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Authors note: ok, I had fun writing this, probably too much fun. I would appreciate reviews, but it's not a big deal, I don't' even know if anybody's reading this, but whatever, back to the story… Oh, one more thing I should mention Kalle's name is pronounced "Kay-le", sort of hoping that helps.
I was walking through the entrance hall with Sirius, Remus and Peter on my way the transfiguration room, for the prefects meeting. We saw Lily, Erin and Kalle emerge from the Great Hall and we immediately burst out laughing. Kalle's hair had indeed been turned purple, and he seemed oblivious as he turned around to see what we were laughing at, giving us full view of his back on which the following words were flashing, written in purple: Smile if you're not wearing underwear! (AN: I know, not original, but its funny so whatever, keep reading!) Seeing this got us laughing harder. Lily and Erin were standing on either side of Kalle looking extremely pleased with themselves, and Kalle was looking confused. I finally started to calm down and felt two pairs of arms pull me down the hall. I looked up to see Lily and Erin dragging me off down the hall to some unknown destination.
"Hey! Where are you taking me?"
"To the prefects meeting stupid." Lily's answer, of course. I nodded, then decided to ask them something that had been bothering me ever since they had left the library earlier in the day.
"That was hilarious guys, where did you come up with that idea?" Ok, so it wasn't the most direct way of asking, but I figured I'd get my answer in the end.
"Oh, brilliant ideas just come to us." Erin replied with a slight smirk on her face.
"Hey, no fair! I deserve an answer!"
Lily and Erin exchanged a look, one that seemed to say 'can we tell him?' Erin gave a slight nod before allowing Lily to reply.
"Well, I guess we can tell you…After the meeting!" We had arrived at the transfiguration class without my realizing it. They pulled me inside without another word and sat down near the front of the room, waiting for the meeting to start.
I had spent most of the prefect meeting shooting glances at Erin, making sure that we were actually going to do this. It was going to be hard; it had been our secret for years. Everyone started to file out of the room, so we grabbed James again and pulled him out of the room into the hall.
"Ok, so are you going to tell me this mysterious secret of yours of what?" James asked with a rather confused look on his face. I swallowed, and nodded. How on earth was I going to say this?
"Uhh, ok, well, do you remember last year when all of the Slytherins clothes were suddenly electric orange?" I asked timidly, wondering if he would figure it out. He burst out laughing. Well, he remembered, that was a start.
"That… was… hilarious! I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in my life! It lasted for days!" He managed between fits of laughter.
"A week actually." Erin's reply. We exchanged a quick look, hoping we wouldn't have to outright say it.
"Right a week. What about it? I mean… but… there's no way! It couldn't have been? It… it was you?" He asked in an incredulous voice. We nodded. And he spoke again, his voice getting increasingly louder. "But how did you manage it? They never caught you, and orange-" Erin slapped a hand over his mouth and hissed,
"Shut up! People can hear you, you know!" She slowly removed her hand, but not before casting fugitive glances down the hall.
"Sorry." He mumbled. "How did you do it?" was his next question. Did they ever stop? I rolled my eyes at him, and muttered a spell. A beam of white light shot out of my wand and James' robes had changed from jet black to a violent orange. He looked down, shocked, and burst out laughing. "Ok, I believe you! Can you change it back now."
"I dunno. I kind of like them the way they are." I replied with a smirk on my face. Erin rolled her eyes at both of us and preformed the counter charm, reversing the effects. When I shot her a confused look she explained,
"It's kind of a giveaway, people will figure it out, if you're that obvious!" Right. I should have noticed that. I was lost in thought of my own stupidity until…
"But how did you manage it without getting caught? I mean we would have gotten caught…" James again, trailing off at the end.
"We've already told you enough!" was Erin's exasperated reply. I agreed, and was completely unprepared for James to explode into laughter again. We looked at him, and once he calmed down,
"Sorry, it's just… Sirius is going to die when he finds out!" WHAT! He was planning on telling people? A quick glance at Erin told me that she was thinking along the same lines I was, James caught the looks and his face fell. "Aww, come on! I have to tell the guys! If I don't, they're going to notice." He pouted. I knew he was right, I knew it, but still…
"Fine, but who says they'll believe you?" He stayed silent. Erin's eyes suddenly lit up, with that maniac energy I always saw when we were pulling a prank. She grinned, and started laughing.
"Lil! Do you… do you remember the pictures?" I stared at her in shock, I had forgotten about the pictures. They were priceless, and I loved them.
"Wait, you have pictures?" James asked in an excited voice. We nodded. "How did you get pictures?" I waved my hand impatiently in his face.
"We took some while doing the actual prank, and then we enchanted a camera. The point is, we can send you some." A wicked grin slowly spread across my face. "After all, we made copies." James gaped at us, and Erin's eyes glazed over, I could practically see the idea forming in her head. It was probably a good thing that we had reached the Ravenclaw common room by then. We waved goodbye to James, promising to send him pictures in the morning, and entered throughout the portrait hole, letting it snap shut behind us.
