Return Of The Elemental


Note: To make things easier guys, I will start writing different parts like this:

Thoughts will be written in Italic.

Harry talking to Animals is written in Bold.

Animals talking to Harry will be written in Bold Italic.

Please read the important note at the bottom. Now on with the show.


Chapter 12 – A Prank To Remember


MONDAY: 16th September

This is going to be so cool, she's either going to kill me or… kill me. Hang on, maybe I shouldn't do this? thought Harry, who was currently floating his way up towards the 7th year girl's dormitories. It was a quarter to 5, and the reason he was floating his way above the stairs and not walking on them was due to information that reached his ears from no other than Seamus Finnigan. Apparently last year Seamus had tried to walk up the stairs to say 'goodnight' to Lavender Brown, only to walk half way up the stairs before they turned into a sort of slippery dip which sent him back down the stairs and sliding on his arse along the common room floor.

So that is why we find our favourite herohovering inches above the ground just outside Hermione's and her dorm mates room.

Harry reached for the door handle and quietly as he could pushed open the squeaky door. Once he stepped inside the dark room he shut the door with a small wave of his hands.

Now that wasn't so hard now was it? Harry thought to himself as he let out a sigh of accomplishment. But the sigh of accomplishment quickly turned into a gasp of panic.

Which bed is Hermione's? He thought frantically. His wide eyes looked at the four beds placed in front of him, through the darkness he could see that all four had there curtains drawn.

Oh well I s'pose there's only one thing do, he decided ruefully.

Harry then carefully moved forward to the bed that was on his left. As he got closer to the bed he could hear soft snoring. He chuckled mentally, thinking that if it was Hermione in this bed then he could tease her about her sleeping habits later. Harry was now running his hands along the soft velvety curtains trying to find the gap that would reveal the identity of the snoring beauty. There… No, no back a bit. Harry had now found the slit in the curtains.

Here goes, Harry thought as he slowly pulled back the curtains. Once the little light from the dormitory found its way past Harry and spread out into the little curtain covered four poster. Once the light reached the sleeping face of the occupant of the bed Harry jumped, though not out of fright but out of… well I s'pose it might have been fright with a little mixture shock. Harry calmed himself down enough to slow his heart beat and continue on to the next bed hoping that he would find Hermione and not another shock like the one he just received. He shut the curtains of Parvati Patil's bed and crossed over to the next bed where he quickly found the secret gap in the curtains.

After Harry checked the third bed and still found no Hermione but he still felt relieved and shocked at the same time. He was relieved because he knew that there was only one bed left and that meant that it had to be his girlfriends. But he was shocked because he had just seen three of the most beautiful girls at Hogwarts in their beds. Why is this a bad thing? Its not. But let's just say that Harry thought that Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown and Crystal Fletcher were definitely not morning people.

I wonder what Hermione looks like, thought a dishevelled Harry as he pulled bed number fours hangings apart. He didn't have to wait long for the light to fill up the area because his eyes had gotten used to the darkness. So once the light reached Hermione's face Harry jumped once again that morning. But not from fright… or shock… it was from amazement. Harry was looking down into the face of a rare beauty. Hermione was wearing a look of pure innocence and peacefulness that made Harry's thoughts of waking her up soar straight out the window. He kneeled down gently beside the bed and tucked a stray piece of hair away from her face. Harry didn't know how long he was staring at Hermione's sleeping form, for him it seemed like hours but in reality it was only five minutes. He was so lost in his gaze that he didn't notice when a half asleep Lavender Brown walked straight passed him and went into the adjoining bathroom.

It was when she came back from the bathroom a little more awake when she went in did she notice a dark figure kneeling next to her friends bed. She did the first thing her mind told her to do in this sort of situation.

Aaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

(Sorry, I don't really know how to write a scream, so just picture a real hight pitched girl scream)

Harry was so hypnotized by Hermione that he barely heard the scream that woke the whole of Gryffindor tower, including these people was unfortunately, for Harry's sake Hermione, who sat up so quick her head collided with his making him lose balance and fall back on the floor. He closed his eyes and rubbed his temple, trying to send the pain away. The next time he opened he noticed that the light had been turned on and had four wands pointing directly at him. The owners of the wands were all looking down at him with flushed faces. Harry decided to speak up.

'I guess your probably wondering what I'm doing in your room.' Harry said cautiously. All he got in return were four suspicious nods.

'Well… I was coming up here to see if Hermione' he nodded to the wide eyed girl, 'I wanted to see if she would like to come training with me' he then gave a nervous laugh, 'I was hoping you could protect me from those quidditch poles.' This last comment earned him one nervous giggle in return and three questioning glances. It was then that he noticed his surroundings, and more importantly how he was surrounded by four gorgeous, silk, semi see through material pyjama wearing, pink tinged cheeked girls. It was then that Harry's heart decided to speed up and his neck along with his face turned a brilliant shade of red.

'I'm sorry.' He muttered quickly. He then threw his hands over his eyes hoping that the girls didn't think he was some kind of pervert that sneaks into girls dormitory's and spy's on them. It was then that he broke himself out of his thoughts and heard feet shuffling across the room quickly. The girls must have realised why Harry had said sorry, for they were all running round like headless chooks trying to find their bathrobes to put on. He then tried to think of other things because his mind was showing him replays of when he saw all the girls previously. The girls were now decent so they walked back over to their intruder who still had his hands covering his eyes and was muttering things to himself.

'Harry.' Hermione called, but she got no response.

'Harry.' Crystal tried but still nothing.

The girls then shot each other evil looks and nodded to each other.

'HARRY!' They all shouted together. This worked a bit but not fully because Harry had stopped muttering to himself but he had not taken his hands off his face.

'Harry you can look, we've all got our robes on.' Hermione said with an amused tone in her voice. She held that amused tone because she realised that no matter how much Harry had changed on the outside, he would still be the same shy and nervous boy she remembered on the inside. She could only look down and smile as she saw that her boyfriend hands hadn't moved a bit.

'What's wrong Harry?' Lavender asked.

'Are we that ugly that you don't want to look at us?' Parvati chorused right after her best. Both girls were shocked at first that Harry had seen them with so little on but now they were hurt that Harry might actually think that they were ugly. Harry had heard the hurt voices and reacted the only way he knew how, sheepishly and honestly.

'Of course not… you four girls are the most beautiful girls in Hogwarts… I just didn't want to, you know… invade your privacy.' Harry only heard silence so he did the first thing his mind told him to do. Ramble.

'You see I only came up here cause I wanted Hermione to come with me to train and then I came in and I didn't know which bed was hers so I started looking and the first bed I looked in was yours Parvati, but don't worry I didn't see anything, of course that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to see something I mean your really hot, all of you are but I didn't see anything I promise' he then took a deep breath and continued on, all of the girls just let him continue. 'and then I went to your bed next Lavender and saw nothing but the same goes for you, you really are hot I can see what Seamus likes about you, I mean I'm sure you're a nice person as well but whoo and then I went to your bed Crystal, by this time I was getting annoyed, no I didn't mean with you Crystal I mean I remember the last time I was in your presence when you were in bed and I remembered that mind wasn't on task for a while, but I didn't look then either I promise and then I went to the last bed and I saw you Hermione.' Harry then started to calm down and talk properly as he remembered the look on Hermione's face when he saw her sleeping and he looked up at his girlfriend and spoke. 'You looked so peaceful, and all I could do was watch you sleeping, the thought of waking you up disappeared from my thoughts entirely. I removed a piece of hair from your face but that was all I swear, I would never do something you didn't want me to.' Harry, finished with his rambling looked down at the floor, missing all the disbelieving looks he was getting from the four girls. Parvati then looked over to a smiling Hermione and said.

'Hermione Granger, you are the luckiest girl alive, whatever you do don't lose him.'

'Trust me Parvati, I wont.' Hermione replied confidently.

Harry looked up and saw that all the girls were smiling at him. Thinking that everything was alright he stood up and smiled nervously back.

'I guess I'll go now, sorry for waking you all up, I'll leave you to get back to sleep, bye.' Harry then started walking back towards the dormitory door, but he hadn't taken three steps when he heard Parvati call out. He turned round and saw that the girls were in a sort of huddle, they were breaking apart as he finished turning and each shot him a mischievous look that he didn't like one bit. He watched as Crystal spoke first.

'Where did you think you were going Harry Potter?'

He then turned his head as Lavender continued to speak for Crystal.

'You didn't think you could just leave like that did you?'

He turned again as Parvati took the lead.

'We have held a little meeting and we have come to the conclusion.'

Harry then watched as Hermione gave him his sentence.

'And we believe that since you saw us with so little on then the deed should be repaid.'

All girls then looked at each other and nodded simultaneously.

Harry had faced a Basilisk, Dementors, Death Eaters and even Voldemort himself but none of them are even half as scary then four teenage girls pushing you into a corner with an evil look sparkling in each of their eyes.

Harry didn't train that morning, for some reason he didn't feel like it. The scene that took place in the girls dormitory had put him in a little bit of a daze. He was so distracted that as he came out of the girl's room he forgot to float himself, which in turn caused the stairs to turn into a slide, which in turn made Harry slide all the way back down to the thankfully empty common room, which was lucky because he wasn't sure he could face the accusing stares or the hissing whispers that would follow him if people were to see him come sliding down from the girl's staircase.

As soon as he picked himself off the common room floor he walked over and sat on one of the comfy chairs by the fire. It was there where his plans for revenge took place. Over the next two hours Harry thought of ways to get even with his so called friends. It was when the first sign of noise coming from the dormitories did Harry come up with a marvellous plan. He ran back up to his dormitory to see that three out of his four roommates were already up and about. You can guess which one was still asleep.

'Hey Harry. Where have you been off to?' Neville asked as he did up his red and gold tie.

'Oh nowhere, just down in the common room getting some extra work done' Harry replied.

'You really love your extra work don't you Harry?' asked his other roommate Dean Thomas.

Harry was about to answer when Seamus came to his rescue.

'Hey did any of you other guys hear someone scream this morning, or was it only in my dreams?'

'No I heard it to' said Neville, 'what about you Harry?'

'Err, yeah I think it was one of the girls in 4th year, she ran down into the common room and said she saw a mouse in their bathroom.' Harry lied. But it seemed as though everyone believed him.

'Hey Harry do you think you can wake up Ron, he's like a Hippogriff, he'd probably sleep through a war if you let him' Dean said whilst shooting an amazed look at the sleeping red head.

Harry didn't reply with words but walked over to Ron's bed and grabbed the water jug that was on his bedside table and proceeded to pour the contents right over Ron's head. This technique worked wonderfully well as the short tempered Weasley jumped out of his bed in a flash. Once he realised who had woken him up he started screaming profanities to the heavens. After a few minutes where he tried to catch a smirking Harry he calmed down enough for the others to talk to him.

'It was for your own good Ron.' Harry stated calmly.

'What did you mean you did it for my own good?' Ron asked incredulously.

'Well, look at it this way, the sooner you get dressed, the sooner you get down to breakfast, which in theory gives you more time to eat' replied Harry.

Ron was quiet for a few moments before Harry's words sunk in. He then dashed around the room looking for his school robes, he then ran into the bathroom and reappeared minutes later to record the fastest shower ever and then ran towards the door only to stop and turn to Harry.

'Aren't you coming?'

'Ron that was fantastic' yelled Seamus.

'Harry where were you when we needed you last year?' Dean said.

Harry shrugged Dean's comment off and walked to his trunk and pulled out a white shirt, black pants and a dark blue robe. As he was getting dressed, Ron, who was the only one left in the dormitory voice what was on his mind.

'Hey Harry, are you ever gonna wear the school uniform again?'

'Of course, I just haven't had the time to go get them yet, I'll get them as well as my school supplies on the weekend. Now come on I thought you said you wanted to eat.' Harry said whilst making sure that he had everything he needed, which was just the clothes he had on his back. He didn't have books or ink or parchment, the only thing he used since he arrived at Hogwarts had been his staff and he didn't need to carry that round anywhere. Happy with his appearance he followed a frantic Ron down to the common room where they waited for Hermione and Crystal. These two plus Parvati and Lavender came down just after Harry and Ron were deciding whether or not to go without them.

When Harry heard them coming down he kept his eyes firmly on the floor, he didn't want to meet the eyes of any of the girls that had stripped him down to his boxers that morning. But even though he wasn't looking he could feel all eyes of the girls on him and one quick glance told him he was right. From what he saw all girls were eying him rather ferociously. Not wanting to talk to any of them, not even Hermione he quickly muttered good morning and walked off towards the portrait hole. Ron thought this was all very weird and asked the girls what they thought.

'What? I didn't notice anything. Did you girls?' Hermione asked innocently.

'No.'

'Nup.'

'Sorry.'

'Come on let's get down to the great hall I don't know about you but this morning's activities have made me rather hungry' Hermione said whilst getting lost in her thoughts of that morning.

Ron didn't know anything about girls but something was definitely going on, but not wanting to waste anymore time he walked down the many halls and staircases hand in hand with Crystal to the great hall. The great hall wasn't quite full yet. It looked as though many people still weren't there yet. But one person that they did see was Harry, who was sitting all by himself half way down the Gryffindor table stirring the contents of his plate around in circles. The little group then moved down and placed themselves around the last Elemental. Hermione took the place to his right why Crystal sat on his left with Ron beside her. Parvati and Lavender sat opposite him with big grins on their faces.

'Hey Harry, what's up with you this morning?' Ron asked from behind Crystal's back.

'Nothing Ron, I'm perfectly fine.' Harry replied, not really concentrating with Ron, but secretly watching the girls place food on their plates. It was then that Dean and Seamus made the appearance by sitting besides Parvati and Lavender respectively. It was then whilst everyone was sharing pleasantries did Harry decide to put his plan into action. Inconspicuously he put his right hand under the table and performed a little charm he learnt off Merlin. He placed the charm on the food of both Hermione and Crystal's plate and then placed the same charm on Parvati's and Lavender food.

This is going to be hilarious. Maybe after this they'll learn not to mess with Harry James Potter, Harry thought to himself smugly, he then let a small smile grace his lips as all girls simultaneously lifted their food to their mouths and began to eat. After this Harry's smile got bigger and he began the countdown in his head.

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Aaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

The great hall's walls rang with the sound of hysteric screaming. The cause of the noise was coming from the Gryffindor table where all the 7th year girls thought that they had become undressed right down to there lingerie. The girls continued screaming whilst they tried to cover themselves up with their shocked and scared boyfriend's robes. All throughout the hall most of the female population started to gasp as they saw what was happening at their rivals table, but all of the male population was completely dumbstruck as to what was going on.

See this was all part of Harry charm. The charm was quite ingenious really. You see as soon as the charm took place the four girls believed that they had become rather exposed to the world, but in actuality they had never lost their clothes at all, but due to the charm it made all the female onlookers see the Head Girl and her friends a couple of steps away from being completely naked. Even though this may have been the case this didn't stop the boys looking completely stupid over at the Gryffindor table where the girls were currently trying to get up and leave but also trying to cover themselves up as much as possible.

There were many a boys that received slaps on the arms or there chest or in some cases, the back of the head. This only seemed to confuse the boys even more as they didn't know what they did to refuse such a punishment, especially the Headmaster himself who had just been clipped over the ear by the stern looking Transfiguration Professor, Minerva McGonagall.

You see Harry wanted payback. But he was also a gentleman. To the entire male population the four girls were dressed in their full school uniform but were acting as if they had just seen Voldemort. Still they all watched silently as the girls made it to the doors but stopped when they heard laughter. The laughter belonged to someone that had just pulled off one of the most glorious pranks in Hogwarts history.

Harry watched the many reactions go off around the hall as Hermione squealed loudly in his right ear and Crystal yelled in his left. His prediction was right. It was hilarious. It was then that he started feeling like something was pulling on him and he looked down to see that Hermione was trying to pull his robes off. He looked up and saw that his other friends were being assaulted by their girlfriends, he shot them a mock confused look and they returned it. The thing was they were serious. He started looking around the hall again to see that many of the males were being slapped by their girlfriends only resulting in their faces doubling their looks of confusion. Harry didn't know how much longer he could hold his composure, and he was nearly brought undone when he saw McGonagall smack a curious Dumbledore over the back of his head. He then looked back at his table and saw that the girls had given up their attempts to pull the robes off their oblivious boyfriends and had started to scream louder and try and get up out of their seats to run out of the hall. It was when the red faced, teary eyed, embarrassed girls were at the hall did Harry finally let out his laughter that had built up since the charm had begun.

Through his tears of mirth he could see that he was gaining furious glances from the females and more confused glances from males, but he could also see that his four pranked friends had turned around.

Oh shit. Was the last thought that went through Harry Potter's head as he saw an even scarier site than the one that had greeted him earlier in the morning. Instead of facing mischievous girls… he was facing angry girls… girls that looked as if they had transformed into very angry Veela.

Harry stopped laughing and stood up as slowly as he could, as though not to draw attention to himself. But it was no use. Everyone now new that Harry played some role in making the Gryffindor girls act the way they did. And they were right. Hermione, Crystal, Parvati and Lavender were now fuming and if the onlooker were to look closer you would actually see steam puffing out of their ears. The girls were now stalking back towards Harry, who had the right to look petrified.

Well I did say she was going to kill me, thought Harry as he tried unsuccessfully to move his feet.

'Umm Harry. What did you do?' Ron asked as he looked at his girlfriend whose face was set as if she was on a very important mission.

'Tell you what Ron, if I live through today I'll tell you.' Harry replied through the corner of his mouth. He then added. 'Hey Ron, what class do we have first?'

'Hagrid's. Why do you ask?'

'I'll see you down there.' Harry said quickly as he called his staff and vanished from the great hall, which was good timing considering the murderous looking girls had just arrived where Harry had just been.

'I'm going to kill him.' Hermione proclaimed in a deadly whisper.

'Don't think you're doing it by yourself, I'm helping.' Crystal added.

'And me.' chorused Parvati and Lavender.

With that said the four girls exited the hall and ran up to Gryffindor tower before they attended their first class, which was coincidently Care of Magical Creatures. They did not even look back to see all the disbelieving faces of all the staff and students. There was only one face that was showing a different emotion, and that was Albus Dumbledore, he was wearing the tiniest of smiles with eyes to match his humour.

Prongs lives on, thought the old man.

There were many people who still had disbelieving looks on their faces as they left the great hall that morning. By now they had all realised just what Harry Potter did to Hermione Granger, Crystal Fletcher, Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, but that didn't mean that that still couldn't believe it. They all knew one thing though. Harry Potter was in a lot of trouble.

'Do you think we will ever see Harry again?' Seamus mournfully asked his two friends as they made their way down to Hagrid's hut where the Care of Magical Creatures class was held.

'Not if Hermione gets a hold of him. That woman can get bloody angry sometimes.' Ron replied seriously.

'I know what you mean. And if those others girls are helping her I don't think Harry might be dead for good. I still can't believe he did that.' Dean said reminiscently.

'I know. I must admit though, it would have been good to see.' Ron said with a smile as he stopped in front of Hagrid's hut.

'You know Weasley I think I'm finally have to agree with you.' Draco Malfoy said loudly from behind the Gryffindors. Once again he was leading the Slytherins with his usual swagger. It was not known why Draco had taken this class after his 5th year, after all he was allowed to drop the subject but for some astonishing reason he and seven other Slytherins had decided to keep the subject as well. No one knew that he secretly enjoyed the class, I mean it's not everyday you get to see a Unicorn or a Chimaera now is it? He was just hoping one day they would study the Basilisk.

'It would have been good to see that Mudblood and her friends in nothing but their bra and knickers. Although I don't think I would have looked for long. Looking at such filthy animals would have caused my eyes to shrivel up just out of horror.'

Ron was about to go use muggle fighting techniques on Malfoy when he saw something that made him go absolutely happy. Standing directly behind Malfoy some 30 metres back was Taipan. Malfoy didn't know exactly what was going on with the Weasel but one second he was taking a defensive stance the next he was watching him as he started smiling stupidly.

'What the bloody hell is wrong with you Weaselby?' Draco demanded. He wouldn't tell anyone one but the look on Ron's face was starting to freak him out. It was then that he turned round to see what his two goons thought. When he turned round Crabbe and Goyle were nowhere in site, all he saw were two gigantic black claws, with metre length nails gleaming in the morning sun dangerously. Malfoy didn't bother looking up, he already knew what kind of magical creature this was. Not wanting to be to close he ran back towards the class keeping some of his pride by not screaming. It didn't matter though, ¾ of the class were all on the ground laughing.

Hermione and her friends had just arrived when they saw Ron moving towards Malfoy threateningly. She had heard what Malfoy had said and wanted to vent some of her anger away as well. She was still livid about the prank that Harry had put on them and she couldn't wait to find him so she could give him a piece of her mind. She was about to call out to Malfoy when she saw Harry's guardian stomp out of the forbidden forest. As the Hungarian Horntail drew closer she could see that many people had started to run away from the dragon, all except Malfoy who stood unaware of his surroundings. She then smiled as she saw Malfoy turn around and start to look as though he was pissing his pants. She then laughed along with everyone one else as Malfoy started running and flailing his arms about in a very unMalfoyish manner.

'Ello there class. We've moved on from Unicorns and now studyin Dragons.' Hagrid yelled loudly from just under Taipan. His beard was jiggling slightly which meant that Hagrid was very happy. And why wouldn't he be, all his life he wanted a dragon and now he was in the presence of one, a very big one.

'Now oo ere can tell me what type'o dragon this is?' he called out to the class. Hermione raised her hand instantly.

'That's a Hungarian Horntail.' She said proudly, she new that the dragon was Taipan so that meant that her boyfriend was somewhere here to.

'Correct Hermione, five points ter Gryffindor. Now why don't yer all come a little closer, so I don't have ter shout.' He yelled out over the class. Only two people moved, Ron and Hermione. Everyone else seemed to be frightened of the fifty foot dragon for some reason. Maybe it was because it was bearing its sharp teeth in a very evil smile.

'Come on now, ee wont hurt none I promise. E's a good dragon.'

Once seeing that Hermione and Ron moved, the rest of the class decided to follow behind them very carefully.

'That's the spirit.' Hagrid said gleefully. 'Now we will probly on'y be doin a weeks worth on dragons and then will move on ter the next creature, which I can tell yer is a goodin.' Hagrid finished by smiling broadly. This only seemed to make the class more nervous, if a dragon made Hagrid this happy, then what kind of animal could make him absolutely giddy.

'Now oo can tell me where dragons like ter live?' Hagrid said as he watched as Ron threw his hand up right away. 'Go ahead there Ron.'

'You can normally find dragons in large caves or even in the mountains where they will use there magical abilities to hollow the mountain out.'

'Correct another five points ter Gryffindor.' Hagrid said happily. His mood had improved greatly when he learnt that Harry had a dragon and it went up even more when Harry said he could use Taipan for his classes. 'Now oo ere would like to feed im?'

This seemed to be more than the class could handle as they started backing away, feared as though the dragon would eat them any second. It was only when Hermione Granger spoke up did everyone come to a halt.

'I'l- I'll do it.' Hermione said nervously. She knew that Taipan wouldn't hurt her if Harry was around, but from looking around she didn't know if he was even there.

'Ah good girl Ermione. Now just levitate this bit o meat and take it over and place it at is feet.' Hagrid said simply.

Hermione got the levitation part done well but it was when she started approaching the towering figure of Taipan did she start to stumble. Taipan started to move towards Hermione, his eyes showed a deep hunger like he hadn't eaten in years. Hermione stopped and placed the meat down, she didn't dare move so she just stood there and shut her eyes tightly. It was a little over a minute when she hadn't heard any sound of teeth grinding away at the meat that was in front of her. She was starting to get a little worried that maybe Taipan wanted to eat her instead and when she was to open her eyes she would come face to face with rows upon rows of sharp teeth. Feeling a warm breeze blow her robes about she Decided she couldn't take it any more and she threw caution to the wind and slowly opened her eyes. She then jumped about three foot in the air when her eyes fully focused to what was in front of her. It wasn't a warm breeze that was blowing her robes, it was Taipan's breath. The dragon was literally face to face with Hermione.

Taipan then moved forward and nudged Hermione's body with his nose.

'Pat him.' An amused voice said to her left. 'He wants you to pat him.'

Hermione looked to her left and saw Harry standing there with a nervous smile on his face. He took a couple of steps forward and grabbed Hermione's hand, he then lifted it with his and placed atop of Taipan's rough snout.

'It feels like sand paper.' Hermione said thoughtfully.

'Yeah, I s'pose it does.' Harry replied.

It was then that the bell rung throughout the whole castle and its grounds alerting everyone to go to their next lesson.

'Righto everyone will continue with that next lesson. Off ter yer next class now.' He then walked over to Harry and Hermione. 'I trust you can put Taipan back in his cage Harry.' He said with a wink.

'Yeah no problem Hagrid, see ya later.' Harry said. He then watched as the half giant walked back to the castle with his class. There were only four people left behind with Harry.

'Hello Harry, did you enjoy breakfast this morning?' Crystal said in a deadly sweet voice.

'Yes Harry are you sure you ate enough, you left very early.' Lavender said as she sidled up beside Crystal.

I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, Harry thought frantically.

'Look it was just a little joke.' Harry tried to say with a little laugh, but that little laugh came out as a little yelp as he watched as Parvati and Hermione joined either side of Crystal and Lavender. 'Look, I don't see what's so bad, it's not like any males saw you.' He said pleadingly.

Taipan I think you and I should get ready to make and emergency exit. Harry told Taipan through his mind.

Right you are Harry. I think that would be a wise idea. Taipan replied, he sounded quite amused with the whole issue.

'Harry could you see us? I know none of the others males could but since you made the charm did that mean you could?' Hermione asked as all the other girls leaned in closer to hear.

'I can honestly say that I didn't see you.' Harry said seriously.

'Are you sure?' probed Parvati.

'Positive. I may be a guy but I meant what I said before. You have your privacy and I wasn't going to intrude on it. I just wanted to get you guys back for this morning that's all. Look I'm really, really sorry. Can you please forgive me?' Harry asked while making the best sorry look that he could muster. He watched as the girls turned away from him and conversed in low whispers, every once in a while one of them would shot him a look over their shoulders. Finally they were done.

'All right Harry, you're forgiven.' They chorused. They all broke out into fits of giggles as they saw the relieved look that had adorned Harry's face. Just then Harry realised that they had been down there for quite a while and the next class would be starting in just a couple of minutes.

'Guys thanks for forgiving me, I'll make it up to you later I promise, but I think we better go now or where going to miss our next class. By the way what is our next class?'

'Oh no.' Hermione screamed. 'It's Transfiguration and we've only got a minute to get there were going to be late.' She wailed.

'Mione.' Harry called as he staff appeared in a flash of light.

All right Taipan you can go now, thanks by the way.

No problem Harry, see you later.

'Ok girls grab a hold of me and will be in the Transfiguration class in a jiffy.' Harry said as he watched Taipan disappear.

'Harry where did that dragon just go?' Parvati asked as she wrapped her arms rather lowly, Harry thought, around his waist.

'I'll tell you later Parvati.' Hermione said harshly, she to thought that her hands were a little to low for her liking. 'Come on Harry lets go.'

And with that they were off, arriving seconds later in the shocked Transfiguration class.

'Mr Potter, Misses Granger, Fletcher, Patil, Brown. Where have you been?' Professor McGonagall asked sharply as she watched as the four girls climbed off the last of the Potters.

'Sorry professor that would be my fault they were helping me put the dragon that we were studying in care of magical creatures back in its cage.' Harry said as he found a seat in the middle of the class with Hermione beside him, who was still glaring at Parvati.

'All right Mr Potter, thank you for your honesty just make sure it doesn't happen again.' McGonagall then continued on with class showing them human transfiguration. The class went relatively well right up until Neville managed to miss Seamus's who he was supposed to be transforming into a pig and hit Goyle in the back, who was practising with Malfoy. The effect was not very satisfactory. All Neville's spell was able to do was make a pigs tail sprout out of Goyle's rear end. Since no one except Harry and Hermione saw it and figured that it suited Goyle so well, they would not report it. Just after this incident professor McGonagall decided to check up on her favourite student.

'Right Miss Granger lets see how well you can turn Mr Potter here into a dog. Remember the spell is Transux Ada. Now say it very clearly and confidently or the spell will not work.'

Hermione took her serious stance and pointed her wand at a smiling Harry.

'Transux Ada.' Hermione yelled. An orange light then shot forth from her wand and hit Harry right in the stomach. The light encompassed Harry and then vanished. There on the floor where Harry Potter stood, sat a well looking trained Beagle.

'Excellent work Miss Granger, ten points to Gryffindor.' McGonagall said with a rare smile. 'Now why don't you turn Mr Potter back and we will see what he can do.' Hermione then flicked her wand and Harry was back to normal.

'Right, in your own time Mr Potter, now remember you're trying to turn Miss Granger into a cat' said McGonagall.

Harry lazily pointed out his hand at Hermione and casually said.

'Hytomis Chanais.'

'What? That wasn't the spell I was teaching you. Mr Potter, do it properly or I'll be forced to deduct house points.' McGonagall yelled firmly, she had now gained the attention of the whole class.

'Professor I think you better look behind you before you do anything.' Someone from the back of the class called out. It was then that McGonagall turned round and faced a full grown lioness.

'You didn't say I couldn't turn her into a big cat did you?' Harry said sheepishly as he turned Hermione back with a wave of his hand, he did not notice the look of awe that he was receiving from his girlfriend.

'No I suppose I didn't. Very good Mr Potter.' And for the first time in Minerva McGonagall's teaching career she dismissed a class early. 'Err, I think that might be enough… Class dismissed. Mr Potter could I see you please after the class has gone?' Harry just nodded and watched as the class filed, every single one of them was giving them there own look. The few Slytherins were shooting death glares at him for being an attention seeker, the few Ravenclaws were shooting death glares at him for shortening their class and since there were no Hufflepuffs the Gryffindors were all giving him huge smiles, the biggest one being Hermione who looked as though she was about to pounce on Harry like a real Lioness. Once the door was shut McGonagall started speaking.

'What in Merlin's name was that Potter. I ask for a cat and you give me a Lioness. And I don't remember telling you to use that spell. In fact I don't even know what that spell was.' She said crossly, it wasn't very often that she didn't know something and she didn't like it.

'Well I'm not surprised you didn't know it. That spell belongs to the Elementals, it's just the same as the spell you were teaching, except that is has a bit more power. You see with your spell all the person will feel is that he/she has changed physically, but with my spell it kind of turns you into a temporary Animagus. Just then Hermione would have felt like a real Lioness. Her sense of smell and sight would have increased into that of a real Lion' explained Harry.

'Oh…' was all McGonagall said. 'Well now that we got that out of the way you mind telling me exactly why you and four other students were late for my class Potter? I know that all you need to do is say the word and that big lizard of yours goes wherever it goes. So tell me.' She said whilst jabbing him in the chest with her finger.

'Well you see I was trying to talk them out of committing a murder.' Harry replied.

'Oh really? And who might I ask Potter were these girls planning to kill?' McGonagall asked although she already knew the answer. And for that she smiled mentally.

'Me.' Harry said after a few seconds. 'You see they wanted to get even with me after what happened breakfast.'

'Indeed' was McGonagall's short reply. She was turned away from Harry so it was quite a shock to him to see that his usual frowning professor had a medium sized grin on her face. 'I, in my many years of teaching have seen that prank been played once before Mr Potter. Can you guess who did it?'

Harry just shook his head.

'It was your father Harry. And if I remember correctly he played the prank on your mother and a few of her friends. He then spent the next few weeks trying his hardest in avoiding all contact with her, which in itself was particularly hard considering your mother spent every bit of her time out of class hunting down your father. I believe she got her revenge in a Defence against the Dark Arts class where they were holding a duelling tournament. After that everything was fine and dandy. But I don't think you need to worry, you see with his prank his was not the gentleman and his charm let everyone see the effects, not just the females. I might say though that your charm was very unique and for that I award ten points to you.'

Harry couldn't believe it, he had won house points by breaking the rules.

'But…'

I knew there was going to be a but, thought Harry.

'But you did break the rules so I'm afraid I shall be taking twenty points back off you. That is all Mr Potter, I suggest you go to lunch.' She herself then walked out the door and headed towards the great hall.

Harry then followed his transfiguration teacher out of the class and headed down to the great hall. When he entered he was awarded a standing ovation by the male population of the school. They now all knew what had happened that morning and they felt like showing their appreciation. Somewhat shocked by how big an effect a little prank could have, Harry quickly made his way down the tables, moving straight past his friends to sit at the front of the Gryffindor table. Even though he had changed quite a bit it didn't mean that he changed to like all the attention. He set to work of piling his plate with everything in a 2 metre range, whatever was to far out of reach he would summon. He didn't know that the whole hall was watching him pile the huge array of foods on his plate, so he quickly went to work on his feast. It was when he was tearing apart a sausage did he hear a little voice next to him.

'Hello.' It said shyly. Harry turned his head and saw that Lucy Simmons was standing next to him.

'Hello Lucy, would you like to sit down?' Harry said whilst he pointed his hand down at the place beside him. All he got in return was a little nod.

'How are you enjoying your classes?' Harry asked conversationally.

'Oh, they're not bad.' Lucy replied shyly. Harry didn't like acting weird around him.

'Look you don't have to be shy around me, I'm just a normal person like anyone in this room… well maybe except for the Slytherins.' This comment brought a little giggle from Lucy. 'There that's better.'

'I'm sorry, it's just that your you and I'm me. I've wanted to come over to talk to you ever since that duel. I just wanted to thankyou, ever since then the Slytherins have left me alone. They're afraid that if they talk to me then you're going to attack them.' Her voice was getting more confident as she went on. 'Well I just wanted to say thank you, I'll guess I'll see you later. Bye.' As she was getting up Harry stopped her.

'Hang on, do you want to eat lunch with me. I think I'm going to need your protection, there are a couple of crazy girls that are after me. Plus it wasn't me that scared those Slytherins away, it was you. When you grow up I'm positive that you're going to be a very good dueller. So what do you say, would you like to stay?'

Lucy stopped halfway through getting up and smiled the first smile that any of her friends had seen her smile in a while. 'I would like that.' Lucy replied. The two then spent the whole of lunch getting properly acquainted, they talked about their lives and their childhood, they talked about how much they missed their parents.

It amazed Harry how strong willed this little girl was, he was pretty sure that he could never have gotten through such a time. Unlike him, Lucy actually knew her parents, she spent time with them, she knew what kind of people they were. She knew how much they loved her. Harry had never had that.

'Where will you go during the summer break' asked Harry.

'I'm going to go stay with my Auntie. She's got seven pet Kneazles. My favourite one is Merlin, he's so playful and cute.'

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'Looks like lunch is over, thank you very much for spending lunch with me Lucy and remember if you ever want to talk just come to me and my ears are all yours, ok.' Harry said to his adopted little sister as he got up.

'Yes, I will, thank you Harry. Bye.' Lucy said to her adopted big brother. She looked to Harry as though she was caught in two minds as she was getting up to leave and at the last minute she lunged forward and gave Harry a quick hug. 'Bye Harry.' She then ran off to her friends, who smiled and waved at Harry, a thank you sign for making their friend smile again. Harry then walked out of the great hall and was halfway across the entrance hall when a voice made him stop.

'Should I be jealous?' A voice behind Harry said. Without turning Harry replied.

'Why Miss Granger I didn't think you were the jealous type.' Harry said as Hermione came from behind him and stood in front of him. She then stood up on her tip toes and gave Harry a quick peck on the cheek. At this Harry gave her a questioning look. As if reading his thoughts Hermione said.

'I'm still a little annoyed at you from this morning activities, but I couldn't resist. Now what do you this afternoon?'

'Umm' Harry said whilst scrunching his eyes up in concentration. 'I think I've got Charms and then… a study period. What do you have?'

'Charms and Arithmancy' she said right away. 'Come on I'll let you carry my books to Charms.' She then threw her heavy bag at Harry, making him take a couple of steps back from the force.

'Oh I feel so honoured to be carrying Hermione Granger's school bag.' Harry said sarcastically as he followed the scowling Head Girl to the Charms classroom. When they got there they took the last two seats and waited for their enthusiastic professor. Just then their little professor emerged from his office looking very happy indeed. He levitated himself up onto his pile of old tomes and began the class.

'Good Afternoon everybody, for today's class we will look at charms that can be used in a wizards duel. So copy down what I write and then will try a couple of them out.'

The next hour was spent writing about the way to say the incantations and the way to perform the proper wand movements correctly to perform the charm perfectly. There were so many charms that it took the class the whole lesson just to write them down.

'Alright class, next lesson we will put our learning to the test. For home work please read chapter 4 to 6 on Healing charms and see if you can perform any of them yourselves. Goodbye.' The tiny professor then jumped off his books and ran from the room.

'I wonder what he was so happy about?' commented Harry as he along with Ron and Hermione left the class.

'I've got no idea, he was off his bloody rocker. Anyway I better go or I'm gonna be late for Trelawney's class. See you guys at dinner. Come on Crys.' Ron said hurriedly to Crystal who had just come out of the charms classroom. They both then took off at a quick pace towards the north tower.

It was quite a shock to Harry when he came back to Hogwarts to see that Ron still took Divination even after all those years of boredom. Apparently he scored an Outstanding on his O.W.L.s, although it was a wonder to Harry how he actually achieved it. And Hermione told him that the only reason Crystal took Divination was because Ron took it. Harry just stared after them until they had rounded the corner and passed out of site. He then turned to Hermione.

'Well I'll guess I'll see you at dinner. Have a good Arithmancy lesson. Be good to the teacher and don't play up' teased Harry, all he got for his effort was a slap on the arm. Hermione also poked her tongue out at him as she left.

Well, lets go see what old Pincie has to say, thought Harry as he made his way up for his double study period in the library.

Harry's study lesson in the library was dreadful. He could not even pick up a book without the librarian Madam Pince giving him filthy looks. In the end he just had to read Mandy Brocklehurst's copy of the charms book, So You Think Your Charming, by Madison Lings. He then read chapters 4 to 5 and finished the assigned Potions work that he had received last week, which incidentally was due tomorrow. He was now caught up on all the work that had been handed out in the past two weeks. He had come to the conclusion that this year was going to be very hard.

He walked into the hall to see that food had already been sent up by the Hogwarts house elves.

That reminds me, I better go down and see how Clatey is getting on with Dobby.

Like Dobby, Clatey was also grateful for being freed from Malfoy, but she was not as enthusiastic as Dobby when she was in the presence of Harry.

I wonder where Hermione is, thought Harry as he made his way down the Gryffindor table. Ah there she is.

'Hello everyone, how was your day?' He asked as he sat down between Hermione and Crystal, planting a kiss on Hermione's cheek as he went down. When he looked up he saw that opposite him was Parvati and Lavender. He then realised that this is exactly how that were sitting this morning. He smiled to himself as the thought.

'Hello Harry how was your study lesson?' Hermione asked as she passed him a plate of his favourite foods. He took the plate and said thank you, it was then that he noticed that Parvati and Lavender plus Crystal were looking at his plate of his food excitedly, Hermione was the only one that looked like she was showing any restraint. Harry then made a quick check of the food with his senses.

Hmmm this could back fire on them perfectly, Harry thought as he came up with a quick plan, he then quickly cast an illusion charm over his Elemental tattoos, he didn't want to many people seeing those things, he then took a bite out of his chicken, noticing that even Hermione was now getting more excited.

'My study lesson was alright, Pince kept glaring at me…'

There it goes, Harry thought as he heard many gasps go throughout the hall, the gasps were caused by many girls that were watching the Gryffindor table. The reason for the gasps was because they were now looking at Harry Potter in nothing but a pair of red boxers.

Harry of course knew this was happening, even though unlike his charm that morning, where he made the girls believe they were wearing nothing but their unmentionables, this charm made Harry think that he was just wearing his normal robes but in reality he was only wearing boxers. It was the complete opposite of his charm. But he still acted as if he didn't know anything was going on, even though that was hard considering all the eye boggling looks he was getting from all the girls around the hall. Harry just continued on with his dinner.

'So anyway since she wouldn't let me borrow a book I had to go and borrow' he said whilst turning round and continuing, 'Mandy's copy so I could read those chapters.' He then waved at Mandy who turned bright red and wiped the drool that was hanging at the side of her mouth. Once he turned back he realised just how many girls and women had been looking at him. He nearly chocked on a piece of broccoli when he saw that the young Ancient Runes professor, Yolanda Spritz was even looking at him.

It seemed as though Hermione was starting to get madder and madder by the second. At first she thought that she would get a little payback by using this prank, but it just seemed as though he was not getting laughed at but was getting the most seductive looks any woman could give a man.

What the hells going on, she thought furiously. Hey why are you looking you've got a boyfriend and you do to. And you're a teacher, she had just noticed professor Spritz, paying more attention to her boyfriend then to the peas that were falling off her fork, that was half way to her mouth. She then looked at her own friends to see that they to were looking at Harry.

'I finished Snape's assignment as well.' Harry continued, he was secretly smiling like a goof, Hermione was really mad. He thought he better make an exit before any of the watching him died from lack of breath.

'Ah well, that was a very nice meal. I think I'll go up and get an early night sleep. See you in the morning. Night Hermione.' He said as he gave a quick kiss to Hermione on her furious lips, this seemed to calm her down a bit though. He then got up and said goodnight he said to the other girls. All he got in replies was. 'Uh huh.' 'What?' 'Nooooo. Oh sorry, goodnight Harry.'

As he left the hall he heard a collective moan go through the girls. This seemed to disturb the boys very greatly. They had watched the peculiar behaviour of the girls all night. But being males they had no clue as to what was going on. So they went back to their meals.

Hermione had left the hall with her friends not long after Harry had left, they were now in the empty common room walking across the room to go up the stairs to their dormitory.

'Well that was a good dinner.' Parvati said dreamily.

'Parvati you do realise that Harry is my boyfriend don't you?' Hermione said sharply.

'Yes' Parvati sighed, 'but that doesn't mean I'm not aloud to look is it.'

'Yes it does.' Hermione said as she opened the door to their dormitory.

'Hermione' said Crystal, 'even if we didn't want to look, it didn't mean would could help it. Harry's just…' she trailed off with a shiver.

Lavender who had been quite the whole way up to the tower spoke.

'Hey look what I found. It looks like a note.' She said as opened the note and read it aloud.

Dear girls, just a note to tell you how sorry I am for today's activities. It was wrong of me to do such a thing, I know that you would never pull such a prank on me, so I'm sorry. Did you guys notice the whole female population's behaviour at dinner? It felt as though I had eyes on me the whole time. And then I looked up once and I saw that Ancient Runes professor looking at me for some reason. It looked as though she thought I was naked or something. Actually all the girls seemed to think I was naked. Weird huh? Anyway I just wanted to say that, once again I'm sorry for what happened this morning. I just hope that if I ever got caught in a trap like that I would just be wearing my lucky red boxers.

Yours truly, Harry Potter.

'The little devil, he knew. He knew that we put a charm on his food. I'm really going to kill h-' Hermione yelled but was cut off by Lavender.

'Wait Hermione, there's more on the back.'

I guess Hermione's already worked out that the prank back fired. That's my girl. I just wanted to say that I have one more confession to make. Remember how you asked me if I could see you or not? Well I did. And let me tell you, I had to duck off and take a cold shower to get rid of the effects. You girls are really, really hot. But one last thing, did you know that all of you have holes in your underwear? Just thought you should know.

P.S. You girls have cute butts. Goodnight and have sweet dreams… I know I will.

Harry was in his dormitory when he heard his name being screamed to the heavens. He couldn't help but let out a little chuckle and say.

'Hmmm. Who to fear more? Hermione and her friends or Voldemort?' He said out loud. He then closed his eyes and had very peaceful dreams indeed.

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