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If You Can't Beat Them...
By Dishonorable
Chapter Three: A Bad Hair Day
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Time Setting: Around the last chapter's time, when they're six or eight.
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"Tighter, Rosie," instructed Mrs. Bones as the house elf braided the younger girl's hair. The house elf obediently started to braid the long, auburn hair tighter and Susan, the daughter of Mrs. Bones, winced.
"Mum, it's too tight," she protested.
"Nonsense, Susan," Mrs. Bones replied, "One must look presentable."
A few hours later Mrs. Bones discovered Susan had undone the pretty, neat braid and had taken a pair of scissors to herself, resulting in a chopped boy's haircut. The hair was regrown by magic, braided once more, and Susan was spanked.
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Blaise Zabini looked distastefully out the window into the garden where his mother was enamoring a gullible politician with huge vaults. Glasses of Firewhiskey were in hand and his mother was laughing loudly over a stupid joke. Ignoring the possibility of her becoming angry, he searched for a pair of scissors. The result was an uneven cut and a small bald patch. His mother was too intoxicated to notice for two days and on the third she regrew it with her wand, but didn't punish him. Instead, she had lovingly pat Blaise's head as if she had never been too drunk to care for him and said, "One must look presentable for future spouses, dear."
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After Draco had brushed his hair the usual two hundred times, he took great care in gelling his hair in spikes. Ha! The ultimate cool hairstyle; Potter couldn't dare make fun of it! The result was his father ordering Dobby to fix "that dreadful mess" and a spanking. "One must look presentable, Draco," his father had said.
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Harry looked with scrutiny at his reflection in the stream. His messy black locks were just like his fathers and that was definitely the problem. A few seconds later his eyes lit up when he looked at the water's surface once more. James nearly had a heart attack when Harry came strolling back into the house with green streaks in his hair. The result was numerous "Scourgify"s until they had come out, a mutter about that 'dratted Li girl', and a stern scolding about rolling around in magical plants. "Slytherin colors! One must look presentable, Harry."
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None of them messed with their hair again for a very long while.
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