Harry had been grateful after the feast when he had retreated with his dad to their rooms, apartments near the DADA classroom. It was close enough he had nearly the same view from the dorms, and he felt almost like he could have been in a prefect room. He noticed the colors were Gryffindor, and he wondered if the fact that they were here was more about the fact he was down the hall from Gryffindor, and less about being a convenience to Remus for his office and classroom. There was a time when Harry would have been touched, would have thought the headmaster was trying to make him and Remus both feel more comfortable here at school, not now. He knew the man needed to keep him under control, and hated the fact that Harry was living with his dad; he had not hid that well at all. He was likely hoping that if Harry lived down the hall from Gryffindor his friends, his so called friends, could keep a closer eye on him and keep him in line. He had been happy to get away from dinner, his friends having been laying it on thick, trying to convince Harry that he should move back and live with them in the dorms instead. Ron even suggested he was sure the headmaster could be convinced to add an extra bed and the two could share the prefect room, so Harry did not have to listen to Dean's snoring.

Harry had not been pleased when he had been told he would be having private lessons with the headmaster, he did not understand why. The man had refused to teach him occulemency ad had made him take it from Severus, and now suddenly he had the time, and Harry had no idea what the extra training would be for. He knew the man was trying to get close to him again, and needed an excuse to have time with him away from his dad, but he had not explained his excuse yet. Severus and Lucius had both promised to find some way for Harry not to but for now he needed to play along.

It was the second weekend before they had try outs, and in hopes of ridding himself of at least one red head, Harry had called full try outs. Harry was sure there would have been a few people to try out for keeper, but unfortunately Cormack was the only one and again he proved to be worse then Ron which was hard to accomplish. Harry was concerned for he swore he had heard Dennis say he was going to try out, Collin made a chaser with Katie and Ginny, but he had not shown up.

Harry went with his team back towards the tower after the try outs were done, so he could go and find Collin and his brother. He was not sure why but he had a sneaking suspicion that there was a reason why Dennis had not tried out.

Collin looked a bit nervous when Harry asked him. "My brother is in the infirmary. He tried one of those joke candies and he got really sick."

Harry was surprised for it did not sound like something Dennis would have done and right before try outs. "Maybe I should go check on him."

Though Collin looked like he wanted to say something he kept his tongue, instead assuring Harry that his brother had made a mistake, and was fine. The Creevey brothers had once been nervous around him a lot in previous years but they had got better about it. He was eternally grateful Collin had stopped snapping photos of him every where and following him around like some love sick puppy. His bother had never been much better then him, perhaps a bit less annoying for there were not flash bulbs which wet off when Dennis was near him.

Harry noticed Ron was acting odd the entire time, whispering with Hermione and Dean, and the hair on the back of his neck went up further. He had no idea if they had got worse or e had simply been oblivious to them because they were his friends, but those two did not seem to hide too well what they were up to. He had his cloak with him and after dinner when they snuck away, he followed them under it.

He found them up in the infirmary and sure enough Dennis was there and he was pale. "I told my brother I got the candy from a friend. I swear he does not know."

Hermione shook her head. "You have two years after Ron graduates, to play keeper. You know you did the right thing. Give him it back, Ronald."

Harry watched as Ron handed something back which Harry realized looked like a mini portable WWN. Harry could not believe that Ron would have stooped so low as to actually threaten another student to convince him not to try out. He knew Ron was obsessed with the game, having none of the skill of Charlie or the twins, or even his sister, but he had always wanted to play. But this went above and beyond what Harry thought even Ron would stoop to doing.

Harry watched as Hermione and Ron headed out of the room and headed to follow them. He had his suspicions of course who might be behind it, though he had no idea what Albus would think to gain from having Ron on the team with him. He was not paying a lot of attention and he nearly missed the approach of the headmaster.

Hermione nudged Ro in the ribs. "He should be happy. You know you can't get access to Harry's quidditch locker, to keep an eye o him, if not on the team."

Harry was reminded that the team was the only one with access to the room, and realized that the headmaster wanted access. He did not know what Albus thought he might keep in there, but he assumed since he no longer lived in the dorms, they could not spy on him there. Harry knew the headmaster might be able to see him in his cloak so he slipped away but he decided to go and play a little trick on his so called friends, some pay back for Dennis.

His dad saw his odd look when he got home but shrugged. "I'm not even going to ask."

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When Harry got to breakfast the next morning the entire house was talking, it seemed he had missed all of the excitement the night before. It seemed a number of the prefect rooms, Harry did not want anyone to get suspicious, had been pranked. Poppy had her hands full in the infirmary last night with four Gryffindor prefects who had come into see her with all types of maladies.

Neville shared a grin with him. "You know you missed a good show not living in the dorms. I didn't even know the twins sold such products."

Harry shrugged and shared a secret grin with him. "I guess they must have come from some other shop or something. I have never heard of them either."

The entire Great Hall broke into laughter as the four appeared, dismissed from the infirmary and told they had to come down and eat. Harry had taken it easy on the two ones not intended, they were simply burping huge bubbles of rainbow color every time they opened their mouths. Hermione and Ron though were quite the site; well they were after Severus got done with them.

Severus saw them come into the room and acciod their hats. "School policy, no hats in the hall except during closing feast. Detentions for you both tonight."

Draco snorted as he passed the two of them. "Decided you did not want to live with the shame of being a Weasel any more? The freckles still give you away."

Hermione had gone completely bald other then a small tuft of bright tangerine hair at the top of her scalp, and Ron had a three foot high mow hawk of pink and purple zebra stripes, which went down past his butt. They had been told by Poppy who had learned it was something added to their shampoo, they would have to simply wait out the affects and they should be back to normal in two days or so. They had been kept over night for the belching bubbles but that had seemed to calm a bit.

Ron slumped down humiliated into the bench next to Harry. "I am going to make who ever did this to us pay when I find out. This is not funny."

Harry and the rest of the house seemed to disagree with him but he tried to be sympathetic. "You know w will get them back next generation marauders and all."

Ron seemed to pick up with that, and shared a look with Hermione, who had told Ron it might not be as bad as it looked. Though humiliated and wanting to hide away, she thought it could be a way for them to stick even closer to Harry. Harry was busy planning away his next trick on them.

He passed Collin on his way out. "I hope your brother saw them last night. I am sure it would have been enough to pick up his mood."