Chapter 7: The Trio of Pink-Stained Lads

"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow." Mumbled Jimmi as Snape led him down the dungeon's halls to his office. His tugging on his ear was really starting to hurt. He imagined it was bright red, despite the pink dye on him.

Behind him, Morwen and Leda kept their eyes darting back and forth between him and the two levitating boys. "What happened?" Morwen whispered.

Leda shrugged, "Whatever it was, it had to be bad enough since it tied with our whole firey dancing curtains fiasco."

Jimmi, overhearing the last part, tried to look around in curiosity, but Snape had an iron grip. Throughout all of this, Snape was mumbling things under his breath and they were obviously too unpleasant for an 11 year old's ears.

They approached the door to the Potion Master's office. Snape whispered a spell and it flew open. When the 6 entered, the place was cold, dark, and gloomy. But hey, what did you expect? It is Snape's office, after all.

Snape conjured up chairs for the conscious students, and two stretchers for Bert and Leif. He sat down on the other side of the desk, his dark eyes malevolent. He spoke in his iciest tone, "Now, Potter, seeing as that your case will most definitely be the longest, I suggest we start with you. Now tell me, why do you have a fondness for changing color this week?"

Morwen and Leda sniggered, but Jimmi ignored them, "It wasn't my fault!" he defended.

Snape rolled his eyes, "Apparently you had something to do with this......" he looked at the two boys on the stretchers, "problem. And now I want to find out how and why. Is that too hard for your Peabody brain to accept?"

Jimmi flushed a magnificent shade of red and tugged at his collar, "No." he murmured.

"Good." Stated Snape, "Now, how did this happen?"

Jimmi inhaled deeply and began, "We, Bert, Crazy- er Leif, and I, went down to your dungeon for help on the Potion's assignment."

Morwen snorted, indicating what she thought of that reasoning.

"And," Continued Jimmi, beginning to get annoyed with Malfoy, "When you didn't show, Bert got the grand idea to go through your supplies-"

At this Snape's eyes widened angrily.

"-and Leif went along too. After a bit, Bert pulled out Lotus extract and Leif pulled out some pink stuff, and when they counter-acted, it caused the explosion!" exclaimed Jimmi, hoping that for once Snape believed a Potter.

Not likely. "How very convenient for you, Potter," He began, "That Lotus extract is an amnesiac. Even a first year like you, ought to have known that."

Jimmi's eyes widened, as he looked at the two on the stretcher, "You mean-"

"I mean, that when Davies and Lovegood wake up, they won't recall a single thing about the time in the dungeon." He shot Jimmi a look of pure acid, "Fortunately, the pink solution is a form of alkanet, which is good for repairing memory, which would explain the explosion, and it will also prevent Davies and Lovegood from having permanent memory damage." He paused to send another glare at Jimmi, which made him wince slightly, "Unfortunately, as the solution is usually colorless and extremely hard to see, I added dye to it, which, in turn, dyed my entire classroom pink!" he said, loosing the cool, mean, composure, and going for the enraged, mean, composure.

"I think he beats us." Whispered Leda to Morwen, who nodded.

"And you two!" Snape yelled, causing the girls to straighten in their seats, "Sneaking into the Slytherin common room, breaking into a prefect's room, and setting the prefect's room on fire hardly constitutes as law- abiding either!" he exclaimed, standing up. "75 points each from Ravenclaw, and a week's worth of detention! Be thankful I'm in a good mood today, or I would've made it a 175!"

It was then, that Bert and Leif decided to wake up, "Ah! Where am I?" Demanded Leif, scared.

Bert scratched the back of his head, "Why are we in Snape's office?" his eyes widened in horror when he looked at his hand, "And why am I pink?!"

"Lovegood! Malfoy! Potter!" snapped Snape, "Escort these two dunderheads to their common's room." He smirked, "Or maybe to the infirmary, being that they most likely don't wish to stay pink."

Morwen looked at Leda and the two pulled up the two boys from the stretcher, Snape waved his wand and the stretchers disappeared. The four then left quickly, Jimmi not far behind.

Once they had left, Snape rubbed his temples, "Only 6 more years to deal with them," he muttered, "6 more years........"

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"Now for the last time, why am I pink?" demanded Bert, who was leaning on Morwen for support with walking.

"You exploded the bloody dungeon, you git!" huffed Morwen, struggling to keep Bert balanced and to talk at the same time.

Leif, who was leaning on Leda, quirked an eyebrow, "How'd we do that?"

Jimmi, was walking as fast as he could to get to the infirmary and not harassed by Malfoy, The Lovegoods, and Davies, tried to ignore the conversation.

Morwen eyed the boy in front of them. "Ask Potter." She spat.

Jimmi turned around, "I didn't do any of it!" He proclaimed, Morwen rolled her eyes, "Well at least I didn't set a prefect's room on fire!"

"No! You dyed an entire classroom, Snape's class of all places, pink!" retorted Morwen.

"He would've been in the Dungeon if you two weren't setting things on fire, and then the whole situation could have been avoided." He replied,

Morwen bit her lip, knowing he was partially right, she opened her mouth to respond, but was cut off by Leda.

"Both of you stop it!" she yelled, standing up straight, and causing Leif to drop to the ground, making an 'ooof' sound, "We lost 375 points for our house in one night! We're all stupid and that's that!" she then noticed she had dropped her brother on the ground, "oops, sorry Leif." She said, picking him up.

When they finally reached the infirmary, Jimmi noticed Artie exit, he looked at the 5, "What happened?" He asked Jimmi.

"It's a long story." He muttered, his ears going red underneath the pink.

"Tell me later?" asked Artie, still gawking at them all.

"Oh take a picture," Grumbled Morwen, shifting under Bert's weight.

Artie sent Morwen a rather foul look. "Yeah no problem," Said Jimmi.

Artie nodded, "See you later." He said.

The five walked into the infirmary, and Madame Weasley (formerly Bell), the school nurse, and also, Jimmi's aunt, smiled at them as they walked in. "James!" she exclaimed, then eyed his obvious pink-ness, "What on Earth happened to you?!"

"We," He said regarding the trio of pink stained lads, "Had an accident in the Dungeons."

"It was just a mix between pink-dyed alkanet and Lotus extract," Piped up Leda, "A simple removal spell outta do it!"

Madame Weasley smiled at her, "I'm glad you know your remedies! Good for you!"

Leda beamed at her approval, and then slid Leif onto a hospital bed, Morwen did likewise with Bert.

Madame Weasley observed the two, "These two, I take it, are the ones who got into contact with the Lotus?"

Jimmi nodded.

Madame Weasley tsk'd, "They'll have to stay overnight." She said, she turned to Jimmi, flipped her wand, and he was rid of the pinkness. "You're set James, and free to go."

Jimmi nodded, and exited. The two girls, though remained behind, "Are they going to be ok?" asked Leda, looking at Leif and how he was now mumbling about wanting a tie-dyed cat.

Madame Weasley nodded, "Of course! But now, you two are going to leave, so my patients can get their rest."

The girls departed, and went straight to their commons room where they trudged up to the dorm, sent a nasty glare at the Patils and Brown, and fell asleep immediately.

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