A/n: Alright, well here is the 10th (that's right, isn't it?) installment of my lovely little story. In the next chapter there's a lot of plot, so be prepared…
Disclaimer: I don't on anything J.K.R. does.
"Halloween is tomorrow, tomorrow, is only a day a way!" Jennifer sang as she bounced around the common room Tuesday evening. The girls, knowing she would act this way weren't really affected, but the guys (excluding Joseph) watched her, amazed a person actually had that much energy.
"We all know that, Jennifer," said Morgan who was reading a book.
"So?" Jennifer asked continuing to bounce around the common room.
"So could you please contain your excitement?" Megan asked looking up from her game of chess with Lori.
"Let me think about it," she stopped and thought a minute, "Nope." Then continued.
"If she's like this at Halloween, I don't think I want to know what she's like at Christmas," Joseph said.
"She's much, much worse, trust me," Morgan said. Suddenly Jennifer stopped.
"I'll be right back," she said and ran up to the girls' dorm.
"What is she doing?" Lori asked.
"Who knows," Alicia answered. A few minutes later she came flying down the stairs with Karrots, Ivory, and Ebony. It was amazing how she managed to carry all of them at once.
"Why did you bring them down here?" Morgan asked.
"They need to join the celebration," Jennifer explained.
"Jennifer, there is no celebration, besides the fact that they are cats," Megan said.
"Karrots isn't a cat," Jennifer replied.
"What exactly is she?" Kevin asked taking a good look at the half cat half owl.
"I have no idea," Jennifer told him.
"Poor Ebony, did Jennifer scare you?" Morgan asked her black cat in a baby voice. Ebony just purred as Morgan stroked her fur. Then Morgan set her on the floor.
"I did not scare her," Jennifer said.
"How do you know?" Morgan asked.
"I just do," Jennifer said. The others could feel an argument coming on.
"I'll get some popcorn," Lori said.
"Why?" Morgan asked.
"Because this is going to take awhile," Lori answered.
"I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Jennifer," Morgan said.
"Because," Jennifer said smiling.
"Because why?"
"Because because."
"Because because why?"
"Because because because."
"Because because because why?"
"Because because because because."
On and on it went. They had learned a heating charm the week before and as soon as they did they had asked their parents to send them some popcorn to try it out. Lori went up to the girls' dorm and brought down a few packages as the rest settled around her watching the argument turn into a game.
"Who do you think will win?" James asked Michael, whom he was sitting by.
"I dunno, but I think Jennifer," Michael said.
"Really, I was thinking Morgan," James told him.
"Jennifer's much more experienced," Lori butted in.
"But Morgan's very, very good at arguing," Joseph put in.
"Indeed, however there is one thing ya'll have all overlooked," Megan said.
"What?" they all asked.
"Jennifer can count better."
"Because because because because because because because because because because because because because because because because because because because bec-" but there Jennifer had to stop because she was laughing so hard. Morgan was not pleased.
"I resent that," Morgan said, but before they could begin an argument Alicia said something.
"Morgan, Ebony's got something in her mouth."
"What!" Morgan looked at Ebony who had a strange looking ball in her mouth. She went over to the couch where Ebony was and wrestled the ball away from her. It was green with lines zigzagging every which way on it.
"What is that?" Megan asked.
"I have no idea," Morgan said.
"Let me see," Jennifer said stopping her laughter and hopping up off the floor. Morgan handed it to her.
"I know what that is," Michael said.
"What?" everyone asked.
"That is a Zing Ping ball."
"A what what ball?" Jennifer asked handing it back to Morgan.
"A Zing Ping ball," Michael said again, "It's a toy, but they were banned a while ago for being a hazard to everyone."
"Why?" Alicia asked.
"I don't know, I never had one," Michael said shrugging.
"Freaky," Jennifer said.
"I guess I'll keep it," Morgan said as she put it into her pocket.
"What are we going to do now? It's only eight, and we've got tons of popcorn," Lori whined. They all thought a minute.
"I've got it!" Jennifer cried after a few minutes of painful thinking.
"What?" Morgan asked.
"Charades!"
So they played charades for about three hours when they decided they had better head up to bed.
~*!*~
Jennifer sat up quickly and checked the clock. It was three in the morning. She quietly tip-toed over to Morgan's bed.
"Morgan," she whispered. No movement. "Morgan!" she said a little louder. Still no movement. "Morgan Leigh Cherry, get up NOW."
"I'm up, I'm up," she said sitting up, looking slightly dazed.
"Good, now help me get the others up," Jennifer told her.
"Why?" Morgan asked.
"I'll explain in a minute." So they hurriedly awoke the others. Alicia and Megan were no problem, but then they had to face Lori.
"Ok guys, I'll wake her up, I've done it before," Jennifer said dramatically. She cautiously approached Lori's bed. A few feet away she broke into a run and jumped right on top of her.
"Jennifer, get off of me," Lori whined as she turned over and Jennifer fell off.
"Lori, you gotta get up, we're going to pull a Halloween trick on the guys," Jennifer said.
"I don't wanna," Lori mumbled.
"I'll poor ice water on you," Jennifer said.
No response.
"Fine, you have forced me to use ice cold water to awake you from your slumber," Jennifer said sadly. She pointed her wand at Lori and then…
"AHHHHH, THAT IS COLD!" Lori screamed.
"Shut-up, you're going to wake someone up," Megan whispered.
"Ok, now that I'm up and freezing, what is going on?" Lori asked.
"Like I said, we're going to pull a lovely little Halloween trick on the guys," Jennifer said calmly.
"What's the plan then?" Alicia asked.
~*!*~
"Finished," Jennifer whispered to the others. They were dressed all in black and were just completing the guys' Halloween trick. The guys' dorm was covered in black and orange crate paper that Alicia had transfigured from toilet paper; it also had plenty of this green stuff Jennifer had made. Then, just so the boys would know who trashed their dorm, there was a sign that said:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN brought to you courtesy of JALM&M
"It's perfect," Lori said as she looked around the room.
"Yep," Megan said.
"Well, now that it's 'perfect' let's go before they wake up," Alicia said. Then they all hurried back to their dorms and went back to sleep for the remaining three hours until their trick would be discovered.
~*!*~
"You girls will pay," was what called the girls out of their slumber the second time that morning. Even Lori got up.
"I see you boys found our Halloween present," Jennifer said. The guys were covered in green slime and crate paper.
"Present? This is a present?" George cried wiping slime off his shoulder.
"It was a figure of speech, George," Alicia said.
"Before the day is done we will have gotten our revenge," Kevin said.
"MUAHAHAHAHA!!" James laughed one of those evil laughs. The rest looked at him.
"Ok, that was freaky," Megan said.
"Sorry about that, it just escapes me sometimes," James said.
"Ok, we'd love to chat with ya'll, but we really need to get dressed," Morgan said.
"Buh-bye," Lori said mockingly as she shut the door in their faces.
"Boys," Jennifer said rolling her eyes.
"They are so immature," Morgan agreed.
"Well we're right behind them," Alicia replied.
"Alicia, you're disgracing your own sex," Jennifer said aghast.
"No I'm not, I just meant we are the ones who trashed their room," she pointed out.
"So?" Megan asked.
"Never mind," Alicia said.
"Come on, we've gotta get dressed," Lori said.
"Yes, we have revenge to be looking out for."
~*!*~
Jennifer walked out of the bathroom wearing sunglasses and underneath her Hogwarts robes she wore all black. In fact, it was the same outfit she had worn earlier that morning.
"Jennifer, what are you doing?" Alicia asked being the first one to see her walk out.
"I'm going on a mission," Jennifer said in her super-spy voice.
"What?" Lori asked.
"A mission, to save us from humiliation," Jennifer informed them.
"Huh?" Morgan asked confused. Jennifer sighed, dropping the act.
"The guys said they were going to get revenge, so we have to be on the lookout! I can't very well concentrate if I'm not in my spy gear," she told them.
"The clothes you wear have nothing to do with it," Megan told her.
"Oh yeah?" Jennifer asked.
"Yeah," Alicia agreed.
"Just watch, then," Jennifer said. Then she left with her friends following behind her.
All the way down to the great hall she kept jumping out of crevices singing the Mission: Impossible theme and holding her hands out like she had a gun.
"Jennifer, please stop, you're making a scene," Morgan whispered as people began to stare. Jennifer didn't pay attention to her and continued down the hall in the same manner.
"We can't take her anywhere, can we?" Alicia asked. The others shook their heads. They hurried to catch up with her. When they finally caught up with her she was standing right in front of the double doors.
"Get out of the way, Jennifer, I want my breakfast," Lori said almost walking in front of her. Jennifer put her hand out just in time.
"NO!" she yelled, causing the entire hall to look up at them. She pointed to the guys, "They're watching us, and they've obviously pranked the door."
"Oh please, Jenn, just let us through," Megan whined impatiently.
"Hold on," she said. She pulled out her wand and waved it in the area right under the door. "Stand back," she cried as she pushed them all backward. A cascade of slime fell exactly where they would have been standing. Jennifer turned to smirk at them.
"Don't even say it," Morgan said.
"Oh but I must," Jennifer said evilly.
"Fine then, just hurry up," Megan said defeated.
"I told you so."
~*!*~
During Charms not much happened, the boys must have been planning their revenge. However, in Transfiguration…
"Hey, Alicia," Jennifer said nonchalantly.
"Yeah?" Alicia asked looking up.
"Duck," Jennifer said. Instinctively Alicia ducked and Jennifer moved her head a little as a spell came their way. It hit the wall and bounced back at the Ravenclaw girl named Kelly O'Leary. She screamed, but nothing happened. Then she started to scratch, and scratch, and scratch.
"Ooh, Itchiness charm, I hate that one," Jennifer said. Her friends shook their heads.
~*!*~
The day continued on, the boys every now and then trying to avenge themselves, it never worked. Before they knew it, it was time for the Halloween Feast.
Needless to say some of them were extremely excited. (coughJennifer,Megan,Morgancough)
"Hey, Morgan," Jennifer called from her bed. The girls were all in their dorm anxiously waiting for dinner to come.
"Yeah?" Morgan yelled from the bathroom. She was 'freshening up' as she put it.
"Can I bring that Zing Ping ball thing to the Feast?" Jennifer asked.
"I guess, just don't get us into trouble," Morgan answered.
"What about your mission?" Megan asked her. Jennifer shrugged.
"I believe the guys have given up," she replied.
"How do you know?" Lori asked.
"Instinct," Jennifer told her.
"Oh please," Alicia said disbelievingly.
"Fine, I overheard them talking about it, they said they were tired of trying to do the impossible."
"Ha, they think we're impossible to beat?" Lori asked.
"Sounds that way," said Megan. Jennifer nodded.
"Guess what, time to go," Alicia said.
"IT'S TIME TO GO! YAY!" Jennifer, Megan, and Morgan yelled running out of the dorm.
"Good Lord, it's only Halloween," Lori said as she watched her friends leave.
"Come on," Alicia sighed as they followed their overly hyperactive acquaintances.
~*!*~
"Wow," Morgan whispered in awe. The others had to admit, the hall looked absolutely breathtaking.
"Come on, I'm starving," Kevin said, pushing through Morgan, Jennifer, and Megan. The others quickly followed him.
When the entire student body was in the Great Hall, Dumbledore stood, said a few words and then said quite simply, let's eat. And so they did.
"Say, Jennifer, why did you bring that thing?" Michael asked indicating the Zing Ping ball. Jennifer shrugged.
"I dunno, I just felt like looking at it," she said. She was indeed looking at it, searching it all over in fact.
"What are you looking for?" Morgan asked her.
"Once again, I dunno, but there must be a reason why it was banned," Jennifer said continuing her search. Finally she exclaimed;
"Aha! I found something!"
"What?" Megan asked quickly looking over her shoulder, trying to see whatever she had found.
"Look, there's a button," Jennifer said, pointing it out to the others, "I wonder what will happen if I press it."
"I don't think that's a good idea," Alicia began, but it was too late, Jennifer had already pressed it.
Quick as lightning the ball took off, scoring around the great hall like a sick snitch gone out of control. It was only a blur of green as it passed, but boy did it hurt. Several people were hit by it including, but not limited to, Prof. McGonagall, Prof. Snape, several Ravenclaws, many more Slytherins, and even a few Hufflepuffs, but those were only the people. It also destroyed many of the decorations, covering kids who weren't hit with bits of pumpkin, and whenever it hit the table food went flying everywhere. No wonder Zing Ping balls had been band. There were two good things, however, one was that it came back to whoever set it off within two minutes, the other, it had moved so quickly nobody saw it start or stop, except the people who knew Jennifer.
"Oh, shit," Lori whispered.
"Yes, I think that sums it up pretty well," Joseph agreed.
"Quick, hide it!" Alicia whispered. Jennifer stuck it into one of the pockets in her pants as Professor Dumbledore stood up.
"Under the circumstances," here he gestured to the very messy Great Hall, "we will not be able to continue our feast. If you would all return to your common rooms food will be sent there. Also, whoever did this will be found out and punished. You are dismissed." He continued standing as they all walked out of the hall. He watched ten Gryffindor first years as they left the hall.
"Do you have any idea who did it professor?" McGonagall asked.
"No, Minerva, no I don't." But his eyes told a different story.
~*!*~
The next day was Thursday so, unfortunately, they had classes. However, on the way to Potions Kevin noticed a bulletin saying first years' flying lessons would be on the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of the following week, for the Gryffindors anyway.
"Does that mean we don't have to go to History of Magic?" George asked.
"I guess," Kevin answered.
"Yes!" Lori exclaimed. The fact that they would be having flying lessons soon almost made the Potions lesson bearable. Notice the 'almost'.
~*!*~
As Monday approached the first years became more, and more excited. The Gryffindors were especially happy because they were having their flying lesson with the Ravenclaws, not the Slytherins.
So on Monday, after Potions, they headed down to the Hogwarts grounds where there were some brooms lying on the ground. They were soon joined by Madam Hooch.
"Alright, everyone find a broom and stand beside it. Then put your hand out and shout 'UP'," after she said that there were many shouts of 'UP', but hardly any were answered. Megan's broom jumped up into her hand, but Morgan's seemed to be having trouble, like it was trying to get up but was just too tired. Jennifer's came up after awhile of yelling. Kevin's broom had come up on the first shout as well, James's soon followed, and Joseph's too. George's broom seemed to be doing along the same line of what Morgan's was. Alicia's broom didn't do anything at all, and Lori's broom kept rolling around. Finally she just picked it up off the ground, and most every else, whose brooms still hadn't come up, did the same.
"Now, everyone mount your brooms," she told the class, then went around to make sure everyone was doing that right, then called out, "Ok, on the count of three you're going to push of the ground gently, hover a while, and then come back down. ONE….TWO…THREE," she blew her whistle as they all pushed off the ground and hovered, or tried to. Morgan seemed to have extreme trouble staying on her broom, even a few feet from the ground. Then they all came back down.
After about thirty minutes of doing little things like that, Madam Hooch allowed them to go higher and fly around on their own as she supervised from below.
"Oh, my gosh!!!!" Jennifer yelled to Morgan and Megan who were flying near her.
"What?" Megan asked.
"Synchronized flying!" she yelled.
"How?" Morgan asked.
Jennifer thought carefully.
"Ok, I got it, get Alicia and Lori," she said after a few moments of thought.
"ALICIA, LORI, COME HERE!" Megan screamed at the two who were only flying a short distance away.
"No need to yell Megan," Alicia said.
"What is it?" Lori asked.
"Synchronized flying," Jennifer said.
"What is she talking about?" Alicia asked Morgan who shrugged.
"Ok, here's what we're going to do," Jennifer said. She did a few tricks she came up with on the spur of the moment.
"I don't know if I can do that," Morgan said nervously.
"Don't worry, it's easy," Jennifer said.
So they worked at it for a while. After finally getting it write, and together, Jennifer, who had appointed herself their coach thought it was ready for music.
"Music, Jennifer? How are we going to get music?" Lori asked.
"Yeah, don't you know, no Muggle things work at Hogwarts, it's got too much magic," Morgan reminded her.
"Hmm…" Jennifer thought for a minute.
"What about that spell we learned in Transfiguration? Alicia could probably transfigure something into a CD player and a CD, and that would be magical, not Muggle," Megan said. They all turned to Alicia. She had read ahead in their Transfiguration books, way ahead.
"I'll try," she said. So they found a rock for her to change into a CD player, and a small pebble for the CD. After concentrating very hard and muttering a few things no one understood a CD player and a CD sat in the place of the rock and pebble.
"What CD did is it?" Lori asked.
"Um…it's got 'I Love Rock n' Roll' on it," Alicia called up from the ground.
"That'll be perfect," Jennifer said, "Take your positions!" By now everyone was watching them curiously. Jennifer directed her wand to the CD player and it began to play Britney Spear's 'I Love Rock n' Roll'.
Hey? Is this thing on?
And so they began their little routine. It was quite funny to watch, especially when they got to the chorus because right about then Morgan lost her balance and fell off her broom. Jennifer quickly turned off the music.
"Oh great! Morgan, you're not supposed to fall off! Uh, could somebody please catch her?" Jennifer yelled. Morgan was quickly approaching the ground, when James, who was nearby, swooshed in and caught her on his broom.
"OW!" The other Gryffindor girls were laughing so hard they almost fell off too. He brought her back to her broom, which, luckily, hadn't zoomed away.
"Thanks," she said with a pained expression on her face. He laughed.
"No problem."
Then the lesson ended and they had to go back to the castle.
"Somebody's got a crush!" Megan said in a sing-song voice.
"I do not," Morgan said.
"James and Morgan sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Lori sang.
"Shut-up, I do not like him" Morgan said.
"Whatever you say, Morgan."
~*!*~
And so life went on. They slowly fell into a routine, not intentionally of course, it was inevitable. Before they knew it Christmas Holidays were coming up, and they couldn't believe they'd been at Hogwarts for three months now.
But these kids aren't ones to live in a routine life; action follows them, whether it is good…or bad…
A/n: Well here it is, the tenth chapter, I think it turned out ok, but tell me for yourself when you REVIEW!~
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