Chapter 8: The Explosion

Once Kit and Daphne had finished their detentions, they had persisted in losing more and more points, and playing more and more pranks, but they also involved Kyla and Sally. Their new favorite charms were the caterwauling charm and the color changing charm. They had managed to combine the spells and make it so that each person activates the caterwauling that was on their person. Each person had a song that was assigned to their person.

But, unwilling to allow all of the other students to have all of the fun, they had assigned songs to themselves. They had decided on Disney songs for each other.

The song that Kit was assigned was Oo-de-lally from Robin Hood. Kyla was assigned One Jump Ahead from Aladdin. Sally was assigned Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid. And Daphne was assigned I won't say I'm in Love from Hercules.

Hermione and her friends were also assigned Disney songs. Hermione was given the Mouse Song from Cinderella, for her views on House Elves. Harry was given Through Heavens Eyes from The Prince of Egypt. Ron was given No Fear from the Swan Princess. Neville was given Steady as the beating Drum from Pocahontas. Malfoy was given One of Us from Lion King 2. Crabbe and Goyle were given the same song, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, though it only plays when they get close to Malfoy. Finally, Pansy was given Zero to Hero from Hercules.

Every single time they showed themselves in public, but more importantly, every single time they walked through a threshold, they played their songs.

Kit didn't have a problem with her song. She was rather fond of Robin Hood, and Kyla was the one who chose her song, so she knew it wasn't going to be too bad.

Kyla was the one person who was able to choose her own song. Mostly because Kit was going to curse her sister with a Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, and Daphne didn't know any Disney songs.

Though, McGonagall was the person that they enjoyed watching the most. The room played Everybody wants to be a Cat every time she walked into any room. She would pale, and her lips would become drawn, and she would glare at everyone in the entire school who would look at her the wrong way.

Dumbledore was thrilled with the prank. He was given the Circle of Life from the Lion King. He loved the song; Kit swore that she heard him singing along with the song one day earlier in the day. McGonagall and Snape usually glared at him when he did that.

That prank earned Fred and George the longest detention that they have ever been given. After all, no one knew that Kyla, Kit, Daphne, and Sally were the ones who cast the spell.

It was almost the end of the school year, and Kyla and Kit have decided that they were going to make a highly experimental and rather finicky potion. The potion was designed to turn people into their inner animals, for a short amount of time, until they turn back.

Sadly, since Kit is rather inept when it comes to potions and cooking, so she was going to be keeping watch and gathering the fresh materials that they would need.

Daphne and Sally decided that they had other things that they needed to do first thing in the morning, so they were inside, at the library while Kit and Kyla were out by the lake.

"Alright," Kyla ordered, "The first thing that we need is fresh ferns."

"…Ferns?" Kit asked.

"Yes, hurry up." Kyla said. Kit nodded and hurried over to the lake side and found some fresh ferns and gave them to her twin. Kyla looked it over, nodded, and then gave her sister an entire list of things that she needed to find, while she was left stirring the potion.

Kit was humming under her breath. She was singing Oo-de-lally under her breath while she gathered Kyla's potion ingredients. She had been hearing the song so often and at such random times, that she would never forget it. Never mind the fact that every time the song played her hair would turn a different color. Today it was a nice shade of crimson. Kyla's was Emerald green today.

"What are you doing," Hermione Granger stormed over and was glaring at the younger twin. "Is that…Is that a Potion? It's against the rules to make a potion outside of the school without adult supervision."

Kit, having overheard this comment walked over and sneered, "I bet you were the kind of person who actually called the teacher over when your classmates where trying to have fun. You are so boring."

Hermione flushed and glared at Kit's back as she returned to the lake, and then, insanity seemed to overcome the usually calm and level headed first year and she shoved Kyla.

That made two very different things happen. One, Kyla stopped stirring the potion, a bad thing, and two; it made her drop the ingredient that she was holding into the potion.

How about a small potions lesson. There are some potions that people can make that need only the freshest of potion ingredients, and then there are potions that need to be stirred constantly. And then there are potions that need both to happen at all times. The last potion is the most volatile.

People die because of accidents with these last potions. It is why they aren't attempted until NEWT year, with a teacher present. If Hermione was a little bit older, or a bit calmer, she would have never done what she did.

The explosion was phenomenal. Kit, over by the lake, was thrown into the lake face first. She also hit her head, and she lost consciousness. Kyla's injuries were much more severe.

She was thrown into a tree, had broken her left arm, shattered her right knee, and given her second degree burns on her face and arms, and she too was knocked out.

Daphne and Sally, who had been on their way to the lake, saw the explosion and hurried down to the lake. Daphne took one look in the surrounding area, and ran over to the lake and dragged Kit out. While Sally ran over to Kyla to check on her.

"Hermione, you need to go and get some help." Sally said quickly.

Hermione was silent. She was staring at Kyla stunned. She was in shock.

"Hermione!" Sally snapped, "Go and get some help."

Hermione snapped out of her stunned stupor and ran down to Hagrid's hut. However, Hagrid was already on the way. He had seen the explosion through his window, and he had grown concerned for the people by the lake.

Hagrid picked up both girls and carried them to the Hospital Wing. Both girls were out cold.

Madame Pomfrey wasn't all that surprised to see Kit and Kyla in the hospital. She had seen the explosion, and she had seen Kit and Kyla down by the lake earlier, so she figured that they had been injured.

Though the extent of Kyla's injuries was astonishing, even to a healer of Madame Pomfrey's degree. She made sure that Kit was stable, and then she turned all of her attention to Kyla. She needed to work quickly if she wanted to keep the first year alive.

Dumbledore was disappointed. He hadn't known that the girls were making a potion by the lake, and he was disappointed that Hermione, one of his top students, was responsible for their accident.

Hermione was given a week worth of detentions and was told that she would never make Prefect for her sheer stupidity that had nearly gotten two of her classmates killed.

Hermione gave her agreement and quietly walked back to her common room. She hoped that Kit and Kyla were going to be alright. It was never her intention for the girls to get killed. She just wanted them to stop with the music, and the color changing. She was sick and tired of hearing the Work Song.

Kit was unconscious.

Kyla was on the brink of death.

Daphne was worried.

Sally was upset.

And they still had three weeks until the year ended.