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He attempted to hex us, but found himself bound and gagged.

"We also might have put a spell preventing you from hexing us for a week," Harry added, "That's what happens when you try to!"

Hermione walked back in and burst out laughing.

"Wow, Sirius, I never thought you were that kind of guy!"

Chapter 4

After three hours of him pleading, begging, fake-crying, groveling, fake-complimenting, and threatening, we returned Sirius back to a semi-normal state. Well, we spelled his clothes to stay pink for a week and made him take a wizard's oath not to try to prank us for a week.

"Thank Merlin we came to an agreement," I sighed, "I would hate to start a prank war right now."

"Why? Cause you know you'd lose?" Sirius taunted.

I pointed my wand threateningly towards him as I was losing my patience a bit.

He almost immediately stopped.

"Well," Snape drawled, "what are we going to do about this whole matter?"

He had been staying out of any and all conversation in order to try not to be pranked.

"Okay," started Hermione, "first, we need to get out of Hogwarts or get Dumbledore out or get him off our cases. Second, we need to get rid of V-V-Voldemort." She smiled proudly at the last bit. "Then, we need to get rid of the bigotry."

"Wow. Then solve world peace and hunger?" I said sarcastically. "The bigotry isn't our problem. But, even without that, it's really high expectations to try to do all of that."

"Well," Hermione huffed, "we have to start somewhere."

"True. But-" I started.

"No, Hermione's right we need a basic plan," Harry said smirking, "You're just mad you didn't say it first."

I rolled my eyes, annoyed that he'd read me so easily.

Moony cut in before my response, "How can we get him 'off our backs,' as you say?"

Snape frowned, "The only possible solution I can think of is becoming legally emancipated, but that's basically impossible."

"So what do we do?" Harry asked.

I looked around the room. Everyone seemed puzzled, especially Hermione. Due to the fact that she loved to know answers and solving things. I looked to Ron and stifled a laugh. He was using his finger to make himself cross-eyed, bringing it closer to in between his eyes and then far away.

I looked around and locked eyes with Harry. The gates broke and we burst out laughing. Eveyong else seemed stunned for a second, but then Sirius shook his head at us, bemused.

Ron sighed.

"People do it all the time," he whined.

A new wave of giggles erupted from me and Harry.

Hermione rolled her eyes and said, "I don't want to know. But back to the subject at hand, I think that we should just stay off the radar until we can find a solution. We need to return to school soon. We can only stay here until Sunday, without arising suspicion, and it's Friday. How about two days?"

I nodded, "That's fine."

Sirius agreed, "Yeah, but what about the Dursley's? I don't want you guys to stay there this summer. Especially since…" he paused. "Umm, lost my train of thought."

We rolled our eyes.

"Let's sneak away. It won't be that hard," I supplied.

"Yeah but knowing Dumbles he has some sort of thingy things in his office that track me." Harry pointed out.

"Well, from what I've heard, he gets it from the wards. Therefore, if we don't return and renew the wards, he won't be notified because the wards will have fallen." I stated, feeling quite proud of my use of big words.

They stared at me.

I raised my eyebrows at them.

"I'm not Ron. I do occasionally make valid points." I said glaring at them.

Ron looked affronted.

"Oh, don't look at me like that. You know it's true."

They rolled their eyes.

"Well," Remus directed, "back to the subject, you have a good point. You can take the Knight Bus back here. Now, what about next year. Can you deal with waiting until then and possible longer? Maybe a few years?"

We winced.

"I don't think we can keep our living arrangements from him that long. Plus there's always the off chance Voldie pants comes back and kills us." I put in.

"Hmm, what if we get the Potter's will from Gringotts?" Hermione put in thoughtfully. "I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have wanted Harry there, and I didn't even know them."

Remus and Sirius nodded.

"Or we can get Pettigrew from that jar we put him in and bring him to the Ministry. Then we get Sirius a new trial and have him regain guardianship of us." I said smartically.

Remus and Sirius nodded again.

"Or we bring him to the Prophet instead, in case they try to cover it up, so he can get a fair, public trial." Hermione finished.

Remus and Sirius nodded once again.

"Can you stop nodding? Merlin, you're annoying. Prats." I huffed.

Remus smirked, "I think that it's a good idea to go to the Prophet first, but before you go to the Ministry, contact someone in there you can trust. So we can get their word that if Padfoot walks into the Ministry, he won't have his soul sucked out."

"Yes! A plan! Now we can figure out the details for…" Hermione excitedly said.

We all quickly left the room.

"Well, I'm gonna go take a shower seeing as I'm filthy. Later." I went up the stairs.

I looked into the bathroom and cringed. Unfortunately it was the cleanest bathroom, and that's saying something. Even after several cleaning, water, soap, and vanishing charms for the dirt and mold, it wasn't very clean. I decided to try one of those cool spells Flitwick had talked about a few weeks ago, where you say 'Fis' and focus on what you want to happen.

"Fis," I hoped.

The bathroom was now filled halfway up the wall with bubbles.

I vanished them, disappointed, but when they were gone, I found the lower half of the bathroom to be perfectly clean now.

"YES! HAHA!" I yelled triumphantly.

I set the water and climbed in. My cuts and scrapes stung a bit, but the warm water felt good.

Suddenly, I heard the door open.

Mortified, I stood bug-eyed for a second at Harry, then yelled at the top of my voice, "GET OUT!"

He frantically threw his arm over his eyes, then turned to run out. He sprinted into the wall, fell down, then ran out the door.

I sighed and sank to the ground. Why me? I cast a mild locking charm and realized I would never live this down.

AN: Hey, how did I do? I think it's a bit boring but I needed to show them deciding to stay for fourth year. If you have any small requests then PM me or review:)