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

Chapter 3

Her whole family sent Renee letters congratulating her on Hufflepuff's win over Griffindor. Her familiar, a guinea pig named Hermes, came scurrying into the Great Hall with the letters during the morning mail run. She smiled at the cute little teeth marks he left in the envelopes as she tore them open. For some reason Hermes seemed to think he was a owl, even though he couldn't fly. The family owl, Apollo, just humored him and gave him her mail to take to her.

Renee also got a letter form Jack. Jack's family had been friends with her family a long time. They lived in northern Ireland and he had gone to a different school then her. There had been some joking from both families that they should get married someday since he was only a year older then her. There had never been anything but friendship between them, though.

Renee sighed as she read Jake's letter. This was the second he had sent her this week. It didn't contain any news of importance, but the frequency of them bothered her. He had never sent her letters this often when she had first come to Hogworts. He had only started just this year. It worried her, but the only way she could think of to get him to stop sending them was to stop answering them, but that would be rude.

The twins planned a second prank to follow closely on the heels of their now famous "Singing Cauldron" prank. This time they were going to use a spell Fred had picked out called the "Cloak of Many Colors". After being enchanted, Snape's usually severe black robes would constantly switch color and pattern.

The twins thought this was pure genius, but Renee wasn't really paying much attention as they described their plan, she was too busy thinking about Jack and his letters to pay attention to the task at hand. She was snapped out of her troubling train of thought by Angelina asking her a question.

"What was that again." She asked.

"I was just wondering how much longer you are going to be working on this project. We want to gather as much material for the future as possible."

"I'll be doing research for a couple more days, I'll get all the stuff I can."

"Well, lets make it count, these have got to be good." George cautioned her.

"I'll do my best."

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"Have to have powder blue." Angelina said. They were throwing out ideas for colors they could make Snape's robes change.

"Just imagine Snape in powder blue robes!" Fred agreed.

"No, no, hot pink!" George was in a creative furry.

"Or better still pink bunnies!" Renee jumped in.

"Oh, oh, plaid!" Angelina almost shouted. Madam Pince gave her a look fit to kill. After that they sobered up a bit.

"Well, these are really great ideas" Fred whispered quietly, "We need to get the fabric swatches for the spell. George and I would look pretty odd doing something like that and of course then people will suspect we're up to something, so it will be up to you girls."

"Can do. I'll send home for my mom's old scrap bag. She's got some really disgusting prints in there from the seventies." Angelina said

"Don't tell her what it's really for." Renee warned her.

"Don't worry I'll tell her I'm making a scrap quilt or something. She's always trying to get me to act more feminine. That includes me doing stuff like sewing and knitting, not Quidditch."

"Somehow I just couldn't see you doing stuff like that." Fred snickered.

"What, you don't think I could?" she demanded.

"No, no." Fred took a defensive posture.

"Good."

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The next day an owl came with a package that had been magiced down to a smaller size. When they opened it, however, they found it contained thousands of bits and pieces of different colored fabric. They found a truly hideous plaid pattern that looked like it had come from a pair of muggle golfing pants. There was a really nice shocking pink and a lemon yellow. Fortunately they were able to find a scrape of fleece material decorated with none other then fluffy pink bunny rabbits. They also found a really over done floral patter with gigantic pink roses that they just couldn't pass up. There was a brightly colored rainbow piece and several other interesting colors as well. They laughed themselves silly imagining Snape wearing such outrageous outfits. It was Renee who thought of the bright idea of photographing Snape in each ridiculous costume. They decided to conceal the camera in Snape's class room and enchant it to take pictures automatically. After all memories like these are priceless.

Renee and Angelina snuck out during the night and made their way down to Snape's dungeon class room with Collin's camera. They hadn't bothered to return it because he had just gotten a new one. They secured the camera in some forgotten corner of the class with a excellent view of Snape's podium. Fred and George were probably already on their way to his private rooms to enchant his robes. Their preparations were successful and none of them were caught.

The next afternoon Snape stormed into McGonagall's office.

"I demand that something be done once and for all about those Weasley twins, because THIS," He yelled shaking a fist full of robes at her, which had just changed from the fleece bunnies to lime green, "IS THE LAST STRAW!"

McGonagall had a hard time keeping form smirking as she promised him that it would never happen again.

I wasn't until later in the week that the pictures began circulating around school. Professors would hear laughter in the hallways, but when they turned around they could see nothing amusing. It was days before a teacher discovered the photos and confiscated them. The negatives, however remained in Renee's possession and every now and again new copies would show up. None of the teachers could figure out where they were coming from.