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Chapter 7-The Fight and The Other Pranksters
It was the day after Halloween. November 1st. James and Sirius were in an all day detention for there big Halloween prank. I giggled wondering what they were doing all day. The rest of us, Liz, Kat, Alex, Remus, Peter, and I, were hanging out in the library. Don’t ask me why? Remus and Kat suggested it, and we went for it. We were reading random books and talking quietly. I felt a little lonely without James being here, and I am sure Liz felt the same way since Sirius wasn’t around. I looked at Peter and noticed he was staring dreamily at Alex. I then looked over to Liz who was snacking on fruit loops. I got up from where I was sitting and motioned to Liz.
“Hey Liz, come here for a minute.” I walked around a bookshelf away from our other friends.
“What?” Liz said, shoving a few more fruit loops in her mouth.
“Look over at Peter.” I replied. Liz looked at Peter, at first she was a bit confused and then she followed his eyes.
“Oooohhh.” She responded. “I see what you mean. Can I work the magic this time?” I thought about this for a moment.
“You may do the honors.” I said smiling. She handed me her bag of fruit loops.
“Hold those. Don’t eat any, or I will have to hurt you.” Liz said as she ran off. I smiled to myself as I looked down at the bag. I was tempted to eat some, but Liz’s threat echoed through my mind. I watched as Liz snatched up Peter and Alex and drug them away. Everyone looked around oddly. Then my eyes met with Kat’s. She motioned for me to come over to here.
“What is going on?” Kat asked slightly glaring at me. “Are you working your “magic” like you did with Remus and I?” On cue, Remus kissed Kat on the cheek. I watched her face change from a light natural pink to a deep red.
“Well no and yes. I was gonna work my magic, but Liz wanted to do it. So it’s Liz magic getting Alex and Peter together.” I said giggling. I sat back down on the couch. Kat and Remus went back to reading. I then realized I was in a library. I kind of wished James and Sirius were here, for excitement purposes, because it was kind of boring. Liz then came back and sat on the couch next to me. I forgot I was holding her fruit loops until she snatched them from my hand.
“Well we shall leave them alone for awhile.” Liz said with a smile on her face. I laughed as Remus and Kat just rolled their eyes.
“I can’t believe you actually did that to Kat and I.” Remus said rolling his eyes again. The laughter deceased and I was bored again. I let out a long bored sigh.
“Oh Gabby love. Are you bored?” Liz said smiling and batting her eyelashes at me.
“Yes I am.” I said in a grumbled huff.
“Do you wish James was here?” She said continuing to bat her eyelashes at me. It actually looked really adorable when she did. Kat was smiling at Liz while reading her book.
“Yes…so much. Stupid git got himself stuck in detention…” I mumbled. Liz pondered this for a while. I don’t believe she thought Sirius was stupid. I think she rather enjoyed the Halloween prank. Though I did too, I just wish James hadn’t got caught and stuck in detention. “Stupid loud mouth house elves…” I continued to mumble.
“Ok Gabby love. Quit your mumbling. If your bored, why don’t we leave the readers here and go do something together?” Liz had finally stopped batting her eyelashes at me. I thought for a moment. If we did leave, where would we go. Since James in detention, we didn’t have Quidditch practice today. “Sure. Why not.” I said bluntly shrugging my shoulders. We said good-bye to Kat and Remus and exited the library. We walked down a corridor and then turned the corner. We were both silent for awhile.
“You know what I feel like doing?”
“No. What?” Liz asked curiously. She had this sort of mischievous grin on her face. I wonder if she could read my thoughts. Liz was strange like that, and could tell what I was thinking sometime.
“I feel like finding where James and Sirius are serving their detention and then tease them.” I said giggling. Liz’s grin was still plastered on her face. We climbed lights of stairs and rounded corners to different corridors. We searched all over the school. Finally we found the boys in Slughorn’s classroom They were cleaning out potion pots. Some with left over potions still inside them, so for the time being, James had purple hands and Sirius’s hands and arm consisted of some kind of growing plant. Liz and I giggled. The boys heads turned up to see us. I watched as both of their faces lit up. They ran over to the door.
“Are you here to rescue us loves?” Sirius said giving us a puppy-dog look. Not soon after had James did the same.
“No. We are actually here to mock you.” I said giggling.
“Now get back to work.” I kissed James on the cheek and skipped away. Liz laughed, did the same to Sirius and skipped after me.
“I should have threw confetti at them.” Liz said pondering. We continued to skip as we rounded the corner of the corridor. Once we around and unseen, we peeked to see the boys getting back to work.
“I would’ve loved to see confetti all over them.” I said continuing to laugh. Liz and I headed up the stairs and decided to go to the Ravenclaw Common Room. We arrived at that common room door.
“My life can be measured in hours,I serve by being devoured.Thin, I am quickFat, I am slowWind is my foeWhat am I?”
“Hmmm…haven’t heard this one yet this year. Or in the previous years.” Liz said pondering. I had absolutely no idea, so I just let her think. “Oh. I got it. Candle?” She said aloud. The door to the common room opened and we walked inside. I looked around and saw some random Ravenclaw students. Since it was Saturday, no one was in robes, so they didn’t realize I was a Gryffindor.
“Oh well look who it is…” I heard from across the room. There she was. The Devil’s Daughter herself. Jordan Platt. My mood changed so fast, I was surprised I wasn’t bipolar. I looked over and saw the Liz seemed angry. I put my hand on the back of her shoulder. “It’s ok…” I whispered. “Maybe she will leave us alone if we give her witty comebacks to whatever she says to us.” Liz relaxed slightly. But we walked over to Jordan and her posse’ anyway.
“Oh hello Jordan.” I said rolling my eyes. She gave me a bitchy smirk.
“So that was a great first game you played a few weeks ago.” Jordan said still with that bitchy grin on her face. Her friends were giggling incoherently as she spoke. I just kept imagining what she looked like last night as a bug-eyes little bat. Which suited her, because that’s what she was. “I don’t think that half-blood should’ve saved you. We would have won…but oh well. The game is over and done.” Jordan continued. I wondered why the hat had not put her in Slytherin. She had to be the most evil person on the planet. I wanted to respond, but I wasn’t sure what to say. Liz was standing by my side with her fists in tight balls. I could hear her teeth clenching inside her mouth. I let out a deep breath, but Jordan just continued. “I assume your wondering why I wasn’t put in Slytherin. Well you see, apparently I was too smart for Slytherin. So I got stuck in this dump.” She said looking around. This made Liz’s face turn red with anger. I watched as Liz touched her pocket, and apparently she didn’t have her wand. I felt my pocket. I didn’t have mine either. Then I remembered I left it in the common room.
“So Gabby, Liz…how has your day been with your trouble-making boyfriends in detention. It must be pretty lonely. Oh and Gabby, just so you know, I am not interested in James anymore. He is a stupid git, and so is Sirius.” Jordan said smiling. Liz looked as if she was going to launch herself at Jordan but I held her back with one arm. Jordan was about to open her mouth to say something else, but interrupted
her.
“Jordan. If I were you. I would keep your mouth shut right now. Liz and I don’t have our wands, so we would have to resort to physically beating your a**. And your little friends can’t do anything about it.” I let go of Liz and stepped a little closer to Jordan. Her friends ran away but Jordan just stood there like she was ready for us. She pulled her wand out of her pocket.
“Now why would the two of you do that. I have a wand, and you don’t. So let’s just say you guys back…..” Jordan’s sentence wasn’t finished. Liz couldn’t take it anymore. She had now retreated to Jordan and b***h slapped her right in the face. Jordan was on the ground, her wand had shot out of her hand. I picked it off the floor and watched the red mark appear on Jordan’s face. Liz stood up satisfied. Jordan stood up and held her face where Liz slapped her.
“Did you just slap me!” Jordan shouted. Everyone in the common room was now gathered in a large circle around Jordan and Liz. I was smiling to myself.
“Actually, I think the correct term is b***h slap, because you’re a b***h.” Liz said smiling. It was now Jordan’s turn to attack. She now had Liz pinned on the ground and was slapping her face and pulling her hair. I knew perfectly well that Liz would not stand for that. Liz not rolled over on top of Jordan and was punching her in the gut.
“Stupid ho!!” Liz shouted. They were going back and forth for a while. Suddenly, Remus, Peter, Alex, and Kat were now here.
“What happened?” Kat and Alex said. Peter and Remus just stayed out of the way.
“What do you think happened. Jordan baited Liz, and she fell for it.” I sighed. I turned back to the fight. I couldn’t figure out who was winning or not. They were still rolling on the floor. I was sort of standing on the inside of the circle. Before I knew it, they had rolled over to me. They both rolled into my legs and I fell over. Jordan’s wand flew out of my hand. Jordan let go of Liz and ran over to her wand. Her hair was a giant mess, and her lip was bleeding. Liz didn’t have any scratches yet, but that could change now that Jordan had her wand.
“Ha! What are you gonna do now, you filthy mudblood. You do not mess with me!” Jordan said, her wand pointed straight at Liz.
“Impedimenta!” Jordan shouted. Sparks flew out of her wand. It was like everything was happening in slow motion though it happened in a matter of seconds. First I saw James and Sirius appear by my side, and next I saw Sirius jump behind Liz and shout,
“Protego!” Sparks flew out of Sirius wand and the spell that Jordan cast on Liz was repelled back and it hit her. She was now on the ground. Liz stood in shock, staring at Jordan on the floor.
“That was bloody brilliant.” Remus and Peter said at the same time.
“Way to go Padfoot!” James shouted from beside me. Everyone now dispersed the circle. Except James, Remus, Peter, Kat, Alex, and I. Jordan’s friends we’re at her side. I smiled to myself. Sirius was standing in front of Liz smiling.
“Liz…love are you alright?” Liz still stood shocked.
“You…saved….me….” Liz muttered. She punched Sirius in the arm, but smiled. “I could’ve handled it. How did you get out of detention?”
“Oh that was easy. Liz you’re looking at professionals here. Plus Slughorn is a major softy. He let us out early because we acted like perfect little angels.” James said smiling. “Well that’s good.” I
said smiling.
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Well for the next few weeks, we learned some new things. Had Quidditch matches and such. The Quidditch Season record was Gryffindor and Ravenclaw 2-1, Slytherin 1-2, and Hufflepuff was 0-3. It was now the first week of December. All across the grounds of Hogwarts, was a blanket of white snow. It was December the 6th. A Saturday. James and Sirius were surprisingly out of detention, and we were all headed to the Great Hall for lunch.
“You know what Prongs. Ever since the big Halloween Finale, we haven’t performed any pranks lately.” Sirius said waggling his eyebrows. “Maybe we should fix that!”
“Maybe you shouldn’t.” I interrupted before James could speak. “I like it better when you aren’t in detention.” James frowned. We were almost in to the Great Hall, when we heard screams from the students. We all went running to see Cornish pixies running wild all over the Great Hall.
“What the bloody hell!” All of us exclaimed, except Sirius and James. They were just dumbstruck. The teachers had not arrived yet and apparently the older students couldn’t think.
“Who wants to do the honors?” I said smiling. Alex had used this spell a few months ago when we discovered that the boys were Animagus.
“I will.” Kat and Alex said at the same time. They whipped out their wands and said.
“Immobulus.” The pixies froze in mid-air. All the students helped collect them as the teachers arrived. Dumbledore had a grave look on his face. He glared across the Great Hall. It seemed his glare was directed at Sirius and James. The two boys ran up to the Headmaster.
“Sir, I can honestly say. That Sirius and I, did not do this.” James said.
“Yeah. Honest Professor Dumbledore. They didn’t do this. They were with us the whole time.” I said vouching for them.
“Ok. Well if it wasn’t you guys, we need to find out who did this.” Dumbledore said pondering. Suddenly Professor Slughorn entered his fingers plugged in his ears.
“WHO THE BLOODY HELL PUT A MANDRAKE IN MY OFFICE!!” I was sure that the mandrake probably harmed his hearing and he wasn’t aware of how loud he was talking and helooked a little disorientated. He probably just regained consciousness. Dumbledore again looked at James and Sirius.
“Not us again sir. Though I have to say whoever is pulling this pranks is a geni…” Sirius almost finished that sentence before Liz punched him in the gut. “I mean, its in very big trouble.” All of us looked around at one another. Who could possibly be pulling pranks like this other than the two pranksters themselves. Somewhere in this school was one or two people pulling these pranks, and I was determined to find out who it was. “Return to your dormitories immediately. If anymore pranks are performed, we will resort to Student Interrogation.” Students began to file out of the Great Hall.
“Wait does that mean no lunch?” Sirius shouted as we exited the Great Hall. We all rolled our eyes at him.
“We have bigger problems on our hands Padfoot. Someone is doing pranks, and its not us.” All of us stood outside the Great Hall pondering this. All of the students had now left, except two Hufflepuff students. A girl, with short black hair and tan skin and a boy with short blonde hair and really pale skin. The girl was slightly taller than the boy and they were holding hands. They were obviously dating. They appeared to be about our age.
“Hi.” The girl said cheerfully. The boy just nodded his head. “Hi.” I replied in the same type of cheerful tone. “My name is Gabby. What’s your name?”
“My name is Rachel. I am a 6th year Hufflepuff. This is my boyfriend John. Also a 6th year.” She said giving me a smile.
“Hi Rachel! Nice to meet you!” Alex said. I thought it was a little bit strange that these two people randomly introduced themselves
to us. “I am sure you guys are wondering why we are here in front of you, introducing ourselves. Well that is because, we did those pranks in there.” Rachel read my mind. James and Sirius stood dumbstruck.
“You…” Sirius stuttered out. “But you’re just a girl. You can’t pull pranks. it’s a man’s job.” Sirius said arrogantly. “That’s why I have John. I was the brains of the pranks, John helped set them up. It wasn’t hard.” Rachel said giggling.
“Wow.” Was all I could say.
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It was now dinner time. Dumbledore still didn’t put down any suspects and no other pranks were pulled that day. Rachel and John ate with us occasionally at the Gryffindor table. Tonight happened to be one of those times. John was talking quietly to Peter. He didn’t talk much to the rest of us. Rachel was busy giving James and Sirius prank advice. In other news. Peter and Alex were now dating. Liz’s magic did work. Jordan Platt was to afraid to go to their Head Of House, in fear of being beaten up again, so Liz was in no trouble. I still hated her guts, and I was sure we would be seeing her again.
“Oh my gosh!!” Alex exclaimed. She was holding a American Newspaper in her hands. “Michael Jackson has 6 months to live!” Everyone stared at Alex oddly. “Michael Jackson. Remember, I told you about him, I told you guys about him.”
“Oh! I know him!” Rachel said aloud. “He is really creepy. Though his songs are somewhat goodish.” She said smiling.
“Alex, you really need to stop being so obsessed with that guy.” Liz said rolling her eyes.
“Well its not my fault I admire him.” Alex said laughing. Everyone else started to laugh. Dinner consisted of more talk of Michael Jackson and future pranks. After dinner was over, everyone decided it was a time to turn in early for the evening. After exiting the Great Hall we said goodnight to Rachel, John, Kat, and Liz as they went to their common rooms, and we went to ours. Remus, James, Peter, Alex, Sirius, and I arrived in the common room. Sirius, Remus, and Peter went up to bed right away. Alex followed right after. James and I sat by the fire for a while. I had my head on his chest as he stroked my hair.
“That was really nice, what Sirius did for Liz today. If I was in the situation, would you save me?” I said sweetly.
“Of course I would. I wouldn’t even need to think.” He said kissing my forehead. I smiled to myself. Maybe I should get to kick Jordan’s a** next time.
“Oh by the way. Apparently Jordan isn’t into you anymore because of the whole Halloween prank thing.” I said giggling.
“Well that’s good. I wasn’t all that into her anyway.” He said ruffling his hair. I sat up and tried to fix it.
“Honestly. Why do you make your hair messy all the time?” I asked.
“Well, I want it too look like I just got off my broomstick. It makes me look cooler.” I sighed and rolled my eyes.
“You don’t need to do that.” I said ruffling his hair again. “It doesn’t make you look cool.” I laughed at him He grabbed my face in his hands and our lips met. We pulled apart after a few seconds. I let out a small yawn.
“Looks like someone is tired.” He got up from the couch and pulled me up. He was slightly taller than me. His hair made gave him a couple more inches. I put my arms around him and buried my head in his chest.
“You are right. I am tired.” I let out another yawn. I gave James another small, sweet kiss and went off to my room. Alex was waiting up. She was reading.
“Alex. I think its time for us to go to bed.” Alex yawned.
“I think your right.” We shut the lights off and went to sleep.
 Misses Prongs · Sat Mar 28, 2009 @ 06:47am · 0 Comments |
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