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Author's Note: I hate Cliff hangers too. By it makes people write reviews (I hope!) so I do them. Not all of the chapters will be cliff hangers! I promise! Lol. Oh and yes nimbio the name Sakura is from Anime (well Its a common name in anime, I think, I've seen it in a few animes )The name Sakura means Cherry Blossom in Japanese. (you know? Like the tree?)

the girl at the rockshow: In TOoTP Chapter six, The Noble and most ancient House of Black, page 113, the last paragraph. (Aren't I good?)

Chapter six: Silly String (as of now, it sounds stupid) Now to be called: The Pointless Chapter of Drabbles!

The-once-small-now-annoying-large group of current Gryffindors and prank-store owners all stared at the map of their school.

Everything was normal.

The group of nine people continued to stare at the map as if they had never seen it before.

In reality all of them had.

Three of them had created it.

"Ummm ok… what now?"

The boys and Hermione looked at her.

She looked back.

"Great map."

The two other boys nodded in agreement.

"Oh this is stupid!" Hermione said finally. "All this one line stuff is insane. It's bloody annoying!"

"So...anyway-" And the large group started to talk about many different things.

Fred, George, James, and Sirius talked the loudest (as was typical) about pranks. They were interrupted by the loud screeches only teenage girls could emit.

"BLOODY HELL, WHEN MUM HEARS ABOUT THIS YOU TWO WILL BE DEAD!" And that could only be one person: the lovely red-headed, freckle-faced girl known as Ginevra 'Ginny' Weasley.

"Hello our lovely sister, so glad to see you."

"We are glad you liked are gift-"

"-We picked it out just for you after all."

Huffed up and red in the face and looking like the picture of a younger Molly Weasley, Ginny glared menacingly at her twin brothers. "Look at us!" She yelled, gartering to the three girls behind her. From head to toe and everywhere in between the four girls were covered in the best muggle product a wizard could buy: silly string.

Sirius' face lit up as he looked at the girls. The silly string was a great idea (he had to admit) but what he really liked were the colors. "Red and Gold, that's just great!" He said before dissolving into a fit of laughter of which James would soon accompany him in.

"SHUT UP YOU STUPID BOYS!" Ginny yelled at them. When they ignored her she yelled again, louder and with more edge in her voice then before. The two boys stopped and put unusually serious faces on. But she was to mad to care.

Taking a calming breath and drawing her wand she cleaned all the mess on her friends and herself off with a simple word and wave of a magical stick.

"Gin, you kill the fun, you really do."

She glared at him again. "How would you like to be covered in that rubbish?" She put her wand clove to her face, ready to cover her brothers in the stuff right away.

"Been there, done that." They both said, grins on their faces.

The girl gave an insufferable groan and motioned for her friends to follow her into their dorm. With a few giggles in the direction of the boys in the room they followed the girl from sight.

"I could watch those girls walk up steps any day." Sirius said distractedly as he watched the brown-haired with a VERY short skirt go into the shadows of the stairs. Hermione started to preach about treating girls as more then things to look at, but as usual no one really paid attention to her.

"You know" Sakura said, holding up her index finger. "It is a beautiful night outside tonight, and I think we should play with the silly string out there before we get in trouble in here."

"Great idea, we could even have teams or something like that and have an all-out war!" James said over-dramatically. Sirius clapped enthusiastically.

"Hermione, you can divide us up into teams." Sakura said loudly into Hermione's ear. The girl was still lecturing to people who were not listening, but she stopped at the sound of the other girl's voice. A confused look on Hermione's face told Sakura that she hadn't heard anything they had been saying, so she quickly caught her up.

"Oh fine," She looked at the eight people in front of her and quickly calculated what would make the best even teams. She wasn't very happy about this (not that there was anything in the rules about silly string fights) but she knew they wouldn't listen to her anyway. Sometimes she felt like they never did.

"Fred, Simon, Harry, and Tommy for the first team and then George, James, Ron, and Sakura on the other."

"You split up all of the best friends, did you realize this?" Remus asked her as they went to stand in their groups.

"Oh yes, I though it would be even and more fun for all of you if I did that." When Sakura asked what team she would be on Hermione replied shortly that she would never engage in such a childish game.

The others seemed to agree that none of them had expected her to play anyway.

Had she really become that predictable? Her friends already assumed that they knew what she would do or not do. It was times like this that Hermione wished she could be different, someone else. And then she saw the people in front of her smiling. And she was happy being who she was.

While the burette had been busy thinking the twins had multiplied some cans and made sure they wouldn't run out. The whole group also agreed not to use their cans until they were outside. No one wanted to see what Professor McGonagall would say to silly string in the hallways.

The boys all started to cheer and then ran out the portrait hole. When they seemed to have forgotten was that the silly string prank Fred and George had put there was still active when the portrait was opened. Now all the boys were laughing at each other. Sakura's eyes lit up as Hermione and she both preformed a repelling spell so they wouldn't be hit.

"Show-off" Ron muttered as they came without a touch of the muggle string. Hermione rolled her eyes at him. Sometimes Ron was so childish.

"We don't have much time, we should we get going." So the group headed outside. Harry reminded everyone that he and Ron couldn't stay out late because Quidditch practice was the next morning. Their game against Ravenclaw was coming up, and Harry wasn't sure if they were ready. He was glad that James was helping him with plays though, because it was really working.

Outside the 'fight' was pure ciaos. The Weasley twins had somehow found bright yellow and neon green hats, which they handing out to their teams. Fred was green George was yellow. Hermione thought it was ridiculous. Harry and Remus really didn't want to wear the hats but after being attacked by Fred, George, James and Sirius they decided it was ok to wear them. Of course as a result of their disagreements they now had the hair to match the hats.

Hermione sat down on the cool ground and rested some of her weight on her hands as they stretched out on the grass behind her. She watched as Fred and Sirius teamed up and covered Ron with the muggle toy. James then came behind them and attacked them.

They were all laughing and smiling as they chased each other around the grounds. They were so happy it almost made Hermione want to join them. Almost. Sakura –a sly grin on her face- advanced on Harry and shot at him before running away to get someone else. Hermione laughed a bit as she watched. They were all having such a good time it was hard to believe there was a war raging in the world around them.

Yet they were safe inside this bubble. The bubble protected by every kind of spell known, safe to those inside it and a safe-haven for those who weren't. She hated to think about, but it seemed some days that she couldn't think of anything else. Even when it seemed like no one else did. James yelled something at Sirius and then went tarring after him, who was now screaming while dodging the attacks.

How long would it take before something could be done to stop the madness that was going on in the world? And did it have to be Harry? She had done a bit of snooping and knew something was up, her mind calculating their past five years and the events within them. Voldemort and Harry were rivals, and Voldemort wanted to kill Harry with everything he had. But it seemed more then just because Harry had beaten him as a child. Her had done so much research on the subject of wizarding bonds, but nothing had given her the results she'd been looking for.

"Hermione, look out!" The brunette was jerked out of her thoughts as Harry's voice carried over. Her head shot up just in time to see some multi-colored silly string headed in her direction. Her shrieked and put her hands up, but it was aimed at a different place. Her hair. Hermione stood up, anger written over her face.

"Who shot me?" She asked. Fingers pointed at James and Sirius, both of whom were in another laughing fit.

She bit her lip to stop herself from yelling at the two of them. She settled for an intense glare that would have killed them if looks could kill. She never understood how immature James could be! Sirius she had expected it from, having known him when he was older, but this James as so different then the one she had imagined as Harry's father.

It was getting cold anyway, so Hermione told everyone she was going to go inside. They all dismissed her easily, although Remus did try to go back with her but the twins, James and Sirius threatened to tackle him to the ground if he left.

So Hermione walked up to the castle by herself. She cleaned the small amount of silly string off her before she reached the steps. What would Professor McGonagall say if she found her top student with silly string in her hair? Besides the fact that the strict teacher would also have four names in mind on where the stuff had come from; and she was rarely wrong.

A few chapters in her book later the large group of eight people came in the common room. Covered head to toe in silly string and talking very loud Hermione had no idea who won. That is, until George shouted that they won. Hermione shushed him, telling him it was late and some people could be sleeping. Some bratty under-classman told her off by saying the sound didn't reach the dorms. Next time that kid stepped out of line she would be ready.

"Hermione, you wouldn't believe it, after the fight-" While Sakura said the word fight she made quotations with her fingers. "-we came up and completely forgot about Fred and George's prank!" She laughed. "They're going to take it down, but I see not many people heeded their warning." She looked around the common room.

Hermione shook her head. "There was someone standing outside to use the repelling charm we used before on everyone so they could get inside. Luckily not one fetched McGonagall because that would have been trouble." Sakura nodded.

The group broke up again as Harry and Ron played another rousing game of chess and Sirius and James took sides and acted like cheerleaders. They went crazy to the point Hermione was ready to yell at them from sheer annoyance. Fred, George and Sakura played exploding snap; they were very loud too. Remus was the only remotely quiet one besides Hermione because he and Hermione worked on their paper that was due in Transfiguration.

A/N: Yay! Another Chapter is Done! Hope you liked it, especially the silly string part. LOL. Everyone sing Happy Birthday to two of my friends! Ones was on the 9th Of Aug., one on the 31st of July. Starts Singing Happy Birthday Ok.. Well... erm... Thats it... yea... Bye... Lol... Hope'd you liked it... hits self in the head Sorry people! Please R&R!