Written for The Next Gen Competition! (Always Open).
"Please?" Lysander pleaded, looking up at Lily with as much helplessness as he could muster. She sighed and rolled her eyes, but also said "Fine," so Lysander didn't care. He just wanted to do this.
Lorcan had been annoying the past few days, always talking about how he had managed to get on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team while Lysander had failed to get on the Hufflepuff one. Lysander had only seen available option to him, and that was to prank Lorcan.
But Lorcan was his twin and he knew exactly what Lysander would eventually do, so Lorcan had taken to hiding out in the Ravenclaw common room, correctly thinking that Lysander would have a hard time getting past the riddles that guarded it.
But Lorcan had also pissed off Lily by claiming that the Ravenclaw team would beat the Slytherin in Quidditch, which was the only reason Lysander had dared approach her to help figure out the Ravenclaw opening.
Lily had terrified him as a kid. Everybody else might've been surprised that she turned out to be a Slytherin, but Lysander was not. He could have told anyone that.
Lily led him to the Ravenclaw common room, her dark red hair swinging behind her. Out of all the Weasley cousins, only the ones with Potter name escaped the fiery red hair, James and Al getting the Potter black and Lily getting a much darker red than her cousins.
Soon, they arrived, and Lily stood in front of the eagle knocker.
"What is inevitable to all but a few and dangerous to all but some?" the eagle asked and Lysander groaned. He would never get that.
"Love," Lily said and the door opened.
Lysander wondered how close the Sorting Hat's decision had been.
"You have five minutes," she turned to him and said. "After that, I have to resume being Head Girl." And with that, she left him.
Lysander entered the Ravenclaw common room. No one seemed to notice him or the Hufflepuff colors, as they were all too busy studying for. He was grateful for that.
He quickly and silently made his way towards the third-year boy's dormitory. Lily was giving him five minutes to get in and out. He had to make the most of them.
He didn't want to get into too much trouble, but he also wanted to make sure Lorcan remembered this prank.
Lysander carefully opened his twin's drawer and cast the charm he had specifically learned for this situation.
Lorcan's clothes would flash idiot, moron, and braggart for an entire day. Hopefully, no one would fix them, and Lysander could revel in the fact that he had pulled one over his 'intelligent' brother.
Quietly, he closed the drawer and hurried out of Ravenclaw tower. With a nod to Lily to indicate that she could pretend she never help him, he hurried back to his own common room with a smile.
This was going to be fun.