Harry Potter and the Real Dark Lord
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A/N: Okay, now we have covered the basics…LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Remember to send reviews. Pheonix39 thinks you guys don't care (sniff, sob, and runs to go to find out if there is any pudding left)
Review Notes: Hypern: thanks for the review! Yes, we will see much more of the twins-you'll understand after this chapter. (GRINS SLYLY) And you'll find out about Snape soon enough. Or when we want to reveal where is and what he's been doing.
Chapter 5
Surprises and Challenges the First Week
Harry awoke the next morning very early feeling quite content. His bed was soft and warm and he couldn't believe that he was going to be staying here all year. He shared a dormitory with Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Zabini, and Nott. Harry slowly sat up and stretched. He got up and got dressed. He headed down to the common room. There was a warm fire crackling in the large fireplace. It was rather chilly in there without it. There were Squashy chairs scattered around the fire and a few sofas as well. There were also tables and chairs used for homework and studying on the other side of the room. Everything in the room was a varying shade of green. Harry looked around the room, taking in every detail. His stomach gave a growl and Harry decided to go up to the Great Hall to see if he could find some food.
There were very few students in the Great Hall as Harry entered. Seated quietly at teachers table, was Tom. Harry smiled broadly and quickly headed over to him. "Tom! I am so happy to see you." Tom gave Harry a broad grin and motioned for him to sit next to him. As Harry sat down Tom said to him, "Harry, as I am now one of your teachers you must refer to me as Professor Riddle. You can, of course, call me Tom when we are in private." Harry looked slightly crestfallen but he merely nodded and replied "Ok, I'll try to remember, Professor." He said this last word with a small look of mischief in his eyes. Tom laughed at his look. "Why don't you get some breakfast, we need to get some weight on you-you're far to thin." Harry nodded and got up to head towards his house table. Tom stopped him and simply said, "You can always come to me-anytime. Enjoy your first day" Harry nodded at his words and headed over to his house table.
Just as Harry was pouring himself some orange juice, the rest of the boys from his dorm came in and sat down. Draco sat beside Harry and said with a slight smile, "Welcome to Hogwarts Harry." "You too Draco." Harry said right back at him, grinning. They had just started to eat when the Weasley twins came in. They both were smirking and Harry wondered what they were up to. He nudged Draco and when Draco looked up; he asked "I wonder what those two are up to." "Whatever it is, it'll be interesting to say the least. I've heard about them, they love to play pranks on anyone-even the teachers sometimes." Draco said with an idea starting in his head. "Really" asked Harry and he had the same look. As the Great Hall started to fill up a tremendous KABOOM! came from the hallway entrance. A few students screamed while others came running into the hall ducking under tables as they came in. They were followed by a stream of brightly colored fireworks that seemed to have a mind of their own. Fred and George were seen quickly exiting the Great Hall. Harry and Draco burst out laughing. As they continued to laugh at the fireworks chasing students as the teachers tried to bring some semblance of order to the Hall, Harry glanced down at his watch and exclaimed "OH SHIT! WE'RE GONNA BE LATE! WE CAN'T BE LATE FOR OUR VERY FIRST CLASS EVER!" Harry and Draco grabbed their bags and headed to History of Magic.
"Well, that class was completely boring. What a joke. What's next?" Draco asked as he and Harry exited the classroom. "Herbology." As they were headed back towards the castle after class, Draco turned to Harry and said "At breakfast this morning I had an idea." Harry grinned at him and replied "I think I had the same idea. Whatta think? Should we go with it?" Draco grinned broadly and replied, "Oh, definitely! Where do we start?" Harry returned "I think we should be fair about this and let them in on it." "Right. Let's do it. Although we may need to spend a bit of time in the library doing research." The boys went into the Great Hall for supper. "Pudding!" Harry cried out loudly, I can eat this all day!" Draco just shook his head at his friend. That evening the two boys along with Pansy could be seen sitting in front of the fire with a pile of books around them.
And now…….THE CHALLENGE! (drum roll please)
The following morning Harry and Draco were waiting outside the Great Hall. As Fred and George were about to enter, Harry asked quietly "Can we have a few moments of your time gentleman? Uh, privately?" Fred and George exchanged looks then George replied "Sure, why not." Harry led them into a deserted classroom. "Great prank yesterday, by the way. We could hear Filch cursing all day as he tried to clean everything up. He kept muttering something about the old ways, shackles, and detentions, expulsion-it was hilarious. We heard a lot of the students had to change before they went to their first class." The four boys all roared with laughter. Fred and George gave a few short bows. "Thank you, Thank you. We couldn't let the first day back be boring. Besides, we have a reputation to live up to. We're the best jokesters this place has seen in a long time." Harry and Draco exchanged a look of glee. Draco nodded to Harry and Harry began to speak.
"That's actually what we wanted to discuss with you both. We would like to offer you up a challenge." As Harry was speaking, he pulled two journals from his bag. "These are enchanted journals. They keep track of what pranks you both come up with and also," a wide mischievous smile was growing across Harry's face, "What pranks WE come up with. The journals will notify each other as to when a prank is pulled by the other, what it was, and will kinda keep score. The journals will provide points as to how much damage was done, chaos, mayhem, whether or not the pranksters were caught, how many House points were lost, etc. and at the end of the year the journal points will be tallied up, and the winners will chose whatever prize they wish as long as it's not money. The journals points are based on former pranks pulled throughout the history of Hogwarts. They are completely unbiased and no amount of attempts to hoodwink it will be successful. They contain an ancient spell to prevent this. After all, (Harry added) you two can't have all the fun around here. We would have to be careful of course, if the teachers found out it would be a race to see which team will lose the most house-points, or worse, be expelled."
Fred and George looked at both of them for a minute; pondering the challenge, and then looked at each other (it is really weird to see a conversation without it even taken place). Then suddenly their faces split into diabolical, identical grins and the replied as one, "YOUR ON! This is going to be so easy. I mean really, we're the Weasley Twins after all!"
Harry said, "Don't ever underestimate an opponent-you never know what could happen." At these words George and Fred exchanged again, diabolical grins along with Harry and Draco. All four boys burst out into howls of laughter. "This is going to be the best year yet!" Fred shouted out. "Without a doubt brother, without a doubt." Was George's reply. The four started laughing even harder. After a few minutes Fred and George simultaneously put out their hands and said, "May the best twin win." (It was really, really, weird how they could think the same thing at the same time) Harry and Draco shook their hands back (replying at the same time-) "May the best TEAM win!" The shocked looks on all four faces, was quite something to see. They left together still laughing gleefully, and headed to get some breakfast. Unbeknownst to them, there was someone else who had been listening as they walked away and chortling under his breath murmured, "Oh, yes, indeed this would be an interesting year." They thought and left as quietly as they had entered.
A/N: This was so much fun to write. Had a few brain stalls so skipped over them for now but will return to them later. What will the four come up with? Who was listening? Giant vat of pudding to the all who guess correctly. (Sass-I'm gonna find you wherever you are. Now you got me started on the pudding thing.) As to where is Snape? What is he doing? "It is classified information until such time the as the Ministry sees fit to release it." So what do you all think so far? Need a few more ideas on pranks for the year-send them and if we use it, you get full credit. Remember: We are devious and there are a few sick ones being pondered at the moment-we can handle whatever ideas you come up with. Oh yea. Sorry about the quotes/misquotes from the books-not mine-they belong to" them."