Chapter 19: Pranking with the Prewetts.

"Believe it or not Meadow, just with those simple fireworks you started to bring the houses together..."I look at the ground and nod, remembering the different colour fireworks I had left off back on the second of September. "I guess, but it didn't really last because of what happened after flying class" I add looking back up at the headmaster. "True, but you didn't stop yourself from becoming friends with Naomi though did it? You still have a chance to full unite all the houses, so don't let anyone stop you from doing that." Dumbledore smiles down at me, whilst I do another nod. "Now for the real reason I called you here. Meadow I would like you too meet Fawkes." As if on cue, a flash of red and gold flies in and lands upon the perch in front of us with it's beady black eyes staring. My mouth drops when I realize what magical creature Fawkes is. The phoenix before me was the shape of a swan and had a long golden tail along with a beak and a pair of talons. "He's beautiful" I muttered looking into the black eyes of the bird. In the corner of my eyes, I can clearly see Dumbledore smiling too himself whilst I admired the bird from beside his perch. I lift up my left hand and raise it up to the bird, gently stroking through a few of his many scarlet feathers. "He really is, he's been my friend for a lot and it came to my head about a week ago that you might want to see him for yourself" Dumbledore said looking at his bird in wonder."I'm glad I did get the opportunity too see him. I've never seen a phoenix before and I love him already" I say earning a chuckle from the headmaster."Well you know the password to up here so feel free too see him whenever you like. You might also find him flying around the castle from time to time too". I give a small nod and look up at Dumbledore who was already looking down at me. "Meadow, is there anything you'd like to tell me?" he asked gently. I hesitate before shaking my head and looking away. "Well you better get going, your brother is probably wondering where you are." "I guess your right, he will have a panic attack if I don't come back soon" I giggled earning another hearty laugh from Dumbledore. I give Fawkes one last pat and begin to walk to the door but I stop when the headmaster speaks again."Remember, help will always be given at Hogwarts Meadow. For those who ask for it" and with that I left the office and began my long walk to Gryffindor Tower.

"Your back!" Remus said loudly rushing over to me. "What happened? What did he want? What-" he started to pop off questions all at once but I managed to quickly quiet him. "I'll explain everything later when no one's listening in okay" I rest my right hand on his shoulder and smile revealing my still bandaged hand to the other boys. I let go of my brother and sit down in one of the armchairs opposite Peter and James with my head resting against the arm. Peter looks at me and smiles but then his eyes turned to my hand, wiping the smile off of his face. "What happened too your hand?" he asked nodding to the bandage. "I was bitten by a book, it's nothing to worry about. It is pretty much healed now anyway." I answer lifting up my hand to look at it so they could have a better view of it. Sirius and James both snorted at my reason."You were bitten by a book? You do realize that books don't bite right?" Sirius chuckled leaning back against the couch. Both Remus and I roll our eyes looking at him . "Well this book does, stop trying to be a smart-""Language sis" Remus scolded me for the second time today. I roll my eyes once more but this time at him and I dangle my legs over the arm of the chair."Rem, I'm bored" I whine after we had sat in silence for at least ten seconds. He looks up from his book with both of his brows raised. "Find something to do then. I mean you can always study for classes tomorrow or try and read the book that decided to bite you again" Remus pointed out looking back down at his book. "Or you can just go to sleep early for classes tomorrow." I mean he had a point. Classes did start up again tomorrow and I was pretty tired... But it's only the first day back, I might like to read but its not like we have to study yet. I was pretty interested in what 'Jaws' (the book that bit me) had inside. I figured that it would probably have magical creatures inside and in other words be Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them but with more dangerous creatures, however I didn't know how to get in without losing a body part."Well Remus, one: was the point in studying if we have nothing to study for yet. Two: the girls are doing girly things in our dorm which you know I hate. And three: there is no way to get into 'Jaws' without losing a body part so I'm screwed" I say sarcastically glancing up at him. "Hanging around with us though might cure your boredom" said two voices behind me. I look up and a pair of ginger twins were looking down at me with a smirk. "Hello Fab and Gid. What exactly did you have in mind?" I smirk up at them knowing the answer already. "We'll show you" they said together as I got up. I say goodbye to the boys before they could object and we march up to their empty dorm room.* * * "Good Morning everyone, I hope you had a good winter break. Today we will be brewing a cure for boils potion before we start to look into slightly more complex potions before your end of year exams. So for this cure we will need the following ingredients" Professor Slughorn droned on, the next morning in first period. We had barely sat down when he started the lesson, anyone would think he was eager to bore us to death. Although I did love potions as a subject, I didn't really like the Professor because he seemed to just drone on and on and on. I'm honestly surprised I hadn't been told off for falling asleep, not that anyone knew that I would sometimes doze off during his long boring lectures. I had read up on most of this stuff anyway, it's not like I was missing anything exciting.This lesson would be different though. I was wide awake which was a very big change from my normal half-asleep self I was every morning. It is only after a cup of coffee in the morning when I actually fully woke up. Remus had definitely noticed my change of attitude this morning though, all I could do is hope he wouldn't snitch on what was going to happen a bit later on. I would be in big trouble otherwise and I would rather not get a detention on my first day back thank you very much.I sit and the back of the class looking from cauldron to cauldron on each of the desks, looking at which ones had our sign on. Fabian and Gideon were both sat either side of me doing the same too see who would be the victims of our prank. When we set this up about midnight last night or this morning I guess, we picked random cauldrons and didn't really care about who the victims would be. Along as no one knew it was us it would be fine. As I searched the cauldrons, I noticed that Alice was indeed sitting at one and so was Sirius to my delight. A few of the Slytherins also had the bad cauldrons and to my surprise at least seven other Gryffindors did too. "Pst, guys I thought we only agreed to put six jinxed cauldrons down so we wouldn't completely blow up the classroom?" I whispered to the twins either side of me. They both looked at me with matching smirks before Gideon whispered a reply back."Well yeah but what's the fun in that, lighten up Meadow.""Besides, the more mess we make, the less likely he would know its us. That's why I've also jinxed my cauldron." Fabian added turning his attention back to the lesson."What am I going to do with you two" I mutter under my breath which they both heard. They continued smirking at me and I also turned my attention back to the cauldrons, when I realize that two jinxed cauldrons were beside eachother which we knew would be a very bad idea. "Guys why is there two cauldrons beside eachother?! That could actually hurt the students!" I whisper aggressively. Fabian just shrugged his shoulders and muttered something about wanting to blow up the classroom so we would have a free period instead of potions for a while. I shake my head and put it in my hands whilst listening to Slughorn drone on and on about the cure for boils potion. At this rate we wouldn't have enough time to brew the potion unless he was going to stop talking any minute now. Thankfully he had stopped after ten painfully long minutes and we began to get to work on each of our potions. As we were making it, I was speaking to Fab and Gid about normal things so we didn't look suspicious when I look across at Fabian's watch. 09:47 it read giving us three minutes until there would be a mess.09:48. Two minutes. 09:49. One minute.Boom. The potions classroom was full of screams of terror and big bangs from most of the cauldrons. I could faintly hear glass smashing in the background and Slughorn worrying about everyone and everything to my delight. Another big bang went off seconds later sending two bodies flying in our direction before falling at our feet. I quickly bend down and pull the blond girl to her feet. She muttered her thanks and stands back against the wall leaving me to pull up the boy. I grab his wrist and pull him up but he yanked his wrist out of my grasp and glares at me. "Don't touch me" he spat, stomping out of the classroom with a peculiar blue substance covering his Slytherin robes. The blond girl sighed to my right and apologized for how her friend was acting before following him out of the door to who knows where. "Merlin's beard. Is everyone alright? Now who would like to own up to who caused this?" Slughorn looked between all of us but no one admitted to the mess. "Well I will find out who done this and they will be punished. Now class dismissed". All of us file out of the classroom, being careful to not touch any of the substance which was covering almost everything. I rush out of the classroom just behind the twins and we begin to run towards Gryffindor Tower. Luckily the corridors were empty because everyone was technically still in class because we still had twenty-five minutes making it easier to get back to our Common Room. "Pigsnout" I shout from one end of the corridor when I see the Fat Lady's portrait at the end of the hall. She began to mumble something I couldn't hear but opened the portrait none the less. I hop in just behind the boys and we run upstairs into their dorm which was fairly clean to my surprise. Then again, they did say that they only done it for their dorm mates. "That was amazing" the twins shouted when the door to their dorm was closed. I just laughed and Lent against one of the fourposters whilst the twins laughed their heads off. "Hopefully that will get rid of atleast a couple lessons of potions" Fabian smiles."Good thing we charmed the liquid so they can't just use the scouring charm too making the mess ten times worse to clean up" I smirked towards the twins. "They will have to replace all the ingredients too making it even worse". There were three loud knocks on the dormitory door freezing us all in place. Who could it be? Did they know it was us? What would be our punishment? I slowly walk towards the door and open it, ready to face what was behind it. To my relief it was only my brother but he looked angry. He glared at us three and pulled me out of the dorm and down the stairs with no words said. I tried my best to fight against him, thinking he was going to report us to McGonagall or Slughorn but he takes me into the boys dorm instead.Slamming the door behind him, he lets go of my shoulder when we got in and he sends me another hard glare. James, Sirius and Peter were all seated on their beds watching everything about to unfold but by the looks on each of their faces, I didn't think they knew what was going on. "So Mead, what do you have too say for yourself" Remus asked with his arms crossed."I don't know what you are talking about Rem" I replied, trying my best to stop a smirk crawling onto my face."You know what! Why the hell did you blow up the potions classroom?!" "I didn't do that Rem.""Yes you did.""No I didn't.""Yes you did.""No I didn't.""Yes. You. Did.""Okay fine Rem. I may or may not have helped blow up the potions classroom but I promise it wasn't intended" I admit rolling my eyes and seating myself on the end of his bed. "We should of known that was you" I hear Sirius mutter under his breath earning a laugh from everyone but Remus. "This isn't a laughing matter guys, we have exams coming up and we need that classroom to learn in so we will be prepared for them" he sighed his eyes looking from one of us to another."Our exams are not until June, calm the hell down. We'll be fine they will get the class back in shape soon enough. By the way, nice work Meadow" James spoke up for the first time with a big smile on his face. As I looked at Remus, I could see he was trying his best to fight the smile wanting to appear on his face. However he couldn't help it changing angry Remus to a happy one. "I hate you guys" he said with a smile which I replied too.

"No you don't. You love us really."

"That I do."