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Chapter 25

Blue Pixi PJs

The scream of a very scared, high pitched female, only a few feet from my once sleeping body, woke me this morning. Shadow, the scared, little puddy cat, jumped from his perch on my stomach, leaving bloody gouges in his wake, to tear out of the room. My own scream of pain added to the other screaming girl's.

After I quit yelling, and plotting the various ways to make little kitties disappear, not that I would hurt Shadow, he was my cat, but my tummy is in pain at the moment, I looked around the room to try and discover who's scream was responsible for waking me and our other roommates, a full hour early. The quite whimpering from the bed to my left drew my attention. Hermione sat on her bed, an open Gliding With Gouls in her lap, complete with no words and full of hieroglphics.

Seeing her reaction to our prank, made the pain just go away, the giggles I couldn't hold in brought it back, but it was worth it. I got up, making sure I didn't get any blood on the sheets, and made my way over to Hermione's bed.

"Hermione, what's wrong? Are you ok?" I asked in my most sincere voice, being the half-Slytherin that I am, it sounded like the real thing.

In quite sobbs, she mannaged, "My Lockheart book...it's ruined..."

It seems that Hermione, like most of the silly females in this school have fallen for the Defense Against the Darkarts professor. For some reason, I can't seem to like that man. Oh, wait, I remeber why, it's because he is so full of himself that his self love could actually paint the walls. The fact that something that isn't physical could paint the walls, is amazing, but then so is Professor Lockhart, and not in a good way.

"That's terrible Hermione, have you checked your other books to make sure they are ok?"

I had to jump out of her way as she scrambbled out of bed to grab her book bag. She quickly looked through her books, more and more tears pouring off her face as her professor-crushe's books were proved to unreadable. Non Lockhart books, she only cringed at, but his she bawled over. It almost made me feel bad, then I remembered, only Hermione, and maybe the entire Ravenclaw house, would be a little upset about this prank, the rest of the school would see it as it is and have fun.

"I'm sure it's not permanent, Hermione. Look at this way, if all of the school's books are like your's, then the professors will be looking for some way to fix it. There is nothing to really freak out about, just chill out and relax."

She looked a little more relaxed after I reashured her that the professors are most likely to already be looking into the problem. Good thing they most likely won't figure it out, it would take all the fun out of the pranks. Everyone needs to have some fun in troubling times.

"You are right Adonia, the professors could already be looking this problem. It could be a spell gone wrong, right?" I gave her a nod, and she continued, "Yeah, I'm sure they are already working on it. By the way, you are bleeding...you might want to look at that."

Looking down at my stomach, seeing the blood that was slowly making its way onto my sleeping shorts, I gave an "EEK", and ran off to the bathroom. Good thing Hermione wanted to study early this morning, giving me enough time to hop in the shower and clean up. On the other hand, if she had not of screamed, Shadow wouldn't have left his skidmarks on my stomach. Though I have to admit that I kinda prompted the scream with my prank, all in all, I'm ok with this.

I made sure the bandages were secure, then made my way down to the Great Hall to get soemthing to eat for breakfast. George and Fred were already sitting at the table, an empy seat in between them, waiting for me. Eating my favorite, eclairs, we waited at the table to watch the reactions of our fellow students this morning. As I predicted, the Ravenclaws were freaking out, their table was quite funny to watch. The other three tables were also freaking out, but in the gleefull, happy way, not the oh-my-gosh-my-books-have-been-destroyed way.

Though Hermione's and the Ravenclaw's reactions to our prank was amazing, the most priceless reaction was Lockhart's. He came running into the Great Hall, sprinting up to the Head Table, bawling, and pled for Professor Dumbledore's help. Turns out, Lockhart, likes to revisit his triumphs every morning by reading his favorite passages from his books while he gets ready in the morning. This morning, it seems, before he took off his hairnet and removed the curlers, he decided to read a bit out of Voyages with Vampires. Seeing the 'pictures' as he called them in place of words upset him greatly, upset him so much, that he paused short enough to grab his school robes to put over his matching blue coverd pixie pajama set.

Somehow, Professor Dumbledore calmed the man down enough, to get him to leave the Great Hall, much to the disappointment of us all, by promising him that he would look into the situation and have it fixed by sometime tonight at the vary latest. From what I could get from Dumbledore, he knew this was a prank and that it would be back to normal by tonight. Even he thought the prank was a good one. Lockhart's reaction was great, all of the teachers thought so.

For the rest of the day, Fred, Geroge, and I, gloried in the caos we made last night. By that night, even Hermione was ok with the prank, I think it had more to do with the fact that the professors couldn't assign homework because we coudn't use the books to help us, than she was with the prank itself, oh well.

The next couple of days, after the books went back to normal of course, school got back to normal. Every one was talking about the prank, the Chamber of Secrets, the upcomming Quidditch game of Gryffindor against Hufflepuff, or some combination of all three. The twins and I were already planning our next big prank, something for Halloween maybe.

I decided to go into the forest to visit Firenze the day before the quidditch match, I couldn't wait to tell him about our newest prank. On my way I noticed a line of spiders makeing their way out of the school into the forest. Once upon a time I like spiders, that was until I learned about the evil people eating spiders in the forest.

Maybe Firenze will have a good idea for a prank, who knows, he had some good sugestions for the jungle prank.

Thank you all for reading. ^.^ Don't forget to reveiw, I really, really like to hear everyone's thoughts on my story. Once again if you have any pranks, send them my way and I may use them. A special thanks to the following.

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