Chapter 4
"Did you see that?"
"That Yuy guy looked like an angel."
"And Duo, he's like the devil!"
More whispers proceeded throughout the hallway as the GW pilots walked through them.
"Way to go Duo." Heero muttered angrily.
"You were the one who was trying to shoot me!" Duo protested rather loudly. Now everyone was silent with shock. No one in the corridor wanted to stop the fight.
"Well YOU punched me in the jaw!" Heero shouted back.
"You punched me first!" Duo screamed.
"You were acting like a MORON! Oh wait, that IS a problem." Heero said now sounding sarcastic. "I guess I can't blame you for that, you ALWAYS ARE a moron!!!"
"What a petty insult mister PERFECT SOLDIER! How's about sharing some of your war tales with our classmates?!" Duo was now red faced, Heero resembled a tiger in rage. In short not even Quatra and Trowa wanted to break up the fight. Wufei was staring, mouth agape at the two of them.
"I'm sure they'd LOVE to know how you were forced into a bar going undercover as a WAITRESS!!" Heero shouted out with a laugh. Duo fumed, then grinned. (I know that really didn't happen, it's just for fun)
"Let the other's know about the time I caught you with a teddy bear in your sleep."
"How's about when you-"
"How's about you guys all SHUT UP?!?!?!?!" A voice rang out. Both pilots turned to stare at a very angry Hermione.
"You're all acting like children. You're seventh years, please act like so." She said rather puffed up about the whole ordeal and walked away. Duo and Heero scowled.
"This isn't OVER!" Both yelled and walked away, both sticking to the opposite wall of the hall.
"Just when you thought it couldn't get worse." Trowa muttered, Wufei sighed.
"What you guys got?" He asked.
"Er. . . . . .potions?" He murmured back unsure while looking at his timetable.
"yeah. After that is Herbology or something." Quatra added in.
"Yay." Trowa said sarcastically. Wufei snorted.
"We're stuck with you for the first class. Let's get going eh? I hear the potions instructor is rather nasty with our house or something."
"Oh boy. . . . ."
~~~
"Obviously some students don't think that it is *wise* to show up on time." Snape said, his oily voice flowing over the heads of. . . .well . . .you know, Duo was the only one who didn't show up in time surprisingly. The other's had made it there all in time. Heero was now seated next to Wufei, Trowa and Quatra on the table next to them.
"I told you, I got lost." Duo said quietly.
"Very well, but if you are new to the castle and don't know your way around. How then did you find your way to the Great Hall for breakfast?" Snape now had an eyebrow raised. A small sneer crept across Draco's face. All the Slytherins thought that Snape had cornered Duo. Duo grinned.
"Followed my nose."
Silence.
"You what?" Snape replied looking for the first time ever surprised.
"I followed my nose. The scent of food is always easy for me to follow." He said again. Heero snorted.
"I'll vouch for that, he eats so much I have a hard time figuring out how he stays so thin. We're lucky if we ever have any food in the safehouse." Heero smirked. Duo scowled.
"Thanks a LOT Heero." The American said angrily.
"No problem." He replied. Wufei rolled his eyes, Trowa sighed and Quatra just plopped down on the desk, feeling rather bored. All the three pilots were used to this.
"Enough! Mr. Maxwell, for your lateness 5 points will be taken from Gryffindor. Sit down!" Snape ordered and strode behind his desk.
"Now, Mr. Yuy. Where would you go to find a Clydesdale gam?" Snape asked, it was somewhat obvious that he was picking on the new students. So imagine the class's surprise (Scratch the Gundam pilots) when Heero answered;
"You would find one near a unicorn, preferably a male." The pilot replied quietly. Snape stared. Then recovered.
"Correct. Mr. Chang, what is the difference between Darwin's poison and Helen's poison?"
"Darwin's poison is a fast acting poison, while Helen's is slow. Both are extremely painful and result in seizures. Both are also found in the same race, the tail spiked dragon. One in the female body, Helen, and the other in the male, Darwin, both are colorless, tasteless, and are without scent. The only way to detect this poison is by burning it, in which the liquid turns green." Silence.
"I think we've found a male Hermione." Ron whispered to Harry who nodded. Hermione glared at the two of them. So after Snape's plan to humiliate the GW boys failed, they were set to making a new potion, in which Snape had chosen a particularly difficult one in hopes of making them fail. Well as we all know, the GW boys never fail at anything. Within one hour all five of them were done and relaxing. Snape (Rather angry) I might add, stalked over.
"You can't be done already." He hissed. Heero opened his eyes, he had been leaning back in his chair with the look of sleep plastered across his face.
"Take a look for yourself." He murmured and shut his eyes again. Snape scowled and walked over to Heero's cauldron, sure enough there it was, perfect in every single little way. (He IS the perfect soldier remember?) He checked the other pilot's potion, perfect as well. Snape was fuming, Harry snickered and Ron was smothering laughs. Hermione however was far too busy trying to help Neville who's potion was a rather awkward yellow. Snape instead went to bully him.
"How'd you do all that?" Seamus asked Duo.
"I was bored so I read all the textbooks, man I can't believe what you guys study." Duo muttered. Heero snapped his eyes open and smacked Duo upside the head.
"You moron!" He hissed. "You're supposed to act normal." Duo sighed and offered a small apology. Then grinned. "I think we should have some fun with the *professor* don't you?" Duo asked quietly. Heero stared for a moment, then grinned.
"Sure, I don't like that guy anyway." He whispered back. Wufei caught a little bit of the conversation.
"I heard from some people that he HATES it when someone makes fun of his hair." Wufei declared.
"Most people do Wufei." Duo replied.
"No, I mean he goes ballistic! Trust me, he goes into a total fit." Wufei gave a smirk which looked rather odd on the youth's face. It was half between being smug and the other half was just mischievous looking. Heero shrugged.
"Okay. So what do we do?" He asked quietly. Whispering was officially in progress. Quatra heard what they were saying and sighed. Duo the prankster to the rescue. Trowa heard it too, so he was in as well. Quatra just stayed silent, they'd get to asking him something sooner or later, they usually did. And sure enough . . .
"Hey Quatra?" Duo asked.
"yes? What do you want me to do so that you can have time?" Quatra replied automatically.
"Can you create a diversion? I have something awesome I want to do." Quatra sighed.
"Sure. Professor Snape?" He called out. Snape walked over.
"Yes Mr. Winner?" As Quatra was in Slytherin house, he and Trowa were treated rather well . . .you know.
"I have a question about our next class."
"What is it?"
They proceeded to talk while Duo snuck around him, Draco was watching this with interest. It was a golden opportunity to get a few Gryffindors in trouble. Instead, to Draco's disappointment Duo only washed his hands in the sink which was next to the changing color potion cabinet. The door was open. So after washing his hands he dried them on a towel and walked back to his seat. Right when he was next to Professor Snape's head he yawned and raised his hands over his head in a stretch, in full length his arms were taller then Snape'' head. Duo sat back down and winked at Heero. Heero smirked and Wufei grinned. Trowa was smiling rather suspiciously. Draco was even more surprised. Harry and Ron had just noticed that all of the pilots were grinning maniacally (exception of Quatra.) Snape called the end of class and everyone filled a vial and handed it in for marking. Sitting back down Sean was staring at Snape's head. Everyone began to whisper. Hermione in shock, Harry in laughter and Ron in laughs. Soon Draco was just stammering.
"Er. . . . Professor?" Draco muttered as he stared, pale blue eyes wide.
"What is it Mr. Malfoy?"
"Y-your . . . . . hair." He stammered out pointing. Snape stared at Draco, then moved to the mirror on the dungeon wall. Silence.
~ In Dumbledore's office ~
"Is that all Minerva?" Dumbledore asked shuffling some papers.
"Actually Albus, there's one more matter-" She never finished because at that moment. . . . .
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Dumbledore fell out of his desk and McGonagall steadied herself on the table.
"What in heaven's name was THAT?!" She demanded. Dumbledore righted himself with a cheery smile.
"It sounded like it came from the Dungeons." He replied as Fawkes gave a loud screech and ruffled his feathers.
~ Dungeons ~
Snape's hair was turning from a violent fuchsia to a very bright neon pink. Duo smirked and showed Heero the bottle. It was labeled;
*Bright pink color.*
He had snuck it from the cabinet and had poured it over Snape's head when pretending to yawn. All of this was unseen to Draco because. . . . .well, being a Gundam pilot you can do a lot of neat handiwork right? The class was in laughter. Snape desperately tried to change his hair back to normal with his wand. Wufei was ready for this, as the whole class was focusing on Snape, he changed into his other form and cast a spell on Snape's head. Now his hair was radiating a pink light. Wufei grinned and Duo laughed his head off. Even Heero was smiling. Quatra was trying to keep from laughing. Trowa was just laughing his head, all dignity forgotten.
~~~
"You guys did that?" Harry asked Duo as they headed off for the Gryffindor common room.
"Yeah." Duo said relaxing, it was all rather funny. "I can't believe that it worked so well and- OW!" Duo suddenly yelped as a large owl came barreling over their heads. Heero caught the letter the owl disposed of in front of them and opened it.
"It's from the guy."
"Guy?" Ron asked.
"Dumbledore. It says that we're supposed to go to this. . . . .Dagon Alley?"
"Diagon." Hermione corrected.
"Anyway, it says that since the weekend is coming up we're supposed to go there and grab some stuff. The list is right here and so is the money. We also have to bring our. . . . . oh no . . ." Heero suddenly mumbled.
"What?"
"We have to bring our counterparts." Heero finished looking rather gloomy.
"Counterparts?" Ron wanted to know. Heero sighed.
"Never mind. IN any case you guys are supposed to come with us to this alley, or whatever."
"WHAT?!" The trio (Harry, Ron and Hermione) yelled out. Duo nodded.
"So that probably means Quatra and Trowa are coming too. Question is, who's their whatever?" Duo wanted to know.
"I think it was that guy and girl who landed on them at breakfast today." Wufei volunteered. Heero nodded.
"I think their names were . . . . . Draco and Pansy?" Harry blanched, Ron turned red, and Hermione stopped.
"THEM?!" Harry demanded.
"Yippee." Duo said sarcastically and trudged up the stairs. "Hey Herm! What's the password thingy?"
"It's Hermione." She replied angrily.
"Sorry, so what's the pass?"
"I have no idea why Dumbledore chose this word, it sounds a little hard to remember but he said that the new students would know it. It's *Gundam* slightly odd." Wufei, Duo and Heero all looked at each other. Then smiled.
"That guy knows everything." Heero commented as he crawled through the portrait hole.
"No kidding." Duo muttered. Once all of them were in the common room they got a surprise.
"Hey Harry! Can you help us with a problem?" Dean asked lightly. Harry smiled. Ever since being appointed Head Boy thousands had asked for his help, he felt happy to do so, to help people without having to kill Voldemort in the process. Ron and Lavender were Prefects, while Hermione was head girl. (What'd you expect?) In short, their group was head of the school. Ron was laughing at Draco's face when the silver haired youth had heard that Harry was head boy.
"So when do we go?"
"Er. . .we're supposed to go by . . . FLOO POWDER?! What the hell is that?!" Duo demanded as he read the letter in Heero's hand.
"Never mind." Harry said coming back.
"We leave at 10am tomorrow morning, and we're to be back by 3pm. No later. And it also says don't do any magic in that alley place."
"We know all that. So it's an entire afternoon with Malfoy and the pug." Ron remarked. "Yay, what a bang up holiday this'll be!" the redhead remarked sarcastically and walked over to play gobstones with Ginny. Suddenly a head popped out of the floor in front of Duo.
"AUGH!" He yelled and tipped over.
"What?" Nick asked as he turned around and spotted them. "oh! Sorry, did I frighten you? Do pardon. But um . . .has anyone seen Peeves? He hasn't done anything for a while now, I'm getting rather worried." The ghost said in a sullen tone. Duo was still staring, eyebrow slightly twitching.
"Nope. Sorry Sir Nicholas." Hermione replied. The ghost clucked his tongue and disappeared. After Duo got over that shock of seeing a head coming through the floor he sat down rather angry.
"You know, I have not seen one prankster in this school, are you telling me that you have NO pranksters in this castle?" Duo demanded.
"The last two were Fred and George Weasly. Ron's brothers." Harry declared as he sat down next to the fireplace. "But since they left the only one who plays pranks is. . . ."
"Who? I mean he can't be too good since I haven't heard of him. And besides -"
KER-SPLAT!!!!!!
Duo was cut off as a great torrent of water was dropped onto the chair where he had been sitting, reflexes he hadn't used for ages sprang to life.
"PEEVES!!" Hermione roared, her face flushed.
"That's the prankster." Harry muttered as he gestured up at the floating ghost.
"Yeesh, you know if you want to soak someone you have to lower in before you drop the water. If you drop it from too high up the victim has the chance to move, also dropping it from too high up helps warn the person because the water makes sound." Duo yelled out. Heero sighed.
"He's the master of pranking." He replied to the Gryffindors' stares. "It was only last week that he dumped a bucket of mud on me."
"I couldn't believe it. Heero Yuy, the perfect soldier, with senses beyond belief was outsmarted by DUO MAXWELL! Of all people!" Wufei commented laughing. Harry was nodding, the meaning slowly sinking in. Ron was snickering. Lee was staring at Duo with a kind of grin that said *watch out I'm going to make chaos.* and Hermione was still yelling at Peeves. After the ghost floated away with an evil cackle Hermione sighed and pointed her wand at the couch.
"Desiccated!" She yelled out and the chair dried. Duo smiled and gave a 'thanks' before jumping back onto the red armchair.
"So we leave at 10am huh?" Duo wanted to know.
"Yes." Heero replied suddenly serious.
"You're waking him up!" Wufei and Heero yelled at the same time. Both stared at each other.
"Why me? I did it last time." Wufei demanded.
"Actually Quatra did. And he was stuck with a black eye when Duo punched him in the face, remember?"
"Oh yeah . . . . ." Suddenly a smile donned both their faces, it wasn't that kind of smile that made you go all warm and fuzzy inside, it was the kind that sent off your alarms and told you to run like hell and don't look back.
"Hey Harry? Can I asked a favor?" Heero suddenly declared.
"What?"
"Since we're in the same dorm, can you wake Duo up?" Wufei pitched in. Harry nodded slowly, still unsure of what they were asking.
"Okay."
"Thanks." Both the pilots replied and walked off smiling, a grin that went from ear to ear.
~~~
"Hey Duo?" Harry whispered the next morning, he didn't want to wake anyone up, many of the Gryffindor 7th years were late sleepers.
"Duo!" Harry hissed at the lump hidden under the sheets. When the lump rolled over and muttered something illegible Harry rolled his eyes and sighed. With nothing left to it, he walked over and shook the sleeping form.
"DUO!" Harry hissed, a little louder then wanted. Suddenly the form sat up with a start and
WHACK!!!!
"OWWW!" Harry and Duo yelped. Harry plopped onto the ground clutching his forehead. Duo was sitting in his bed doing the same.
"Someone attack you Arry'?" Neville called out blearily.
"No . . no, sorry. Just go back to sleep or something." Harry replied through gritted teeth. He was SOOOO going to get those two for this.
~~~
"OWWW!" The yell echoed down the stairway. Wufei and Heero grinned. Harry must've woken Duo up.
"He's going to get us for this you know." Wufei told Heero as the two sat down in front of the fireplace relaxing. Heero was silent, it seems that after yesterday's accident he was going back into perfect soldier mode. Wufei shrugged and looked around him, most of the students had gone off to do some homework or stuff. Harry staggered down into the common room and glared at the two of them. Heero gave a smug grin and Wufei was snickering.
"You are SO going to die!" Harry yelled and pulled out his wand. Wufei leapt to his feet and ran out the door laughing as Harry chased him. Duo came stumbling down the staircase and groaned. Heero instantly noticed the nice big bruise on his forehead.
"Nice spot." Heero commented and went back to working on his laptop. Duo scowled and plopped down in the seat Wufei had just vacated.
"You know something Heero? I hate you."
Disclaimer: Not mine, Only plot. These characters are the property of J.K Rowling and whoever owns Gundam Wing, or something. . .yeah I hate this stuff.
"Did you see that?"
"That Yuy guy looked like an angel."
"And Duo, he's like the devil!"
More whispers proceeded throughout the hallway as the GW pilots walked through them.
"Way to go Duo." Heero muttered angrily.
"You were the one who was trying to shoot me!" Duo protested rather loudly. Now everyone was silent with shock. No one in the corridor wanted to stop the fight.
"Well YOU punched me in the jaw!" Heero shouted back.
"You punched me first!" Duo screamed.
"You were acting like a MORON! Oh wait, that IS a problem." Heero said now sounding sarcastic. "I guess I can't blame you for that, you ALWAYS ARE a moron!!!"
"What a petty insult mister PERFECT SOLDIER! How's about sharing some of your war tales with our classmates?!" Duo was now red faced, Heero resembled a tiger in rage. In short not even Quatra and Trowa wanted to break up the fight. Wufei was staring, mouth agape at the two of them.
"I'm sure they'd LOVE to know how you were forced into a bar going undercover as a WAITRESS!!" Heero shouted out with a laugh. Duo fumed, then grinned. (I know that really didn't happen, it's just for fun)
"Let the other's know about the time I caught you with a teddy bear in your sleep."
"How's about when you-"
"How's about you guys all SHUT UP?!?!?!?!" A voice rang out. Both pilots turned to stare at a very angry Hermione.
"You're all acting like children. You're seventh years, please act like so." She said rather puffed up about the whole ordeal and walked away. Duo and Heero scowled.
"This isn't OVER!" Both yelled and walked away, both sticking to the opposite wall of the hall.
"Just when you thought it couldn't get worse." Trowa muttered, Wufei sighed.
"What you guys got?" He asked.
"Er. . . . . .potions?" He murmured back unsure while looking at his timetable.
"yeah. After that is Herbology or something." Quatra added in.
"Yay." Trowa said sarcastically. Wufei snorted.
"We're stuck with you for the first class. Let's get going eh? I hear the potions instructor is rather nasty with our house or something."
"Oh boy. . . . ."
~~~
"Obviously some students don't think that it is *wise* to show up on time." Snape said, his oily voice flowing over the heads of. . . .well . . .you know, Duo was the only one who didn't show up in time surprisingly. The other's had made it there all in time. Heero was now seated next to Wufei, Trowa and Quatra on the table next to them.
"I told you, I got lost." Duo said quietly.
"Very well, but if you are new to the castle and don't know your way around. How then did you find your way to the Great Hall for breakfast?" Snape now had an eyebrow raised. A small sneer crept across Draco's face. All the Slytherins thought that Snape had cornered Duo. Duo grinned.
"Followed my nose."
Silence.
"You what?" Snape replied looking for the first time ever surprised.
"I followed my nose. The scent of food is always easy for me to follow." He said again. Heero snorted.
"I'll vouch for that, he eats so much I have a hard time figuring out how he stays so thin. We're lucky if we ever have any food in the safehouse." Heero smirked. Duo scowled.
"Thanks a LOT Heero." The American said angrily.
"No problem." He replied. Wufei rolled his eyes, Trowa sighed and Quatra just plopped down on the desk, feeling rather bored. All the three pilots were used to this.
"Enough! Mr. Maxwell, for your lateness 5 points will be taken from Gryffindor. Sit down!" Snape ordered and strode behind his desk.
"Now, Mr. Yuy. Where would you go to find a Clydesdale gam?" Snape asked, it was somewhat obvious that he was picking on the new students. So imagine the class's surprise (Scratch the Gundam pilots) when Heero answered;
"You would find one near a unicorn, preferably a male." The pilot replied quietly. Snape stared. Then recovered.
"Correct. Mr. Chang, what is the difference between Darwin's poison and Helen's poison?"
"Darwin's poison is a fast acting poison, while Helen's is slow. Both are extremely painful and result in seizures. Both are also found in the same race, the tail spiked dragon. One in the female body, Helen, and the other in the male, Darwin, both are colorless, tasteless, and are without scent. The only way to detect this poison is by burning it, in which the liquid turns green." Silence.
"I think we've found a male Hermione." Ron whispered to Harry who nodded. Hermione glared at the two of them. So after Snape's plan to humiliate the GW boys failed, they were set to making a new potion, in which Snape had chosen a particularly difficult one in hopes of making them fail. Well as we all know, the GW boys never fail at anything. Within one hour all five of them were done and relaxing. Snape (Rather angry) I might add, stalked over.
"You can't be done already." He hissed. Heero opened his eyes, he had been leaning back in his chair with the look of sleep plastered across his face.
"Take a look for yourself." He murmured and shut his eyes again. Snape scowled and walked over to Heero's cauldron, sure enough there it was, perfect in every single little way. (He IS the perfect soldier remember?) He checked the other pilot's potion, perfect as well. Snape was fuming, Harry snickered and Ron was smothering laughs. Hermione however was far too busy trying to help Neville who's potion was a rather awkward yellow. Snape instead went to bully him.
"How'd you do all that?" Seamus asked Duo.
"I was bored so I read all the textbooks, man I can't believe what you guys study." Duo muttered. Heero snapped his eyes open and smacked Duo upside the head.
"You moron!" He hissed. "You're supposed to act normal." Duo sighed and offered a small apology. Then grinned. "I think we should have some fun with the *professor* don't you?" Duo asked quietly. Heero stared for a moment, then grinned.
"Sure, I don't like that guy anyway." He whispered back. Wufei caught a little bit of the conversation.
"I heard from some people that he HATES it when someone makes fun of his hair." Wufei declared.
"Most people do Wufei." Duo replied.
"No, I mean he goes ballistic! Trust me, he goes into a total fit." Wufei gave a smirk which looked rather odd on the youth's face. It was half between being smug and the other half was just mischievous looking. Heero shrugged.
"Okay. So what do we do?" He asked quietly. Whispering was officially in progress. Quatra heard what they were saying and sighed. Duo the prankster to the rescue. Trowa heard it too, so he was in as well. Quatra just stayed silent, they'd get to asking him something sooner or later, they usually did. And sure enough . . .
"Hey Quatra?" Duo asked.
"yes? What do you want me to do so that you can have time?" Quatra replied automatically.
"Can you create a diversion? I have something awesome I want to do." Quatra sighed.
"Sure. Professor Snape?" He called out. Snape walked over.
"Yes Mr. Winner?" As Quatra was in Slytherin house, he and Trowa were treated rather well . . .you know.
"I have a question about our next class."
"What is it?"
They proceeded to talk while Duo snuck around him, Draco was watching this with interest. It was a golden opportunity to get a few Gryffindors in trouble. Instead, to Draco's disappointment Duo only washed his hands in the sink which was next to the changing color potion cabinet. The door was open. So after washing his hands he dried them on a towel and walked back to his seat. Right when he was next to Professor Snape's head he yawned and raised his hands over his head in a stretch, in full length his arms were taller then Snape'' head. Duo sat back down and winked at Heero. Heero smirked and Wufei grinned. Trowa was smiling rather suspiciously. Draco was even more surprised. Harry and Ron had just noticed that all of the pilots were grinning maniacally (exception of Quatra.) Snape called the end of class and everyone filled a vial and handed it in for marking. Sitting back down Sean was staring at Snape's head. Everyone began to whisper. Hermione in shock, Harry in laughter and Ron in laughs. Soon Draco was just stammering.
"Er. . . . Professor?" Draco muttered as he stared, pale blue eyes wide.
"What is it Mr. Malfoy?"
"Y-your . . . . . hair." He stammered out pointing. Snape stared at Draco, then moved to the mirror on the dungeon wall. Silence.
~ In Dumbledore's office ~
"Is that all Minerva?" Dumbledore asked shuffling some papers.
"Actually Albus, there's one more matter-" She never finished because at that moment. . . . .
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Dumbledore fell out of his desk and McGonagall steadied herself on the table.
"What in heaven's name was THAT?!" She demanded. Dumbledore righted himself with a cheery smile.
"It sounded like it came from the Dungeons." He replied as Fawkes gave a loud screech and ruffled his feathers.
~ Dungeons ~
Snape's hair was turning from a violent fuchsia to a very bright neon pink. Duo smirked and showed Heero the bottle. It was labeled;
*Bright pink color.*
He had snuck it from the cabinet and had poured it over Snape's head when pretending to yawn. All of this was unseen to Draco because. . . . .well, being a Gundam pilot you can do a lot of neat handiwork right? The class was in laughter. Snape desperately tried to change his hair back to normal with his wand. Wufei was ready for this, as the whole class was focusing on Snape, he changed into his other form and cast a spell on Snape's head. Now his hair was radiating a pink light. Wufei grinned and Duo laughed his head off. Even Heero was smiling. Quatra was trying to keep from laughing. Trowa was just laughing his head, all dignity forgotten.
~~~
"You guys did that?" Harry asked Duo as they headed off for the Gryffindor common room.
"Yeah." Duo said relaxing, it was all rather funny. "I can't believe that it worked so well and- OW!" Duo suddenly yelped as a large owl came barreling over their heads. Heero caught the letter the owl disposed of in front of them and opened it.
"It's from the guy."
"Guy?" Ron asked.
"Dumbledore. It says that we're supposed to go to this. . . . .Dagon Alley?"
"Diagon." Hermione corrected.
"Anyway, it says that since the weekend is coming up we're supposed to go there and grab some stuff. The list is right here and so is the money. We also have to bring our. . . . . oh no . . ." Heero suddenly mumbled.
"What?"
"We have to bring our counterparts." Heero finished looking rather gloomy.
"Counterparts?" Ron wanted to know. Heero sighed.
"Never mind. IN any case you guys are supposed to come with us to this alley, or whatever."
"WHAT?!" The trio (Harry, Ron and Hermione) yelled out. Duo nodded.
"So that probably means Quatra and Trowa are coming too. Question is, who's their whatever?" Duo wanted to know.
"I think it was that guy and girl who landed on them at breakfast today." Wufei volunteered. Heero nodded.
"I think their names were . . . . . Draco and Pansy?" Harry blanched, Ron turned red, and Hermione stopped.
"THEM?!" Harry demanded.
"Yippee." Duo said sarcastically and trudged up the stairs. "Hey Herm! What's the password thingy?"
"It's Hermione." She replied angrily.
"Sorry, so what's the pass?"
"I have no idea why Dumbledore chose this word, it sounds a little hard to remember but he said that the new students would know it. It's *Gundam* slightly odd." Wufei, Duo and Heero all looked at each other. Then smiled.
"That guy knows everything." Heero commented as he crawled through the portrait hole.
"No kidding." Duo muttered. Once all of them were in the common room they got a surprise.
"Hey Harry! Can you help us with a problem?" Dean asked lightly. Harry smiled. Ever since being appointed Head Boy thousands had asked for his help, he felt happy to do so, to help people without having to kill Voldemort in the process. Ron and Lavender were Prefects, while Hermione was head girl. (What'd you expect?) In short, their group was head of the school. Ron was laughing at Draco's face when the silver haired youth had heard that Harry was head boy.
"So when do we go?"
"Er. . .we're supposed to go by . . . FLOO POWDER?! What the hell is that?!" Duo demanded as he read the letter in Heero's hand.
"Never mind." Harry said coming back.
"We leave at 10am tomorrow morning, and we're to be back by 3pm. No later. And it also says don't do any magic in that alley place."
"We know all that. So it's an entire afternoon with Malfoy and the pug." Ron remarked. "Yay, what a bang up holiday this'll be!" the redhead remarked sarcastically and walked over to play gobstones with Ginny. Suddenly a head popped out of the floor in front of Duo.
"AUGH!" He yelled and tipped over.
"What?" Nick asked as he turned around and spotted them. "oh! Sorry, did I frighten you? Do pardon. But um . . .has anyone seen Peeves? He hasn't done anything for a while now, I'm getting rather worried." The ghost said in a sullen tone. Duo was still staring, eyebrow slightly twitching.
"Nope. Sorry Sir Nicholas." Hermione replied. The ghost clucked his tongue and disappeared. After Duo got over that shock of seeing a head coming through the floor he sat down rather angry.
"You know, I have not seen one prankster in this school, are you telling me that you have NO pranksters in this castle?" Duo demanded.
"The last two were Fred and George Weasly. Ron's brothers." Harry declared as he sat down next to the fireplace. "But since they left the only one who plays pranks is. . . ."
"Who? I mean he can't be too good since I haven't heard of him. And besides -"
KER-SPLAT!!!!!!
Duo was cut off as a great torrent of water was dropped onto the chair where he had been sitting, reflexes he hadn't used for ages sprang to life.
"PEEVES!!" Hermione roared, her face flushed.
"That's the prankster." Harry muttered as he gestured up at the floating ghost.
"Yeesh, you know if you want to soak someone you have to lower in before you drop the water. If you drop it from too high up the victim has the chance to move, also dropping it from too high up helps warn the person because the water makes sound." Duo yelled out. Heero sighed.
"He's the master of pranking." He replied to the Gryffindors' stares. "It was only last week that he dumped a bucket of mud on me."
"I couldn't believe it. Heero Yuy, the perfect soldier, with senses beyond belief was outsmarted by DUO MAXWELL! Of all people!" Wufei commented laughing. Harry was nodding, the meaning slowly sinking in. Ron was snickering. Lee was staring at Duo with a kind of grin that said *watch out I'm going to make chaos.* and Hermione was still yelling at Peeves. After the ghost floated away with an evil cackle Hermione sighed and pointed her wand at the couch.
"Desiccated!" She yelled out and the chair dried. Duo smiled and gave a 'thanks' before jumping back onto the red armchair.
"So we leave at 10am huh?" Duo wanted to know.
"Yes." Heero replied suddenly serious.
"You're waking him up!" Wufei and Heero yelled at the same time. Both stared at each other.
"Why me? I did it last time." Wufei demanded.
"Actually Quatra did. And he was stuck with a black eye when Duo punched him in the face, remember?"
"Oh yeah . . . . ." Suddenly a smile donned both their faces, it wasn't that kind of smile that made you go all warm and fuzzy inside, it was the kind that sent off your alarms and told you to run like hell and don't look back.
"Hey Harry? Can I asked a favor?" Heero suddenly declared.
"What?"
"Since we're in the same dorm, can you wake Duo up?" Wufei pitched in. Harry nodded slowly, still unsure of what they were asking.
"Okay."
"Thanks." Both the pilots replied and walked off smiling, a grin that went from ear to ear.
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"Hey Duo?" Harry whispered the next morning, he didn't want to wake anyone up, many of the Gryffindor 7th years were late sleepers.
"Duo!" Harry hissed at the lump hidden under the sheets. When the lump rolled over and muttered something illegible Harry rolled his eyes and sighed. With nothing left to it, he walked over and shook the sleeping form.
"DUO!" Harry hissed, a little louder then wanted. Suddenly the form sat up with a start and
WHACK!!!!
"OWWW!" Harry and Duo yelped. Harry plopped onto the ground clutching his forehead. Duo was sitting in his bed doing the same.
"Someone attack you Arry'?" Neville called out blearily.
"No . . no, sorry. Just go back to sleep or something." Harry replied through gritted teeth. He was SOOOO going to get those two for this.
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"OWWW!" The yell echoed down the stairway. Wufei and Heero grinned. Harry must've woken Duo up.
"He's going to get us for this you know." Wufei told Heero as the two sat down in front of the fireplace relaxing. Heero was silent, it seems that after yesterday's accident he was going back into perfect soldier mode. Wufei shrugged and looked around him, most of the students had gone off to do some homework or stuff. Harry staggered down into the common room and glared at the two of them. Heero gave a smug grin and Wufei was snickering.
"You are SO going to die!" Harry yelled and pulled out his wand. Wufei leapt to his feet and ran out the door laughing as Harry chased him. Duo came stumbling down the staircase and groaned. Heero instantly noticed the nice big bruise on his forehead.
"Nice spot." Heero commented and went back to working on his laptop. Duo scowled and plopped down in the seat Wufei had just vacated.
"You know something Heero? I hate you."
Disclaimer: Not mine, Only plot. These characters are the property of J.K Rowling and whoever owns Gundam Wing, or something. . .yeah I hate this stuff.