"How did Malfoy do it?" Hermione asked curiously.
"We passed him in the hall on the way here. He must have cast it then."
Hermione looked at it again and couldn't help giggling. Harry glared at her and she shut her mouth tightly to suppress those irrepressible giggles. She made a couple of strange noises in the back of her throat before she caught him glaring at her again. She gave him an innocent look which no one believed before escaping to their joint bathroom.
Those remaining heard her gales of laughter from behind the barely soundproof door.
It wasn't hard to count the number of rolled eyes from those in the common room.
A moment later Hermione re entered looking red in the face but composed and all the eyes rolled back to their prospective owners.
"So, Harry, what are you going to do to Malfoy this time?"
"I'm thinking along the lines of public humiliation. It's gotta be good though."
"Levicorpus?" Ron suggested.
"Not enough. Maybe later. We'll keep it as a backup."
"Hermione, is there a way of duplicating a spell so that it works on a lot of people at once?" Ginny said with that glint of mischief in her eyes that meant she was inevitably up to something.
"Yes. It's a fairly simple spell. What did you have in mind?"
"We play Slytherin this weekend don't we? Well what I propose is…"
That Saturday the Gryffindor team knew the score and several other Gryffindor students had also been filled in so that their involvement could be included.
The first part of Ginny's plan was that Gryffindor would beat Slytherin by a lot to annoy them for starters. Well, winning was a given.
As Harry caught the Snitch from right under Malfoy's nose and raised it in triumph in front of the Gryffindor supporters, wands were drawn from the Gryffindor's who were in on it, including Harry and his fellow teammates. Hermione murmured the duplicating spell and everyone else muttered their spells. All the spells met and formed a white beam that was directed directly at the Slytherin team and their supporters.
Someone screamed as it hit them, probably a Hufflepuff.
The next moment the Slytherin team were flying around the stadium being attacked by flying bogeys, their hair was crimson and gold and they were shouting unintentional comments like "Gryffindor rock!" and "Slytherin stink!".
They got off easy. The Slytherin supporters got what they did but they also had a number of other hexes on them. An example would be Crabbe and Goyle doing a synchronized tap dance. Several of them were singing the school hymn very off tune. Pansy Parkinson had taken to snogging everyone close to her.
Three corners of the stands erupted with shrieks of laughter. Three guesses who they were.
Ron then delivered the final blow. He made them sing the Gryffindor version of "Weasley is our king".
As Harry watched them, grinning broadly, he let the Snitch go and caught it again after a few seconds, just as his father had done. Hermione noticed that he also messed up his hair in very James Potter fashion.
"Oh dear lord!" she sighed as she turned her attention back to the Slytherin end of the stadium.
