While the boys were up in their dorm doing all this the girls were up in theirs having a girly night in catching up on the gossip.
"So Mand what happened over the summer?"
"Well you know that I stayed at Christmas, well boy was I punished. Wasn't allowed to see Sirius until father's dinner party. Well things were alright, but it sure did get weird after that."
"Did he mention someone named Tom Riddle?"
"Tom! No, but why would he?"
"You don't know, do you?"
"Branwen, know what?"
"Tom Riddle's evil, I heard Tad talking about him, he's trying to get rid of anybody who isn't pure blooded. He's just starting to gain power."
"Oh, you're not worried about that! Tom's harmless. He likes to think he's big but he's more of a loser than Sirius. No worries, trust me, I've met him so many times he might as well be a Dixon. Anyway the trouble is that it dawned on the family this summer that I'm not a Slytherin, I'm different to them, so they're trying to turn me more Slytherin. It's quite funny."
Amanda reached over and took another muffin from the large pile they'd acquired. Branwen after spending so long in Hogwarts had learnt of the kitchens and had taken to 'visiting' the house elves to collect food in the evenings for the girly nights.
"Anyway, what did you lot get up to?"
"We'll I spent the summer with Branwen, it was nice and quiet a relaxing holiday really."
"Yeah with the exception of your sister"
"I can't help it if my sister is a cow can I. Plus we did get her back."
"Why what happened?"
"Oh Petunia got bored and decided to stick gum into Branwen's hair because Branwen had better hair than her. Well in the end Branwen got her back by, oh you tell them Bran."
"I put pink dye in her sisters hair."
The laughter that followed relaxed the group and helped to bring forward the next question.
"So which one of us did that prank then?"
"Need you ask Alice?"
"You did it Mand!"
"Well me and Ginny."
"What did you do?"
Amanda smiled as she bowed to allow Ginny to explain the wonderful plan they had come up with over the course of their summer away from each other.
"Well we owled each other like mad over the summer to come up with the prank and well I'd found a spell that well all you had to do was throw in a few materials and boil it for two weeks and then you have a potion to blow someone up. Well I owled Mand to tell her that part was ready."
"Yeah well my father is big in the dark arts and I found this spell which prevents anybody from removing the curse it just makes it worse, only you can make it what you want. So what I did was I copied down the instructions of what need to be done, and basically all we had to add was a drawn picture of what we wanted to happen."
She took a breath and smiled happily pulling a piece of parchment out of her trunk.
"I made two copies because I knew I'd be asked so all we had to do was add this picture in with the potion with shredded Daphnophyllum leaves that had been picked during the full moon, well we have them lying around my house so I sent them to Ginny and then poof they'd prevent the spell being stopped and make this happen to the person."
On the picture was a stick person with like a dress on. The dress was coloured in gold/yellow and the face of the person was very red.
"So we blew him up and then did this knowing somebody would try to help him. Well then we had to have it end on its own. Well that spell was easy we put a timer on the potion so that it would only last ten minutes. But then we had to add three leaves of Helleborus and it would bleach the wearers clothes, and then I wrote the note saying Lionesses 1 Marauders 0, and with this part of the spell it would appear."
Ginny and Amanda sat there grinning at the looks on the girls' faces, they looked visually stunned by what they had just heard. Alice shock her head and asked the next question.
"But how did you get Snape to take the potion?"
"Oh that was easy. Remember that day when we met in Diagon Alley, well Mand came over and hugged me didn't she. Well I passed the potion onto her in a small container knowing that she'd be the only one able to get Snape to take the potion."
"Yeah so when I went to the Alley with Si, Pete and our dads our dads disappeared for an hour into Knockturn Alley. I didn't fancy going down there with them and told my dad I needed to use the toilet. So he let me go back to the Cauldron and I had to meet them in this shop owned by this man named Borgin, within ten minutes. So anyway while the boys went there I sneaked off to Zonkos."
"Zonkos isn't that the joke shop that you and James dragged us into Gin?"
"Yeah Lils that's the one."
"Well anyway they sell these sweets with hollow insides so you can fill them with something horrible, normally the chilly chocolate that they sell. Well I bought them and they look like those new sweets oh what are they called choc power drops, that's it."
"Oh do you have the choc power drops, they're so yummy."
"Help yourself."
"Wait! Are they the potion filled ones?"
"No, they're the normal ones. See I'll eat one first."
Amanda picked up the sweet and ate it happily and the others did the same.
"Anyway as I was saying this is what the Zonkos product looked like. So I went to that new sweet shop that's just opened in the Alley, oh I still can't remember what its called, but it doesn't matter and I bought some real choc power drops. I hid them in my bag with the container and went into Knockturn Alley."
"Then three days ago I added the potion into the Zonkos ones and put them in a separate bag to the other ones. I've added the potion to another four which I'm going to offer the boys tomorrow, while we eat these ones."
"You're going to give them to the boys?"
"Yeah, and I've marked them so that the next one eaten will say Lionesses 2 Marauders 0, and so fourth."
"Mand how did you get Snape to eat one?"
"That was the easy part Bran. I knew that we were going to be separated from you all and so when we got into Hogsmeade I ran to Severus and got in the carriage with him, Avery and Nott, telling him that Lucius had told me I had to ride up with him. He didn't disagree and on our way up I brought my sweets out."
"I knew I couldn't give all three of them the potion sweets because they could link it back to me. So I took one of the potion sweets out and three normal ones. I offered them and gave Severus the potion one and Avery and Nott the normal ones. Well we put a waiting on it, so that it takes an hour before it takes affect but you saw what it did."
They laughed, at this as they ate even more of the muffins leaving the sweets so that they could use them to get the boys.
"Mand, Gin it was great but I have to say the boys are so not going to let you get away with it, you watch they'll make you pay for taking the first prank of the school year away from them."
They laughed some more and talked further into the night about how they would get the boys with the sweets the next day.