Chap. 8: Portals of Doom!

So far the first day was annoying- for Vladimir at least. Everyone continued to ask him if he was Harry Potter, and he continued to tell them that "No, I am not him. I didn't even really know about him until I was on the train."

Even the teachers asked him.

Really, everyone saw the sorting, how he was called up by the name Vladimir Hellsing. You would think they'd give up after a while. But then, Vladimir wasn't exactly used to being around this group of people- wizards and witches, that is- so he hardly knew what to make of them. True, he had gone to Diagonally a few times with Alucard, but it was normally straight to the bank, and then to Knockturn. Most in Knockturn kept to them selves. So this was actually rather new for him.

Lunch was about the same as breakfast. He felt the unease of being watched. He was thankful when it was over.

They were in Potions now, and Vladimir found he liked this class better than most, as it was dark, and you got to make potions. Finding a seat at a desk second from the front, he set his things down and Crimson slid out onto the table, ready to be of assistance when Vladimir needed her help.

The teacher, Snape, walked by and took notice of Crimson. Vladimir, upon looking up at the teacher, saw a spark of interest came to his eyes and then it faded as he looked at the owner of the snake.

Stopping, he turned to Vladimir, "Well, if it's not the Gryffindor's snake owner. A Hellsing are you? I must say, I rather respected your mother. She was one of the few that treated me nicely. Quite an interesting job she has now.

"But you don't look much like her. I remember distinctly, she looked like she were of Malfoy blood. Blonde, sharp cold blue eyes. If not for her landing in Ravenclaw, then in Slytherin, I'd have no doubt that she'd been a Malfoy. But you, black hair, green eyes. Looks a great deal like two other people I know."

"I take after my father." Vladimir stated simply.

"Ah, yes, I heard about him... From Mr. Malfoy's description, I guess that could be the case, if you perhaps ever happened across a certain... creature, I'm sure you'd be an exact replica of your father..."

Vladimir nodded. Well, this could turn to be interesting. It seemed one of his teachers knew about what his father was.

"Now, we've wasted enough time. I expect one from the Hellsing family to be making good marks, so it'll be double the house points against you should you fail, Mr. Hellsing."

When Snap left for the front of the room to greet the rest of the class has it had finally situated itself, Ron leaned in, a question in his eyes, "What did he mean by that? A certain creature?"

Vladimir nodded, pondering how he would explain that. Mentally shrugging, he replied, "He's not exactly, completely human. He's... mixed. Its why he was able to scare the Malfoys' so well."

Ron looked about to ask what creature when Snap instructed them that they were to start taking notes, and with him cracking questions like a whip at random people, Vladimir made it clear that the conversation was on hold- though he honestly hoped that Ron would completely forget about it by the end of class.

Potions went fairly uneventful. Ron never got the chance, or had honestly forgot, to ask anymore on Vladimir's father, so Vladimir was able to focus on the class work. The only mentionable thing that happened was that Seamus Finnegan, once again, blew something up. Really, if that boy could turn water into an explosive, why the bloody hell is he in potions? Required course or not, some people just didn't need to risk dying to pass a class.

Defense Against the Dark Arts would have been a second favorite. The only problem with it was the teacher, who wouldn't stop stuttering.

For cryin' out loud, it took a full ten seconds to get some of the words out. Add it all up, and they didn't really learn much before the bell rang. And then there was the pounding headache he was getting. He attributed it to the annoyance of being questioned all day, and the annoying stutter that seemed to grind at Vladimir's very nerves if he even tried to understand what the professor was saying.

Luckily for Vladimir, he decided to ignore the stuttering fool and just read the book himself, making notes on some stuff and then just sat back for the rest of the class.

By the end of the class, Vladimir had actually managed to skip ahead three chapters- he'd have gone more, but since it was only those chapters that they would be working on for the month, he restrained himself. Better to know as much as he could sooner, so he had more time to go over everything and be ready when a test came around.

Unlike Vladimir's diligent self class work, Ron had opted to taking a nap, his head in his hand, propping it up.

Snickering, Vladimir opened a small portal to his right, the other end appearing on the other side of Ron- his left. Putting his hand through the right portal, he grabbed Ron's arm and pulled it. The sleeping boy's head fell forward and hit the desk, only to come back up with a startled cry.

"What happened!" he said sleepily.

"You fell asleep." Vladimir said simply, but wasn't able to hold in the chuckle. "Come on. It's time for dinner."

That got Ron up. His eyes sparkled and he had all of his things together and was out the door in five seconds flat. That had to be a record.

Vladimir walked out calmly, in no hurry to have three sets of eyes pricing into him while he tried to eat.

But when he got to the Great Hall, he was thankful to find that there was no such thing- not yet at least. The ones that had been watching him during both breakfast and lunch where much too busy talking about the first day to really pay much attention to him.

So, he was able to talk to Ron quite happily.

Sitting down, Vladimir began to arrange his food, while Ron continued his practiced mountaining of all food in a ten foot radios.

"So, what pranks do you think you can pull on Fred and George. Seriously, those two know just about everything when it comes to hexes, curses, jinxes and charms. There just isn't any way to get one by them!"

"Trust me, Ron. They don't even know half the pranks in the world." Vladimir said, his now trademark devilish grin flashing.

"Eh? What's this?" A voice sounded behind them.

"Two lil boys, thinking they can pull one on us, I think mate." An answering voice chimed in

"Ah, well, we'll just see about that..."

Fred and George had popped up from behind and were looking at the two first years.

"Yes. I do believe, quite a lot, that I could pull one- many- on you." Vladimir said. "Actually, how's about I prove it right now...?"

The two devilish twins looked confused. Then their eyes widened as they looked down, and that was the last thing the two younger boys saw of their faces before they vanished into the dark red and black depths of the portal that just happened to appear under them.

Fred and George were confused as they heard the boy's confident voice. Then they felt something under their feet. Or rather. They didn't feel anything under them. Their eyes widened and just as they looked down, they were plunging into darkness.

It only lasted for a second though, and then they were out in the air, looking over the lake that surrounded them and the night that was above it.

Then, just as they were realizing why the lake was surrounding them, they were plunged yet again into darkness, only this was wet and cold.

But, it didn't stop there.

Ron was looking wildly around the Great Hall and then he looked at Vladimir.

"W-What did you do?! Where are they?!"

Vladimir however was a bit busy trying to hold in his laughter. So, he waved his hand and they heard a yelp from outside the doors of the Great Hall.

A moment later, the doors opened up to reveal two very wet and very freak out Weasley Twins.

Ron took one look, and after a confused moment, fell to the floor, and promptly laughed his ass off.

"T-T-tha-that was- hahahahahahaha- that was amazing! HAHHAHAHA" Ron managed to get out.

Vladimir looked at his friend in pleasant humor, still trying to keep his laughter in, and managing quite well.

Fred and George looked over at them with looks of horror, and a slight look of recognition now realizing just what they were up against.

Vladimir waved his wand- not that he needed it- and Fred and George were dry and warm.

Ron finally managed to get a hold of his laughter and it was down to guffles.

"I think... hehe... that I was wrong. You've already made history, just with that."

"Yeah! I didn't think it was possible to get one on them! I've tried! How did you do it?" said someone from down the table.

It was only then that Vladimir realized that the whole hall was laughing, looking at the two once top pranksters. While it appeared that no one but Ron and the Twins knew what he did, everyone did seemed to realize that it was Vladimir that had done something. Though they did ask how he'd done it, he never answered, and didn't have to as they only continued to laugh more. Even some of the teachers were laughing, and those that weren't had smug to twitching smiles.

Even Professor Snape was having a hard time of keeping a straight face.

Vladimir glanced over at the Slytherin Table, and found that they were laughing as well, but for one group, which looked like a slightly confused mess.

It was Malfoy and his gang. They appeared to be having more trouble at keeping their straight faces then Snap, as they were wanting to laugh at the two Weasley's, but at the same time, they did not want to give their complements to Vladimir. It was Malfoy that had the most contorted face.

It was quite hilarious.

AN: Ok, well, that's all I have for now. Keep sending me pranks, I only have two so far! Well, I have only one now. :P

Oh, and I'd love to give HUGE props to the two prank donors that I have got.

Dark13

One idea for a prank, have Vlad put normal, everyday ex-lax in some chocolate chips and slip them to the twins, they say they know how to look for curses, hexes, jinx, and charms, but ex-lax is just a normal, everyday non-magic item. They wouldn't know what hit them till Vlad showed them the box it came in, literally and figurativly!

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ian:

Portal under their feet leading to just above the lake.

Thank you, again. And to all others that have sent or will send me pranks, I just want to make sure you know that the prank has to be able to be used at the school.

For example. I had one prank sent that was about tying the trigger to the shower tap at the sink. If one were to turn on the tap, instead of water coming out of the normal tap, it'd come out the shower tap. I love this prank, and have used it before myself. But, the reason why this can't be used at Hogwarts is because... well, where are the Twins going to find one and use it. They don't have it in the bathroom, and even if they had it in the kitchens, why would they have need of using it.

All I'm saying is make sure its something they could use at the school.

Now, if you just want to send me pranks for me to use, then have at it. ^.^ I love to have new material.