Disclaimer: I'm soooooo sorry that I haven't updated for a while! I lost the book with this story in it and it took me forever to find it. Thankfully, my brother found it! Yay! 'Free As A Bird' belongs to the Beatles and was written by all four of them. I love that song.

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Gains And Losses

Chapter 20

Like A Homing Bird I'll Fly

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Free as a bird,
it's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry,
like a homing bird I'll fly
as a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to
the life that we once knew?
Can we really live without each other?
Where did we lose the touch
that seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so...
Free as a bird

"Harry! Harry, wake up!"

Harry felt someone shaking him. He was lying on his stomach, on arm trapped gawkily under him. His face was buried into the armrest. He was so tired and so sore.

The person continued to shake him. Two hands rolled him over. Harry tried to fight against the arms but he was too drained from practice.

"Come on, open your eyes! Harry!" the voice said

Harry lazily opened his eyes, everything was foggy without his glasses. He quickly closed them shut. There was a loud, long sigh and then Harry felt two hands clutch onto his robes. He felt himself being shaken furiously.

"Come on mate, snap out of it! Wake up!"

Harry groaned, burying his head in his arms.

"Lemme sleep, m'tired"

"Come on, we're gonna play a prank on Snape!"

That seemed to wake him up. He grabbed his glasses from under him (he had fallen asleep with them) and slipped them on. Romulus was standing over him while Morticia was pacing around the room.

"What happened to your robes mate?" asked Romulus

Harry looked down at his clothes. His new Quidditch robes were covered with mud, obviously from practice.

"Quidditch practice"

"I think you should change into some clean clothes. We don't want to leave a track out of the Slytherin room"

Harry quietly climbed the stairs into the dormitory and grabbed a pair of clean clothes, hoping not to wake anybody. He took a quick shower. When he got back into the common room, Morticia greeted him. She ran her fingers through his hair and smiled.

"You look much better now"

She winked. Harry felt his face turn red. He opened his mouth to talk but was interrupted by an annoyed Romulus.

"Come on! We have to go!" he begged

"What are we doing anyway?" asked Harry

"I dunno. Maybe if we go through Snape's stuff we can find something interesting to embarrass him with. Maybe he has pink boxers that we can show the school!"

The trio laughed.

"Good idea! Let's go!"

They left the common room and walked down the hallway, stopping in front of the large serpent statue. Harry turned to Romulus.

"Do you have the password?" asked Harry

"Yeah I stole it from Malfoy's bag this morning"

He handed Harry a small piece of folded parchment. Harry started to unfold it but Romulus stopped him.

"Harry, do you care what the Slytherins think?"

"No. Of course not. Why?"

"Um…reasons…"

Harry gasped as he read what was written on the parchment.

'Sirius Black is a disgrace to humanity'

Harry bit back tears. How could they, he thought. He handed the parchment to Romulus.

"Here, you say it"

"Why cant you say it Harry?"

"Sirius is my godfather"

"A mass murderer?"

"He never committed those crimes"

"Oh, ok" (A/N: They will talk more about this in a later chapter)

"Come on" said Romulus

Harry turned to see that the door was already open. The three of them entered, trying hard not to make any noise. They snook into the first years' dorm and opened Serpientus' trunk. They tried to find something interesting.

Robed, clothes, hygiene items, money. Finally, Harry found something useful. A diary! He showed it to his friends.

Romulus snorted.

"And he said they were for girls!" he said "Quick, check if he wrote anything embarrassing!"

Harry opened the diary and flipped into the middle of the book. His eyes widened in amusement as he read the contents of the diary.

July 12 1991,

My family is so messed up. My father has no friends and always want to be alone; he's such a loner and my mom is so embarrassing. Even I'm not normal anymore! I'm slowly turning into by dad! My hair's becoming oily and I'm starting to talk like him! My sister is the only normal one in this family. She caring, smart and has a heart of gold. My parents hate her for that. I feel so bad for her, but I don't want to get on my parents bad side so I treat her like shit. It's either my parents or my twin and I don't want to get disowned by my parents. My life is a complete lie!

"Ooo! Snivellus has a soft side!" laughed Romulus

"What are you talking about?" asked Morticia

Harry and Romulus showed her the page. She stifled a laugh as she read.

"Quick, go to the next page!"

Harry turned the page.

July 14 1991,

I'm starting Hogwarts soon! I hope I'm in Slytherin, that way I can become a Death Eater just like my dad was. I can't believe he quit, Voldemort must have been so pissed. But like I said in my last entry, my dad's a loser. If I become a Death Eater, I will try really hard not to make Voldemort angry and become his right hand man.Maybe I can actually kill Potter.

"What a dirty little bastard, I can't believe how stupid he is!" whispered Harry "What king of an idiot would want to become a Death Eater? Most people are forced to do it"

"I don't know" said Morticia "Come on, lets go post these up around the school!"

They took the diary and quickly left the common room. Once they were out they ripped out the most personal pages. They enlarged them and glued them to the walls with a permanent sticking charm.

"Just one more thing" said Romulus

He pulled a quill from his pocket and ran around the hallway, writing From 'The Diary Of Serpientus Snape' on every page.

"Perfect"

The three friends returned to the Gryffindor common room and burst out laughing. Once the laughter died down, Morticia went into her dormitory and Harry and Romulus went into theirs'. They changed into their pyjamas and jumped into bed.

Harry couldn't wait until tomorrow. He smiled and closed his eyes, falling into a deep sleep.

Harry woke up to the feeling of being shaken, like he had yesterday. He groaned and reached for his glasses and slipped them onto his face. Romulus was standing over him with a huge smile on his face.

"Get up, the Slytherins should be awake soon! Don't you want to see Snape's reaction?"

Harry jumped out of bed and threw the dresser open. So hard, that the drawer flew out of drawer set and smashed his foot. Harry wrapped his arms around his foot and limped around the room, throwing on his clothes. Romulus was in tears of laughter by the time Harry was fully changed.

"Oh, shut up!" Harry spat "Where's Morticia?"

"She wasn't feeling well so she went to the Hospital Wing"

"Aww! She's gonna miss everything!"

The two boys left the common room and walked up to the stairs near the Slytherin common room.

"Quick! Hide over here!" Romulus hissed

He pointed at the statue of a phoenix that was right across from one of the diary pages. They quickly hid in back of it and watched as the Slytherins emerged from the common room. They stifle laughs as they saw Serpientus notice one of the pages. They watched as Serpientus scanned the page and read:

August 2 1991,

I am jealous! I met Harry Potter yesterday and he seems to have everything that I have ever wanted! This morning I woke up and realized that me and Draco's trucks were missing, thanks to Potter and his friends. I can't believe someone who looks like him could be brave enough to play pranks like that! I want to be like that, but no, I had to be born a loser. I want his fame too! Why does an insolent brat like him get to be famous? He doesn't deserve it! My father says that he is just as bad as his father. I agree, but his father was also lucky to be famous.

Serpientus' eyes widened when he realized that this had been taken out of his own diary. He walked over to the next piece of parchment which was about a meter away from the first. He pushed the two Gryffindors which had been reading it away and looked at the parchment.

August 4 1991,

I have a crush! A crush on Lavendar Brown, a Gryffindor! I can't believe it! I love the way her curly brown hair flows behind her when she walks and how her long eyelashes twitter when she's happy. I'll never get her to date me. She would never date a Slytherin like me; she has a crush on Seamus Finnigan. I'd do anything to get her to date me, but then again, my family would probably disown me. I just want her so bad.

Serpientus tried to rip the pages off the wall but no matter how hard he tried, they wouldn't come off. Harry and Romulus suddenly burst out laughing. Serpientus spun around, his eyes turning red with fury.

"Potter! Lupin! I should have known!"

"But you didn't" said Harry "That just makes you more of an idiot! Or like your father sais, a Dunderhead"

"How dare steal my diary! You're gonna pay, I swear!"

"Look, Snape" said Romulus "You've said that, what, one hundred times? You still haven't done anything at all"

Serpientus shot them each a dirty look and stormed down the stairs, muttering incoherent words to himself.

"Harry, I'm going to the library to do my muggle studies homework, are you coming with me mate?"

"Sorry, I have another Quidditch practice, but you could come with me if you want to. Do you want to come?"

"Okay, but I need you to help me with my homework later"

Romulus waited by the stairs as Harry ran back into the common room for his Quidditch robes. A look of disgust appeared on Romulus' face as Harry emerged from the room with his dirty Quidditch robes in his arms.

"You're not going to wear those are you? They're filthy!"

Harry pulled out his wand and waved it. The mud on his Quidditch robes disappeared.

"That's better"

The two boys grabbed some bacon and bread from the feast and ate it as they walked to the Quidditch pitch.

Free as a bird,
like the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry,
like a homing bird I'll fly
as a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to
the life that we once knew?
Always made me feel so free.
Free as a bird.
It's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird
Free as a bird
Free as a bird

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