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Chapter 6: The Marauders are BACK! Malfoy and Company

A week later, a few more people were about to feel the wrath of the New Marauders. At breakfast, everyone was enjoying the lovely meal that the elves had prepared. There was a popping sound over the Slytherin table, everyone looked up to see buckets suspended over several of the students, in particular, Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Parkinson, Nott and other Pureblood Supremacist children. Once they had looked up, the buckets tipped, dumping mud all over them. Once that was completed, words appeared over them,

WE ARE NOW MUDBLOODS!

There were gasps in the hall as students read the message. Then a few started to snigger, which spread to others, eventually the sniggers and snickers became outright laughter as the mud covered students fled the hall. Of course, Colin Creevey was busy taking pictures. These pictures would later be plastered all over the school for days.

Headmistress McGonagall watched all of this from the head table. She would have liked to take Mr. Potter to task for his pranks, if she could prove it was him, but she didn't have the heart. The latest students deserved what they were getting. It grieved her to remember how Severus had allowed those same students get away with being bullies and Albus had condoned it. So, she decided, even if she found proof that Mr. Potter and his friends were behind the pranks, she would not punish him, not even for the ones against the Ravenclaws, especially after what she and Filius had learned about their bullying ways. Ravenclaw now had new Prefects, since they had been either allowing it, or totally blind.

Later that same day Malfoy, with his two goons, confronted Harry, Hermione, and Ron. "I know you were behind the buckets of mud Potter!" He pulled his wand, but was stopped but a voice.

"Mr. Malfoy! Put that wand away at once! That will be one hundred points from Slytherin and a month of detention with Filch for threatening a student, and pulling your wand on the same student!" yelled Professor McGonagall as she strode up to the students angrily. "Now move along Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Goyle, and Mr. Crabbe." She narrowed her eyes at them.

Malfoy glared at Harry as he left.

Professor McGonagall looked at Harry had his friends and spoke. "I am quite sure that Mr. Malfoy is correct and that you are behind the recent…incents that have befallen several of our students." She looked at the three of them shrewdly. "Know that I will not interfere as long as these pranks are not dangerous. Do I make myself clear Mr. Potter?" He nodded solemnly. She nodded in acceptance. "Good, we understand each other. Now move along, I believe you three have class." The three friends hurried off to class. She smiled slightly as she watched them leave.

A few days later, the same Pureblood students found themselves in quite a predicament. They woke up in the morning floating in the Great Hall just as the students and teachers began arriving for breakfast. That would not have been so bad, except Malfoy and friends discovered that they were nearly starkers except for the loincloths they were wearing. Malfoy and company began screaming to be let down and something about revenge or some such thing. Meanwhile, the remaining student body had begun laughing hysterically once they recovered from the shock, some even ended on the floor because they were laughing so hard. Even some of the teachers could be heard snickering. And yes, Colin was taking lots of pictures. He had been having a ball in the last few weeks taking pictures of the people being pranked. He knew that the Ravenclaw girls were bullies, and of course, he was a Muggleborn and had borne the brunt of Malfoy and his pals' form of torture in the past. He was sure that he had a Patronus worthy memory now.

Harry and friends watched as the teachers tried to get Malfoy and company down with little success. He knew they would not have much luck, Hermione was behind that part of the prank, and as we all know, she is brilliant. The loincloths had been Neville's idea. The original idea had been to have the students be starkers, but Neville thought that might traumatize the first years, so this was the compromise. It worked, Malfoy and company were still humiliated and that was all that mattered in the end.

Harry had been right; Malfoy and crew had remained suspended for the entire day. The teachers had been forced to levitate food to them so that they would not starve. This allowed students to point and laugh all day while Malfoy fumed.

A few days later, Harry had one more prank planned for Malfoy only, since he had personally tormented Harry since he arrived at Hogwarts. Harry had carefully researched and planned what he wanted to happen. Since the second prank, Malfoy had made a habit of checking his food, thinking that someone had slipped him a sleeping potion in his food the night before in order to carry out the prank. Harry snickered; this would not help old pale face this time. As Harry, Hermione, and Ron walked into the Great Hall, he saw Malfoy sitting with his friends at the Slytherin table; he looked to be sure no one was paying any attention to him, he waved his hand at Malfoy thinking of what he wanted to happen, sat with his friends and waited. About five minutes later Malfoy let out a scream as all of his hair fell out at the same time. Everyone looked to see Malfoy feeling his very bald head, while he looked at his hair lying on the table before him. Then he looked up at Harry and yelled, "POTTER! I KNOW YOU DID THIS!" He stood reaching for his wand, but before he could do anything he slumped in his seat.

Everyone looked up to the Head Table to see Professor Flitwick putting his wand away. "I will not allow a student to curse another student in the Great Hall. Mr. Malfoy may have hit a different target." He turned to Harry. "Now, Mr. Potter, please come forward and give me your wand. I would like to test it." Harry did as instructed and handed Professor Flitwick his wand. Meanwhile Professor Vector had revived Mr. Malfoy, tested his food for potions, and then brought him to the Head Table. Flitwick tested Harry's wand, the last spell cast was from his own class the day before. He handed Harry's wand back to him and turned to Malfoy. "Mr. Malfoy, as you can see I have tested Mr. Potter's wand. The last spell cast was from my own class yesterday afternoon." He turned to Professor Vector. "Did you find any potions in Mr. Malfoy's food Professor?"

"I did not Professor Flitwick." She answered.

Flitwick turned back to Malfoy. "Mr. Potter is not responsible for your current problem." He held up his hand as Malfoy began to splutter. "There will be no discussion or argument on this matter. You have no proof for your accusations, Mr. Malfoy! Now for pulling your wand on a fellow student, again, you are hereby suspended in school for one month. You will be required to work with Mr. Filch for that time. You will still need to keep up with your schoolwork. Professor, please escort Mr. Malfoy to Mr. Filch's office so that he may begin his work." Professor Vector nodded and had to drag a protesting Draco Malfoy out of the Great Hall as the other students decided it was now okay to laugh at his predicament. Colin had quite the collection of pictures now thanks to Harry and his friends. "Back to breakfast everyone, we all have classes to attend." And with that Professor Flitwick returned to the head table with an unseen smirk.

All in all Harry and friends were very happy with what they had achieved with their pranks. For now they were finished with the students, they had other targets to concentrate on in the near future. Who knows, they might continue tormenting some deserving students, only time would tell.

A/N: I would like to thank my beta harryhermionerw, she has been terrific.

Note: I decided to add the Ravenclaw girls because I felt that Harry would do this for his friend Luna. This story is all about payback after all.

I hope you liked this chapter. Many had requested that I go after Malfoy and company before I went after Fudge, so this is the result. I'm sorry for the delay. I had sooo many ideas, it took me awhile to decide exactly what I wanted to do.