Hey peoples! Sorry I haven't been updating for a while (am ashamed) but updates will take a while. Homework from sixth form takes up Loads of time. Muy thankyous to secretlycharmed13 and Williams for reviewing – I love it when people review! And so, on with the story!
Harry was bored. This is not for good for anyone within the castle. It would have been bad enough with a normal hyper teen, but a bored magical hyper teen could create far more havoc, chaos and disaster, in whatever order they felt like.
"Bounce, bounce, bounce," Harry thought, while sort of jumping-skipping down the corridor. "Boring! What now, let's see. No balloons, no bubbles, no elastic bands, no paperclips, bored bored bored bored."
Suddenly a thought occurred; this was made very apparent due to the large light bulb now hovering above his head. Harry stopped in mid-jump (leaving him hovering in the air about a meter from the floor) and stared at the Weasley's swamp from last year.
"Pranks." He thought. "That would be fun. There could be balloons…and bubbles…and strawberry laces …and trees..."
Grinning evilly and trying to act like a spy, (think ninja outfit, leaning against walls and humming mission impossible) his magic cast unimaginably strong invisibility and notice-me-not spells. It was as if he had disappeared off the face of the earth.
Sneaking down the corridor, he put buckets of water over all the doors he past. If he saw any students, they were quickly seen to.
Many Slytherins became clowns, pretty pink fairies or Robin Hoods, and all spoke in chipmunk voices, apart from Malfoy's gang – they got a special prank. The conservative Ravenclaws became dressed in leather, with multi-coloured hair and a lot of piercings in ears and other places. Harry met only one Hufflepuff on his way to the Slytherin common room, and he threw a spell at him casually that would make him walk upside down the whole day with an elephant's trunk for a nose. Gryffindors were left alone; they were after all his friends…usually. Of course, this would only be until he had pranked Snape.
Arriving at the entrance to the Slytherin common room, he threw spell after spell at it, whichever ones that came to mind. Beginning to get bored again, he decided that pink hair, platform shoes, tutu's, multi-coloured nail varnish, blue skin and giraffe necks would do for their appearance, and threw a reverse speaking spell at the entrance before going to find the other Slytherin worm.
Following his intuition, he found himself beside a picture of Jenny Talibut, aged seventeen, the age she fell in love with 253 males, one of whom painted the picture. Bowing low, as a knight would to a Queen, he charmed and flirted with her until she opened the door that led down a secret passage way to the wardrobe of Severus Snape. (a/n oh the irony!)
Turning all Snape's clothes into hedgehog costumes on his way out of the cupboard, he sneaked around the green and silver decorated rooms, putting the occasional tree, cloud or balloon where he thought it was needed, drew a peace sign in psychedelic colours over the fireplace and spelled an illusion of neon pink butterflies to fly around the room. Over the entrance, he set a spell to turn Snape's robe into a ball gown and make him talk like Yoda.
Considering this very well done, a hand appeared, patted him on the back, handed him a balloon and a packet of strawberry laces for his efforts, and disappeared. Deciding this would be fun to watch, he went down to the Great Hall.
Turning left at the full colour statue of Elmer the Elephant (recently transfigured from a statue of Samuel Cannonic, founder of the uses of sprouts in potions) he took a few shortcuts and climbed out from underneath the Gryffindor table to find lunch had just been sent up.
Tucking into the chicken legs and roast potatoes, he failed to notice the large amount of people in the entrance hall calling for his blood.
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The entrance hall was chaos. Ravenclaws were desperately trying to tame their looks while complaining to Professor McGonagall, Slytherins were trying to hide their distinctly muggle outfits, and above all that was a boy racing around on the ceiling trying to get someone's attention to try and get him down.
Hermione, Ron, Ginny and the twins watched this chaos and havoc with mixed emotions. The clones were trying hard to breath between their hysterical laughter, while Ginny giggled constantly. Hermione was trying sooo hard to keep a straight face, while Ron, after trying to follow Hermione's example, gave up and laughed helplessly.
Remus and Sirius found them this way, and burst out laughing. Once they had calmed down a bit, they had a better look around.
"Hey! There's Harry!" Hermione pointed, "Quick! Someone give him the potion!" They raced towards the boy currently juggling doughnuts.
"Harry! Drink this please?" Hermione gasped, holding out a rainbow coloured vial.
"No thank you, my fair maiden. My thirst is currently quenched." Harry replied, suddenly throwing the doughnuts over his shoulder (unintentionally attacking a couple of first year Slytherins) and turning into a knight in shining armour and bowing to her.
"Harry, you need to take the potion! It's not safe for you to be like this!" Hermione replied annoyed. "What if Voldemort tries to attack the castle? You don't have full control over your magic while you're like this!"
"Au contraire!" with a sweep of a hand, Harry wore a black hat, mask, cape, trousers, shirt and boots, looking distinctly like Zorro. "Harro shall continue to help the people, should they ever need me. For you sinorita." He said, giving Ginny a glittering red rose, then with a flash his sword created a glowing letter "H" in the air and he ran out the hall, somersaulting over tables and narrowly avoiding people.
"He's just not listening to us!" Hermione said exasperatedly.
"Well at least we've got his wand now." Ginny said, twirling the wand in question.
"Brilliant!" Remus said, "Certainly a good idea Ginny, though I shall not question how you managed to get it without Harry noticing."
"We better come up with another plan. Talking to him is certainly not working." Ron sighed, knowing the only other way was to shove it down his throat.
"Well plan B was forcing him to take the potion. Thing is, how do we catch him to give it to him?" Ginny frowned.
"He's as slippery as a Floogal Shnip at the moment. There's no way you can catch him." Luna said, suddenly appearing behind Sirius and causing them all to jump.
"Errm, Floogal Shnip, Luna?" Hermione asked, rolling her eyes.
"Yes. So slippery and unable to catch that only one has ever been seen in throughout history." Luna explained, in her usual, half paying attention to the conversation, half watching the fairies circle the room. (a/n not actual fairies - a known saying with my friends when I'm not paying attention is being off in dreamland with the fairies.)
Suddenly the twins grinned identical evil grins.
"How do you catch a big mouse?" Fred asked
"Why with a big cage of course!" George answered.
"Are you thinking what we're thinking?" they said together. Hermione, Ginny, Ron, and Remus nodded carefully, while thinking "smile and back away slowly," not liking the mirror image evil grins on the twins and Sirius's face.
As they ran out the hall to start concocting a large mouse trap, it wasn't noticed that Luna disappeared hunting Harry for a different purpose.