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Rewritten
Chapter 6: Beginning Prank Week, Second Prank Day
For Sunday we had planned a prank where everyone could participate. As the day before I woke the guys and we made our way to the great hall. Louis had made a banner which we would sent in with ten owls. We split up and I made my way to the Slytherin Common Room. I was the one of the group who could sneak around and even Ms Norris wouldn't see me. I had waited the last night till one of the Slytherins went in and said the password. I had remembered it and was now standing in the middle of the green and silver room. I lifted my wand and whispered a few spells. After fifteen minutes I made my way back up and met Fred who came from the Hufflepuff Common Room. We walked together up and went in the Entrance Hall. After just five minutes the other two joined us. I looked at them.
"Which corridors do you think we should take?" Fred asked and we thought for a moment.
"I think the corridor to the library, the Grand Stairs, here and outside by the lake."
We all nodded to the suggestion from Louis and again we split up. I made my way to the stairs with Fred. James remained in the Entrance Hall and Louis made his way to the lake. Fred climbed the stairs while I started to work. This time it was really long. Fred, James and Louis were standing beside me and added a few things. As I finally finished we went up to our dorms. This time we all climbed the stairs to the boys' dormitory. I shared a bed with James and we all were asleep under seconds.
I stretched myself and snuggled closer to the warmth on my side. I heard a content sigh and smiled. My pillow was moving and smelled strangely familiar. Knowing that we should go down I exhaled. I didn't want to lose this feeling of safety. But before I could bring myself to stand up an arm snaked his way around my waist and I became aware that the moving pillow the chest from James was. I gasped and went stiff like a board. He didn't seem to mind because he just pressed me to his side.
"Just a little more George." He murmured in my ear and I shivered at his hot breath on my ear and face. He smelled like mint and chocolate.
"James, let me go! We have to stand up!" He didn't even moved one centimetre. So I tried to push his arm which laid around my waist away.
"Come on Georgie. It's so comfortable. Please just five minutes!" I tried to lift my head to see if the boys were in here. The empty beds indicated that they were down stairs. Raising my head to my living pillow I saw James eyes closed and a smile on his face. After collecting the pro and cons if I want to go up or sleeping a little more I decided to just relax for a bit.
What felt like minutes, were actually two hours as we made our way down to breakfast. We got up at 5 o'clock this time and went to bed at 7 o'clock. So now it was 9. We sat down at the Gryffindor table and looked at the other two members of the Praedators.
"Where were you? We went down hours ago!" Fred announced while stuffing my plate full of good stuff. The years in Hogwarts had made me a little rounder but it was better than before. With my family I was always looking sick and was very thin. The boys had made it they're task that I would have a healthy weight.
"It was just 15 minutes." Louis murmured.
"It were probably the longest 15 minutes from your life right? Having Fred alone?" I said laughing at Fred who act like he was heartbroken.
"Oh how could you! I am perfectly fine to be alone with. I was kind and did everything little Louise wanted from me!" He exclaimed loudly so that lots of people turned around. I blushed and looked down.
"HOW COULD YOU!" James screamed at his best friend. He and Fred were standing now and they both were extremely loud.
"IT'S REALLY EASY!" Fred yelled back.
"HOW COULD HE WHAT?" Louis asked in the pause standing too.
"HE MADE HER UPSET!" James was angry now. All the First Years gaped openly but the older students just sat back and watched. Out of my eyes I even saw people betting on us.
"I WOULDN'T MAKE HER UPSET! SHE IS MY TRUE LOVE! THE ONE AND ONLY!" Fred yelled back.
"WHAT? SHE IS MY TRUE LOVE!" Louis and James both said. I was blushing so hard that my head had the same colour than the hair on Fred's head. I don't like it when the boys did that but it was quite funny.
"OH THAT'S ENOUGH!" Louis yelled and pulled his wand. Fred and James had theirs out too. They all waved their wands at the same time and people were actually scared now. What they didn't know was that they had changed their wands to the fake one from Uncle George. James wand exploded and he was now holding a fish, while Fred had a rubber chicken and Louis a rabbit in their hands. They jumped on the table and began to fight with their animals. The hall erupted in laughter and I even saw Minnie had to fight a smile. But I had enough.
"GUYS!" I cried out. All eyes were now on me and I asked myself how stupid I actually was but firstly it was too late and secondly one look in James eyes I know I had to do this.
"WHAT DO YOU THING YOU ARE DOING?" I heard a whisper somewhere behind me.
"Oh shit. She is really pissed now." I tried my hardest to stifle my laughter.
"HOW COULD YOU BEGIN A FIGHT WITHOUT ME?!" And with that I pulled my fake wand out and jumped on the table. With that we all fought and the students laughed at us. I grinned. This was the best feeling ever. I didn't have to worry what the others thought because I had my friends. As we fought we danced on the table around and I missed the board. Stumbling I fell down and in the lap from Logan Thomas. He grinned at me and I blushed.
"Sorry for that. I am a little clumsy." He just smiled at me.
"Hey I don't mind having a beautiful girl falling on me. How would it be if you go out with me on the next Hogsmead weekend? Just if you want of course." I smiled brightly at him and nodded.
"That would be great." I answered his question and with a last smile I stood up and walked back to the boys who had stop fighting when Fred had stepped in a bowl of scrambled eggs. They were discussing something. I sat down beside Fred and I looked at them expectantly.
"Do you want to start the prank now?" I asked and they turned to me.
"Where were you? In one moment we all fought and then you were gone." Louis asked with concern in his voice. I blushed.
"I stumbled from the table." I said quietly. Fred was the first who broke out in laughter. The other two followed quickly and as Fred nudged me in the side I began as well.
"So the prank?" Louis asked after five minutes. We all nodded and Fred waved his wand (this time the right one). With that the barriers which had hold the owls back broke down and the scandalized birds made their way to their owners. After the most of them were gone our owls made their way into the hall and they took all the attention. As the owls were at the end of the hall, James waved his wand and the banner stayed in the air. It said:
"Welcome back to a new year in the fabulous castle named HOGWARTS! The Praedators are proud to say that we have something special this year. We didn't liked our summer or winter and we thought why not making our own. So have fun discovering where we made our own WINTER, SUMMER, AUTUMN and SPRING!"
The hall went quiet and then:
"We HAVE to find them." And with that the whole students stood up and made their way to the entrance hall. Many gasps where heard. The Entrance Hall was a beautiful spring day. With cherry blossoms on the earth and flowers everywhere. We escaped and run up to the Gryffindor Tower where we got our sleds and then we made our way to the stairs. The stairs were covered in snow and the corridors were iced. James and I shared one and Fred and Louis shared the other and then we screamed.
"HEY HOGWARTS. SOMETHING IS IN THE STAIRS!" We heard way down the students coming from the entrance hall and with that we pushed us down the stairs. It was amazing. The stairs were moving and we would jump through the air before we landed safely on other moving one. And like that we got down. Just two stairs were left but we didn't have enough speed to make the next jump. Louis and Fred had been started before us and were now down with the others but we drove over the edge and then we began falling. I didn't know what to do but James had apparently a plan because he got his wand out and screamed:
"Accio broom!" His broom sped towards him but I was still falling as he got on. I closed my eyes. At least James was save. But then he got me in the last second. He flew us down to the others and they were applauding. He bowed and I made a curtsey.
"How could you do something so stupid?!" I turned around expecting to see old Minnie but Neville ran towards us. He was white and looked really scared.
"Do you know what your parents would say to me, if something would happen to you? They would give me the fault because they thought I would look out for you. But you had to this, right? Would you explain why?" I swallowed.
"We are sorry Sir. But look nothing happened!" James tried to soothe him.
"But what if more students want to try that. I want you to remove all of your seasons!" My eyes got wide. This was a lots of work what we made.
"And what if we just putting a protective charm around the stairs? Everything that could be a thing to slide on we could... Like a barrier!" Professor McGonagall was standing now next to Neville. She laid a hand on his shoulder.
"I think that would be ok." She answered and I nodded and pulled my wand. After long five minutes I got the stupid charm. It was a hard on because it had to let humans trough it but I had to be exact with the object which couldn't be on the stairs. Professor Longbottom and Minerva looked at my expectantly.
"It should work now." I said. They nodded and Neville took the sled from Louis and Fred and went to the stairs. He got to the stairs but the sled was now before the barrier. Minnie smiled.
"That is impressive Ms Grey. It's a hard work." I grinned. Minnie smiled very rarely and a compliment was even more uncommon. James eyes got big.
"Was that a smile AND a compliment! Oh merlin George! This just happened to Hermione before." He exclaimed and hugged me tightly. Fred and Louis were hugging me too. I grinned my biggest grin until I heard an all too familiar voice.
"You don't give them detention, Mam?" My sister Fiona said. The guys got angry when they felt me stiffen.
"They got the whole stairs under snow. The corridor to the library is so windy, the smaller students have to crouch to get through it. The entrance hall got everyone with an allergy to sneeze and outside it's so hot we would have to get changed!" Because I didn't want to see the disappointment in the face of the teachers I closed my eyes.
"I didn't saw anyone sneezing, Ms Grey. And I don't think that the four here would hurt anyone except themselves." The boys had let go of me except for James who had his arm still around me.
"We made cushion charms on the corridor where autumn is and made an anti-allergy charm also. Why is it bad to have a hot day? We hadn't had the best summer and now you can swim in the Lake. And to the winter: nobody will get a cold from the snow and no one will be hurt because the snow is feather light for the snowball fights." I heard the calm voice from Louis. As I heard someone making an angry huff I had to open the eyes again. Fiona was red in the face from the suppressed anger.
"Then I think we can have this excellent charm work to stay this day. But tomorrow I want that it is gone. Ok?" Minnie asked and the boys and I nodded.
"Then I think enjoy your day!"
And that we did. We went ice skating in one of the corridors, went swimming in the lake, made a snowball fight, and got us swept through autumn and just laid in spring. The charm would stop working on midnight and we couldn't see my sister the whole day. It was a very nice day. But every nice day have to end. Mine ended a little earlier than the one from the guys. Because as I went up to my dorm Stephanie, Rachel Boot, Clarissa Linken and Victoria Patil waited for me. I opened the door and went over to my bed and got my things for the bathroom. I gave just a short glance at the four who sat on the bed from Vicki (she hate it when somebody called her that) and whispered quietly. After knocking at the room from the fourth years Rose opened me. I couldn't be in my own bathroom because the last time I was they put in all of my shampoo colour and my hair was green for the rest of the week. I didn't told the boys who it was and Rose said I could make me ready in their bathroom. I smiled at her.
"Hey Rosie!" She scowled at me but let me hug her.
"Thanks for..." But I couldn't end the sentence because Rose glared at me.
"What did I say last time?"
"I don't have to thanks every time." She smiled this time.
"Ok then. Come in. My roommates are talking about my cousins and how hot they are!" We shuddered. After I finished I hugged her one last time and climbed back to the fifth year dorm. Something was off. But I couldn't lay my finger on it and so I just went to my bed. We could sleep in because the prank had a timer. At 3 o'clock the charms around the Common Rooms we made yesterday before the other prank would be activated. And with that I went to sleep.
