Before Harry went down to breakfast he hurried to the room to speak with the elves about the next lot of pranks. They explained everything was ready. The little female elf that had approached Harry about Hermione's home, appeared before him with the copy of the book. She also found out that all muggleborn or muggle raised students had this book on their list. It made Harry furious to know someone had deliberately made sure he didn't get the book he needed. Harry was going to study it until he could quote it word for word. Hopefully whoever decided Harry didn't need the book would realise he got hold of it and he was learning from it, and he wasn't going to allow anyone to stop him learning what he wanted.
From the moment any person walked through the castle they found out what the next prank was. All the people in the portraits would turn around and dropped their trousers, or lift their skirts if they were woman and show their backsides. It didn't matter if you were a student or staff, the portraits would moon you. The odd student thought it was vulgar and disgusting, most thought it was hilarious. The teachers on the other hand spent the day trying to reverse the charm, but they had no luck. The students ended up with a free day since none of the teachers went to their classrooms to teach.
Snape had once again had his clothes removed and ended up in a corset, this time bright florescent green, with matching eye shadow. Harry had been surprised that he returned to the great hall after appearing in a corset the last two times he had been out in the school. Now it happened for the third time, and after that no one saw Snape, not in the great hall or anywhere else around the school. So even though he wasn't teaching, he also wasn't patrolling the corridors. If Harry ever stopped the pranks, he would never stop the one that kept affecting Snape. Harry, and many others all believed Snape shouldn't be a teacher since he didn't actually teach. So Harry would continue to prank him until he left.
Ever since Snape first appeared in a corset, he hadn't been teaching, now it seems more classes were going to be cancelled. Harry and the elves had work it for Snape to stay in the corset until ten o'clock ever night. And no matter what he tried, no cloak would remain until the curse had run its course. Harry figured he would study and practice potions on his own, and he had more time since he wasn't given any homework.
The following day, the statues and armour began to fart at anyone that walked pass. The older students had to show the younger students how to do air freshening charms and bubble head charms as the statues and armour didn't just fart they let off a disgusting smell. Harry taught Neville how to do both charms, so like everyone else, they would walk around the castle with what looked like a fish bowl on their heads.
One thing had everyone curious, the Daily Prophet seems to be only telling the truth, when before all they did was lie or twist facts to make someone look bad. Hermione constantly questioned why this was happening. After Rita Skeeter's first article about the champions, mainly about Harry and mainly full of lies, now her stories were full of facts, and always truthful. Skeeter admitted she made up almost all of what she wrote about Harry Potter. That ended with Harry receiving piles of mail from people apologising for believing what Skeeter wrote. Harry had to thank the house elves for that bit of magic. They had worked house elf magic on the printing presses at the Daily Prophet. It's why the statement Harry wrote ended up published without anything being changed. Harry didn't care if it made the teachers angry or upset, he just told the truth or told what he had heard or observed.
Harry did write that Dumbledore must not be as powerful as everyone believes if he couldn't stop a fourteen year old being entered into a tournament meant for adults. But Harry also wrote how he never had any support from any of the teachers, including his head of house. He made sure to write that he didn't like, trust or respect any of the teachers at Hogwarts.
So even though Harry enjoyed pranking everyone, he wanted to get his message out. And one message was that Severus Snape was a coward who bullied children because it made him feel superior and better about himself. Harry did end up in detention for that statement, but again Snape never showed so Harry returned to the common room. When McGonagall took points, Harry said he didn't care just as most students didn't care about house points when Snape made the house point system a laughing stock. Harry ended up in detention again, this time with McGonagall. Harry ignored her the whole time and just did what she instructed him to do, write that students should respect their elders and teachers. Harry did write his lines, he just changed them a bit. He wrote that he didn't respect any teacher in that school and he didn't trust any adult so again there was no respect. He wrote that like with everyone, teachers had to earn their respect and none of them had ever done anything to earn Harry's respect. By the end of the night Harry had lost one hundred points but all he did was shrug before he left to head back to Gryffindor tower.
The pranks continued as it drew closure to the first task. Harry knew it was time to step up the pranks but he also knew one prank would be aimed at him along with the other champions. Pranking himself would take any suspicion off him, but this will also cause more trouble for Dumbledore and the committee for the tournament.
Harry really wanted to make sure the tournament was cancelled. The day before the first task Harry had it planned that the four champions would be pranked but Harry wanted to do something first before he was put out of commission for a week.
Right as breakfast started, the Slytherin's went running from the great hall when their table ended up covered in snakes. The students from the other three houses moved away even if they were laughing. When the teachers tried to banish them, the snakes doubled in numbers then turned and began to go after the teachers, which again made most students laugh as they moved further away.
'Mr. Potter, could you tell the snakes we don't want to hurt them?' McGonagall yelled.
'Oh, so I'm thought of as the next dark lord because I'm a parselmouth and the teachers allowed the harassment, now they want me to use it to help them. Blimey, you can't win in this place,' Harry sighed before he moved towards the snakes and began to talk to them.
The students and staff watched as all the snakes turned to Harry and began to talk back to him. Finally Harry moved off towards the doors, the snakes followed. Once Harry got far enough into the forbidden forest so no one could see him, he called one of his house elves, Tilly, to reverse the spell making all the snakes vanish. Harry laughed, thanked Tilly before he headed back towards the castle. He knew he would be questioned about the snakes, but since he hadn't conjured them, the house elves did, he wouldn't get into trouble.
When Harry was questioned, they refused to believe him, so Harry offered a magical oath that he was telling the truth. They weren't going to give in so Harry just did the oath, they had to believe him after that. But Harry did give Dumbledore and McGonagall a glare before he turned and walked away. He muttered how he hated every adult in this castle and couldn't wait to get away from them. He said it just loud enough so he would be heard. Harry wanted Dumbledore to know exactly how he felt. After the dream he had before the world cup, Dumbledore told Harry if he had more he was to write straight away. With the way Harry acted now, Dumbledore should realise that Harry was not going to tell him anything. Harry had made sure to tell Neville when they were near one of the portraits about his dream of Voldemort. Harry never mentioned what the dream was about. He wanted Dumbledore to realise that since Harry didn't trust him than he would never tell the headmaster about his dream and what Voldemort could be doing. Harry hoped it would make the old man open his eyes and take a look at what he was doing, or not doing.
Harry joined Neville back at Gryffindor's table and dished himself up some more breakfast.
'So what happened to the snakes?'
'I took them into the forbidden forest and explained if they came near the castle that they might end up hurt or dead. Dumbledork and McCattagall believed I conjured the snakes so I offered to give a magical oath that I didn't. They weren't going to let me so I just did it so they finally realised I had nothing to do with it. I think there must be another parselmouth in the school but they keep it quiet after the way I was treated.'
'Since you gave an oath then there must be another person who can speak to snakes.'
'Did you think I did it?' Harry chuckled when Neville blushed, 'I'm sure everyone thought it was me, so it's fine. Like I said, I'm supposedly the only parselmouth in the school so it's natural everyone would believe it was me. I wonder who did it,' Harry looked around as if to try to figure out who might be a parslemouth. He just wanted to keep up his act.
Right at the end of breakfast there were a few loud animal's noises then everyone realised that Harry Potter, Cedric Diggory and Victor Krum had turned into animals. Fleur Delacour still refused to leave the carriage so no one knew if she also turned into an animal.
Viktor turned into a bulldog, Cedric turned into a cat and Harry turned into a large eagle.
'It seems it wasn't Harry doing the pranks after all,' Fred said as he very carefully moved his hand towards Harry/eagle.
'No, not Harry, but it seems the four champions, or these three are showing their inner animal,' George said.
'Neville, I think you should watch Harry in here until the teachers can see if this can be changed,' Lee said.
Everyone watched as Cho kept patting the cat which was her boyfriend. Viktor's friends stayed beside him as Karkaroff moved towards his champion and Neville stayed with Harry who jumped onto Neville's shoulder.
All day the staff along with Karkaroff and Maxime tried to reverse the spell, nothing. The four champions remained in their animal forms. Even though Fleur still stayed in the carriage, she became a duck making the other French girls laugh.