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Queen of Pranks

For five years I, Sinthia Watson, was the queen of pranks. Since our second year at Hogwarts my best friends and I had been pranking each other. I'm still not sure how it started, one day we just decided we were in a prank war.

At first it was little things, like switching the turkey in George Weasley's sandwich with sardines, or convincing Angelina Johnson the school had decided on doing a pajama day.

Then things escalated a little bit. We stole Lee Jordan's bag and hid it in the Astronomy Tower so he couldn't do any of his homework. An extra ingredient was added to my potion in class rendering it unacceptable . We tied Fred Weasley's shoe laces together and he tripped in front of everyone in the Great Hall.

It got to the point where we were always looking out for a prank. When Lee asked me to be his girlfriend in fifth year, I was sure it was just a prank. That was until he kissed me. With passion like that, there was no way he was pranking me. Two months later, Fred asked Angelina out and even though she'd always had a crush on him, she said no because she was sure it was just a prank. It took him a week to actually convince her. The pranks had made us extremely guarded.

When we first started out, we would do pranks together against one person, but as the years went by, we started coming up with pranks on our own. Angelina and I convinced Lee and Fred that we were pregnant during our sixth year. We were surprised it actually worked. Fred and George pranked us into thinking that they had been detained in Egypt for having illegal substances. The pranks got wilder and better as we got older.

That's when we decided on rules. You could only use one magical object to pull off your prank, otherwise we had to prank as though a Muggle would. We also made the rule that we weren't allowed to get each other in trouble anymore. Detention is not fun.

Every year we had prank awards. The categories being Best Prank, Scariest Prank, Best reaction to a Prank, Best Supporting Prankster, Worst Prank, and the most coveted award: King or Queen of Pranks. The first year Lee won, then George, then Fred, and I had won the last two years in a row. And deservedly so. I was the mastermind behind the best pranks that we'd pulled.

We became so competitive about being the king or queen of pranks, that we had gone rogue and no longer worked with each other on pranks. Somehow those became our best ones.

Angelina pretended to illegally turn herself into an animagus. We noticed when she wasn't around a cat that nobody had ever seen would hang around and follow us everywhere. And she'd always know about what we had been talking about when she wasn't there. We all totally believed her. Turns out she knew a girl in Hufflepuff who was a real animagus and paid her to follow us around in her cat form and would tell her what we talked about. She won Best Prank for that because it was so believable.

Lee managed to convince us that he was hit with a Sectumsepra spell after getting in a fight with a Slytherin and was bleeding out. With the help of some fake blood from the muggle world thanks to Dean Thomas it worked like a Charm. He used a Severing Charm for his shirt and he was good to go. He won Scariest Prank and I won't Best Reaction to a Prank because I cried like a little girl.

George, with the use of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak convinced us he had fallen into a broken Vanishing Cabinet. We were joking around in the Room of Requirement in the room with a bunch of lost things. We liked exploring there. We were laughing and shoving each other when George went flying right in the direction of the Vanishing Cabinet. We thought nothing of it until we looked over and he was gone. The door was open and there was no George and of course we freaked out. George only let our stress go on for five minutes before appearing behind us with a smug look on his face. He won Worst Prank since he'd scared the shit out of us.

Fred pulled the craziest prank. He successfully made us think that he had lost his memory. I still don't know all the planning that went into this prank but it was brilliant. During the Quidditch Final, he was hit in the head with a Bludger and fell off his broom. When he woke up in the Infirmary it seemed he remembered absolutely no one. Not even George who is his twin. And none of the teachers wanted to try to fix it, just in case they cause permanent damage. Angelina was in shambles at the time. She thought her boyfriend would never remember her. They even had Mr. and Mrs. Weasley come to the school to talk to Fred and he pretended he didn't know them either. It was insane! This went on for two weeks until the school was thinking about sending him home.

Then while we were in the Infirmary with Fred he started reminiscing about all the Pranks we'd done and a triumphant smile came across his face. He sure got us. We thought the Headmaster would be fuming, but Dumbledore found the whole ordeal hilarious. He said he loved our pranks.

We weren't sure anyone could top that. But then I did.

I had masterfully convinced my friends that I had been expelled from school. It was almost too easy. I decided to enlist in Dumbledore's help for this one and he got all the other teachers on board. Professor Snape was the least pleased but I swore to him all of my assignments would be on time and my best work.

To set the stage I had to pretend I did something really bad. Dumbledore and I decided that I would be in possession of an illegal magical beast and had been ratted out by a Slytherin. It was the easiest thing and didn't need proof because if I was caught, of course the beast would be taken away.

Once that happened, my parents (who were also in on this) were brought to the school to help me get my things and take me home where I would await a trial. Of course my friends wouldn't be allowed to attend, considering audiences aren't allowed. I would be found guilty and I'd write my friends telling them my wand would be broken and I could never practice magic again.

Here's what really happened:

Before the plan was meant to be set in motion, I was slowly moving my things to the Room of Requirement which had made a dorm room for me. So when my parents arrived, which was during classes so no one else would be around we could move the remainder of my things into the Room. I wasn't sure why my parents were so behind this. I think they miss their days of fun and take any opportunity to relive them.

Dumbledore asked Harry Potter if he could borrow his Invisibility Cloak in order to 'examine' it. But really, that's what I would be using to attend my classes. I'd sit in the corner in the back with the cloak over me. It was very strange having no one know I was there, but then I realized I could have some fun.

Just some simple things. Hair pulling, tripping, whispering things in people's ears. It was hilarious.

I spent nights in the Room of Requirement, doing a lot of reading and reveling in my victory. My friends were incredibly sad without me. It was kind of nice to know how much they missed me.

On the last day of school after a month of hiding, was when I decided to make my reveal. I strutted into the Great Hall in the middle of breakfast, with a smirk on my face. Whispers and gasps surrounded me. I stopped in front of my friends who were absolutely speechless.

I grabbed a goblet and turned to Dumbledore. I raised the goblet to him and he raised his in return before taking a drink. I took a seat with my friends and told them the fascinating tale of how they had all been pranked into oblivion.

We had a prank free summer among us. Of course we'd never stop tricking other people with our antics. I think everyone was still reeling from my prank, but what they didn't know is I was already ready for the next one. This time I enlisted Fred's help since he was the only one who even came close to me.

Together Fred and I were going to convince everyone that we were madly in love with each other.

A/N: Hey guys! This is my newest story that I'm real excited about! Hope you guys like it! Let me know what you think! :)