Enter Hogwarts

[Nicky Bathurst]

Nicky leaned back against the door of the bathroom raising his leg to rest against the archway, there was no way in or out past him if he was blocking the way.

Crossing his arms, he laughed quietly as Ethlinn went to work on Parker. Once the paint was finished he clapped bemused.

The make up all over the girls face was hilarious. "I don't know, she needs....more color. How can someone really stand out in such a boring house without brightening things up a bit? I mean.....look at that uniform...gross."

Nicky looked to Finn, then smiled at Ethlinn. The girl was an artist, and they were just getting started on a masterpiece.

[Finn Caerlaverock]

Taking out her own wand, Finn watched as Ethlinn did her work on Parker. It was dreadful and Finn started to laugh hysterically at the girl's face. She was laughing so hard that Finn started to cry and she leaned against the wall to steady herself.

"Oh, Parker.." She laughed and couldn't even get the words out before she burst out laughing again. "You look so.. BEAUTIFUL!" She jeered at her and then looked at Parker's uniform. She pursed her lips, still in a huge grin and then looked at the other two minions.

"You know, she needs some new clothes as well. Spruce up her uniform, give it some glam!" Finn smiled and with the flick of her wand, the Ravenclaw uniform was splashed with green and silver, tearing up the skirt and bits and pieces of the shirt. The Ravenclaw badge was Xed out in black. Finn then wrote on the front, "Ravenclaw" and as Finn whipped around to the back, she finished it with, "SUCKS." She skipped to the front again and looked at Parker's hair.

"You know, we can't have you looking like a sourpuss when you go show Lucas your new do. Nicky, do you have anything that would remedy the situation? Oh we also need to redo your hair. Final touch." Finn grinned evilly at her and looked over at Ethlinn.

"We are such Picassos. Geniuses." It was sick bonding experiences for all of them, Parker excluded. Finn was just happy that she had others to be evil with and Finn was on cloud 9 that she actually carried out her first bully experience.

[Parker Harrison]

Parker had closed her eyes the second Ethlinn had brandished her wand, and she kept them closed as she felt the work of spells all over her face and uniform. Even when spun, first by Ethlinn, then by Finn, she didn't dare look. She didn't trust herself not to tear up, and crying was most definitely what the three Slytherins wanted.

Makeup she could wash off, even if it took hours with all this gunk on her face. And hair grows, she chanted to herself. Hair grows. But her uniform... uniforms cost money. Money she didn't have in abundance. Her mother would kill her.

But Parker's eyes flew open when Finn asked Nicky to give her something. No! No, no, there was no way they could make her take any of his insanity! Avoiding the mirrors in the room, she took stock of her situation and almost did start to cry. Nicky was blocking the only door in or out. There was a window, but she'd have to open it and they were far too high up at any rate. Hiding in the stalls was useless. She had nothing.

They could not make her take a potion, she decided firmly, gritting her teeth and clamping her lips shut while trying desperately to school her face so that it was blank. She felt so pathetic, no wonder these three were picking on her. It was her own fault. What were they going to do to her, and would they ever stop? All she knew is, she would fight that potion as best as she could.

[Nicky Bathurst]

Nicky practically clapped his arms off after Parker received her Slytherin color make over.

Anyone would look better in silver and green, even a mousy Ravenclaw. "She looks fantastic!!!"

He tilted his head with a cheshire like grin hearing Finn talk about a remedy. "Well there is something I've been wanting to try out."

Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a small black bottle with a nozzle. "By now everyone has heard of my candy, but recently I've been working on ways to get potions to work without needing to drink them."

He gingerly tossed the bottle up and down into the air, tilted his head mischievously. "I do need a test subject.....girls who ever could that tester be?"

Parker had no way out, it was really turning out to be the girls unlucky day. It looks like the venomous trio would get to have their fun....without any interruption.

[Cian O'Riordan]

Cian was walking the corridors aimlessly. He'd been in the greenhouses most of the day, but it'd gotten overcrowded and noisy with some first years doing their herbology homework. So he was just patrolling the corridors on the look out for trouble makers, despite the fact he wasn't a prefect. He spotted troublemaker numero uno loitering in the door way of the girl's bathrooms throwing a potion up and down in the air. He rolled his eyes and headed over to Nicky.

"What are you up to?" He asked crossing his arms and looking authorative. "This is a girl's bathroom." He indicated to the wonky sign on the door that displayed a stick figure in a skirt. He peered over his shoulder into the bathroom and saw his sister and her friend, what was her name? Sinn? Ginn? Thin? He knew it was something irish so he figured he should have remembered it a bit better, but he didn't. He peered past them and spotted another girl. She looked in a right state with clown makeup and torn up uniform.

"Ethlinn Finola O'Riordan. What have you done?" He yelled in to her, in his sternest older brother voice. Hi smind jumping to the worst conclusion. He glanced at the meek Ravenclaw. "Err....Are you ok?"

[Finn Caerlaverock]

Finn laughed evilly at Nicky's proposal of a test subject. She was going to thoroughly enjoy whatever Nicky had to offer and to see how Parker was going to be made more of a fool in front of the school.

Nevertheless it was going to be postponed as Cian came into the picture. Oh sure, she heard of Cian, Ethlinn's brother, but the pair was avoiding the older brother like the plague. She was told he loved to follow the rules and Finn wasn't one for following rules that cramped her style. She turned around put her arm on the side of the wall, her hand on her hip as she looked at Cian. Standing at 5 feet, she shouldn't be intimidating, but Finn had an uncanny ability to not be insecure about her size. She shook her hair back and raised an eyebrow.

"She's fine." She looked over at Nicky and then back at Ethlinn. What could she say? Was it even wise to stand up to her best friend's brother. However, Finn wasn't a Ravenclaw, thank Merlin and therefore trudged on to get the trio out of this terrible situation they found themselves in.

"Are you a prefect?" She asked him, knowing full well that he wasn't. "Is what we are doing any of your business?" She asked spitfully, determined not to get in trouble. She would die if Dide found out what Finn was doing.

[Parker Harrison]

Things were just snowballing downhill. An older student came into the bathroom, a Gryffindor boy she hadn't met, and that was possibly the worst outcome for Parker. Finn had shown before that getting caught would just make the next time all the worse. And this boy had used Ethlinn's full name: was he a brother or cousin, perhaps? Parker's mother used her children's full names whenever she was angry, so was this the same kind of situation? Would Ethlinn then be like Finn, crying to Dide to get everyone on her side?

Cian asked if she was okay, and she wanted to respond but didn't trust her voice. Opening her mouth was sure to break her control, and she was still desperately trying to keep from crying in front of the three Slytherins. She wasn't even sure that she'd be able to make eye contact with him, so kept her head down. But when Finn announced that she was fine, Parker shook her head slightly.

Would Cian even see? She was so pathetic, latching onto another student in a desperate attempt to be rescued. Always relying on the rescue, never doing anything for herself.

While the others were busy talking to Cian, Parker slumped to her knees on the floor and sat, ignoring the fact that since it was a bathroom the floor was probably not the cleanest place ever. "Rescue" seemed like her only option, and she hated it. She was just causing more trouble that way. Would Cian leave without her? If he did, maybe Finn and the others would lose interest for now.

Or maybe they would be twice as bad. Either way, Parker just wanted to curl up into a ball and disappear.

[Ethlinn O'Riordan]

Ethlinn smiled triumphantly as Finn and Nicky seemed to like her handy work. When Finn started messing up her uniform she had her first pang of guilt. The girl might need to buy a new one! Though remembering she was a Ravendork she figured she'd know some spell or another. Or at least she told herself that to relieve the twinge of guilt and enjoy Finn's show. She nodded at her suggestion that her hair needed 'fixing up', and looked to Nicky for him to get involved. She's heard about his messing around with different potions and the incident with her brother and thought it was hilarious.

Speak of the devil, she thought as she heard her brother telling Nicky off for being in a girl's bathroom. What a dork he was! She didn't know why he was in Gryffindor, he wasn't brave, he was a ravenclaw freak. Rolling her eyes she spun around to face him.

"Yeah, you aren't a prefect! It's none of your business!" She said mimicking Finn. She glanced at poor Parker who was slumping onto the floor.

"We were just experimenting with make up for her to impress people, but it went wrong, and now you've come in and embarrassed the pooor girl." Raising her eyebrows at him she crossed her arms trying to act as the cross parent just like he was doing by using her full name.

[Nicky Bathurst]

Nicky was enjoying himself a little to much, tormenting a girl who hasn't done any wrong to him.

Just then a voice spoke up and Nicky sighed turning his head. He crossed his arms in imitation of Cian's stance. "I'm helping someone with a problem in the girls bathroom. Since the whole school knows I'm not into females, it doesn't strike me as something odd to be in here. Since my friends are in here."

Hearing Finn's and Ethlinn's words he smirked at the odd Gryffindor. "Yeah you're not a prefect, and unlike us you have no business being at the girls bathroom."

He shrugged in mock irritation and stared the guy down. "If we were up to no good, do you think I would have the door wide open for any student or teacher to see?"

Nicky looked to Parker and shook his head with fake empathy. "We're just helping someone who refuses to help themselves."

Turning his head back to Cian, Nicky raised his eyebrow. "If you're so desperate to spy on girls, go to the Quidditch pitch and watch them undress."

Nicky looked back to his friends and smiled. "Honestly Ethy, can't your brother just get a dirty magazine or something?"

[Finn Caerlaverock]

Finn slowly put her arm down and crossed her arms as Nicky and Ethlinn fired back. Cian was outnumbered and Finn was determined to not be out moved by a nosy Gryffindor.

"Ew, Cian. I didn't know you were a weirdo that likes to go spy on girls in the toilette and in the dressing rooms. Do the Gryffindor girls know about this?" She said, mocked shocked at the whole ordeal. She was deliberately manipulating the situation so Cian would be the culprit and the trio would not get into the trouble.

"Oh, Ethy, I'm so sorry. Your brother is a pervert. No wonder you're embarrassed of him. " She looked over at her best friend with pity and then back at her older brother. She momentarily forgot that Parker was on the floor, covered in clown makeup and a ruined uniform as she thought of what to say next.

"Cian, you should be ashamed of yourself, barging in here. You don't know what we were doing. We could have been changing for all you knew! Nicky giving us fashion advice! Oh Cian, you do need a dirty magazine!" Finn gasped and backed away from the boy, apparently disgusted with the boy now.