "Anyway where exactly are we putting this one again Prongs?"
"In the Dining hall stupid and your calling me a dumb ass…" replied Ellen as she also put her Brown straight hair up into a neat high pony tail. "Ok, you ready?" she asked with a devilish grin on her face.
"As I will ever be and shall remain to be!" replied Camille with the same evil grin. "Let's go." She said grabbing her "supply" bag.
Walking down into the Billabong common room the pair put on a pair of thick woollen socks even though the temperature was heading to about thirty degrees. Quickly sinking into the shadows the pair of mischief makers left the common room with out a sound. Running silently down the old castles corridors they soon found themselves in the shadows outside the eating hall in the entrance foyer.
"Man I'm soaked through with sweat, and must we wear these darn socks Prongs?" said Camille through a mouthful of bread.
"Yes Padfoot, it's so that chewy doesn't hear us, and how can you eat at a time like this… then again don't answer that… you never stop eating" said Ellen a look of amusement appeared on her face as Camille stuffed the rest of the bread into her mouth without a care in the world that she could choke on that amount of food. Not that it worried her of course; she could have a whole lot more in her mouth than that little amount of bread. For instance, she beat an After Dark seventh year in a game of magical chubby bubbies when she was in her third year.
"well come on then, if we want to get this done we had actually better do that, you know get it done… we can't stand out here all day like a pair of chatting old hags. Business is Business my friend, lets go." Said Camille swallowing the last of the bread that was in her mouth easily.
The pair snuck into the dining hall silently and walked up to the heads table. They ripped open all the cushions and pulled out the stuffing and replaced them with blown up whoopee cushions, they magically resealed the cushions. Next they put instant contact self – adhesive super glue on all the Professors chairs. Moving away from where the teachers put their fat asses the two pranksters moved onto the cutlery. Whilst Ellen was permanently sticking the cutlery and goblets to the table, Camille was pulling out several artist instruments.
"What are they?" Ellen asked as she saw her best friend pull out a small tip paint brush.
"This my friend, is a paint brush. I found it in an art shop in muggle Brisbane. Quite interesting actually, they had all sorts of stuff in there. Strange what muggles can come up with ey?" said Camille as though it was the simplest thing in the world.
"And what would you be using it for Padfoot. Have you planned something without me again!" Ellen asked curious to her friend's actions with the "paint brush".
"Oh, nothing just painting on different flavours to the inside of the goblets so that what ever our dear Professors drinks tastes disgusting." Replied Camille calmly. "It's nothing big really, but I was going to use essence of dung for good old Chewy's cup, what do ya think?"
"I like it; it's different, unusual… I like it. Ha, I can't wait to see their faces… have you got the banner ready?" asked Ellen, she prayed that Padfoot had remembered it.
"Yes I have it, it's in me bag over there." said Camille pointing to her "supply" bag.
"Ok, come here and help me put it up… wait what does it say?" started Ellen, she was scared as too what Camille would write on something as important as this, there was basically one week left to go in the school year.
"Don't worry so much Prongs it's all under control. And it says: HAPPY END OF YEAR FROM PP signed Padfoot and Prongs." Smirked Camille. Honestly she thought what on earth Prongs had to worry about.
"Ok just making sure, ok give us a hand here and we will then go down and visit the house elves in the kitchens, you got the potions ready?" asked a reassured Ellen.
"Yea well stop yapping and give me a hand, here you take that end" said Camille.
The mischief makers in chief soon had everything assembled behind the heads table. And added well, rather, took away something from the After Dark table.
"Hey Prongs slow down I just gotta do one more thing…" said Camille Smiling evilly as she silently ran over to the enemies table, crouching down at the ends of each bench she unscrewed the bolts a tiny bit, though enough so that when many people sat down it would break.
"Ok, you done now, we have to see the house elves and get back to bed before Chewy notices we are gone, you know how he has his ways of finding this out." Said a slightly annoyed but amused Ellen, how Padfoot came up with these simple, ridiculous but all the same entertaining tricks was be yond her.
"Yeah yeah, don't get you knickers in a knot." Said Camille.
"What?" asked Ellen, she had no clue what her friend was going on about.
"Never mind it's a muggle saying, I found it in a book…. Just annoying, that's it. Great book." Said Camille smiling as she reminisced over the memory.
"Yes well moving on, by the way what did you do to the goblets?" asked Ellen, she had almost forgotten the teacher's goblets.
"Huh? Oh that. Nothing, just a couple of different disgusting essences bounded in by a permanency spell, so it wont go away" said Camille, "it wasn't that hard to do, but it wont go away for a while." She finished as she stifled as laughter as they came closer to the kitchens.
Finding the secret passage into the kitchens the girls were greeted by a small house elf.
"What can we do for yous Misses Ellen and Camille?" asked Lola, a small house elf.
"Hmm Lola, can you do us a favour?" asked Ellen.
"Do you have any of those short bread biscuits left from dinner?" asked Camille who was in a world of her own. As soon as she asked, about six other house elves came bustling up with a tray between them carrying a plate of biscuits. "Thanks" she said taking one.
"Not now Padfoot gees. Anyway Lola do you think you could do us a favour?" asked Ellen slightly annoyed that her counter part was eating… again.
"Yes misses, Lola can do anyfing you wishes her to do." Said Lola, happy to be getting work.
"Padfoot, hand me the potions…" said Ellen turning to her friend. Camille turned around and handed Ellen the four potion vials to Ellen from her left hand as her right was occupied by at least seven biscuits. Ellen who now had to the vials turned back to face Lola. "Can you make sure that these -"
"Make it into the After Dark houses breakfast please" finished Camille.
"Sure misses… thank yous for visiting us." Said Lola smiling happily not knowing what was in the four vials.
"Thank you" the pair said in unison. They walked out of the kitchens and made their way back up to their dormitories. Camille still had at least seven biscuits in her hand and was silently talking.
"Ha I so can't wait to see the faces of the heads and the After Dark people, its gonna be hilarious." Said Camille as she started to eat one of her biscuits.
"Yes it will be just be quite, ok? And chew a little softer so that Chewy don't catch us. Though he has done it before. Ha do you remember last week before the Quidditch final when we stuck the huge Banner up saying that we will win, and we had those vials in the Sharks' breakfast and it came up in acne on their faces saying that the seeker and the beater were the best in the team and that we would win? Ha that was funny." Said Ellen.
"Yes it was a pity that poor little chewy didn't seem to get our joke, hmm how many more nights of detentions have we got left?" agreed Camille.
"Don't ponder it Padfoot, we only have two more nights, though it would probably be more but it's the last week of the year and they can't really do that to us can they." Said Ellen thinking about the outcome in the morning. "Hey should we have like a special incoming in the morning like last week, such as arriving late, arriving on time, riding our brooms into the hall?" she asked.
"Yes I think we should, and I like the last one… we ride our brooms into the hall right in the middle of breakfast when we are most likely to get the most attention." Said Camille.
So of the girls went into dreamland as they reached their dorms. It was going to be a long day. After five short hours of sleep, Ellen was the first to arise from her slumber.
"Come on Padfoot get up" she said as she tried to pull her counterpart out of bed by the feet.
"Ten more minutes mum…"whined Camille.
"NO, we have to see if our prank worked…" said Ellen hoping that that would get her friend out of bed.
Sitting bolt up right Camille turned her tired eyes to look at her best friend. "Yes, now be a good friend and nick off while I change, and we need to find our brooms as well. Racing around the dorms getting ready the pair finally found their Apollo 180's these brooms where the latest model in flying speed, they were faster than a Firebolt and almost twice as expensive. Once they had changed, Camille in Black pants with an aqua shirt on and her wavy hair out and Ellen wearing a light blue singlet top and denim short shorts with her hair up, the girls mounted their brooms and took off out the window. They did a lap of the school and came in through the front gates and into the dining hall. And what a sight it was. The banner had come down; the teachers were arguing and brandishing whoopee cushions at each other. And the After Dark students were also scream, but that's because if they drank orange juice they would spurt up in boils, if they ate the eggs they would be singing like a canary and have their hair turned yellow, if they had toast they would start telling the truth and if they drank the pumpkin juice they would babbling uncontrollably.
Laughing the two girls dismounted their brooms and walked calmly to their table. They didn't notice that they were followed by the most popular boy in the whole school.
"Good morning girls, I just wanted to say hello, and that I am sorry for your torment and O'Brien you look absolutely beautiful this morning is that a new shirt?" Mike asked Ellen whilst gesturing to her outfit; obviously he had eaten the toast this morning.
"Yes is it Michael now run along with your disgusting little friends and don't forget Marietta your girl friend now will you?" said Ellen smirking at the boy's behaviour.
"Yes my dear I shall leave now, I just wanted to comment on your beautiful looks this morning." He said standing up and walking back over to his fuming girl friend who was also the White Sands Whore.
Look at what they had created the trouble makers were just about to sit down when Cujes had come up behind them his face purple with fury.
"O'Brien and Grant how I knew this was you, come on up to my office." he said grabbing the two girls by the ears and dragging them out of the eating area. Taking them up the stairs into his dark and dank office. Muttering about how he could get them out of here for good he unlocked his room and pushed the girls in before following them. Camille turned around and took out her wand. With a small wink to Ellen she pointed it at the desk and did an unspeakable spell. Ellen following her actions pulled out hers and pointed it at the caretaker. Also using and unspeakable she turned is hair to be flame red, and his pants to be boxer shorts and on his shirt she wrote, I Love PP! Stifling their laughter the girls turned and took their usual seats in front of the desk while Cujes went through the draw that was dedicated to the two girls. He started up his usual mutter to himself as they awaited the reply from the head master.
"You will be out this time, mark my words, the enemy will be leaving never to step foot in these halls again." He started
"Chewy you do know that muttering and talking to yourself is the first sign of madness right?" asked Camille innocently.
"No – I – I – I. Shut up Grant. You two have always been toeing that line for a long time, finally you have over stepped it and will be gone from this castle never to see it again." He said menacingly.
The girls in their time had been suspended twice, in their sixth year alone up until this point had about three hundred detentions, out of their whole schooling history; they had the highest amount of detentions in history of school. No body could beat PP. They waited no longer than ten minutes before the owl returned with a letter of dismissal; it seemed the head master was thinking the same as the caretaker.
"Ha Ha, your leaving girls, your out you have been expelled from White Sands." He said laughing hysterically. His dream had come true, the enemy were leaving. The girls looked horrified, sure they had often put a toe over the line but they had never been expelled. They read the letter and saw that they had until the end of term to stay at the castle then they were never to come back. Cujes who was over the moon about the fact that the enemy was leaving didn't give them detention, he told them to leave so that he could celebrate. The two girls put smiles on their faces as they walked back to their friends in the great hall to tell them what had happened.
The girls entered the hall to find their friends. Luckily they were there, rushing over to tell them the bad news both girls skidded to a halt.
"Oh we heard what you guys did this morning, very nasty, you won't last long this time." Said Annie, she was grinning at her two best friends. How they managed to escape being expelled so many times in the past was beyond her knowledge but this time she was sure that something would happen.
"Yeah guys, I think you may have over stepped the mark, Annie is right, Jones won't be happy about this." Said Holly the trouble makers other friend. Both girls looked at each other and nodded, they had over stepped the mark this time; they knew that now.
Turning back to face their friends they said simultaneously "We're expelled"
The last day couldn't have come sooner for the former mischief makers in chief. Their Reign of Terror was over at White Sands. Looking once more around the place that had become their home over the last five and now six years the girls packed their trunks, though leaving behind their quidditch robes. Ellen left behind her aqua coloured robes which had O'Brien and Seeker written in silver on the back. Camille left behind her aqua coloured robes which had Grant and Beater written in silver on the back as well. Camille how ever could not leave behind her lucky beaters bat. Taking the aqua painted bat she placed it into her trunk. She looked around her room and found a small piece of parchment; she transfigured it to look like her old bat and left it behind with her old beaters quidditch uniform.
The pair left their old dormitory dragging their trunks behind them. It was so sad to leave behind a place they had grown to love and prank. Moving silently into the Billabong common room, the pair looked around at their former house mates. Seeing that Annie and Holly weren't there Ellen and Camille left in search of their friends.
The pair walked down through the castle talking to those few from After Dark and The Alice houses that they knew from classes. They left their trunks in the entrance foyer and walked into the peaceful dining hall to find their friends conversing quietly.
"Hey Holly, Hey Annie." Said Camille glumly as she plonked herself down onto the bench next to her friends.
"Hey Camille, Hey Ellen. Why the glum faces? Oh right you guy's aren't coming back, sorry I forgot." Replied Holly looking at her down faced friends.
"Yeah guys we are really sorry that you have to leave, but if it makes you feel any better, there is still the boat ride home to leave your mark permanently forged in our colleagues' brains." Said Annie smiling to cheer her friends up.
"Yeah I guess your right, Padfoot we need to start thinking." Said Ellen starting to chirp up a bit.
"I am sorry Prongs but I can't. Not today. This is the last time I will ever be here. I will never get to eat the White Sands food ever again. It's terrible. Now please if you don't mind I would like to mope while I eat my last delicious breakfast cooked by Lola." Said Camille helping her self to every sort of food that was in her reach.
"Well you're kind to your friends aren't you Padfoot, and anyway I think a bit of last minute pranking is just what we and the rest of the school need. Come on you know you want to..." said Ellen grinning at her hopeless friend as she stuffed her face full of food cooked by the house elves that they had become friends with.
"Yeah, well I guess we could. How about we hmmm put stinging charms on every inch of the boat so that when people touch it with bare skin our mark burns into them?" said Camille in deep thought of the prank.
"Yes I think that could work. In that case we better get moving. Come on Padfoot." Said Ellen.
"NO! Not yet I haven't finished. And it won't take that long anyway. And the teachers are going to wonder where the angels of the school are" pointed out Camille but sniggered at her last comment. She doubted very much if she and Ellen had ever been angels let alone innocent, they used to drive their parents insane when they were little, and yet their parents were wizards.
"Fine we will do it your way and wait until the last speech of Professor Jones. Happy now?" Concurred an annoyed Ellen.
"Yes I am quite pleased with your agreement to my terms, now be quiet Professor Big Head is about to talk, finally… I can't wait to get out of here." Said Camille as she finished up her breakfast and turned to face the front where the head master (Professor Jones) now stood awaiting the schools attention.
"Another year gone. And what joyous happenings occurred. To our seventh years and those select few leaving us I wish you good luck and many happy returns. To those who shall be joining us again next year, I wish you a fantastic summer break and a healthy return to White Sands Academy." Said Professor Jones. He placed particular emphasis on the words leaving, joining and returns whilst looking at the White Sands famous mischief makers no more, they were indeed leaving, never to join or return to the magic academy again.
All three houses (After Dark, Billabong and The Alice) clapped and cheered as the end of the year had finally come. Soon everyone was standing and flooding towards the main doors, leading the way at a hurried and trying to be unnoticeable walk were the trouble makers them selves. They had left before the head master could finish his overly boring speech and making it personal by looking at them all the time. Being a couple of hundred yards in front of the rest of the school. They easily made it down to the catamaran and charmed it before every one else arrived.
Ellen and Camille climbed aboard the vessel and found them selves a room and retrieved their trunks from the storage compartment. Returning back to their room they sat there waiting for the screams to erupt.
"Ten… nine… eight… seven…" started Camille in a bored voice.
"Six…five…four…three" continued Ellen in much the same bored voice.
"Two… one." They said together wincing as the school climbed aboard the boat screaming as the trouble maker's simple symbol was branded into their flesh.
After ten solid minutes of laughter, the girls were interrupted by their friends.
"Hello girls, you know that trick really hurts…" said Holly.
"Yeah it did, but at least you got your point across about not wanting to be missed, can you take it off now, and find something for our hands, they really hurt." Said Annie, wincing as she out stretched her hand to show her two mischief makers of friends.
"Ouch, that does looks sore don't it Prongs?" Said Camille as she looked at her friend's hand putting on an act as though she thought it did look really sore.
"Yes indeed it does Padfoot, what should we do? Take it off their hands and the boat?" asked Ellen in the same mocked concern voice.
"I say we take it off the boat, but leave it on their hands." Said Camille, she then turned to her friends and conjured up some ice and waved her wand so that the charm was lifted. "Here this should help take away the welt but the red scar will stay there for a little while, maybe until next year, don't know how much force we put the charm under, whoops" she finished smiling as she handed the other girls lumps of ice which they put on the burnt wounds.
Although the trip to Brisbane was a long trip by water from the magic school, they reached the docking near New Farm Park and tied up the boat in no time at all. Soon all those who had attended were departing, with Ellen and Camille coming last, hexing pretty much anything that would be in some way benefit to the operators of the boat as well as the old heads who had to round every one up off the boat. After deciding to finally leave the vessel, the two girls made their way over to their parents who were conversing quietly over to the side, the seemed to be very engrossed in conversation. Coming closer the girls managed to over hear some of the conversation.
"Yes I heard that Hogwarts is one of the best magical schools in all of Europe" said Ellen's Father.
"Yes that's what we thought when Professor McGonagall replied to our letter about sending Camille there after we found out about her and Ellen being expelled, that girl will be getting a talking to when we get home, I mean she has come of age, I thought that this pranking would have stopped by now." Said Camille's Father.
"Yes so will Ellen. I know what you mean though about them growing out of it, we thought it was just a stage that they were going through." Said Ellen's Mother. Camille's mother how ever had turned around at the sound of luggage being dragged across the grass along with two pairs of feet.
"Camille dear it is good to have you back with us again." Said Emma, Camille's mother in a would be cheering voice since her daughter had been expelled from the magic school in all of Australia. Camille turned to face her parents, after hearing what they had just said she wasn't sure if she liked them anymore. It wasn't just a stage that she was going through, she and Ellen loved pranking people. It was their favourite pass time and hobby. Second of course to quidditch.
"Hello Mother, Father. Had a good year I hope." Camille replied coldly.
Mean while Ellen's conversation was much the same with her parents. She also heard about the whole "stage" thing. She was thinking along the same lines as Camille and talked to her parents as well in a cold manner.
"Well we must depart now, it was lovely to see you again John and Nicole." Said Camille's mother talking to Ellen's parents. "We must catch up again soon. Good bye Ellen dear, and remember you can come and visit us anytime." She concluded and turned to find a safe apparition spot, Michael, Camille's father following her.
"I guess that this leaves us here for now hey partner?" said Camille glumly.
"Yeah I guess it does good luck tonight with your parents. And remember your mother said that I can visit anytime, that is provided that I am not grounded and besides I can apparate during the night and that so we will see each other and we do have that bugging system that we can try out you know." Replied Ellen, giving Camille a hug as she turned to face her parents.
"Yes I guess I think I shall talk to you later then." Said Camille returning Ellen's hug and went over to her parents.
Both girls were gone in a small "pop".
Soon both girls appeared in their bedrooms. Their parents down stairs. Thinking of what trouble should await them they began to unpack. Ellen found her bugging system one moment before Camille, so sticking the ear piece in her ear and the bug like phone on her shirt she was ready. She tapped it with her wand and instantly she could hear Camille moving about in her room.
"Hey Padfoot, you there?" she said into the mouth piece.
"Yeah I am here Prongs… how is it at your place?" answered Camille.
"Bit cold and stony between the parentals and me… same with you or are you parents talking with you?" she replied.
"Nah, it's pretty much the same, but I think that is about to change for both of us. I can hear footsteps. I will talk to you later no doubt; tell you the out come of our "actions". See ya." Said Camille taking off her bugging system and placing it into her draw. Ellen followed the same actions by taking off her own system and putting it away. Once the draws had closed in each girl's bedroom in each house, a house elf came to retrieve the girls to go to their parent's sitting room where their parents would like to talk to them about some things.
"Ellen we are very very very ashamed of your behaviour this year, it got you expelled from the only magic school in all of Australia. Are you happy about this, your father is now having trouble at work, his own daughter getting expelled." Started up Ellen's mother Nicole, this was the usual lecture about her behaviour, when would her parents understand that this was her life, she would live it how she thought it was right.
Over at Camille's house, much the same was happening. Her mother was going on about her behaviour that has happened in the past and how her father too was having trouble at work. He was in the auror's head quarters with Ellen's father John at the Brisbane Ministry of Magic in Australia.
Both girls were looking at their parents as though they belonged on a different planet. Soon the lectures came to an end when both sets of parents finished up by telling the girls that they would be schooling over seas… at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All colour drained from Ellen and Camille's faces as they sat there. Hogwarts? No way, their parents must be joking they though. No way in the world would their parents send them to a school over seas? It was too far away, let alone the fact that it was one of the best schools in all of Europe.
The girls departed from their parents' presence and ran back to their rooms to see the out come of both parents decision.
"Prongs, Prongs are you there?" said Camille as she turned on her bugging system.
"Yeah I am here Padfoot, what's the out come of the parentals with you?" replied Ellen.
"I am being shipped off to Hogwarts in England. Apparently I am going to be over there for the last of the summer for them, winter for us. It's not fair. What happening with you?" replied Camille in an exasperated voice.
"Yeah same here, hey maybe we can share a room at the Leaky Cauldron. Ah well just think, it's another place to prank and guess who goes there?" said Ellen starting to get excited as she remembered information that her dear old mother had told her.
"Yeah bunking down in London sounds fun. Let me guess Harry Potter. Duh he like lives in England, what other school would he go to?" said Camille.
"Yeah I know, how awesome and apparently he is our age, which means that we get to go to school with Harry Potter and be in his graduating class, cool huh?" replied Ellen in an almost excited voice.
"Yeah I guess, tell you what how about we finish this and then we can get together tomorrow and organise to make arrangements to book a room at the Leaky Cauldron?" asked Camille
"Yep, sounds great talk to you later." Ellen finished turning of her system as she said good bye.
Both girls stayed in their rooms that night only leaving it to go to dinner.
Soon it was morning and the girls had sent off a letter to London about getting a room at the Leaky Cauldron. After the letter had left with the Grant Family owl, the girls went for a walk in Camille's back yard to talk about the lectures that they had received.
Walking around the small creek under the shades of the large gum trees Camille turned to Ellen, "So how about it then, seems like our parents don't like us that much, I mean they are sending us up to Europe, to England none the less. I mean they could've sent us to New Zealand, its closer to home." She said.
"Yeah I know, Father and I have been arguing a lot lately. Apparently he and Michael have been having trouble at work because of us, their daughters got expelled. It isn't that bigger deal, so what we over stepped the mark. It shouldn't have an effect on their work life. It is really stupid. They can't blame us for their mistakes." Replied Ellen, trying to cover the anger in her voice.
"Yeah your right, ah well we can still stay together next year unless we are sorted into different houses." Said Camille, Ellen nodding in agreement. The rest of the walk went in silence. When they reached the house they got their brooms and a football, a muggle like ball used in some game. And went out to Camille's quidditch field. The pushed off and were soon doing laps of the field while throwing the ball to them. They had just started to throw long distances when an owl flew down to meet Camille. It was a return letter From the Leaky Cauldron saying that their room had been booked from the first of August to the thirty-first of august. With that all organised the girls continued to fly and pass until it started to get dark. They went back into the house and got changed into Swimmers and went for a swim in the creek before dinner.
PADFOOT MWAhahahaa ok thats the first chapter... sorry i m on a sugar high
PRONGS yes she is. ignore her. anyway that is the begining of our story, i.e. the prologue, if u like review and read on! if not
PADFOOT BUGGER OFF!
PRONGS no not quite, if u dont like it, as i said, its the first chapter/prologue, explaining the new characters. give it time ok
PADFOOT yes well what ever. FORWARD HO!
PRONGS dear dear, well good day for now..
PADFOOT stop gas baging come on.. i m bord ... :P
PARONGS YES YES ok ... ON WARD TO MORE READING!
