Little Dragon: I'm sorry for the long absense

Harry: You should be sorry!

Hermione: Shut up you idiot! Let's just get to the chapter, before she starts crying because of you.

Little Dragon: I resent that I'm not a cry baby or fragile!

Hermione: Oh really then go on and say what you have to say without crying.

Little Dragon: Alright... I-I don't own Harry P-Potter... *whimpers* oh gods this hurts... only my OC's and plot adjustments. S-see I d-did it. *twitches every few seconds*

Harry and Hermione: All Hail Queen Rowling!

Daphne: All references made are also not owned by Little Dragon.


Harry walked into the common room, grinning at the brilliant pranking idea he has for the Slytherins that he and the New Marauders ran into and immediately hated on principle: Theodore Nott, Adrian Pucey, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe.

He walked over to his friends and plopped down next to Dean who was sitting on the couch by the fire, "I think it's time to pay back the snakes and make ourselves known."

Neville asked from his place on the floor, "And how do you exactly plan on that, Harry?"

The raven haired boy shook his head in mock disappointment, "By pranking of course. I'm ashamed of you mate, after all the times we pulled them on Moony and Padfoot…."

"Oh shut it, course I remember! So what prank you intending to pull?" Neville leaned forward as well as Dean and Ron who was until recently playing chess against himself.

Harry grinned, "Alright here's what I have in mind…" And the rest of the night went along like that.


Draco met Hermione in front of the Gryffindor portrait the third Monday of the school year (a couple weeks after the New Marauders started planning the prank), so they could spend more time together than just in potions and DADA.

Hermione smiled as she gave the blonde a light hug, "Hey Dragon, have you gotten a letter from your father yet?"

She was very worried about what Lucius Malfoy would do to threaten her best friend. Draco shook his head grimly, "Not yet, but I'm expecting one to come soon." He quickly moved onto a brighter topic, "How's your quest for inter house unity coming along, Mia?"

Hermione smiled at the nickname only he had for her, "Just fine, met a Lisa Turpin from Ravenclaw. Y'know the girl with dirty blonde hair with red highlights that has violet eyes? She's rather sweet, her and Padma get along great together. Terry Boot and Michael Conner are a bit arrogant, but their nice enough once you get past that. I met Susan Bones through Hannah Abbot from Huffelpuff. Ernie Macmillan and Justin Flinch-Fletchley are… interesting to say the least. Blaise is brilliant as well as Daphne and Tracey, I'm glad you introduced us."

Draco laughed as they walked to the Great Hall, "At this rate you could literally take over all the first years."

Hermione pushed him playfully, "That's exactly my plan, take over the first years then the entire school, then the whole wizarding world!" She laughed evilly. Hermione smiled at him when she was finished, no matter how much the girls were her best friends, Draco would always be the first friend she made here and that was always honest with her.

He shook his head, "You're mad, completely and utterly mad."

"All the best people are, Dragon. Look at Merlin, he had to be a bit mad to do the things he was able to do." She adjusted her bag on her shoulder, trying to ignore the looks they were getting from the older students. They still didn't understand why a Slytherin and a Gryffindor were best friends, even more so considering it was a pureblood and a muggle born.

He put an arm around her waist and gave it a gentle squeeze, "Valid point, Mia." They were quiet for a few moments before he asked, "Have you heard from your parents yet?"

Through gritted teeth she replied, "Yes I have, mother spoke about how glad she was that I was gone, that I was nothing but a freak to her and to never write to her again." Her laugh the followed was cold, which didn't suit her at all. "Even said she would kill the next owl with a letter she saw. That's how much she didn't want to hear from me, but I had to try. I'll always have the tiny hope that she would show that she loved me one day."

Even though on the outside she appeared just angry, she was hurt. Her own mother didn't want her; the one who gave birth to her didn't love her over a fact she had no control over.

Draco gave her waist another squeeze, "It's going to be fine, I promise. Do you have any other relatives?"

"My grandmother, she was like me. Grandmother was a witch if the way she always spoke about her with venom in her voice that she reserved for me was any indication as well as saying she at least knew where my freakiness came from. So I guess my grandmother must've been brilliant if she can cause my mother to act like that, even though I've never seen her before." Hermione sighed with a wistful smile.

Draco smiled sadly at his best friend, "Remember you all the people you mentioned before? Well, that's your wizarding family now, that is now ready to hex anyone that harms you."

Hermione just shook her head with a small blush not believing it as they entered the Great Hall and sat at their respective tables, knowing it was too soon for a Slytherin to sit at the Gryffindor table and vice versa. But both knew in only a few short years they would be able to eat together without giving Hogwarts the most shock it's had for a while.


As Hermione headed towards the Gryffindor tables she waved and smiled at the people she now called friends in the different houses.

She never noticed the knowing looks passed between all the teachers except Dumbledore who was almost glaring at her, most likely due to him not being able to access her mind or the others she came in contact with.

The bushy haired girl plopped down on the seat next to Parvati and put her head on her shoulder and groaned, "I hate annoying stupid people."

Seamus, Lavender and Padma exchanged amused and worried glances with one another. Lavender asked cautiously, "Mione, what happened?"

Without looking up she responded, "Second year Hufflepuff. Zachariah Smith, demanded I do his advanced Potions essay because I'm apparently so small I have to be a weakling, young enough to be extremely naïve and the most intelligent of my year." She mocked the words he said to her.

Padma snorted, "You, naïve? That's like saying the Weasley twins are cute, innocent bunny rabbits."

Seamus nodded before he could open his mouth Lavender asked, "Well what'd ya do to him? It's obvious that you didn't give in and do his homework, right?"

Hermione glanced up and grinned, "Oh don't worry, I told him where he could shove his assumptions and I'm already planning on a small retribution from his trying to grab my arm as I was trying to leave."

The Irishman started to get up to go get the second year, but Padma pushed his back down and hissed in his ear, "Didn't you already hear? She's planning something and if you don't want to get in trouble, settle for just glaring at him. Mione will clue us in eventually." Seamus nodded reluctantly and sat back down, glaring at the second year. Then they just started talking about what they think of their classes so far and their professors as well.


Harry looked at Hermione again as she laughed at something Lavender said and only snapped out of his daze when Neville flicked his nose.

The emerald eyed boy glared at the one beside him, "What was that for?"

Neville grinned, "To get you out of your Granger trance and when we were just about to start the welcoming prank from the New Marauders."

Harry smirked, "Dean would you do the honors?" The dark skinned eleven year old, nodded before pointing his wand at the Slytherin table and muttered an incantation, then sat back and watched the magic happen. (Pun intended)

It started with the sound of a chicken, the Great Hall quieted down in confusion. Then it happened again but with the sounds of a cow and a donkey as well. All heads turned to the first year Slytherins. Daphne Greengrass and Theodore Nott were slightly red in embarrassment while Adrian Pucey (I'm pretty sure in the real books he's a year above them, but for my story I'm having him a first year) was turning red in anger.

Soon Pansy Parkinson began barking like a dog, Blaise meowed like a cat and Draco began squawking like a bird that most couldn't identify. Goyle and Crabbe just grunted like gorillas. They couldn't stop. Gold words appeared over them saying: We are the barn yard animals of Hogwarts, curtsey of the New Marauders.

Ron began laughing cruelly at them and soon the rest of the school followed, except Hermione and her friends in all houses. The teachers didn't really do anything so Hermione muttered under her breath, "Finite Incantatem!" The noises stopped and the words disappeared, but they still were blushing in embarrassment. She glanced at Padma who nodded her head, they both discreetly pointed their wands at the New Marauders and they had their hair changed to silver, their skin emerald and their robes turned a horrible shade of pink and orange.

Ruby words wrote over their heads that had the entire school quiet down, We are the first year bullies. We enjoy tormenting other students and we are just as bigoted as Death Eaters. So we will now serve out punishment for the next week, try this again to anyone and you will suffer the same fate. Even though you were all just as bad for laughing, be ashamed of yourselves because it will most likely be you next. This message is promoted by House Unity, where all houses and blood are equal.

Rhea stood up and cut through the stunned and ashamed silence, "Mr. Weasley, Mr. Longbottom, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Potter 15 points from each of you and three detentions with Mr. Flitch starting tonight and it will all be separated from each other for bullying of others."

With that she sat back down and a hot tempered Ron stood up and yelled, "And what about the people who did this to us?"

Phelps said with a slight smirk, "We don't know who did this, so how are we to punish those whom we don't know?"

More words floated above them, but this time in sapphire,

Thank you Professor Phelps, before the words above were made by our esteem leader, now this is Saliunca* speaking. Mess with our part of our pack and you'll wish you were never there in the first place, so watch what you do cause we'll be after you. Just to warn you, I'm not as forgiving as our leader

A considerable amount of people paled and looked around for those who wrote the words, while Seamus discreetly fist bumped Lavender and Hermione and the Patil twins hid their smirks


I'm baaaaaack! I'm so sorry I haven't updated this, school got in the way and some family stuff and... yeah. Just remember what I told you lot in the beginning about the long absences.

Alright, I hope this satisfies you for the time being because I hade to edit this so many times for me to be happy with it without moving too quickly.

Because I'm such an amazing person I'm going to give you guys a hint of what's going to be in the next chapter: Potion's class, Halloween night, well... *looks around to make sure no one is listening* a teeny tiny moment of Harmony and Flying lessons.

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