Harry Potter and the Forgotten Friends

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Final Pranks and Party Plans

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"I'm all set over here. How about you guys?" Alexis asked, speaking into her walkie-talkie.

Alexis was currently hiding under a big bush in the schoolyard, waiting for Dudley to walk by with his goons.

"Alexis! I'm ready already!" Rileys' voice rang out, coming through the device.

Alexis picked up another walkie-talkie on the ground. "Harry! Ready?" Alexis asked.

"Ready and in position." Harrys' voice called back, through the device.

"OK. I'll tell you when Dudley and his goons are coming," Alexis set the two walkie-talkie's down and climbed slightly out of the bush, just far enough for her eyes to look around. Soon, she locked on her target, and crawled back inside the bush. She picked up both walkie-talkies and started talking into them both. "Harry! Riley! Dudley and the goons are on the loose. They're just going by the swings, on the way to the rock behind me. Get ready, and in position!"

"Right!" The two voices rang out through the devices.

Alexis smiled, and turned off her walkie-talkies, and climbed out of the bush, leaving them there. All she had to do was remember the signs that her, Riley and Harry had went over last night. Tug on the right ear, and flash a peace sign for the go ahead, and point upwards and put your hand in a fist and thrust it down, for 'bailing out'. Which they hoped wouldn't happen. She looked around at the other side of the rock, and saw Harry and Riley's smiling heads out of the evergreen trees. Riley had a bucket of goop at her feet, smiling devilish and Harry had a bucket at his feet, and Alexis had the camera around her neck. She waved them off, and they disappeared back behind their hideouts. Alexis sighed, and turned around, looking for Dudley and his goons.

And, there they were, right on time.

"Harry! Riley! Get ready." Alexis called, and jumped up onto the large rock on the playground.

Alexis grinned to herself and laid down on the rock, waiting for Dudley and the goon troop to arrive. Too everyone in the playground, they all knew that the rock belonged to Dudley and his goons. And, if anyone went onto the rock, they were looking for a punishment. But, the three musketeers were ready for them, they had there own pranks up their sleeves.

'Here they come. It's time to party.' Alexis thought, as she heard approaching footsteps and angry voices.

But then the voices and footsteps stopped, and Alexis cracked one eye opened. There was Dudley and his goons standing there, all glaring down on her, from all sides on the rock.

"Dudley! Hello! How are you?" Alexis asked, closing her eyes again, trying to suppress her laughter.

"Lupin! What the heck are you doing here? This is our spot," Dudley said, glaring down at her. "Where are Potter and Black?"

Alexis smiled, and sat up. "I go to school here, so that's why I'm here, and I don't see your name on the rock," Alexis pretended to scan the rock for engravements. "And, as for Riley and Harry, there in Detention, where else would they be?"

Dudley just stared down at her. "Well, get off our rock!"

"Why should I? It's public property, so I have just as much of a right to be here as you do." Alexis replied.

Dudley sighed.

"We don't care about whose property it is. It's ours, and some new kid isn't going to take it." One of Dudley's friends sneered.

Alexis shifted her gaze over to him. "Ah, it's Malcolm! You're actually standing up now, huh? Thought you always lost your voice around Dudley," She mused. "But, the more the merrier. Any others want something to say?"

Dudley glared at them all, and they all shook their heads. "Just get out of here, Lupin!" Dudley yelled.

"Nah! I like it here, we can all hang out together!" Alexis smiled, laying back down.

"And hang out with a freak like you? Come on, we'll find a new hangout." Dudley muttered, and jumped off the rock, the others following.

'Oh no.'

Alexis quickly sat up, and looked at Dudley's retreating back. Her heart was hammering, if Dudley didn't get onto his hangout the plan would backfire. It was now or never.

"Wait!"

Dudley stopped, and turned around, eyes gleaming.

"What?!"

"It's all yours. I'd rather go and bust Harry and Riley out of detention," Alexis mused, rather to herself then anyone. "You can have it!"

Dudley grinned triumphantly, and stalked back over there, the others following him. Alexis grinned, and jumped off the rock. She walked away, trying not to laugh. Dudley's downfall would be coming any time now. She sat down on a bench, not far away from the rock, and looked over at the evergreen trees behind the rock. Harry and Riley's eager faces were looking for the sign. She tugged her right ear and flashed the two the peace sign.

Time for operation 'Final Prank'.

Alexis grinned at Harry and Riley, and slid off the bench and into a clump of bushes, the perfect spot to get a picture of Dudley and his goons without him noticing. This would be great. She took the camera off from around her neck and held it in place, waiting for Riley to go.

Riley grinned, from where she was sitting in the tree. She grabbed the bucket of brown goop that she had swinging on a branch, and held the bottom end of the bucket, letting the contents fall down… down… and down… until: SPLAT! Dudley and his three goons were covered in the brown goop, which they had figured it to be Maple Syrup. Alexis laughed, and shot a picture, from her spot in the bushes.

Riley grinned at the mess she made, and looked over at Harry, who was laughing slightly. The two caught eyes and Riley gave him the 'go-ahead' sign as well. Harry nodded, and flung an open bag of white feathers down at the complaining, goop-y, three targets. The feathers fell out of the slit open bag and fell all over the three. Since the three were still all goop-y from the attack of the feathers, the feathers stuck to them. Alexis laughed, and look another picture. They looked like seagulls with brown spots.

Out of their anger, Dudley and his goons turned around to see Riley climbing down from the tree she was hiding in. Dudley was shaking with anger while his goons looked stunned, wondering what was going on.

"Black!" He shouted.

Riley turned around and looked innocently at Dudley. "You rang Dudley? What can I help you with?"

"What the heck did you do to us? You made us look like complete idiots." Dudley muttered, stalking up to her.

"Me? I didn't do anything. I was just leaning against the tree… waiting for Harry and Alexis to show up." She shrugged, stuffing her hands in her pockets.

"We kicked Lupin off our rock and she stalked over there somewhere, and Potter's in detention. With you."

"Harry is… breaking out of detention. Like I did. Problem?"

Dudley just glared at her, then stalked off, trying to get a hall pass, his friends behind him. Riley grabbed onto the tree, for support, from all her laughter. Harry jumped down from his spot, laughing as well.

"That was priceless." Harry said, between laughter.

Riley nodded, not able to speak.


"Guys—over here." Alexis hissed, from the bushes.

Harry and Riley stopped laughing, and walked over to the bush, and crawled under it.  Alexis pushed the pictures into the twos' hands and put the camera's strap back around her neck. Harry and Riley peered at the pictures and switched the pictures with each other. The first picture was off Dudley and his goons on the rock, drenched in brown goop. The next picture was of the goons on the rock again, but white feathers were stuck to the brown goop. And, if you looked closely at both the pictures, you could see a small Riley and Harry in both pictures, laughing, and half hidden behind leaves and branches.

"This is priceless, 'Lex! But… we can't let Dudley see these. Harry and I, we're in the top corners." Riley said, flicking the small forms of her and Harry.

Alexis nodded, and opened up her bag. "Put the pictures in here. My dad's picking me up for lunch today, so he can take them home for me."

Harry and Riley nodded in agreement, and threw the two pictures inside the blue bag. The three climbed out of the bush, wishing to leave the scene of the crime, ASAP. The three headed towards the baseball pitch, where there seemed to be a game going on.

"Well, Well. Dudley will be ever so glad to hear about this." A mousy haired girl muttered, as she went off after the brown spotted seagull gang.

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"Do like these books?" Riley whispered, behind her book.

"No. There's no plot, no character insight and they seem only 2-D. If even that." Alexis replied, in her usual bookish type of voice.

"There not too bad. It's one of the better book I've read." Harry replied, from behind them.

"Are you joking, Harry?"

"No. The only books I've ever read was some of Dudley's old books… and that's not a lot."

Riley burst out laughing, and the class turned to face the three.

"Miss. Black? Is there something that you would like to share?" Miss. Snape asked, glaring at the three.

"Nope. Just being a ruckus." Riley replied, shrugging it off.

Miss. Snape glared down her hooked nose at the girl, and scrawled her name on the board. Riley raised a black eyebrow to this, wondering if Snape had cracked yet.

"This type of detention will be in effect, as of now. If disrupt the class, your name goes on the board, and you get a detention. The more dots you get beside your name, the worse the detention's get. Any questions?"

"What's my detention!" Riley called.

"We'll just see, won't we Black?" Miss. Snape sneered, and sat back at her desk, glaring at everyone as they went back to their reading books.

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"What do you think Snape's going to do to Riley?" Alexis asked, as they stopped at the pole between the twos' different streets.

"Beats me. I hope she'll be alright." Harry muttered, looking down the streets to the Dursley's.

"Riley's tough, she'll be fine. But, anyways, aren't you supposed to be staying at Riley's?" Alexis asked, as an after thought.

"Oh yeah! I guess, I'm heading that way, then." Harry said, pointing in a new direction.

Alexis laughed, and twirled around the pole. "I'll see you tomorrow, Harry."

Harry nodded and started walking the other way. Alexis smirked, and walked the other way to her house. Tonight, she had to start planning the party, and hoping that everyone else involved, mainly her and her parents, and Riley and her parents. This would be the best party, but saying goodbye would be difficult.

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"What do you mean, it was Potter, Black and Lupin were behind that trick, Kerrie?" Dudley yelled, now feather free.

The mousy hair girl nodded, smirking. Dudley caught the look of her face, and stopped cracking his knuckles.

"What else do you know, Kerrie?" Dudley snapped.

"Black and Lupin are leaving town, they have to go back where they came from. That means, Potter will be coming back to your house, and you can put all hell on him, from those other two." Kerrie explained, leaning on one of the school's walls.

Dudley nodded. "He's going to get it, but Black and Lupin'll get off scott-free."

Kerrie shook her head. "I have a plan. You know how your mother told you a little bit about her freak sister?" Nod. "Black and Lupin are the same. Do you know what that means?" Dudley shook his head, and Kerrie sighed. "That means, that they are just as freakish. Say it to the whole school, this stupid school seems like it will believe anything anyone says. Just do it, and trust me, that'll be enough revenge. But, beware of Black's temper, she'll attempt to get you back."

Dudley nodded. "How do know all this stuff? You never associate with anyone on the playground, or in the class. And, why are you all of the sudden so keen on helping us out, now? I thought you'd go and join the freak squad. You're only trying to help because you want something."

"Lets just say I go way back to the beginning with Black and Lupin, and I have a score to settle with them – with their mothers and fathers' actually." Clairily smirked, and stalked away from Dudley, hands in her pockets. With that, Kerrie started to walk away, hands stuffed in her pockets.

"You better be right about this one Pettigrew!" Dudley shouted, to her retreating back.

The girl didn't say anything back, but disappeared out of Dudley's view. A wide grin soon spread Dudley's face as what Kerrie said finally clicking in. He could finally get back at Black and Lupin for two months of torture. Tomorrow would be hell for those two.

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"Mom? Dad? Are you here? I'm home!" Alexis called, opening the front door.

Silence greeted her. Alexis sighed, wondering where they would be this time. She closed the front door, and kicked off her shoes. Still no answer greeted her, even though she had created a lot of noise down stairs.

'There probably outside.' She thought, as she walked through the hallway, and out the kitchens' backdoor. Sure enough, her parents were out there. Her mum was looking over a Daily Prophet, while her dad looked like he was half asleep. The full moon was only a couple weeks away. Alexis shuddered at the thought; she hated having to hear her fathers' screams when he was locked up in the cellar. Her mum always tried to calm her down, but it's hard to calm down when the one you love is in so much pain.

"Hi!" Alexis called, dropping her bag, and jogging over there.

Her parents looked up, Alexis smiled at the two and laid eagle spread out on the ground between the two chairs.

"How was school? Anymore pranks this afternoon?" Remus asked.

Alexis shook her head. "Nope, but Riley got detention for breaking the silence during English. Had to stay after school. Harry and I have no idea what her detention was, Snape just said that it would be more harder and painful then any other she ever had before."

Viola looked up from her paper. "Well, hopefully it's nothing to bad. By the way, have you told Harry you're leaving Surrey yet?"

Alexis propped herself up on her elbows, and looked up at her mom. "Actually, I was thinking. Could Riley and I throw a goodbye party for Harry? I know he's got going anywhere, but he's our third musketeer and we need to say goodbye, the musketeer way. Can I? Please!" Alexis asked.

"I don't see why not. It's fine with me." Viola replied, looking back at her paper.

"All right!" Alexis yelled, and jumped up. "Got to go and see if Riley's out of Snape's grasp yet. Bye!"

Alexis ran across the grass, and into the house, looking for the nearest phone. She quickly found it and dialled in the Black's number. She waited and waited as the phone rang, and soon enough someone picked up.

"Hello?" Came the voice.

"Hi! Is Riley there? It's Alexis."

"Nope, she's not home yet, but Harry is, if you want to talk to him." Arabella replied.

"Um, no. It's all right; I have to ask Riley something. Don't tell Harry I called, OK?"

"Alright… but what's so important?"

"Since we have to leave to go back to Grimmauld Place, I was thinking of throwing a goodbye party for Harry. Since we're his only friends, I don't think that just leaving without saying anything would be all right. So, I was wondering if Riley wanted to help me plan." Alexis explained.

"I see…" Arabella muttered. "Sounds like a good idea, you have. I'm sure Riley'll want to help. She's probably still at school, doing her detention."

"OK, thanks. Bye." With that Alexis hung up, and went to get her shoes.

"Mom! Dad! Going out to find Riley. Be back soon!"

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"Stupid Snape, and her stupid detentions. I hate her, I really do. I hope she keels over tonight. Oh! That'd be great!" Riley muttered, grinding one fist into her open palm. 

Riley continued walking down the street from the school, muttering how much she hated school and Snape, wishing that, that teacher would just keel over! Someone yelling at her interrupted her thoughts.


"Riley! Wait up!"

Riley turned around to see a girl with brown hair flying everywhere, running at her. The girl stopped in front of her, panting, doubled over. 

"Hi Alexis. What can I help you with?"

"Riley. Hi. You know how were leaving in a couple days to the magical world? Well I was thinking since we won't be here with Har—"

"What do you mean, we're leaving?!"

Alexis was taken aback. "Didn't your parents tell you yet? We're going back to the magical world, Dumbledore has summoned both our parents back, and that means, we have to go back as well. We have to say goodbye to Harry. We'll see him in two years, that is, if Dumbledore thinks that it's safe for Harry to come back to the magical world, what with Voldemort around, somewhere."

Riley nodded. "Well, we have to have some kind of party for Harry. We can't leave without saying goodbye!"

"That's what I came over here for, to ask you if you wanted to help me plan one. I called your house, and your parents think it's a fine idea. Want to help me plan?"

"You bet! Anything for Harry!" Riley said. "Now, lets get planning!"

"Alright, but you have to be quiet about it. Since Harry staying at your house, you have to be careful with what you talk about. OK. Don't go and open your big mouth!"

"Calm down 'Lex. I won't let it slip. I'll see you tomorrow at school." Riley waved, and started to skip down another street. "Bye."

"Bye Riley. Don't let it slip!" Alexis sighed, and turned away, thinking of only one thing: This is not going to work!

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The end of another chapter! Woo Who! :o)

I was just wondering, is Alexis and Riley Mary-Sue's or just other characters? I know that Kerrie kind of just appeared out of nowhere. I kind of forgot about her, and I just remembered a nameless girl when I was looking through my character designs for this and remembered her. She's not really going to be in the story much --because it's almost over – she's like a spy for Dudley on the 'inside' or whatever you want to call it. If you have any questions about her, just review and ask, if needed.

But anywho, on with the infamous Q&A:

Bridget S. Black: Does Harry see Alexis and Riley at Hogwarts! You'll just have to wait and see…!

Chochang913: Lol, nice one on yelling at Kiki San. That was priceless! :o) Yep, England here we come! I went into shock when I read it. *cries* I don't wanna believe it!!!!!!!!!

Mici: Might I suggest that you read the books over again? Nowhere in the 5 books that I have does it ever mention a Riley Black and Alexis Lupin. Maybe I should check the bookstores in town? Maybe I missed a long lost book or something… or maybe you're just off your rocker!!! Have a nice day…

Also, I won't be updating for a while now, as my parents are finally get time off work – and I won't be alone a lot anymore, yay – and we're going away on vacation. I'll be returning around August 9th. See ya then! Bye!