Overboard

Gremlin's Journal Entry 814

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Date: September 14, 2023

G has gone absolutely mental! She's insane! The last 10 days have been all out war between her and her roommates and me and my roommates.

In other words, she's winning.

I don't get how she's doing it! I mean, we have this journal with all of the prank ideas that we have ever come up with, we have the Marauder's Map and the Invisibility Cloak, your dad owns the best joke shop ever, and we have the mirror system. How the heck is she still winning 24 to 15!?

Well, she is rather talented at Disillusionment Charms. And, she does make a rather cute rabbit. Plus, she knows that we have all of these helpful things. And you forgot that we have Peeves on our side.

Not anymore; he's been helping G this entire time.

That traitor! No wonder they've all been avoiding all of the hallways that we set up pranks in and our traps keep getting sprung by other students!

Anyways, we better get ready for detention [for until we graduate]. The staff and prefects have not been so er…pleased with our genius pranks. I swear that they are on her side too. She only has a month worth of detentions!

Like I said before, she makes a rather cute bunny. I still can't believe that she managed to become an Animagus within a year. Well let's get going.

J and F signing out!

~James Sirius Potter~

"Sometimes, I think that the founders of Hogwarts were quite mental," sighed Fred, "Who came up with the notion that girls were more trustworthy than boys?"

We came back to our room after detention to find our dorm room pouring cats and dogs. I had to admire Grace's charm work, but this was a little more than I could handle. "That's 25 to 15! She's ten ahead of us! We cannot let this go down," I muttered darkly, "We have to think of something more embarrassing than all of her pranks combined!"

"Just make sure that you don't go too overboard. Her pranks are annoying but they aren't too cruel, I guess," Fred said before mumbling a bunch of spells at our very wet room. Unfortunately, that only made the room start flooding. The flood washed us down into the common room where Grace was waiting to take a photo of us in our soaking wet clothes. The entire Gryffindor house was waiting and looked at us amused. Grace grinned before saying, "Spells' broken now. Watch out for your beds though. There may or may not be something hidden. Have fun going to sleep!" Then she pranced back to her own room.

She left us both shaking in rage. "Forget what I just said," Fred muttered darkly, "This is WAR!" And with that, we started to plot our revenge.

~James Sirius Potter~

We waited until Grace was showering. Then, through the windows, we levitated her clothes into a bag that we brought along. It must have been a weird sight; two guys on broomsticks holding a gigantic bag that was filling itself with clothes. After all of her and her roommates' clothes and towels were finally packed away, we flew down to the lake.

"Maybe this isn't such a good idea," Fred murmured, "I can hear her yelling at us already."

"Serves her right; plus, everyone will see her naked. It gives us ten extra points!" I exclaimed. But even as I said that, I felt a little disgusted in myself. I mean, Grace is one of my best friends. I do care about her (I will deny this under oath though). Maybe this wasn't such a…

I heard a loud scream from the Gryffindor castle that sounded like "JAMES SIRIUS POTTER!" A surge of annoyance passed through me. Why was it always me? She so favored Fred! I mean, why does she like him better than me?!

"Well, it's now or never! Dump it all in!" I yelled to Fred.

We were counting on Grace taking a long time to find clothes to wear in order to come down and kill us both. However, she seemed to have caught on pretty quickly that no Gryffindor girl's clothes were in the Gryffindor castle. She had rushed outside with a bikini on!

"I AM GOING TO F*–"

"– Language!–"

"–MURDER YOU GUYS! You are so lucky that I was paranoid enough to shower in a bathing suit!" She grabbed the bag from Fred's hands. He gave her an apologetic look and she seemed to soften from diamond-hard to only rock-hard. She glanced at me and her gaze seemed to harden again. Then, she grabbed my shirt and pulled me closer to her. We were nose to nose; close enough to be kissing. I knew that I was done for. Luckily, Lindsey, her best girl friend, came over and reasoned with her.

"He's not worth it Grace!" she pleaded. Grace let me go. For a moment, I thought that everything would be fine. Then, her hand came back and slapped the living daylights out of me.

I vaguely heard snippets of her long rant. "– disgusting pigs – everyone – see me naked? –I never did anything like – ashamed of you two – especially you – way too far – going to regret it –" I passed out without hearing anything else.

~James Sirius Potter~

When I woke up, I was in the Hospital Wing. I had quite a crowd of girls looking over me. As much as I loved being popular, it was sometimes a bit annoying. Fortunately, Madam Pomfrey managed to shoo away my fan club. My head was still throbbing a little from the impact of Grace's hand, but I could just make out Fred and Grace arguing while my fan club dispersed. Whatever they were arguing about, Fred seemed to finally agree with her. Grace gave me a dirty look before leaving with the other girls.

A resigned looking Fred sat down near my bed. "I think she downright hates both of us," he sighed.

"What were you two arguing about anyways?" I asked. "You two are usually as thick as thieves. She forgives you for just about anything," I added bitterly.

"It was nothing. By the way, you haven't thought about what I told you in the beginning of the year, have you?"

"Stop changing the subject!" I stuttered. I could feel my face going a little red. "And no, I already told you I don't like any of the Gryffindor girls like that. I don't know why you keep bringing that up either; we can't discuss that kind of stuff with Grace. It makes things awkward at meals."

He snorted. "As if things weren't awkward enough! And I was just wondering because, you know, Lindsey isn't bad looking. And I really think that we messed this one up big time. You know how touchy Grace is about these kinds of things. You know, about being naked and all. I'd watch my back if I were you."

With that happy thought, he left the Hospital wing, leaving me to figure out what the heck he meant.

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