#118 Beagles Are Better Than Weasleys
Title: Beagles Are Better Than Weasleys
Summary: In order to graduate in prank infamy, "Operation Beagles on Top" had to go underway as soon as possible, and Kyungsoo wished he wasn't friends with the idiots in charge of it.
Pairing: Baekhyun/Kyungsoo
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,826 words
Disclaimers (if any): cursing
Author's note: Beagle line is so cute to write and adding Kyungsoo into the mix made it even better to write the dynamics! Thank you prompter for giving me the opportunity to write something as fun as this!
“Welcome gentlemen to my humble abode.”
“Baekhyun, I don’t think all four of us fitting on your twin-sized bed is considered an abode.”
“Shut up, Kyungsoo. You’re ruining the mood.” Baekhyun smacked the other boy, “Now where was I? Oh right. Today is the day I will begin my new legacy.”
“New legacy? What was it before? Being my annoying roommate?”
“Funny, Jongdae, funny.”
Baekhyun sighed as the other three Gryffindors curled up on his small bed. Kyungsoo looked rather bored and annoyed out of his mind, and no one could blame him. He was always dragged into anything the “idiots” decided to do. Friendship at its finest.
Jongdae could care less about Baekhyun’s situation; he had better things to worry about. Ever since the “uprising”--as they jokingly called it--about the lack of school wide activities, the headmaster decided to hold a dance much like the Yule Ball every year. Jongdae created a goal for himself to find a date to the dance this year. With the dance coming up in a few months, plus it being their last year at Hogwarts, he had to find a date quickly.
The last boy on the bed, Chanyeol, beamed as his lanky body was forced into a tight position on Baekhyun’s bed. Just like his friend, he couldn’t resist some rule breakage once in awhile, and with their last prank only giving them a reputation as the “Weasley Wannabes,” he knew they needed to step it up fast.
“I present to you…” Baekhyun held his wand in his hand and waved it in the air as a few sparks flew out of his wand for emphasis. “Operation Beagles on Top.”
“Beagles on Top?” Kyungsoo asked with thick attitude laced in his words.
“Yeah it’s our name,” He gestured to himself, Jongdae, and Chanyeol.
“So you think just because you’re all animagus’ that you call yourselves that?”
“You’re just jealous you aren’t one,” Jongdae teased Kyungsoo with a shove.
“I’d rather be a human than a smelly dog.” Kyungsoo defended himself while tilting his head away from the Animagus.
“You’re missing out on all the fun mister potions are my best friend.”
“Okay so here’s the plan,” Baekhyun interrupted their argument before it could escalate any further. “We step up our pranks to the next level, farther than ever imagined. We need to go down in infamy here, so we have to be better than the Weasley twins.”
“But they’re like...legendary,” Chanyeol commented with slight doubt in his friend. Despite being excited for whatever he had up the sleeve of his robes, nothing could deny the craziness of his idea.
“Not for long. We’ll leave this place as the new legends of Hogwarts, I guarantee you.” Baekhyun smiled with mischief in his eyes, “Then after dominating the school, we’ll find Jongdae a date.”
“What? Why not before?” Jongdae whined to his friend.
“Yeah, the whole domination thing is gonna take a while, and I can’t stand any more whining from Jong-dumbass,” Kyungsoo rolled his eyes.
“Hey…”
“Please continue,” Chanyeol cut off Jongdae and bounced up and down a few times on the mattress.
“Okay, then we have to convince Kyungsoo to become an animagus,” Baekhyun smirked at the small boy near him.
“No,” Kyungsoo simply remarked with a stern glare towards the currently pink-haired student (but he knew the color would change in the coming hours).
“C’mon, it’ll be fun.” Chanyeol poked an index finger at the shorter boy’s forearm playfully. He always knew the right buttons to press to rile him up.
“No thanks.”
“I bet his form will be something the complete opposite of his resting bitch face like a hamster or a penguin,” Jongdae joked.
“I bet it’ll be something like a turtle,” Chanyeol sniggered.
“I can still turn you into one,” Kyungsoo threatened while pointing the tip of his wand at the other’s chest.
Chanyeol raised an eyebrow and mirrored his friend’s position with his own wand placed in front of Kyungsoo’s chest, “Try me.”
“Oh are we making bets here? My Hogsmeade’s money is on Kyungsoo,” Baekhyun exclaimed with a chuckle, earning another death glare from the small Gryffindor.
“You better all watch your drinks,” Kyungsoo gave one last threat before putting away his wand. Why am I friends with these idiots?
The other three boys laughed at their friend. He would always threaten to poison them or do something to do, but he never would. He was too much of a “goody two shoes” to break the rules (or as Jongdae would say “too far up the Headmaster’s ass”).
“C’mon guys it’s almost time for Potions class. I can’t be late,” Kyungsoo pushed himself off the bed and stood up.
“Aw the teacher’s pet is leaving,” Chanyeol teased.
Kyungsoo only stared at the taller boy before whipping his robe around and walking out the dormitory doors. He knew he would see the other three in class at least five minutes late. They never came to that class on time; they liked to use up their free period to the maximum.
“So, what’s the plan?”
Step one: slip Veritaserum into Taemin’s potion during class.
“Oh Mister Park, Mister Byun, how lovely of you to grace us with your presence today,” their potion’s teacher commented as the two failed to sneak into the dimly lit classroom. Baekhyun may or may not have tripped on a nearby broom by the doorway and gave themselves away.
They hung their heads as they shuffled to their spots, Baekhyun partnered with Taemin and Chanyeol partnered with Kyungsoo.
“What’d I miss this time?” Chanyeol whispered to his friend as the professor had his back turned to the class.
“Oh not much, just the material for our next exam,” Kyungsoo remarked while keeping an eye on the teacher. He couldn’t be associated with the troublemaker during class; he had a reputation to uphold.
“You better give that stuff to me.”
“Got anything to bribe me?”
“Screw you.”
“Sorry, I’m already seeing Junmyeon.” Kyungsoo smirked before turning his gaze to the textbook on the table.
Chanyeol grumbled, “I don’t know what you see in that Ravenclaw.”
“Things you lack.”
“Wow, love you too.”
“Mister Park! Would you care to pay attention rather than distracting Mister Do?” The professor stared at Chanyeol who had froze in his position.
“Sorry professor,” Chanyeol hung his head.
“Five points from Gryffindor. Now today we’ll focus on review. Would anyone like to demonstrate the correct way to brew a polyjuice potion?”
A few hands raised in the air, Kyungsoo’s included, but the professor chose a boy sitting towards the back of the class, more specifically the boy Tweedle Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest were targeting.
“Taemin, come down to the front and show the class the proper way to brew this,” the professor motioned to the large table in the front of the classroom with an array of various ingredients.
Chanyeol leaned over to Kyungsoo, “Now watch us work our magic.”
“What are you doing? If you do something to me, I swear to God,” Kyungsoo threatened while keeping his eyes trained on the professor watching Taemin work.
“No,” he pointed over to Baekhyun who had the seat directly next to Taemin, “we got a surprise for the teacher’s pet.”
Baekhyun saw Kyungsoo and Chanyeol watching him, so he shook a small vial as a way to wave to them. Kyungsoo squinted at the substance inside and turned angrily to Chanyeol, “You’re slipping veritaserum in his potion? What’s the point? And how did you even get your hands on that?”
“It’s fine. You worry too much, Kyungsoo. Just sit back, relax, and let us handle this.”
“Why am I friends with you?”
“You’re a closet thrill seeker, don’t deny it.”
“I’m not condoning this at all. It won’t work.” He turned back to the front to watch Taemin finish up the potion, “I do not associate with you people.”
Chanyeol gave Baekhyun the thumbs up to get the plan in motion. Baekhyun uncorked the small vial and tipped it over to carefully place a few drops into Taemin’s personal cauldron of hair changing potion. That Slytherin had been harassing the four of them, especially Baekhyun ever since last year, and it was high time to get revenge. Once he would drink his ‘surprise,’ the Gryffindor would pop in and get him to expose all his embarrassing secrets.
“Okay Baekhyun, you got this,” he carefully poured three drops of the clear liquid into the cauldron, watching them make small splashes on the surface.
Leaning in to admire his work, he failed to check to see if veritaserum combined well with the ingredients of the potion inside, and the entire contents exploded back up into Baekhyun’s face. The entire class all followed the noise to see his hair longer, rainbow, and in two pigtails.
“Shit,” Baekhyun ran his hands through his new hair as the class giggled collectively. Kyungsoo only shook his head.
“Mr. Byun, what have you been doing to Mr. Lee’s cauldron?” The professor questioned with his arms folded across his chest.
“I poured veritaserum in it to expose his deepest, darkest secrets!” Baekhyun slapped a hand on his mouth. He shouldn’t have said that, but his mouth had a mind of its own.
“Hm, it seems someone didn’t do their research beforehand.” He turned to address the class, “Does anyone know why his ‘prank’ failed? Yes, Kyungsoo.”
Kyungsoo ignored Chanyeol’s protests and began his explanation, “Potions created to alter a person’s physical appearance and potions created to alter a person’s inner self are incompatible with one another, thus creating opposing forces that are highly explosive.”
“Correct, and how long do these effects last?”
“Double the time of the original two potions combined.”
“So Mr. Byun, I do hope you enjoy rainbows because you will be sporting those for two weeks, and you will have the honor of spending your first week in detention with me.”
“I’d rather go walk through the Forbidden Forest naked than go to detention with you,” He covered his mouth again and hit himself on the arm.
“That’s twenty points, Mr. Byun.”
“Stupid,” Kyungsoo mumbled as he gathered his books to walk to his Transfiguration class.
After news spread of the blunder they weren’t the ‘Weasley Wannabes’ anymore, they were now known as the ‘Travelling Circus.’
“Okay next step towards greatness: if the Weasley’s made enchanted candy to get out of class, why not help the entire class and get the teacher sick?” Baekhyun proposed the idea to their group of friends during dinner.
“We’re trying to become legends of the school not legends of Azkaban,” Chanyeol remarked after swallowing a piece of his sweet bread. “You do know that we could get expelled, right?”
“You’ve been hanging out with Kyungsoo too much. He’s rubbing off on you.”
Kyungsoo chimed in, “Good. My common sense is finally breaking through to you idiots.”
“What if we bring a centaur into the school?” Jongdae wondered to no one in particular.
“Do you realize how stupid that sounds?”
“Or we can let the boggart loose,” Chanyeol added in. “Have a field day with that.”
“Not bad, not bad. What if we enchant the books in classrooms to eat tests?” Baekhyun put his idea on the table.
Before any of the three could come up with a definite plan of action, Kyungsoo stood up, “I’m leaving before I become part of a criminal investigation.”
He stormed off as Junmyeon ran after him and walked at the same pace. They were most likely heading to library or one of their common rooms. The couple always found excuses to be alone together.
“Now that the diva’s gone, let’s make the plan,” Jongdae placed his elbows on the table to show he was ready to listen intently.
The next day the Beagle’s Apocalypse would unfold over Hogwarts.
10am
“There’s a centaur in the east wing! There’s a centaur!” A student yelled to one of the professors walking down the hallway.
“A centaur?” The professor was lead by the student to the source of the commotion.
Kyungsoo and Jongdae were on the way to their Herbology class when they heard the news. The former turned to the other with a hard glare, “You didn’t.”
Jongdae only smiled sheepishly, “It was Baekhyun’s decision, not mine.”
2pm
After four hours of chasing the centaur around the corridors, everything settled back down into the normal lull of the day. The teachers returned to their classrooms, and the students went back to their lessons. About half of the classrooms had exams being given, so the halls were somber.
Kyungsoo was in the middle of taking his Charms exam for the unit they recently finished when a low growl pulled his concentration away from the paper. He looked up to see one of the class books baring teeth and snarling at his exam, inching slowly towards the corner. “Oh no you don’t. Don’t you dare ruin this.”
A high pitched scream from the back of the class, belonging to a girl from Slytherin shook everyone in the class, and the professor frantically looked up from her desk, “Wendy what’s the matter?”
She shakily pointed to a book tearing apart her exam, “That!”
“Oh my!” The professor looked around the room to see everyone else struggling against the animated books.
Screams echoed through the corridors outside the room as other students ran away from the classes filled with paper eating monster books.
“No! You are not getting this,” Kyungsoo screamed to the book chasing him around the room.
Unfortunately, the book won the battle and devoured all forty five minutes of the Gryffindor’s hard work.
5pm
“Professor! Professor!” A third year shouted during dinner.
“Yes Sehun?” The Headmaster looked down at the young boy.
“There’s a boggart loose in the school!”
“A boggart loose? Why they’re always kept locked.”
“Someone broke it out, and now it’s scaring all the students!”
A boy ran down the center aisle of the dining hall, “It’s going to eat me!” He pointed to the shape of a large wolf chasing after him.
Chanyeol sniggered, and Kyungsoo glared at him, “You guys are unbelievable.”
“So, is that a good thing?” Baekhyun asked with a playful smirk.
Kyungsoo wasted no time to harshly slap him over the head.
The four of the were sprawled about the Gryffindor common room supposedly studying. Well, the only one studying was Kyungsoo and his boyfriend Junmyeon who wanted to get away from the Ravenclaw room for a little bit.
“I better head to bed if I want enough sleep to ace that Charms exam tomorrow.” Junmyeon kissed Kyungsoo on the forehead, “I’ll see you at the Quidditch match afterwards.”
“I’ll be at the usual spot,” Kyungsoo waved his boyfriend out the door.
“You guys are gross,” Chanyeol complained as he was busy levitating his Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook around the room.
“You don’t complain about Jongdae and Yixing,” He pointed out the other’s relationship with the quiet Hufflepuff in their Transfiguration class. Jongdae recently hooked up with the seventh year after knocking over his books all over the hallway.
“That’s because we’re sophisticated,” Jongdae noted as he poked the embers in the fireplace.
“Trying to have sex in the Room of Requirement isn’t sophisticated.”
“You’re just bitter you’re not a part of our pranks,” Baekhyun boredly said while making drawings with his wand.
“I’m tired of you guys making yourselves look stupid. Listen, I’ll...become a stupid animagus if you stop your lame excuses of pranks.”
“Did my ears deceive me? Are you joining the dark side?” Jongdae grinned and poked one of Kyungsoo’s cheeks.
“Shut up, I’m not repeating myself.”
“We’ll accept your deal,” Baekhyun shook his hand.
Kyungsoo didn’t know he crossed his fingers behind his back.
Six Months Later
“Your animagus is adorable,” Chanyeol cooed as he scooped up the animal version of Kyungsoo.
Jongdae scratched Kyungsoo on his back, “Yeah, you look cute as kitten. Much less scary.”
Kyungsoo scowled as much as he could as a cat and swiped his claws at Jongdae’s exposed arms.
Jongdae hissed in pain, “I take that back.”
Kyungsoo squirmed out of the boy’s sweaty grasp and transformed back into a human, quickly putting on his robes, “I can’t believe I’ve done that just to get you guys to stop pranking.”
Baekhyun kicked air, “About that…”
A nearby classroom elicited a loud pop and hundreds of bats sped out of the classroom along with distressed students.
“I hate you people.”
“We love you too, Kyungsoo.”
From Weasley Wannabes to the Travelling Circus, the three troublemakers stuck to their goal and became known as the ‘Greatest Pranksters of Hogwarts’--according to a first year Kyungsoo may have paid a few dollars to say to the trio--but what they didn’t know wouldn’t kill them.
Summary: In order to graduate in prank infamy, "Operation Beagles on Top" had to go underway as soon as possible, and Kyungsoo wished he wasn't friends with the idiots in charge of it.
Pairing: Baekhyun/Kyungsoo
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,826 words
Disclaimers (if any): cursing
Author's note: Beagle line is so cute to write and adding Kyungsoo into the mix made it even better to write the dynamics! Thank you prompter for giving me the opportunity to write something as fun as this!
“Welcome gentlemen to my humble abode.”
“Baekhyun, I don’t think all four of us fitting on your twin-sized bed is considered an abode.”
“Shut up, Kyungsoo. You’re ruining the mood.” Baekhyun smacked the other boy, “Now where was I? Oh right. Today is the day I will begin my new legacy.”
“New legacy? What was it before? Being my annoying roommate?”
“Funny, Jongdae, funny.”
Baekhyun sighed as the other three Gryffindors curled up on his small bed. Kyungsoo looked rather bored and annoyed out of his mind, and no one could blame him. He was always dragged into anything the “idiots” decided to do. Friendship at its finest.
Jongdae could care less about Baekhyun’s situation; he had better things to worry about. Ever since the “uprising”--as they jokingly called it--about the lack of school wide activities, the headmaster decided to hold a dance much like the Yule Ball every year. Jongdae created a goal for himself to find a date to the dance this year. With the dance coming up in a few months, plus it being their last year at Hogwarts, he had to find a date quickly.
The last boy on the bed, Chanyeol, beamed as his lanky body was forced into a tight position on Baekhyun’s bed. Just like his friend, he couldn’t resist some rule breakage once in awhile, and with their last prank only giving them a reputation as the “Weasley Wannabes,” he knew they needed to step it up fast.
“I present to you…” Baekhyun held his wand in his hand and waved it in the air as a few sparks flew out of his wand for emphasis. “Operation Beagles on Top.”
“Beagles on Top?” Kyungsoo asked with thick attitude laced in his words.
“Yeah it’s our name,” He gestured to himself, Jongdae, and Chanyeol.
“So you think just because you’re all animagus’ that you call yourselves that?”
“You’re just jealous you aren’t one,” Jongdae teased Kyungsoo with a shove.
“I’d rather be a human than a smelly dog.” Kyungsoo defended himself while tilting his head away from the Animagus.
“You’re missing out on all the fun mister potions are my best friend.”
“Okay so here’s the plan,” Baekhyun interrupted their argument before it could escalate any further. “We step up our pranks to the next level, farther than ever imagined. We need to go down in infamy here, so we have to be better than the Weasley twins.”
“But they’re like...legendary,” Chanyeol commented with slight doubt in his friend. Despite being excited for whatever he had up the sleeve of his robes, nothing could deny the craziness of his idea.
“Not for long. We’ll leave this place as the new legends of Hogwarts, I guarantee you.” Baekhyun smiled with mischief in his eyes, “Then after dominating the school, we’ll find Jongdae a date.”
“What? Why not before?” Jongdae whined to his friend.
“Yeah, the whole domination thing is gonna take a while, and I can’t stand any more whining from Jong-dumbass,” Kyungsoo rolled his eyes.
“Hey…”
“Please continue,” Chanyeol cut off Jongdae and bounced up and down a few times on the mattress.
“Okay, then we have to convince Kyungsoo to become an animagus,” Baekhyun smirked at the small boy near him.
“No,” Kyungsoo simply remarked with a stern glare towards the currently pink-haired student (but he knew the color would change in the coming hours).
“C’mon, it’ll be fun.” Chanyeol poked an index finger at the shorter boy’s forearm playfully. He always knew the right buttons to press to rile him up.
“No thanks.”
“I bet his form will be something the complete opposite of his resting bitch face like a hamster or a penguin,” Jongdae joked.
“I bet it’ll be something like a turtle,” Chanyeol sniggered.
“I can still turn you into one,” Kyungsoo threatened while pointing the tip of his wand at the other’s chest.
Chanyeol raised an eyebrow and mirrored his friend’s position with his own wand placed in front of Kyungsoo’s chest, “Try me.”
“Oh are we making bets here? My Hogsmeade’s money is on Kyungsoo,” Baekhyun exclaimed with a chuckle, earning another death glare from the small Gryffindor.
“You better all watch your drinks,” Kyungsoo gave one last threat before putting away his wand. Why am I friends with these idiots?
The other three boys laughed at their friend. He would always threaten to poison them or do something to do, but he never would. He was too much of a “goody two shoes” to break the rules (or as Jongdae would say “too far up the Headmaster’s ass”).
“C’mon guys it’s almost time for Potions class. I can’t be late,” Kyungsoo pushed himself off the bed and stood up.
“Aw the teacher’s pet is leaving,” Chanyeol teased.
Kyungsoo only stared at the taller boy before whipping his robe around and walking out the dormitory doors. He knew he would see the other three in class at least five minutes late. They never came to that class on time; they liked to use up their free period to the maximum.
“So, what’s the plan?”
Step one: slip Veritaserum into Taemin’s potion during class.
“Oh Mister Park, Mister Byun, how lovely of you to grace us with your presence today,” their potion’s teacher commented as the two failed to sneak into the dimly lit classroom. Baekhyun may or may not have tripped on a nearby broom by the doorway and gave themselves away.
They hung their heads as they shuffled to their spots, Baekhyun partnered with Taemin and Chanyeol partnered with Kyungsoo.
“What’d I miss this time?” Chanyeol whispered to his friend as the professor had his back turned to the class.
“Oh not much, just the material for our next exam,” Kyungsoo remarked while keeping an eye on the teacher. He couldn’t be associated with the troublemaker during class; he had a reputation to uphold.
“You better give that stuff to me.”
“Got anything to bribe me?”
“Screw you.”
“Sorry, I’m already seeing Junmyeon.” Kyungsoo smirked before turning his gaze to the textbook on the table.
Chanyeol grumbled, “I don’t know what you see in that Ravenclaw.”
“Things you lack.”
“Wow, love you too.”
“Mister Park! Would you care to pay attention rather than distracting Mister Do?” The professor stared at Chanyeol who had froze in his position.
“Sorry professor,” Chanyeol hung his head.
“Five points from Gryffindor. Now today we’ll focus on review. Would anyone like to demonstrate the correct way to brew a polyjuice potion?”
A few hands raised in the air, Kyungsoo’s included, but the professor chose a boy sitting towards the back of the class, more specifically the boy Tweedle Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest were targeting.
“Taemin, come down to the front and show the class the proper way to brew this,” the professor motioned to the large table in the front of the classroom with an array of various ingredients.
Chanyeol leaned over to Kyungsoo, “Now watch us work our magic.”
“What are you doing? If you do something to me, I swear to God,” Kyungsoo threatened while keeping his eyes trained on the professor watching Taemin work.
“No,” he pointed over to Baekhyun who had the seat directly next to Taemin, “we got a surprise for the teacher’s pet.”
Baekhyun saw Kyungsoo and Chanyeol watching him, so he shook a small vial as a way to wave to them. Kyungsoo squinted at the substance inside and turned angrily to Chanyeol, “You’re slipping veritaserum in his potion? What’s the point? And how did you even get your hands on that?”
“It’s fine. You worry too much, Kyungsoo. Just sit back, relax, and let us handle this.”
“Why am I friends with you?”
“You’re a closet thrill seeker, don’t deny it.”
“I’m not condoning this at all. It won’t work.” He turned back to the front to watch Taemin finish up the potion, “I do not associate with you people.”
Chanyeol gave Baekhyun the thumbs up to get the plan in motion. Baekhyun uncorked the small vial and tipped it over to carefully place a few drops into Taemin’s personal cauldron of hair changing potion. That Slytherin had been harassing the four of them, especially Baekhyun ever since last year, and it was high time to get revenge. Once he would drink his ‘surprise,’ the Gryffindor would pop in and get him to expose all his embarrassing secrets.
“Okay Baekhyun, you got this,” he carefully poured three drops of the clear liquid into the cauldron, watching them make small splashes on the surface.
Leaning in to admire his work, he failed to check to see if veritaserum combined well with the ingredients of the potion inside, and the entire contents exploded back up into Baekhyun’s face. The entire class all followed the noise to see his hair longer, rainbow, and in two pigtails.
“Shit,” Baekhyun ran his hands through his new hair as the class giggled collectively. Kyungsoo only shook his head.
“Mr. Byun, what have you been doing to Mr. Lee’s cauldron?” The professor questioned with his arms folded across his chest.
“I poured veritaserum in it to expose his deepest, darkest secrets!” Baekhyun slapped a hand on his mouth. He shouldn’t have said that, but his mouth had a mind of its own.
“Hm, it seems someone didn’t do their research beforehand.” He turned to address the class, “Does anyone know why his ‘prank’ failed? Yes, Kyungsoo.”
Kyungsoo ignored Chanyeol’s protests and began his explanation, “Potions created to alter a person’s physical appearance and potions created to alter a person’s inner self are incompatible with one another, thus creating opposing forces that are highly explosive.”
“Correct, and how long do these effects last?”
“Double the time of the original two potions combined.”
“So Mr. Byun, I do hope you enjoy rainbows because you will be sporting those for two weeks, and you will have the honor of spending your first week in detention with me.”
“I’d rather go walk through the Forbidden Forest naked than go to detention with you,” He covered his mouth again and hit himself on the arm.
“That’s twenty points, Mr. Byun.”
“Stupid,” Kyungsoo mumbled as he gathered his books to walk to his Transfiguration class.
After news spread of the blunder they weren’t the ‘Weasley Wannabes’ anymore, they were now known as the ‘Travelling Circus.’
“Okay next step towards greatness: if the Weasley’s made enchanted candy to get out of class, why not help the entire class and get the teacher sick?” Baekhyun proposed the idea to their group of friends during dinner.
“We’re trying to become legends of the school not legends of Azkaban,” Chanyeol remarked after swallowing a piece of his sweet bread. “You do know that we could get expelled, right?”
“You’ve been hanging out with Kyungsoo too much. He’s rubbing off on you.”
Kyungsoo chimed in, “Good. My common sense is finally breaking through to you idiots.”
“What if we bring a centaur into the school?” Jongdae wondered to no one in particular.
“Do you realize how stupid that sounds?”
“Or we can let the boggart loose,” Chanyeol added in. “Have a field day with that.”
“Not bad, not bad. What if we enchant the books in classrooms to eat tests?” Baekhyun put his idea on the table.
Before any of the three could come up with a definite plan of action, Kyungsoo stood up, “I’m leaving before I become part of a criminal investigation.”
He stormed off as Junmyeon ran after him and walked at the same pace. They were most likely heading to library or one of their common rooms. The couple always found excuses to be alone together.
“Now that the diva’s gone, let’s make the plan,” Jongdae placed his elbows on the table to show he was ready to listen intently.
The next day the Beagle’s Apocalypse would unfold over Hogwarts.
10am
“There’s a centaur in the east wing! There’s a centaur!” A student yelled to one of the professors walking down the hallway.
“A centaur?” The professor was lead by the student to the source of the commotion.
Kyungsoo and Jongdae were on the way to their Herbology class when they heard the news. The former turned to the other with a hard glare, “You didn’t.”
Jongdae only smiled sheepishly, “It was Baekhyun’s decision, not mine.”
2pm
After four hours of chasing the centaur around the corridors, everything settled back down into the normal lull of the day. The teachers returned to their classrooms, and the students went back to their lessons. About half of the classrooms had exams being given, so the halls were somber.
Kyungsoo was in the middle of taking his Charms exam for the unit they recently finished when a low growl pulled his concentration away from the paper. He looked up to see one of the class books baring teeth and snarling at his exam, inching slowly towards the corner. “Oh no you don’t. Don’t you dare ruin this.”
A high pitched scream from the back of the class, belonging to a girl from Slytherin shook everyone in the class, and the professor frantically looked up from her desk, “Wendy what’s the matter?”
She shakily pointed to a book tearing apart her exam, “That!”
“Oh my!” The professor looked around the room to see everyone else struggling against the animated books.
Screams echoed through the corridors outside the room as other students ran away from the classes filled with paper eating monster books.
“No! You are not getting this,” Kyungsoo screamed to the book chasing him around the room.
Unfortunately, the book won the battle and devoured all forty five minutes of the Gryffindor’s hard work.
5pm
“Professor! Professor!” A third year shouted during dinner.
“Yes Sehun?” The Headmaster looked down at the young boy.
“There’s a boggart loose in the school!”
“A boggart loose? Why they’re always kept locked.”
“Someone broke it out, and now it’s scaring all the students!”
A boy ran down the center aisle of the dining hall, “It’s going to eat me!” He pointed to the shape of a large wolf chasing after him.
Chanyeol sniggered, and Kyungsoo glared at him, “You guys are unbelievable.”
“So, is that a good thing?” Baekhyun asked with a playful smirk.
Kyungsoo wasted no time to harshly slap him over the head.
The four of the were sprawled about the Gryffindor common room supposedly studying. Well, the only one studying was Kyungsoo and his boyfriend Junmyeon who wanted to get away from the Ravenclaw room for a little bit.
“I better head to bed if I want enough sleep to ace that Charms exam tomorrow.” Junmyeon kissed Kyungsoo on the forehead, “I’ll see you at the Quidditch match afterwards.”
“I’ll be at the usual spot,” Kyungsoo waved his boyfriend out the door.
“You guys are gross,” Chanyeol complained as he was busy levitating his Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook around the room.
“You don’t complain about Jongdae and Yixing,” He pointed out the other’s relationship with the quiet Hufflepuff in their Transfiguration class. Jongdae recently hooked up with the seventh year after knocking over his books all over the hallway.
“That’s because we’re sophisticated,” Jongdae noted as he poked the embers in the fireplace.
“Trying to have sex in the Room of Requirement isn’t sophisticated.”
“You’re just bitter you’re not a part of our pranks,” Baekhyun boredly said while making drawings with his wand.
“I’m tired of you guys making yourselves look stupid. Listen, I’ll...become a stupid animagus if you stop your lame excuses of pranks.”
“Did my ears deceive me? Are you joining the dark side?” Jongdae grinned and poked one of Kyungsoo’s cheeks.
“Shut up, I’m not repeating myself.”
“We’ll accept your deal,” Baekhyun shook his hand.
Kyungsoo didn’t know he crossed his fingers behind his back.
Six Months Later
“Your animagus is adorable,” Chanyeol cooed as he scooped up the animal version of Kyungsoo.
Jongdae scratched Kyungsoo on his back, “Yeah, you look cute as kitten. Much less scary.”
Kyungsoo scowled as much as he could as a cat and swiped his claws at Jongdae’s exposed arms.
Jongdae hissed in pain, “I take that back.”
Kyungsoo squirmed out of the boy’s sweaty grasp and transformed back into a human, quickly putting on his robes, “I can’t believe I’ve done that just to get you guys to stop pranking.”
Baekhyun kicked air, “About that…”
A nearby classroom elicited a loud pop and hundreds of bats sped out of the classroom along with distressed students.
“I hate you people.”
“We love you too, Kyungsoo.”
From Weasley Wannabes to the Travelling Circus, the three troublemakers stuck to their goal and became known as the ‘Greatest Pranksters of Hogwarts’--according to a first year Kyungsoo may have paid a few dollars to say to the trio--but what they didn’t know wouldn’t kill them.