Camp Hogwarts - Paintball

Hufflepuff (Cabin Prewett)

"Hey Blake! I should have known I'd find you here."

Blake looked up from his books and notes to see a red haired boy approaching. He noticed that he was eating a pumpkin pastry. He gave him a small nod before going back to his books.

"What're you working on?" He came over and sat down, munching on the pumpkin pastry.

"Modifying a spell."

"Really? Isn't that something you do next year?"

"Yeah, so? I was a little curious."

"Ugh. You're like Rose and my mum sometimes. Are you sure you aren't a Ravenclaw?"

"Yes. I'm sure."

"So instead of doing boring reading, why don't we play some wizard's chess!"

"That is a questionable idea; you've beaten me every time we've played."

"But think, this could be the time you beat me!"

Blake rolled his eyes and went back to the notes he had sprawled out.

"Hugo, I find that unlikely. Also, I'm pretty sure you shouldn't be eating in the library."

Hugo popped the rest of the pumpkin pastry into his mouth and glanced around.

"So what spell are you modifying?"

"Levicorpus, trying to delay the effect of hte spell. I just need to test it."

"That's perfect!"

"What's perfect?"

"We can go test your spell."

"You want to be the test subject?"

"What no! But I do know someone who will."

Blake silently waited for the answer.

"Malfoy!"

"Malfoy? She woul-"

"Not her, her brother."

"Oh. So you want to test spell on your sister's boyfriend?"

"It's just a prank! Uncle Harry used to tell stories of the Marauders using the spell all the time."

"You do realize they could just get you back that night right? Your dorm is next to his."

"I've learned some locking spells to keep them out. Come on, this'll be fun! Besides, he's Malfoy." Blake rolled his eyes at that.

"Didn't you get in trouble with Professor McGonagall last time?"

"I mean, she gave me some detentions, but it wasn't anything serious."

"Didn't your mom yell at you?"

"Er... Look, we won't get caught."

"You said that last time."

"Yeah and this time we won't get caught."

"Alright fine. We'll do it."

"Yes!" Hugo cheered a bit too loudly, he got an angry scowl from the librarian.

Blake was going to regret this later, but at least he could humor his friend for a bit.

-v-

Blake found himself huddled next to Hugo in the dark shadows of a small alcove a few days later. He sat there still trying to justify doing this. Testing spells on unwilling subjects probably wasn't too healthy or safe, but it was just Levicorpus, if the modification didn't work all it would do is lift Malfoy up. They'll have plenty of time to run afterwards.

"How do you know they are going to come by here."

"They pass by here week from their potions class."

Blake turned to Hugo. "You stalk your sister?"

"No, I gather intelligence on Malfoy."

"So you stalk Malfoy, even better!"

"Shhh! I think they're coming."

Sure enough, voices could be heard coming from down the corridor. As they approached, Blake could make out the distinct voices of Rose and Scorpius. Blake got pulled out his wand. He paused when he heard a very familiar voice join the group.

Blake listened in on the conversation. Carina Malfoy was asking her brother for some help on potions.

The group passed by the alcove without noticing the two boys hiding in the shadows. Blake stood with his wand only half drawn from his pocket. Suddenly this seemed like a bad idea.

Blake felt a nudge on his arm. He finally managed to pull out his wand all the way. He got his wand ready to cast the spell but he still hesitated. He felt a little sick in his stomach. Hugo gave him another nudge.

Blake tried to push aside the sick feeling in his stomach. He thought about the spell and started to cast it. Whispering out the "Levicorpus" as quietly as he could, he felt the usual thrum of magic. As his wand tip started to glow though, something felt off. The tip glowed the usual green, but instead of a jet of light, it shot out a few sparks.

The spell failed. Blake looked confused at his wand surprised that a spell had failed. He felt Hugo give him a slight push aside and heard him mutter something along the lines of "bloody 'Puffs". Hugo pulled out his own wand and cast, rather loudly, his own "levicorpus".

Blake, though shocked at his own wands failure to cast a spell, noted that Hugo's aim was slightly off. The others had also heard him cast the spell and started to turn around.

Hugo and Blake followed the spell as it flew through the air, and they were both surprised when it struck Rose. She was immediately hoisted into the air by her ankle.

She let out a surprised yelp, before recognizing who had cursed her. Her yelp turned into an angry "HUGO!" as she struggled in the air.

Blake and Hugo recognized that it was a great time to run and escape. They both turned to run, but almost immediately Blake found his arms and legs locked up and he started falling forward. Blake braced for impact with the ground, but it the impact never came. He found himself suspended a few inches above the ground.

Blake knew he would regret this. He couldn't see anything but the ground, and decided to just quietly await his fate. He heard a surprised yelp and some more scrambling on the ground as he guessed Rose was helped down from the spell.

"Grr... When I get my hands on Hugo."

Blake heard the sound of footsteps running down the hall. He heard another set of footsteps approaching him. He couldn't move to see who it was. He found himself freed from the full body bind and fell the remaining few inches to the ground.

Blake twisted around and sat up from the ground to look at who had released him. He came face to face with Carina. He tried to give her a smile, but she just scowled at him.

"So Blake, you want to tell me what that was about?"

"Hugo's idea?"

"And you decided to go with it?"

"I needed to test spell, and he convinced me that I should try it on your brother."

"I doubt it was hard to convince you... you do so much for your friends." She rolled her eyes at him. "So did it work?"

"I'm not sure. The spell failed."

"The spell failed? You are pretty good at casting spells, and your wand is a great match for you. How did it fail?"

"No I-wait, my wand!" Blake remembered some of the properties that Carina had researched for him about his wand. "I guess it matches my personality better than I expected."

"So, you tried to curse us in the back?"

"What-I" Blake spluttered.

"Alright, I'll let you try the spell on me, under a few conditions."

"What conditions."

"You owe me a favor, you teach me the spell, and you help Scorp and Rose get revenge on Hugo."

"Don't I already owe you like three favors? Do you really need more?"

"You can never have enough favors from someone," she said with a wicked grin.

"Alright fine, I'll agree to those conditions."

Great, more favors that he would likely regret in the future.

A/N: Still not quite satisfied with this, but I'll post it anyways.