Gwendolen

"James Sirius Potter I am going to kill you." I screamed as I stormed into the boys dorm on the first morning after the Christmas break.

Upon waking up that morning I had discovered that overnight my hair had been charmed to act as a giant mood ring. So obviously right now it was bright red. Not Weasley red like Molly's hair, that might have actually looked alright, but as flaming red as robes.

"What have I done this time?" James asked me having only woken up to the sound of my screaming.

All four boys in the dorm were staring at me. While Louis was staring at my hair the other three were all looking me up and down. It was then that I realised in my anger I'd stormed out of my dorm still in my pyjamas. Oh how I could kill James Potter.

Louis, being the lovely friend he is, tossed me the jumper that was on the floor beside his bed. As quickly, and with as little movement as possible for fear I expose myself any more than I already had, I put it on before I continued my screaming.

"How dare you do this." I screamed at James. "What on earth would possess you to think this was amusing?"

"It wasn't James." Fred said to me. "As much as he loves the show you've given him this morning he wouldn't have messed with your hair. He loves it too much."

I shot both Fred and James a glare.

"You're all idiots." I said before turning and walking out of their dorm.

I needed to get this sorted before I went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. No doubt Carter would find it the most amusing thing and write letters to everyone we know about it.

I walked up the stairs back to my dorm. Hopefully Molly can help me fix this mess.

"You didn't see her face as she left." I heard one of my dorm mates, Kendall Wood, say as I reached the door to my dorm.

In my anger I hadn't shut the door properly as I'd stormed out of the dorm. Somehow that mistake had been the best thing I could have done.

I felt a smirk come across my face.

"I saw her leave the bathroom." Kendall continued. "The ends of her hair were still their normal colour but it became red rather quickly."

"What if she finds out it wasn't the boys?" The final girl in the dorm, Juliet Clarke, asked Kendall. "I mean, how would they have gotten the potion into her tea? She only ever makes it in the dorm and drinks it in her bed."

Those poor, stupid fools. We all knew Molly slept in on weekends. We also all knew that she silenced her bed so she wouldn't be woken up by anyone making a lot of noise.

They thought they were safe. They thought I was screaming at the boys. Those poor, stupid fools.

I didn't go back into the dorm. There was no way I was letting them know I'd overheard them. I retraced my steps back to the boys dorm.

"Look, I'm sorry." I said as I once again slammed open the door to the boys dorm room. "It was wrong of me to assume you did this."

I grabbed a lock of my hair to indicate what I meant. I noticed then that it was black. I hoped the boys knew that meant trouble.

"Oh no." Fred said looking at me. "Black hair, that can't be good."

"I'm not plotting to destroy you." I said as I sat down next to Louis on the edge of his bed. "I know now that it wasn't you who did this. And I am very sorry for assuming that you did."

"Who did it?" Louis asked me.

"Kendall and Juliet." I told them. "They thought I'd be yelling at you much longer than I was. I overheard them talking when I went back to the dorm. Those poor, stupid fools."

I smiled at James and Fred. I knew that they would help me get the girls back. They were always up for a prank.

"Gwen, as much as I love you, could you please keep it down." Parker said to me. "Some of us need more than three hours sleep to function like a normal person."

"Sorry Parker." I said with a smile. "Louis can I have some parchment?"

Louis handed me some parchment and I quill and I quickly jotted down all the spells I knew Molly used around her bed at night.

"Give these ago." I said handing the parchment to Parker when I was done. "Molly uses them to block out Kendall and Juliet. Hopefully it will work on these idiots too."

I gave him a peck on the cheek before walking over to where Louis had moved to sit with his cousins.

"I want to lull them into a false sense of security." I told the boys. "So you gotta let me hex you before we go to breakfast."

"But Doll, your hexes are always the worst." James whined.

"Well Potter, if you would stop being such a prick then I'd stop hexing you." I smirked.

I'm not sure if it was a mutual understanding or if he had just accepted it at this point. Although I may have mentioned it to him before. He no longer reacted to me calling him by his last name as I'd told him I would do that as long as he continued to call me Doll. The nickname, or pet name, or whatever he wanted to call it, was both pointless and stupid. Yet, for some reason he seemed to think it was affectionate. For that, and many other reasons, I wanted bash his head in.

"She's got you there." Louis told his cousin.

James just groaned and flopped back down on his bed. I let out a laugh.

I was not happy. I most certainly did not want to go to breakfast right now. We hadn't found a way to fix my hair so currently I was heading down to the Great Hall with a head of white locks. White. Seriously. Couldn't have had any other colour? I looked like Carter's friend Scorpius.

I mean I knew I was scared to be seen by other people like this but I didn't need everyone knowing that. James had offered me a hat. That wouldn't have done much good. I would have just looked even more ridiculous.

"You look fine." Louis said as he put his arm over my shoulders.

"I look bloody ridiculous." I told him seriously.

The others were all walking ahead of us. I really didn't want to go into the Great Hall. Not right now. Not with my hair looking like this.

"Gwendolen, darling, I think you look absolutely stunning." James turned around to face me and Louis.

"Thank you for that assessment Potter." I told him feeling my hair change colour again. "However your opinion gives me no sense of validation what so ever."

James stopped dead in his tracks seeing my hair change again. He'd been walking backwards to face me and see my reaction.

"What colour now?" I asked having tied it up not wanting to see the colour.

Molly, Fred and Parker all turned around having heard my comment. They all wanted to see the new colour of my hair. Molly pulled out her notebook, the one she was using to record the reasons I rejected James, having decided to use the back of it to note down all the different colours of my hair and what emotion they correlated to.

"Dark red." Louis said.

"I think it's more of a maroon." Molly said looking at it. "See the shades of brown."

I grabbed a lock of hair in the ponytail and looked at it.

"Yeah, maroon." I muttered.

"And how are you feeling, Gwen?" Molly asked in a condescending manner.

Oh I could strangle her right now.

"How do you think I'm feeling, Molly?" I asked through gritted teeth.

"Irritable." Molly stated. "Annoyed, let's put."

"I think maroon will be a pretty common colour when James is around Gwen." Fred joked.

James just pouted at Fred's comment. We all continued walking to the Great Hall. I could feel the colour changing again but I really didn't want to talk about it.

"Gwen, calm down." Louis told me. "I get that you're angry but everyone in the school is going to know if you don't calm down."

I began to take deep breaths in and out. Slowly I could feel my hair changing.

"Hey, your hair's back to normal." Parker told me.

The others had stopped again to wait for me and Louis while he calmed me down.

"What?" I asked confused.

Again, I grabbed a lock of hair and looked at it. Seeing my normal brown coloured hair I let out a sigh of relief and we entered the Great Hall for breakfast.

We all sat together eating and laughing when I heard some giggling as Kendall and Juliet entered. As I looked over at them I could feel my anger starting to bubble up again. As my anger began to rise I could feel my hair changing colour again. Damn it. It wasn't fixed. Maybe my normal colour was just one of the emotions.

I noticed Molly pull out her notebook and jot down the recent discovery.

Kendall and Juliet saw me and burst out into laughter. All the other people eating followed their gaze to where I was sitting. People began whispering amongst themselves.

I looked over at the Slytherin table to where Carter was sitting with his friends. He made eye contact with me and sent me a smile before getting up. I watched as my younger brother, followed by his friends, made his way over to where I was sitting.

"Morning Gwen." He said to me and he took the empty seat next to me.

"Morning Carter." I said narrowing my eyes at him.

"You do realise you have bright red hair, don't you?" He asked me.

Scorpius and Albus, Carter's friends, burst out laughing at Carter's question.

"No, dear brother." I responded as I felt the colour of my hair change again. "I had no idea that my head looks like it's on fire."

"Well it doesn't anymore." Albus muttered.

"Yes, what does it look like now?" I asked sweetly.

"Now it looks blacker than Snape's portrait." Scorpius told me.

"I see." I muttered to myself.

"That would be your que to run." Fred told the Slytherin boys.

They all took one look at me before dashing out of the Great Hall. As they got to the entrance they ran into their other friends, Rose and Milla, who looked shocked at them but continued into the hall anyway. They me watching the boys and came over to where we were sitting.

"What'd you do to the boys?" Rose asked us.

"Carter thought it was funny to make fun of Gwen's hair." Parker told them.

"Malfoy and Al both commented as well." James added.

"What's wrong with Gwen's hair?" Milla asked looking over at me.

I felt calm again after scaring off the boys so I could only image my hair was back to its normal colour.

Louis leaned over and whispered something to James who perked up a little at his cousin's words.

"Doll, I know there's still a a month to wait but would you be so kind as to accompany me on the next Hogsmeade trip?" James asked me standing up from his seat and leaning over the table.

I could feel my hair changing colour. Maroon was the most likely colour.

"No, Potter." I told him. "You never have the decency to use my real name so I will not accompany you to Hogsmeade."

James glanced over at Molly who flicked through her notebook for a moment before saying, "She's fine."

He let out a defeated sigh and sat back down.

"Wicked." Milla said as she grabbed a piece of my hair. "I wish my hair could do that."

"It's a curse." I told her. "It changes with my mood. He's the most common cause of maroon." I jabbed my finger in the direction of James who had started pouting.

I rolled my eyes at him.

"So are you kind of like Teddy now?" Rose asked me.

"I have no control over it, if that's what you're asking." I explained. "It would be so much better if I did."

"Who did this to you?" Molly asked me. "You never told me."

"A potion was added to my tea last night." I told her.

Molly nodded in response knowing what I meant. I wasn't going to say out loud who had done it. But that comment alone told Molly who it was. There were only three people who ever saw me make and drink my tea meaning only two people could have done this as Molly knew she didn't.

"I knew it tasted slightly off." I said.

"I'm glad I didn't taste it then." Molly said with a laugh.

Last night when I had sat in bed with my tea and book I had noticed it tasted slightly different to normal. When I told Molly I offered to let her try it but she had refused saying she didn't like peppermint tea anyway. I thought that maybe it just tasted a bit funny because I hadn't had it for a couple weeks. Now I know the truth.

"One taste would have hardly given you an effect that was this long lasting." I told her.

The others just laughed.

"Come on, maybe if we go see Slughorn now he might be able to work out what potion they used and get me an antidote before classes start tomorrow." I said getting up from my seat.

All my friends stared at me, none of them getting up. Wow, some friends I have.

"Molly?" I asked my best friend.

"Fine." She sighed getting up and joining me.

Together we walked out of the Great Hall and down towards the dungeons.

So Slughorn was able to fix my hair. Now it was back to its normal dark brown. There was one thing that he hadn't considered though.

Neither Kendall Wood or Juliet Clarke was good at potions. They were both nearly failing the subject. Which had meant when they brewed the potion they had used on me they hadn't done it correctly.

So now, I was stuck with a stupid side effect of that stinking potion.

Slughorn said if it didn't wear off within twenty-four hours of when I'd consumed the original potion it was most likely going to be permanent.

Just great.

If my eyes don't remain their normal ordinary brown after tonight they were going to be a freaking mood ring for the rest of my life. There goes any ability to do anything deceptive, ever. I was never going to be able to hide my emotions from anyone. Just what I wanted in life.

"Gwen, are you alright?" Molly asked me as our group sat on the couches in the common room.

"Just peachy." I responded.

They all knew I wasn't exactly happy with what I'd been told. They were all trying to be considerate. All wanting to make me feel better. I knew they were. But right now I just wasn't in the mood.