Chapter 29
Little Ol' Me?
This Christmas was like every other Christmas I have ever had, I spent time with my family, exchanged gifts with my friends, and celibrated the fact that we are on this Earth.
Though I did have a lot of problems with my pet, Shadow the cat, and new friend, Natix the snake. Shadow has a love for long, slinder things that move, sting, my scarf, and snakes. Like all cats, when he finds someting of the long, slender discription, Shadow likes to pounce on it, using teeth and claws. Natrix took exception to being chewed on by a cat, he was very vocal about it in fact. An uphappy snake means an unhappy me, as he decided that every time that Shadow tried to 'play' with him, he would 'play' with me, and Natrix has some very long, sharp teeth, good thing he can choose when to use his venom, or I would be in even more pain. Their fighting got to the point that I had to add a charm to Shadow's collar that would keep him at least five feet away from Natrix, now Natrix and I are happy, and Shadow is being his kitty self, otherwise known as reeking havok with my mother's yarn basket.
The train ride back to the school was just as adventurous as the other rides on the train have been, which means it was boring as all get out. Well, not exactly boring, as I read the entire time, the book was all about the uses of plants that are found in Great Britian, including those of the Forbbiden Forest. Not that I really needed to know about the plants from the forest, as Firenze was a walking source of information about the plants and their uses. The plants he suggested a month ago for the candy worked really well, the Twins and I are almost done with the finished products, by this summer, they will be done and we can start on the next group of candy.
I did make sure that no one saw me on the train, it was hard as most of the school population went home for the break, but I managed it. By keeping away from the other students, I was able to get our prank started. Putting away my plant book, about an hour away from the school, I grabed the bag of supplies I bought over the break. Fishing out the potion that would turn my flesh a pale, see-through, I was about to drink one-third of the plask, the other two-thirds would go to the twins, when I thought about the timing of the prank. If I did it now, I couldn't go to class the next day, if I it on Friday, we could be absent during the day and reappear that night. So I stored the potion back into the bag and grabbed by book agian to finish off the journey back to school.
Fred and George, they remained at school over the break, looked confused when I walked in, my skin still a 'nice' pale tan, instead of the white death-pale the poution was supposed to turn my skin. I walked over to their table before I went to the Slytherin one, and greated them. As I didn't want to alert the other Gryffindors to our prank, I did my nifty mind-speak with the twins.
~Hey Guys, we can't do it now, if we did, we would have to skip the school day tomorrow, which would be a bad thing, for you two at least.~ At that I grinned, and they both gave me their lovely mock-glare, before they grinned as well. ~If we do it this Friday instead, we could pull it off Saturday night. Meet me at 4pm next to the statue of the wizard with the eye patch. I'll explain the changes to the prank then. I have to go to my table now, or else someone will get mad, don't know who will first, but I know someone will.~
"So how was your break, guys?" I had to have a normal conversation with them out loud, or else the students around us would think it weird that I was just standing there, looking at the twins. They were used to the double converstion by now so they knew what to do.
~Ever the trouble maker Kitty Cat, we will meet you there. Oh, and thanks for the truth serum, George and I thought of this one candy, not ment for the box of course, but for the love potion candy. If we mix it with someting else, we may be able to make a potion to find true love, instead of just the normal love potion. What do you think? Think it would work?~
"Our break was great, there weren't a lot of students left here so it was really cool. We all had a snowball fight, it was great. How was yours?" Geroge was the one who spoke out loud for the two of them, they worked better with one doing the mind speak and one with the mental speak.
~That's a good idea! We could use one of the finder spells, combine it with one of the love potions, add a little bit of that one thing, you two know what I'm talking about, that stuff, and then mix it with the truth-serum, it could work. I just don't now how we will test it, we might have to take turns, and make sure that the love potion part of the mix doesn't mess with us the wrong way. By the way, thanks so much for my necklace, the spell-add-in-property on it will be very useful. Looks like the feast is about to start, so I'll see you two later.~
"My break was nice, I love to visit with my family. I'll see you guys later."
I could not forget about Fred and his stupid use of nicknames! I think I make one up for him, that should get him to stop...I hope. I gave a last grin and a wave to the both of them, then made my way to the Slytherin table.
The long week before the prank, was pretty non-eventfull. Except that Hermione who was missing, I hopped she wasn't attacked by Slytherin's Monster, that would be bad. By Thursday she was back, I overheard, mentally, from Harry that she was in the hospital by reason of being furry. I dug a little deeper, for some reason, it wasn't too hard to get into his head, unlike Professor Snape. Turns out Harry, Ron, and Hermione had a very interesting break.
Harry dropped Goyle's hair into the middle glass...Harry drank the potion fown in two large gulps...Goyle stared back at him out of dull, deepset eyes. Harry scatched his ear. So did Goyle...'Hermione, are you ok?' said Harry...'Fine--I'm fine--go on--'(it looked like they were in the downstairs girls bathroom, I could tell because Moaning Myrtle was there)...'Oh, yeah--pureblood!' said Draco...'I wish I knew who it is,' Draco again. 'I could help them.'...Draco had a dreamy look on his face, like he thought me might know, but couldn't let it out. ... 'Last time, a Mudblood died...hope it's Granger.'(They were in the Slytherin Common room now)....'Ooooooh, wait till you see.' (they were back in the bathroom, Myrtle was talking now) 'It was c-cat hair!' (Turns out they were using Polyjuice potion, not ment for animal transformation) ...'Wait till everyone finds out you've got a tail!'
That was the last bit I read from Harry, poor Hermione, she couldn't go back to class until the fur went away. I would have nerver thought about using a Polyjuice potion to find the heir. I wouldn't have suspected Draco as the heir either, as far as I know, he isn't releated to Salazar, so he can't be the heir. I should know, I got to hear his entire family history last year, no mention of Salazar, that would be something he would want to brag about. I could see why they might think he was though, he really doesn't care for Muggleborns.
Then it was Friday! At 3:55, I walked down the main stairs, across the Entrance Hall, to the the One-eyed Wizard statue. Fred and George were already there, their faces lit up when they notcied the bulging bag on my right arm. I had food on top, so that if anyone aked, we were going on a winter picnic down by the lake.
"So, are you two ready for little ol' me to explain the new prank?" I asked as we walked out the doors and made our way to the forest.
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