Wednesday night:
Voldemort was sitting in the Headmaster's chair, as the students were arriving for dinner. Tonight was the kick off on their prank war. He was eagerly looking forward to being the judge for the next few days. He saw Harry smirk at him. He wondered what the boy had done now.
As the food appeared, he watched as some students started having horns, others had tails, some were now different colors. He started laughing, however, when the Ravenclaw students started shouting out random songs, clearly not of their own will. Each time a song was shouted out, a student in Gryffindor would start to dance, while a student in Slytherin would sing the song. The Hufflepuffs were laughing but soon stopped as after the fourth song, they were suddenly making music with their plates, glasses, books, anything they could beat their wands against.
"Very impressive." Minerva stated.
"I agree. It used a nice range of skills." Poppy stated.
"I will look up the winner for tonight, I found a spell that will record everyone's vote. I won't see who won and I won't release the results of each night until Sunday night at our staff meeting." Voldemort reminded everyone.
Filius, Severus, and Harry exchanged smirks.
Thursday:
"Where is Albus?" Voldemort asked as everyone took their seats.
"Aberforth had some extra orders and I sent Albus down to help him." Minerva commented. The staff waited for the students to arrive, but no one showed up.
"I believe we need to find the children. Heads check your house." Voldemort ordered, he wondered what prank could stop all the students from showing up.
Harry, Filius, and Severus slowly got up, grinned at each other and headed off to the next problem.
Break
"I see we can now resume our regular day?" Voldemort asked Minerva at lunch. "What was the problem?"
"You should ask what wasn't the problem." Minerva stated.
"Really I have to agree. We had all the sinks turned into aquariums, all the soap wouldn't lather, and all the stalls in the bathrooms were occupied by just trousers and shoes, the water that came out of a shower smelled like chicken, or dye someone a color." Pomona stated.
Voldemort looked at each of the students, and he could make out a lot of them were wearing glamours. "Interesting."
The rest of the day was filled with the normal pranks of being turned into animals, dyed colors, and random yelling out of romantic overtures.
Friday:
Voldemort and the rest of the staff looked at Harry. "Didn't Harry have on a blue robe?"
"No, it was green. I saw him during my free time in the staff room"
"I saw him with a silver one this morning."
"Are you sure? I could have sworn he was wearing black, at first I thought he was Severus."
"Tom, where have you been all day?" Minerva asked. Ignoring the confusing questions about Harry's wardrobe.
"I am trying to figure that out. Every appointment I thought I had today I didn't. I was at the Ministry and no one was there for the meeting. I went to my Board meeting and same thing. I even had two job interviews that didn't show up. When I tried to floo or owl them, nothing. No floo address worked and the owls refused to leave."
"I believe you got pranked." Irma stated.
"I will make a note of all the pranks today." Voldemort couldn't believe he got pranked. He had been so careful about what he ate, drank, even used in during the day.
Filius covered his mouth with his napkin as Harry popped a strawberry into his and Severus closed his eyes to keep control over his mask.
Saturday:
The small group gathered in Voldemort's quarters, all ready to relax. It had been a long day and week so far. "I have to say I am glad today's prank of not being able to write with our quills was reserved for today." Minerva responded.
"I tried all my quills, had to go to Hogsmeade and buy a few new ones. I wasn't expecting that type of prank. I tried everything to think of to dispel my quills too."
"Just roll one, and pass it over. I am going to be grateful for tomorrow. I want to find out who did these pranks." Bella responded.
Sunday:
"Grrr..This is so annoying." Bella slammed her fork down on the table.
"You got one too?" Poppy asked.
"One what?" Lucius looked up from his reading.
"A cryptic note warning me of an impending prank. I have been getting almost hourly." Bella exclaimed.
"Me too." Everyone added.
"After dinner tonight, I will declare the winning team." Voldemort commented. He didn't know who the winning team was as he entered the winning prank, and used magic to pull the matching parchment with the prank out of the pile. While they had seen a wide range of pranks on the staff and students, he promised himself, he was never going to mention a pranking contest again.
Break
"Well, I have the winning team. I have to say I was a bit surprised by the team." Voldemort stated. "I am also hoping the winning team will tell us who was responsible for each part of the pranks since they won each night." He paused. "The winners are Severus, Harry, and Filius. You do not have to provide munchies for the rest of the year. Those were some original pranks."
"The soap?" Minerva asked. "Some light one, we need it." Lucius was already passing out the wine.
"Harry." Harry had coated all the bars of soap with clear nail polish. Harry leaned into Severus, who gave him a kiss.
"The sink aquariums?" Poppy wondered. She actually liked the idea of those miniature aquariums and thought one might be good in her office.
"Filius." Filius had closed off the openings in sinks, filled them with fresh water, put some gravel on the bottom, added some plants and two fish. "Each house now has their own aquarium." Severus stated.
"Thank you, I saw them installed. The elves did a good job." Minerva remarked.
"The trick with the bathroom stalls?" Lucius asked.
"All Severus." Harry stated.
"The clothing? You kept changing your clothes right, Harry?" Draco asked.
"Yes, we were going to have Severus do it, but since he only wears black, we weren't sure if anyone would notice." Harry stated.
"My appointments?" Voldemort asked. He took the joint from Minerva and inhaled.
"Harry. He actually was very creative in all of our pranks." Severus answered. He still wasn't exactly sure how Harry had managed to change Voldemort's schedule.
"I should have known that. It was protected by parseltongue spells." Voldemort stated. "I blame it on being tired."
"The quills?" Minerva asked.
"Harry." Filius and Severus grinned. They had enjoyed the creative side of Harry.
Harry grinned. He had used the clear nail polish again and coated the bottom of the quills with it and added a bit of parsel magic to seal them. "You can use them tomorrow. I put a timer on it."
"The notes?" Bella asked. She was leaning back in her chair.
"Severus. All of us worked on getting everything done." Harry answered.
"The songs, singing, dancing and music?" Narcissa asked. As she finished asking the question, everyone sang:
All we need is drugs,
All we need is drugs,
All we need is drugs, drugs,
Drugs is all we need (we're stoned, who gives a shite about subject/verb agreement)
Pass the Cheetos and the salsa, please!
Harry started laughing. "I told you the song would work."
Filius smirked. "Yes, you did."