#draco tries to get the dye out numerous times

[harleyhart]

Picture this: a muggleborn student who loves playing mostly harmless (if mildly inconvenient) pranks on people, but their grasp on charms isn't very good, so they instead use classic muggle pranks. Everyone expects the elaborate and highly engineered magic of the Weasley twins' pranks, so the staff and students are caught off guard by pranks set up by this mystery mischief-maker.

Little things were popping up regularly for years. Stuff like whoopie cushions, and placing buckets of water over doorways. People can usually get a good laugh at them, and brush them off relatively quickly- attributing them mainly to the afformetioned Weasley twins in the begining- but realize after being hit a few times by both parties, how different their M.O's are, and that they were in fact set up by someone else.

Nobody can figure out exactly who it is though, partly due to lack of traceable magic.

After a while, the pranks die down a bit, before stopping almost entirely.

That is, until April fool's day, 1993.

The day starts out with peeves entering the great hall during breakfast, but instead of causing chaos, he sits merrily at the professor's table next to lupin. The weirdest part is that he doesn't seem to be making any move to pull a prank. In fact, he does absolutely nothing all day, but sit around by the classrooms and in the corridors whistling and doing loops in the air.

At breakfast, students and staff ask for pastries, only to find that the flavour of the day is durian, stinking up the entire hall. When the stench dissipates, they're offered sandwich cookies as an apology, only to find them filled with toothpaste.

Students would find themselves attacked by streamers and confetti when entering a room, and anyone on a bathroom break were annoyed to find that the toilets had all been wrapped in cling wrap.

McGonagall's class had lucky cat statues stashed in random places (that she continued to discover for weeks after)

The person responsible had even managed to encase nearly all of Snape's supplies in lemon jello (barring, of course, his cauldron which had been the vessel for the gelatin)

All this on top of other people's pranks either backfiring on them, or mysteriously being disabled. All accept Fred and George Weasley, who were apparently given a pass.

Speaking of, the twins are having a field day watching this go down- but are admittedly a little miffed that someone is stealing their thunder, and on their birthday no less! That is, until a house elf stops them in one of the secret passageways. He plunks a huge package in front of them accompanied by a note that they're told to read after opening their 'gift'.

Fred wearily tears open the box, only to find the supplies the mystery prankster had used the whole day, and an extra birthday surprise. On top of all the leftover supplies was a large, hot pink bottle wrapped in a golden bow. When he moved the ribbon, he could finally read the inscription. ''Hair dye- permanent''

George opens the note, finding it to be a set of instructions. The information was simple, it was just directions on how to properly use the dye, but it was the message on the back of the pamphlet that made their eyes light up.

'You know what to do, birthday boys.'

Written underneath a picture of Draco malfoy, hair scribbled over with pink sharpie.

Oh, they were gonna have so much fun.

Update:There is now a one shot fic for this hc/imagine! I spent way too much time on it, and would love for people to read it- thanks for indulging my shameless self promotion!