Amanda entered the charms room five minutes late for the lesson. Looking around everyone had taken their seats. Muttering she knocked the door and entered smiling at the professor.
"Sorry I'm late sir Professor Malfoy wanted a word."
"No worries Miss Dixon, Miss Ddraig filled me in on everything."
Amanda took her seat next to her friend and they started on silencing charms. The lesson had been going for fifteen minutes before their next distraction. A knock at the door saw Ginny enter followed quickly by Sirius.
"Miss Dunn, Mr Black so nice of you to join us."
"Sorry I'm late Professor I've been in the hospital wing, Alice is still there Madam Pomfrey said to tell you she will not be in the lesson."
"Thank you Miss Dunn, if you'd like to take a seat. Now Mr Black where have you been."
Sirius was rather red in the face and looked like he was embarrassed by something.
"Professor Dumbledore's office sir. He wishes to see Remus up there now."
"Very well Mr Lupin if you would."
Remus looked more nervous than the girls had ever seen as he stood and left the room while Sirius took his seat next to the to boys.
The lesson continued and the girls exchanged looks. Branwen leaned in when everyone started yelling while their partner used the silencing charm.
"Your face looks better, but what about Alice?"
"My face is killing me, I swear we've got to get them back, it's still a bit blue around the edges, but it does look better. As for Alice, well the boys messed up the potion, its permanent."
"PERMANENT! YOU BETTER BE KIDDING ME GIN!"
"Shh. No, Mand Pomfrey can't get rid of it, Alice's hair looks worse now."
"That's it."
Amanda was on her feet before anyone could stop her. She marched over to the boys who had taken seats among the Hufflepuffs to be further away from the angry girls. The room was quieter than normal, but still loud enough to prove most hadn't managed the spell.
As she got closer everyone fell silent and the professor looked around to see if the spell had worked, but everyone had their mouths closed just watching.
"Amanda go sit with the girls Dumbledore said we're not to talk until …"
"Silencio!"
Sirius' mouth moved as he formed words but no sound was heard.
"Amanda, undo that …"
"Silencio!"
James too fell silent and then with a look at Peter she said the spell a third time.
"Oh excellent Miss Dixon has mastered the spell. Thirty points to Gryffindor, one for each successful try."
"Thank you Professor."
She smiled happily while looking at the three boys.
"Black! I know what Dumbledore said, after all he told me first while he gave me a month worth of detentions, well it looks like I may have just earned more."
She took a breath and looked around the room.
"First things first, Alice. Do you know what you've done to her?"
The three boys nodded each with wide eyes.
"Good but did you know it was permanent when you did it?"
Now the boys looked scared as they shook their heads for their answers, Peter tried to speak.
"Shut your mouth Pettigrew! Now you've turned Alice's hair green and its permanent, Ginny just came back and Alice's hair looks worse now than when you got hold of it. You will pay for this one, Gin how bad is her hair come on fill us all in, because I for one want to know what will happen to my own hair."
"Now Miss Dixon, this is enough take your seat."
"No professor I want them to know what they've done, and this might be the only chance we get. Now tell them Gin."
Ginny looked around the room and apologised to her professor before starting.
"Pomfrey has tried everything, her hair is now pink streaked with purple lines and the green is making her hair fall out."
"THAT IS WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO HER, AND TO ME FOR THAT MATTER. WHY YOU THREE ARE SO –"
"MISS DIXON TAKE YOUR SEAT THIS MINUTE!"
Amanda looked around the room at her tiny professor.
"Silencio!"
The man stood there silent eyes wide and she knew that she was in trouble, big trouble by the end of the lesson.
"And Black,"
Amanda had calmed herself down enough to stop her yelling as she looked at the boy with terror written all over his face.
"You ratted me out to Malfoy about that Prank on Snape, I lost ten points and received another detention for that, you wait I won't forget this. You thought you had a good prank on me, but you didn't and if you thought my first prank was the only good one I'd come up with think again Mister, I'll get you if it's the last thing I do. You wanted a war, and you've got it."
"Professor, I'm sorry, I don't now the counter curse, Branwen does though, she'll remove it and I'll go now and see McGonagall, and I know detention and points will be taken."
She turned and left the room to find her head of house and explain herself fully, as she left her mind wandered over some of the books in her father's house thinking up her pay back for her silent friend.