Don't own it.


It had been pretty hectic once Albus and Minerva had left for their honey moon. They simply just could not "wait" and got married barely a month later, with every kid in the school there, alumni, important people, you name it.

Since not even Minerva was there to take over Albus's duties, Filius Flitwick, Xiomara Hooch, Severus Snape, and Remus Lupin took over their duties.

In other words, it meant the entire school could what they pleased. So many pranks had been played, so many messes to clean up, it was chaos. And house-elves were lining up to support Hermione's now booming SPEW business.

Fred and George Weasley were having a field day- save that, field week.. Their joke products were in high demand, and they were practically swimming in galleons.

But that wasn't all, the Twins were asked to create a hair coloring potion, and all the boys bought it for their sweethearts. Albus had unintentionally started a fad. If a girl was pranked and her was pink, it meant that there was a boy who liked her, and it made all them go completely giddy.

It was causing a LOT of romances to sprout, and quite a bit of drama, too. For if a girl woke up one morning, and her hair was NOT dyed pink, she'd burst out in tears. And even Hermione Granger secretly wished to take part of it. Even though she kept on saying it was so silly. But the day Albus and Minerva were to come back, that morning in fact, she awoke with her hair dyed pink. And Ginny ran into her room screaming and jumping because her hair was pink, too.

They considered it was a prank at first, but over thought it. It was just too much to be happy about to even consider that it was a prank. Now, some of the boys came to breakfast with their hair dyed pink, like Harry and Malfoy, and all of their friends were laughing. But Ginny was only laughing half-heartedly. She was actually worried about who had dyed Harry's hair, as Hermione noticed. But Hermione also noticed Ron blushing when Hermione came in her hair pink, and a smile on her face. And Harry had blushed, too. When Ginny came in, of course.

Harry had to leave the table for a moment, to explain some things to Romilda Vane, who looked sullen because her hair was never dyed pink. They saw Romilda nodding sullenly, and then bursting into tears. She took out her wand and placed it on Harry's head, and he walked, back sad himself.

"I hate doing that," said Harry, sneaking looks at Ginny every once-in-a-while. Finally, he stood, and walked over to Ginny. He cleared his throat. He put his wand on her head, and it changed it back to normal. Both were thoroughly pink as Harry pulled her into a kiss. Hermione laughed, while Ron was positively red in the face with rage.

When Harry pulled away, he looked at Ron, and said: "What? I told you I was dyeing her hair, and you gave me your blessing, remember?"

"But you cheated! You knew I was sleepy, then!" exclaimed Ron.

"That's exactly why I asked you then," said Harry.

"And it's my choice who I go out with., And I remember you saying it was better Harry than the other guys at this school, right?" said Ginny.

"All right, fine," gave up Ron.

"You promised, if I changed my girl's hair back to normal, you'd change back yours. I have, now it's your turn," said Harry.

"All right," said Ron. He turned to Hermione, for she was sitting right next to him. He cleared his throat. "Mind if I changed your hair back, 'Mione?"

But before he could pull out his wand completely, Hermione threw her arms around him and began snogging him senseless. Just like with the kiss between Albus and Minerva, albeit Albus and Minerva's was a bit more controlled, Ron had pulled out his wand and changed Hermione's hair back in the middle of their kiss.

But they were interrupted by Albus and Minerva walking in, smiling, and so clearly in love. Minerva looked over at a very pink Ron and Hermione and winked. Minerva was wearing a pink hair tie, while Albus was wearing pink socks.

And while that might not mean anything to some people, those people who had witnessed what had happened a month ago knew, and were actually using the same idea. As seen with Harry and Ginny, and Hermione and Ron.

Albus took his seat, and said to the populace: "Minerva and I are glad to be back. Although we had quite a bit of fun while we were gone," -Snape, Xiomara, Remus, and Hagrid coughed quite loudly at this- "There is nothing that makes us happier than come back and fulfill our jobs."

Fred and George snickered, saying: "I could think of other things that make them happier." And to which made everyone around them snicker too.

"We would like to thank our staff for helping us out, and the students as well for making it easier on them," said Albus. The teachers scoffed at that.

"But things will go back to normal, and no more pranks... except, I'll let the hair-dye thing slide. For, that sole thing made me the happiest woman in the world," Minerva smiled at Albus.

You could see all the teachers behind them react to that. Xiomara pretended to puke, Remus went green, Poppy positively swelled, Hagrid coughed, and Snape stuck his finger in his mouth.

"Let the breakfast begin!" called out Albus, taking his seat.

Transfiguration class were not to be as fun as usual, with McGonagall back. But as they were soon to learn, Albus had dropped by to "see" Minerva, and they went back to Albus's private chambers. The students all laughed, and Ron and Hermione took the opportunity to "explore" each other some more.

Xiomara happened to be passing by, looking through the window to see what Minerva was teaching them, but saw Ron and Hermione sitting on a desk, snogging each other senseless. Minerva would never let them do that... unless she wasn't there.

Bursting into the class, she looked at the students. "Which one of you went to the Headmaster to report a missing teacher?" she asked.

Harry laughed, and looked at Hooch. "Um, Professor Hooch, Professor Dumbledore TOOK her," said he.

Xiomara shook her head. "All right, you all just... continue on what you were doing," she looked particularly at Ron and Hermione. "I'll be right back."

She rushed through the halls, going down the stairs toward the dungeons, and burst into Snape's classroom.

"Now, if you just put in a Hungarian Horntail fang in there... Careful! Those things are rare, and cause a huge explosion, so use extreme care..."

He saw Xiomara standing in the doorway, clearly furious. "Uh... just hold onto those fangs for a few moments," said Snape walking over to her.

"What is so wrong that you had to come and disturb my most advanced class for, hmm?"

"Minerva is not teaching," said Xiomara. "I walked into her classroom, and no one was learning anything, because Minerva wasn't there to teach them!"

"Well, did you ask them if someone went to report this to the headmaster," asked Snape.

"Of course, I did, Severus! And they told me it was Dumbledore who had taken her out!" cried Xiomara. Severus gave a little shiver as to what they were doing, and took Xiomara's hands in his own.

"Calm down, my dear. I'm sure there's a logical reason for this," he told her.

"Of course there is! Albus and Minerva are just enjoying the benefits of marriage!"

"All, right, I'll get the teachers together and we'll have a little conference this evening," said he.

"Okay."

"But in the meanwhile, go teach Minerva's class. I'm sure we both don't want to interrupt Dumbledore and his wife," said Snape. He let go of her hands and bid her a good-bye.

Once she left, someone said: "ooh, Snape's got a girl-friend!"

But instead of whirling around and demand to know who said that, he just blushed.

.:That evening, in the Teacher's Lounge:.

The teachers were all waiting up for Albus and Minerva. None of them had volunteered to go retrieve them, and who would? The sight of what they might walk in on would cause anyone mental brain damage.

Poppy and Xiomara were talking about the new relationships going on at Hogwarts.

"But I think Ron and Hermione's is the best of all..." said Xiomara. She walked over to Snape. "Which reminds me, you owe me..." she pretended to count off her fingers. "Let's see... for the bet that Albus and Minerva would get married in a month or less, which they did! And that Ron and Hermione would get together before their seventh year... That calculates to... 20 galleons!"

Snape groaned, shoving the money into her hand, but his hand lingered on hers a moment too long, and he pulled away, slightly red. Xiomara was a little pink in the face, too. "There's your money, dearest," he said in mock sarcasm.

The other teachers were not oblivious to this, the blossoming relationship between Severus and Xiomara, and hushed whispers followed this. Poppy leaned toward Filius and said: "I bet you seven galleons that they'll be together before the month is over."

He looked over at her, incredulous. "You've got a deal." And he pumped her hand to seal it.

"I don't know what they want, Albus, but we need to tell them, sooner rather than later," argued Minerva.

They all looked at the door to see Albus and now Minerva Dumbledore walking in.

"What is it that you wanted to speak about?" asked Albus, taking a seat.

Snape stepped forward. "Well, uh... we're" - he thrust out his arm to the other teachers behind him- "tired of having to take over Minerva's classes. We've had all these responsibilities thrown at us unfairly, while you two go off and reap the benefits of marriage."

The newlywed couple blushed profusely at that statement.

"And although we're all really happy for you two," said Xiomara jumping in, "We would really appreciate it if you two uh... enjoyed the benefits until after school hours."

Albus put up a hand. "My apologies." he looked over at Minerva a moment. "It will not happen again. Minerva and I were just-"

"Ah! I DO NOT want to hear it!" said Snape, acting like a child.

Xiomara slapped him, and he hushed.

"We were just looking at some catalogues for now needed necessities," said Albus.

"I'm pregnant!" Minerva shouted. Poppy and Xiomara and all the other women gathered around Minerva and made a fuss over her.

While all the other men looked at each other. It takes at least a month for any pregnancy test to say anything, so...

"Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God," said Snape pacing around, face green, and trying not to puke.

"That means..." Remus realized. He looked at Albus, trying to hide the mix of astonishment and er... disgust. "That you impregnated her either that day... or only a few days after... Ugh!"

"Well, er... unrequited love unfulfilled for over fifty years... One thing lead to another..."

"I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO HEAR THIS!" said Snape. He then looked over at Xiomara.

"You caused this! I DID have faith that Albus was going to be modest! And you dashed that!" Snape said.

"I recall saying three months, not one, and I think it's rather sweet." defended Xiomara.

Snape put his hands up. "I don't want to hear any more of this." He looked over at Albus. "Congratulations, though. You certainly did not waste time."


I'm laughing at this, myself. I did originally make this a one-shot, but I had such a hilarious scene in my head that I HAD to put it on paper. I think this will become a story, rather than a two-chapter one shot.

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