Open A First Shot

[Genevieve Fuentes]

Evie had the idea for her first ever prank at Hogwarts, and she couldn't wait to implement it. The girl wanted to start off the year with a little fun, and so she collected everything she needed for it that morning. She had a ball of thin rope she had brought to Hogwarts with her (for educational purposes, of course), some strong tape, and stole a whole apple pie from the breakfast table that morning. She had received some weird faces, but no one had stopped her, and so it was just the beginning of a very perfect plan.

Evie made her way up to the fourth floor. It was one of the floors in the middle, meaning surely people would commute through there, or at least she hoped so. With the ball of rope and tape in her pocket, and the apple pie in her hands behind her, Evie looked quickly up and down the corridor to make sure no one was looking before then jumping into action. She cut off a rope that was a little bit longer than the width of the corridor and taped each side to the walls, just off the floor. She then placed the apple pie right in the middle of the walkway, totally unassuming. The tape was strong, so it would hold for a little while, and she just hoped someone would come along in that time. Her hope was that someone would trip over the rope trying to get to the pie, and even though it wasn't much, it would surely be funny. The Gryffindor stood around the corner as she waited for a potential victim.

 

[Molly Burke]

Molly had decided to do a little bit of exploring, though there wasn't much to do if she was being completely honest. She was a little scared to go exploring alone, so she wanted to wait to make a few friends before she did any exploring. The girl was making her way back to her dorm room, no, she was actually skipping back to her dorm room, with her stuffed bunny slightly hidden in her arms, when she noticed some sort of pie being placed on the ground. She stopped in the middle of the corridor, looking between the pie and her stuffed toy. "Look Mr Snuggles, there is a pie on the ground, shall we take it and eat it?" Molly said quietly to her stuffed bunny, unaware if there were people around. When it looked like to her that the stuffed bunny was telling her yes, Molly then made her way to the pie.

Everything then slowly turned into slow motion, she started to fall forward, not realising that there was a rope that was in the way between her and the pie. The girl tripped on the rope and face planted onto the pie. Molly was suddenly not happy about the situation. She was all messy now, and she didn't like it one bit. The girl sat up, now sitting on the floor. She looked around and noticed that there wasn't anyone around and she felt her eyes began to water slightly.

 

[Genevieve Fuentes]

When Evie heard some footsteps approaching from down the corridor, she tried her best to stay as quiet as possible, even slowing down her breathing just in case it was heard by them. Surely they wouldn't notice the rope, especially if they were hungry and wanted some pie. Evie hoped to Merlin that it wasn't a professor, and when they came closer, the Gryffindor could feel her heart beating excitedly against her chest as it was in fact a student that was around her own age. 'Perfect' she thought, smirking as the girl spoke to her toy bunny about the pie. The girl walked towards it, and just as Evie hoped, fell straight over the rope and into her trap. Evie burst out laughing and jumped out from her hiding spot. "You... quite literally... FELL for it!" she exclaimed between laughs, clutching her stomach as tears fell down her cheeks. This had to be one of the funniest moments in history and she couldn't believe it had worked.

 

[Molly Burke]

Molly turned her head quickly towards where the laughing was coming, the cream from the pie flying everywhere has her head turned. She saw that there was a girl about her age, and was laughing at Molly faceplanting into the pie. Molly was sure that the girl was nice, but the prank was quite mean. "It's not funny" Molly whined, as she flicked some of the cream of the pie off her eyes. "That was mean," Molly says sadly with a pout, before standing up and looking at the girl. Molly thought for a moment of what to do next, before scrapping some of the cream off her face, walking towards the girl and wiped the cream onto the girl's cheek. "Payback" Molly says with a giggle, even though it wasn't much of a revenge, she thought it was a little funny to do.

 

[Genevieve Fuentes]

Eventually Evie managed to stop laughing, scowling a little then as the girl said what she had done was mean. She didn't think it was mean at all and was just doing it for a bit of fun. She didn't like snowflakes and people that were sensitive, and so this really upset her. The prank had in fact almost been ruined until the girl then decided to put some pie on her face as payback, which Evie found to be funny. She giggled, bending down to get some more pie off the ground and flicking it towards her in return. She got some more pie, putting it all over her hands so she could smother the girl in it, wiping it on her robes. "We're pie monsters!" she exclaimed happily, stomping around in the pie whilst covering herself in it. This had to be the most fun she had in a while, and she didn't even care what her parents would say about ruining her new school robes.

 

[Molly Burke]

Molly gasped loudly when the girl flicked more pie at her. Even though Molly didn't like to get dirty, she was so distracted by how much fun she was having. The Irish girl knew that she was going to get scolded at the fact that she had already gotten her robes dirty within the first couple of weeks into Hogwarts. "Pie fightttttttttt!" Molly started to yell out, as she threw more pie towards the girl. But her aim wasn't great as the pie suddenly flew somewhere else. Molly was confused about where the pie she threw went, but she shrugged and continued to throw some more pie, unaware of the mess she was causing in the corridor.