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Shitza: I couldn't have done this without your help! I really loved all your ideas, and I've been trying my best to put them in. Thank you so much!!!

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Shitza: I hope you'll enjoy and laugh about this chapter, as I enjoy my nice little week from school. This is a gift that hopefully will cheer you up now that the leaves are falling from the trees and the winter hasn't yet begun. Oh well, at least it's so here. Now... how long is it before Christmas?

Also, been starting on a far away chapter, the last chapter of the End battle. Don't know why I'm saying this, but for all exited readers, I'll try to make the best of this end. As I'm not planning a sequel after this, nor will you be able to make me write one this time

Anyway, hope you all are having a great time and that your teachers don't give you too much. Laughs mine are really horrible, they give us huge examinations straight after this week. I should really start studying again, but just wanted to bring you this. I might be able to throw up another chapter before school starts again. Now, yikes, I'm really talking too much, I shouldn't keep you all here, go on and enjoy.

Shitza

Chapter 19 La Grand Finale and More...

And so, the Grand Finale began...

Harry looked around for Blaze. The heirs had decided to firstly tire him out, since both Colin and Dennis would be the easy ones in this, Blaze would be hell if he continued like this. The heirs had some ideas, some really good ideas of how they would put that prankster on his place. Yet they didn't talk about it during the whole night, not even telepathic. But still, they knew what they had to do.

Here and there Cassandra, Hermione or Neville would show up. Being so fuzzy about the rules made the two girls perfect for the job. Neville too was a good choice since he knew if any of the two sides would cheat. Also, because of the circumstances, Neville was the one who gave out the credits. The most successful prank gang was the winner.

The marauders made all things on the heirs' path, including also in Cassandra's path, which made the Ravenclaw brake and leave. One example, unless you counted the three hundred heavy buckets of water that had been charmed to follow them, Colin for example somehow managed to sneak into the Slytherin Common room. How he did it all the Slytherins would likely want to know, especially since he turned the colours of silver and green to gold and red. It was a very angry Heir that threatened to strangle him if he didn't change it back. Switching colours, messages etc was one of the Creevey brothers speciality, especially since they had half done so with the old SUPPORT CEDRIC DIGGORY, THE REAL HOGWARTS CHAMPION and POTTER STINKS badges. Yet how much Draco tried to threaten him, he didn't give in. He ran away.

Ron got pranked in the same way by Colin's brother Dennis. The clever Gryffindor did the same to the Gryffindor Common room, changing everything to the Slytherin colours. Yet Dennis, compared to his brother, was caught and tied in a sac, which Ron gave to Peeves to play with. The poltergeist had a very fun time that until Blaze sent him flying to save his dear companion. Cassandra had had a really good laugh during it all.

Both of the brothers were small irritating insects during this, but worse of all was the king, Blaze. Yet, in secret, before everything had started, Ron had contacted his two brothers, Fred and George for some good advices. Everything had been written down on a piece of paper he now carried in a hidden pocket of his robe. The things his brothers had thrown up, by their own brilliances, was...

1, Be the first to strike, no second chances.

2, Make sure your joke is well hidden and secret kept. No good thing if someone sees you. If so, dispose of it before Filch arrive.

3, Always have a plan B, if something goes wrong. If plan b don't work, try plan C.

4, Never underestimate an opponent. That can be fatal.

5, Have fun pranking.

Some good classics

Blow up a Hogwarts toilet seat

Note: remember, people never get used to this one

Invisible holes in the floor

Note: Would be best if they fell down to Snape's Office. It would mean detention for a month.

Feathers and tar

Note: None, already used. BAH!!! Irritating Blaze gang.

Flying paper birds

Note: About three hundred birds flying towards you is always nice, especially for the Marauder

Levitation to the roof

Note: How more irritating can't it get?

Peeves

Pay peeves to do something. With your powers we should advice that you give him a free day from filch and he'll bow for you.

Ron grinned. This would get very interested indeed.

Indeed it went. The marauders where in the middle of planting some stink pellets into Mrs Norris mouth when they suddenly found themselves in the room under, which turned out to be the Potions Classroom. Dennis had the fortunate luck of landing into the big cauldron full with growing earwax.

Another thing that happened them was when Colin was setting up to blow a toilet seat from the Boys bathroom, he suddenly ended up in his prank. He stepped out, two minutes later, with the seat dangling around his neck.

The heirs really enjoyed themselves during that hour. Cassandra particularly liked the part where Ron levitated the three Marauders out the window, to let them stay there for about ten minutes of fright. She actually ended up by kissing him on the cheek, which made the two of them blush heavily. They got nasty teased by this from both Harry and Hermione.

Yet things weren't always on the bright side. As the hour continued Draco found himself walking round and round. He hadn't noticed the spell they had used on the corridor, which made him walk in circles. Ron also suffered from a prank. While he was right in the middle of setting out another of the Invisible holes, he suddenly found himself on the floor, the Floor below. Dennis had had an eye on him, and when the Gryffindor wasn't watching he had sort of pushed him down. It all was very simple and brilliant.

Harry didn't have much more luck. As he was beginning on his plan B, his plan A hadn't worked, Blaze crept up from behind and released a niffler into the room where Harry stood. This was very irritating, especially since Harry was wearing a gold chain necklace and that little thief tried to bite it off. It all ended with him taking it by the neck, to release it outside Hagrid's cabin. He would really have wanted to throw it out, but it didn't work since the niffler hadn't done more then reacting by its instincts.

It was now time to fight back, and so the heirs did. Yet this time they didn't follow Fred and George's instructions. They followed their abilities in magic. The Marauders received some scary illusions and tricks. By using illusions the heirs would follow the rules. The only thing that really bothered them was, why hadn't they thought of this before?

It seemed that the marauders hadn't been prepared for such a hilarious brilliant thing. Indeed, as the hour drew to the end, they were found under their beds. What they had seen was kept in silence.

By the end of the long hour, Neville returned with the results. It was arranged to be read in the Room of Requirement. The heirs sat in armchairs waiting, the marauders sat in a big sofa. The excitement was killing them. Neville opened the parchment he had been keeping his notes on and read.

"Well, the result for the outcome is pretty interesting. I didn't even predict something like this."

"Neville, don't kill us with the excitement, spit it out." Cassandra said.

"Yeah, we want to know. WE WANT TO KNOW!!!" Dennis said jumping like a maniac.

"Okay then" he said sighing. He cleared his throat and read...

"It was a tie"

"WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" eight teens said falling out from the places they sat in.

"You got to be joking" Blaze said shocked.

Harry looked at the Gryffindor student. He knew no one would accept a tie. Muttering a spell an invisible hole appeared, right beneath blaze. The prankster fell down.

"Harry, you know that doesn't count" Hermione said.

"Well, it was worth a try." He said defending himself.

"That was a cheap trick" Colin said, standing up, finger pointed straight at Harry's chest.

"And it was brilliant" a voice said from beneath. Hermione removed the invisible charm, so that everyone could look down at Blaze, who was laughing.

"Congratulation for winning, Harry. I was not prepared for that."

"What do you mean by winning?" Harry asked bewildered.

Blaze laughed softly. "There's a rule that lies in my family. Being prepared or not, you loose or win. I know it does sound like rubbish, but it means. If I'm not prepared for a prank I'll loose, but end up with valuable experience. It's a shame to loose, but so my family has a few times, but still some. It is said that the ones who can handle a loss, turns out to become the best prankster."

"Wow, that means we won" Ron said happily, but stunned. Hermione cheered and ran over to Draco, to give him a hug, in front of everyone else too. Cassandra cries happily, but helped to retrieve Blaze from the room he had fallen to. Surprised by being rescued by the Ravenclaw he swore not to touch her again, or at least when he was thinking of a good joke.

The time passed, the Heirs and Marauders went to bed for some well deserved rest. Only Harry was still awake, watching the stars. It would soon be morning, but he didn't care. They had one another battle, but most important of all, they had gained some really close friends.

Time passed in the castle, the days went on. The heirs continued their exhausting training and rarely had much sleep. At least nothing more action related happened during the last of the month.

As September drew to the end, things began to change in the castle. AS the leaves in the forest changed from green, to yellow and then red or orange, some abrupt changes emerged. One, Ron and Cassandra's interests towards each other grew, yet still Ron hadn't managed to build up enough courage to ask her out. But everyone now knew. Also, a few more Slytherin's had started to accept Hermione as Draco's girlfriend, and she was allowed inside the common room. Yet it didn't mean the major part still deeply disliked her.

Neville had also begun to change. He was more and more seen outside the Gryffindor common room, seen in the company of Hannah Abbott, Susan bones, Justin Finch-Fletchley and Ernie MacMillian. The Gryffindors began to miss him, he still felt like one of them.

Another thing, in love life, two other souls had caught the eyes of each other. It had started as a simple liking, which had bloomed out to love. Ron and Draco had a particularly enjoying time to tease Harry, as the young heir had fallen for the French charming Ravenclaw seventh year, Iris Blanche. Indeed it was rumoured, from the Ravenclaw table that Iris too had a crush on him. Which of course, rumours had spread the other houses, thanks to Cassandra, who had giggled the whole time as she had told them during breakfast.

Yet, compared to Cassandra and Ron, Harry had managed to ask her out next Hogsmeade trip. The whole school knew this of course, and as Harry's friends surrounded him to hear the facts, the whole Ravenclaw common room had surrounded Iris wanting to hear all details.

The next Hogsmeade trip would take place the fifth October, which everyone looked forward to. Rumours also spread that Ron and Cass would have their first date during it, but if it was rumours or the final truth no one really knew.

It was Thursday afternoon, and Professor Wing was teaching them about medieval curses, that since long had been forgotten, which was a relief. Harry remembered a picture he had seen in Most Potent Potions, about people that had been turned inside out, well there had once been spells about that.

The bell rang, the lesson was over. The professor didn't give them any homework, he more wanted the students to read through their notes and memorize them.

They hurried to get to their swords lesson, and to their next obstacle. Lately the Swords master had seemed more hectic then usual, never giving them time to rest. "Rest" he said "you can do later, now it is time to work."

The only one who didn't have much against it was Ron, who could beat the little dwarf as easy as by a swing. Indeed his strength and abilities had increased, and by the six of them he was clearly the one with the skill. After him came Harry and the Draco, followed by Cassandra, Neville and lastly Hermione. The reason for Neville beating Hermione was that he already knew the moves she used before she used them, yet still he didn't possess enough strength, but since when had Hufflepuffs fought.

Harry was duelling Draco, which were the only real tiebreakers of them all. They were about equally strong and fast. It was always interesting to see them fight, blades meeting. For a long time they had been fighting for the second place, currently Harry was second, but not for long.

Draco smiled as Harry was forced to drop his sword, as Draco had his blade by his throat. Yet they just smiled, knowing it would change, sooner or later. The old rivalry lay behind, far behind.

Hermione cheered on as Draco returned, he bowed once making everyone laughed. It was shocking to see how much he had changed.

Next it was Ron versus Hermione, which ended in one way. The blades met to times before Hermione had Ron's by her neck. The others clapped, everyone knew the outcome before it had started. Ron was too good to be beaten.

While Hermione seated herself in Draco's lap, Cassandra ran forward, eager to meet Ron in battle. Ron was shocked, but tried to keep a determined mask on his face. Cassandra smiled and crossed blade with him before starting.

What didn't surprise them was that Ron won, or so it first seemed. That until, they couldn't see all the details, but it looked like Cassandra was flirting with him. Her training robe lay unusually, as her left shoulder was shown and she kept a very mysterious look. Suddenly Ron lowered his blade allowing her to put her by his neck. Clever girl had tricked him, but it didn't last long. Just until for no particular reason, he walked over to her, to kiss her on the mouth. The other heirs were struck, but then Hermione started to giggle and Harry clapping. He was joined by Neville and the Swords Master. Draco didn't say anything, but instead he created some magical firework over their heads.

The rumours spread like a thunderbolt through the castle. As soon as they came out from their training, everyone wanted to hear the details. Ron suspected Blaze and his gang to have been watching from some corner. Could a day be more embarrassing.

Indeed it didn't, but instead the marauders would pay. Ron called on Peeves, offered him an evening of if he would go and find those sneaks before their next lesson.

Peeves disappeared instantly, and returned carrying a battered bag, containing Blaze and Dennis. Colin was stuck in Transfiguration by the moment.

Peeves flew off, searching for some evilness like always. Dennis and Blaze tried with the usual excuses, but it wasn't needed, because in that exact moment both Lavender and Parvati past by. When they saw what Ron was about to do, they ran over to protect them.

Well, that was another of those things that had changed. Blaze and Parvati had been one of the most unexpected couples at Hogwarts. It lay a thick fog of romance in the air all around. Even the teachers seemed to be affected by the sudden changes, and still it wasn't Valentine. Is this normal for the school, or has something else occurred?

To Reviewers:

lady silver: Well, I didn't write it, but I think you can imagine the look on their faces when they discovered the prank. Thank you so much for your help.

ThE 3 cAbAlLeRoS: Great ideas, thank you. Hope you liked this chapter.

gary: That's okay, I think I got all the help I needed to get started anyway, as you might see. Thanks for reviewing, hope we can chat once again some day.

danielle: Hope this answered your questions. As for Neville, have no clue if truth to be told. Oh well, I guess another voting is up. Also, sorry for not using the Snape idea, but I still tried to put it in, it just didn't fit. They were unfortunately supposed to prank each other, not the teachers.

End Notes:

Shitza: I'm off to bed, it's soon to be midnight here, but before I go, one favour to ask. AS you might have read, I need help with a pairing for Neville. You can choose on any Hufflepuff girl, read closely as I said Hufflepuff, or an OC to become Hufflepuff. If you have an OC, please reconsider...

Her name, (example Sarah Rose)

Age: (16, with it the year is decided)

Whereabouts: (example; short with brown shoulder length hair. Blue eyes, skinny legs)

Native: as practically the whole Europe is in the fic, please come up with a country. Can also include America or Asia. Just because I say Europe, it's up to you to decide. (Example: Canada)

Appearance: (happy natured feminist with a passion for collecting broken feathers) Oh I don't know, you'll decide.

Likes: Obvious (example dogs and cats. Lessons together with Ravenclaws)

Dislikes, hates, are afraid of: also obvious: (storms at sea, are afraid of any kind of serpent and hates eating any kind of meat)

Thanks for reading, now review and help, please!!!

Shitza