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Luna came upon Harry in the room of requirement, dancing to Bon Jovi's "I'll sleep when I'm dead" and watched in amusement.
"This ain't no slumber party
Got no time for catching Z's
If they say that that ain't healthy
Well then living's a disease
We're never gonna die baby
Come on let me drive you crazy
We'll make every night another New Year's Eve…"
Harry sang, sounding exactly like the singer. As the song came to an end, she walked up to him quickly to make sure he didn't get a chance to escape as he did so easily to the others.
"Luna!" Harry cried, just noticing her and letting off a couple of party poppers. "Woo! Luna! How ya doin' Star shine?"
"I'm fine thank you. You however, need to be careful." Luna said abstractly unfazed by the confetti and coloured string now covering most of the room. "They are setting a trap for you somewhere in the castle."
"What like a giant mouse trap? Wow! That would be so cool….but I don't have a tail! They can't trap me like a mouse if I'm not a mouse," Harry said logically.
"Probably more like a cage. Or maybe the old rope around the ankle trick."
"Hmm…but if I set a trap for them, they can't set a trap for me! Ah ha!" Harry cried, suddenly wearing camouflage clothes.
"I just thought I'd warn you, since you are outnumbered even if it doesn't mean much when it comes to going up against you."
"Tank-yooo Sunny!" Harry exclaimed, pulling her into a hug, twirling her in a few circles and ran out the room, leaving Luna a bit dizzy.
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Harry raced down the corridor, but came to a sliding halt when he came upon Draco Malfoy. Gone was the outfit he had put on him last time they met, it looked like he had been to the Slytherin Common room. Staring at Draco's pink hair higher up then usual thanks to his giraffe neck and platforms, he couldn't help but think that the blue skin definitely did not go with the hair, though the flowery pink tutu did. Starting to sniggle helplessly (a/n to sniggle: to be to manly to giggle but it not being a snigger). The laughter caused Malfoy to turn around, preparing to hex whoever it was, his eyes took on a murderous look as he realised it was Harry.
"Potter now right normal to back me turn better you." Draco said glaring, pointing his wand at Harry with glittering hands.
"I don't think so Yoflam." Laughed Harry, while taking a photo with the camera that appeared from behind his ear.
"Freak you Malfoy is name my!" Draco snarled. Instantly Harry standing next in front of him and he was staring into the iciest eyes you would never hope to see.
"I am not a freak, Draco." Harry said quietly. "And you will refrain from using that word in future." Draco visibly gulped and a second later Harry had lightened up again. Poking Draco lightly on the forehead, he waved him goodbye and went in search of an elastic band.
Singing quietly to himself "ooo I wanna dance with somebody, wanna feel the heat with somebody, ooo I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me…" pausing at the bottom of the north tower, he knew fuzzily that he was probably forgetting something.
Wasn't there supposed to be something….there was something to do with cheese…
Shrugging, he carried on down the suspiciously deserted corridor. Sensing that something wasn't right, he turned into a clown, in the hope of scaring whoever happened. Clowns scare a lot of people for some reason.
Tiptoeing down the corridor he saw a purple line of light at about knee height. Crouching, which was surprisingly hard to do in the clown trousers, he poked it and found it was a spell like that muggle thing, an alarm system. Going around the corner, he put on a disillusionment charm then sent a sort of ghost-clone-hologram thing of himself which walked up to the line. Just as it crossed the line, he set the alarm off as it would have if he had been crossing it.
With a small swoosh a cage of white light landed over the ghost Harry which stood there looking blankly at the wall. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, the twins, Sirius and Remus came out from behind their tapestry, grinning triumphantly. Fred and George did a sort of ho-down dance while chanting in a sing-song voice "we caught Harry, we caught Harry."
The boy in question however was forcefully trying to not giggle at their antics and was about to point out how he was right here, not caught, when he saw it was snowing outside. Completely forgetting to point out the small fact, he ran down to the entrance and out into the fields where people were just watching the snow fall or trying to get their friends to come inside as it was too cold.
Subconsciously casting a warming spell over his newly recovered green jumper and black jeans, he joined the people watching the snow. Thinking that such un-fun-like behaviour was boring, he coughed loudly. Waiting for the echoes to die down and the avalanche to stop, he made sure he had everyone's attention before speaking.
"I, Harry James Potter, challenge you lot of Hogwarts, to a snowball fight. That's your castle," he said, pointing to the ice castle that had suddenly appeared at one end of the Quidditch pitch, "and this is mine," he said, pointing to a castle the mirror image of the previous one. "Magic is like, totally allowed and should be used. The first one to admit defeat loses, so gets to be like, the ruler of snow or something."
Watching them hurry into their own castle to discuss tactics or whatever, he climbed his own castle to the top level and started making snowballs about one hundred at a time by pulling the snow that was landing on the forbidden forest towards him.
Beginning to get bored, he looked over to see they were still making snowballs. Suddenly an idea occurred (with light bulb). Turning his ice castle into an ice pirate ship, he grinned at the snowball cannons. Sending a couple of cannons over to the enemy to make it fair, he started singing "yo ho ho! A pirate's life for life me."
Humming absentmindedly, he changed his clothes into a pirate's outfit, complete with a teddy bear that looked almost exactly like Hedwig, hat, eye patch, a small hoop earring in his left ear and swash-buckling sword.
Deciding that they had been given enough time, he levitated a couple of very large snowballs into the cannons and pulled the rope. Suddenly, he was being pushed to the floor and nearly ran over by a very large cannon.
"Hmm," he thought. "So that's why the ships used to tie them to the side of the ship." Dusting himself off, he stood up but soon was back on the floor again after narrowly missing about twenty snowballs aimed at his head. Grinning fiercely, with a swish there was a line of about twenty five Dennis the menace catapults, which were promptly magically filled with a snowball each and fired very precisely back to the adversary.
Swinging on the ships ropes and sending large amounts of compacted snow to the opposition, Harry was kept busy for the next half an hour. However, the fight was beginning to dwindle as the challengers realised that fighting a hyper Golden boy was a lost cause.
Waving a white flag over their castle, which now looked more like a ruin, they admitted defeat. Grinning broadly, Harry jumped down from the ship. Waving goodbye to them, he turned to see Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Tonks, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Sirius, Remus, Seamus, Neville, Dean, the Creevy brothers, and Katie and Alicia from the Gryffindor Quidditch team, all gaping at him or the castle or the pirate ship.
"Bill! Charlie! Tonks!" Harry cried, clapping "Woo! You're here!"
"Sup little bro," greeted Charlie, while Bill and Tonks tried desperately not to laugh at Harry's over active state.
"I'm great. You gotta be careful of them lot though," he said, pointing to Hermione and Remus. Whispering – well, a hyper persons version of whispering – he said to the newest recruits "They keep trying to give me some icky medicine but its like I don't want icky medicine and then they tried to catch me like a mouse but I'm not a mouse so they couldn't and I was gonna catch them instead but then there was Draco and he was being really mean but that's probly cause I pranked him earlier."
Harry paused to take a large breath of air while the rest tried to slow down what he had just said to be able to separate the words. "Talkin of pranking I wonder if Snape's been to his room yet cause I was like Woo! Prank Snape! But I couldn't find him so I put loadsa pranks in his room and a redecorated cause the room was like really really really really boring and black and green and there were no balloons at all." He chattered, making it sound as if it was a major crime.
"But Harry," Tonks interrupted, her pure white hair glinting, "How do you know that the medicine is icky?"
"Cause medicine is always icky." Harry said simply, as if talking to a four year old.
"But what if I was to bet you that it isn't icky?" Tonks said sneakily.
"Then I'd say you were silly, but if you want to go ahead and try it then you are definitely welcome to prove me right."
"But what if Tonks likes it and you don't? Really the only way to see if it is actually icky or not is for you to taste it." said Bill.
"No thanks," said Harry with a disgusted look on his face. "I don't need to taste something icky just to see if it's icky or not." Turning to walk away, he found he had been encircled by his fellow team and class mates. "Hey! That's not fair!"
"Harry, all you've got to do is take the potion, and then you can go." Remus said quietly, stepping forwards.
"Neverrrrrr!" Harry cried, trying to look rebellious but failing as he still had the pirate outfit on. Suddenly Seamus, Ron and Dean had a hold of his arms while Hermione and the Creevy brothers were holding desperately onto his legs.
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See you soon everybody, but for now, I'm boldly going nowhere.
