Chapter name: For Becca

Chapter 7:
Devious Revenge

Rose smiled as she walked out of the classroom with Sirius.

They had come up with a plan to get back at James and Lily for their little stunt with the bookworms. Sirius was especially wrathful.

"BOOKS! THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!"

Rose let out something between a laugh and a sigh, and waited for Sirius to leave his current state of insanity.

Not that he ever did completely.

She was beginning to wonder if he was merely enjoying all the extra attention the bookworm-a-phobia was giving him. Everyone in the hallways was staring at him strangely, before glancing at her as if wondering why she associated with such a person.

She was beginning to wonder why herself.

Then he dragged her into a broom closet, his excuse being there wouldn't be any books there.

After finishing their normal broom-closet activities, they double-checked that the door was locked, then continued their plans for revenge.

Meanwhile, Lily was taking around a new student from America. Miami, to be exact. Although she and the new girl looked nothing alike, Lily had the comforting and unnerving impression that she'd found her long-lost identical twin. She found herself telling her everything about the bet, and how she felt about James. The American girl seemed to understand perfectly. She told Lily about a love/hate romance of her own that had just broken off a few weeks before her family moved to Scotland. After the tour, they sat and talked for a long time under the beech tree by the lake, until they were discovered by James.

"Lily! We were all wondering where you were! I don't believe I've met you," James directed at the new girl, "But Dumbledore told me to find Lily and bring her and..." His face took on a look as if trying to remember something odd. "K-something?"

"Keilani."

"Ah yes! Keilani! Weird name. Anyway, he wants to see both of you in his office ASAP."

Keilani, the new girl, looked disgruntled. She sighed. "It's Hawaiian. It means 'heavenly child' or something."

James nodded. "In any case, vamoose!" He put his arm around Lily and guided her up towards the castle. Keilani followed them unknowingly into Rose's and Sirius's trap.

Violet and Remus were studying together.

They were interrupted by a great deal of noise just outside the library, followed by what sounded like Rose shushing Sirius and pulling him, unwillingly, inside. Rose spotted them and walked over, pulling a whimpering Sirius along. Rose, though she was only 5'4, could be pretty intimidating when she wanted to be.

"Books... Bookworms... Don't let them get me... DON'T LET THEM GET ME!"

"SHUT UP, SIRIUS! Do you want Pince to come over here?"

Indeed, the librarian had been watching them, her eyes narrowed, hawklike. This silenced Sirius for the time being.

"Vi, Rem, we need your help with something. Or, more specifically, we need your knowledge to help us with something."

Remus looked slightly amused. "Would this have anything to do with the prank Lily and James played at Hogsmeade?"

Rose nodded emphatically. "Exactly! We don't know what to do!"

Violet raised an eyebrow. "Rose, if I know you at all, and I do, you have something remarkably devious planned out in that lovely innocent head of yours, but have no idea how to execute it. Am I correct?"

Rose flicked her hair out of the way and grinned. "Only one out of three, I'm afraid. Not at all up to your usual standard. Perhaps you'd better study more for the next quiz."

Violet grinned. "Three?"

"I do have something remarkably devious planned, but my head is certainly not innocent, and I know perfectly well how I'm going to put this plot into action. What I need is..." She looked between Violet and Remus. "Decoys. Please?"

After a great deal of persuasion, bribes, threats, and promises of Honeydukes' chocolate, Violet and Remus had reluctantly agreed to act as decoys.

"This better not backfire", Remus grumbled. "If you don't give that ten boxes of chocolate every Hogsmeade weekend like you said..."

Sirius coughed, after returning to his average state of sanity. "C'mon, Moony, old pal, you know we'd never cheat you!"

Remus looked at him for a moment, then turned to Violet. "Let's run while we have the chance."

Vi laughed. She knew as well as he did that they both wanted to see the looks on their faces.

Sirius suddenly stopped. "My Prongs-o-meter is tinging!"

Everyone grew quiet, and they could hear the distant sound of Lily and James', as well as another person's, voices and laughter.

"ACCIO INVISIBILITY CLOAK!"

The cloak flew into Rose's hands. She threw it over herself and Sirius, then pushed the other two forward. "Go!"

They looked at each other, shrugged, linked hands, and put on a show of strolling through the corridor together.

"Violet! Remus! New kid!"

James, Lily, and Keilani walked toward them. "Violet, Remus, Keilani, vice versa. Now we're all acquainted. We have to take Keilani to Dumbledore to get sorted and stuff. Catch up later!" James finished, waving.

Remus and Violet looked at each other.

"Wait a second. What did you say her name was?"

Keilani sighed yet again. "KEILANI. K-E-I-L-A-N-I. Hawaiian. Has anyone ever learned to say my name right? I'm the Skittle Queen of Keilaniland! You'd think people would know my-"

Just then, one large balloon hovered over all their heads almost ominously. It started drifting down towards them in such an innocent manner that under the invisibility cloak, Sirius was having a hard time not running over to play with it. Keilani, on the other hand, though an excellent therapist...

"BALLOON! YAY!"

She reached up to touch it. As soon as she did...

POP.

They all looked at each other, puzzled. They knew something must have come out of the balloon, but they couldn't see anything. They shrugged and continued on the way to Dumbledore.

Meanwhile...

Rose and Sirius were rolling on the floor, laughing so hard the former found it necessary to put a silencing charm over the both of them. "Did you see their" -gasp- "faces! I could die!" They continued in their silent laughter for some time, until they abruptly stopped simultaneously.

"We have to stop doing that..."

The five others continued on their way to Dumbledore. Luckily for them, most students were at dinner. The ones who weren't looked at them strangely as they passed. Keilani was the only one who really noticed, however, because the couples were far too busy acting, as she described to herself, couple-y.

When they arrived at the gargoyle that stood at the entrance to Dumbledore's office, they all looked at James. "Um... Chocolate Frog? Lemon Drop? Caldron Cake?"

The gargoyle leapt aside, and they walked up the enormous spiral staircase.

Dumbledore started speaking while looking into a huge stone bowl. "Ah, Keilani, I believe. I hope Ms Evans has shown you the way around?"

"Yes, sir."

"Right then. All you need now is..." He looked up. "Merlin's beard. What happened to you?"

The five teenagers looked at each other. Now that he mentioned it, they did start noticing something about each other...

"SIRIUS!"

They were covered in orange, gooey hair everywhere except where hair was supposed to be, namely their heads, eyebrows, and lashes. There, the skin was purple. They were also about half their normal height.

Lily was furious. "Forget Sirius. You think he had the brainpower to think of this!"

There was a general consensus.

Dumbledore looked amused. "I'll just get rid of this..." he waved his wand, "And as I was saying, Keilani, you need to be sorted. Just put this hat on your head and wait until it says a house name."

She eyed the hat warily. "It looks like it'll swallow me whole..."

Dumbledore chuckled and placed it on her head. A moment later...

"GRYFFINDOR!"

A/N: Hola. Sorry it's taken so long. School, and Ernesto... Keep the reviews coming!

Skittle Queen: You're psychotic. get over it.

Becca: a chapter with devious in the title. Show Kim?