"Liz, we need your help," Jeff said.

"What?"

"Sirius and I are going to carry Maya back to her room in Ravenclaw while you and Harry create a distraction," Jeff told her.

Liz shook her head, "What?"

"We can't keep her in the Gryffindor House, we have to return her to bed so that people think she's sleeping and not unconscious and missing! She'll arouse after we return her."

"How do you and Sirius plan on sneaking into the Ravenclaw House and into the girls' dorms?" Liz asked, bemused.

Jeff's face fell slightly, "Well, first you're going to have to act like a loony…"

"Jeff!"

"Liz, work with me here. You have to create a distraction so that all the girls (and the guys too, would be helpful) will leave the Ravenclaw House so that we can get in."

Liz stared at Jeff.

"Does Harry know about this?"

"Yes, and he's willing to do this."

"Do you know that we'll probably not be able to go to the dance or even worse, get expelled?"

"Yes, but Gryffindors have had close shaves before, right?" Jeff smiled. Liz rolled her eyes, "Fine."

Maya's limp body was wrapped around Harry's invisibility cloak as Sirius and Jeff carried it down the halls of Hogwarts. Harry ran every few steps ahead to see if the coast was clear. Every once in a while they passed a few first years who peered curiously at them, but continued walking on. When they made it near the Ravenclaw portrait entrance, they took the cloak off of Maya and covered Liz and Harry with it. As a Ravenclaw approached the painting, Harry and Liz waited for their chance to slip in behind him.

"Penny Lane," the student said and as the door swung open, Harry and Liz crept in.

"Now what?" Liz asked once the student left the common room.

"Hold this," he asked her as he handed her a few things.

They were dung bombs.

"Harry…" Liz gave him a withering look. Harry shrugged, "I got them from Ron. Fred and George gave him some and I thought this might be a good time to use some."

"Harry, you prat, if we get in trouble, I swear -"

But Harry left Liz behind without being covered by the invisibility cloak and swept up into the girls' dorms.

Liz wanted to kill him.

It was only a few moments until she heard a "BANG" and many screaming girls. Liz didn't know what to do so she hid behind a couch. She saw many girls run away, screaming and felt someone tap her shoulder. She looked behind her but saw no one. A few moments later she heard another loud noise from the boys' dorms and many cursing Ravenclaw boys ran out of the portrait hole.

Once everyone had left the common room and dorms and completely out of sight, Jeff and Sirius snuck in with Maya, still as lifeless as she was before. They carried her up to her room and laid her in her bed, before making their escape. Liz ran as far away as she could from the Ravenclaw common room, but Harry, Jeff and Sirius weren't as lucky.

Liz was far ahead of them before Snape approached them halfway down a staircase.

"Well, well," he smiled cruelly, "I should've known it would be you, Potter." Snape turned to Sirius, "And I already knew this must have had something to do with you, Black. Like father, like son, Potter. Always hanging around the wrong crowd. Mastrianni, this is certainly going to put a crutch on your average, isn't it now?"

Harry and Jeff froze. Sirius rolled his eyes.

"You three - come to my office. Now."

Liz watched the scene from behind a wall corner. She followed them, but far away enough so that Snape wouldn't see her…

Maya woke up, dazed. Where was she? What had happened? She shook her head and found herself in her room. She needed to find her friends…maybe they knew how she got there.

"God, it reeks," she commented to herself, noticing shortly that everyone in her House had left. Someone had set of a dung bomb in the girls' dorm and apparently the boys' as well. Maya exited through the portrait immediately and through serendipity, was found by Adam.

"Maya!" He exclaimed, "Are you okay?"

"Not really, my dorm smells like shit."

"Yeah, well, I heard some Gryffindors were caught by Snape for setting off dung bombs in the Ravenclaw House - I think it was Harry, Sirius and Jeff and maybe even Liz."

"Wow. Why would they do that?"

"Well, you were passed out and they carried you back to your room but I guess…"

"Wait, why was I passed out?" Maya asked suddenly. Adam was the friend she could trust to tell her what happened. Adam shrugged as Tina and Mere walked towards them.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Meredith asked. Tina froze and looked at Maya. She seemed to be fine, but Tina couldn't help but feel horrifically responsible for hurting Maya.

"Tina, you alright?" Maya asked. Tina nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine. Are you okay?"

"Last time I checked. I woke up to my dorm smelling like dung."
Meredith tipped her head to the side, "That's great. Why? Did you forget to wear a diaper again?"

"Shut up, Meredith."

"What's Liz doing?" Adam pointed. Tina, Meredith and Maya turned to find Liz following someone. They all followed to catch up with her. She took them deeper into the depths of the Hogwarts castle, where they were eventually led to Snape's office.

"Liz!" Maya called out, "What're you doing?"

"Shh!" Liz hushed her, "Harry, Sirius and Jeff just got in trouble for dung bombing the Ravenclaw House. I need to make sure they're going to be okay." Liz glared at Tina, "Oh, it's you. Maya forgave you so quickly?"

"Well, she –"

Meredith murmured a spell and the wall disappeared.

"MEREDITH!"

"Chill out!" Meredith hissed, "We can see in. They can't out."

Everyone stared.

"What? I know a spell or two!"

Maya and Liz turned to watch with anxious faces.

"Why was I passed out? It still doesn't make sense that they snuck me back into my room."

"Well, you see…"

"I attacked you."

Tina barely whispered it, but Maya's ears caught it.

"Why?"

"I lost my temper," Tina choked out, "and I'm sorry."

"Damn straight you are," Liz growled.

"Shut up! I can't hear!" Meredith snapped, although most of them found this unlikely, because Snape was scolding them gloatingly and loudly.

"…and it's amazing how you always prove yourself as a delinquent who doesn't follow the rules of the school, even after your six years here. Perhaps if the Headmaster and public didn't reward you for your idiocy, you perhaps would no longer have the knack of breaking them." Snape then faced Sirius, "You, I have no lecture for, because by now I've learned that nothing gets through that thick skull of yours for you to comprehend. You'll be getting immediate detention and no admission to the Halloween festivities.

"And you," Snape rounded on Jeff, "I always knew that anyone who was in the leagues of Black and Potter could never be up to any good. You will also be arranged a detention with Filch and no admission to the Halloween dance."

"But, Professor!"

"Silence! Now, for your insolence, I may also…"

But he was stopped by a flame that sparked from nothing. The flame prickled and burned at a stack of papers on Snape's desk. As the three boys and professor tried to put it out, the flame grew. It spread as any wildfire could, until the entire office was covered in flames. Harry, Sirius and Jeff attempted water spells, as Snape did as well, but the water only fed the fire and it grew all the more.

"OH MY GOD," Meredith cried, "WE HAVE TO GET THEM OUT OF THERE!"

Liz tried, "Alohomora!", but the lock remained as it was.

"It didn't work!" she cried, "Oh my god, it didn't work!"

Tina shoved Liz out of the way and cried, "Expelliarmus!" Meredith shouted, "She used a disarming spell! The door was magically locked!"

"Adam! Where are you going!" Maya shouted as Adam ran as fast as he could from the scene.

"That little shit ran! I don't believe him!" Liz cursed.

Harry and Sirius made a run for the door and it blew open. Snape and Jeff rushed out and batted the flames off of their robes.

"Are you okay?" Maya asked Sirius anxiously. Sirius gave her a flat look.

"I just escaped a burning classroom. I'm just jolly, Maya, How're you?"

"You!" Snape roared, "All of you. Follow me."