Chapter 4: the potions master's phobia:

Snickers followed the girls down the hall as they walked to the dungeons. "This is all your fault, Myst." Ashe accused as they came to a halt outside the potions lab. "My fault!? What did I do?" Myst replied. Before he could reply, Nuna nudged her sister in the ribs, pointing to the end of the corridor. The girls grinned at each other and muttered a spell under their breaths. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Snape screamed as he headed down the hall to his classroom. "CLOWNS!!" "Now that was disturbing." Darien commented as Snape ran out of the dungeons to his office. " Um.Nuna, you are aware you look like a circus clown aren't you?" Llewellyn asked eyeing the triplets. "What do you think we are, stupid?!" Sazza exclaimed as the guys rolled their eyes, "Of course we know." "We also know Snape is afraid of clowns." Myst informed them. "Do we wanna know how you know that?" Llewellyn asked tentatively. "No." "O.K. how did you know that?" Ashe asked grinning evilly.

"D'you really wanna know?" They asked teasingly. "Yep." Darien replied. "Really, really wanna know?" "Yes." Llewellyn answered. "Really, really, really wanna know?" "Yes!!" answered Ashe. "R." "YES!!!!!!!!!!!" The whole class screamed. "Sorry TT secret. If we told you we'd have to kill you." Sazza replied tapping her nose. "TT? What the hell is that?" Darien asked Saz. "That too is a TT secret." Nuna butted in, "Come sisters! The great hall is free, we can go now." "YAY! Thankyou Professor Snape!" Myst yelled jumping up and down. " Ahh, can we please hurry, le garcon qui m'amoureux de derniere annee, IL me regarde maintenant." Annuna exclaimed in French. "Porquoi nous doivons partir quand ton petit am veux t'embrasse? Sazza continued, the class looked on in confusion. "Tu petit cochon! You little pig!" Annuna screamed chasing after her sister, Myst following behind. "Nuna, saz! Wait for me!"

"Alone at last!" This remark came from Sazza as they entered the great hall. "Myst will you do the honours?" Annuna asked stepping up to a relatively new painting of a staff, a sword and a dagger piercing a crimson and gold edged heart. " Les triplées folles voulent entre." Myst spoke and watched as the painting opened to reveal a brightly lit room. "Check to see if anyone saw us come in." Annuna stuck her head out; "Bugger!" the whole class was standing there, "Um.saz is the whole class supposed to follow us here?" "NUNA! Shut the door!" "Ow! Saz that was my head!" "Sorry" "Really girls. I don't think they saw us" Cai replied mimicking McGonagall's voice when Annuna complained that pickled toads used in potions was unethical and they should boycott potions class in protest. "Bang!" "Ow!" "Nuna let us in!" begged Llewellyn from outside. "Shit!" saz hissed. "Saz?" Darien asked. The girls backed away. "Come on Myst let us in!" Ashe whined. With a wicked grin Saz walked over to her large CD player (enchanted of course) in the corner of their room and cranked up "It's raining men!" The guys outside groaned at the memory. They were ickle secondies when the girls decided to soak them in water and make the fall from the ceiling of the great hall one spring morning, to the beat of that song. "That song!" they screamed and began to ram the door. For ten minutes they continued their aimless ramming before sitting, rather collapsing onto the floor, holding their heads. "Do you think they're gone?" Myst asked tentatively. "Sounds like it." Saz whispered by the door. " Well let's see." Nuna replied, "Fernet seul nous." She whispered and the girls were able to see the guys on the floor looking beat. The guys looked up as 6the painting swung open to reveal Nuna with her camera. "Haha! Say cheese!" she cried wickedly, the guys leapt up to get her as they smashed into the closed painting. " Well that was fun." Nuna replied with a giggle, watching her muggle Polaroid develop. "This is going in the book of humiliation." She said as she slipped it inside her shoe. 10 minute after the 'art ramming' incident the girls were sitting in their corners of the room; Sazza was on a black bean bag in the purple corner of the room, listening to big brovaz on her walkman, head bopping. Myst was making a dance routine to paint it black, by Vanessa Carlton, in the grey corner of the room. Doing complicated twists and turns, and kicking her legs high so her knee touched her nose. (Luckily she had pants on or that would have been scary!) In the beige corner Nuna sat putting shadows onto her painting; a wind, a water and an earth faery swirling around a fiery center. "Bang! Bang!" Annuna giggled walked over to Sazza and nudged her. Sazza pulled out her earphones, glaring at Nuna. "WHAT!?" she snapped. "It was a good song!" Nuna held a finger to her lips, snuck over and turned off Myst's CD player. Myst sank down into the splits and leapt back up onto her toes, she turned to her sisters. "Yes?" she gasped whipping a silver clad arm across her forehead. "Eewww." Nuna whined, "Have a shower you STINK!" Myst stuck her tongue out. "Shh!" Sazza hissed. "BANG!" "They're still at it!" Myst crowed gleefully. "Great! Brilliant! Now let me listen to my song!" Sazza roared. " And I thought I was supposed to be the one with the temper." Myst told her sisters grinning. " Shut up I'm not in the mood!" Saz replied. " Girls! It is time for lunch would you be so glad as to come and join us." Dumbledore's voice asked through the portrait hole. " Ouch!" Nuna screamed as she stabbed herself with a pencil. " We'll be right out professor. Just let us finish this little bit." Nuna said regaining her composure. The girls scrambled around the room pulling levers, pressing buttons, turning knobs and flicking switches. The room was quickly covered with books and all remnants of their previous activities replaced, they grabbed a few books so they seemed to have been studying. " O.K done?" Nuna asked, checking the room once more. "Lets go." Saz replied walking out from behind the portrait, books under one arm, to find Dumbledore and the entire school waiting. " Sorry we were studying." Nuna explained apologetically. The girls walked over to the Gryffindor table for lunch, with a final pat of thanks to the portrait from Nuna. The girls sat down next to the three guys and greeted them loudly. " OW My head!" Ashe groaned as the guys slumped forward onto the table, clutching their temples. " You know I think there's a moral to this." Nuna started taking a sip of her red cordial. " Don't ram into paintings?" Myst suggested pouring a glass of cordial as Nuna snorted in hers. " Don't harass the SEXY sisters?" Saz prompted gulping her own glass down. " No." Llewellyn said catching the other guys eyes as they stealthily grabbed the pitchers of cordial, " the moral to the story is. Never drink red cordial next to people you just locked out!" And with that the girls were drenched head to foot in red cordial. Myst let out an ear splitting screech and started hexing like mad. " You.are.so.gonna.die.Ashe!!!!!" she screamed chasing him round the hall and up to the common room where he was found huddled in the corner of the guys bathroom much later. Yet back to the hall and the other girls for now. The other two sisters sat in shock for a moment till Annuna uttered a quick cleaning and drying charm. The two girls locked eyes before grinning wickedly at the two guys standing there, who started to look very scared. The guys stepped back as the girls stood, the girls smiled sweetly, " We'd best go rescue Ashe." Saz said walking away. "Yeah, Myst looked pissed. Hey I'm a poet and I didn't know it!" Annuna grinned and cart wheeled out of the hall. The two guys looked at each other and shrugged, "I think they're scarier when they're nice." Lyn whispered, Darien nodded in agreement. "Nuna!" Myst screamed as the others entered the common room, "What's that drying charm again?" Nuna muttered the spell and Myst was dry again. "Myst where's Ashe?" saz asked worriedly seeing no sign of the poor guy. "He hid in the guys bathroom, I'd rather face a dragon with a toothache than that!" Myst replied with a shudder. "Guys, why don't you go help Ashe, we need to have a few words with our sister." Saz crooned whilst glaring at them till they disappeared. The girls then dashed up to their dorm and removed a heavy journal from under Nuna's bed, the book of humiliation. Nuna opened up to a new page, dated it and wrote down two words, prank fest. "We've got history of magic next we can write down what happened to Ashe and plan." Nuna whispered, bagging the book the girls ran off to their next class.

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" No! If we dye their hair green they'll be supporting Slytherin at the next match." Myst whispered as Binns continued to drone on about some weird dead goblin king. " Fine, red the." Saz answered. " Are you suggesting that's a bad colour?" Nuna hissed, " Ashe's hair's red anyway!" " What do you suggest then!?" Saz replied grouchily. " I think." Nuna said with an evil glint in her eyes, as she motioned them in, " that we need to pull out our most terrible, and yet untested, weapon of mass humiliation. The mood skins." The sisters gasped. " Could we." "Should we." They locked eyes. "Yeah." "O,K when should we attack, tonight?" Myst whispered. " Or tomorrow?" Nuna asked. " Nah the 25th." Saz explained further at her sisters' confuzzled looks, " The guys will be really nervous, thinking we'll prank them anytime. We can set the skin charm to be unbreakable for a week." She paused with a somewhat psychopathic look in her eyes, " It'll last over Halloween." The sisters grinned, " Done."

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Some time later in the boys' dorms.

" They're going to do something really bad. I just know it." Ashe said huddled into the space between the wall and his bed. " We'll have to be extra careful. Never turn your back on them." Darien muttered, cowering in the corner. Daniel snuck up behind the twitching Lyn and jumped him. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" a girlish scream echoed down into the stunned common room. " Waxing, how did you think they kept their lags so silken smooth!" Ginny announced into the stunned silence, many were looking questionably at the for once innocent triplets. " I Know!" Harry put on a wonderful singsong voice and flicked his hand, " I mean their lags are sooo smooth, they must use Sarah's super smooth legs. Guaranteed to make you scream!" Harry continued to prance about like Lockheart. " I know!" Ron joined in on the prancing, to the amusement of the whole common room. "Gotcha!" Nuna screamed whipping out her camera. "Nooooooooo! The shame!" Harry and Ron cried with their hands over their faces running up the boys' staircase. A second later Ron came tumbling back down the stairs and ran back up while turning maroon. " Should we see why the guys screamed? We are prefects after all." Ron asked eventually. " Nah, the triplets probably pranked them and I want to see the results at diner, speaking of which," Harry glanced at his watch, " We'd better get going." Harry answered wickedly before dashing downstairs.

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" So girls what did you do to your seconds?" Harry asked at dinner. " I mean, they don't look like anything happened to them. They're not giving you death glares and there was the incident before." " We haven't done anything to them, yet." Nuna replied, " we're just keeping them in a state of paranoia." She smiled sweetly at Llewellyn and he ducked under the table. They all laughed. "It's way more effective than just pranking them," Myst added smiling at the cowering Ashe. " Saz? Will you come with me, I need a word with you, Dar and Lyn. Myst keep Ashe occupied, please?" Nuna asked getting up with a nudge to Saz who took the hint. " Lewey! Daz! Come here, we need to talk." Saz cried as she pulled them away from the table, which they had hid under. " W.where are we going?" Darien asked tentatively as the reached the doors. "Outside." Saz answered going down the steps. "O.K where outside?" "Near the forest." "WHAT!!!!" Darien pulled back suddenly. " It's not like you haven't been before!" Saz cried exasperated. " But you will curse us and hurt us. and feed us to the werewolves!" Llewellyn cried. " Actually we were going to ask if you guys wanted to help set up Ashe and Myst but if you don't want to." Nuna pouted. "Hmmmm. Does this setting up require us to spend quality time with you sexy young ladies?" Darien asked Saz slyly, putting his arm around her waist and wiggling his eyes suggestively. "Possibly, but our main focus is to set the others up." Saz teased back as the reached the trees. " Ok. First things first." Nuna started as they stopped under a large oak tree, " They obviously like each other yet they are not aware of that fact yet. We therefore must find some way to force them to spend more time together, ALONE, any suggestions?" " We could lock them in a closet together." Darien suggested with a playful gleam in his eyes. " Very subtle Dar, why don't we just tell them outright we think they should get together!" Saz snapped, moving away from him. " we need something to occupy everyone else." Lyn said, picking up Nuna's look. " Exactly! The only problem is I have no idea what!" Nuna cried with frustration. They all looked in deep thought, thinking the same thing, but not really wanting to say it.

"Hey guys!" Harry and Ginny startled them out of thought as they ran across. "HI." The quartet replied as the couple arrived. " Now I believe it is my duty as head boy to ask what 4 of the most notorious pranksters are doing outside just 'talking'" Harry said with a wicked sparkle in his emerald eyes as the four looked sheepish, " However as a Gryffindor if your planning to get Malfoy or Snape. I want in!" The girls giggled, " Actually we were trying to figure out how to set up Myst and Ashe but, and I know it's a miracle, we're kinda short of ideas." Nuna explained. " How did you two get together?" Saz asked curiously, " I've always wondered." "Well." Ginny said, suddenly throwing a dramatic pose, " It was a hard and arduous task, involving dates with Ron and Mione, a DADA partnership and a few days locked in the burrow bathroom!" " Well we can't really use any of that to set up Ashe and Myst." Darien grouched. "Saz, hit him." "Happily." "Ow! No! Mercy!" "Chicken!" The others laughed as Saz and Darien began to run around in a circle. " You guys could lock them in the loo over the break." Harry suggested, " but Filch might try and join them." They all shuddered at the thought. "But we can't do the others either." Lyn replied gloomily. " How about love letters?" Ginny asked, " That's how we got Ron and Hermione together." The two shrugged. "I don't think they're really the letter type somehow." Nuna mused, " and Myst knows our handwriting, she could tell the difference." " Perhaps we could charm it to look like their own." Lyn suggested, "I'm pretty certain Flitwick mentioned something like that last week." " Yeah, ' ecris difri', we could look it up later." Nuna replied, eyes sparking. " We should be getting back," Darien puffed running back up to them, " You'll have to look up the spell later, and they'll be getting suspicious." " True. Will you accompany me fair lady, to the Gryffindor Tower" Lyn asked bowing to Nuna and offering his arm. "Gladly good sir." She linked their arms with a grin. "Ha! Is that all you can do?" Darien cried, grabbing up Saz (with a giant squeal from her part) " Come my dear lady, let us show them how it's done!" he dashed off as the others shook their heads. Just after the two disappeared into the courtyard the others heard a scream and dashed up to find the two sitting in a pile of mud. " I slipped." Darien muttered, going beet red as the others howled with laughter. " Netoydi" Harry said and the two were clean and dry, " Now lets get toe the tower in once piece, shall we!"