3
Pranks and Detentions
When Kathlin woke up the next morning, her mind was still calculating ways to get back at Trill and her gang. She grinned evil as she noticed that they were all still asleep and got out of her bed quietly. She opened hr trunk, shuffled around in it, and pulled out a bag full of the newest fireworks Fred and George Weasly had made.
The Weasly twins were very friendly with Kathlin, but since they no longer were at Hogwarts, she had no one to talk to during the school's meals. She was also one of their favorite customers. She had bought almost every trick they had made.
Kathlin crawled over to each of the girls' beds and placed three blue and purple spiral fireworks at the foot of their bed. Once they were all in place, she quickly got dressed and gathered her books. When she reached the door leading toward the stairs, she twirled her wand and spoke a fire spell. The fireworks' wicks caught and they slowly sparkled their way up to the core. Kathlin rushed out the door, a bit sad that she couldn't stay to see the girl's reaction.
As she reached the bottom of the stairs, she heard a whirling sound and then the answering screams of girls. The few people in the common room looked up and a few of the girls rushed up the stairs to see what had happened.
Before fingers could be pointed, Kathlin was out off Ravenclaw's house and hopping down the stairs, humming a happy tune.
As she made her way towards the hospital room a loud meow of protest stopped her. She turned around and saw Azkim sitting behind her, his bright green eyes looking up at her as if to say, "Where do you think you're going?"
"Azkim!" squealed Kathlin and she picked Azkim up, twirled him around, and then hugged him. He patted her cheek as if to say, "Alright already! Don't be so mushy!"
She placed him back on the ground and he started to wash his tousled fur.
"Operation revenge has started, sir," said Kathlin in mock soldier mode. Azkim snickered and they started to walk towards the Great Hall.
Right as Kathlin was about to take a bite of her cereal, the post owls came in. She looked up with a smile and waved to the black and brown owl heading towards her.
"Good morning, Asgard. How are you today?"
The owl landed neatly on the table and hooted. He extended his leg to her and she untied the letter and tiny parcel attached to it. She poured some cereal on the table for Asgard and opened the letter.
Dear Kathlin,
How are you doing at Hogwarts? Is everything going all right? You're mother is still mad that you escaped her again to get back to school this year. I'm still sleeping on the couch for it.
Kathlin grinned smugly.
Anyways, I thought you might like to fiddle around with a gadget I made. I hope you enjoy it.
Love,
Dad
PS Power it with your magic
"Poor Dad," chuckled Kathlin. She opened the package that had come with the letter and drew out a weird looking object. She held it by a leather handle and at the top there was a flat piece of sharp metal. From each side of the piece of metal were two identical piece of metal. The metal had a blue shine to it and it looked like a dagger trident with dull points like a screwdrivers'.
Her fingers felt three buttons in a line going down on the hilt and she looked at them. One was purple, another green, and the last red.
"I wonder what this button does," she murmured to herself as she pressed the purple one, also remembering to push some of her magic into the device. Instantly the blades started to turn fast like a blender.
"Sweet!" she exclaimed. She got a grapefruit from the fruit bowl and put the longest tip- the middle piece- on it. It instantly started to dig into it as she pressed the weapon into the helpless grapefruit.
She pressed the purple button again and it stopped. When she drew it out of the grapefruit, there was a nice large hole in it. A few of her neighbors were now looking her way with curiosity.
She pressed the next button and the right and left pieces became diagonal to the middle one and the hilt. A green electrical glow started to show up on the middle piece and Kathlin got out another test subject; an apple.
She put the tip of the middle piece on the apple and it instantly exploded. Everyone around Kathlin yelled out with surprise as they were hit with apple parts.
"Oops. Sorry." She quickly pressed the green button and the green electricity disappeared. She put it and her letter into her bag and quickly excited the Great Hall with a slice of toast in her mouth.
"Okay, now for the last one," she said with the toast still in her mouth. She was in the library now and the only people in there were Madam Pince-the librarian- and a few students catching up in their studies.
"What's that?"
Kathlin spun around and saw Hermione Granger standing behind her looking at the new devise.
"Oh, just a present from my dad," said Kathlin. She spoke with Hermione once and a while, mostly about potions and charms.
"What does it do?"
"Well so far it does this," began Kathlin and she pressed the first two buttons.
Hermione jumped a bit when it shifted to the two different modes and asked once Kathlin stopped it, "What does the last one do?"
"Haven't tried it yet." Kathlin pushed some of her magic into the devise again and pressed the red button. The tips of each metal piece opened and red fireworks shot out of them with a loud bang. Kathlin quickly pressed the button again to turn it off and hid it in her bag as Madam Pince stomped over to them.
"No fireworks in the library!" she hissed.
"Terribly sorry," said Kathlin quickly and she grabbed Hermione's hand and ran out of the library.
"Whoopsies," said Kathlin when they were a safe distance away from Madam Pince. She grinned down at the device and said, "I think I'll save that one for tricks."
"Well that was interesting," panted Hermione as she regained her breath. She straitened and asked, "Do you think your father might want to talk about how he made that with me?"
"I can write him a letter and send it to him today," said Kathlin and Hermione grinned.
"To bad we aren't in the same house, we could talk about this stuff more."
Kathlin shrugged and said, "We can't change the choosings, and besides," Kathlin grinned, "you're mostly in your books."
"She's right you know."
Kathlin and Hermione looked behind them and saw Harry Potter and Ronald Weasly coming their way.
"Ron, have you heard from your brother's lately?" asked Kathlin.
"Nope, they just keep on sending me pranks," said Ron with a sour look. "Last time they sent me an envelope that sent out frogs and fireworks everywhere. I ended up with detention for that."
"Oooooh," said Kathlin with an evil grin. "Can you ask George and Fred to send me a dozen of those? They would go perfect with my revenge plan."
"Sure…" said Ron uncertainly.
"We'd better get to class," said Harry as the bell rang. "Don't want to be late."
"Bye, Kat," said Hermione and the three of them left. Kathlin sighed sadly and started to walk slowly to her next class.
"Meow?" asked Azkim as they made their way towards Transfiguration.
"Oh, Azkim," said Kathlin and she picked him and hugged him tight. "I just wish I had at least one close friend."
Azkim meowed worriedly and started to lick her face and Kathlin tried her best to hold back her tears.
When she entered Professor McGonagall's classroom, she had put back on her cheerful face so no one would know her true feelings.
Kathlin walked out of the room she shared with Trill and her friends with a happy grin as the screams of surprise left their lips.
"Let the trickster day begin," she said under her breath and Azkim smiled wickedly.
That day, Olin and her friends were pranked every hour or so. Slugs in their food, frogs in their bags, and fireworks spewing from their heads when they went to bed. The teachers were very curious about this and practically all of the students were laughing their heads off as these pranks happened. Kathlin and Azkim were laughing with them.
"Okay, today we'll jinx their shoes so that whenever a bell rings, they'll start dancing for thirty minutes," said Kathlin with an evil grin as she and Azkim walked around the school lake with parchment and quill at hand.
At lunch, Trill and her friends ran out of the Great Hall screaming with a murder of crows chasing them. It took thirty minutes for Kathlin to stop laughing.
When Sunday came, Kathlin was laughing in a corner when she saw Olin and her friend's shoes making them dance all around.
"And you find this amusing?" asked a slow, evil voice. Kathlin stopped laughing instantly and looked behind herself to see Snape standing behind her.
"Why, Professor Snape, what a pleasant surprise!" said Kathlin with a happy grin.
"Indeed," said Snape. He watched as the dancing girls went by and asked Kathlin, "Do you know why those girls keep on getting cursed?"
"Not at all," said Kathlin with a bow. A firework fell out of her bag and Snape grinned evilly.
"Then you wouldn't mind if I confiscated this and gave you a weeks worth of detention."
"Just because I like to carry around fireworks doesn't mean that I'm the one causing those four to be miserable."
"Knowing your history with them, I have no doubt of who did this to them."
"Well, since you now know, I might as well start the last prank." Kathlin snapped her fingers and in a few seconds you heard a choirs of angry cat yowls and girls screaming. Snape looked around the corner and saw Trill and her three friends running away from Azkim and over twenty cats.
"How…"
Kathlin started to laugh hard again and barely heard Snape tell her she had another week of detention.
On the second week of Kathlin's detention, she was leaning back on her bench in Professor Snape's classroom and was counting the stones on the ceiling.
"Did you know you had 257 stones on your ceiling?" she asked Snape with a smile.
Snape glared at her and hissed, "Be quiet Miss. Rit."
Kathlin shrugged with a smile and started to draw invisible pictures on her table. Azkim wasn't allowed in detention with her, Snape made sure of that. If he tried to sneak in, Snape would grab him by the scruff of the neck and would drop him on the floor outside the room.
"Did you know that I used to play in the muddle all the time when I was a kid?" asked Kathlin after a long silence.
"Miss. Rit, I don't want to here about your childhood as a girl," said Snape through gritted teeth.
"Well I never was a boy so there goes my childhood."
Snape raised his eyes up from his paper work and Kathlin smiled and said, "Yet another quote from Fred Astair, but with the words switched around."
Snape leaned back and rubbed his face saying, "Go, just go. You're done for the day."
"Yay!" Kathlin gathered her book bag and ran out of the room.
Once out in the corridor, Azkim saw her and started to purr loudly. Kathlin smiled and bent down to pat him on the head.
"Snape's getting more lenient," she said as they walked back to their dormitory. "Normally he'd just give me more detentions." Kathlin shrugged and gave the password to the stone turtle and walked in.