The sun shone brightly through the window waking the girls from another nights sleep, signalling that another morning full of lessons was about to begin.
Alice sat up and pulled her curtains open, she found the rest of the girls getting ready. Lily was drying her long hair while Ginny carefully applied her make-up. Branwen was pulling her uniform on as Amanda walked out of the bathroom.
"Morning Al, hope you don't mind but I borrowed your shampoo, somebody spilt all mine."
Alice smiled at Amanda as she moved into the bathroom and jumped into the shower, squeezing some shampoo onto her hand and rubbing it into her hair. As she was getting out she heard an ear piercing scream.
Wrapping a towel around herself she ran into the dorm room and screamed at what she saw. Amanda was sitting at the mirror her face shaped in horror. Her dark hair was no longer solely streaked with red but now green.
"Mand what happened?"
"It's green! It just turned green, like yours is!"
Alice ran towards the mirror and screamed her blonde hair now held green through it.
"It must be my shampoo, but how?"
"SIRIUS!"
Amanda was down through the door and down the stairs before anybody could stop her. Her towel tide tightly around her body as she ran down the stairs with Branwen and Alice close behind.
Alice had thrown a dressing gown around herself before following her friend. When she reached the bottom she found Branwen trying to hold Amanda back as she swung for Sirius.
"HOW DARE YOU SNEAK INTO OUR DORM AND PUT SOMETHNIG IN THE SHAMPOO! YOU WAIT SIRIUS BLACK I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, I SWEAR I WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL FOR THIS!"
Alice watched as the boys crowded over as the rest of the common room just turned to look at them.
"I didn't do anything Mand, I was with you lot last night."
She stopped at this but Alice's mind was working fast.
"You were with us all night but, Remus and Pete weren't."
Amanda spun around and looked at the other boys
"PETE YOU DID THIS! OH THIS IS REALLY GOOD THIS IS, HOW'D YOU DO IT PETE COME ON HOW'D YOU GET INTO OUR DORM ROOM OUT WITH IT."
"Umm… well…"
"Don't tell her Pete"
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS BLACK. PETTIGREW I ASKED YOU A QUESTION AND YOU BETTER ANSWER IT."
Peter just looked at the girl, anger had given her strength that she hadn't had before, her pretty face was screwed up and this was the first time he had ever seen the true Dixon side of her, the anger and yelling that was common among the upper class of their society.
Before he could answer her there was another scream and seconds later a very blue faced Ginny had run into the room.
"WHICH ONE OF YOU MESSED WITH MY MAKE-UP COME ON LOOK AT ME I'M ALL BLUE!"
Remus shared a guilty look with Peter, which the two very angry girls picked up on.
"REMUS YOU DID THIS?"
"No I didn't put anything in your make-up."
Amanda looked closely at them she could see the laughter in both Sirius' and James' faces but the guilt on the others faces were easy to read.
"Wait a minute Gin, Pete was about to tell me what he did to Alice's shampoo and now he's going to tell us what he added to your make-up as well."
"No he isn't!"
Without waiting Amanda snatched Branwen's wand out of her pocket and pointed it at Sirius, a few choice words were muttered by the girl and a horrid look came over the boys face. The group watched in panic as he began to shiver and shake. His screams were heard throughout the room.
"Now if you don't want to have the same curse on you you'd better tell me what it is you've done."
The remaining three boys gulped and exchanged a look. James was the one to speak up.
"We made a potion after you took the first prank that would turn Alice's hair green when she used her shampoo and then added another potion to Ginny's make-up to make her face blue, you weren't suppose to use the shampoo though."
The girls glared as Branwen spoke up.
"How'd you get in the dorm?"
Peter looked towards a small shaft in the wall that allowed light into a corridor, nobody would notice it unless looking closely at it and then most wouldn't know what it was for. However Amanda was use to these little corridors her own house was filled with them.
"You used the house elves corridor, well that narrows down who did it, doesn't it Pete!"
"Yes."
His answer was a small whimper, which gave away how much this girl had scared him. Lily at that moment came down the stairs and the girls all looked at her; there was a mighty gasp from them. Branwen was the first to recover.
"Lily, what have you done to your uniform?"
"Nothing Bran why?"
"Because it looks like Amanda's when she's been using spells to shorten and tighten it."
"No it doesn't."
Lily couldn't work out what they were talking about it looked normal to her, Amanda however was aware of the spell that the boys must have put on her, an oblivious spell that would make the person unaware of certain things, her father had used it many a time on ministry officials who turned up at the house.
Turning the wand away from the boys she muttered the counter curse and watched as the girl screeched with horror, however when Amanda tried to say the curse to make the uniform go back to normal she was unable to.
Turning the wand back on the boys she muttered the same curse she had used on Sirius onto James and watched as he too began to shake and scream. He fell to the floor as Sirius did in a cold sweat.
"Now one of you two had better explain about Lily's uniform before I put the spell on you."
Remus gulped and answered as quickly as he could.
"It's a shrinking spell it'll wear off after twenty four hours however there is an added problem you can't take the uniform off until eight tonight."
Lily began to shake, this wasn't right, she didn't like this, tears began to fill her eyes and Branwen threw her arms around her friend and lead her back up to the room where they went to find a robe that she could wear over the uniform one that hadn't been enchanted.
Alice looked around and for the first time realised the attention they had drawn and she was still in her dressing gown, with a nod to the other two girls she went up to get dressed for the lessons of the day.
Amanda and Ginny looked at the two remaining boys. Ginny spoke while Amanda just held the wand at them.
"You've gone to far now, we knew that you'd get us back for the first prank why do you think we told you it was just the two of us, we didn't want you to affect the others, you've gone to far this time Lily is really upset, she isn't going to forget this soon."
"Yeah and we'll get you back for this, You turned Alice's hair green, Ginny's face blue, You've made Lily cry because of the uniform and yet you haven't done anything to Branwen or to me, well with the exception of tipping my shampoo so I had to use Alice's. So what did you have planned for Branwen and me then?"
The wand pointing at them however convinced them of what they had to face so Peter quickly answered this question stammering as he answered the small girl.
"We were … going to to to … make Bran … Branwen grow a beard … and and and well umm give you umm … well feed you … um dragons meat."
Amanda swore loudly and instantly had ten points taken from her for her language, Peter was on the floor screaming with the other two before he could react and Remus just looked on in fright. As she raised the wand to mutter the curse for the fourth time the portrait hole opened and Andromeda entered.
She looked around and instantly saw the girls, one wrapped in a towel and three boys on the floor in pain and noticed Amanda pointing the wand at a fourth person.
"AMANDA LYRA DIXON PUT THAT WAND DOWN THIS INSTANT."
She did as she was told and looked at the older girl.
"What have you done to those boys Amanda?"
"They started it…"
"What have you done?"
"I only put the freezing horror curse on them."
"FREEZING HORROR, YOU STUPID GIRL THAT IS A DANGEROUS SPELL THAT COULD GET YOU THROWN INTO AZKABAN FOR USING, REMOVE IT NOW!"
"NO! NOT UNTIL REMUS APPOLIGISES FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE AND PROMISES THAT THE REST OF THE PLAN WILL BE SCRAPPED."
"I promise Mand honestly."
After a glare from Andromeda she quickly released the other three of the spell and looked at each one.
"I'm telling the three of you now, this isn't over not by a long shot. You wanted a war and you'll have one. When you see Lily you all apologise and you leave her alone, she has nothing to do with this war."
Then the two girls turned to leave and start planning what it was they would be doing to the boys.