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"I'll admit your work is good Jackson, but I ain't paying that much money. 8 sickles, and that's my final offer."
Percy glared, "10, and before you argue let me just remind you that I'm going to be hand crafting these runes myself. I'm going to carve these by hand on the stem of a feather. You don't like it, then don't buy."
Heather and Percy glared at each other for the longest time. Finally Heather's mouth twitched as she smiled, "deal."
Percy nodded, "good," he then turned to the others, "the rest of you are still paying a galleon by the way."
"What?!"
"Come on!"
"That's not fair man!"
Percy chuckled as they quickly ate their breakfast and made their way to their classes.
They had double period of transfiguration first and charms after that. Through class Percy couldn't focus as he was excited for tonight. After all today was the day the triwizard tournament officially began.
By charms Percy's attention had gone out the window. Flitwick was going on and on about the aguamenti charm and Percy was really bored. Why did he need to conjure water out from his wand when he could just pull it out from the air? Plus he already knew this charm, water spells came easy for him.
Percy was daydreaming as he stared out the window when suddenly, "Mr Jackson!" Flitwick squeaked grabbing Percy's attention. "Are you paying attention."
Percy blinked, he stood up, "ah...yes?"
"Is that a question or an answer?"
Percy groaned, "sorry...it's just I already know this spell sir. And it's quite easy for me. So my mind started to….wander."
"Reall? And what exactly did it wander about?"
"Well...for one it wondered about the tournament starting tonight," Percy shrugged, "I mean, I'm pretty excited to see two more magical schools come over. Plus you know….french girls are hot."
The boys in class chuckled, even Flitwick smiled a little. "Very well Mr. Jackson, I admit this charm is a little boring, what would you recommend as a substitute for today's class?"
Percy blinked, "wait, seriously?" Flitwick nodded with a smile, "well okay then. How about...well how about a translation charm? If the school is going to filled with foreigners then isn't it a good idea to know what they are saying?"
The class started to whisper in agreement while Flitwick himself nodded, "right you are Mr. Jackson, right you are. Very well sit down, today I'll teach you all the translation charm. Now, what you must understand about this charm is that it does not allow you to speak in a foreign language, merely understand it. However it does translate said language into english, so you can understand what the foreigner is saying. Now, let's begin…."
That charms class was by far the most interesting class Percy had so far. Everyone was excited to learn, though by the end of the class no one had actually succeeded in learning the charm properly.
One Ravenclaw girl almost got it, it was the same girl that hated Percy's guts and glared at him in Runes.
After lunch was over that day McGonagall stepped up in front of the hall and addressed the school, "students, as you know today Hogwarts will be visited by two foreign schools, Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. As such classes after lunch will be canceled," the students cheered as McGonagall waited until they stopped.
"Yes, now, the reason for this is because we as the host school wish to make this event grand and amazing by welcoming them with the hospitality that is expected of us."
"As such you are all expected to wash up and make yourselves presentable for tonight, gathered outside the castle doors at 6:30, which is when they are all expected to arrive. Be warned if any of you do anything to embrace this school in front of our guests then you will be punished severely. Is that understood?"
The students cowered under the glare, even Fred and George understood how serious the teacher was being and wisely kept their mouth shut.
In the Hufflepuff common room Percy and his friends sat around their table waiting for when they were expected. They all wore clean new Hogwarts robes, the girls did their hair and makeup while the boys combed their hair.
"It's stupid that we can't pull anything today," Percy grumbled, "if we showed off to the foreigners then we would get respect instantly."
"Yeah but you heard McGonagall," Miguel argued, "she looked like she was out for blood. It's best not risk to Percy."
"Well….I mean we could try something else," Kristien suggested.
"What do you mean?" Percy asked.
"She said we shouldn't try to prank someone, right?" they all nodded, "so we don't. Let's prank ourselves!"
"Ah Kristien, are you alright? Did you hit yourself in the head again?" Michael asked.
"No Michael, I think she's onto something," Gordan whispered, "we aren't the house that pulls pranks, so they would never suspect us. So if we did do something we would look like the victims instead!"
"So what do we do?" Percy asked, "turn ourselves yellow and black?"
"Yeah!" Heather nodded, "we can dye everything yellow and black! It's not harmful to others and if we do get caught we can just say we are displaying house pride!"
Slowly they all grinned evilly as they quickly formed their plan into shape. They told the seventh years and the fifth years and got them all on board.
The younger years couldn't be trusted, plus the professors could easily make them all talk. So for now only the senior members of the Hufflepuff house knew about the plan.
They spent most of their time preparing for the 'self-prank' that they all nearly didn't make it time for the foreigner's arrival.
But since they were the house with the common room closest to the Castle doors, they managed to make it just as everyone else arrived.
They all gathered at the edge of the castle looking out onto the flat plains below.
"So where do you think they are going to come from?" Kristien asked.
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