Harry

Harry might've made a mistake. He didn't expect anything bad could happen, and his thought process was along the lines of "what's the worst that could happen?".

But that was before he found himself hanging upside down from the ceiling near the Great Hall at six in the morning. With pink hair. He couldn't blame anyone but himself, but that didn't mean he wouldn't try.

It all started after he introduced Percy and the Weasley twins. The three hit it off immediately, and Percy introduced them to his friend Jordan. The group took Hogwarts by storm.

"Oh hey Percy! I thought you might want to meet some people your own age, so here's Ron's brothers, Fred and George." Percy had been wary at first, maybe because of the way the youngest Weasley brother had treated him, but got over it quickly.

"Nice to meet you guys. Hey, want a button? Jordan made them." The twins agreed, each fastening one onto their robes. They thought nothing of it, until the buttons changed from their yellow, Go Percy!, background to a red one reading different insults about the two. Insults which ranged from 'Fred has bead head' to "George got a T on his OWLs'.

"Jordan's still trying to work out the kinks. He says that they're not insulting enough." The twins were too busy trying to take their buttons off to hear Percy, but they soon realized that the buttons were not coming off.

"Really, dude? We have got to meet this Jordan guy. Want a candy?" Percy didn't seem bothered by the twins' erratic speech patterns, but took the candy. He ate it, and promptly turned into a canary.

"Canary Creams, our own personal invention. Wears off in a minute." True to their word, Percy turned back into a human with a laugh.

"Well played boys. You know, me and Jordan might just need your help with a little problem. Some of his housemates are complete douches, and need to be taught a bit of a lesson. You up to it?" The three seemed to forget about Harry, and wandered off, planning who-knows-how-many pranks.

Which led to Harry's current predicament. He supposed that's what he got for introducing the biggest Hufflepuff troublemaker to the biggest Gryffindor troublemakers. He should have expected it.

Harry also should have expected seeing Draco Malfoy walk directly under him, a few minutes later. The Slytherin in question glanced up, smirked, then continued his strut towards the great hall. Great.

After nearly an hour of swinging listlessly, Harry's head started to hurt and he began to lose feeling in his toes. Just as his big toe began to tingle, he saw a familiar flash of red hair coming down the hall.

"Ron! Ron, is that you?" The boy in question spun around, looking in every direction before finally finding Harry directly above him.

"Bloody Hell, Harry! What are you doing up there?" Ron asked as he pulled out his wand.

"It's a bit of a long story. So if you would please get me down, I could tell you." Ron nodded and jumped into action, ignoring Harry's protests when he used a spell to snap the rope attaching Harry to the ceiling.

Harry landed in a heap on the floor, thankfully avoiding any major injuries, while Ron watched and said, meekly, "oops."

Harry clambered up, shaking out his limbs. He turned a looked at himself in the reflective surface of a picture frame and watched as the pink disappeared from both his face and his hair.

"So how'd you even get up there?" Ron asked, drawing Harry's attention away from himself.

"I introduced Fred and George to Percy and they seemed to hit it off really well," Harry said with a half-shrug.

"This was Percy? I told you he wasn't a good dude."

"Oh, come on Ron, it was a harmless prank. And it wasn't just Percy, if you're going to get mad mad him, you need to get mad at your brothers too," Harry argued. He was telling the truth. Percy was a good person, and didn't deserve the suspicion and hatred Ron gave him.

Ron, however, just rolled his eyes and said, "Whatever."

"Yeah, whatever," Harry replied, not wanting to bring back their fight from earlier in the year.

Eventually, the two boys turned from their spot and walked into the Great Hall for breakfast. The meal was relatively normal, until Flitwick stood up, still attached to his chair.

There was no proof, but Harry had a sinking suspicion about whose fault it was.

Later, Harry was in the hallway, during his break, and the bane of Harry's existence (no, not Voldemort, Draco Malfoy), came to chat. The arrogant blonde strutted up and spat an insult at Harry with his cronies flocking him on either side.

Harry tensed in anticipation, replying with one of his own (poorly crafted) insults, and waited for Draco to send the first spell flying. Draco pulled out his wand, preparing to fight. Before he could, though, a voice echoed through the hallway,

"What is going on here?" Both boys turned to see Percy striding down the hallway. He walked over and turned towards Draco, sliding his thumbs into his pockets.

"Are you picking fights, Draco?" Percy asked.

"I'm giving Harry what he deserves."

"And what makes you think you get to decide that?"

"My father-"

"Fuck your father. You think that because your daddy's someone special, you get to bully everyone around you. You think that being a pureblood makes you Judge, Jury, and Executioner. Well, newsflash asshole, it doesn't." Percy's rant had Draco grower redder in the face, however Percy remained relaxed and unmoved by the boy's apparent anger.

"You can't talk to me like that," Draco said as he pointed his wand at Percy's face.

"Can't I?" Percy raised an eyebrow, and stared Draco down.

Draco let out a short yell, then relaxed and turned his wand towards Harry, saying, "You're not even worth my anger. Potter, here, needs to be taught a lesson, and as a Slytherin, you should be supporting me."

Draco began a spell, but was stopped short when Percy punched him in the nose. Draco stumbled back, attempting to staunch the blood flowing from his face, while his cronies stepped forward and trained their wands at Percy.

"Confringo!" they shouted, driving Harry to step forward with a shout of Percy's name. However, instead of blowing Percy up, the spell hit him in a cloud of blue smoke and shoved him backwards half a yard. The cronies stalled in confusion at the lack of effect.

"Go take your whimpering leader," Percy said, referring to Draco still cowering and holding his nose, "and go to class. Try not to bother us anymore."

Percy grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him down the hallway, while Harry stared at him in awe.

Oh my god guys, here it is! It has been three years but I am finally back with an update.

I know I said I would update on Monday, and where I live it's Tuesday, and I really was going to. I was almost done writing, until I started to feel really sick and couldn't uncurl from the fetal position in my bed. I don't know what it was, and I still feel a little queasy, but it was enough to push back my update. But, I finished at 7:30 this morning and I'm so excited!

I don't have an update schedule but I will work on getting chapters out as quickly as possible and hopefully not leave you guys waiting for another three years.

So, as you wait between updates, come talk to me on my tumblr, Valerie-Washington

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, my trademark QOTC!

QOTC: What are all of you guys doing this summer? Tell me all about it. Or, if its not summer where you live, what have you been doing recent;y?

AOTC: I've been working, mostly, trying to save up money. But then it reached July and I realized that I hadn't done anything fun so now I'm trying to hang out with my friends more. Plus at the beginning of August my family is going to the Llama Races!

It was so nice to update again, and I promise I'll be back soon! See you next time! -VW