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“Hey girls,” Katie said as she threw herself between Angelina and Alicia on the pillows on the floor, only to find out she miscalculated and the pillow didn’t cover the entire space. “That will hurt in the morning,” she moaned as the other girls laughed.
“Serves you right for acting as if you’re cooler than us,” Alicia mocked, laughing when Katie tickled her in return.
“I’ve been thinking,” Angelina started, stopping her train of thought till the other girls turned their attention to her, which didn’t take long. “The next match will be Oliver’s last, what if we pull off a practical joke?”
“I love it,” Alicia said rather loudly, seeing as they were still in the common room and they weren’t alone.
“Why don’t you say it a little louder in case Oliver didn’t hear it,” Katie teased, but luckily nobody reacted to their discussion.
“Shut up,” Alicia laughed back. “So any ideas?”
Angelina wanted to say she had the perfect plan, but she didn’t. “I’m sure he expects something from the twins, so we could use that to our advantage, he would never expect the three musketeers.”
“For the last time we’re not calling ourselves that,” Katie said and rolled her eyes.
“Then you come up with a better name.”
“What about the three world wonders?” Alicia asked, and after a few seconds of silence both Angelina and Katie nodded, agreeing it was a far better choice even if it was less catchy.
“Well, my wonder girls, what do you think we could pull off?” Katie asked.
“A cake?” Alicia asked.
“You do remember we were talking about practical jokes?” Alicia poked Kate, only to end up on a revenge tickle war, resulting in Katie crashing against Angelina to try and get away.
“I know that dofus, I mean what if we give him a cake, but a cake with a hidden creature that will either attack him, or maybe squirt some stinky slime on him.”
“I would like to remind you we’ll still have to be with him for several weeks after the prank, maybe something that doesn’t affect us?” Angelina reminded Alicia.
“So nothing that does permanent damage, got it.”
“Sometimes you scare us,” Katie said, which Angelina agreed on, making Alicia giggle.
“If you only knew,” Alicia teased back.
“But a cake isn’t a bad idea,” Katie said. “What if we use that and make it so when he eats it he’ll get zits all over.”
“And you say Alicia is the only one with a dark mind?” Angelina said, resulting in the others attacking her in return. “Stop it you monsters,” Angelina shrieked. Soon enough they stopped. “But if we try a less evil route, what about it turning his skin a different colour?”
“Or all the colours!” Alicia laughed.
The three liked the idea, and as they continued to lay there they tried to figure out where to get the things needed.
“Harry knows that house elf, he could maybe help us with the cake?” Katie reminded them.
“And Snape could help us with the potion.” Alicia added, resulting in the other girls looking at her strangely.
“And how do we know he won’t just poison us all?” Angelina asked. “I don’t think leaving notes saying that if anything happened to us Snape did it would be sufficient.”
Alicia released a deep breath, as if the other two didn’t really get it. “Do you think he would harm us like that? And anyway, he would certainly not be against a simple practical joke, especially not one played against a Gryffindor.”
“How do you know that for sure?” the other girls asked.
Alicia was silent at first, which only made them more suspicious. “You remember in our third year, when the twins threw up bubbles those two days?”
“That was him?!” Angelina said out loud.
“It was me, and he caught me, but instead of punishing me he gave me pointers on how to make it last longer.” Both Angelina and Katie were dumbfounded, seeing as neither knew their best friend was behind it.
“Why didn’t you tell us?”
“Well, he made me promise not to tell anyone as he gave me some of his expensive ingredients, and if the other teachers knew I was behind it I would be in a lot of trouble.” Neither Katie nor Angelina knew what to say. “Ok, back to the cake, if we put the potion in the whole cake then maybe Snape could give us something that prevents us from the effect of the original potion, that way Oliver won’t suspect a thing.”
“You’re evil, I love it!” Kate said and smiled, Angelina agreed, and the three got up to find Snape, hoping he saw the humour in the prank like they did.