Yes, I am alive! No, I did not fall off the face of the Earth! And here is another chapter; I hope my reviewers haven't left me! Well, you know the drill, read and review please!
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Last time: They spent the rest of the evening finalizing plans and talking about other things. None of them made it back until late that night.
Chapter 5
Blaise woke up extremely early. Sitting up, he wondered why the hell he was up this early on a Saturday morning. Suddenly it clicked! He was supposed to go with Draco to Hogsmeade.
Yawning and stretching Blaise got up and went to get ready for the day. Walking past Draco's bed on the way to the bathroom he saw Draco still asleep... sneaking past him into the bathroom, Blaise stuck his wand out, muttered a few choice words and....three...two...one... "ZABINI!!!! Family or not I am going to KILL you!!!!!!!"
Grinning Blaise shut the door in the face of a very wet, very mad Draco, "You better get ready, dear cousin, it's going to be a long day!"
Across the castle a very disgruntled Ginny woke up. Not knowing why she was awake, she tried to go back to sleep...after all, who wakes up at 7:30 on a Saturday morning?
After a half hour of tossing and turning, Ginny finally got up. Sighing to herself, she decided to go out for a jog around the quidditch pitch. Getting dressed she ran out of her dormitory, saying hi to some friends on the way out.
It was starting to get hot, even at 8:30 in the morning, but Ginny stretched out and began her jog.
At around 9:30 Ginny was starting to get hungry so she ran back up to the castle to grab a quick shower and then go to breakfast. She made it out just in time to join Harry, Ron and Hermione for breakfast.
"Gin, would you like to play a quidditch game with Harry and me? We're getting Seamus and Dean to play also; it could be like a two against three." Ron asked, helping himself to some eggs and toast.
"Sure sounds good, what time do you guys want to start?" Ginny asked.
"After breakfast, hey Hermione do you want to play?" Harry asked wriggling his eyebrows, "Ron could help you..."
Ginny spit out her orange juice all over Harry as she started to laugh at the looks on her brother and her friends faces.
"EW! Ginny, that's disgusting!" Harry yelled, still laughing.
"You deserve it Harry Potter!" Ginny said, trying to catch her breath.
"Harry!!" both Ron and Hermione yelled red in the face.
"This is the part where you run, Harry." Ginny said laughing again.
Looking startled at the retaliation, Harry jumped up and ran out of the Great Hall, Ron and Hermione right behind him.
Still laughing, Ginny helped herself to more toast. It was good to see Harry laughing again, his depression in the year before had been terrible. Now that Sirius was back, Harry was in higher spirits than he'd ever been. She looked up to the Head table to see Dumbledore smiling, obviously happy that Harry was once again happy.
Meanwhile, Blaise and Draco were wandering the streets of Hogsmeade. They'd already been to Honeydukes and Zonkos –just to see the competition, of which there was none. Wanting to come in from the heat, and being hungry and thirsty, they headed to the Three Broomsticks.
"So, Draco, how's life?" Blaise asked sipping on his butterbeer.
"Nothing special, you know the same." Draco replied, also taking a sip of butterbeer.
"Uncle Lucius still want you to be a DE?" Blaise asked quietly.
"Yeah, but you know I don't want to."
"Why don't you join Dumbledore's group? I have, the Gryffindors won't kill you, well I'm not too sure about some of them..." Blaise seemed thoughtful, "Nah, just watch out for the older ones."
"I'm not like you Blaise; I can't just go defy everything I know to join a bunch of people who all hate my guts. Even if it is the right thing."
"Hey, it's your choice, but if you make up your mind you know who to talk to." Blaise supplied.
"Yeah, I know thanks. So, have you guys planned anything yet? Don't want to get in the way."
"Now that's top secret info, can't be letting out secrets...you'll see though." Blaise smirked, "Let's head over to the Weasly's, I have to stock up on some things."
Draco looked uncomfortable, "Maybe you should go by yourself? The Weasly's aren't exactly fond of my..."
"Nah, don't worry about it. They can't do anything dangerous in the shop anyways, customers you know." Blaise laughed at the horrified look on Draco's face, "Don't worry I'm sure they won't mind."
They left the Three Broomsticks and headed for Weasly's Wizarding Wheezes, Draco still looking uncomfortable.
Blaise entered first, "Fred, George! What's up?"
Draco came in shortly after, standing a little behind Blaise.
Fred, or was it George? Draco could never get them straight, came from behind the counter. "Blaise, good to see you. Where's Gin Gin? We have some new things for you"
"She's at Hogwarts; I came with my cousin today. You remember Draco?" Blaise stepped aside to revel an uncomfortable Draco.
"Ah, yes I do believe we've met..." The Weasly twin said, "Malfoy right?"
Draco nodded, "Nice shop you've got here."
Weasly looked a little taken aback by the lack of insult, but he quickly recovered as he called for his twin, "Fred, bring the stuff for Hogwarts!"
'Ah, so this is George.' Draco thought, 'Amazing shop wouldn't touch anything though...who knows what it'd do to you.'
"Is Ginny here?" Fred asked as he came out with a small box.
"No, but Blaise is, Draco too." George said taking the box from his brother.
"Draco Malfoy?" Fred said frowning.
"Um, yeah. I was just saying what an amazing shop you have." Draco hurriedly supplied.
Fred looked, like his brother, taken aback at the lack of insults, "Thanks. Um, feel free to look around. Blaise, come here so we can explain how to work these."
"Sure thing, I'll be back in a second, ok Draco?" Blaise said as he walked over to the desk.
Draco nodded and began to walk around the shop; it was full of the most amazing things. Deciding he might as well buy some things, Draco started picking things out, from puking pasties to fake wands.
Meanwhile over at the counter the twins were discussing the uses of several objects to Blaise.
"Make us proud with this stuff; I expect to hear good stories from Ginny." Fred said.
"Oh, don't worry; we'll have plenty of stories. Draco, you ready?" Blaise asked, carefully taking the box from the twins.
"Oh, yeah. Let me just get this stuff rung up." Draco brought his things up to the counter and gave the twins the right amount of money. He got his purchases and then went to leave with Blaise.
"Come back any time you two!" The twins called behind them.
Walking down the streets of Hogsmeade Blaise turned to Draco, "Ready to go back? It'll be dinner time when we get back."
"Yeah, I'm ready...race you back!" Draco yelled before he started running.
"Oh, you're on!" Blaise yelled, quickly catching up with him.
Back at the castle Ginny was in an intense game of quidditch with Harry against Ron, Seamus, and Dean...they were down 3 points...
Harry passed Ginny the quaffle, she caught it and zoomed toward her brother at the other end of the pitch.
"Go Gin!" Harry yelled.
She dove under Seamus while Harry made sure Dean didn't get in the way. Going around her brother she threw the quaffle through the middle goal.
"Yes!!!" both Ginny and Harry yelled at the same time.
By dinner time, Ginny and Harry were ahead by 5 points, and they were all tired. Ginny signaled for everyone to come down. They all landed and headed off to the locker rooms to clean up before dinner.
"Gryffindor team better watch out for you Gin, you were great out there." Dean said.
"Yeah Gin, I think you're ready. I still don't know how you and Harry won..." Ron said.
As they headed to the locker rooms they saw Blaise and Draco going into the castle. "I don't understand how you have some Slytherins like Blaise, but then you have Malfoys." Seamus said.
"Blaise told me Malfoy wasn't too bad, but I'm not too sure. I guess I'll find out, he's my potions partner." Ginny said.
"WHAT!?" Ron yelled.
"Ron calm down, I can handle myself...jeez I'm not a baby." Ginny went over to the girls' locker room.
"She's right Ron; she can take care of herself and anyone else who comes along." Harry said as he started getting changed.
"I know, but she's still my little sister." Ron said before he jumped into the shower.
The rest of the weekend passed uneventfully, Sunday was spent doing late homework and catching up on sleep, writing letters, ect.
That Monday morning Ginny got up early to make sure everything was in order for breakfast. She was extremely excited as she went down to the Common Room, immediately alerting everyone there that something was up, Ginny was NEVER happy in the mornings.
"Ginny, what did you do?" Hermione asked, eyeing her suspiciously.
"Why nothing my dear Hermione" Ginny sang as she grabbed Colin on her way out of the room.
"Have you talked to Blaise? Is he ready?" Ginny whispered.
"Yeah, he waits your signal...weather is perfect too." Colin whispered back.
And the weather was just what they wanted. There was a thunder storm going on and from the Great Hall you could see the rain, stopping just before it hit the students.
Entering the Great Hall, Ginny and Colin sat down together making sure they had Blaise in their view. Grinning at each other they started eating breakfast.
"Ginny when are we going to do it?" Colin asked.
"After mail..." with that they kept eating, occasionally talking to Harry or Hermione or Ron.
Finally the mail came, and all the birds cleared away. Grinning Ginny nudged Colin and gave Blaise the thumbs up...suddenly with a loud bang and a flash of lightening the rain came pouring down....only this time it hit the students and the teachers.
With no one expecting it, except of course Ginny, Colin and Blaise, the Great Hall erupted in a roar of panicking students screaming and trying to stay dry. The teachers looked completely lost. Not even Snape looked mad just shocked. The only one's who seemed completely calm were Ginny, Colin, Blaise and Dumbledore. In fact, Dumbledore seemed to be enjoying himself; he even pulled out an umbrella.
Laughing at the dumb looks on the Dream Teams face Colin and Ginny got up to go to class, leaving half the student body looking like drowned rats.
Over at the Slytherin table Blaise was talking to Draco, but he kept looking over at Ginny. Draco wondering what was up asked, "Blaise, what's going on?"
"Oh nothing...you were saying before?" but Draco could tell he was distracted.
Finally he saw a particularly evil grin come across Blaise's face and suddenly Draco was soaked to the bone, the rain drenching everyone and everything.
"ZABINI! What the hell is this?" Draco yelled, looking very much like a drowned rat.
"Happy new school year Draco!" Blaise patted him on the head and then literally skipped out of the Great Hall after Ginny and Colin, leaving Draco gaping after him.
As the trio left the Great Hall a banner fell down from the doorway: 'HAPPY NEW SCHOOL YEAR HOGWARTS!'
Well that was the prank...I hope you liked it, I guess it wasn't as good as it could've been....well please review and I'll update again really soon...like next week! Um, how does the title 'Love and Pranks' sound? Eh...I don't know, let me know! Well, thanks and I'll see ya around!