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Chapter 4: Luna

No matter how funny a prank that someone pulled, and no matter how well the other girls did. They did all agree on one thing. NO ONE could wait until Luna chose a prank. It came as quite a surprise to the rest that while Luna was planning what to do, and asking people to get her supplies, just how serious she was acting. She didn't have that dazed look in her eyes. Now her eyes were bright and focused.

Now, Luna's prank was one she made up all on her own, and the other girls could only guess at what she was going to do. The list of supplies she needed didn't cast very much light on the situation either.

"Ok girls," said Luna as she was looking through her notes, "I need certain things for this prank, and I'm going to need you guys to get them for me. I'm going to need a black beret," at this she saw a few confused faces, "You know those little hats that French muggle women wear?" Everyone's face changed into a look of understanding, "ok, I'm also going to need a muggle news paper, a pair of dark sunglasses. Hermione, I'm going to need you to somehow get a pair of muggle head phones, but it has to be a pair of those tiny ones that fit inside your ear. Ok, then I'm going to need Hermione to show me the charm she did in the great hall to get music, and last, I'm going to need a large, FAKE, shrub. It has to be about 5 feet high and 3 feet across."

Some of the girls thought they knew what she was planning, until she asked for a shrub. Now, they were once again clueless.

"Oh, also, Hermione, instead of having the music charmed to play in a certain room, I need the music charmed to follow me, and it has to be quiet enough for people to hear, without get in too much trouble." "Uh, sure, Luna," Hermione said, "I can do that. Um, also, I have a pair of sunglasses, and headphones. I suppose I can owl my mum and dad and ask them to send me a muggle newspaper. Umm, we can always transfigure a beret from another hat, that should be easy. But, Luna, a 5 foot FAKE shrub? Where are we supposed to get that?"

The girls sat in silence for a moment, then Ginny's eyes lit up, "I got it! While I was in the library yesterday, I noticed a small fake plant. All we have to do is to make it larger."

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That was two days ago. So, Luna had everything she needed, but decided to wait one more day so she could do it on Saturday so the girls could 'accidentally' come across Luna in action.

Hermione had to promise to do Harry's homework for a week before he would let her use his map, without saying why she wanted it. Luna needed the map to know where Snape was at all times. She made her way down to the Great Hall to where Luna was waiting for her off to the side. Once she had the map, she went into the bathroom to get ready.

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Snape was walking down a corridor just looking for little Gryffindors to take points from when he heard some music, but it was so low, he could have been mistaken. So, pushing that to the back of his mind, he continued on his way.

After a few more minutes he heard the music again. Only this time it was loud enough for him to know he wasn't hearing things. When he turned around to seek out the source of the irritating sound, out of the corner of his eye he saw someone dressed all in black dive behind a statue.

'Idiots' he thought, 'the whole lot of them.'

So, ignoring the quite obviously mentally challenged student, proceeded to walk again. Not even one minute later, the music was back, and was the loudest yet. He froze mid-step, and listened to find the direction of the music. He pretended to take another step, but he actually spun around, and came face to face with… Luna Lovegood, before she ran off.

Snapes eyes narrowed looking at her. What was she doing following him? And what the HELL was she WEARING? The brief look he got of her, she appeared to be dressed from head to toe in black. Ok, since Snape wears the same, he thought she was finally getting a little fashion sense. But that wasn't all. She was wearing some odd black hat, wearing sunglasses and had a wire going into her ear. Snape silently told himself he didn't want to know and finished his rounds for the morning.

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Later that same day, Snape was once again going on rounds. He didn't mind having more than one shift a day, all the more students he could catch and punish. Everything was quiet for him, unfortunatly. Until he came to the hall he was at only this morning. That was when he heard the music.

This time, it was quite loud, and he could finally tell what the song was. But why the HELL was he hearing the "Mission: Impossible" theme song in the halls?

icking up his pace, he tried to get away from that damned music. He knew he was being followed, and he knew it was Miss. Lovegood. He was just hoping that if he ignored her, she'd go annoy someone else. But, since this IS Snape we're talking about, he had no such luck.

Finally he had had enough, he whirled around, with an insult on the tip of tongue. The only person in the hall, was leaning against a wall, reading a newspaper. Looking at the paper a little closer, he noticed it was a muggle newspaper. "Miss Lovegood, please, go bother someone else!" Snape sighed.

As he was turning back around to walk away, he saw Luna peeking out from over the paper, but when he glanced back, she hid her face once again. Walking away he was relieved to notice she was no longer following him.

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Stalking down the stairs and into the dungeons, that damn music started up again. He was past annoyed, and quickly approaching a possible murder. This time, when he turned around to yell at Luna, AGAIN, he was quite confused. He didn't see anyone. However, there was a shrub about 20 feet away.

'Damn Dumbledore' he thought, 'probably thinking it would make the dungeons more welcome. Well, it's a DUNGEON, therefore, its not supposed to BE welcoming.'

So vowing to speak with the headmaster about his redecorating, he began his trek towards his quarters. This time, he didn't sense anyone behind him, but he did hear something, and it wasn't the music. He turned quickly to see that the shrub was… following him!

Two seconds after he turned, the shrub stopped moving. His eye was beginning to twitch. The same thing happened for the rest of his round. He would hear it moving, then he'd turn to see it moving, then suddenly stopping.

When he arrived to his destination, he was livid. "Alright Miss Lovegood, ENOUGH!" Snape yelled, walking towards the shrub, "that will be 10 points from Ravenclaw, and if you don't cease this little game…"

He stopped. He had been making his way towards the plant, and when he grabbed it, and lifted it up, there was no one there.

'Perhaps the headmaster was right,' he thought, 'maybe I should take a vacation. Or at least get a mental check-up.'