Denial is First Step to Acceptance

14. The Polyjuice Feast

A while passed since the Quidditch finals and the Halloween feast (on a Saturday) had finally arrived. And so had a whole school prank. Of course, I came up with it, I was apparently the best at making up awesome fail-free pranks, my specialty, whole school pranks.

“It’s going to be tricky...” I said to James, Sirius and Remus, as we went to the kitchens, “But it’s worth it I suppose.”

“Well? Are you gonna tell us?” James said impatiently.

“Polyjuice Potion.” I said, reaching up to tickle the pear, which led to the kitchens. “First, we need hairs of several students, including us. And if possible, teachers would be fun. Halloween always has different types of drinks right? So, instead of normal drinks like pumpkin juice, or Butterbeer, It’d be different colours of Polyjuice potion, with different hairs inside them, you see? I just don’t know, I think we should have started yesterday, but oh well. James and Remus, you go get about 16 different hairs, and get our four hairs, enough for the whole school I think.”

“And what do we do?” Sirius said, grinning evilly.

“We poison the drinks.”

“But we don’t have the hairs and potion.”

“We have four now.”

Three ouches were heard as I plucked a hair off Sirius’s, Remus’s and James’s heads.

“Oh be men!” I said, pulling out my own, which had a darker tinge of red streaks. “And Polyjuice potion right here. I’ll just duplicate it. It should last for the rest of the day.” I pulled out a pocket-sized cauldron full of murky brown sludge from my pocket. Otherwise known as Polyjuice Potion.

“Let’s start, we only have now to dinner to get ready.” I said, and James and Remus walked away, still rubbing their heads where I pulled their hairs out and muttering things like she didn’t have to pull that hard and it still smarts right there, she’s evil you know.

Sirius and I walked through the tunnel and Peppa appeared, wiggling her eyebrows. I gave a glance at Sirius who was grinning at her.

“Mr Black! Ms Potter! Here to have... more fun?” Peppa asked mischievously.

“Nope, just to poison the drinks.” I said.

Peppa hesitantly gave us twenty empty Halloween themed jugs and we set them on the table.

“Engorgio.” I muttered, pointing my wand at the vial of Polyjuice Potion, which grew to the size of a standard cauldron. “Geminio. Geminio. Geminio. Geminio. Geminio. Geminio.” I chanted as it continued to duplicate until there were exactly twenty standard-sized cauldrons filled with murky brown Polyjuice Potion.

We poured them in each jug slowly, and placed our four hairs in. James’s turned tiffany blue, Remus’s turned candy-apple red, Sirius’s went a clover green, and mine turned a peachy orange.

Right then, Sirius and I heard two voices near the entrance.

“Oi! You guys! Over here!” I shouted as two grinning heads appeared.

“Mr Potter! Mr Lupin! You have no idea what Ms Potter and Mr Black were up to!” Peppa squeaked, bowing low.

James’s eyebrow rose as they sat at the table.

“We have the hairs.” James said pulling out a variation of hairs, length and colour.

“And a few extra’s from Slytherin, just for fun.” Remus said, grinning and pulling out from his own pocket what looked like the whole of Slytherins hair. Greasy.