Ginny Weasley was bored. Her family and Harry and Hermione all recognized the symptoms and made themselves scarce. A day of boredom for Ginny Weasley was seriously being considered for Ministry hazard pamphlets.
Fred had grabbed Angelina and retired to a quiet section of the library. Harry, Ron and Hermione had grabbed the marauders map and were obviously being very evasive. Especially Hermione, the last time that Ginny was bored, it had resulted in a make over and lipstick that wouldn't come off for a week.
George had so far managed to save himself by jumping into various broom closets (and disturbing sundry unsympathetic couples) and behind various suits of Armour and into empty classrooms.
He was just congratulating himself on his narrow escape when he was stopped short by a sugary sweet voice saying "Georgie…."
Wide eyed and terrified, he turned around to face his baby sister.
15 minutes later he found himself being ruthlessly dragged down the corridors to the Gryffindor common room. Abandoning all pretence of dignity and maturity, he was kicking and screaming and crying for help.
Shiara rounded the corner, looking for Shane who was pursuing some gryffindor fourth year. The sight that met her eyes did much to increase her respect for Ginny Weasley.
George was holding onto his younger brother's leg screaming "If I go down, you're going down with me!", almost frothing at the mouth. Ron was in turn holding onto Hermione and Harry who looked like they were going to die laughing. Ginny was the only calm one with a firm grip on George's ankles.
When George noticed her, he took one of his hands off Ron's leg to wave and to his horror found himself being dragged away. Ron heaved a sigh of relief and slumped against the wall.
What Shiara found even stranger was that all the Gryffindors in the corridor didn't even bat an eyelid, like this was a daily procedure. George's screams echoed through the corridors for a while till he was dragged out of range.
She almost felt sorry for him.
"what is she going to do to him?" asked an awed first year Hufflepuff.
Ron shuddered eloquently and said "something too awful to contemplate, poor george"
Harry nodded solemnly and said "R.I.P".
Hermione was the only one smirking evilly.
"what!" asked Ron
"Wonder how he feels about week long lasting coral lipstick" she said with a grin.
With this mental picture firmly fixed in their minds, the crowd dispersed.
George Weasley had been hiding in his dorm for two hours. Nothing Fred and the others said seemed to convince him to come out.
"what happened?" demanded Dean Thomas of Harry and Ron who were waiting with the others for George's appearance.
In hushed tones Ron said "Ginny got him, she was bored…"
Dean nodded sympathetically and joined the crowd in the common room waiting.
Fred finally resorted to using magic and got the door open. He walked over to his brother's bed and parted the curtains. George was lying face down on his bed, making no noise. Fred shook him and George mumbled "what do you want?"
"listen idiot…we have to go for dinner, come on!"
"no way am I going to dinner looking like THIS!"
"what did she do to you? Show me!"
"NO!"
"just shut up and show me, you'll have to sometime"
George turned around and let Fred see the damage that Ginny had done to him.
Fred gasped as he took in George's red short spikey hair. Gone was the characteristic George Weasley hair cut (rather, his un-hair cut since he had just let it grow all over the place).
"you know…it doesn't look all that bad"
"I look like a pretty boy!"
"no, no…its not that bad"
"yes it is!"
"wait, ill get Katie and Angie to come up and look at it, they'll tell you the truth"
"no they wont, ask Hermione"
"ok..ok…fine..ill ask Hermione"
two minutes later, Fred returned with Hermione. She took in his new hair cut with a frown on her face. George, seeing her frown, groaned and buried his head in his pillow again.
Laughing, Hermione shook him and said "George! GEORGE! It looks great!"
"but you were frowning!"
"that's because Ginny actually did something right for once…and it wasn't for me!"
"are you sure?"
"yes!"
"fine…ok..ill go down for dinner"
Hermione grinned and walked off muttering about coral lipsticks and haircuts.
All that his friends had to say was "whoa!"
Ginny grinned at her audience and said "see…! I told you I could cut hair, whose next?"
The crowd tried to slink away as quietly as possible.
"Hmph" said Ginny, bugged, "you make one mistake and no one ever trusts you again!"
"you turned me into a girl!" yelled Seamus, irritated.
"it was hilarious" said Ginny, laughing.
"it was downright humiliating" muttered Seamus, stalking off.
Melissa and Angela had been working overtime on making the world a better place. They had matched up Shane's clothes, cleaned Phil's side of the dorm, given Jake lessons on how to talk to girls and for some reason were now sitting on either side of Shiara on the couch staring at her pointedly. Shiara, inwardly quaking, was pretending to read her book when Angela said in the voice of one possessed "you need a haircut"
Shiara gaped at them in shock… she had long straight black hair. It had always been long and well…straight. Melissa was grinning widely as Angela said "sweetie, you need a change, your hair will always grow back".
Before she could reply, she found herself being dragged off to her dormitory by her two best friends.
She felt a sneaking sympathy for George.
An hour later….
Shane whistled and Phil and Jake were grinning so much that she thought their faces were in danger of cracking.
"that bad?" she asked anxiously.
Shane laughed and offered her his arm and said "its so bad that I want to take you to dinner"
"to protect me?"
"to pretend that you're my girlfriend!" said Shane laughing.
Angela and Melissa pretended to take bows and blew kisses to the astonished guys in the common room.
"Not bad " said Raoul (every house has a resident fashion queen who isn't exactly female, if you know what I mean)
Shiara felt like a goldfish in a bowl…everyone she passed seemed to be gaping at her. She was relieved when they found places at the Ravenclaw table.
Looking around at the other house tables, she saw Blaise send her one of his patented evil smiles and raise an eyebrow at her. She shrugged and pointed at her innocent looking best friends. Draco Malfoy, who was sitting next to Blaise, grinned at her and pretended to worship her. Laughing, she looked at the Gryffindor table and saw Seamus Finnegan give her a thumbs up and then she saw George.
He was sitting with his twin as always and seemed to trying to hide himself behind his sister. He was failing magnificently because Ginny was a good head shorter than him. Giggling, she noticed that someone had finally cut his long red hair and spiked it. He actually looked kinda hot. She could tell that all the girls around her agreed. He looked completely uncomfortable though and when he caught her eye, gave her a helpless look. She smiled at him and mouthed "nice hairdo". Grinning, he mouthed back "you too". Blushing a little, she returned to her food and looked up to see all her friends looking at her expectantly.
"what?"
"nothing" they chorused, evil grins in evidence.
This was going to be interesting.