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McGonagall groaned as she heard the shouts and saw the flashes of light coming up from the entrance hall as she made her way to the marble staircase. Great. More prank war idiocy.

She made it to the top of the stairs and stopped in her tracks, horrified. A number of Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws and Gryffindors were gathered in the entrance hall, fighting hard… against Hermione and Draco.

McGonagall, startled by their superhero appearance, stared at them for a moment, before sweeping her gaze over the rest of the students. The Patil twins were huddled against a wall, both sporting horns out of the top of their heads with green fur out of their faces, shivering and watching in terror. The Hufflepuff Quidditch team, minus Susan Bones and Ernie Macmillan, were clustered together near the top of the staircase, Zacharias Smith hiding behind the younger students, all of them covered in some sort of blue mud. Ernie was blocking the doors to the grounds, even though no one else, including Hermione and Draco, seemed to care much about the doors, and shouting imperious commands like “Duck!” and “Get him!” at Justin and Susan, who were being repeatedly knocked over by disembodied arms and legs, which on closer inspection turned out to be Harry half-hidden under an invisibility cloak, running around and yelling “Whee!” while attacking. Dean Thomas was lying on the floor not far from Ernie, obviously under the Full Body-Bind, and Seamus Finnigan was hopping around on one foot in a circle and mindlessly yelling “QUACK! QUACK!” no doubt under the influence of some spell or another. Michael Corner and Terry Boot were shouting all manner of curses at Draco, but Draco kept yelling “Protego!” over and over in between bouts of evil laughter. Anthony Goldstein, Neville Longbottom, Hannah Abbot and Luna Lovegood were facing off against Hermione… and failing miserably to make any sort of impression whatsoever.

The Prank War, Chapter 43