Hi guys, so this my first attempt at writing something for several years... I'm not even sure why I'm in the mood to write, but I thought I'd start off with something small. Hope you enjoy it.
A tale from Albus Severus' first year at Hogwarts. Fred Weasley II decides to play an amusing prank on Albus.
Albus Severus was walking towards the main entrance when he heard footsteps and laughter coming towards him. Looking out the window, he saw the unmistakable red hair of Fred Weasley walking up the steps to the main hall. Not again! He thought, looking frantically for an escape route. Fred had inherited his father George's talent for pranks and delighted in making a target of the shy boy.
A broom closet lay a few meters ahead. If he could just reach it in time. Albus hurried, looking around to make sure no one saw what he was about to do. Satisfied that the only other people nearby were looking away, he quickly ran into the closet and shut it firmly behind him. Breathing hard and resting his head against the door, he didn't notice anything unusual at first. Slowly he became aware that not only was the broom closet lit, the light was changing colours.
Albus pulled his head away from the door and turned, brushing his dark hair from his eyes as he took in the neon flashing lights strung up along the shelves of the magically widened broom closet. Red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange. The lights flashed every colour in some pattern he couldn't work out, while small fairies danced in the air. Their iridescent blue skin seeming to alter along with the lights.
When a disco ball descended from the ceiling, Albus' jaw dropped and he couldn't stop staring at the oddness going on around him. Then the brooms started to dance, breaking Albus out of his frozen state and he stumbled backwards into the door, scrambled to turn the doorhandle to get out of the crazy broom closet.
As he tumbled out, he smacked straight into a warm body. Looking up he saw the smiling face of Fred Weasley.
"Something wrong, Al?" he smirked, while raising an eyebrow. Albus shook his head fervently and attempted to sidestep away from Fred so he could run away.
"Well then you won't mind opening up the broom closet and fetching me some cleaning solution then" he said as he shifted to block Albus' attempt to escape.
Albus frowned as it dawned upon him what Fred had done. "You- you-"
Fred laughed and flicked his wand, opening up the broom closet and sending the lights and fairies dancing around the main hall. He then merged the lights and transfigured them into beach balls that still changed colour. Everyone around them laughed and tried to catch them, jumping and batting them to their friends while Fred grinned at Albus.
"Catch you next time squirt" he laughed and strode off, batting a beach ball at Albus who just barely got his hands up in time to bat it away. A small smile reached his face as he watched his fellow students have fun batting the balls around.
Maybe Fred wasn't so bad after all.