There was a barking. The people eating in the Great Hall looked up to see a dog running by, a leash trailing behind it. Four figures came running after it yelling.

"Snuffles! Snuffles!,"

"Heel! Snuffles, HERE!"

"Snuffles you get back here this instant!"

"SNUUUUUUUFFFLLLESSSS!"

Laughter erupted as the four chased the dog around the Great Hall, while the teachers looked amused, except for Snape, made no move to stop the odd group. Through the walkway between the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables, beneath Gryffindor's, along the teachers table the chased the dog. McGonagall looked out of place, she was laughing the hardest, her hat sliding off and almost falling off her chair. The whole of Gryffindor house seemed to be laughing the hardest right along with her. Then the dog turned and jumped onto the Slytherin table, running it's length. Food splattered everywhere and on the Slytherin students. The four students climbed onto the table and chased after it, slipping and sliding and skiding, covering the Slytherin's even more in food. Outrage and curses came flying at their backs, and a certain blond headed boy, who was covered in syrup, jumped onto the table and chucked a piece of bread at them, hitting the tall, lanky, red-haired one. He came to a halt and glared at him, then picking a hard boiled egg, throwing it up in the air and catching it several times. The Hall held their breath. Ron wound up and threw it at him. It hit Malfoy squarely in the face.

"FOOD FIGHT!" some one yelled and food was everywhere. The Gryffindor's had put up their long table as a barricade. The Ravenclaws were dancing on their table throwing food everywhere, and the Hufflepuff's were running all over the place. The Slytherin's were being slaughtered by the rest of the houses; they had banned together in an unspoken allegiance against the most hated house.

The battle raged on, unmercifully, and behind the Gryffindor table, howling happily, sat a smug Snuffles.

***

It had finally ended and all the student's were on the floor, breathing heavily, but happy.

"Student's may I have you're attention please?" A rather heavily fooded Dumbledore stood on the teacher's table, arms raised. "Due to the food fight, classes have been canceled for the rest of the day," A loud cheer rang around the hall.

"-because," the crowd quieted down, they knew they were in trouble, "you have to clean up the Great Hall, by hand, no magic," A great groan shook the hall.'

"It was worth it," someone yelled and laughter followed. Dumbledore's chuckle could be heard through out the room. "Yes, yes, I do say that was a good food fight. And Professor Snape, and Professor Mcgonagal, you will help also."

The two professors were in fighting stances, each holding food high above their head's threatening to fling them at each other, both looking murderous.. Snape was furious.

"Headmaster, I do have some important business to attend to! I-"

"It will have to wait Severus."

Snape looked like he was about to explode.

"IT'S ALL POTTER'S FAULT! AND THAT-THAT- THAT FILTHY DOG," he shook with rage at what he couldn't say because the rest of the school was there.

The dog started back innocently.

"Now honestly Severus, do you really think that a dog could be behind this. It's not like he plotted it or anything," she gave a defiant laugh. The four student's cracked up, trying to hid their laughter behind their hands

"YOU!" yelled Snape, pointing at the dog, "You'll pay for this," the dog barked, like it didn't know what the odd looking human in front of him was saying. It cocked it's head. It looked so innocent. The silence was interrupted by the four students rolling on the ground with a fresh wave of laughing.

***

It was past lunch and the kids were starving. Half the Great Hall was cleaned by now, but there was also the trouble of getting the food spots that had some how landed on the windows and higher up on the walls. The house elves brought sandwiches around the hall, giving one or two to everyone, looking around like they were just about to drop their trays and start helping clean up furiously. And of couple of them were edging things around with their toes, trying to be unnoticed and trying to clean when they were specifically told not to. Each house was assigned a wall they had to clean, and the older student's were levitating the younger ones high above to clean the mess on the walls.

But four of the student's were not in the Great Hall cleaning up, and neither was the great, shaggy, lovable, innocent looking dog. In Dumbledore's office, the staff that was also involved with the Order of the Phoenix was gathered around the four guilty but happy looking students and the dog.

"Sirius," Dumbledore tried to gain authority, but every time anyone talked, the four students doubled up with laughter.

"The four of you will be receiving detention." he stated, but was drown out by laughter again. He talked over it, "and Sirius…" the dog cocked it's head at him. "Please try to set a better example for these kids," said Dumbledore kindly, he had that twinkle in his eye.

"What! That's it!"

"Yes, Severus. That's it. You are dismissed." Dumbledore waved a hand at them and the dog and the four sped out of the room.

On the way back, they nicked some food from the kitchen and headed up to the common room, where Gryffindor were to have a party after cleaning that would last the whole night. And the guest of honor, with a crown around his head and a red cape around his shoulders, barking happily, was Snuffles.

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