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Disclaimer: I own only Kylie Potter and the plot of this story. Everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Kylie shrieked when she realized no one in the common room had their heads! Everyone
was chatting and working as usual, but their bodies ended at their shoulders. Kylie was
about to turn around and sprint out of the room, but, in reaction to her shriek, several
peoples' heads popped back on, wearing a confused expression, and in their hands they
were clutching various colored hats. Harry turned up behind Ron, Dean, and her and
threw a hat over each of their heads. "Fred and George, Ron's brothers, sent us a huge
order of Vanishing Hats! Everyone gets one. It's all part of some prank," Harry
exclaimed. Kylie tugged at her hat, (which was neon pink), and laughed. Ron and Dean's
heads appeared a moment later. Ron's hat was maroon, (his least favorite color), and
Dean's was periwinkle blue. The rest of the common room, realizing what had happened,
whipped their hats back onto their heads and the buzz of talking and the scratching of
quills began once more. Dean spotted Seamus Finnegan and hurried over to tell him
about the events of the day. Harry, Ron, and Kylie wandered over to where Hermione sat
by the fire with three other chairs. Kylie flopped down into her chair and pulled out her
Charms homework. Flitwick had them writing a foot and a half long essay about
Shrinking charms, which were especially hard. They were told to practice it also, which
was extremely difficult because they hadn't yet learned Enlarging charms, so they
couldn't bring anything they shrunk back to normal size. Kylie had barely written one
sentence when Ginny, Ron's younger sister, stood up on a table and waved for silence.
"Hey, could I have a minute here? Thank you. Well, my brothers, Fred and George, have
a prank for us to play on the rest of the school. You all have a Vanishing hat, right?
Right, well anyways, they think that we should wear them all day tomorrow, and you
remember Kylie's reaction, don't you?" many people nodded, but, realizing that Ginny
couldn't see their heads, just mumbled that they did in an embarrassed sort of way. "I
knew you did. Well it gets better; you each will receive another hat. Inside will be a note
saying a house and year. For example, a Ravenclaw fourth year. Well, you're to find
someone that fits that description and place a hat on their head. See if anyone points out
to them that they have no head. Now, who's with me?" a roar met Ginny's question.
Everyone remembered the Weasley twins and felt that this would be their way of
honoring them. Kylie grinned as Ginny passed her a vibrant orange hat. She reached
inside and pulled out her note. It read, 'Hufflepuff, third year.' She was disappointed that
she hadn't received, 'Slytherin, sixth year,' but she'd live. She glanced at Hermione's,
Ron's, and Harry's, but none of them had the directions she desired. Kylie returned to her
essay. Surely someone would put their hat on Malfoy's head? As though answering her
question, a third year started to squeal, "Ginny! I think something's wrong with my
directions. It has a name, not a year or house." Ginny wandered over, snatched up the
note, and burst into a fit of giggles. "What's so funny, Ginny?" Ron asked. Ginny, who
obviously was laughing too hard, simply passed the note over to Ron. He too took one
look and hollered with laughter. After he had hoisted himself up from the floor where
only a moment ago he was rolling around, held up the note for the rest to read. Just as the
girl had said, this note only dubbed a name: Draco Malfoy. It was common knowledge
that the Weasley twins always looked for an opportunity to humiliate Malfoy while they
were at school, and it seemed that they still had a hunger for the sport. Ginny gave the
scrap of parchment back to the confused girl and described Malfoy to her. "Oh, okay. I
know him. He's that git that thinks he's better than everyone else." The common room
roared with laughter, but Ron suddenly went white in the face and dove into his bag.
"What's wrong, Ron?" Hermione asked, sounding thoroughly concerned. Ron emerged
from his bag, clutching his schedule, scanning it frantically with his eyes. "Oh, no!" He
moaned, "We haven't got any classes with the Slytherins tomorrow! We won't be able to
see Malfoy's reaction! Damn it!" He banged his fist on the table, looking extremely
angry. Kylie and Hermione, knowing that if they remained Ron would snap at them,
hurried up the stairs to the girl's dormitory. The emerged into a circular room with four
four-poster beds., hung with red velvet curtains. Crookshanks slowly stretched, showing
his claws, hopped off of Parvati's bed where he had been sleeping, and leapt into
Hermione's arms. Kylie stowed her bag in the bedside cabinet, dressed into her pajamas,
and clambered into bed. Although she was exhausted from running around the castle all
day, (Peeve's had stolen her Transfiguration book) and from playing soccer with Dean,
she couldn't sleep. She was excited about the prank tomorrow. But she finally drifted off
to sleep.
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Kylie woke up early the next day, dressed quickly, snatched up her hats, and ran down
the stairs to the common room. She thought she had woken up late as someone; Peeves
no doubt, had messed with her clock. She found the common room full of people,
standing around Ginny in a tight-knit group. Lavender and Hermione turned up behind
Kylie, yawning and stretching. "Is it time yet?" Lavender asked sleepily. "Well, no. I'm
just giving some last minute instructions," Ginny replied. After Ginny issued the
instructions and had checked that everyone had an extra hat, she led them out of the
portrait hole. They stopped in front of the doors to the Great Hall where Ginny made a
last minute check to see that everyone was headless, and then made the signal for them to
burst through the doors. Meanwhile, in the Great Hall everyone was wondering where the
Gryffindors were. "Maybe they were chucked out," Malfoy suggested hopefully. The
teachers were very worried. McGonagall was about to head up to Gryffindor tower to see
what the Gryffindors were doing, when the hall burst open with a bang. The Gryffindors
strode into the hall, chatting as though nothing was wrong. Several girls screamed and a
Ravenclaw first year fainted dead away. The teachers leapt to their feet to see what all the
commotion was about, but Dumbledore signaled for them to sit back down, chuckling at
the prank. To stop a riot from erupting, the Gryffindors all whipped off their hats as one
to show the school what had happened. As people sank back into their seats, clutching
their hearts, Kylie and her fellow Gryffindors drifted off towards the person who was to
naively receive a hat. After Kylie had delicately placed the extra hat on a unsuspecting
third years head, she stalked back to the Gryffindor table. She was thoroughly
disappointed at not being able to see Malfoy's reaction to the hat. Ron's spirits were
lifted from last night as he and Kylie sniggered at Malfoy sitting there popping food in
his unseen mouth. For the rest of the day, teachers kept looking around nervously at all
the headless Gryffindors, but the occasional Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff being
headless and not knowing would cause them to burst out laughing. At dinner, the quartet
ate dejectedly because Malfoy had removed his hat and denied them the opportunity of
pointing it out to him personally. Needless to say, when they returned to Gryffindor tower
to do their homework, they realized they had none. All the teachers were so amused with
this prank (with the exception of Snape, whom they didn't have that day) that they
decided to give the students a treat. Kylie retrieved her Exploding Snap set from upstairs
and for the rest of the evening she and Hermione played as Ron gave Harry a beating in
Wizards chess.
Disclaimer: I own only Kylie Potter and the plot of this story. Everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling.
Kylie shrieked when she realized no one in the common room had their heads! Everyone
was chatting and working as usual, but their bodies ended at their shoulders. Kylie was
about to turn around and sprint out of the room, but, in reaction to her shriek, several
peoples' heads popped back on, wearing a confused expression, and in their hands they
were clutching various colored hats. Harry turned up behind Ron, Dean, and her and
threw a hat over each of their heads. "Fred and George, Ron's brothers, sent us a huge
order of Vanishing Hats! Everyone gets one. It's all part of some prank," Harry
exclaimed. Kylie tugged at her hat, (which was neon pink), and laughed. Ron and Dean's
heads appeared a moment later. Ron's hat was maroon, (his least favorite color), and
Dean's was periwinkle blue. The rest of the common room, realizing what had happened,
whipped their hats back onto their heads and the buzz of talking and the scratching of
quills began once more. Dean spotted Seamus Finnegan and hurried over to tell him
about the events of the day. Harry, Ron, and Kylie wandered over to where Hermione sat
by the fire with three other chairs. Kylie flopped down into her chair and pulled out her
Charms homework. Flitwick had them writing a foot and a half long essay about
Shrinking charms, which were especially hard. They were told to practice it also, which
was extremely difficult because they hadn't yet learned Enlarging charms, so they
couldn't bring anything they shrunk back to normal size. Kylie had barely written one
sentence when Ginny, Ron's younger sister, stood up on a table and waved for silence.
"Hey, could I have a minute here? Thank you. Well, my brothers, Fred and George, have
a prank for us to play on the rest of the school. You all have a Vanishing hat, right?
Right, well anyways, they think that we should wear them all day tomorrow, and you
remember Kylie's reaction, don't you?" many people nodded, but, realizing that Ginny
couldn't see their heads, just mumbled that they did in an embarrassed sort of way. "I
knew you did. Well it gets better; you each will receive another hat. Inside will be a note
saying a house and year. For example, a Ravenclaw fourth year. Well, you're to find
someone that fits that description and place a hat on their head. See if anyone points out
to them that they have no head. Now, who's with me?" a roar met Ginny's question.
Everyone remembered the Weasley twins and felt that this would be their way of
honoring them. Kylie grinned as Ginny passed her a vibrant orange hat. She reached
inside and pulled out her note. It read, 'Hufflepuff, third year.' She was disappointed that
she hadn't received, 'Slytherin, sixth year,' but she'd live. She glanced at Hermione's,
Ron's, and Harry's, but none of them had the directions she desired. Kylie returned to her
essay. Surely someone would put their hat on Malfoy's head? As though answering her
question, a third year started to squeal, "Ginny! I think something's wrong with my
directions. It has a name, not a year or house." Ginny wandered over, snatched up the
note, and burst into a fit of giggles. "What's so funny, Ginny?" Ron asked. Ginny, who
obviously was laughing too hard, simply passed the note over to Ron. He too took one
look and hollered with laughter. After he had hoisted himself up from the floor where
only a moment ago he was rolling around, held up the note for the rest to read. Just as the
girl had said, this note only dubbed a name: Draco Malfoy. It was common knowledge
that the Weasley twins always looked for an opportunity to humiliate Malfoy while they
were at school, and it seemed that they still had a hunger for the sport. Ginny gave the
scrap of parchment back to the confused girl and described Malfoy to her. "Oh, okay. I
know him. He's that git that thinks he's better than everyone else." The common room
roared with laughter, but Ron suddenly went white in the face and dove into his bag.
"What's wrong, Ron?" Hermione asked, sounding thoroughly concerned. Ron emerged
from his bag, clutching his schedule, scanning it frantically with his eyes. "Oh, no!" He
moaned, "We haven't got any classes with the Slytherins tomorrow! We won't be able to
see Malfoy's reaction! Damn it!" He banged his fist on the table, looking extremely
angry. Kylie and Hermione, knowing that if they remained Ron would snap at them,
hurried up the stairs to the girl's dormitory. The emerged into a circular room with four
four-poster beds., hung with red velvet curtains. Crookshanks slowly stretched, showing
his claws, hopped off of Parvati's bed where he had been sleeping, and leapt into
Hermione's arms. Kylie stowed her bag in the bedside cabinet, dressed into her pajamas,
and clambered into bed. Although she was exhausted from running around the castle all
day, (Peeve's had stolen her Transfiguration book) and from playing soccer with Dean,
she couldn't sleep. She was excited about the prank tomorrow. But she finally drifted off
to sleep.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Kylie woke up early the next day, dressed quickly, snatched up her hats, and ran down
the stairs to the common room. She thought she had woken up late as someone; Peeves
no doubt, had messed with her clock. She found the common room full of people,
standing around Ginny in a tight-knit group. Lavender and Hermione turned up behind
Kylie, yawning and stretching. "Is it time yet?" Lavender asked sleepily. "Well, no. I'm
just giving some last minute instructions," Ginny replied. After Ginny issued the
instructions and had checked that everyone had an extra hat, she led them out of the
portrait hole. They stopped in front of the doors to the Great Hall where Ginny made a
last minute check to see that everyone was headless, and then made the signal for them to
burst through the doors. Meanwhile, in the Great Hall everyone was wondering where the
Gryffindors were. "Maybe they were chucked out," Malfoy suggested hopefully. The
teachers were very worried. McGonagall was about to head up to Gryffindor tower to see
what the Gryffindors were doing, when the hall burst open with a bang. The Gryffindors
strode into the hall, chatting as though nothing was wrong. Several girls screamed and a
Ravenclaw first year fainted dead away. The teachers leapt to their feet to see what all the
commotion was about, but Dumbledore signaled for them to sit back down, chuckling at
the prank. To stop a riot from erupting, the Gryffindors all whipped off their hats as one
to show the school what had happened. As people sank back into their seats, clutching
their hearts, Kylie and her fellow Gryffindors drifted off towards the person who was to
naively receive a hat. After Kylie had delicately placed the extra hat on a unsuspecting
third years head, she stalked back to the Gryffindor table. She was thoroughly
disappointed at not being able to see Malfoy's reaction to the hat. Ron's spirits were
lifted from last night as he and Kylie sniggered at Malfoy sitting there popping food in
his unseen mouth. For the rest of the day, teachers kept looking around nervously at all
the headless Gryffindors, but the occasional Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff being
headless and not knowing would cause them to burst out laughing. At dinner, the quartet
ate dejectedly because Malfoy had removed his hat and denied them the opportunity of
pointing it out to him personally. Needless to say, when they returned to Gryffindor tower
to do their homework, they realized they had none. All the teachers were so amused with
this prank (with the exception of Snape, whom they didn't have that day) that they
decided to give the students a treat. Kylie retrieved her Exploding Snap set from upstairs
and for the rest of the evening she and Hermione played as Ron gave Harry a beating in
Wizards chess.