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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Got them!!

I look out at the Hufflepuffs that suffered the fake blood and silently laugh. Serves them right. I look over at Sage, who is trying to contain her laughter. She must of used a silencing spell. I should've thought of that.

"Finally, I got them back!" I hiss.

One of the Hufflepuffs, a fairly short girl with anger in her eyes, turns and stares at me, her freckled face burning with a look of pure hatred. Thank Merlin for the disillusionment charms.

"Why did you say that?!" Sage screams as we run around a corner.

"I didn't mean to! It just, popped out!"

"Well, they're out for BLOOD now!"

"They need more? They're covered in it!"

We giggle together as we fall through a doorway disguised as a painting of a flying snake that hisses at us in annoyance. Safely under the silencing charms we chatter about our adventure.

"That look on their faces! Priceless!!"

"Right? And their confusion when they screw up the password!"

"Of course they were confused! They're seventh years!"

"On that topic, are you going to change it back? The password, I mean?"

"No, I set up a muggle CCTV camera. The monitor is in the common room, hidden from teachers. I want to get Professor Sprout!"

"Okay, but it's nearly curfew, we should get inside."

"Okay. Nundu."

"I thought we agreed on All Star?"

"You said All Star. I never said anything."

"Meh, All Star's outdated anyway. I guess that's why it's so fun," Sage mutters.

"Come on, we better get to bed."

"We don't have to, it's, like, seven."

"But we have no homework to keep us up 'till one so, might as well go to bed early while we can."

"I repeat, SEVEN. That's dinner time usually."

"Fine, we stay up 'till eight on the monitor, ok?"

"YOU stay up until eight, I'm gonna use this time to binge-watch YouTube until midnight."

"Ten at the latest."

"We'll see."

"Fine, I'm sleeping. Goodnight!"

"Goodnight, bean."

I head up to my dorm room and I can already hear the sounds of Dan and Phil doing a collab with Dodie Clark. Her favourite video ever.

Oh, right. We haven't introduced ourselves. I'm Georgia Ravit and that's Sage Dillon. We are of the only hybrid house Hogwarts has ever seen, we think. Anyway, Slytherclaw. Our common room is held near the Hufflepuff common room, but on the ground floor. Our mascot is a winged snake. It's the portrait-door to our common room entrance, a knocker, just like the Ravenclaws, although it's a password, not a question. It's also only accessible by the people of Slytherclaw, and the teachers. You might be wondering how the Hufflepuffs got in to put the shaving cream in my pillow case. The answer is, elves. Hey, the rules are use any means necessary, except bad injuries, although, even those happen sometimes You're also probably wondering why we covered the Hufflepuffs in fake blood. Well,it's the Hogwarts annual prank war of course!

It's house against house and Gryffindor is in the lead right now, but we're not doing badly, especially considering we only have two people.

The tradition started in 2002 when a group of Gryffindor students cursed all the Ravenclaws to make them recite poetry at random moments. The Ravenclaws got their revenge by cursing the Gryffindor portrait to change passwords every two minutes, and the competition begun. Hufflepuff never joined in much, until now. We pranked them accidentally and they took revenge. Now it's a whole school thing. Ravenclaw pulled out last week. Something about studying. Now it has four houses again. It's sad, we were allies with them.

We have no doubt that Hufflepuff will return with something greater, that's the fun of it all. There's even a notice board just outside the great hall. To keep you updated with all the goings on in the battle, It updates itself automatically too. Hufflepuff will know.

--SG--

The next day, I wake up to a regular morning, but I'm on edge. Hufflepuff will be onto us soon. It all seems so normal as I get dressed, eat breakfast, go to class. Then we reach double charms, where we are surrounded by Hufflepuff students. One hour and 45 minutes of learning the levitation charm later, we start to pack up.

BANG!

"Protego!"

I look up to see the Hufflepuffs in bright pink, frilly dresses.

"Ha!"

I look over to see Sage's triumphant face and realisation clicks. It rebounded. That would of been us. I can't help but laugh too.

"What is going on here?!" Professor Flitwick asks.

"Nothing!" We respond as we run for our house points' lives.