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The Perfect Prank.

The group had discussed Cleo's plan, working out the finer points, studied a few things in the library, and were now waiting in the Gryffindor common room for everyone to go to sleep.

Cleo sat on the couch, reading a book with her legs crossed Indian style, in a corner Sirius and James played some games of Wizard's chess, Astra and Draco seemed to be bickering behind an armchair, and Remus was reading in the armchair infront of them. All looked and seemed normal, yet they were slightly tense, all were hoping they wouldn't get caught, though what they were about to do seemed like it was worth it.

"And I win again!" Sirius called from the corner with glee after saying checkmate. "I think your losing your edge there, Prongs." They could hear Sirius boasting loudly.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm just having a bad day at it as all.." Prongs muttered as he put the board away.

"Week." Remus spoke, peering up from his book.

"A week and two days to be exact." Sirius grinned and stuck out his tongue playfully.

"All right I get the point. Do you HAVE to be specific every time your better at something than me?" James asked, hands on hips, mock glaring at him.

"Of course! That's what makes it fun!" Sirius grinned broadly.

As the two chattered, along with Cleo and Astra's inputs once in awhile, the crowd in the common room slowly left to their dorms. Soon, the only people were left were the Marauders, Cleo, Astra, Draco, and some seventh years, who were finishing up some homework and getting ready for bed.

The group watched them carefully, as if they were time bombs. As soon as they closed the doors Draco jumped up. "So are we..?"

"No! Not yet! You have to wait for them to get to sleep. Honestly, you would be a pathetic thief." Cleo rolled her eyes at them. The group stared at her. "Not.. that.. I'd know... what a good thief is.. like." The girl cleared her throat numerous times. "Give it half an hour then we can go." She said after an awkward silence and had been getting interested in the scarlet carpet.



Thirty minutes later Cleo stood up. "Well.. I think it's time..." She said in a dramatic voice.

The group, except Peter, who needed his, sleep, nodded and started getting up. Draco flew up the first, giddy and excited like a kid in a candy shop since it was his first night really sneaking out. Cleo stared at him.

"Control yourself." The blonde eyed him as James went to get the invisibility cloak and map. After James bounded down the stairs, they all gathered around Cleo, all expecting to be told something very important.

"What? Why is everyone looking at me?" She asked, slightly nervous. The group just looked at her like it was totally obvious. She sighed. "All right, the first thing we need to do is get down to the Slytherin common room, Drakie here can lead the way." The girl clapped a hand over the pale boy's shoulder. He didn't look happy about that. "Then we need to get into the dorm, and put the boys to sleep. Then we'll work with Snape. I know the spell, but NO ONE CAN DISTRACT ME." She said this loudly. "If you do, the side effects could leave him as a girl. Permanently."

"Well," Sirius blinked at her and then formed a grin. "Is that a bad thing?"

Cleo made a noise that sounded like 'ugh' and shook her head.

"All right then.. everyone under the cloak." James said, lifting a silky material above them. Surprisingly, when everyone fit, all six of them, it was still roomy.

" Well then, Mr. Malfoy, lead the way!" Cleo said, with a mock bow when they were in the hall, and had her arm out similar to a butler. Draco muttered and began walking down some halls.

"If we get caught..." he began sounding slightly nervous. Cleo gasped in fake shock.

"Draco Malfoy? Afraid of breaking a rule? Can we get that in writing?" She asked, and pretended to look for a quill and parchment.

"Har, Har, Har." Malfoy said dryly, rolling his eyes as they continued to walk down the halls. They heard footsteps.

Everyone froze, and everyone but Draco whispered in unison, "Filch." Quickly they hid in a closet and waited for Filch to pass.

"Did you hear something my precious?" Filch asked, petting his cat as he scooped her up. "A wee student out of bed or maybe Peeves?" The cat meowed a reply. The group held her breath. Obviously the cat hadn't spotted anything, because Filch sighed unhappily and carried her down the hall, the opposite way they were heading.

The group sighed in relief, and when he turned a corner they climbed out slowly and continued down the halls and stairs, and down to the dungeons. Soon everyone glanced at Draco occasionally, who got used to guiding them along, suddenly he stopped at a random wall, everyone crashed into everyone else. "Purebloods only." He said smoothly, the wall opened.

"How did you know the password so quickly?" Sirius looked at him, grinning ear to ear.

"The passwords are always something like 'Pureblood' or 'Purebloods only' or 'Mudbloods beware' or something like that." And only then did Malfoy realize he shouldn't have spilt that info. Sirius looked like Christmas came early.

Draco then lead them up to the fifth year boy's dorm, where they slowly opened the door. Remus quickly put a sleeping charm on them, so they wouldn't wake up by any noise they might make. And of course, they did make noise.

"Damn!" Sirius muttered loudly, as he stubbed his toe on a leg of Snape's bed. Cleo chuckled and shook her head, pulling out her wand and pointed it at Snape.

"Girl to boy, boy to girl, make this boy a pretty girl!"(Cheesy, I know). Slowly he started to twitch, but she held her wand up. She whispered a few words of a spell, and suddenly...he changed. He grew feminine curves, a chest, and his face went a bit more girlish.

"Cleo... what did you DO?" Sirius asked in awe, all of them stared wide mouthed like fish.

"I changed him into a girl. It'll last for twenty four hours." Cleo grinned evilly and unzipped a bag, dumping the contents onto the bed. It included make up, and bright pink nail polish.

"Sirius, James, you get to work on his feet," Cleo began, ignoring the groans from them. "Astra, Remus, you get his hands, and I'll get his face." Cleo said, pulling the make up over to herself, leaving them four bottles of different shaded pink nail polish.

They went to work, and Cleo grinned evilly over Snape's face. After the foundation, she put gold eye shadow on one eye, and scarlet eyeshadow on another. Grabbing a small tube of glitter, Cleo ran it through his hair and on his cheeks and neck, cackling insanely as she grabbed the lipstick - a DEEP, deep red. Grabbing the eye liner, she grinned, and started going around and around his eyes so he looked like a racoon. Finally, she did the blush, which you would easily see fifty yards away, it was so god damned heavy. She put a spell on it, so it would be extremely hard to get off, and stood back with the other's when their work was done.

"All we need to do, is sneak back, and wait for tomorrow." Cleo said, eyeing him with her hands back on her hips.

"What if he hides in the room all day?" Remus asked after a thought. "He could hide out till the spell wore off..."

"Hmm.. I got it!" Cleo said after thinking, and pulled her wand out and went to Snape's ear, beginning to say a small chant of words, soothingly. She was hypnotizing him in his sleep. "You will go to breakfast and attend classes..." She whispered for a few minutes then pulled back and walked back up to them. "There."

The next morning Cleo was the first one up. "Rise and shine Astra!" Cleo called happily and loudly, and ran down stairs, and up to the boy's dorm, not even bothering to knock and pushed the door open.

"Do you mind?" Draco asked, half dressed, pulling on his shirt and glaring at her. Cleo whistled at him in a seductive like way and winked, just to tick him off. Draco rolled his eyes at her and buttoned his shirt up.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?" Sirius roared, staring at Cleo and looked for his sheet, since all he was in was boxers. However, it took him a minute to find his covers, which had fallen off and under the bed. By the time he managed to cover up any possible showing skin, Cleo was doubled over laughing. She got the same response from James when he woke up, except her just grabbed his covers and slid them up to his chest. Remus walked in.

"What's all the commotion?" He asked, fully dressed and combing his hair. He didn't at all seemed to be phased that a girl was in the dorm with three men (Peter is sick.. o.O) half dressed.

"Oh nothing, I just wanted to ya'll to hurry up and get dressed, don't want to be late for breakfast!" The only girl in the room said and was out the door to wait for them to get ready.

Everyone had come down, waiting for a red faced Sirius, who was glaring at Cleo. "You could have KNOCKED you know..." He muttered annoyed when James chuckled.

"Really Padfoot, I never knew you were so self- conscious about your body..." James laughed, and ducked a pillow Sirius threw at him.

To change the subject, Remus coughed and spoke up, "Well we better be heading down to the Great Hall, shouldn't we?"

The group agreed, grinned, and began to make their way down to the Great Hall. As they walked to the first floor, Cleo could have sworn she heard a girlish scream from below. She grinned as they sat down, each glanced at the door occasionally.

Finally the doors slowly opened, and the Great Hall erupted with laughter. There stood, Severus Snape, make up and all, wearing a long, tight, black dress. Some boys whistled, and some girls giggled that Snape was a girl.

Seeming to snap out of it, Severus glared and marched over to the gang. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME? What did you do to me?"

But before Cleo could even get a word in edge wise, Dumbledore came up, and Cleo could have sworn he had a light smile. "Mr. Snape, explain to me, how these students, or even one of them, sneak in the middle of the night, down stairs, into your common room, dorm, dress you up, change you into a girl, put make up on you, without you noticing?" He had held a chuckle at the 'girl' part.

"Well I- they could- I mean..." Snape began and stuttered.

"Exactly. Go to my office, and I'll give you a potion, to restore you back to normal." Dumbledore spoke calmly, and a red faced Severus Snape walked out of the Great Hall, ignoring the laughter.

Cleo knew she did something bad, but smiled. She had won.

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