Chapter 5

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"I'm serious Y/n," Ginny scolded me. When Ginny  scolded you, you know you're doing something you shouldn't

"What? I don't even know what we're doing. How do you know it's something bad?" I asked while pulling on a new pair of socks for dinner, replacing the ones that had gotten damp from walking around the wet grass.

"I think you're forgetting the fact that I've lived with them my entire life. I know them and their version of 'fun' ", she said with air quotes, "is blowing something up and then getting a bazillion points taken off of Gryffindor". I rolled my eyes and began to lace up my shoes.

Hermione turned around in her chair, seeming to have finished her 'school work'. "She's right you know. You don't want to get roped into this on the first day of classes," she said with a disapproving look.

I groaned and stood up from my bed. "You guys need to chill out. Last year was all about the stupid tournament and I just want to have fun this year". I resembled a toddler whining and stomping their foot to get their way, but I didn't care.

"Okay, just don't come to me when you have to spend all of your evenings in Snape's room from here on out," Hermione said while standing up from her desk and putting on her robes. "Come on, let's head down to dinner,".


The three of us walked down to the dining hall together, arms linked together and chatting about random things. What bizarre new thing was going to happen this year, what new item Neville would show up with and lose, what Snape looked like in grandma underwear - the usual. While we were discussing just how Neville knew what his grandmother's undergarments looked like in between giggles, we approached the dinner table. We sat down just in time for Dumbldore to cast his voice around the room, telling us that it was time for the meal to begin.

"Oh my god, this all looks delicious!" I spoke as the food appeared on the table. "I forgot that I haven't eaten today". I placed a chicken leg and some mashed potatoes onto my plate and then began to dig in.

"You know, you really should eat more," I heard from my right. I looked up with a full mouth, surprised to see Fred sitting there. I was so focused on the food when we were sitting down that I hadn't even paid attention to where I sat. "It's not safe to eat so little".

"I eat plenty," I said once I had swallowed my small bite of chicken.

The truth was, I really didn't eat plenty. I had always struggled with body issues and my eating habits were never the best. My mom always criticized my body and told me to watch my weight, but I didn't blame her for anything because that's what her mom did to her too. I know that she didn't ever mean to make me feel bad, but all of the words she had spoken throughout my childhood stuck with me, leaving me with a bit of a problem. But Fred didn't need to know that.

I didn't even really have a problem. All it really was was skipping a couple meals every now and then and telling people that I had already eaten.

"Come on Y/n/n, it's not safe," he spoke softly so that no one else could hear. Luckily, no one did because they were all immersed in their own conversations amongst each other.

You know, it really wasn't his place to say anything. What I chose to put in my body was my choice and he should not have felt entitled to have a say on the matter. "How is that any of your business?" I asked angrily, trying to keep myself calm. My eating habits were not of his concern. "I am perfectly safe and eat plenty of food, but it's not even your place to be worried, so just shove off".

He looked at me with a sad, and rather condescending if I might add, expression and then opened his mouth to speak, but closed it when he probably realized that it wouldn't help anything.

I turned back to my food and ate in silence, which wasn't really noticeable next to the commotion of Hermione and Ron's newest argument.

I knew that I shouldn't have snapped at Fred, I knew that he just wanted to help, but he couldn't help me by just saying I'm unsafe with a condescending tone. I know that he didn't mean any harm but all that's going to accomplish is make me feel bad about myself. I knew it probably didn't make any sense, but I just hated it when people felt the need to comment about what I ate, no matter what it was that they were saying.


I ended up forgetting about Fred when I joined Ron and 'Miones debate on whether or not divination should be a required class, Hermione arguing that there is no science behind it.

"There's no science behind any magic!" Ron exclaimed with that squeaky voice that he uses when he's mad, swinging his fork in the air.

"Yes there is!" Hermione refuted. "There's the energy sources that fuel the in the-"

"Ughhhh," I groaned. "I don't want a history of modern magic lesson 'Mione. Yes Ron, there is science behind magic and no proved science behind divination".

"Ha!" Hermione laughed smugly.

"But," I emphasized. "There have been many cases where divination has proved to have some kind of result. I mean, none of the future telling and other stuff has been random. You've seen Trelawny in action, you know, the work of a true 'seer' ".

"Ha" Ron said, mocking Hermione from earlier.


We continued discussing our classes and what we liked about them throughout the rest of dinner, and soon the hall was emptying so we all began to say our farewells and leave to head up to our dorms.

While I was walking away with Gin and Hermione, I felt an arm on my elbow pull me back gently and I turned around to see Fred.

"Hey, I'm sorry about earlier," he said sincerely. "I didn't mean to overstep".

"No, no, it's fine. I'm sorry I snapped at you. That's just a sensitive topic for me," I said with a smile that I meant to be reassuring.

He looked as if he wanted to say something else of concern, but he just nodded.

"Still see you tonight, right?" I asked while walking away backwards to Hermione and Ginny.

He nodded and waved as I turned back around and walked back to our room.


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"Alright, bye guys," I said to Ginny and Hermione after lacing up my shoes.

I was about to head out and make my way over to the lake to meet the twins. I had thrown on a pair of jeans and a hoodie and just thrown my hair up into a bun.

"Bye," Ginny spoke, barely looking up from her book.

While I walked through the school aided by the light of my wand, I made sure to listen for any teachers roaming the hall. Normally, most professors were in bed by the students curfew, something about 'setting a good example for the students', but they didn't have a curfew, so I couldn't be sure I wouldn't run into one.

Curfew was a big deal at Hogwarts. The school had always wanted all of the students in their rooms at ten and lights over by midnight, earlier for the younger years. I didn't always follow it, sometimes Ginny and I would rather hang out in the common room at night, but I never really left the rooms. I wasn't quite sure what the punishment for it was, but it didn't really matter.

Once I had stepped outside of the castle doors, it dawned on me just how eerie this all was. I mean, I wasn't just walking around anywhere late at night. I was walking through a place that housed werewolves, centaurs, giant squids and once Voldemort. I wasn't loving the feeling of walking around by myself.

I speedily walked all the way down to the lake, staring at my feet and chanting that I would be okay as I walked in hopes to halt my fear.

When I had made it to the lake and my fear was at its peak, I looked around the darkness to see nobody. My eyes traced all that I could see, searching for two heads of bright red hair, but I couldn't find them.

"Boo," someone said from right behind me. I shrieked and turned around to see Fred and George, both laughing as if that was the funniest thing on the planet.

"You guys!" I yelled.

"Shhhh," Fred managed out in between laughs. "You'll get us in trouble".

Even though I was mad at them for taking advantage of my fearful state, I knew that he was right and shut my mouth.

"How the hell did I not see you?" I asked once I realized that I had in fact scanned everywhere in search of them.

"Harry let us borrow his invisibility cloak," George said while holding up said cloak in his hand.

"Really?" I asked in disbelief. "I thought he guarded that thing with his life".

"Well..." Fred said. " 'Let us' is a strong word. Hopefully he won't notice".

I scoffed and hit him on the arm.

"What? Did we offend you by stealing from your boyfriend?" Fred said in a mocking voice.

"He's not my boyfriend," I said, offended by the accusation.

"Well he definitely likes you at least," George added.

"No he doesn't!" I said, scoffing a bit. "What makes you even think that?".

"Oh my god really? God, it's so obvious. He's always asking about you and he always tries to talk to you at lunch and stuff. I assumed you guys had a thing or something".

I rolled my eyes. "We do not have any thing. And I'm positive he doesn't like me. Now, what are we doing?" I asked in hopes to change the subject. Harry was nice, but I just didn't feel that way about him.

"Well," Fred said while locking his arm in my elbow to lead me to where we were supposed to be going. "We always thought that Umbridge and Lockhart would make such an amazing couple, so we decided to give her a little nudge in his direction".

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"You'll see," he responded.


We walked through the dark to get to the right part of the castle, but I didn't feel unsafe anymore with the two of them on either side of me. I knew that if anything were to jump out of us, I wouldn't be in danger because even though I hate to admit it, they are geniuses when it comes to spell work. All of the extra learning up on spells for pranks added up to them being amazing with their wands.


"Alright it's just up here," Fred said while gesturing to a door up ahead.

I rolled my eyes. "I know, Fred. Remember when we got that god awful hand cutting punishment last year?".

"Oh yeah!" He said, remembering. "I forgot about that 'needle chair' prank. That was a damn good spell work huh, George?". He elbowed him with a smile.

We arrived at the door and George unlocked it with some advanced unlocking spell that I had never heard of. I always just figured 'alohomora' would do the trick, but I guess this door needed more.

"Alright, you wait out here and keep guard," George said once he had gotten the door open and already had one foot in the door. Fred started to follow behind him. No way in hell I was just going to sit out here while they had all of the fun.

"Hey!" I said with a pout while tugging Fred back to me by his elbow. He looked at me with an amused face. "I'm not just going to stand out here".

Fred sighed. "Well we need someone to stay out here and watch for teachers". I opened my mouth to argue but he cut me off. "Plus we want it to be a surprise".

I groaned. "Why did I come along then if I was just going to stand here?".

"Because we wanted to hangout with you and this is fun".

I rolled my eyes but nodded for him to go in and do whatever they were going to do.

I waited outside the room for what felt like hours, but what was probably only about fifteen minutes or so. I was worried the whole time that a teacher was going to walk by, because they never really told me what I was supposed to do in that situation.

Finally, the door opened and George said, "Alright, we're done".

I smiled and peeked my head through the door, my eyes wide in awe at the scene before me.

Everything, and I mean everything, was wrapped in gilderoy lockhart wrapping paper. Her desk, all of her cat pictures, everything on her desk, everything.

"Oh my god!" I said. "How did you guys even do this?". They both looked pleased at my reaction.

"Well, we're the designated gift wrappers of the Weasly family so we've gotten pretty good ath the wrapping spell," Fred said.

"And we figured that we should put it to good use," George added on.

"Oh my god," I repeated, still looking around her office and wondering how each individual quill was wrapped. "Why in the world would he make wrapping paper of himself though? Who would even buy that?".

They both laughed and said at the same time, "Our Mum". I chuckled and we began to leave her office. I looked back one more time to appreciate the work.

"She is gonna freak," I said.





We left her office and made our way through the corridors as quiet as possible, still giggling about something to ourselves every so often.

As we were about to turn the last corner to the hall that contained our dorms, we heard the distinct sound of Mcgonnagal's heels clicking in that very hallway.

"Shit," we all seemed to mutter at the same time.

"Quick, get under," I heard one of them say and before I knew it, there was a cloak being draped over the top of my and I was being pulled in between the two of them so that we were sandwiched together. Normally, I would pay extra attention to the fact that my front was pressed up tightly against George's and my back against Fred's chest so that we could fit under the cloak, but I couldn't worry about that now when Mcgonnagal was about to catch us.

I saw her turn the corner and heard my breath hitch in my throat. Fred's hand snaked quickly up to my mouth and covered it so that I wouldn't make any more noise.

Apparently, that wasn't enough, because Mcgonnal and her stupid feline senses found us out and we were quickly exposed when the cloak was ripped off of us and thrown into her hands. I quickly distanced myself from the twins, not wanting her to think that we were doing that.

She looked at us in shock and then shook her head. "I am very disappointed in you three". We all looked at our feet guiltily. "100 points from Gryffindor". We all looked at her with pleading faces, not wanting our house to suffer for our problems. "And you all have detention tomorrow".











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