Disclaimer: The characters of the Harry Potter books are not mine they belong to J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 2

"I hope you guys don't mind, but I invited Renee Henderson on our trip to Hogsmede.", Angelina informed them when they meet in the Giffindor common room and were greeted with the sight of one more person then they had expected.

"No, not at all" Fred answered before George could speak. After watching his twin all week a suspicion was growing in his mind that his frustration with her had nothing to do with Quidditch.

The first stop once they got into the town was their mandatory trip to Zonko's. Fred and George set about collecting the supplies they would need for the next stage of their big prank. Angelina and Renee wandered around the shop looking at the endless supplies of gags and pranks.

"So, where are you from?", Angelina ask her as she examined a bin full of quills enchanted to only write gibberish.

"I'm from Wales."

"And how many brothers did you say you have?"

"Three, all older then me."

"Did all of them play Qidditch for HufflePuff?"

"Yep, Justin was a keeper, Eric and Allen were both chasers."

"Wow and your dad played it too?"

"Uh-huh, he was a beater like me. He used to play professionally too, until he hurt his shoulder. Now he's working in the Muggle Relations department of the Ministry of Magic. My brother's a professional player too."

"Wow that's an awful lot to live up to. Did you ever feel any pressure?"

"Not really, dad never made any of us try out and he would have understood if any of us didn't want to play."

"What do you plan on doing when you graduate? Fred and George are opening a joke shop."

"That seems fitting for them. I want to be a teacher, maybe for one of the wizarding primary schools. And you, what do you plan on doing?"

"I don't know really what I want to do yet."

They went back to talking Quidditch until Fred and George were finished. As they were heading out Renee spotted a rather hideous looking false nose. "That would look very well on Snape don't you think?" She asked laughing at the mental picture of Snape trying to look dignified with something like that on his face. Fred picked up the nose and held it up against his own face. "I think it's the perfect finishing touch to our little project, what do you think George."

"I suppose so." George replied reluctantly. The thing really was hideous and it was a good idea, he just wished he had thought of it himself.

They purchased the false nose and went to The Three Broomsticks for drinks. They consumed large quantities of butterbeer and sweets while they chatted. George seemed a bit sulky, but Fred was lively enough. They discussed possibilities for future pranks on Snape.

"You know Christmas is coming up soon, I'm thinking Snape dressed up as Santa Claus." Renee giggled. As she spoke, she realized she had drunk too much Butterbeer and eaten way too much sugar. The other's were a bit surprised to hear something like that coming from such a well behaved Hufflepuff.

"Oh and a singing cauldron, I'm thinking, 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'." Angelina said taking another swig form her mug. Fred and George just looked at her confused.

"It's a song from a muggle musical.", she explained and sung a bit for them

Both Fred and George agreed that the idea was a good one. They all put their heads together and tried to figure out how to make it happen.

"We could sneak into his office and enchant it."

"Yea, but we don't know how."

"Well, I am doing some research in the restricted section for one of my classes. I hear there are several interesting prank books, if I could get a hold of a camera or something....."

George smiled wickedly, "Leave that up to me."

The rest of the evening was spent brainstorming new prank ideas, with some really good ones coming from Angelina and Renee. Fred had never realized his team mate could be so creative. George was surprised that a Hufflepuff could have a knack for pranking. He'd always thought they were boring and unimaginative. It was a productive evening and by the time they headed back to their respective common rooms the twins had a list of pranks long enough to last them all year.

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The next day no one thought anything of it when Collin Chreeve's camera went missing. They all just figured that someone had just gotten sick of all his picture taking. Renee concealed it in her robes when she went to the library to do her research. She finished it with a little time to spare, so she found the books she had mentioned to the twins, and began snapping pictures.

It took them a while to developed the pictures, but when they did they had all the information they needed to enchant Snape's cauldron so that, whenever he approached it, it would break out into song. It would be the twin's duty to sneak into his office and perform the spell.

"You do realize that if we're caught Fred and I will get the blame for the whole thing.", George commented during one of their planning sessions. Angelina and Renee had insisted that they be included in the prank planning process. After all, it had been Angelina's idea.

"Of course, we're innocent. I haven't had detention ever and neither has Angelina. Why would they suspect us?" Renee smiled, faking innocence.

The singing cauldron was a success. Snape had just gotten rid of the electric blue hair and swept into potions dignity renewed. That was, until he got to his cauldron. He opened his mouth and was about to begin his lecture when he was cut off by a loud soprano voice singing "Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly!!!! Birds fly over the rainbow why then oh why can't I!!!!!"

Snape expression went from unpleasant to murderous in a second. The students were barely able to restrained smirks and several coughing fits broke out from some of the Griffindors. The whole day it was like that, and by the end Snape was fit to burst. Finally during the last class he couldn't take it anymore. Right in the middle of class, he hauled the cauldron up to the astronomy tower and, with all his might, flung it out the window. It didn't stop singing until it hit the ground with a thud, just missing a poor Ravenclaw girl who had been studying on the lawn.

Fred and George got three days of detention. They spent most of the time hammering the large dent out of Snape's cauldron it had suffered from the fall. They didn't think that was fair. After all, It had been Snape who had thrown it out the window. No one suspected for a moment that Renee or Angelina had any part in it.