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Here's chapter 12-yay! If you can't tell by the title, the colour pink is involved to some extent in this chapter. Having said that, enjoy and please review!
Chapter 12: Pretty In Pink
"Did you see his face when you won?" Karen said excitedly, "He looked like he was going to fall off his broom!"
The girls were walking down the hallway back to Gryffindor tower still giggling and discussing Megan's triumphant defeat of James.
Megan grinned, "I think the next two and a half months are going to prove to be highly entertaining and amusing."
"Are you going to make him do your homework?" Carol asked.
"No!" Megan said, "He'd do it all wrong and I'd fail."
They had reached the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Password?" she asked.
"Phoenix Flame," the girls replied and the picture swung forward, allowing them all to clamber inside.
They plopped down in comfortable chairs in the Common room by the fireplace. They continued chatting happily and only stopped when the boys returned.
They giggled as a visually upset James passed.
"What's so funny?" he snapped irritably.
"Nothing," the girls replied in unison before giggling again.
"So I lost a stupid race, big deal," he said, "Don't worry Johnston, I'll get you back."
Megan grinned, "Not until the end of November at least," she said, "Because you're first order is to not pull any pranks on me or my friends until your time of servitude is over."
"Oh come on!" James groaned, "That's inhuman!"
"And," Megan continued, "You have to keep your friends from pulling pranks on us as well, because if you don't, your orders will be even worse."
James groaned, "Now you're being totally unreasonable!" he complained.
Sirius grinned, "Actually," he said, "I think she's being quite smart in protecting herself."
"Whose side are you on anyway?" James demanded.
Sirius shrugged, still grinning, "Hey, I'm friends with both of you," he said, "Don't put me in the middle of this."
"Well it's your fault I have to do all this!" James said angrily, "Thanks a lot Sirius. I'll be in my room." He turned, and stormed off towards the stairs that led to boys' dormitories.
"Oh James!" Megan called in a singsong voice.
"What now?" James asked as he turned.
Megan got up and walked over to him, "Well, I have a little favour I need you to do for me," she said as she held out a piece of paper, "Here are the instructions. You are not to show or tell them to anyone until you've completed the task. Have fun!"
James took the paper and read it over. He went white as a sheet and got an expression of utmost horror on his face. "Please tell me you're joking!" he begged, "You can't be serious!"
"You would've had me do a lot worse if you'd won," Megan said.
"Yeah James," Sirius said, "Suck it up!"
"Be a man!" David said.
"Are you a man or a mouse?" squeaked Peter. (A/N: Isn't it ironical that I had Peter say that???)
"Are you chicken?" Stephen said.
"Yeah!" echoed Aaron and Shawn, "Don't be a baby!"
"I'll help you get ready tomorrow morning before breakfast," Megan said.
James looked disgusted and stormed off.
"Sounds interesting," Sirius said.
"You have no idea," Megan said with a grin.
*************
The next morning, Megan stayed behind in the Gryffindor Common room while the others went down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"I wonder what she's making him do?" Kristin said as they sat down.
"I hope it's something really embarrassing," Lily said, "I hate James so much, he's such an arrogant jerk!"
"How come?" Julie asked.
"Long story short, when I met him he decided to pull a prank on me," replied Lily.
"Ah, I see," Julie said.
A few minutes later, when the hall was completely filled with students, the doors to the hall were thrown open to reveal Megan.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls!" she said, "May I present to you, Mr. James Potter, as he makes his stage debut singing "I Feel Pretty" from Westside Story! Rock on James!"
Everyone stared as James appeared in the doorway wearing a bright pink dress with an innumerable amount of frills, ribbons and bows. Everyone roared with laughter at the sight making his already bright red face go even brighter from embarrassment. Music began playing and James began to sing and prance about.
"I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and gay!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today!
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face, Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running and dancing for joy,
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!
Have you met my good friend Maria,
The craziest girl on the block?
You'll know her the minute you see her,
She's the one who is in an advanced state of shock.
She thinks she's in love.
She thinks she's in Spain.
She isn't in love,
She's merely insane.
It must be the heat
Or some rare disease,
Or too much to eat
Or maybe it's fleas.
Keep away from her,
Send for Chino!
This is not the
Maria we know!
Modest and pure,
Polite and refined,
Well-bred and mature
And out of her mind!
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty
That the city should give me its key.
A committee
Should be organized to honor me.
La la la la . . .
I feel dizzy,
I feel sunny,
I feel fizzy and funny and fine,
And so pretty,
Miss America can just resign!
La la la la . . .
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
What mirror where?
Who can that attractive girl be?
Which? What? Where? Whom?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running and dancing for joy,
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!"
(A/N: Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.© 1956, 1957 Amberson Holdings LLC and Stephen Sondheim. Copyright renewed.Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, Publisher.)
He curtsied to the crowd then ran and sat down to eat breakfast. Sirius was whistling at him and commenting on his "great legs!" Megan also came over and sat down for breakfast.
"So did you enjoys James' little rendition of 'I Feel Pretty'?" she asked.
"How did you get him into that dress?" asked Brittany.
"Well, like I always say," Megan said, "Where there's a wand, there's a way."
"You know," Lily said slowly as she studied James, "Pink is really a nice colour for him don't you think? It really brings out his natural highlights."
Between giggles, the girls agreed.
*************
"So he has to wear that dress all day?" Brittany asked as she looked across the common room at James who was playing wizard's chess with Sirius.
Megan nodded, "That's right," she said with a grin.
"What are you going to make him do next?" asked Erin.
"Yeah Megan," Carol said, "How are you going to top that little display?"
"I'm not sure but I think of something," Megan replied.
Three cute third year boys entered the Common room and waved at Megan who waved back eagerly.
"That was bloody brilliant MJ!" said one. He had dark curly hair, brown eyes and a very charming smile. (A/N: Hey Jen, it's Orlando Bloom! You could've been in Gryffindor with us but no.you just had to be an evil Slytherin.) "We heard about that bet you made with Potter and thoroughly enjoyed the results."
"Yeah," agreed another one. He had brown hair, brown eyes and looked rather shy in that adorable way that some guys have. (A/N: And look who else is conveniently in Gryffindor! It's Josh Hartnett-lol!) "I haven't laughed that hard for ages!"
"You must be a really good flier," said the third. He had blonde hair, a great smile and the bluest eyes Lily had ever seen. (A/N: No he's not anyone famous, I just felt like having a blonde thrown in for good measure.) "I've seen James fly and he's quite the speed demon."
Megan shrugged, "I guess I'm OK," she said, "To be honest, I haven't really watched myself."
"She's amazing," Karen cut in, "She's awesome at Quidditch to and can play anything. She plays Seeker and Beater the best though."
"Well Alex is really good, he's the reason we won last year, and Zack isn't half bad either, so I can't say I'm surprised," said the first boy.
"Is Katie finally going to try-out this year?" asked the second boy.
Megan nodded, "Yep," she said, "She plays Chaser and there's an opening since Donald Goeller graduated last year. You know, Libby's brother."
"Are you going out for Seeker next year since Alex graduates this year then?" asked the third boy.
"Yeah, but I'll probably end up as a beater cause Frank Longbottom's leaving too," Megan said, "Less people always try out for beater anyway so I'll have a better chance of making it."
"Then you'd be my partner in crime," said the first boy, he grinned, "I'm the other beater right now."
Megan grinned back, "Sounds good Orlando," she said.
"Well, we should probably get started on our homework," said the second boy, "We'll talk to you later then."
"OK," Megan said, "Bye!"
"Bye MJ!" the boys said before going up to the boys' dorms.
"Who were those amazingly good looking guys?" Kristin asked as she stared after the boys.
"Orlando Bloom, he's the one with black curly hair who plays beater, Josh Hartnett, he's the one with brown hair, and Brendan Scott, he's the blonde," Megan said.
"And you know them how?" Brittany asked.
"Our parents are friends," Megan said.
"They are so cute!" Kristin exclaimed, "Especially Orlando."
"What are you talking about?" Carol said, "Josh is the cutest."
"You're both wrong," Brittany cut in, "Brendan's the cutest."
The three continued arguing until the boys returned to do homework nearby. They stopped and gazed at the three boys with goofy looking expressions on their faces.
"You sure know a lot of people Megan," Lily commented.
Megan shrugged, "It's 'cause my family gets invited to all these parties and things," she said, "All the adults go off and talk and us kids go entertain ourselves with games and stuff."
"What kind of games?" Lily asked.
"Hide-and-go-seek, kick the can, tag, same games muggles play actually," said Megan, "Well except wizard's chess and exploding snap and stuff like that. Hide-and-go-seek's the best though. We had one game with like a hundred kids or something-it was crazy!"
"I remember that!" Julie said.
"Yeah, so do I," said Karen, "You scared the crap out of Jennifer!"
"What happened?" Lily inquired.
"Jennifer was it and she walked past where a whole bunch of us were hiding so I jumped out at her, picked her up and locked her in a closet," Megan said.
"She screamed so loud!" said Karen.
"It was kind of mean though," Julie said.
"Yeah, but Jennifer had been picking on the Charrette twins because their mum's a muggle so she did deserve it," Megan said, "I mean come on, who picks on 7 year olds? Jennifer was vicious even when she was 9 years old, if not before."
"True enough," said Julie.
"I wonder how loud she'd scream now if I locked her in the dungeons?" Megan mused, "Perhaps that's something I'll have James test for me."
"You're certainly one of a kind Megan," Lily said with a laugh, "Aren't you worried about what James will do once he's free?"
Megan shrugged, "Not really, no," she said.
"And why's that?" asked Lily.
"Simple," Megan said, "I'm always one step ahead of him. James and Sirius are much too predictable. Guaranteed their revenge will involve them trying to sneak bugs in our beds."
"How do you figure that?" asked Julie.
"Simple," Megan said as she pulled a crumpled up piece of paper out of her pocket, "James left this in the Common room yesterday." She unfolded the paper. On it was a list of revenge ideas. The title even said 'Ways To Get Revenge On Megan'.
"Unless he wanted you to find that," Karen said.
"Karen, it's James," Megan said, "The guy is stupid. Need I say more?"
"OK, I see what you mean," Karen said.
"Well, I should probably put this in his room so that he doesn't know I found it," Megan said, "But first, I'll back a copy of it." She pulled out her wand and placed the paper on the table. "Replicaties!" she said and suddenly there were two identical pieces of parchment. She pointed at one and said, "Expellente!" (A/N: I looked all through the Harry Potter books for the real incantation but none is given-they just mention it's called 'the banishing charm'. Oh well, I tried.) "Well," she said, "Guess James will be getting a few extra chores to do since I found that."
"Can I please help?" asked Lily, "I still need to get revenge on him."
Megan grinned, "OK then," she said, "Let's get to work."
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Yeah, I know, it started out with so much potential then just went down the crapper. Although, I must say having James wear a pink dress and sing "I Feel Pretty" was a stroke of genius. If you guys couldn't guess, I saw "Anger Management" with Adam Sandler not to long ago so I got the idea from there. Anywho, thanks again to my friend Jen who is being a HUGE help in posting these chapters. Jen, you're awesome! Chapters 14 and 15 are coming along so they'll be up in the next week or so probably. Please review because it makes me feel special and I'll have more motivation to write!!!
~*~MeGaN~*~
Here's chapter 12-yay! If you can't tell by the title, the colour pink is involved to some extent in this chapter. Having said that, enjoy and please review!
Chapter 12: Pretty In Pink
"Did you see his face when you won?" Karen said excitedly, "He looked like he was going to fall off his broom!"
The girls were walking down the hallway back to Gryffindor tower still giggling and discussing Megan's triumphant defeat of James.
Megan grinned, "I think the next two and a half months are going to prove to be highly entertaining and amusing."
"Are you going to make him do your homework?" Carol asked.
"No!" Megan said, "He'd do it all wrong and I'd fail."
They had reached the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Password?" she asked.
"Phoenix Flame," the girls replied and the picture swung forward, allowing them all to clamber inside.
They plopped down in comfortable chairs in the Common room by the fireplace. They continued chatting happily and only stopped when the boys returned.
They giggled as a visually upset James passed.
"What's so funny?" he snapped irritably.
"Nothing," the girls replied in unison before giggling again.
"So I lost a stupid race, big deal," he said, "Don't worry Johnston, I'll get you back."
Megan grinned, "Not until the end of November at least," she said, "Because you're first order is to not pull any pranks on me or my friends until your time of servitude is over."
"Oh come on!" James groaned, "That's inhuman!"
"And," Megan continued, "You have to keep your friends from pulling pranks on us as well, because if you don't, your orders will be even worse."
James groaned, "Now you're being totally unreasonable!" he complained.
Sirius grinned, "Actually," he said, "I think she's being quite smart in protecting herself."
"Whose side are you on anyway?" James demanded.
Sirius shrugged, still grinning, "Hey, I'm friends with both of you," he said, "Don't put me in the middle of this."
"Well it's your fault I have to do all this!" James said angrily, "Thanks a lot Sirius. I'll be in my room." He turned, and stormed off towards the stairs that led to boys' dormitories.
"Oh James!" Megan called in a singsong voice.
"What now?" James asked as he turned.
Megan got up and walked over to him, "Well, I have a little favour I need you to do for me," she said as she held out a piece of paper, "Here are the instructions. You are not to show or tell them to anyone until you've completed the task. Have fun!"
James took the paper and read it over. He went white as a sheet and got an expression of utmost horror on his face. "Please tell me you're joking!" he begged, "You can't be serious!"
"You would've had me do a lot worse if you'd won," Megan said.
"Yeah James," Sirius said, "Suck it up!"
"Be a man!" David said.
"Are you a man or a mouse?" squeaked Peter. (A/N: Isn't it ironical that I had Peter say that???)
"Are you chicken?" Stephen said.
"Yeah!" echoed Aaron and Shawn, "Don't be a baby!"
"I'll help you get ready tomorrow morning before breakfast," Megan said.
James looked disgusted and stormed off.
"Sounds interesting," Sirius said.
"You have no idea," Megan said with a grin.
*************
The next morning, Megan stayed behind in the Gryffindor Common room while the others went down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
"I wonder what she's making him do?" Kristin said as they sat down.
"I hope it's something really embarrassing," Lily said, "I hate James so much, he's such an arrogant jerk!"
"How come?" Julie asked.
"Long story short, when I met him he decided to pull a prank on me," replied Lily.
"Ah, I see," Julie said.
A few minutes later, when the hall was completely filled with students, the doors to the hall were thrown open to reveal Megan.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls!" she said, "May I present to you, Mr. James Potter, as he makes his stage debut singing "I Feel Pretty" from Westside Story! Rock on James!"
Everyone stared as James appeared in the doorway wearing a bright pink dress with an innumerable amount of frills, ribbons and bows. Everyone roared with laughter at the sight making his already bright red face go even brighter from embarrassment. Music began playing and James began to sing and prance about.
"I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty and witty and gay!
And I pity
Any girl who isn't me today!
I feel charming,
Oh, so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel!
And so pretty
That I hardly can believe I'm real.
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
Who can that attractive girl be?
Such a pretty face, Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running and dancing for joy,
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!
Have you met my good friend Maria,
The craziest girl on the block?
You'll know her the minute you see her,
She's the one who is in an advanced state of shock.
She thinks she's in love.
She thinks she's in Spain.
She isn't in love,
She's merely insane.
It must be the heat
Or some rare disease,
Or too much to eat
Or maybe it's fleas.
Keep away from her,
Send for Chino!
This is not the
Maria we know!
Modest and pure,
Polite and refined,
Well-bred and mature
And out of her mind!
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty
That the city should give me its key.
A committee
Should be organized to honor me.
La la la la . . .
I feel dizzy,
I feel sunny,
I feel fizzy and funny and fine,
And so pretty,
Miss America can just resign!
La la la la . . .
See the pretty girl in that mirror there:
What mirror where?
Who can that attractive girl be?
Which? What? Where? Whom?
Such a pretty face,
Such a pretty dress,
Such a pretty smile,
Such a pretty me!
Such a pretty me!
I feel stunning
And entrancing,
Feel like running and dancing for joy,
For I'm loved
By a pretty wonderful boy!"
(A/N: Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.© 1956, 1957 Amberson Holdings LLC and Stephen Sondheim. Copyright renewed.Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, Publisher.)
He curtsied to the crowd then ran and sat down to eat breakfast. Sirius was whistling at him and commenting on his "great legs!" Megan also came over and sat down for breakfast.
"So did you enjoys James' little rendition of 'I Feel Pretty'?" she asked.
"How did you get him into that dress?" asked Brittany.
"Well, like I always say," Megan said, "Where there's a wand, there's a way."
"You know," Lily said slowly as she studied James, "Pink is really a nice colour for him don't you think? It really brings out his natural highlights."
Between giggles, the girls agreed.
*************
"So he has to wear that dress all day?" Brittany asked as she looked across the common room at James who was playing wizard's chess with Sirius.
Megan nodded, "That's right," she said with a grin.
"What are you going to make him do next?" asked Erin.
"Yeah Megan," Carol said, "How are you going to top that little display?"
"I'm not sure but I think of something," Megan replied.
Three cute third year boys entered the Common room and waved at Megan who waved back eagerly.
"That was bloody brilliant MJ!" said one. He had dark curly hair, brown eyes and a very charming smile. (A/N: Hey Jen, it's Orlando Bloom! You could've been in Gryffindor with us but no.you just had to be an evil Slytherin.) "We heard about that bet you made with Potter and thoroughly enjoyed the results."
"Yeah," agreed another one. He had brown hair, brown eyes and looked rather shy in that adorable way that some guys have. (A/N: And look who else is conveniently in Gryffindor! It's Josh Hartnett-lol!) "I haven't laughed that hard for ages!"
"You must be a really good flier," said the third. He had blonde hair, a great smile and the bluest eyes Lily had ever seen. (A/N: No he's not anyone famous, I just felt like having a blonde thrown in for good measure.) "I've seen James fly and he's quite the speed demon."
Megan shrugged, "I guess I'm OK," she said, "To be honest, I haven't really watched myself."
"She's amazing," Karen cut in, "She's awesome at Quidditch to and can play anything. She plays Seeker and Beater the best though."
"Well Alex is really good, he's the reason we won last year, and Zack isn't half bad either, so I can't say I'm surprised," said the first boy.
"Is Katie finally going to try-out this year?" asked the second boy.
Megan nodded, "Yep," she said, "She plays Chaser and there's an opening since Donald Goeller graduated last year. You know, Libby's brother."
"Are you going out for Seeker next year since Alex graduates this year then?" asked the third boy.
"Yeah, but I'll probably end up as a beater cause Frank Longbottom's leaving too," Megan said, "Less people always try out for beater anyway so I'll have a better chance of making it."
"Then you'd be my partner in crime," said the first boy, he grinned, "I'm the other beater right now."
Megan grinned back, "Sounds good Orlando," she said.
"Well, we should probably get started on our homework," said the second boy, "We'll talk to you later then."
"OK," Megan said, "Bye!"
"Bye MJ!" the boys said before going up to the boys' dorms.
"Who were those amazingly good looking guys?" Kristin asked as she stared after the boys.
"Orlando Bloom, he's the one with black curly hair who plays beater, Josh Hartnett, he's the one with brown hair, and Brendan Scott, he's the blonde," Megan said.
"And you know them how?" Brittany asked.
"Our parents are friends," Megan said.
"They are so cute!" Kristin exclaimed, "Especially Orlando."
"What are you talking about?" Carol said, "Josh is the cutest."
"You're both wrong," Brittany cut in, "Brendan's the cutest."
The three continued arguing until the boys returned to do homework nearby. They stopped and gazed at the three boys with goofy looking expressions on their faces.
"You sure know a lot of people Megan," Lily commented.
Megan shrugged, "It's 'cause my family gets invited to all these parties and things," she said, "All the adults go off and talk and us kids go entertain ourselves with games and stuff."
"What kind of games?" Lily asked.
"Hide-and-go-seek, kick the can, tag, same games muggles play actually," said Megan, "Well except wizard's chess and exploding snap and stuff like that. Hide-and-go-seek's the best though. We had one game with like a hundred kids or something-it was crazy!"
"I remember that!" Julie said.
"Yeah, so do I," said Karen, "You scared the crap out of Jennifer!"
"What happened?" Lily inquired.
"Jennifer was it and she walked past where a whole bunch of us were hiding so I jumped out at her, picked her up and locked her in a closet," Megan said.
"She screamed so loud!" said Karen.
"It was kind of mean though," Julie said.
"Yeah, but Jennifer had been picking on the Charrette twins because their mum's a muggle so she did deserve it," Megan said, "I mean come on, who picks on 7 year olds? Jennifer was vicious even when she was 9 years old, if not before."
"True enough," said Julie.
"I wonder how loud she'd scream now if I locked her in the dungeons?" Megan mused, "Perhaps that's something I'll have James test for me."
"You're certainly one of a kind Megan," Lily said with a laugh, "Aren't you worried about what James will do once he's free?"
Megan shrugged, "Not really, no," she said.
"And why's that?" asked Lily.
"Simple," Megan said, "I'm always one step ahead of him. James and Sirius are much too predictable. Guaranteed their revenge will involve them trying to sneak bugs in our beds."
"How do you figure that?" asked Julie.
"Simple," Megan said as she pulled a crumpled up piece of paper out of her pocket, "James left this in the Common room yesterday." She unfolded the paper. On it was a list of revenge ideas. The title even said 'Ways To Get Revenge On Megan'.
"Unless he wanted you to find that," Karen said.
"Karen, it's James," Megan said, "The guy is stupid. Need I say more?"
"OK, I see what you mean," Karen said.
"Well, I should probably put this in his room so that he doesn't know I found it," Megan said, "But first, I'll back a copy of it." She pulled out her wand and placed the paper on the table. "Replicaties!" she said and suddenly there were two identical pieces of parchment. She pointed at one and said, "Expellente!" (A/N: I looked all through the Harry Potter books for the real incantation but none is given-they just mention it's called 'the banishing charm'. Oh well, I tried.) "Well," she said, "Guess James will be getting a few extra chores to do since I found that."
"Can I please help?" asked Lily, "I still need to get revenge on him."
Megan grinned, "OK then," she said, "Let's get to work."
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Yeah, I know, it started out with so much potential then just went down the crapper. Although, I must say having James wear a pink dress and sing "I Feel Pretty" was a stroke of genius. If you guys couldn't guess, I saw "Anger Management" with Adam Sandler not to long ago so I got the idea from there. Anywho, thanks again to my friend Jen who is being a HUGE help in posting these chapters. Jen, you're awesome! Chapters 14 and 15 are coming along so they'll be up in the next week or so probably. Please review because it makes me feel special and I'll have more motivation to write!!!
~*~MeGaN~*~