Chapter 4. The trick.
"Hi, you guys." said Felicity the next morning, sitting next to her friends for the first time from the beginning of the school term.
"Good morning, Felicity. Long time no see." said Sirius, sarcastically. Felicity glared at him.
"Don't be hard on Feli, Sirius." said Lily. "But I can't help saying 'long time no talk'."
"Oh Lily, I can't believe you're saying this to me!" cried Felicity, sounding hurt. "Well, I can just say is that I'm not going to follow Justin anymore."
"Why you change your mind?" asked Remus, amused.
"Because he has too much girlfriends." said Felicity. "He is even worse than Sirius....."
"HEY!" shouted Sirius. "I don't think that was necessary..."
"I don't really know what he is thinking and sometimes I think he just want to chase girls for fun. Actually, I'm tired of following him everywhere while he is dating or anything." said Felicity.
"Good for you, Felicity!" said Lily. "I was beginning to feel a bit lonely without you and Clarissa."
"Well, I owe you guys an apology. Especially Sirius. I'm so sorry guys. I'm sorry Sirius. Will you guys forgive me?" begged Felicity.
"Of course!" said Lily, James and Remus at once.
"Sirius?" said Felicity, timidly. "Will you forgive me?" Sirius looked at her and then hugged her tightly.
"Why wouldn't I?" he said kindly.
"Okay, now everything is all right." said James, happily. Lily tried to stop him from saying that, but it was too late.
"Not really, James. Felicity came back, but not Clarissa." said Remus, sadly.
"Oh, Remus. Don't be unhappy. Now Felicity came back, I bet Clarissa will soon be in her sense and be herself again." said Sirius, sympathetic.
"Never mind." said Remus, trying to sound cheerful. "Today we're going to have our first DADA lessons."
"Yeah, and the new teacher sounds nice." said Felicity.
"She is." said Hannah Rivers, and took a seat next to Felicity. "The Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw say so."
"Good. Hmm.... we're going to have lessons with Slytherin, worse luck." sighed Remus.
"Well, perhaps you will have to fight with Snape about being the first in DADA. By the way, we haven't played one prank on Snape this term!" emclaimed Lily
"Sshhh!!" hissed James and signaled Lily that Hannah was still here. Hannah looked at him and then smiled.
"I have heard nothing about what you guys have said." she said, and began talking with Hannah.
"So, are we going to tell Clarissa our plans?" asked Lily.
"No," said Remus, firmly. "She hadn't been with us these days, so she doesn't deserve to be in our secrets."
"Okay." said Lily, a bit surprised that Remus was so hard at Clarissa. "What shall we do?"
"I have a perfect plan." grinned Sirius. He whispered it to Remus. Then Remus whispered to James. James whispered it to Lily and she told it to Felicity.
"Sorry that we can't tell you you-know-what," said Lily.
"It's okay." said Hannah. "I rather know what is it when it is played rather before it."
"Thanks for being decent." said Remus. Hannah went a little bit red and nodded.

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The next morning in the Great Hall.....
"Hey, look at that!" said some boy in Hufflepuff and pointed at Snape. James looked up and saw Snape. He tried to stop himself from laughing. He pointed at Snape.
"Hey you guys, look!"
Lily and the other looked at Snape. They laughed loudly. Snape's oily hair had changed into rat tails and dead worms. Then to make sure everyone knows about it, James yelled out.
"Oy, Snape! What happened? Bad hair day??" everybody look at Snape's hair. The whole school roared.
Snape glared at him and scowl. He went to the boy's toilet....
"Aaa!" he screamed. He screamed so loudly that everyone in the Great Hall heard him. Everyone shooked wiht laughter.
"I've never thought that Snape could scream so loudly!" cried Remus, almost choking with laughter.
"And I never thought that greasy voice of his is so similar to a girl's!" roared Sirius.
"Omigosh, look!" hissed Lily. Snape came back in with two stern looking teachers. They were a grim looking Professor Sneddon and an annoyed Professor McGonagall.
"I never thought Snape would sneak off to a teacher." whispered James. The whole school suddened acted as if their breakfast were extra interesting.
"Look! Scramble eggs!"
"Round shape Pancakes!"
"Pumpkin Juice! My favourite!"
"Silence!" holled Professor Sneddon. "Who had play this childish trick on him?"
Of course no one answered. James and some others glared angrily at Snape for being a sneak. However Snape grinned as if he had found 100 gallons on the floor.
"I'm warning everyone. If you have any idea who play this trick on Mr. Snape, you should tell us now. If not, you will also be punished." hollared Professor Sneddon.
James and the boys didn't mind any punishment of all kind, so they just sat there, trying to look innocent.
"James," whispered Lily. "Look at Hannah." James looked and saw Hannah was a bit red.
"Oh no, do you think she will tell on us? She is always so good student you know. I think she never had been punished!"
"She wouldn't tell. Unless the punishment involves the whole house...."
"Professor, I believe it has something to do with Gryfindor," said Snape, grinning wickedly.
"You're sure?" asked Professor McGonagall. "I'm sure...."
"Ten points out of Gryfindor if no one owns up." shouted the Potion Mistress. "Twenty points!"
"Hey, she has got no right to do this!" said Felicity angrily.
"She does," said Remus calmly. "She's a professor."
"Why don't McGonagall stop her! It's unfair!" said Sirius.
"It isn't fair to other houses if McGonagall stop another teacher to deduct her own house." explained Lily.
"So she's going to stand there and nothing??? That's insane..."
"I know who did it." said Hannah, standing up. "I won't tell, but please stop deducting points from Gryfindor."
"How dare you tell me what to do!" sreamed Sneddon. "Thirty points deducted if you don't tell us who did it." Hannah look pained. James and Lily stood up.
"We did it. We aren't afraid to admit it, but we think Hannah is decent not to sneak on us even when you deduct our points cruelly." said Lily, boldly.
"What!!! How dare you insult me! Professor, say something!" shouted Sneddon to Professor McGonagall.
"You perfectly know that is what I exactly feel, Professor Sneddon. You know I can't stop any punishment you set for my students in my house." said Professor McGonagall, not bothering to lower her voice. Professor Sneddon was red in rage.
"Okay! Thirty points deducted and detention for each of you!" spatted the angry professor to the three standing students. Snape looked as if he was going to cry. He thought he would bring a heavier punishment to Gryfindor. Everyone but the Slytherin looked joyed. Slytherin looked at them in disgust. Lily walk towards Hannah, who was still red.
"Thanks for being a sport," said Lily.
"Don't mention it. " said Hannah. "I'm surprised that I dare to talk in front of the whole school."
"That's because you're brave. If not, how can you be in Gryfindor?" said Lily. Hannah laughed.
"Thanks."
From that day on, Hannah was close friends with Lily and Felicity. She had replaced Clarissa, thought Lily. But how I hope Clarissa would still be friends with us.