A/n: Hello people. Welcome to chapter 6. Glad to have people who keep reviwing to almost every chapter. It makes me feel all good inside. Thank you. I liked this chapter. There was going to be a different Chapter 6, but then i realised i ahd to mention certian things and that chapter was bumped down a place to make room for this. How fun!
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Ok, enough stalling. Heres chapter 6!
Chapter 6 – Pranks and their Consequences.
A week later Remus was sitting in the Gryffindor common room, quietly reading a book Simone had suggested. It was very interesting and all about the local magical and normal wildlife of the area. Surprisingly, Grey Wolves were not strangers to the Forbidden Forest.
'At least I'll have some company during full moon.' Remus thought.
James was in the corner teaching Peter how to play magical chess.
"It's really quite simple. The pawns move one space each, except for the first move, and they cannot move backwards. Castles can move as far as they want, as long as it is either forward or to the side. No diagonals." James explained calmly.
"But I thought the horses moved on the side." Said Peter, confused.
"No, and they're called Knights."
"Ahh! Why did that castle just smash my horse?"
"Looks like this will take a while." Said James, shaking his head.
Simone sat at one of the desks reading a book of her own, all about dragons and their habits.
Suddenly the portal burst open and in stormed an angry Sirius.
"I don't believe it!" He shouted.
"Inside voice Sirius, inside voice." Reminded Simone.
"What's wrong?" asked James.
"I just spent the last hour polishing all the trophies in the trophy room, without magic!"
"Ouch, there are a lot of trophy's in that room. What did you do?" asked Simone.
"I only broke Snape's nose."
"When?" Asked Peter.
"On the train. But that's not fair; the git deserved it!"
"Who gave you the detention?" Asked Simone.
"Some crazy lady with wild red hair."
"And green glasses?"
"Yeah, do you know who she is?"
"Yes, that's Judith…I mean Professor Peachy. She goes a little overboard with her classes sometimes, but usually nice."
"Nice enough to give me detention!"
"Well, you did break someone's nose, even if it was Snape. If she had been
McGonagall, you would have had detention for a week. You're pretty lucky."
"Yeah right. And that's not the worst of it: I had Snape flinging insults at me the whole time. I so wanted to break his big nose again, but some prefect was watching us. And Peachy had taken away my wand."
"Don't worry mate, we'll get him back." Reassured James.
"How?" asked Sirius.
"With that plan we devised in transfiguration, remember?"
"Oh yeah, do you have a solution to our visibility?"
"Yes I do. Upstairs lads!"
"Oh, okay, I guess I'll just stay here and read." Said Simone, in mock offence.
"Oh, well…"
"Don't worry, I'll stay here, just remember, I know all the passwords to all the castle portals."
"You do?"
"Yep, why, do you need one?" She asked, purposely making them fall for the trap of including her.
"Yes, well we could use one." Said James.
"What will it cost?" Asked Sirius.
"I'd happily tell you what you need to know for free, as long as you tell me what you need it for. I won't have you sneaking into the prefects bathroom."
"But she's a girl! She can't come into our dorm!" Said Peter.
"Oh I can go anywhere in the school I want." Simone replied.
"Well, it seems there is only one way to settle all this," said Remus, speaking up for the first time, "Simone, you can come with us upstairs, but I hope you won't make a habit of it."
"Of course not. What kind of person do you take me for?"
"A sneaky one." Replied Sirius.
In the boy's dorm…"Okay lads, and lady, I am about to show you all something that could change your lives forever." Said James, dramatically. He went over to his trunk, reached in, (very slowly to build suspense), and pulled out something silvery and silky.
"I don't believe it!" Said Sirius, dumbstruck.
"Oh My God, this is unbelievable!" Said Simone, equally shocked.
"How on earth did you get that?" Said Remus.
"I don't get it. What is it?" Asked Peter, slow as usual on the uptake.
"Peter, it's an Invisibility Cloak!" Said Simone.
"Yep. It's a family heirloom. We've had it in the family for three generations. It's a tradition to use it for pranks and the like at Hogwarts, so I thought, 'Why break tradition?'" Said James, beaming.
"This is so amazing. James… it's… it's…this is even better than all the firecrackers!" Said Sirius.
"And this is how we will pull off the prank on the Slytherins without being seen." Said James.
The next night, after much fine tuning and planning, the four boys set off towards the Slytherin dorm, all under James' invisibility cloak, at six in the morning. Armed with the password given to them by Simone, who did hold up her end of the bargain, and all the equipment needed, they walked quietly as ghosts along the empty corridors. Quietly as quiet ghosts, not like the poltergeist or Helga, the rarely seen Viking ghost who made noise equal to that of ten African elephants whenever she walked past.
After ten minutes of travelling the dungeons, they finally found their way to the large painting of a giant snake.
"Snake Venom." Sirius whispered and the painting hissed before opening for the invisible boys. Luckily the snake was half asleep and did not notice that he couldn't see the people he opened for.
The boys crept through the protal, made sure the common room was clear, and got to work. They planted the five firecrackers under a comfy looking armchair and Sirius placed the sensor pad under the cushion. By this stage it was 7 o'clock and the boys quickly got back under the cloak as the first person awoke and came down stairs. It was Sirius' hated cousin Narcissa.
'I hope she sits on the chair!' thought Sirius.
But to his dismay, she sat on the long couch instead.
'Damn!'Time passed and more people trickled out of the dorms and into the common room, but no-one sat on the chair.
'What it wrong with these people?!' thought James, 'Just sit on the chair!'
But then their prayers were answered. Snape slowly walked down the stairs and into the room. A couple of people grunted "Hi", revealing to the boys that perhaps Snape did have what one could call friends. To their joy, Snape groggily walked over to the armchair and collapsed down. Instantly, all five crackers set off and zoomed around the room. The room was filled with the shrieks of people scared out of their wits as they ran around panicking, covering their heads.
Struggling to suppress their laughter, the boys quickly ran back out the portal and out of the dungeons. Once back in their common room, they burst out laughing, causing many confused looks from early rising Gryffindors. James had managed to whip off his cloak while they were running and stuff it down his shirt.
"Did it go well?" Asked Simone, coming over to them.
"You bet it did!" Said Sirius delightfully in between laughter.
"Yeah, thanks for the help Simone." Said Remus.
"Your welcome. As long as Snape got what he deserved." She said.
"He certainly did!" Said James triumphantly
As always, i hope you liked that chapter. Hopefully, the relationships and such will become more defined soon, and of course, more humor. Becasue there is nothing more fun to write than a fic that's funny. R&R and see you soon.