Chapter 8: ~Picnic Ants~
As Chloe and Hermione came into the Gryffindor Common Room they saw Harry, Ron, Lee, George, and Fred were all huddled in a corner in the common room. "Wanna see what they're doing?" Chloe asked Hermione while setting the books down on the table.
"Yes," Hermione said following Chloe's lead they walked over to the corner where they could hear muffled laughing.
"Hello, boys what are you up too?" Chloe said slyly, crossing her arms.
"Oh, nothing but a little thing I call 'Fun'," George said defensively.
"What gives you the right to barge in on our business," Fred chimed in.
"Bros, she's alright, you'll probably think it's hilarious," Ron said half laughing. Fred and George nodded and scooted over to show a map of Hogwarts with a couple things sketched along the edges and colorful dots around the 'halls'. "Ok, this is our plan," Fred started as Hermione and Chloe sat where Fred and George once were, "On October the twenty-ninth, we are going to place these," He pointed to a sketch of a small box with wholes in it, "in certain places around school," he pointed to some yellow dot.
"When, we put the proper charms on you to all you won't be harmed, then right after dinner starts, all of us will go to these points," George said pointing to green dots, "at that time when we are all in place we will detonate plan Picnic Ants."
"Picnic Ants! What kind of lame-o name is that?" Chloe asked.
"Well, let us end the explanation then, we'll think about renaming it, okay?" Fred started again, "Then thousands of ants will begin to coat the school starting with the great hall, and the teachers will be forced to evacuate the school. And do then since it will take all night and most of the following days, we will be forced to do a muggle thing called 'camping'."
"Which you four can play any tricks to anyone you want but we have a more secretive thing to do too." George finished, "You really don't like Picnic Ants?"
"How about the Attack of the Ants, sounds more experienced the 'The Picnic Ants'!" Chloe said calmly.
"Not THE Picnic Ants, just Picnic Ants." Fred argued
"I like Attack of the Ants," Ron defended Chloe.
"Shut up Ron," Fred and George said in unison.
"Well, Attack of the Ants sounds a lot more scary," Lee started to agree, "but Picnic Ants was fine."
"Fine Operation Attack of the Ants, it is." Fred gave in.
"No one outside this group, okay?" George said with everyone nodding his or her own answer. Fred, George, and Lee collected up their papers and left in a huff while Harry looked after them, "Um.Ron, Hermione shouldn't you two stop this?"
"No, wait Hermione," Chloe pushed Hermione back down into her seat, "I have an idea, I use to go camping all the time with my friends or mom. And we loved to play tricks on each other; my all-time favorite is this one we played on my friend Eryne. It was my friend Dana and I; we got a can of shaving cream (Chloe explained what 'shaving cream' was to Ron.) And put it all over her while she was sleeping. She woke up and gave this yell and then threw most of it at us. Those were great times."
"So, we do that to Fred and George?" Ron said half-heartedly.
"NO! We do it to Malfoy and those 'bodyguards' of his Crabby and Gargle." Chloe laughed as Ron nodded understandingly. "Ok, I'm beat and we have a busy day of planning to do!" Chloe said stretching and running up the stairs.
"Night guys," Hermione said following Chloe.