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This is for my challenge, 'The misfits challenge'. Some characters that died in the books are still alive in this story. Everyone in Ginny and Harry's year are 7th years. Harry and Ginny dated, but ended up just being friends same goes for Ron and Hermione. I think that's it for now.
Chapter one
Electrocution
"Where is Luna?" Ron asked, walking along side his girlfriend Lavender Brown and Harry towards Slughorn's Christmas Party; everything of the war that took place at Hogwarts one year ago was far for their young minds.
"She'll be here in a bit" said Harry while fidgeting with his new dress robes." She's still serving her detention in greenhouse three. "
"Really?" Lavender questioned, clinging to her Won-Won's arm." What did the weirdo do this time?"
"Don't call her that" Harry warned, defending his friend as well as his date for the tonight.
"Whatever" Lavender muttered, turning her full attention on Ron. "Come on Won-Won" she said, excitedly dragging the red head boy toward the music, down the corridor as Ron looked over his shoulder at Harry, giving his mate a sorry look and then shrugged before letting himself be pulled into the party.
Harry stopped at the frame of the over-sized doorway before Slughorn waved him over.
"Harry my boy!" Horace greeted, slapping the boy-who-lived on the back before handing him a drink.
"Thank you professor" said Harry before taking a sip of his drink and watched a man with a camera come their way.
"How about a picture?" the camera man asked, while Harry thought that old sluggy was going to finally recollect his trophy again after he won the war. The name Hermione would call their professor at times made him smile.
"Oh… of course" the old Potion's Master laughed, turning to the Gryffindor. "What do you say Harry?"
"How can I say no" Harry replied with a smile, trying to be polite as the Professor put his arm around him seconds before the flash of the camera went off.
"Now where is that fascinating date of your?"
"Umm, I am not sure sir" Harry answered, thinking this was a great excuse to make his leave as he saw Hermione go and hide behind one of the many curtains. 'Whoa can we say déjà vu all over again' he thought before saying. "Maybe I should go and find her."
"Well of course my boy, enjoy the party" Slughorn smiled, before walking away to go converse with other guests.
Taking another sip of his butterbeer, Harry took off towards his muggleborn friend behind the large curtains looking somewhat disturbed. "What are you doing Hermione?" he asked, stepping behind the pale green drapes.
"I just left Cormac on the dance floor" Hermione stated, while fidgeting nervously with her curls.
"Cormac?" Harry said, astonished that she would take him again to this party, "As in Cormac McLaggen?"
"What about McLaggen?" inquired Ron, stumbling behind the drapes with a hand full of sweets.
Hermione made a guilty face, knowing Ron didn't like the git, but McLaggen was very persistent like in 6th year. No matter how many times she said no to him, but by the end she finally caved, only agreeing to be his date just so he would leave her alone until the party.
"It seem as our dear Hermione here came with McLaggen to the party again" Harry spoke for the girl, thinking this situation was somewhat hilarious.
"Really Hermione?" Ron said, thinking she had better taste in men, and knowing that their romantic feelings and dating for a month was in the past but he couldn't help become upset as his ears turned a bit red, "McLaggen?"
"I know, I know Ron" Hermione winced, "I didn't even want to come to this stupid party, Merlin knows how bad the first one was. "Oh god", she groaned, seeing him come their way. "Hide me" she pleaded, putting Ron in front of her to block her from view.
"Hey! You two haven't see Granger around?" Cormac asked, as Hermione ducked down behind Ron and quickly snuck out unseen, leaving the boys behind the long drapes." That minx is a tricky one to get your hands on..."
Hermione sighed, relieved before standing up straight and quickly dodging Slughorn, knowing if she went anyway near the man that he would want to have a long boring chat with her again and this was a big no, no in her book. Knowing that if caught it would notify Cormac of her whereabouts. Quickly walking around a table Hermione made a bee line for the exit, wanting to leave the disastrous party behind her.
Walking down the hall where the beautiful crafted green lanterns flouted up above giving a lovely glow. Hermione Granger was on a mission to get to the safety of the Gryffindor common room, but that seem to be a bit tricky as Dean and Ginny wrapped in one another came stumbling down the same corridor and knowing Ginny. She would most likely have no mercy on her and drag her kicking and screaming back into the party. Without a second thought she hid into the shadows of one to many arch ways of the corridor. Slowly walking backwards to keep out of sight as the couple went by.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Hermione froze, eyes enlarging in fright, knowing the owner of the voice and thinking this was just her luck. "Bloody hell you scared me Malfoy" she murmured, facing the boy sitting alone by the window as she leaned onto the cool stone of the arch.
Draco raised an amused brow as he slowly smirked up at the frighten Gryffindor in the short black dress.
"What are you doing back here Malfoy? Hermione questioned, suspiciously then muttered," being a total creep?"
"It's none of your business" Draco snapped, not appreciating being called a creep, he was many things, but a creep was not one. Standing to his feet and stepping down onto the floor he felt his anger rise. "Filthy little mudblood!"
If this was 2nd year, she would of felt hurt by the offensive word that came from the blonde's mouth, but now in 7th year again the insult was getting pretty old and had little to no effect on her as she rolled her eyes at him. "Whatever" she said, pushing him away, ready to leave.
"What do we have here Mrs. Norris?" Filch snarled as Hermione bumped into the caretaker while stepping into full view. "Students up to no good I see." the caretaker suspected that he caught the two teens snogging and or doing other activities that were not allowed.
"Mr. Filch it is not what it looks like!" Hermione paled, knowing this looked bad and who could blame him, two hormonal students alone in a dark arch way.
"Mr. Malfoy, you boy were not invited here tonight." Said Filch, Ignoring the girl trying to explain the situation, but didn't believe her." Come the both of you" he grabbed both teens by the arm. "Professor Snape will know what to do with you two."
"Get your hand off of me you filthy squib" yelled Draco, trying to fight off the old man," we weren't doing anything wrong!"
"No" Hermione panicked, dragging her feet, quickly giving into what the caretaker thought they were doing, not wanting Snape to get involved and should as hell not wanting to step foot into that party again. "Ok, ok yes, we were snogged"
That stopped Filch and even the struggling blonde.
"He's… he's my date" she lied, hoping that Malfoy would play along. While slipping out the caretakers hold the same time Malfoy yanked away from the old bat. "He's my date" she said with more power in her voice before giving the Slytherin an imploring look and then intertwining their hands together.
Draco was in complete shock as he looked at the Gryffindor confusingly and then at their hands tangled together before he snapped out of it. "What?!" he barked, ripping his hand from hers. "I would never have a filthy mudblood as a date to this stupid party!"
That made Hermione's blood boil over, why couldn't he just play along. "God Malfoy you are so stupid, no wonder you were a sucky Death Eater!" she shouted, blowing the cover and knowing this fight was a long time coming, that not even the caretaker could stop them.
Leaning on the entrance of the doors Blaise could hear yelling coming from the long corridor. "Shut up" he told Pansy, who was talking nonstop. He narrowed his eyes in concentration blocking out all the noise, but the shouting match taking place outside the party. "Come on" he said, grabbing his dates arm and slipping past a male Veela charming some 6th year Hufflepuff girl. While cursing Malfoy under his breath knowing he was going to have to save his ass again.
"Ron! Have you seen Hermione?" asked Harry, after searching for said girl, but found no trace of her anywhere.
"No, but come on, let's go find her" Ron said, annoyed with the Patil twins and Lavender's unending gossip, as his sister snogged Dean at a table nearby. 'Bloody hell those two couldn't keep their hands off each other, now that they got back together after the war' he thought, following Harry out the party.
The further they were from the chatter and music of the Christmas party. The more clearer the colorful vocabulary of swear words could be heard. "I think that's Hermione yelling?" Harry stated, before they took off down the hall, wands at the ready while Filch ran past them.
Blaise watched on greatly entertained at the scene before him as Pansy stood alongside him smirking. At first he thought that Granger was killing Draco in a serious duel with spells flying, but no. The muggleborn took it upon herself to abuse his mate, the muggle way as Draco yelled right back in her face while trying to hold her back. 'Trying was the keyword' he thought, before two spells hit Draco.
What's when all hell broke loose.
"Stupid, Mudblood!" Draco shouted, feeling his wand fly out of his back pocket and fell a few feet away. The duo stopped their shouting match as spells started flying around them.
Hermione quickly grabbed her wand and aimed it at Parkinson. Neither Malfoy nor Hermione noticed they had an audience until Harry and Ron showed up ready to start another war in that corridor.
Draco went for his wand and aimed at Potter before freezing on the spot and way before a spell left his lips and from what he could make out. Blaise, Pansy and the three Gryffindor's were in the same boat as him.
Once notified about the fight outside, Snape furiously stormed down the corridor, his wand out in front of him with Filch close behind. Doing a quick wrist motion he had all six students frozen in seconds. Severus was not to be messed with tonight, especially after having to clean the butterbeer off his robes thanks to Longbottom, who would be serving a mouth worth of detentions. "Detention all of you and 50 points each deducted from both Gryffindor and Slytherin house for fighting" he snapped, not caring that he was taking house points from Slytherin and giving his godson and his two friends detention.
The furious professor collected all six wands and hid them in his cloak before unfreezing them and kept walking down the hall toward the moving stairs.
The Golden and Silver trio stared after their DADA Professor confusingly.
"You six better be following!" he ordered, not stopping or looking over his shoulder at the students.
They did as told and all that could be heard were heels or dress shoes connecting with the stone floor.
Harry thought that Snape was taking them to the dungeons, but after turning down a few dark corridors he noticed that they were on the east side of the castle.
Draco would have asked Snape where he was taking them, but he didn't want to push his luck.
Ron was lost he had never been down this corridor before as he followed Snape through a door leading them outside.
They continued to follow Snape toward Greenhouse Three, down the somewhat snow covered hill and that's when Harry knew that they would be serving their detention right away. He would finally see his date for the first time tonight, too bad it would be in detention and not at the party.
Entering Greenhouse Three, Snape quickly scanned the place before his dark beady eyes landed on the Ravenclaw, trimming some plant that hissed at her. "Miss Lovegood, I brought you some company" he said, bitterly before glaring at the others. "You all will be helping Miss Lovegood clean up this Greenhouse, wandlessly until midnight, and I will be by tomorrow to examine every inch of this room. And if it's not up to my expectations, then you will be coming back here every night until this room is spotless!". "Your wands will be waiting in your dorm rooms, and if you think you can up and leave without me becoming aware, then think again and as for you Miss Lovegood. I only think it's appropriate to lengthen your detention seeing as your date is here." He glared at Harry before leaving, his cloak bellowing out behind him as the door slammed shut.
"This is entirely your fault Mudblood" Draco snarled, the first one to break the silence.
Hermione slowly faced the blonde Slytherin, eyes burning with pure anger which Harry, Ron, Blaise and Pansy did not miss as Luna went back to the hissing plant, "I "she snapped, dangerously while clenching her fists," am so fucking tired of your shit, and your stupid pureblood supremacy! Do you know where you can stick that rubbish bullshit?!" Hermione shouted, with so much power that she forgot to breathe as she grabbed dirt and plants that were unplanted and threw it at Malfoy.
'This was like 3rd year all over again.' Harry thought, pulling Hermione away from a stunned Malfoy, covered in dirt. Thinking it was best to step in before Hermione started using her fists.
"I hate him!" Hermione shouted, not caring who heard, loathing the way he could just push her buttons.
"I know" said Harry, trying to calm her down as Ron came over to help.
"The feeling is mutual muddy!" shouted Draco, as his friends helped him try to remove the dirt off his black suit, while thinking that the witch finally went fucking mental.
"That enough Draco" Warned Blaise, handing his mate a clean rag.
"I've never seen Granger so mad" Pansy whispered, amusingly to Blaise, "you have to give Draco some credit for that, that's one hell of a talent".
Blaise snorted before headed over to the storage room and coming out with scrapers, two buckets and old rags. "Come on, we might as well get this detention over with." He said to Draco and Pansy. Thinking that there was no way in hell he was going to spend his precious time in here cleaning tomorrow or any other night.
Pansy didn't move as Draco rolled his eyes and snatched up a rag and scraper before following his mate to the old tables in the back.
Harry thought that Zabini had the right idea, before he went over to the storage room and come back with many cleaning supplies.
Hermione's anger slowly faded before heading toward the opposite side from the Slytherin boys and started watering the wall of plants.
Harry watched Ron go off to clean the windows before he walked over to Luna. "Hey Luna."
"Hello Harry" she greeted, "you look lovely".
"Thanks, you look lovely too" he blushed, feeling awkward when it can to girls, friend or not. "Sorry about you having to stay here longer because of me."
"Oh don't worry Harry" the whimsical girl smiled, "I'm pretty sure that party would have been rubbish anyway."
Harry smiled thinking how right she was before grabbing a broom and rags and walked over to Parkinson. "Here, make yourself useful" he said shoving the broom into the girls hands before going over to help Ron with the many windows as rain started to fall.
It was two 'til midnight, the rain poured down harder and the three Gryffindor's, three Slytherin's and one Ravenclaw hadn't spoken, since they started to clean the entire greenhouse. Pansy cleaned every piece of dirt off the floor, Hermione watered the poisoned black roses and tidied up everything, Luna trimming all the plants, Blaise and Draco scrubbed every piece of nasty old gum under each table, and Harry and Ron polished all the windows they could reach without the use of any magic whatsoever.
'This punishment was far from cruel, it was pure torture.' Draco thought trying to remove a piece of old used gum from his dirty suit as he sat next to Blaise on a clean table.
"I think it's safe to leave now" acknowledged Luna, looking down at her watch that read 12:00 am.
"But it's raining" Pansy complained, "I'm not going out there."
"How about we wait for it to stop" Blaise suggested, everyone agreed with him, because not one wished to take a shower outside, all except Luna who loved the rain.
All seven waited, but the rain was only getting worse. "I say we just make a run for it." Hermione spoke, for the first time since yelling at Malfoy. "It's not going to get any better."
Draco hated agreeing with her, but Granger was right. The weather was only getting worse with time. Jumping down from the table he walked to the glass door where Potter, Weasley, Lovegood and Granger stood as Blaise and Pansy followed behind him. "Fine" he said, as the girl that yelled at him earlier opened the door.
They all made a run for it. Up the hill covered in patches of old snow with the rest following close behind, Hermione got to the double doors first. Breathing heavily she rested her soaked, wet hands on the door handles and then pulled, but the doors didn't budge. Hermione frowned and tried again, but no matter how hard she yanked on the metal knobs of the wooden doors, it did not move in inch. "There locked!" she shouted, over the thunder that happened to go off at that precise moment.
"Oh… move over Granger!" Draco snarled, shoving the Gryffindor out of his way before tugging on the doors with all his might. This night just kept on getting worse. First getting into a fight with the mudblood and her two idiotic friends, second receiving detention and removal of house points from Snape no less and how can he not forget the gum that is still staining his wet black suit and now this. "It's locked" he said, letting go of the handles and started to bang on the doors violently. "Somebody, open these bloody doors!" he shouted, while peering through one of the tiny windows, at the center of one door that viewed the dark empty corridor.
Hermione rolling her eyes, as the blonde Slytherin confirmed what she already pointed out, while removing strands of wet hair from her face, "I told you it was locked" she said, crossing her arms into her drenched black party dress, trying to keep warm.
Draco turned his head sharply to his left giving the girl the nastiest glare he could muster at the moment, while heavy rain drops fell from his blonde lashes and another ear-piercing rumble broke out up above, behind the black clouds.
"So now what?" the smooth voice of Blaise Zabini, interrupted Draco and Granger's heated glares, showing just how much they detested one another. If this was any other day Blaise would have let them go at it, but it was pouring trolls out here and he just saw lightning strike nearby.
"Yeah, now what?" Pansy stated impatiently, while standing next to a soaked Blaise as her arms and hands created a shield around her head, trying to keep herself dry, but was failing miserably. "I'm freezing, my dress and hair are ruined and I have mud and snow on my heels!"
"I guess we could head back towards the Greenhouse" Ron suggested, seeing mist coming out of Parkinson's nostrils every time she exhaled. While he ignored the discomfort of his wet clothes clinging to him like a second skin.
Most of the group thought that, that was counterproductive. While Malfoy made an offensive remark at the red head expense and hoped that someone had enough brain cells to come up with a better idea.
Harry kept quiet as he un-fogged his moist glasses with the sleeve of his damped robes. While his date stood next to him, smiling as she looked up at the dark sky. Heavy rain drops falling onto her face and drizzling down her blonde hair and pale neck, landing on her soaked violet dress as Harry then offered his cloak to her to keep her warm, but declining the sweet offer with a shake of her head.
"There is always the entrance of the Clock Tower Courtyard", Luna's large silvery, grey eyes traveled to Blaise's face answering his question.
"That's brilliant Luna" Harry smiled, settling his glasses on the bridge of his nose and recalling 3rd year, when he received his beloved Firebolt from Sirius and ran from the Great Hall to said courtyard to test out the new broomstick. Remembering his deceased godfather sadden him before he cleared his throat. "The entrance of that Courtyard is never locked."
"But that's on the other side of the castle." Pansy complained and leaped when she saw lightning strike down on the Greenhouse they previously occupied, while serving their detention. She was the only one that thought that Weasley had the right idea, because that was better than standing around here and getting more drenched by the second, but quickly shot that thought down. When she heard and witness glass from the roof of the Greenhouse break and crumble.
"Do you have a better idea?" Hermione asked, after seeing what happened to the Greenhouse. Thinking that Ron should be more of a gentleman like Harry and offer her, his cloak as her teeth chattered and moved her hands up and down her arms, trying to create heat and regretting wearing a short dress with no sleeves, "because if you do then we would love to hear it Parkinson."
When the Slytherin girl said nothing, Blaise stepped in knowing Pansy well enough to know that she was going to say something nasty about Granger's blood, which would most likely cause yet another fight to break out and the Italian was starting to lose his patience, the longer they stood out here in this bloody storm. "Then Lovegood's plan it is." He blurted, point blank and made no room for arguments, before turning quickly on his ruined expensive leather dress shoes and stomped away from the rest of them. Not bothering to see if they followed him or not.
Harry looked at his two dripping wet Gryffindor friends before shrugging nonchalant and following his date that was right behind the dark skin Slytherin.
As they carried on the storm became worse. They could see the out skirts of the Black Lake as the waves of the lake water thrashed around brutally breaking any left over ice. Every couple of minutes lightning would strike down somewhere along the grounds. Their surroundings illuminated with dark purple, blue and grey before their world became dark once again.
The icy rain poured down even harder than before and the wind blew with a force that hauled Pansy backwards, on the snowy grass and luckily stopped sliding farther back. When Potter put his arm around her waist and then quickly removed his black cloak, putting the fabric on the Slytherin girl without a second thought. "Thanks" she muttered grateful, as he gave a nod, while keeping his arm around her as they continued their journey to the other side of the castle.
Wrapping his arms tightly around his torso, Draco tried his best to block the stabbing of the wind and rain. His hair plastered to his forehead as another earth shuttering thunder broke out. He was at the rear of the struggling bunch up a head. The Slytherin smirked when Granger fell to her knees from the wind gust, 'Right where you belong mudblood' he thought, while weasel helped her up off of the left over snow from yesterday.
Luna had it the worst, which made sense since she was light weight compared to the others. She was struggling, her long blonde hair blew behind her violently as the Ravenclaw let out a yelp in fright. When her feet lifted in inch off the ground she automatically grabbed onto something solid, which happened to be the arm of the boy in front of her.
Blaise raised a wet brow as he looked over his shoulder, at the blonde girl holding onto him for dear life as she struggled with the harsh wind pulling her. Thinking it was best to not say anything, before turning his head forward and continuing on and felt relieved as the courtyard came into view.
"Which way Lovegood?" Pansy demanded, now bare footed as she held on to her heels and the tail of her green dress in one hand and the other still holding onto Potter. While a puddle formed around the stone floor were they all huddled under the passageway, needing to catch their breath after traveling down slopes and up countless hills while it protected them from the harsh storm.
The Clock Tower courtyard was spotless as rain fell. There was no snow as it was blocked by a charm to make it look the same all year around by Professor Flitwick, who adored this specific courtyard for reasons unknown to the students. They all knew the Charm only blocked out the snow as they watched cold water pour down.
To their left led them to the wooden stairs of the Clock Tower, to their right the Wooden Bridge and straight ahead at the center was the courtyard. Where an antique fountain happened to be over floating with water, surrounded by statues of eagles and pear trees spend throughout the place that were being watered by the rain. While just be on the large fountain, stood double doors. That would lead them straight into the Great Hall.
Letting go of the Slytherin, Luna stepped into the courtyard giving her answer. Welcoming the rainy water once again, but was pulled back into the safety of the passageway immediately by Blaise, when lightning hit the fountain less than 20 feet away. "On three, we run" he warned, letting go of Lovegood and putting space between them.
"1… the seven all positioned themselves,
2… their hearts beating wildly,
3… they took off!"
Draco, Harry and Luna took off left around the large fountain while Ron, Hermione, Blaise and Pansy went right.
'Less than 30 feet to go' Pansy thought eagerly ready to be out of this hellish storm. Having an iron hold on Potter's cloak as she watched Weasley run past her, Blaise and Granger.
Hermione was growing weary as she looked across the fountain at Harry racing behind Malfoy.
Breath hard Harry shielded his glass with his left hand, so that he would be able to see properly.
Running as fast as she could, Luna tried to catch up with Harry, but knew that wasn't going to happen with short legs like hers, but still kept going.
Draco felt out of shape since he wasn't playing Quidditch this year, but still felt proud that he was ahead of Saint Potter.
Blaise was trailing alongside Granger and was a bit surprised that she could keep up with him in heels compared to Pansy, who was bare footed and behind them.
Less in 10 feet Ron was ready to yank the doors open, the second his hands grabbed a hold of the handles. Becoming the Quidditch keeper for Gryffindor this year and running away from Lavender's lips at times was doing him some good. Thinking of his girlfriend, he had a feeling Lavender was going to be furious with him for ditching her at Slughorn's party.
The group reconnected once again, after passing the fountain. Entirely concentrating on getting to the safe haven of the double doors, none of them could stop what Mother Nature was going to threw at them literally.
The large, powerful lightning bolt split, four different ways as it came hauling toward the ground.
Blinding white light flashed before Hermione's eyes as she felt herself being thrown back and hearing a tortured scream, not knowing it was she, who was screaming in agony. Hitting the stone floor first Hermione fell painfully on her back causing her to go unconscious the second her head collided with the ground.
A large pool of water formed around the motionless girl and the water around her became an outlet to the electricity in her body. The powerful spark rapidly moved along the water and struck Pansy's bare feet, traveling excruciatingly up her body before she collapsed on Granger's right side.
Ron's finger tips barely grazed the metal doorknobs, before he flew back with so much force, not being able to do anything about it as his whole body started burning from the inside out. Continuing backwards Ron took down Zabini with him, causing the pure raw energy in him to travel to the Slytherin's body, electrocuting him as well before their limp bodies hit the ground by Hermione's feet.
Draco could tolerate pain, but this was too much and knew that Lovegood was suffering through the same pain. When one of the four bolts hit Draco's hand where the Malfoy ring rested and he accidently grabbed Lovegood before both quickly dropped to their knees on Granger's left, screaming in torment until they couldn't scream anymore and their eyes rolled to the back of their heads.
Harry flew farthest back and away from the rest. His glasses came off and cracked when they landed on the pavement. His muscles were contracting painfully before landing three feet away on the ground in complete agony and blacked out from the pain.
The storm carried on as the seven electrocuted students, laid unconscious and motionless on the wet stone floor of the Clock Tower courtyard, while inside the castle the Christmas party hosted by Professor Slughorn continued on.
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