I'm so sorry for not updating for so long. We've been having a lot of computer trouble, specifically, internet trouble. In other words, I could write, but I couldn't get on. Also, my schedule has been a lot more hectic. I know this sounds like whining, but I've been doing so much, that I've been forgetting to write. So, thank you for being patient. I'll try to get at least one chapter up a week, but sometimes I just won't be able to manage it. Sorry.
I have three chapters to show for it though.
Chapter 10: Prankster Rules
Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, this would be a published book, and I would be relaxing in the mansion that I bought from the sales of it.
Sarah learned a lot from her project with Sirius. First and foremost, she learned that she couldn't stand being near him for more than a minute, let alone hours, and he felt exactly the same way about her. Their "Study Sessions" always ended in fights.
"What happened this time?" Lily asked Sarah as she came into the common room, her face covered in red boils. The stories of what happened between Sarah and Sirius had become nightly entertainment for everyone.
"Where's the Dog?" Heather asked, noticing that Sirius wasn't just behind Sarah.
"He's probably still down on the third floor." Sarah said smiling. "He won't make it up here for a while."
"What did you do to him?" Lily said.
"You'll see." Sarah said. "Now, anyone have any idea how to get these spots off?" The other three girls shook their heads. "No?" Sarah sighed. "I guess I'll just have to go down to the hospital wing then."
"Tell you what…" Danny, who had been sitting nearby, listening, said. "I know the countercurse to that. You give me Sirius's copy of The Lord of the Rings, and I'll get them off you."
Sarah hesitated. "I dunno. I don't want to give it back to him just yet."
Danny grinned. "Who said anything about giving it back to him? I want to read it myself."
All four girls looked at him in surprise. "Okay." Sarah said finally. "I've finished with it anyways. I'll go get it." She ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitory.
Just as Sarah returned, the portrait hole opened, and in hopped Sirius. It seemed that his legs were stuck together. He actually made it halfway across the common room before tripping over somebody's book bag, and falling flat on his face.
Everyone in the common room burst into laugher, including Danny (Zach and James were off somewhere, presumably studying). Sirius glared around at them. His gaze was particularly ferocious when it landed on the members of Silver's Gang.
Sarah stifled a giggle, and hid the book behind her back so that Sirius wouldn't see it. She walked cautiously across the common room to her friends and Danny. Sirius's glaring eyes followed her.
"What did you do to him?" Heather asked through her giggles.
"Leglocker curse." Sarah said. Danny stood up, trying to hide his amusement, and performed the countercurse on Sirius. He sprang up at once, and walked up the stairs to his dormitory, totally humiliated.
"I kinda feel sorry for him." Zena said as he left.
"Don't." Sarah and Lily said together.
"But that was pretty mean." Zena said worriedly.
"He deserves it." Sarah muttered.
"I'm going to reserve my judgment for some other time." Danny said. "Right now, do you have the book?"
"Yeah." Sarah said. "Here." She handed it to Danny.
"Thanks. Acnearum." He said, flicking his wand at Sarah's face. The boils swelled, burst, and then shrank into nothingness.
"That hurt." Sarah muttered.
"I know." Danny said. "I was one of the first targets that Sirius tried that curse on."
"Ouch." Sarah winced.
"Yeah. Good night." He smiled at them all, and walked up to his dormitory. The four watched him go.
"He's not bad." Sarah said, after a moment.
"I know." Lily said smiling. "I keep thanking my lucky stars that out of all of the idiots, I got him."
"Rub it in why don't you." Sarah muttered.
"I motion that we take him off the idiots list." Heather said.
"Motion seconded." Zena put in.
"All in favor of taking Danniel Longbottom off the idiots list and naming him an honorary member?" Sarah asked. Everyone raised their hands. "Motion passed. Danny is now an honorary member of Silver's Gang. Who's going to inform him?"
"I will." Said Lily. "He is my partner for the Dada project."
"Dada?" Zena asked.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts. First letter of every word except 'the'." Lily explained.
"Oh. That's pretty clever." Sarah said.
"Danny thought it up." Lily informed them.
"When did he graduate from Longbottom to Danny?" Zena asked.
"When he became an honorary member of the gang." Sarah answered.
"That's another thing. Why did he skip the 'ordinary person' step? Why did he go strait to being an honorary member?"
"Because he's a prankster." Sarah answered. "And a good one. A prankster can't just be an ordinary person."
"I didn't realize the rules of status were so complex." Zena said dryly.
"Oh, but they are. After 'honorary member' is 'real member', but that only happens when the person has proven themselves worthy. And it takes quite a feat to raise someone from 'beyond hope' to merely 'idiot'. And, of course, first names don't come in until 'ordinary person', and then, only for Gryffindors." Sarah said solemnly, making everyone else giggle.
"Maybe we should write the rules down." Lily suggested through her laughter.
"Good idea." Sarah said. "I'll get some parchment."
"How about we just add it to that notebook we're making the map of Hogwarts in." Zena said.
"Right. I'll go get it." Heather said. She ran upstairs and came back with a black journal. "We need a name for this thing."
"Why? What's the point?" Zena asked.
"No point at all. That's what makes it fun." Sarah answered. "How about…" She mused for a while. "The Pranksters Bible."
"No. The idiots (and Danny) might have one of those. We need something more original." Lily said.
"Something to do with our name." Heather added.
"The Silver Log." Zena suggested.
"Yeah. That sounds good." Lily said. "But it doesn't quite fit the name."
"Easily fixed." Sarah said. She pulled out her wand, and tapped the book once, muttering a few words. The cover of the book became silver, with black letters reading "THE SILVER LOG" on the front.
"Too flashy." Lily said. "Everyone will know what it is."
"That's the point." Sarah said. "Then they'll be extremely curious as to what it is."
"And they'll read it, and find out all our secrets." Lily pointed out.
"Not if we charm it correctly." Sarah said mischievously.
"Oh." Enlightenment spread across Lily's face. "I see."
"It'll take forever to figure out how to do it." Sarah said. "But it'll be worth it."
The next day, Sarah was extremely bored in History of Magic. She took out The Silver Log, and began to flip through it, looking at everything they had written in it. The partially finished map on the first page caught her attention for a little while, but she already had it memorized. The rules of status where slightly more interesting, but it's hard to become interested in something you yourself wrote. Sighing, she began to doodle on a blank page.
Then and idea struck her. She began to write furiously on the page she was doodling on. To the casual eye, it looked as though she was taking notes. What she was in fact doing, was adding a new purpose to The Silver Log.
OK. This is Silver writing. I just had an idea. I'm getting bored in History of Magic, so I thought that this log can serve as a boredom reliever. Here's how. Each person gets to have the log for a day. They can express their thoughts, ideas, frustrations, or simple draw. The next day, they give it to the next person. This way, at least once every four days, whoever has the log won't be bored, and we can express plans for pranks, and anything else. It'll be fun. What do you guys think?
She closed the book, and surreptitiously passed it to Lily. When she got it back, it read:
Lily: Sounds interesting.
Zena: I'm in.
Heather: Where do you come up with these ideas? Just kidding. If it works to relieve the boredom of HoM, I'm all for it.
Sarah smiled.
By the end of that day, the log entry looked like this:
Silver: OK then. Since it's my idea, I'll go first. I'll give to Lily next, then Zena, then Heather (I'm going by the order you three wrote in it).
Ok, for someone in the way future who picks this up in a museum dedicated to us, and would like to know a bit more about us, we'll introduce ourselves. I'm Sarah Quentin Malfoy, also known as Silver to my friends, though I have no idea why. They say it's because of my looks, but I just don't understand it. I have silver blonde hair, silver gray eyes, and pale skin. Do you think I fit the nickname?
Anyway, I like wolves, chocolate, The Lord of the Rings, The Song of the Lioness quartet (by the way Lily, did that author write anything else about Tortall), some muggle music (like The Beatles), charms, playing pranks, and my friends. I don't like my family. They're all such bloody gits. They… whoa, getting into a rant there. Calm down Silver. Calm down.
Right, where was I? Oh yeah. I don't like the Potter boys, and all the other idiots who are too numerous to name.
Hmm, maybe we should set a page limit on this thing. I'm filling up a lot here. How about, three pages, front and back.
Ok, that's all for HoM.
Transfiguration: AAAAAHHHH!!!! I HATE THIS CLASS!!! Those stupid idiot Potters, showing off all the time. Just because they happen to be good at transfiguration doesn't mean they have to rub it in. Well, maybe I deserve it, because I'm always being mean to them in charms…
What am I saying? Am I going crazy? Those boys are idiots through and through. The only good thing about them is that their father was Harry Potter, and that's not anything.
I wish McGonagall wouldn't praise Sirius so much about transfiguring a beetle into a button. That boy's head is so big I can't believe he isn't falling over from the weight of it. James isn't so bad compared to him. I think he should be moved off the idiots list. It's too good for him. He deserves to be on the 'beyond hope' list. Take a vote. All in favor of moving Sirius down, sign here. I'll update the lists next time this comes around to me.
I'm out of space. Lily's turn.
By the end of the week, Sirius had been moved to the 'beyond hope' list, they had discovered that Heather didn't like peanut butter, they had planned out twelve mad pranks that they couldn't play yet because they didn't know the right spells, and they had made up the Silver Anthem, their personal theme song. It was sung to the tune of, The Song That Never Ends, and it went like this:
If you're in need of a good joke,
To make you hated by all folk,
Then you can, come and talk to us,
We know just way to do,
And when we're done
We'll glue your jaw
So that you cannot chew.
We can make all the teachers scream.
It's so fun to see them turn green.
When they give, us detention and they
Take house points away
We earn them all
Right back for you in
Our enduring way.
We are creative and we're smart.
It's so hard to keep us all apart.
We are the best of friends and that's
What we will always be.
There never is
Just one of us
Without the other three.
And so if Filch should come our way,
We all can keep him just at bay.
And if you're feeling glum and sad
And in a gloom you've sank,
We'll come a make
You so amused
With one hilarious prank
This is the song that never ends…
It went on with the verses of The Song That Never Ends until is faded out. It became very popular to sing just when the boys were rounding the corner near them. It annoyed Sirius so much, that he attempted to make up a song in retaliation.
The last thing they discovered by the end of the week was that Sirius had no talent for rhyming.
AN: Well. What did you think? Did you like it? The thing with passing around the book is something that me and my friends actually do. It's quite funny to see what people write in it. We're all insane though, so it may not work for everyone. Also, the ranking system is somewhat based on my own private ranking system (for boys only).
Wow. Sirius is becoming quite the protagonist, and Sarah isn't really much better. When did that happen? What happened to Serpen? He was supposed to be the big mean egotistical Slytherin pureblood. Another example of how I am in no way in control of this fic.
First year is supposed to be coming to an end pretty soon here (though this could just be a false alarm since we all know how I'm not really in control of this fic), so hang in there all you wonderful people who like my fic. And for all of you who review, I love you guys. You keep me going (hint for all of you who don't review).
By the way, the next chapter focuses mostly on Sirius. You've been warned.
