A/N: Happy New Year everybody! & Happy Birthday to Karma Hope! Here's the next chapter; sorry if I have grammar/spelling errors, I was up until 2 in the morning…
Given the excellent success of her past prank, Hermione began planning out her next trick. For this prank to work she would have to plan very carefully and wait for the perfect moment.
"Harry, can I borrow your invisibility cloak?" Hermione asked.
"Only if you're pranking Snape again," Harry replied.
"What else would I be using your cloak for?"
"Uh, I dunno. When's your detention anyway?"
"What detention?"
"For messing with Snape's robes."
"Oh, right. That's tonight," Hermione lied. She didn't want to have to explain to Harry how she managed to get away from that prank with no points deducted in her name and no detention. Harry wouldn't take that well.
"You can go up and grab the cloak. It's under my pillow," Harry told her, and Hermione dashed up the stairs to the boys' dorm to grab it. She knocked on the door and was met with silence, so she entered the room and crossed it to Harry's bed. She grabbed the cloak and made her way across the room. She reached for the door and it opened.
"Hermione! What are you doing in here?" Neville asked.
"Just… grabbing something for Harry."
"You're going to use that to prank Professor Snape again, aren't you?" he said, indicating the cloak Hermione held.
"Uh, that was the idea," Hermione said.
"I think it's brilliant," Neville said, looking around nervously as if he expected Snape to swoop out of nowhere and deduct points from him.
"Thanks," Hermione said, and descended the staircase to the common room.
"I'm going to detention now," Hermione told Harry, and she left the common room. After turning the corner, she ducked into an alcove and put the cloak on, placing a silencing spell on it, and heading towards the staff room. Time to do a bit of research! she thought.
Hermione reached the staff room, and pulled out her extendable ears. She put a dillusionment charm on them and stuck the ear under the door, moving several steps away to listen.
After nearly twenty minutes of listening to a few teachers gossiping and making bets on how long couples would stay together, Hermione was starting to become frustrated. It seemed that Snape was not in the staff room at all.
"Where is Severus?" McGonagall asked just the question Hermione was wondering about.
"He's brewing for the Hospital Wing. Poppy is low on pepper up potion," Professor Sprout replied. "And she needs more calming draught too, what with the exams coming up. He'll probably be working on those all week."
Not that the potions took too long to make, just the large quantity required, Hermione reasoned. Perfect! I know exactly what to do next!
Hermione headed back to the common room to "borrow" a few dung bombs from the Creevey brothers. She could always say she was confiscating them, right?
After snagging a few dung bombs, Hermione snuck out of the common room again, still invisible, as she didn't want to explain why she wasn't in detention.
This time she headed for the dungeons. She wasn't sure where Snape would be brewing, but she assumed he would have wards to inform him of any out of the ordinary behavior in the dungeon corridors and the Slytherin common room. And she knew where his store room was from her polyjuice brewing days in second year. So all she had to do was….
An unsuspecting pair of Slytherin third years walked by the patch of wall Hermione was leaning against. Out of nowhere, a dung bomb hit them. They turned around in surprise, and saw nothing. Then another hit them. It had come from the other direction. Hermione had levitated it out there and then summoned it.
Unfortunately for the boys, they were between it and her. They turned that way, and she threw another one. She was getting ready to levitate another when the door several paces behind her slammed open, and Snape stormed out of it.
Not sticking around to watch what happened next, Hermione slipped into Snape's office and through the open door to his store room, where she calmly located a few ingredients to the calming draught. She switched the chamomile leaves, and the rose petals, and the witch hazel sap and the mint nectar. None of those ingredients would cause a harmful or dangerous mess if they were used in improper amounts. Not that she expected Snape to get that far without realizing that they had been switched.
Her intent was to irritate him, as she knew the mixing up of ingredients was sure too. She was reaching for another ingredient to switch it up, when she heard footsteps approaching in the corridor. She quickly left the store room and managed to cross Snape's office by the time he slammed the door open.
She slipped out before the door closed and walked to the nearest girls' lavatory. She disposed of the remaining dung bombs, and removed her silencing charm and the invisibility cloak. Then she headed back to Gryffindor tower, pretending to be returning from an awful detention with Snape.
"Hey Hermione, what'd the greasy git have you doing for detention?" Ron asked.
"I sorted ingredients," Hermione said.
"How'd you finish so fast?" Harry asked.
"That wasn't all I did. I irritated the hell out of him, and he kicked me out. Wait 'till he finds out I mixed up his precious ingredients," Hermione said.
Then she settled down to do her homework, and the boys began a game of wizards' chess. She couldn't wait to see if Snape made any indication that he knew who pranked him.
Normally, she wouldn't dare do anything that could interfere with her study schedule for exams, but it's not like she was going actually get detention, and the boys avoided the library like the plague, so she could hide out there during her supposed "detention."
A/N: Okay, so, there was a chapter. Now, I don't really like to demand reviews, but really people? I had 4 people review the last chapter, and I know almost 100 times that many read it. Please review! I won't update until I get at least 5.
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