It's Not Fair


"Ahh. So you are upset?" he said.

"You don't give up do you?"

"Nope" he grinned.

"So why are we going to Zonko's? For all you know I might not like jokes"

"Well if you don't now, you will soon"

She smiled.


As they walked up to Zonkos, Draco Malfoy walked out followed by Crabbe, Goyle and Zabini. They blocked the door.

"Haha. Looks like Weasel-F has a girlfriend. You are Weasel-F right?" Malfoy smirked.

"Shut up Malfoy!" Fred said "And move!"

"Why should we?" Draco replied.

"Yeah! Why should we!" Crabbe repeated.

Fred raised his eyebrows at him as he tried not to laugh.

"Look. Malfoy, we're busy. So... could you, like, move?"

"Don't talk to me, mudblood!" You have no right!"

"Yeah! Don't talk to-" Crabbe started.

"DON'T CALL HER THAT!"

"What are you gonna do Weasel-F? Let off a firework in my face?"

"Malfoy, what do you mean 'I have no right to talk to you?' You have no right to stop us going into a shop!"

"I said don't talk to me!"

At this point, Sky had had enough. She pushed past them, roughly, into the shop.

"Ewww! She touched me! A stupid, little mudblood touched me!"

This time Fred had had enough. He stepped forward, punched Malfoy in the face and sent him flying backwards into the shop. At this, Blaze Zabini pushed Fred backwards into the white snow.

"HEY!" someone who sounded a lot like Fred shouted.

Blaze looked up just as George sent some kind of spell towards him and he too went flying backwards into the shop.

Sky put her head in her hands. This was turning into a fight and it was all about her? Great.

Just then Goyle sent a stunning spell at George. It missed by about three inches.

Fred and Malfoy had got up and seemed to be about to duel. Lee Jordan had run over to see what was going on.

"Stop" Sky said. No one heard "STOP FIGHTING!"

Everyone stopped partly because Sky had shouted and partly because Professor McGonagall had come over.

"And what, may I ask, is going on here?"

Everyone apart from Sky, Lee and Crabbe, the ones who hadn't been fighting, started shouting different stories at once like little children. All Sky heard was:

"HIT-!"

"MUDBLOOD-!"

"STUNNED-"

"PUSHED-"

"TOUCHED-"

"NO REASON-!"

"QUIET!" McGonagall screeched "One at a time. Miss Brooks?"

"Errr... well. Malfoy called me a... a mudblood and..."

What am I meant to say? Fred started the fight? No.

"... and-"

"And I hit him" Fred finished "then Zabini pushed me over-"

"AND THEN WEASEL-G SHOT A CRUSEARTUS CURSE AT BLASE! ...It missed, of course" Malfoy shouted.

"WHAT!"I DID NOT!" George screamed.

"And how can you tell us apart?"

"Lucky guess" Goyle said spitefully.

"Mr Weasley-"

Both twins looked at McGonagall.

"-Err... I mean George. Give me you wand so I can see what your most recent spells are-"

"YOU ATTUALLY BELIEVE HIM?" both twins yelled, pointing at Malfoy.

"Do not shout at me. And as a teacher I cannot take sides. Now give me your wand"

George reluctantly handed her his wand.

"Can we go now?" Crabbe asked.

"No" McGonagall replied.

At this point Professor Snape walked over, looking very amused.

McGonagall did some kind of complicated thing with George's wand and then handed it back to him.

"Mr Malfoy, you are in big trouble"

Fred smirked.

"All of you are" Snape added "Minerva, shall I take them back to the castle?"

"Yes Severus. I think you should... we don't need any more fights"

He walked in the direction of the castle, closely followed by Fred, George, Sky, Lee, Draco, Blase, Vincent and Gregory.

"Sorry" Fred said to Sky a few minutes later.

"For what?" she replied smiling.

"For getting you into trouble"

"Oh... don't worry about it. You got the Slytherin's in trouble too"

"Yeah... I guess that's good" he grinned.


When they go to the castle, Snape told the Slytherin's to go to their common room and the Gryffindor's to go with him to see Professor Umbridge.

"What! How come they aren't in trouble?" Lee asked.

"Why are we going to see Umbridge and not Dumbledore?" questioned Sky.

"Professor! Thirty points from Gryffindor!"

"Yes, but why?" asked George.

"Ten points from Gryffindor for asking too many questions. Professor Dumbledore is away at the moment"

"Fred?" Sky asked quietly.

"Mmhhmm?"

"Next time don't hit Malfoy. Then he'd get in trouble for calling me a you-know-what"

"'You-know-what'? Where'd that come from?"

"Mione made it up"

"Haha. I see"


A few minutes later they arrived at Professor Umbridge's office.

"In you go" Snape said to all four of them.

They walked into the worst looking room they had ever seen, it was horrible. The walls were baby pink and everywhere you looked you would see a kitten, which wasn't so bad in Sky's opinion but Fred looked discussed.

"Hello children" Professor Umbridge said "May I help you?"

They quickly explained what had happened, truthfully.

"Well. I must say, I'm very disappointed. You will all have detention and letters home"

"But Sky didn't do any-" Fred started.

"Neither did I!" Lee said, glaring at Fred.

"You where all there" Umbridge said calmly.

"What about the Slytherin's?" said George.

"What about them? They didn't start the fight" she replied, taking a sip of tea from a pink cup.

"They were there'" Sky answered back.

"This conversation ends here. Tomorrow, instead of going to Hogsmeade, after breakfast you will come here" she replied and put her cup on the table. As she did this her sleeve lifted a little.

Fred gasped and moved backwards quickly.

"Whatever is the matter?" Umbridge asked kindly. So kindly that it wasn't kind.

"I... you..."

"You all may leave now. Go to your common room!"

"But-" George started.

"NOW!" she said, glaring at Fred.


When they got back to the common room, George and Lee went to get some food from the house elves while Fred sat down with Sky.

"It's freezing in here" Sky said, as they sat down.

"Yeah... your hair's gone blue"

"What? Really?" Sky looked down, only to see that he was telling the truth.

"Yeah..." Fred would normally smirk at something like this but he didn't.

"What's wrong?" she asked him.

"What? Nothing"

"You've barely spoken since we were in Umbridge's office. What did you see?"

"Nothing. It was just my imagination" he said quickly.

"Then why are you worrying about it?"

"I'm not"

"Ok then. What do you think you saw?"

"I... it doesn't matter"

"Alright... you're still worried though?"

He nodded.

"What was it?" she said softly.

"I thought... it looked like... she had the dark mark"

Sky gasped. She couldn't stop herself.

"But I was imagining it!" he added quickly.

"Are... are you sure?"

"Yes... no... yes. Dumbledore would know, right?"

"Yeah... I guess so"

"Well... I'm not going to detention tomorrow... you wanna go Hogsmeade?"

"I don't know... If we don't go to the detention then we might get detentions alone with her and if you weren't imagining then that could be... bad"

"I'm still not going. No way"

"Well... I guess we could go to Hogsmeade"

"Awesome. We can finally go to Zonko's!" he grinned.

"Even awesomer" she smiled up at him.

"Ahh. So you do like jokes!" he laughed.

"Maybe"

"Oh and by the way... I don't think 'awesomer' is a word" he laughed again.

"Well it is now. I'm going to go and wash this eyeliner off my face. I'll be back in a few minutes"

"Ok... and your hair's now purple by the way"

With that Sky sprinted up the stairs to her dorm.


HE ASKED ME TO GO TO HOGSMEADE WITH HIM!

This was the most amazing thing that had ever happened to her.

As she washed off all the smudged eyeliner her hair became red once again. Also while she washed it off she remembered what Fred had seen... or imagined. But what if he hadn't imagined? What if Umbridge really was a deatheater? ...No... She wasn't... She couldn't be. It wasn't fair! On the one day he spoke to her this happened!


Fred was still sat down in the common room. He'd lied. He'd lied to her. He knew he wasn't imagining. The look that Umbridge had given him said it all. He had to tell someone. Like Dumbledore or... or Harry. No... he couldn't worry Harry. He would tell Dumbledore when he got back... That was another thing. Where was Dumbledore? How could he let a deatheater into the school?

"Hey"

Fred looked up. Sky had come down, her hair red again and her eyeliner washed off "Hi"

Sky sat back down next to him "When do you thing George and Lee'll be back?"

"Dunno. Probably soon"

"You're still worrying. You said barely anything funny at all"

"Oh"

"Right. Go and get loads of your Weasley products"

"Why?" he said looking confused.

"Quickly. We can prank Lee!"

Just then Lee and George came through the portrait hole carrying loads of food and drink.

"Too late" Fred muttered.

Sky smiled at him, trying to make him smile and just for a split second a slight smile seemed to creep onto his face.

Lee and George sat down with them and started talking about Weasley products. Fred didn't join in.

Sky pulled out her wand, willow, ten inches, swishy and good for charms... dragon heartstring, and started fiddling with it. She noticed out of the corner of her eye that Fred looked at her and smiled sweetly.


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