When Houses Collide
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this stuff that honour falls to J.K Rowling,Bloomsbury and Warner Bros
Author talkin here!! Ok I am sorry this was only meant to be a v.short story for my lil sis who like me is Potter starved....however since it is now a biiig net story I am sorry for makin it so long. Don't worry this is the last bit. We'll see what happens when houses collide.............hehehehe scroll down for the final match.
"Toad Rat!". "Mudblood Lover!" Two voices echoed loudly in the charms corridor shattering the peace of the lessons nearby. "At least I'm not a strange loner with only SNAKES to talk to!". There was an audible pause and the second voice purred silkily "Oh is that the best you can do Godric, my heart is crushed" The painted mouth of Salazar Slytherin twisted in a smirk. The two portraits faced each other across the corridor. Godric Gryffindor was scarlet in the face from yelling. "You snake heated m....."
At that moment the door to the charms classroom was flung open and an extremely irate Professor Flitwick emerged. It took a few moments before he could produce anything but an outraged squeak. Finally he gathered himself together "Will you two kindly BE QUIET" he bellowed. "For founders of a school you seem to care little about disturbing the process of education." Godric looked sheepish and muttered something that sounded distinctly like "old snake mouth started it." Slytherin, however, turned to face Flitwick his face twisting nastily. "Well I must say you make a good head of Ravenclaw, Rowena was so like you, short, opinionated and a ceaseless know it all." Flitwick seemed to swell "That is ENOUGH" he growled. Pulling out his wand he muttered "Taitoisium" A small gag appeared in the scene of both pictures. Flitwick smiled with satisfaction and turned back to the classroom unaware of the affronted looks the two pictures were giving him.
Half an hour later the bell rang for lunch and a crowd of 3rd year Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors poured out of charms. As they passed by the portraits Elizabeth Nightcreeper stopped. "Why has Godric Gryffindor been gagged?" The girl she was with, Jane Dorian shrugged "must've been them we heard arguing she said motioning to the opposite portrait. Elizabeth scowled "he's the founder of our house, I won't let him suffer this indignity!" She drew out her wand and pointing at the picture performed the Finite Incatum" The gag vanished and Godric beamed down at the Gryffindors. "Thanks young' uns"
The spell had also been reversed on Slytherins portrait. His eyes glittered angrily. "Is that how you want your house to behave Godric? Help a fellow Gryffindor before another?" The paintings seemed about to have another screaming match when a perfectly aimed jet of green paint hit Salazar's portrait. He had been just about to say something and consequently got a lot of the sticky green goo in his mouth. As he sputtered and choked Godrics painting began shouting encouragement and more paint filled the air hitting the ancient canvas. In the resulting chaos and confusion a group of Slytherins came from the opposite direction and merrily joined in the fray.
"And then Proffesor Vector came along and caught them all at it" Hermione laughed. "He'd asked me to come back to class to discuss some work and I saw the whole thing" The Gryffindors were all crowded round Hermione as she told what she'd seen. "You should've been there, all the painting dripping with paint, Godric and Salazar screaming at each other..." "Is the match still on piped up a small first year. "Yes, thank goodness, Professor Flitwick is having them all back to clean the paintings by hand tomorrow night though"
"Good" said Ron darkly "I've been up past midnight learning the hexes I'm going to use on Malfoy.
The match between Slytherin and Gryffindor was due to take place on Friday. Before the incident in the charms corridor the rivalry had been barely controlled. Now that both houses were convinced that the other had insulted their founder it only took one wrong look before curses, hexes and paintballs began flying.
Finally the bell rang for tea on Thursday. The Gryffindors and Slytherins were looking daggers at each other across the Ravenclaw table. Fred and George seemed oddly distracted. Their eyes remaining fixed on the Slytherin table. "What's up with you two?" Ron asked after the third time Fred had brought an empty fork to his mouth. "Hmm?" Fred said jerked abruptly out of his daydream "Oh nothing, nothing" he smiled slightly and turned back to George. "Where did Dobby put them?" he hissed "In the main course now shut up or you'll give it away!" Ron turned back to Harry and shrugged, must be some joke they're planning. He pushed his soup bowl away and it promptly vanished and was replaced by a heaped bowl of Spaghetti Bolognase.
They returned to their tea but a few minutes later they were startled by sudden loud pops, squeaks and cries of horror coming from the direction of the Slytherin table. About thirty of the Slytherins had turned into large toads. They were causing chaos, hopping in panic and upsetting dishes. Harry turned to look at Fred and George, a small smile twitching at his mouth. Both of the winked at him and began to hoot with laughter as Draco Malfoy was replaced by a large and very surprised toad. The uproar lasted for several more minutes, whatever Fred and George had done it was, like the canary creams, only temporary. One by one the toads gave a deep croak and resumed their normal appearance. Malfoy stared across at them, two red spots of anger flaming on his high cheekbones. Dumbledore assured the Slytherins that no further transformations would take place and tea then proceeded in peace.
When they had all eaten what they could the food vanished and Dumbledore stood to make the announcements. The hall was quickly hushed into silence. "I would like to thank Fred and George Weasley for that fascinating demonstration of transfiguration charms, however, wishing to keep the school in one piece I would ask that there are no further incidents of this nature. I am afraid that would lead to the cancellation of tomorrow's match. Thankyou that is all"
The houses rose and filed out of the great hall. The Slytherins managed to get in a few sneaky charms to get their revenge. Fred got on the wrong end of a body bind and George was hit by a particularly strong puppeteer charm. "It was worth it to see half of Slytherin turn into toads" He grinned as he jerked and cartwheeled his way back up to their common room.
The next morning dawned bright and sunny. Thanks to Dumbledore's warning breakfast passed without any flying paint or toads interrupting it. However the tension was still there and dark looks were being exchanged. Snape and MacGonagall stood ready for the match. "The paintball match will take place as previously" Snape hissed. Harry got the feeling he didn't approve of letting students throw paint around rather than learning. "If there is any disruption on the way down you will ALL be in detention and I will see that the troublemakers are expelled. On that happy note the two houses began to make their way out to the Forbidden Forest, scowling at each other.
The start was just as before. Hermione got ready, winked at Rona and Harry, and the ran into the forest. Her heart was going like a piston. One or two Slytherins crossed her path but she saw them all off easily. There was no sign of Malfoy. "Great!" she muttered "He pops up wherever I don't want him and when I finally do want him I can't find him." Her train of thought was halted when something slimy and cold hit the back of her neck. "Well, well Mudblood" a cold voice drawled "fancy finding you without your boy friend" It was Malfoy. She bit back and insult and mentally sketched out where Ron and Harry had planned to hide. She turned to face him and then ran. "See the molared mudblood flee" Malfoy grinned wolfishly and began to follow her. Charms and spells were whizzing past her head and hitting nearby trees. "Now then..." She murmured "I should trip....here!" She screamed to let Ron and Harry know she'd arrived and then went tumbling forward.
The three Slytherins surrounded her. Malfoy was smirking but Crabbe and Goyle just looked gormless. Just as another paint spurt issued from Malfoy's wand there were two neat splats followed by agonised yells from Crabbe and Goyle. They had both received a dose of paint to the face and were blundering round blindly. They couldn't see where they were going at all and Malfoy's shouted instructions confused them even more. Eventually they blundered into each other and were knocked out cold.
"Who did that, where are you?" Malfoy was ignoring Hermoine now and was instead scanning the trees for the attacker. She stood up quietly and raised her wand "Viscosia Verde!" Sticky green goo shout out all over Malfoy, pinning his wand arm to his side. "Glue charm" Hermione smiled "you're going no where fast" Harry and Ron now emerged to face Malfoy. "Weasley!" he raged struggling to free himself "When my father...." Ron advanced on Malfoy his wand raised "Come on Malfoy" he said lightly "It's just a harmless paintball game, Impedimenta!" Malfoy's feet were now enclosed in a case of Ron's quick drying paint. He looked definitely nervous now and was trying to squirm out of the paint and free his arm. "Well Malfoy it seems you are in a sticky situation" grinned Harry "Giallo tittilandus" The yellow paint spattered Malfoy and he struggled to keep his balance as they tickling paint made him shriek with laughter. For a while they stayed firing spells at Malfoy until he looked more like a pillar of paint than a wizard. "Potter!" he gasped "You'll pay for this." "Yeah, well not today come on let's leave Malfoy to hop out of here on his own." They turned to leave when Ron suddenly smiled mischievously. "I've got the best idea" He shouted out the weirdest sounding spell Harry had ever heard. "You'll love this" he winked "I saw it in Valentine Hexes for your exes, I've been dying to try it"
For a moment Malfoy couldn't feel anything different. "Well you're a poor excuse for a......" he stopped . He could feel a strange fluttery sensation in his stomach. He opened his mouth to ask Ron what he'd done when he suddenly burped out several pink and red hearts. He looked so amazed that all three Gryffindors cracked up laughing. "Weasley what have you done to me!" He demanded and then promptly spat out a mouthful of foul tasting pink goo. As they turned to leave Malfoy shouted after them "Don't (hic) leave (hic) now, I'll (cough) get you!!"
"What was that hex you put on him?" Hermione giggled as they heard the whistle sound and began to make their way out. "Oh it's called the lovesick hex, it only lasts for an hour or so" They were still laughing about the look on Malfoy's face when they emerged back onto the grass to have their robes cleaned off. Malfoy had to be rescued by Professor MacGonagall and had to endure the laughter of Gryffindor house as he was brought out, still burping hearts.
They were now waiting for the scores to be totalled. Snape was in a foul mood and swept over to the Slytherins looking as if he wanted to kill. "Emulsify!" he roared and a huge ball of paint collected in mid-air. The ball was to huge and Snape began to lose control as he frantically tried to get it to move over the hole provided the ball dropped. It covered Snape from head to foot. The marble colours swirling prettily as even professor MacGonagall fought to keep a straight face and help him.
"I wouldn't mention paintball to Snape for a while" Ron said groggily as they drifted off that evening. "Not to the rest of Slytherin either" put in Seamus. "I thought Blaise looked cute with pink hair" Lee Jordan said lightly. "Well one thing's for sure I have never seen them more mad to lose a match with Gryffindor" Harry sniggered. He lay back in his bed and decided that the paintball match was by far the best thing to have happened to him yet in his time at Hogwarts. "At least so far" he mumbled as he drifted off to sleep.
Ok that is it my first fic finished and done. Please let me know what you think....and look out for more cause this has started a brand new hobby for me. :)
Malfoy's Girl
p.s I am sorry for the cruelty to Draco, but it had to happen I needed comedy. I will be nice to him in my next story.
