Hermione and Ginny sat before the fire in the common room later that night.
"That was perfect, Hermione. I would never have thought to separate the period pains and give them to all of the boys. Where are they? Don't tell me they're still in the great hall pigging out?"
Hermione smiled and nodded. Alicia and Katie leant over the top of the sofa and grinned down at them.
"You should hear the boys complaining about it. They won't forget this in a hurry." Katie said curling a strand of Hermione's hair around her wand.
"We'll have to get them to describe their pain to us and then point out that what they have been suffering is a period and that they are lucky they don't have to suffer it every month like we do. Also that although their pain was separate that we have to have it rolled into one big fat lump." Ginny said, taking another strand of Hermione's hair and curling it.
"I wonder what else we can find in that book." Hermione said ignoring the attentions to her hair.
Alicia hopped over the sofa and promptly fell onto the rug. She retrieved the old brown book from inside Hermione's bag and started to flick through it.
"Here's something, that might work." She said stopping on a page and running her finger down the words. "One time the girls got annoyed at the boys bragging about quidditch so they sabotaged the game."
"What did they do?"
"It's hard to make out. They started with the robes. Transfigured them to make the Gryffindor ones pale pink and the Slytherin ones acid green. Since only boys were allowed to play back then the Gryffindor boys were totally humiliated because they were wearing pale pink. They also swapped the crowds cheers around so the Slytherins were cheering for Gryffindor and vice versa. Somehow they managed to freeze the brooms mid flight. I'm guessing with an old version of the Impediment Jinx. Oh this is great! They froze the snitch too. When the seekers were going for it, when they were about a foot from it they were frozen and then one of the girls froze the Snitch and summoned it to her. These girls were brilliant. They also used the old mirror trick to blind the players by sunlight, and to trick the seekers into thinking that was the Snitch. To confuse the players further they spread invisible netting over the goal hoops so the quaffle bounced off and no one scored any points."
"Man they gave those teams a good ribbing." Katie said chuckling carrying on with Hermione's hair.
"Can I ask why I suddenly am being given ringlets?" Hermione suddenly snapped.
"We talked about this, remember? Its for a payback prank." Ginny said, dodging Hermione's furious hand swats.
"What prank? Nothing we're doing requires ringlets…what are you planning?" Hermione glared at Ginny who did her best not to quail.
"Nothing! Just trust us. We know what we're doing."
"I'd like to be in the loop on this one."
"Face it, Herm, we are not going to tell you. You'll find out in good time."
"NOW would be a good time!" Hermione was clearly getting pissed off and quickly.
Ginny shot a quick glance at Alicia who noted it.
"So, are we going to do the quidditch pranks? All the boys in question are playing next weekend."
"So are you. So's Pansy. You really want to damage the chances for the cup?"
"Don't worry about that, I have a plan."
"That's never a good thing, Alicia."
"Why are you giving me ringlets!"