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Chapter 7: Potions and Pranks
After the winter break, classes and homework resumed, much to everyone's dismay. It seemed that the potions master, Professor Tregon, felt that it was necessary that they should have homework every night. Lily hated potions, and being stuck with homework in it every night was ten times worse. To make it even worse, the professor decided to pair them up with 'partners' in the opposite house.
Lily ended up partnered with a girl named Narcissa Williams, a snobby girl that always looked down her nose on everyone, Summer got paired with Chloe` Jaeckin, Narcissa's best friend and just as snobby as her, and Candy got landed with a girl named Isabella Santaun, a Spanish girl who rarely spoke, and when she did, it was to criticize someone or something.
Remus got stuck with Mark Barnstead. Mark always grunted, and spoke like a caveman, in crisp, short, clipped English. He was a Slytherin through and through. Peter got paired up with Severus Snape, one of Malfoy's friends. Sirius got paired with a boy named Vincent Crabbe, and he acted just like one too. Pushy, rude, and spiny. But James got the worst partner ever: Lucius Malfoy. Need I say more?
Needless to say, the first years dreaded potions. Candy said it was corrupt, since he was head of the Slytherin House, and he loved to make their lives miserable. Lily disagreed, saying, "This is a good chance to make inter house friends." The others looked at her crazily. They said that any who are friends with Slytherins are Slytherins themselves. She just shrugged this off.
Lily had a rough time working with Narcissa, and they both landed in the hospital wing on many occasions with things ranging from large, overgrown teeth to an extra leg.
"Has any one seen my wormroot?" Summer asked one day when they were in Potions.
"I haven't seen your precious wormroot anywhere. Now, when you finish that 'thing,' let me know so I can write my name down," Chloe` said while filling her nails.
"Hehe, no. If you want credit for this, you do something," Summer said from behind the bubbling caldron. Then she turned around and asked Lily for some extra wormroot. After Lily gave her some, she turned around and started to cut it up.
"Are you done yet?" Chloe` asked, looking up from her nails.
Then Summer's patience wore out. "If you want to have this done now, do it. I'm through!" She yelled out, shoving the ingredients to the snobby girl.
Professor Tregon looked their way and arched an eyebrow, but said nothing. Chloe` saw this but just snorted and picked up the knife like it was infested.
Summer smiled to herself and set to filling out the chart.
Suddenly an explosion came from the back of the dungeon. Everyone turned, and Lily saw a huge mess of orange, smelly bile all over the two occupants of the mess.
"PETTIGREW! I TOLD YOU NOT TO ADD THE CHICKEN TOES BEFORE YOU ADD THE WORMROOT! NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" a very orange Snape said.
"Pettigrew, ten points from Gryffindor for not following directions," Tregon yelled. Peter looked like he was about to cry as the potions master cleaned up the mess with a flick of his wand.
Suddenly, Snape began to twitch, and twitch, and twitch. He fell to the floor, and before anyone could say anything, his face turned an unearthly shade of green, his hands swelled up like rubber balloons, and his hair transformed into long, silver, slithering snakes. He looked like a modern day male Medusa. The whole class burst out laughing.
"Go to the hospital wing, and don't let any anybody see you like that," Tregon hissed, embarrassed that something like that had happened to a Slytherin.
Later that night, the group sat at their usual spot in Great Hall. They were reenacting the incident in potions. As Sirius was acting out the explosion, he fell back in his chair and landed on the feet of Nicole Malfoy.
"Get it off me! Stupid Gryffindor filth!" she shrieked, kicking Sirius in the gut. Sirius doubled in half with pain, or was it from laughter?
"What are you doing here Malfoy?" James asked the Slytherin.
She looked down her nose at him. "Why do you want to know?" she sneered, walking away.
Sirius slowly picked himself off the ground. "Man, she can kick hard," he groaned, rubbing his stomach as he sat down. "But not as hard as Summer," he added, looking towards the girl. Summer smiled back and resumed eating her chicken.
Lily looked around and caught the eye of Lucius Malfoy. Suddenly she got an idea for the perfect prank. "Hey guys," she said, turning back to her friends. She filled them in on her plans, and decided to go in for the kill at midnight.
They hurriedly finished their dinner and ran up to the Gryffindor tower to get prepared.
Later that night, if you had looked into the Gryffindor Common room, you would have seen three girls dressed all in black, waiting for four boys dressed identically like them.
But, like any prank waiting to happen, there were flaws. How were they going to find the Slytherin House, or even get in, and how were they going to do it with out being seen? Out of the whole group, only Lily and Candy knew the temporary charm to make them selves invisible.
When everyone was gathered in the common room, Lily out lined their plans. They would follow a prefect down to the Slytherin House. Then they would.
"ACHOO!" something interrupted their plans.
They all looked madly around, looking for the source of the noise. Then Sirius spotted a shadow and motioned for them to be quiet. He moved craftily behind the thing. Suddenly they heard a muffled scream.
"What the.?" the intruder said.
They looked at the person in shock. "Frank?" they exclaimed. Frank Longbottom, their friend, looked around at all of them.
"What are you guys doing up this late?" he asked.
"Nothing. Just going over homework," Candy exclaimed to him.
"At 11:30?" he asked.
"Yeah. We're night owls. Woo!" Summer said, making them laugh. (Sorry bout the puny joke!) She looked at Frank. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"Nothing. I'll leave you guys now. See ya!" with that he ran up stairs to the other first year dorm.
"Whew. That was close," James said, wiping a hand across his brow dramatically.
"Hey, how are we all going to go unrecognized?" Candy asked her friends. "I mean, Lily and I are the only ones that can turn invisible!"
At this James grinned. "Promise you won't tell anyone about this?" He asked the girls. They all nodded. "Good," he said, pulling out something from behind him. The girls gasped in awe at what they saw. A silvery, waving invisibility cloak appeared in his hands.
"Where'd you find that?" Summer asked, impressed.
"Family heirloom," he replied, happy that they liked it. He spread the invisibility cloak around. "Now, it may be a tight fit, but Peter, Remus, Sirius, Summer, and I will go under this." He said.
Summer eyed the cloak, amused. "How on earth are we going to fit FIVE people under that cloak? I mean, it's only designed to have one, or maybe two, people under it at a time!"
"Well. either get you skimpy behind under it or stay here. What is it going to be?" Sirius asked.
"ARE YOU NUTS? I'M GOING!!" she exclaimed. She stepped under the cloak, and disappeared. "I GOT IT!" she yelled, hurriedly stepped back out. She waved her wand at the cloak and extended it so that all of them could fit. "Much better!" she smugly added, stepping back under. Then the group set out to find their destination.
After twenty minutes of searching, they finally found the Slytherin House. They followed Danielle (or was it Michelle?) Malfoy to it. After they heard the password, dark riddle, they slipped in after her.
"The Slytherins sure have bad taste," Lily thought to herself. The common room closely resembled the Gryffindor one, except gloomier. There were no windows, only silver and green banners on the walls. The mantle had two granite statues of snakes standing to attention on either side of it. The couches were in a horrible shade of green, and looked very uncomfortable.
Then they held their breath, waiting for Danielle to go up to her room. When she disappeared, they set to their task. Lily sent Candy, Peter, and Summer to do damage to Nicole, Michelle, and Danielle, but to be careful because Danielle had just gotten up there.
While they set to that task, Lily took James, Sirius, and Remus up to the boy's dorm. When they entered, they found Snape, Malfoy, Flint, Crabbe, and Goyle, all fast asleep. Lily laughed to herself. What luck!
Then came the fun pat, setting up the trap. Lily went over to Malfoy to begin her task. First she sprayed shaving cream on his head. Then she put glue on his hands, and put a charm, one she learned from Summer, that turned his hair scarlet and gold. Then where the glue was, she attached golden fur. When that was done, she slipped his hand in a warm bowl of water she conjured up. She stepped back to admire her handy work. When she thought he was complete, she moved on to Snape.
When everyone was finished, they met in the Slytherin common room.
"All done?" Lily asked. When she saw that everyone nodded, she said, "Let's get out of this snake hole!" Then they all got under the cloak or charmed themselves and headed back to their tower.
The next morning, Lily awoke to loud screams coming from the Slytherin House. Lily, Summer, Candy, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all smiled to themselves. Revenge was so sweet!
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
Lily wiped a tear from her eye. Even though she had heard it a million times before, it still gave her chills and made her tear up. She turned off her (magical) radio and bounded down the steps to go face a Saturday detention with Professor Iona, the defense against the dark arts teacher, alone.
LN- did you like it? We haven't gotten a review in AGES!!!!!!!!!! Oh, thanks go out to you, Lyz! I hope you remember to post and put your favorite romantic danceable song and the artist of it. You'll see in a upcoming chapter. Bye! Lizzie and Ea
Disclaimer- we own Summer and Autumn, Candy, Professors Tregon and Iona, Chloe` Jaeckin, Isabella Santaun, Mark Barnstead, Nicole Malfoy, Danielle Malfoy, Michelle Malfoy, the song belongs to Martina McBride, and whatever else you recognize belongs to JK Rowlings.
Chapter 7: Potions and Pranks
After the winter break, classes and homework resumed, much to everyone's dismay. It seemed that the potions master, Professor Tregon, felt that it was necessary that they should have homework every night. Lily hated potions, and being stuck with homework in it every night was ten times worse. To make it even worse, the professor decided to pair them up with 'partners' in the opposite house.
Lily ended up partnered with a girl named Narcissa Williams, a snobby girl that always looked down her nose on everyone, Summer got paired with Chloe` Jaeckin, Narcissa's best friend and just as snobby as her, and Candy got landed with a girl named Isabella Santaun, a Spanish girl who rarely spoke, and when she did, it was to criticize someone or something.
Remus got stuck with Mark Barnstead. Mark always grunted, and spoke like a caveman, in crisp, short, clipped English. He was a Slytherin through and through. Peter got paired up with Severus Snape, one of Malfoy's friends. Sirius got paired with a boy named Vincent Crabbe, and he acted just like one too. Pushy, rude, and spiny. But James got the worst partner ever: Lucius Malfoy. Need I say more?
Needless to say, the first years dreaded potions. Candy said it was corrupt, since he was head of the Slytherin House, and he loved to make their lives miserable. Lily disagreed, saying, "This is a good chance to make inter house friends." The others looked at her crazily. They said that any who are friends with Slytherins are Slytherins themselves. She just shrugged this off.
Lily had a rough time working with Narcissa, and they both landed in the hospital wing on many occasions with things ranging from large, overgrown teeth to an extra leg.
"Has any one seen my wormroot?" Summer asked one day when they were in Potions.
"I haven't seen your precious wormroot anywhere. Now, when you finish that 'thing,' let me know so I can write my name down," Chloe` said while filling her nails.
"Hehe, no. If you want credit for this, you do something," Summer said from behind the bubbling caldron. Then she turned around and asked Lily for some extra wormroot. After Lily gave her some, she turned around and started to cut it up.
"Are you done yet?" Chloe` asked, looking up from her nails.
Then Summer's patience wore out. "If you want to have this done now, do it. I'm through!" She yelled out, shoving the ingredients to the snobby girl.
Professor Tregon looked their way and arched an eyebrow, but said nothing. Chloe` saw this but just snorted and picked up the knife like it was infested.
Summer smiled to herself and set to filling out the chart.
Suddenly an explosion came from the back of the dungeon. Everyone turned, and Lily saw a huge mess of orange, smelly bile all over the two occupants of the mess.
"PETTIGREW! I TOLD YOU NOT TO ADD THE CHICKEN TOES BEFORE YOU ADD THE WORMROOT! NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" a very orange Snape said.
"Pettigrew, ten points from Gryffindor for not following directions," Tregon yelled. Peter looked like he was about to cry as the potions master cleaned up the mess with a flick of his wand.
Suddenly, Snape began to twitch, and twitch, and twitch. He fell to the floor, and before anyone could say anything, his face turned an unearthly shade of green, his hands swelled up like rubber balloons, and his hair transformed into long, silver, slithering snakes. He looked like a modern day male Medusa. The whole class burst out laughing.
"Go to the hospital wing, and don't let any anybody see you like that," Tregon hissed, embarrassed that something like that had happened to a Slytherin.
Later that night, the group sat at their usual spot in Great Hall. They were reenacting the incident in potions. As Sirius was acting out the explosion, he fell back in his chair and landed on the feet of Nicole Malfoy.
"Get it off me! Stupid Gryffindor filth!" she shrieked, kicking Sirius in the gut. Sirius doubled in half with pain, or was it from laughter?
"What are you doing here Malfoy?" James asked the Slytherin.
She looked down her nose at him. "Why do you want to know?" she sneered, walking away.
Sirius slowly picked himself off the ground. "Man, she can kick hard," he groaned, rubbing his stomach as he sat down. "But not as hard as Summer," he added, looking towards the girl. Summer smiled back and resumed eating her chicken.
Lily looked around and caught the eye of Lucius Malfoy. Suddenly she got an idea for the perfect prank. "Hey guys," she said, turning back to her friends. She filled them in on her plans, and decided to go in for the kill at midnight.
They hurriedly finished their dinner and ran up to the Gryffindor tower to get prepared.
Later that night, if you had looked into the Gryffindor Common room, you would have seen three girls dressed all in black, waiting for four boys dressed identically like them.
But, like any prank waiting to happen, there were flaws. How were they going to find the Slytherin House, or even get in, and how were they going to do it with out being seen? Out of the whole group, only Lily and Candy knew the temporary charm to make them selves invisible.
When everyone was gathered in the common room, Lily out lined their plans. They would follow a prefect down to the Slytherin House. Then they would.
"ACHOO!" something interrupted their plans.
They all looked madly around, looking for the source of the noise. Then Sirius spotted a shadow and motioned for them to be quiet. He moved craftily behind the thing. Suddenly they heard a muffled scream.
"What the.?" the intruder said.
They looked at the person in shock. "Frank?" they exclaimed. Frank Longbottom, their friend, looked around at all of them.
"What are you guys doing up this late?" he asked.
"Nothing. Just going over homework," Candy exclaimed to him.
"At 11:30?" he asked.
"Yeah. We're night owls. Woo!" Summer said, making them laugh. (Sorry bout the puny joke!) She looked at Frank. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"Nothing. I'll leave you guys now. See ya!" with that he ran up stairs to the other first year dorm.
"Whew. That was close," James said, wiping a hand across his brow dramatically.
"Hey, how are we all going to go unrecognized?" Candy asked her friends. "I mean, Lily and I are the only ones that can turn invisible!"
At this James grinned. "Promise you won't tell anyone about this?" He asked the girls. They all nodded. "Good," he said, pulling out something from behind him. The girls gasped in awe at what they saw. A silvery, waving invisibility cloak appeared in his hands.
"Where'd you find that?" Summer asked, impressed.
"Family heirloom," he replied, happy that they liked it. He spread the invisibility cloak around. "Now, it may be a tight fit, but Peter, Remus, Sirius, Summer, and I will go under this." He said.
Summer eyed the cloak, amused. "How on earth are we going to fit FIVE people under that cloak? I mean, it's only designed to have one, or maybe two, people under it at a time!"
"Well. either get you skimpy behind under it or stay here. What is it going to be?" Sirius asked.
"ARE YOU NUTS? I'M GOING!!" she exclaimed. She stepped under the cloak, and disappeared. "I GOT IT!" she yelled, hurriedly stepped back out. She waved her wand at the cloak and extended it so that all of them could fit. "Much better!" she smugly added, stepping back under. Then the group set out to find their destination.
After twenty minutes of searching, they finally found the Slytherin House. They followed Danielle (or was it Michelle?) Malfoy to it. After they heard the password, dark riddle, they slipped in after her.
"The Slytherins sure have bad taste," Lily thought to herself. The common room closely resembled the Gryffindor one, except gloomier. There were no windows, only silver and green banners on the walls. The mantle had two granite statues of snakes standing to attention on either side of it. The couches were in a horrible shade of green, and looked very uncomfortable.
Then they held their breath, waiting for Danielle to go up to her room. When she disappeared, they set to their task. Lily sent Candy, Peter, and Summer to do damage to Nicole, Michelle, and Danielle, but to be careful because Danielle had just gotten up there.
While they set to that task, Lily took James, Sirius, and Remus up to the boy's dorm. When they entered, they found Snape, Malfoy, Flint, Crabbe, and Goyle, all fast asleep. Lily laughed to herself. What luck!
Then came the fun pat, setting up the trap. Lily went over to Malfoy to begin her task. First she sprayed shaving cream on his head. Then she put glue on his hands, and put a charm, one she learned from Summer, that turned his hair scarlet and gold. Then where the glue was, she attached golden fur. When that was done, she slipped his hand in a warm bowl of water she conjured up. She stepped back to admire her handy work. When she thought he was complete, she moved on to Snape.
When everyone was finished, they met in the Slytherin common room.
"All done?" Lily asked. When she saw that everyone nodded, she said, "Let's get out of this snake hole!" Then they all got under the cloak or charmed themselves and headed back to their tower.
The next morning, Lily awoke to loud screams coming from the Slytherin House. Lily, Summer, Candy, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all smiled to themselves. Revenge was so sweet!
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
Lily wiped a tear from her eye. Even though she had heard it a million times before, it still gave her chills and made her tear up. She turned off her (magical) radio and bounded down the steps to go face a Saturday detention with Professor Iona, the defense against the dark arts teacher, alone.
LN- did you like it? We haven't gotten a review in AGES!!!!!!!!!! Oh, thanks go out to you, Lyz! I hope you remember to post and put your favorite romantic danceable song and the artist of it. You'll see in a upcoming chapter. Bye! Lizzie and Ea