DISCLAIMER: THE WORLD OF HARRY POTTER BELONGS TO JK ROWLING

" Shit, first day of school."

" Think of this as an adventure Stephanie, an exciting day lies ahead!"

" dumbass"

" Hey! enough with the negative-ness!"

"George, I am tired, and it's bloody seven in the morning, do me a favor and shut up."

The gang was in the Great Hall, eating breakfast and looking at their new course schedules for the year. Fred, Lee and George were all in their last year at Hogwarts, therefore had no classes with the girls. The only class Stephanie didn't have with Laura was Arithmacy second.

" Oh look, here comes the Royal Bitch herself!" exclaimed Stephanie sarcastically as they all turned to look at Pansy, who for some reason looked quite disheveled herself. She was pouring herself juice when all of a sudden she started crying spilling it everywhere.

" What's her deal?" asked Laura cocking her eyebrow.

" Who cares, she's not the one that got her head whammed into a wall! Oooh, I am getting chills just thinking of what she's going to get once I'm done with her!"

Lee coughed at her last comment, and said something that sounded an awful lot like " slytherin wannabe"

As the gang got up to go off to their classes, Fred jogged after Stephanie as she had gone to her DADA class and whispered into her neck, " Do you want to meet me in to room of requirements after dinner tonight?"

Stephanie turned around grinning slyly and said, " You wouldn't dream of taking advantage of me, now would you?"

" Me! Not a chance.." said Fred as they kissed good-bye.

First period was a disaster, Laura and Stephanie had been introduced to the WORST teacher they had ever met. She had a sweet voice, she wore a bow, she addressed them too nicely; they hated her.

Her nickname became Prof. Dung, short for Umbridge. They had been given the longest lecture, and put straight to work, Laura and Stephanie parted for their second class, chatting mutinously.

" See you at lunch."

" Yeah, already I can't wait!"

Once in her Arithmacy class, Stephanie sat down next to her usual partner Ryan.

They had sat together out of the blue first year, and now where inseparable in that class, always cracking jokes—even if he was a Slytherin. Of course, outside of class they never spoke as to not arise any suspicions, but sometimes they winked at each other out of amusement, and if anyone caught them, they would start blinking furiously " MY EYE! I HAVE SOMETHING IN MY EYE!"

" Welcome class. This year my sixth year class will have a couple fith years who I have decided to be advanced enough, so please welcome them. All right, now to business, please take out your books…"

Stephanie and Ryan who had been busy cracking jokes looked around to see who was new in their class. There were 2 slytherin girls Stephanie didn't know, and Draco Malfoy, sitting in the back. He was looking at the teacher as he spoke and didn't notice Stephanie looking at him—or he just started pretending to be looking at the teacher when he saw her turn around.

" Did I tell you about the professor who—" whispered Ryan, but was cut off as the teacher was coming around.

" No, how does it go?" whispered Stephanie out of the corner of her mouth.

" Well there's this professor who on the first day tell his students he understands that they can be mentally tired and stressed before tests, so he will excuse one of their test each semester. Suddenly this one guy asks the professor, ' What if you're suffering from sexual exhaustion?' so the Professor looks at him and says, 'Well, I guess you'll have to start using your other hand!"

Stephanie couldn't stop herself and started laughing whole heartedly.

" Ms. Kimberly! Please restrain yourself!" said their Professor looking outraged.

" Oh—sorry professor—it's just—you see I am suffering from laughinomania—it's really quite dreadful! You just start laughing suddenly, and you can't stop yourself, imagine what I do at funerals!"

" Well Ms. Kimberly, it seems that you should get Madame Pomfrey to sort that out for you, and as it would seem Ryan as well…" said the Professor highly amused, "perhaps you should go outside until you have come down. Off you go."

Stephanie and Ryan got up, red in the face, but still very amused and left the classroom as the Professor yelled out, " However sick you are, I still expect that essay on my desk tomorrow!"

" Professor, I suffer from Anti-essayatic…"

" Mr. Sidds, a wonder you are still standing when you are suffering from so many things, wasn't it last year that you and Ms. Kimberly were suffering from Testomania, and would wince every time I mentioned the word test?" chuckled the teacher. Ryan smiled and left the room.

" How cool is that teacher!" exclaimed Stephanie who now had the rest of the day free until lunch.

" He loves us. After all, we get the highest grades in that class—"

" –it's just we like to—GOOF OFF! We can't help it! I can't believe he excused us, I bet the others are fuming. For once I don't mind teachers playing favorites." Said Stephanie.

" So what now? Kitchens?"

" Yea, I could do with some kind of sugary cake."

They laughed and made their way to the kitchens were the house-elves welcomed them warmly and served them with all the greatest pastries they could have asked for, all the while joking around and laughing.

" You know Stephanie, I heard that every time you laugh it adds 10 seconds to your life. You're going to live forever!" said Ryan catching his breath as they were laughing.

" Hahahaha—I am going to hold you to that! Well we better go, lunch will be served soon, see you tomorrow my mischievous buddy."

" Later mate!"

They left in opposite directions, but both ended up in the Great Hall.

" How was class?" asked Fred as he sat down next to her.

" Oddly fulfilling."

" Hey Stephanie, what have we got next?" asked Laura.

" Uhh—I think it's potions with Snape."

" This is going to be the first time we'll see him since—" Laura stopped herself just in time, "—since the end of last year."

" Oh we just had him this morning. The same old guy, oily, ugly, just the same old guy." Said George helping himself to some chicken.

" Enough about the teachers, when are we putting phase one of our prank on?" asked Lee his eyes bright.

Stephanie smiled and said, "I like the way you think my man! How about tonight after dinner, I mean imagine, a deserted corridor, a lonely slytherin, a pack of revengeful gryffindors…"

" Simply perfect!" exclaimed George.

They all laughed, and started talking about Quidditch and who would be captain this coming year.

" It's not going to be either me or George, McGonagall would never give us the captain position, reckons we are trouble makers…wonder where she gets that idea?" said Fred innocently.

" Well that who's left?" asked Stephanie smiling.

" There's Katie, Angelina or Alicia, and of course Harry." Said Laura.

" Well besides Harry they are all in their last year, so it's bound to be one of the girls, I know Angelina kicks ass…"

" Oh you do George? And why would that be?" teased Laura.

" Uhh I am on her team…" said George not catching on.

" I think there's more going on then meets the eye…" Squinted Laura as Stephanie was getting up, because she didn't want to be late for potions, as Snape was bound to be horrible to her any excuse he could get.

Fred got up too, to walk Stephanie, as the rest of the gang finished their dessert.

As they walked out of the hall hand in hand, Stephanie smacked her forehead and said, " Fred, if we do the prank tonight then I can't meet you tonight."

" Why? We have all night." He said smirking.

Stephanie sighed and said, " Frederick Weasley, what am I going to do with your bad manners?"

To which Fred grinned wickedly and said, " I've got ideas. See you later." And he turned to leave for his class as Stephanie yelled out, " Pervert!" as a couple of first years looked up and giggled.

Stephanie was leaning against the wall next to the Potions room as Laura ran up out of breath half laughing.

" Hey, I thought you might be late!" exclaimed Stephanie as they had about 2 minutes 'till class started.

" Had to run—George—kill me—"

" When you're properly breathing again, I'd love to hear what happened." Laughed Stephanie raising her eyebrows.

" Can't—too exciting—Ok better now, George likes Angelina, or at least I think he did, well I sort of said he did as he tried changing the subject, then he tried to deny it, well I think he denied it—see I am not too sure because at that point me and Lee were laughing too hard to hear him, I just got away, he started chasing me out of the Great Hall—" Laura was clutching her side, tears of laughter visible in her eyes, when suddenly the potions' door opened.

" Are you quite finished?" drawled an oily voice belonging to none other than Professor Snape.

Laura stopped abruptly as he motioned for the students to enter.

" Today, you will make a 'Vampara Potion' which will turn the drinker into a vampire for a night, though not crave blood. When given to a human, it will change their appearance to resemble a vampire, whiter skin, glowing eyes, and a different physique depending on the person who drinks it. Any slight mess-ups, the potion will turn the drinker into a bat instead. Instructions on the board, to be finished and on my desk at the end of the period." He then turned and went to his desk. Laura and Stephanie went to get ingredients, muttering about the injustice of it all.

" Dammed, a difficult potion on the first day of school. That guy needs to get laid!" said Stephanie exasperated.

Laura and Stephanie were working in partners, but there were four to a table, the other two being two Slytherins, a macho Blake Kruster and his evil friend Edward Nury. They had been in the same class since first year, and had never gotten along. Always trying to ruin one another's potion.

" Sooo Blake, what'd you do this summer? You know, besides the usual cross dressing and hooking up with guys?" asked Stephanie smiling much too sweetly.

" Oh well you know me, took your mom out on a date, since she doesn't really get any from your dad." He replied smirking.

Stephanie pressed her lips together in sneer and raising her head she replied, "Oh yeah, I heard about that, she asked me to borrow my tweezers, because she says sometimes your pecker is a little hard to find."

Laura stared laughing and so did Edward, but stopped himself after a pointed look from Blake.

They stopped talking as Snape was walking around the room. He stopped by Laura and Stephanie's cauldron and said silkily, " Well look here class, here is the perfect way to do this potion—all wrong. Well well, tomorrow everyone will try their concoction, and if we see two bats around the castle, be sure to not kill them as they might be Ms. Sockatine and Ms. Kimberly, but then again, I know how tempting it is to just swap down two annoying bats…"

Stephanie and Laura glared, as Blake and Edward smirked.

" Too bad I don't have a fly swatter now, or I'd take down this over grown bat." Laura said before she could stop herself looking straight at Snape.

His nostrils flared, and in a low whisper, audible to everyone, "Detention this Saturday night, let's make it 4 hours." And he turned and walked to another table.

"Laura, why did you answer? You know he just wants you to bite the bait." Said Stephanie adding more holy water to her potion.

" I know, it just got to me. Plus you have to admit that comeback was pretty good."

Stephanie muffled a laugh, and so did Edward until Blake kicked him. The class was going by extra slow, and until now Snape had avoided Stephanie's eyes, when he had been over at their table he had not looked at her; not that she minded…

With 10 minutes left of class, the students were starting to put their potions in vials and putting them on Prof. Snape's desk. Just as Stephanie had corked their potion, which she thought looked perfect, so did Blake. They walked side by side to Snape's desk and set them down at the same time.

As they walked back to the table he whispered out of the corner of his mouth, "You're going down Kimberly."

" Pleased to oblige Kruster"

They packed up their books and as class was over, Blake whispered a spell out of the corner of his mouth for Stephanie and Laura's book bags to rip. Everything came tumbling down as he and Edward laughed.

Stephanie got to her feet angry as hell and said, " You're going to pay you bloody ass wipe!"

" Ms. Kimberly, how would you like to join Ms. Sockatine for detention this Saturday, I hear Mr. Filch is cleaning the boys bathrooms." Said Snape commandingly.

Stephanie and Laura had to bite the inside of their cheeks to not say anything back, but just turned around to pick up their stuff. Stephanie's eyes went wild, her poetry notebook was missing! She grabbed Laura so they could leave the class room quickly.

" Laura, that Kruster took my book! I KNOW IT WAS HIM! GOD THAT UGLY BRUTE! I AM GOING TO KILL HIM, BLOODY FACE-ACHE FUNGUS TOED GEEZER!" Stephanie was red in the face, after all her poetry notebook was hers and hers alone. Rarely had she let even Fred read it.

" You know what Laura, how about we extend Pansy's precious gift to Edward and Blake, I think it would be just darling!"

Laura smirked and shook her head, as they headed to their last class of the day, Divination.

Now divination happened to be Laura's specialty. Well not because she had any real sight, but she just had this untamable imagination to make up believable crap Prof. Trelawney just ate up like butter.

" Ahh, How was your summer my dear?' the Prof. asked as Laura sat down in her usual comfy 'poof.'

" Oh it was great, well you know how last year I made the prediction I would get violently sick, well I did, but other than that it was alright. " Laura said beaming, then smirking at Stephanie who was trying to keep a straight face.

" My dear, you really do have the sight!"

The class went by quite enjoyably. If Stephanie was missing some of that creative divination-imagination, Laura would make up things for her. They spent the class reading Tarot cards, which got wilder and wilder as the class went by.

" – And then, you will have a wild passionate encounter with a stranger, who will grab you and kiss you all over, Your face, neck and lips—"

" Uhh Laura… you can stop now…"

" Oh right, sorry."

Wow, getting carried away there…hehe…I have my reasons. She thought.

At the end of class they went to the common room to get certain things prepared…

" Oh this will be priceless!" said Stephanie as she relaxed on her favorite couch by the window after having gotten everything ready. Fred, George and Lee entered the common room and joined the girls, as George looked around for something or someone.

" All right, we have our part set." Said Lee as she sat down on a stool.

" So let's go over this just one last time-" said George.

" After dinner, Stephanie you go towards the Slytherin common room, or wherever Pansy is patrolling, and make her follow you. Then me and George will be ready, then time to watch the show." Said Fred wrapping his arm around Stephanie.

" Oh, and Laura, you have to get Blake and Edward to follow you." Said Lee.

" Rite…this is gonna be good." Said Laura.

" Hey do you know those owls?" asked Lee as a gray owl fluttered around the window and a brown one behind it.

" Nope, let's open the window and see." said Stephanie.

The gray owl soared to Stephanie and the brown to Laura, dropping off a letter each, then took off again. Stephanie saw her letter was from Dumbeldore.

" What are those?" asked George.

" Uhh—I need to get my sweater from my room—"

" yeah me too—"

The girls got up, but the boys, having gotten a little tired of them always trying to change the subject when strange things like that happened, got up and blocked their way. It was effective, as all three of them ranged from 6 feet to 6 feet 5 inches, towering over the girls. Stephanie glared but sat back down.

" not fair…not my fault I didn't grow any more…"

Laura was thinking up a lie fast, and started saying, " This letter, it's from my dad—"

" No it's not" said Stephanie.

" Stephanie?" hissed Laura.

" This letter is from Dumbeldore." Said Stephanie not looking at Laura, but looking at Fred.

" Why did you get a letter from Dumbeldore?" asked Fred.

" I don't know, that's why I was going to open it in my room."

" Well open it here."

" I don't want to."

"I'm hungry let's eat!" said George having heard all he needed.

They all got up, and dropped the letter business.

Hey I didn't lie! Oooh yeah! Who's the boss! Thought Stephanie very much relieved.

They ate, but were all too eager to say much, and kept laughing when they looked at the Slytherin table.

Draco saw Stephanie glance over a few times, but had no idea why. He was still thinking about the night before. He had talked to Pansy afterwards, talked down to her, the usual. After all, in Slytherin, he was the boss, and people did as he said, or they would have to answer to his goonies. After Arithmacy, he had talked to Ryan, well not as much talked as threatened him. He told him he was not to get friendly with a Gryffindor, and least of all Stephanie. Ryan had just nodded and not said anything. Ryan would never imagine it was because Draco had a thing for Stephanie that he commanded such a request, usually Draco said these things because he had a score to settle, only Draco knew this time it might be different.

And now at dinner…Why does she keep looking over here? I wouldn't mind if her dumb friends didn't glance all at once also? Did she tell them…no…can't look like I've gone soft. No, not me, not Draco Malfoy….

Stephanie got up and winked at her friends as the prank was about to be put into motion!

She went first to the Common room, to get her wand and some dungbombs, then set about walking around the castle, to be at the Dungeons around 9.

In the meantime, Fred, George, Lee and Laura continued eating looking as if they weren't planning to sabotage the Slytherins later on. Laura got up and made for the library after Blake and Edward, trying to not look like she was deliberately following them, while the boys went to a broom closet to get their stashed supplies.

IN THE LIBRARY:

Oh God, don't tell me they are going to do homework! I am going to have to sit here this whole time…hey wait? Isn't that—wait, that's Stephanie's notebook…ooh she was right the git DID take it. he he…and now he is going to pay. Haven't people learned by now not to get on Stephanie's bad side…

" Hey Edward listen to this." Said Blake grinning as he read something out of Stephanie's notebook,

"Forever embraced in sweet taken sin,
A touch of skin and a blow of the wind…."

" Woah, sounds rather sexual to me." Said Edward grinning rudely.

Oh God, how disgusting, those twats better not get any ideas…it's just Poetry for God's sake!

" Hey, if she wasn't in Gryffindor…mmmm…" relished Blake as Edward laughed.

ARGH! Definently not telling Stephanie this…ok can't hear anymore. Hey is Madam Pince giving me a dirty look? I'm just reading, and spying on people, nothing wrong with that! Ok, better get this started…

Laura got up, in plain view of the Sytherins and went to get a book from a shelf near them. They stopped talking suddenly, and Blake put the notebook away.

" Hey Sockatine, your friend missing anything from her bag?" asked Blake sneering.

Laura turned around, acting surprised to see them there and said, " Nope sorry, good night!" and she left.

" Mate, let's go." Said Edward. Laura had never been so…courteous towards them, it was time to check what was up.

As they followed her, Stephanie was looking for Pansy towards the dungeons…

Where is that bitch? Now I have to look for her sorry ass. Let's make this faster.

Stephanie set off dungbombs in the corridor, and some Firecrakers which made a HUGE racket. In no time at all, Pansy appeared wearing her badge screaming, followed by Draco .

" I am a prefect! Don't move! I can give you detention!"

Stephanie looked at her just as it dawned on Pansy who she was.

" You!" yelled Pansy.

" Me! " mimicked Stephanie as she turned to get away.

" I can give you detention!"

" Not if you can't catch me!"

And Stephanie started running, as Pansy was thinking whether to run after her, or just set a spell on her. Stephanie having thought as much had cast a blocking spell around her. Draco hadn't said anything, nor had he stopped Pansy from running after Stephanie.

She ran just around the corner, as she saw Laura running towards her followed by Blake and Edward.

" I guess you're trapped! 4 against 2!" said Pansy cruelly excited.

" Guess you can't count, I only see 3 of you!" said Laura.

" Draco—Draco baby, they're here!"

" That's right call Malfoy, that way when you two are together you have at least half a brain!" said Laura as her and Stephanie scooted back towards a painting on the wall. The Slytherins were closing in on them, Draco just walking slowly, not gaining up on them, but not stopping the other Slytherins either.

When Stephanie and Laura were almost against the wall the painting suddenly opened up, and out came Fred, George and of course Lee. They started shouting spells they had found in " HOW TO MAKE ENEMIES PAY IN ORIGINAL WAYS," by Gregory HeeHaa.

Costumes were flying out of wands, Lee was in charge of throwing the ammunition of dungbombs, while Fred and George dressed up all four Slytherins.

Oh bloody hell! Draco! What is he going to think! He helps me and I--- but Stephanie had no time to waste on her thoughts, because it was now time for her and Laura to put the Slytherins to sleep.

The whole prank was in two parts. Part one: getting the Slytherins and dressing them up. Part two: waking them up in the Great Hall tomorrow morning.

The gang checked to see no one was around, then levitated them to the Great Hall, and after putting them in a deep—deep sleep, they hid them in a corner, and Lee made them invisible with a One- time- Use Invisibility sheet he had bought in Spain during the summer. It had been the most expensive thing he had ever bought, but well…this was worth it.

Then the gang left the Great Hall, trying to not make a noise as they headed back up to the Gryffindor Tower, where they let lose and laughed till their cheeks were spotted with tears.

" Oh mates, I can't wait until tomorrow morning!" said George after catching his breath.

" I know! –ow—Lee, how long does your sheet work?" asked Stephanie.

" 8 hours tops, so it's perfect. Tomorrow morning at 7, behold the Slytherin transformation!"

They all laughed again, making George roll on the ground banging his fists, which made Stephanie laugh even harder, that no noise was coming from her very red face.

" Hey wait! What about my notebook!" asked Stephanie suddenly serious.

" Don't know. I looked for it after their bags fell on the ground but I didn't see it." said Laura.

" Shit" said Stephanie her heart beating.

George was the first to yawn lying down on the carpet. It was one in the morning, and the Common Room was clearly empty except for them.

" Well I'm off. Need to wake up on time to watch the show." Said George as he got up, followed by Lee.

" Yeah me too." said Laura going to her dormitory.

" Well I guess I better go too.." said Stephanie, but Fred pulled her back down,

"Fred, it's late, I don't want to get caught in the corridors or the teachers will definitely know it was us when they see Pansy and the rest tomorrow."

Fred agreed, but said, " All right, no hurry. Let me just kiss you good night then."

She slid down onto his lap, as they kissed fervently. Fred's hands were roaming under her shirt as she took a quick intake of breath.

" Frederick, I better say good night, or I'll never leave you."

" Good, I never want you to leave me." He said kissing her bottom lip.

Finally they both went to bed with tousled hair, and rumpled shirts. Both with flushed cheeks, but cheery expressions.

In her dormitory, Laura got out the letter she had gotten previously that day. Hers hadn't been from Dumbeldore. It had been from Sirius. She opened it, her heart beating very fast, and lit her wand to better read it in the privacy of her four poster bed.

Dear Laura,

I hope you are well, and that school has started out well enough. I am writing to you to apologize for my conduct. What happened between us should never have happened. I talked to Remus, and being his perceptive self he found out there had been something regarding you and me. He is right in saying that you need to finish school and look at your future ahead. I do not want to be the run away convict that ruins your life, or gives you heartbreak, for you deserve much better. I hope you and Oliver will be happy together, or whomever else you come to love in the future. Upon the end of this letter, we will be nothing more than friends. I do regret my behavior, as it was in no way your fault. I am older than you, and therefore it was my lack of judgment that made things go as far as they did. I am sorry.

Sirius

Laura re-read the letter just to make sure she had misinterpreted it in some way, but no…it was all there, plain as day. He did not want her. She was breathing heavily when she set the letter down in her trunk and got to bed.

Don't think about it now, think about it tomorrow…it's only a dream. She thought as she fought the urge not to cry.

----

As Stephanie got to her dormitory, she noticed all the girls in her dorm were apparently asleep, Laura included. She was about to get to bed when she remembered Draco.

I can't leave him like that…after his kindness the other day. Damn if only I wasn't so damn honorable, always have to do what I feel to be right! Note to self: I bet I got these genes from my mother, let's not pass on this curse.

She left the dormitory, heart beating in fear of meeting a teacher. If she was caught now, she could sign her own detention papers. It was 2 in the morning; if anyone found her she was dead meat.

Thankfully she didn't meet anyone on the way. She went to the spot where the costumed Slytherins were, and had to bite her cheek to not laugh at the sight of them. She put the invisibility cover back on the other three, and took out her wand to wake Draco.

Wait, better take off his costume first…don't know how he will react to this new…well, I'm sure he would have gotten many laughs tomorrow…

After having removed his costume she woke him with a simple spell she used often on Laura. He stirred as she bent down to prod his arm for him to get up.

"…what…"

" get up" whispered Stephanie.

He blinked and opened his eyes rubbing the back of his head.

" what did you and your friends do to me?"

" nothing, just get up"

Draco got up, his eyes dark and quite frightening in the dark. Stephanie couldn't really see him, except for some shadows on his face. He looked at her, her messy hair, tousled appearance, worried expression…I wouldn't mind seeing this in the morning, her hair messy after some good--

" come on Draco we've got to go"

He followed her out of the Great Hall, not saying a word. Once outside in the corridor that led to the Slytherin's Common Room she stopped. Only his eyes were visible in a brim of light on his face. He was looking at her with an intense gaze of authority.

Wow, now I think I understand why some people are afraid of him…thought Stephanie as he turned towards her. He advanced on her, as she had nowhere to go but against the wall. He looked menacing.

" listen, I am really sorry. This has nothing to do with you, just Pansy…and some other twits." Whispered Stephanie looking at him with large eyes.

" Are you sure you weren't supposed to be in Slytherin? I think the Sorting Hat made a mistake." He replied . That was supposed to be an amusing comment, but the way he said it, he was in no mood to laugh.

" Why does everyone say that? Well anyways—uuuhh—thanks for yesterday and all, guess I'll see you around. " she turned and fled down the corridor, as he went to his Common Room, his eyebrows knotted.

He had the bearing of something ungovernable, there in the dark dressed in his black shirt and pants, his sinister expression disturbing the darkness. In his right hand reaching into his pocket for a notebook he had found on the ground.