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'be' Ginny's Story

Previous chapter: She walked towards the door, but before she opened it she paused, waved her wand and muttered a spell none of them could hear, then she left.

"Wonder what spell she just placed up," Ron speculated aloud.

"Well, she is our mother, and she knows that the four of us are dating, so it's probably a monitoring charm. If we get too frisky, it'll probably go off and she'll run here faster than Filch to make sure us girls don't lose our innocence," Ginny laughed. Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked shocked.

"She doesn't think that we'd actually do something like that here, does she?" Hermione muttered; she was very shocked.

"Well, she knew you three were living together in a tent for the last ten months. I think she was more worried about what might happen between you and Ron alone like that than anything. She tried to forget that there was a war on, and so she made herself worry about the most insignificant things." Ginny had walked over to the couch and sat down, the other three followed her and sat also.

"So, Ginny, you've heard what we've been doing. Why don't we spend the time before dinner with you telling us what you were up to the last ten months?" Ron teased his sister. She glared at him jokingly and stuck her tongue out at him. They all laughed and she sighed.

"Okay, but not a whole lot of stuff went on. Where should I start?" she asked.

"How about the wedding? All we know about what happened was that the Death Eaters came and tortured people trying to find out about where I was. We don't know anything about what happened after we left," Harry replied.

"Okay, well, after we got the message from Kingsley, chaos ensued. Everyone was running and Disapparating away, while Death Eaters were Apparating into the yard. As soon as there were enough Death Eaters there they set up an anti-Disapparition charm up around us all; it was like the spell Dumbledore used in the Ministry of Magic. Then they took each of us aside and questioned us about where each of you three were. We said Ron was upstairs with Spattergroit, that was actually kind of funny, watching them try to question the ghoul as if it were Ron. They knew that Spattergroit was highly contagious so they didn't want to get too close.

"Well, they decided to ask us all under Veritaserum, but since the Ministry was getting so…corrupt, certain Order members had started carrying the antidote to the truth serum, so, when the Death Eater watching us had his back turned, we each took a dose of it. As soon as the bottle was stored away, they came back, and questioned us. We had to be careful about our answers, if we said something that contradicted a previous answer, we were toast. After they questioned us, we overheard them talking about who was going to keep watch for you three. We knew that you were probably safe, but we also knew that if we contacted you or you contacted us, they would know. Fred and George worked really hard those first few hours to figure out who was watching us. The discovered out it was Pettigrew and they confused him for a few minutes so that Dad could send you three a Patronus message.

"The few weeks before school went horribly. I knew you guys were out there, fighting, and all I could do was sit at home and try to keep Mum calm. There were a few attacks during that time, not to mention the new laws put into effect. The Muggle-born registration was the worst. All I could think about was all my Muggle-born friends. I heard somewhere, I'm not sure where, but I knew that Dean had made a run for it. I had so many nightmares worrying about you three, Dean, and everyone. But the night before I left for school, Fred and George came over to stay the night. We had a talk. The made me realize that worrying so much would make me go crazy; I had to do my part to help the resistance. That's when they gave me a box they charmed. It magically refilled itself with Weasley Wizard Wheezes on a daily basis. It was also spelled so that anyone I didn't trust couldn't see it for what it was, it just looked like a simple jewelry box to them. It was brilliant. We knew that all owl post would be searched going in and out of the castle, so they wouldn't be able to mail supplies to me. They also added a feature to it that if they put anything into their copy of it, and said my name, it would send stuff to mine. So mum and dad could send me mail that wouldn't be read by the Carrows or Snape or the Inquisitorial Squad. Another thing they gave me, I'm still not sure how, but they sent me an old Invisibility Cloak. It was an old one of the orders that had a small rip in it and the charm for invisibility was wearing off, but it was still dead useful to me. They also sent me a radio and news about the resistance. I was the schools 'informant'. I told everyone the truth about what was going on outside.

"Well, I got to school, it was so much emptier. I never realized how many Muggle-borns there were. There were some half-bloods who left also. Their families moved out of the country. I spent the first few weeks getting settled, not really doing anything to get myself noticed. On Halloween Neville, Luna, Seamus, and I played a very well planned prank on Snape and the Carrows. Now that I know Snape was on our side, I feel bad for our continuous pranks on him," Ginny sighed.

"Ginny, you didn't know he was good, until it was too late. You never know, your pranks might have entertained him enough to remind him what he was fighting for," Hermione said, trying her best to soothe Ginny's conscience.

"I doubt it. We were pretty foul little brats—"

"Yes, I do believe they made Fred and George look like sweet little angels," chuckled a voice near the door. The four kids spun around and searched for the voice, and saw—"Professor McGonagall!" they said in unison. She chuckled as she came into the room further. "I particularly liked the one where you gave Severus a multi-changing, neon colored Afro. It was particularly hard for him to remove." Ron's jaw hit the floor.

"Professor, you knew it was us the whole time?" asked Ginny quietly.

"You turned his hair neon?" asked Hermione, shocked.

"A neon afro?" Harry barked with laughter. Ron was staring off into space with a faint smile on his face.

"Yes, Miss Weasley, I knew it was you and your friends. Actually, I think the whole staff knew it was you four, other than Severus and those Death Eaters of course. Don't worry, you won't be punished. We were very impressed with the creativity you showed in those pranks, and Mr. Weasley, I have pictures," Ron, broken from his daydream looked at his former professor with shock. "What? You can't imagine me with a sense of humor? Why wouldn't I want to remember Snape that way? It was quite humorous with the way his hair changed from orange to pink to green and looped back to orange," she chuckled. "Remind me next time you're in my office and I'll show them to you." He nodded, he was so happy to think of his least favorite teacher with a neon afro, it had temporarily rendered him speechless.

"Professor, can we help you with anything?" Hermione asked, bringing Harry out of his stupor.

"Well, I spoke with Bill and Charlie and they told what had happened with Mr. Potter. I was actually looking for Molly and Arthur. Do you know where they are?" she asked them. They shook their heads no, and she sighed. "Very well, I will look for them elsewhere. I would like to request that you three join us all in the Great hall for dinner tonight, alright?" They nodded yes and the professor went on. "Miss Weasley? I would like to reassure you that had Severus known it was you three, he would have had to punish you to make an example. But he, I dare say, found most of the pranks on the Carrows quite humorous. He may not have outwardly shown it, but working with someone for sixteen years, you get to read them fairly well. I may not have been able to tell he was on our side, but I also noticed he also didn't look very hard for the pranksters, either. So, rest assured, he would have enjoyed them much more if he didn't have to hide his true personality. Well, I must be off. Enjoy your afternoon." With that, she left them in silence.

Ron finally broke the silence with a laugh, "Neon afro…Gin, you're a genius!" Harry and Hermione laughed. Ginny smirked and stood up to take a bow. They applauded her and cheered.

"Thank you, thank you! But enough of your praise. Let me continue my story. Okay, where was I? Ah, yes, Halloween. On Halloween, about an hour before dinner, we found Peeves and asked him to dump some 'stuff' on Snape for us. We bribed him with some dungbombs to not tell anyone it was us that asked him to do it also. The stuff Peeves dumped on him was a mixture of sewage, liquefied dungbomb, and fish guts provided by the giant squid. Well, he did it for us brilliantly! And Snape was so angry!

"Seamus, Luna, Neville, and I all went down to the feast, like normal. It was planned that after the feast, Snape was going to stand up with the Carrows and give a speech on the importance of the purity of blood. So, we had Dobby in on this prank also. We had Dobby put Imago's Powerful Itching Powder into Snape's underwear while he showered the 'stuff' off. The thing about this itching powder is it soaks into his skin, so if the person changes their clothes, it would still itch, it's also spelled to get worse as the time goes on." Ginny was having a hard time trying not to laugh, because the others were laughing really hard. Ron and Harry were clutching their stomachs, and Hermione was red in the face and lying on the couch. Ginny waited for a few moments for them to calm down a little before continuing.

"Well, all through dinner I could see Snape getting redder and his arm was continuously disappearing under the table. Shortly before the end of the dinner he got up and walked out of the Great Hall. We giggled for a few minutes before he walked back in. Apparently, he had gone and changed his underwear, because he looked a little less itchy. I had changed the spell slightly at the last minute so that, if he changed, the itch would disappear for ten minutes then come back five times worse. Well, he called an end to the feast and the three of them stood up, and began to talk. A few minutes later, Snape stopped talking mid-sentence and did a sort of prance before he dismissed us all and ran into the antechamber behind the Head Table! The itch was so bad he couldn't even make it to his office!" All four of them were rolling around positively howling with laughter. They laughed for a good five minutes before they could sit up.

Wiping the tears from his eyes, Ron leaned over towards his sister. "Ginny, you are by far the most amazing prankster ever!"

"Did you guys get caught? Snape must have been so angry!" Hermione, now over the hilarity of the situation, was back to her sensible self.

"Nope. They could never prove it was us. They assumed it was us, but we were very careful to not leave a trail. I'm not Fred and George's sister for nothing. No, we didn't get caught. But the whole school suffered a little. Amycus Carrow, he taught us Dark Arts, used the prank as an excuse to 'punish' students by 'teaching' us how to duel by standing us up and sending curses at us, but if we sent one back to defend ourselves we'd get punished for attacking a teacher," Ginny said bitterly.

"That's horrible! How could they just curse children and not let them defend themselves?" Hermione was shaken to the core.

"Oh, I never said we didn't defend ourselves, just that we'd get punished if we did. A fair few students shot a curse or two back at them. I wasn't about to let them do that to me.

"Anyhow, I waited for nearly a month before doing my next big prank. I called it, The Prank of the Giant Jumping Beans." Harry and Ron looked skeptical. "It's lame I know, but funny nonetheless. So, the idea of this prank was to drop about ten giant jumping beans in both the Defense and Muggle Studies rooms at about one in the morning. Fred and George, of course, sent them to me by way of the magic box, shrunk and frozen for me. All I had to do to prepare them was to un-shrink and unfreeze them, and then drop them in the right place. I had Luna help me with this one. We each took ten, and did our spells on them. Luna and I had to look up a certain spell to tie a counter-curse to them, so that we could control how to get them to stop jumping. I also found a spell to make things resist human contact, so if a hand or body got near it would jump out of the way. One night, Luna and I met outside the Muggle Studies classroom, we spelled open the door, threw the beans in, shut the door, spelled it shut with a complicated locking spell, and ran.

"We waited until the Carrows had both met outside the classroom before heading towards the Defense room, where we did the same thing. I walked Luna to her common room, so she wouldn't get caught, and then went to Gryffindor common room. Problem is, as soon as I got there, I noticed someone lurking in the shadows watching the portrait hole to see who came and went. I couldn't get into the room without revealing myself to the Fat Lady, and Filch was settled in for a long night. I wasn't sure where I could go; I couldn't get into the room to go to sleep, and so I did the only thing else I could think of: I wandered the castle. I ended up going to the Owlery. I stayed there overnight, and as soon as the sun started coming up, I got up and went back down to Gryffindor common room. Filch was still there, but he was asleep, and snoring something horrible, too. I went up to the portrait hole and I whispered the password. She looked out for who was there, and I knew she wasn't about to just let some wandering voice into her common room. So I had to show myself. She whispered, 'Where have you been all night, young lady?' and I said, 'Please, just open up before he wakes up!' and she swung open. That was the only time I was that close to getting caught. But the result was worth it. The two classrooms were destroyed! The beans were still jumping around the next morning after breakfast. The teachers had no idea how to stop them, only because I spelled them to only react to a certain anti-jinx. Guess what they had to do to them to get them to stop?" Ginny looked at them expectantly. The boys looked at Hermione.

"What? You think I know how? I don't know everything! Ugh. How did you do it, Ginny?" Hermione ignored the boys' playfully shocked faces.

"Well, I made it so…you had to sing a lullaby to the beans to get them to stop jumping, but if you didn't finish the song, they got worse!" Ginny was chuckling at her own brilliance. The others were laughing outright. The image of the Death Eaters or Snape singing 'Hush Little Beanie' to an over-sized bean was almost too much for them. They laughed for a while before Ginny continued.

"At least, term went fairly normal for everyone, besides getting punished for the slightest infraction of course. Hannah Abbott, Neville, Luna, Seamus, and I got our kicks pranking the Death Eaters at least once a month. I wanted to make sure we had someone in the three houses from the D.A., so we asked Hannah to help. In December, we did a really great one. Fred and George sent me their new invention: Color Bombs. When they get dropped, they explode and cover all people in range in this powdery substance, in a variety of colors. The powder creates this very cold feeling, like snow. It makes you want to get it off, but if you get it wet or try to magically remove it, it dyes your skin that color. The dye won't come off no matter how hard you wash! It has a special way to get it off...you have to ask it nicely!" Ginny started laughing with Ron and Harry. After a moment, she calmed enough to finish the story.

"Okay, well, at the end of term feast, we brought a bunch of these bombs with us, but we put a few charms on them to make them invisible for an hour and certain colors. We each took one and levitated them over the house tables: green for Slytherin, yellow for Hufflepuff, blue for Ravenclaw, and burgundy for Gryffindor. Hannah did Hufflepuffs, Luna did Ravenclaws, Seamus did Gryffindors, and Neville did Slytherin. At the same time, they dropped them on each table. After the colored smoke lifted, everyone could see the other tables! Gryffindor burst out laughing, and, after a few seconds, so did Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. All the Slytherins were fuming. After the teachers all calmed us down, I levitated my bomb silently over the Head table, it was a special bomb that, when it exploded, dropped a couple different colors. It was a special order from Fred and George. It covered one end of the table, closest to Gryffindor, with an orange powder, the middle three people neon pink, and the rest bright purple. Snape and the Carrows were dyed neon pink! They were furious! The best thing though is that Snape stood up and tried to magically clean the powder away, so it dyed everyone's skin!" The four roared with laughter and, this time, it took a good ten minutes for them to compose themselves.

"How did all the students and professors clean off?" Hermione, the ever-sensible one, asked.

"Well, I knew that if we didn't get doused we'd be suspects, so we had to sacrifice our skin for the meantime. But, since I knew how to get rid of it, I made notes for three common rooms, that said, 'Ask the dye nicely, and it will obey.' We each dropped the note in our common rooms before we left for the break." Ginny laughed. "Since most kids didn't get the notice about the politeness, they went home still dyed various colors. Snape spent the beginning of break sending out letters to each kid about how to remove the dye." Ron, Harry, and Hermione looked at Ginny in a new light. She was able to pull of a prank of school wide magnitude, and not get caught, or at least not get into trouble. Not only did this prank cover the student body, but it got the teachers also, and caused more work for the one teacher everyone hated.

Harry understood why Ginny was hesitant to tell them about all the pranks on Snape: she was feeling guilty about causing grief and more hard work for the man who, in reality, was the biggest hero. He was grateful to McGonagall for letting Ginny know that Snape didn't resent the pranks on him. Harry looked at Ron and Hermione and knew they were thinking the same thing.

"Ginny, I am proud to call you my sister. You are a true Weasley!" Ron said to her, slapping her on the back. She grinned at him.

"You haven't heard anything yet. We did at least one prank a month, so that means about five more pranks to tell about. Luna had been taken off the train during the break so she wasn't back at school, we were worried about her, but since we couldn't do anything to help her, we stepped it up a notch. Over the break, I spent a lot of time with Fred and George. They told me about almost every secret passageway they knew about and how to use it.

"The first prank of the New Year, Neville and I went out one night and charmed all the statues and suits of armor to shout insults at Snape and the Carrows. It took a really long time to get every statue in the castle, but, by about four in the morning, we were done. We were so tired the next day, but we couldn't appear tired or we'd get caught, so we placed glamour charms on each other to hide the bags under our eyes, and gave each other a cheering charm throughout the day. It wasn't a very big prank, but it still made Snape and the Carrows extremely mad, probably even more so when they couldn't figure out who did it! I was getting worried that they'd resort back to punishing the whole school again, but word got around that the majority of the student body was impressed and anxious to see what the pranksters would do next. So, I sat down and planned out the next prank. I was just going to do another small prank for Valentines Day, but it escalated into a fairly complicated one.

"I asked the twins for a very large bottle of love potion, the kind that lasts twenty-four hours. They sent it, and I talked Dobby into helping me. Since this was such a horrid thing to do, not to mention against even Dumbledore's school rules, I did this one by myself. I had Dobby pour six doses of Love potion into certain teachers breakfast. Snape, both of the Carrows, Filch, Madam Pince, and Trelawney all got a dose. Then my part came, I had to hang a picture of the person they were to fall in 'love' with in front of their faces as they ate so that as soon as the potion kicked in they would see the picture and fall in 'love'." Ginny started laughing. "It's really quite funny! I made Filch fall in love with Alecto Carrow, she fell in love with…" At this, she started laughing so hard, she couldn't speak. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all laughed with her, only because they were so anxious to find out who the female Carrow fell in love with. Finally, after a few tries, Ginny could breathe and speak again.

"Alecto fell in love with her…brother!" Again Ginny was laughing hysterically. The others were now rolling with hysterics. The image that met their thoughts was very amusing. When Ginny could breathe again, she continued. "Well, I thought it would be going a little too far if the siblings fell for each other, so I made Amycus chase after…oh, who was it? Oh, yeah, Madam Pince! I didn't really want to include any more female teachers, besides Alecto, but I thought it was only fair. Besides, Pince had yelled at me the day before, for no reason. Well, I had Pince chase after Snape, and I had Snape fall desperately in love with Professor Trelawney. Then to make it even I had her fall in love with Filch!

"It was so funny watching them chase after each other and openly shout their love to the others. It was great, too, because I did it right before breakfast, so it happened in front of the whole school. None of the other professors did anything about the love fest going on, they just ate their breakfast! Only when Filch tried to tackle Amycus and Amycus tried to curse Snape, and all the females got into a cat fight at dinner that night did they finally break it up. It was like one giant, multifaceted love hexagon! McGonagall tried to find out what type of love potion it was so they could have the antidote, but she must not have tried very hard, because it wore off by itself by breakfast the next day. I heard Snape yelling at McGonagall the next day about acting like a professor and helping colleagues in need. I almost laughed out loud at that. She was like, 'Severus, I tried to figure out the antidote, but I am not a potions master for a reason. Even Poppy couldn't figure it out before it wore off. You can hardly blame me for some stupid childish prank.' I was walking past the staff room when she walked out and I saw she had a smirk on her face." They all had a good laugh.

"Okay, Ginny, you have surpassed your own brilliance. I can't believe you got away with that! That's…that's…genius! You, little sister, are a genius! Harry, here's my advice to you: don't piss her off!" Ron was glowing with pride for his little sister, the youngest of her family, yet probably the only one to ever pull one over on Snape, not to mention, pulling over several pranks on the old professor, and not getting caught.

"Ginny, I'm impressed! That prank in itself would have gotten you expelled, several times over, I might add. It took guts to do that!" Hermione, too, was proud of Ginny.

"Thanks Hermione, Ron. I knew I had to do something to help the resistance. It was the only thing I could really do. But at least I did it well. But…I knew I had gone probably a little too far that time, so the next one I did was a small one. I just had Dobby 'borrow' all the Inquisitorial Squad badges. He brought them to me at night so I could charm them. Then, he brought them back later that night. I charmed them all to say 'Incredibly Stupid!'" She giggled. "It took about three days for those stupid Slytherins to notice that their badges were insulting them." They all laughed a little, but not as much as the other pranks. This one was, as Ginny had said, small and not as funny. Ginny hesitated to continue, though she did not know why.

"Well, after the badges one what did you do? I know that couldn't have been your last prank." Harry teased. "You're holding out on us, Gin. What did you do next? It can't be as bad as the love potion." Harry laughed while Ginny playfully glared at him. She stuck out her tongue at him and turned and fake pouted.

"Well, if you're going to tease me, I'm not going to tell you my last two pranks," she huffed jokingly. The others shouted out, pleading her to continue, playing along with her joking attitude. "Fine, I'll talk, I'll talk! Okay, so the next prank I did was one the others thought up. Since I had the means to get the supplies, they got me in on it, but it was mainly Neville, Seamus, and Luna's idea. They came up with the idea to put crushed Billywig stingers in the lunches of our three 'favorite' teachers. So I asked our dear brothers, and they sent a massive amount of crushed stingers to me and we went to talk to Dobby, once again. We asked him if we were to put something on the plates in the kitchen would it get transferred to the plates upstairs? He said yes. So we went to the head table after we made Dobby leave, and sprinkled a healthy, or not so healthy, amount onto Snape's, Alecto's, and Amycus' plates. We made sure we had prime seats in the Great Hall for lunch. About five minutes into their pot roast, Snape started chuckling, then so did the Death Eater twins, soon they were laughing so hard, they were crying! Almost immediately after that, they began to float! Before long, they were almost to the ceiling! It took the rest of the staff an hour to get them down! Oh boy, were they furious when they were given the antidote. They were about ready to pull out Umbridge's blood quills and give the whole school detention, but McGonagall put a stop to that. All they had to do was ask the house elves who went into the kitchen before lunch. So they did, but, luckily, we told Dobby to scoot over to Hagrid's for the afternoon, or we'd have been in deep trouble. But none of the other house elves knew we had been there, and none of them knew Dobby knew we'd been there. So we were safe!" They all had a good hearty laugh before Ginny continued. Again Ginny hesitated. Ron and Hermione didn't notice, but Harry did.

"Gin, what's the last one? It's got to be your best one. Saved the best for last, did you?" he chuckled. Ginny glanced at him and said, "Well, I think it's my best, but I'm not sure you'll think so."

"Why? What did you do? As long as you didn't kill someone, I'm sure it will be fine! Hilarious even! Try me."

"Well, alright, but if it makes you upset, don't start yelling at me. Okay, the next one I did was actually Neville's idea, but I helped perfect it. What we did was found some really good pictures of you three, and we enlarged them to the size of a portrait, and framed them." The three of the them were staring at Ginny, shocked, and wondering what they did with the monstrous photos of themselves.

"Then one day, when Snape was doing a mandatory staff meeting, Neville, Seamus, and I ran down to the Entrance Hall. We then took the shrunken portraits out of our pockets, enlarged them again, and we each magically glued them to the wall. I had done some spells on them the night before that made them talk like real portraits do, but with your guys' personality and attitude. Then before we left the hall, I told them, the pictures, to insult Snape and the Carrows and any student they felt like, especially the three of us that just put them up. I basically told them to act as though they didn't know who put them up." Ginny paused and looked at her boyfriend, brother, and best friend. They looked shocked. She couldn't tell if they were angry or not. Harry looked at her.

"Are they still up? I haven't seen any giant portraits of me, Ron, or Hermione anywhere," Harry asked her quietly.

"Harry, you're not mad at me, are you?" Ginny asked timidly.

"How about this: I reserve judgment. For now," he responded.

"Um, okay, well, yes they are still up. Snape actually couldn't get them down, neither could the Carrows. Don't think the rest of the staff really tried that hard. You remember Umbridge, and how the professors were actually making things worse for her? Well, multiply that by ten and that is how they were acting towards Snape." A sad look rapidly covered Ginny's face.

"Ginny, don't worry about it. Just think about what McGonagall said. Hey, why don't we go check these photos out? I want to see my picture!" Ron hopped up from his seat, and reached back to pull Hermione up also, who had muttered something that sounded like "vanity" under her breath.

"Jeez, Ron, feeling a little self-centered today, are we?" giggled Ginny, who was pulled up by her brother after Hermione.

"Well, sorr-ee little sis, if I want to see a life sized picture of me, especially if that picture insulted a teacher for me! Come on Harry, your picture insulted Death Eaters! Don't you want to see it?" added Ron, who had turned to pull Harry to his feet next.

"Okay, Ron, jeez. Don't get your knickers in a twist. I'm coming," Harry mumbled as he was pulled to his feet by his best mate. As the foursome walked leisurely down to the Entrance Hall together, Ginny finished her prank story.

"Well, the giant picture one was my last before I was taken out of school, for my safety. I was told that the Professors couldn't get the pictures down at all. It's no wonder, since we magically stuck them up there." Ginny was bouncing down the hallway backwards, talking to the trio.

"Um, Ginny, what kind of spell did you use to stick it up?" Hermione muttered.

"Oh! Well, I kind of used a…Permanent Sticking Charm." Ginny replied, very fast, before turning and running away from them.

"WHAT?" three voices rang out loud down the hall after her. They heard her laugh and chased after her. They pursued her down several flights of stairs but her petite, athletic figure was able to stay well ahead of them, all the way down to the main floor. She ran down the hallway and turned around just as Harry caught up to her with a smile on his face, Ron and Hermione caught up to them a moment later, both out of breath and clutching their sides.

"You…used a…Perm…Permanent…oh, bloody hell!" Ron paused and took a deep breath.

"Ron, don't…curse. Ginny I can't believe you! A Permanent charm? Really? Now our pictures are going to be stuck on the wall forever shouting out insults at everyone? I know I wanted to be remembered, but this way…" Hermione took a deep breath that Ginny knew she had to head off the long lecture before it started.

"Relax Hermione, they won't shout insults at people when I ask them to stop. Besides, I do think Snape learned something from Order Headquarters…look." She pointed to a wall behind them. They looked, but only saw a long tapestry.

"What exactly are we supposed to be seeing? All I see are a bunch of old farts sitting around a table," Ron stated.

"Oh come on Ron, think about what you're seeing," Ginny huffed. "Behind the old people eating supper," she prompted. Harry gasped and, then, so did Hermione.

"Of course, Headquarters! Ron, think about another portrait that shouts insults…" Harry whispered. Ginny heard him and punched him on the arm.

"Don't give him a hint! He's got to have brain in there somewhere, he can figure it out." Ginny retorted. The three of them laughed while Ron stared at the tapestry for a moment longer. Dawning spread across his freckled face.

"Mrs. Black! It's a CURTAIN!" Ron shouted and rushed forward to pull the drapery away. Harry and the rest followed him and helped to pull it down. After a couple good pulls, it gave way. They stepped back as the enormous piece of fabric fell to their feet, and they saw themselves on the wall.

"OI! DIRTY DEATH EATERS FINALLY DECIDED TO SHOW THEIR UGLY FACES, HUH? YOU SCUM! EAT DUNG!" the large rendition of Harry Potter shouted at them.

"YEAH! WHAT HE SAID! BLOODY DEATH EATERS! THEY'RE ALL MURDERERS AND HYPOCRITES!" shouted Ron's depiction.

"DOWN WITH VOLDEMORT, LONG LIVE ALBUS DUMBLEDORE! SUPPORT HARRY POTTER IN THE WAR AGAINST VOLDEMORT! DEATH EATERS EAT SHITE!" When Hermione's image swore, the real Hermione turned around and started yelling also.

"YOU MADE ME SWEAR?! GINEVRA WEASLEY, HOW MANY PEOPLE HEARD ME SWEAR?! HOW MANY?!" The many loud voices shouting various insults and curses carried a long way, soon many people were crowding around the three laughing students and the one bright red, fuming Hermione.

"SCUM BAG DEATH SNACKERS! DEATH TO MOLDY-VOLDEYSNORT!"

"I'm sorry Hermione, really, I didn't realize that it would take some of my mannerisms and place them in the quotes. Really, I am sorry!"

"DOWN WITH UMBRIDGE! I HATE THAT UGLY TOAD!"

"It would sound more sincere if you weren't laughing so hard you were crying!"

"I HATE HER TOO! SHE CAN KISS MY ARSE!"

"MAKE IT STOP, GINNY! RIGHT NOW!" Hermione was very red in the face and very angry. The crowd who gathered was laughing very hard, a few were crying and some were even on the ground laughing so hard that they weren't making any noise. Ginny calmed down enough to point her wand at the picture of Hermione and she muttered a spell which shot a pink light at the image.

"Hermione, you can stop yelling now, and please don't swear anymore. Thank you!" Ginny giggled when the Hermione portrait grinned down at her and said, "But swearing isn't that bad, though I guess I'll stop. The real me doesn't look too happy, does she?" Ginny giggled again.

"No, the real you doesn't like curse words." Ginny then turned and shot two more spells at the other two portraits and asked them the same request. They acquiesced, and then turned and bowed to the laughing crowd, who, in turn, applauded. After, most people went back to where they came from. Leaving Ginny and the trio to the pictures.

"I'm sorry, Hermione. I really am. Please forgive me?" Ginny pleaded.

"Ginny, I'm not that mad at you, I'm just embarrassed that everyone saw me swear. Although, it was kind of funny." Hermione grinned devilishly. "An amazing prank! I'm surprised the spells that keep them talking have lasted so long. Which spell did you use?" Hermione had that studious look in her eye that made the guys groan.

"Well, it took a few tries, but I used the spell that they use on professional paintings. The only big problem I had was to get your three voices recorded into my wand. I actually found some of all three of your hair and I asked Fred and George to get me some Polyjuice Potion. The three of us each took a vial and took turns making up insults and things to say. It was one of the last times I hung out with the two of them. They helped me come up with the idea of the insulting portraits and, well, develop the idea better. Neville had already gave me the idea and they helped me work out the kinks." The four had begun to walk back to the common room when Ron's stomach grumbled.

"Well, I guess it's that time again! Ron's stomach is like a clock. Let's head to dinner; McGonagall made sure we promised to be there." Harry reminded them. They turned around and went back down the two flights they had just gone up.

A/N: Ah! This chapter took forever! But I had so much fun with it! I hope it made you laugh! I know I was in stitches! It was so hard coming up with so many pranks, but let me know how you thought of them! Let me know, hated it, loved it, pooped your pants laughing so hard? I know that when I was reading it to my little sister, I could barely read for laughing so hard, at my own stuff nonetheless. I'm going up north tomorrow, I'm exited! Don't worry I'm bringing my laptop with me so I will still post every Friday or sooner. Chapter four is a real good one. Remember, Reviews are motivation to post faster!

Preview of ch. 4: Dinner; Harry Potter signs his first autograph! The four discuss school and NEWTS. Rita Skeeter makes an appearance.