Twins: A Different Life

What's Next?..... Well, There's Always James

"What are we going to do with it? I mean we both have enough gold and, I don't know about you but, right now I don't think we need to worry about living forever." Draco said to Harry quietly as they made their way to Herbology the day after.

"I'm thinking about finding who was after it in the first place and going from there," Harry suggested with a shrug. Of course, he wanted to do some experiments as well, but if they could find who wanted it they could bargain.

"True, it's just actually finding who wanted it," Draco pointed out. Harry didn't answer as they reached their class. They were learning the correct way to pick aconite so he didn't have to concentrate. He, instead, was thinking of who could possibly want the stone then snorted to himself; who wouldn't?

"We'll work on who's after it. It doesn't matter too much. It's not like it's going anywhere," Harry mumbled to himself. He would be alerted if anyone so much as brushed against the compartment he had hidden the stone in. 

They had no luck in discovering who was after the stone and it went out of Harry's mind when the next Quidditch match approached in February. He had begun his own version of the map and he had some pretty decent research on Tom Riddle. Harry had written to the goblins, who had happily sent him as much information as they could on the name 'Riddle' as they weren't allowed to give away personal information. Riddle was from a long line of Unblessed that seemed to come from somewhere close to Morgana Le fey. He went to Hogwarts during the 40s and was a top student. He had received a special award in the school, was a prefect and Head Boy, and was the smartest person that had ever walked the halls of the school. Then, it seemed, after the 50s Riddle just vanished off the radar; he either changed his name or was living as a hermit, but there was no trace of 'Tom Marvolo Riddle'. That was the case, at least, until Harry had seen the name on the map: and the map never lied. It frustrated Harry to no end that he barely knew anything about the mysterious name, but it was put into the back of his mind in thought of the game. Flint was pushing them to the limits and they were training nearly every night much to the team's ire.

"If you're going to complain you should think of the 60 points Gryffindor was leading us by on the last game," He roared and that shut everyone up. It had come to a tie. Even though Slytherin had already beaten Gryffindor, the Lions had won all of their games with a lot of points, so they were tied with Slytherin at the top of the board as this was the decider match. Harry and Draco had put plan 'humiliate Potter' into motion. It started off as small things like changing the color of his shoes. They would cast little spells on him daily, but they were slowly getting bigger. Harry even made his robes change violent pink. It was starting to get to Potter as it was happening every day. What he didn't realize was Harry had slipped a potion in his drink that was like a memory; it made the magical core remember all of the spells cast on its being and it could be triggered to replace the spells with a certain word or spell.

The Snakes were layering up the spells and Harry had set the trigger word to 'Rosie', so when Harry slipped him the activation potion every time James said 'Rosie', or it was spoken around him, all of the pranks and spells he had vanished or removed would come back full force. The potion was untraceable. It was a genius potion he had found in the back of Sal's book and he immediately made it. Draco sat down with a nod signaling the activation potion had been administered and Harry smirked evilly.

"Let the fun begin." He murmured. Unfortunately for the pranksters, they didn't see James until dinner, but when they did it was so worth the wait. He sat down and began speaking with Lily, it didn't take two minutes before James suddenly changed. Harry coughed to cover his laugh and Draco ducked his head. James Potter had green skin, orange hair, pink robes, blue shoes, yellow eyes, and a clown nose. The hall erupted in laughter and James looked down in alarm. He quickly waved his wand and got rid of it with a laugh, continuing his conversation. Again, halfway through, he changed into the same get-up causing laughs. When it happened for the 5th time Harry had to determinedly look away from the staff table. Draco was concentrating on his plate at an alarming rate, but his glowing pink cheeks were a clear sign of his amusement. On the 7th time, they left to laugh outright; they clutched their sides and held each other up in their giggles.

"How long does this last?" Draco gasped out.

"I'm not sure, I think it needs a counter," Harry replied and they dissolved in roaring laughter again.

"Oh Merlin, this is going to be hilarious." Harry nodded in agreement.

"Come on let's go see dad, it's been a few days." When they got to the marauders' quarters they discovered Sirius and Remus in fits of laughter.

"What's so funny?" Harry asked with a grin of his own.

"Potter stormed out of the hall," Sirius told them, and they high-fived. Then he gasped, "It was you?"

"How? They left before James and it kept happening?" Remus pointed out. Both Draco and Harry's grins were anything but reassuring.

"It might have something to do with Rosie," Harry told them putting emphasis on 'Rosie'.

"Yes, he does often speak about Rosie," Draco added with a smirk. Both marauders had raised eyebrows so Harry explained a bit more.

"If one were to mention Rosie near Potter then something unfortunate may happen." Remus' eyes widened before he cracked up.

"Word activated prank." He told Sirius through his laughs, the animagus gaped before falling about laughing.

"How long does it last pup?" Harry grinned evilly.

"It needs a counter." And they all fell into more laughter.

The prank on James Potter lasted into March before Dumbledore told Snape to find and brew a counter potion. Harry, Sirius, Draco, and Remus spent copious amounts of time in tears of laughter. They had taken to walking past James and declaring something was 'simply Rosie'. He would change and it took a lot of self-control not to yell the word in the Great Hall. It amazed them that he hadn't seemed to connect what caused it. James was like a walking storm cloud, especially when he found out he had to rely on Snape for a cure. The Potions Master had come into the common room and stood in front of Harry with a raised eyebrow for 5 minutes before the boy caved and fetched the potion which would deactivate the prank. Draco did point out it was a job well done and Sirius said that it made the top ten of pranks of all time, which was a bonus, the twins also came up to them and patted them on the back silently before walking away; it seemed as if they couldn't find the words.

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Hello, Lovelies. I hope you had the bestest day yesterday. Yesterday was a very long first day for me, but I was successful and got many things done.  I will try to make longer chapters again soon. I hope you all have an amazing day/night. Remember to hydrate and eat. And be safe. (^-^)
~Author-chan