Chapter 12 – Halloween
The weeks passed quickly. The first year Gryffindor's had been spending a lot of time on the Quidditch pitch with Cho Chang, the flying professor. She had held extra flying times just for the first year to practice in preparation for attempting to join the next years Quidditch team.
Paisley remembered the first flying lesson. All of the first years were on the field, waiting for their professor.
'I'm gonna fall. Crash. Why do we have to do this?' Paisley thought.
"Afternoon class!" The pretty professor who Snape had called Chang last night when they had been taken to the castle said, appearing from the castle. "Now, we are going to go strait to flying." She stated cheerfully, Paisley, Shira and Drew gulped simultaneously. "Now, stand by a broom." They all scattered to find a spare broom. "Good good. Now, raise your hand over the broom and call 'UP'." She instructed, her broom came shooting into her hand.
"UP!" Came several shouts, feeling a little silly, Paisley shouted also. To her surprise, her broom flew strait into her hand. It was one of the only three that did, the others being Kaci and Chenyce.
"With a little more command!" Chang instructed. Slowly but surely, all of the brooms were in the hands of their owners. "Now, I want each of you to mount your brooms, no taking off though." Paisley copied her cousin and swung her leg over the broom. She adjusted her grip until it was a comfortable hold for her and waited for Chang to come correct her mistakes. Though when Chang did come to her, she lanced at Paisley's hands and didn't touch them. "Perfect hold Miss Summer's." She said with a nod before carrying on. Paisley smiled at her friends before concentrating on what Chang was saying. "Hover in the air, not too far though, only five feet." They all kicked off and though she wobbled, Paisley stayed upright, though Shira was another matter. The Pakistani girl had a death grip on her broom, her knuckles were turning white, her eyes were tightly shut and she was shaking.
"Shira?" Paisley asked quietly, the girl carried on shaking. "Calm down Shira." Paisley said, she hovered sideways over to her friend and slowly took a hand off of her broom. "Look, wherever you go, I go. Open your eyes, we aren't that high up." Shira slowly opened her eyes, chancing a look down, she 'eep'ed before holding her broom even tighter. "There's nothing to be scared about."
"You don't think sitting on a broom higher than your height in the air is weird? Your crazy." Shira retorted, not looking away from the ground. Paisley giggled.
"No, your crazy. Always be ready for new experiences." She said, she noticed Shira's grip loosening a little, so she carried on talking to her friend. "Your not doing as badly as some of the others." Paisley commented, Shira looked around and giggled when she saw one Slytherin boy who had been trying to show off and was now upside down, trying to swing his weight back around.
"Now all of you float back onto the ground." Chang said to them, the Gryffindor group all managed to get to the ground safely, as did most of the Slytherin's, except for the upside down boy.
"Gordrin! What did I tell you? No showing off!" Chang shouted at the boy. "Ten points from Slytherin, listen to me next time." She dismissed the class and then helped the Slytherin boy down.
Paisley grinned and made her way back to the common room to do her homework with her friends. When she got down there though, her friends had moved to the settees and were talking to Mazie, Lory and Jesse.
"So, anyways, we want to test out this new merchandise at the Halloween dinner." Mazie was saying, Paisley flopped down next to Jared, blushing because it was the only seat left and she had developed a tiny crush on the tall boy who's greeny-turquoise eyes seemed to hold only perfect innocence and happiness all of the time. Her female friends smirked knowingly, as did Mazie and Lory.
"What's this about merchandise?" Paisley asked, the others all smirked mischievously.
"Well, Daddy, being the excellent guy he is, along with Uncle George, sent us some stuff for Halloween." Mazie stated with a smirk.
"And we decided to… check that some of them work." Jesse added mischievously.
"We'll help." Chenyce stated, some of the others nodded.
"We don't want to get into trouble." Drew said nervously.
"Drew's right, what if we get caught?" Shira asked.
"We won't." Mazie, Lory and Jesse chorused.
"Trust us, we've done this millions of times before. This will be our biggest prank yet though." Mazie added with a sly smile.
"K then, we're in." Kaci stated, looking at each of her friends.
They spent the rest of the week preparing for the pranks. The elder three Weasley's getting detentions for not doing their homework on purpose as to set different pranks up in different rooms. Even Snape was to become a victim. The young pranksters had also made sure that they'd be 'pranked' also, so they would be able to walk away empty handed from this.
Paisley slowly woke on Halloween morning, she rubbed her eyes and slowly opened them, her hand froze in front of her face and she slowly grinned as she stared at it.
It had worked.
Jumping up, she dashed to each of her friends beds, waking them before running to the bathroom. Standing in just her underwear, she started giggling hysterically as she looked over every inch of her body, she was soon joined by each of the other girls. They pointed at each other and laughed.
"We look so funny!" Chenyce exclaimed.
As the four girls got ready for the day, they heard various screams from the other dorms and all giggled hysterically again. They made their way to the common room and laughed at their friends, who had also been pranked.
Every Gryffindor had been painted like a jester. Half red, half gold. Their hair the opposite colours to their face, face opposite to torso, torso opposite to bottom half. Every item of clothing they put on immediately got the same effect.
"It worked!" Jesse exclaimed, "The other girls haven't come down yet, though we thought the screams were a bad thing." He stated impishly, the four first year girls giggled again.
"Lets see if the other stuff worked!" Kaci exclaimed, the first years all left to go to breakfast.
Upon entering the hall, they saw various members of other houses who had been pranked also, as had the professors. Even Hermione hadn't escaped the works, though she was smiling slightly every time she glanced at the pink haired, make-up covered Snape. Lory, who was good at charms, had charmed Snape's board dusters, knowing that every morning he went into his classroom to make sure everything was ready for the day, what he didn't know was the chalk in his room had also been charmed to write ridiculous things on his board when he wasn't looking.
Hermione had all of the equipment in her classroom charmed to shout random things at anybody whilst the personal prank was a pair of Bridget Jone's style bunny ears sitting on her head for the day.
Remus was beaming, he knew exactly who had performed the pranks and was even proud of them. The text books in his classroom all talked and were currently having a debate on the Goblin Revolutions in his classroom and Remus himself had been pranked, he had a tail for the day.
The students soon all filtered into the hall, some of them changing colours due to the charms they had performed on themselves to try rid themselves of the pranks.
The Hufflepuff's looked like wizard-Smurfs, their hair white, skin blue and robes white. The majority of the Ravenclaw's hair were flashing from neon blue, to pink, to yellow then back to blue whilst they couldn't answer a single question. The Slytherin's on the other hand had cartoon style speech bubbles over their heads which read things like "Gryffindor's rock." and "We Slytherin's are so stupid, we can't even tie our shoelaces.", and every now and again they'd burp up a bubble. The professors had a range of things done to them. Different coloured hair, silencing charms, extra animal-like body parts and a lot more.
The hall was filled with laughter for a while until McGonnagal stood to make a speech.
"Even though these practical jokes are… enlightening, the jokers should own up now unless they want harsher punishments later on." She stated, the girls shared uneasy glances. "Fine, you were warned." McGonnagal looked around the room disappointedly before sitting down. Chatter quickly filled the room whilst the first year Gryffindors looked nervously between each other.
"Don't worry, the most we could get is detention." Lory told them.
"Yeah, we've done worse." Mazie added, smiling reassuringly at them.
They carried on breakfast in an uneasy silence, though it was forgotten when they got to their first class, which was History of Magic with Remus. They had a long laugh watching the books debate and as they were debating on their current topic of past witches and wizards who have made a difference, they sat listening with interest, some students even complementing Remus on thinking of this, he politely turned the compliments down and thanked the pranksters, shooting his twinkling glances at the Gryffindors.
Luckily they didn't have Snape, but Jesse did and had been given three nights detention for sneezing. The aging professor was obviously in a foul mood.
After lunch the first years had DADA with Hermione and they were discussing creatures that sided with Voldemort in the second war. As a joint homework, Hermione and Remus had paired up and had asked for an essay on witches and wizards who made a difference in the battle and what happened to them, then a little on who they were now if they were still alive. It was to be a project that they'd be working on until Christmas and it had to have an oral presentation, written work and a poster. They were to work on it in pairs and were to have at least a foot of research, which wouldn't be a problem for Kaci and Paisley as Kaci was very much like her mother in the fact that she loved to read and do her homework, she also liked pranks but would only do them when her homework was done with.
After DADA they had transfiguration and herbology. Professor Lyguin had assigned them to practice the wingardium leviosa spell, which made things levatate.
They were currently in the common room doing various things. Kaci and Paisley were discussing ideas for their witch or wizard, they had a huge spider diagram in front of them and they had different peoples names around.
So far, the spider diagram had Weasley's with branches for each of the Weasley family members, Harry Potter and a list of Harry's achievements, Hermione Granger/Weasley and Hermione's achievements, Virginia Summer's was also another name on the list because Paisley didn't want to insult her mother by calling her a Weasley yet, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black they didn't put them separately as they didn't really have many achievements and the final one was Albus Dumbledore, the girls knew he had played a giant part in the second war and his list of achievements was very long.
Anyways, Paisley and Kaci were working on their project for DADA and History of Magic, Jared was sketching some anime in his sketchpad, Drew and Chenyce were working potions homework, Joss was trying to memorise the names of stars which they had gotten for homework the night before in astronomy, Shira was reading the Biography of Harry Potter by Hermione Weasley and Doyle was attempting a levitation spell, though was failing miserably.
"Wingardum leviosa!" He exclaimed, the paper he had been testing his spell with blew up with some amazing force, sending Doyle flying backwards off of his chair and onto the floor, face sporting sotty spots, everybody turned around and laughed with him on his error as he was helped up by an older student.
"Maybe you should try saying the spell correctly next time." The girl advised, she was the current fifth year prefect Amiry White.
"Yeah, that might just help." Doyle said with a boyish grin, Amiry shook her head with a smile and sat on the chair next to him so that she could help him.
The rest of the evening passed quickly, Doyle quickly mastered the spell and moved onto a few trickier ones that he had to learn the incantations of. Amiry offered to help any of the first years with their homework at any time before leaving at nine to shoo younger students from the corridors back to their dorms for the night. She advised the first year Gryffindor's to head up soon as well.
The eight of them slowly filtered up to their dorms and fell into dreamless sleeps.
AN: Harrie: I had a look at your user lookup, i'm honored that you've added me to your favourites! I also saw that you have Ruskbyte, that author rocks. I love the well of shadows too. Also, i dont think you have it right about Snape, he dint actually go THT far wiv her, he harrassed her but he never actually had the guts to go as far as completely sexually assault her, but ur rite in the fact tht he deserves more than a punch, but u also have to remember tht Lupin is a werewolf, he has much more strength than a normal man.