Yay, it took a lot to do this chapter, with the new characters and crap. But I hope it turned out good.
GeorgeXAngelina= Diego and Melissa
HarryXGinny= Brittney and Daniel
HermioneXRon= Elizabeth
PercyXAudrey= Mina
The True Weasley
Chapter four: No good deed goes unpunished
"Waters, China." The names went by quicker and quicker in front of Melissa's eyes as she waited for her name to come. Why had the list been so long? As soon as her Uncle Neville called 'Waters', she knew she would be next. She swallowed hard and lifted her head, watching as a small girl stepped out from the now tiny crowd. She had long brown hair, and a nice face, though she looked scared out of her mind.
As soon as the hat touched her head. "Hufflepuff!" She hopped off the stool, with a look of relief and headed over for the cheering table.
"Weasley, Melissa." Yep. There it was. Her name. She stepped out after a few seconds, and walked up, feeling the eyes of the crowd on her. She wondered what Diego was thinking.
Her uncle Neville smiled warmly and placed the hat on her head. He drooped over her eyes, like normal and she almost jumped when she heard it whisper in her mind. "Another Weasley…you know your brother was a tough one to place. You are not much different. A bright, ambitious young girl with a great future ahead. A big heart, but lots of wit. Where to put you? Perhaps Hufflepuff?"
Despite what it had just said to her, in a matter of five seconds more, everyone looked up when it hollered.
"RAVENCLAW!" Cheering erupted as she hopped off the stool. She spotted Diego among the quite a few ones standing. He was clapping, wearing a giant grin as she walked over slowly.
She sat down beside two other first years, and Diego scooted over two seats so he could sit across from her.
"Welcome to Ravenclaw." He grinned, cockily, and Melissa rolled her eyes.
"Hi!" A girl beside Melissa squeaked. Melissa turned to her. She looked small. Smaller than Melissa for that matter. She had short black hair that curled around her chin, with big green eyes. Her nervous smile was friendly. "I'm Ginger." Melissa smiled widely when she recognized the girl.
"I'm Melissa. Obviously." She shook hands with the girl and Ginger grinned.
"It's so cool that you're a Weasley and you got Ravenclaw like your brother!" She glanced at Diego who was talking madly with more boys from his year, wearing the same dumb-ass grin.
Melissa shrugged. "It almost put me in Hufflepuff." She admitted. Ginger looked surprised.
"Really?" Melissa nodded. "But then it said that I had too much wit and I was no different from my brother. So it screamed Ravenclaw."
"Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the sorting hat thought you were nice enough to get into Hufflepuff." Diego teased. Melissa scowled and leaned over to smack him.
"Shut up." Melissa was distracted once the names were finished and everyone was sorted, starting to eat and chat. The other first year boy that was sitting on the other side of Melissa looked over and smiled.
"Hi Melissa! I'm Blake. Blake Goyle." When he said his last name, she froze. She felt her eyes and face darken. This was Miguel's little brother? In Ravenclaw? Man was Miguel probably pissed.
But Melissa forced herself to smile and shake his hand. "I'm Melissa Weasley." He smiled nervously.
"Diego's sister. Yeah. Miguel tells me a lot about you two." Melissa scowled and turned away from him, scooping food onto her plate and eating in silence.
Ginger looked at her a few times, confused as to why she looked so pissed. But as soon as Diego laid eyes on the boy beside his sister, he obviously knew.
"Alright, first years this way!" Ginger, Blake, Melissa and a bunch of other kids stood and looked in the direction of what looked like two fifth year students. One male, one female. They walked over, all chatting excitedly.
"Do you think what my sister tells me about the commonroom is true?" Ginger whispered, her eyes wide as they walked out of the great hall, the older studetns watching them leave.
"Diego said that it requires a riddle to get in, so yes." Melissa whispered back excitedly.
"Our Commonroom, is behind this statue, first years!" The girl stopped walking and turned around to face all of the first years.
"Unlike Slytherin and Gryfindor, it doesn't require a password, but a riddle to enter. The riddle changes every few times after you enter with the same one. You are to tell no one the answer. Even after that riddle changes." The boy said. The first years nodded in understanding.
The boy turned around and the statue shifted, a voice asking a question. Melissa didn't catch the words, because she was at the very back of about thirty kids. She only saw as an entrance was revealed after the boy answered. He led them into the darkness and soon they emerged into a large room. The commonroom. Melissa remembered. It was just as Diego had described it.
It was a large, round, comfy looking room. A fireplace on the far right with a giant blue and bronze Ravenclaw banner strung across above the crackling flames. Blue and Bronze chairs and couches surrounded the fireplace, and there were some tables scattered other places, along with two staircases at the far back.
"This is our commonroom everyone!" The girl distracted Melissa and the other first years from their amazements. "There is one staircase leading to the girls' dorms and one to the boys." She pointed to the two staircases Melissa was looking at only a moment earlier.
"You will all be living in the first years obviously. Classes start tomorrow. You should all have your schedule!" The boy continued. All the first years nodded and murmured that they understood. The boy and girl nodded. "That is all!" And with that, the swarm of thirty first years dispersed and headed up the correct stairs. Ginger and Melissa tagged on to the back of the girls.
There was about four other girls not including Melissa and Ginger in the first year dorm that Melissa could count once everyone had their own bed and set their things down.
Melissa didn't bother trying to make conversation with all the strangers that would be her new roommates.
She hummed quietly as she unlatched her trunk and pulled out her bag of jewelry and hair things. She pulled out her nightgown and then shut her trunk again, throwing her things onto her new bed. Marigold was silent in her cage on the perch beside Melissa's bed, her wide yellow eyes following Melissa as she moved around, changing.
A few minutes later, Melissa was wearing her blue nightgown, and her brown hair was pulled up into a sloppy bun. She sat down on her bed and pulled some socks on. Then she pulled the covers away and slipped herself underneath them. She fell asleep from exhaustion as soon as her head hit the pillow.
Melissa woke the next morning to rich sunlight pouring in her dorm room window. It aggravated her eyes and she rolled over to her other side, just wanting to go back to sleep. But after another minute, she pushed herself to kick off the covers and stand up, stretching.
Ginger was already up and Adam beside Melissa, swiftly pulling off her pyjama top and slipping on a tight long-sleeve shirt. She didn't even acknowledge her new friend.
Melissa carefully pulled the skirt she had packed, and waved her wand. It faded to a nice grey color, and the Ravenclaw symbol appeared on the corner. She dug through the rest of her things and found her quarter sleeved blue shirt. She grabbed her tie and then changed herself into her new outfit, smoothing out the skirt once she was finished.
She finished the knot in the tie and slipped on her black robes. By the time she was finished, Ginger was already up and ready, her black robes transformed into blue Ravenclaw ones.
Melissa carefully ran a brush through her dark hair and decided to leave it that way. She slipped herself into her favorite black flats and pushed her hair out of her shirt collar.
Before she could do any more, her robe was changing colors, and she looked up in confusion. Ginger was standing up now, her wand in hand. She grinned once the robe stopped at one color, blue. Melissa's robe was now a dark blue color before her very eyes, the Ravenclaw crest across her heart.
"You're welcome." Ginger practically squeaked. "Blue looks so good on you!" Melissa actually had to resist rolling her eyes as she picked up her class schedule.
"I have potions right after breakfast." Melissa read off of her list. Ginger squealed, and Melissa looked up.
Ginger blushed lightly. "Sorry. I have potions too. I think two of the other girls and one of the boys will be with us too. Oh I can't wait!" Melissa sighed as she picked up her potions book, her wand, and opened Marigold's cage.
"Well, let's go get some food." Then the two girls walked out of the dorm together with their books and in their new outfits.
"I can't wait to have to go back to the commonroom." Ginger exclaimed once she swallowed a bite of her egg. Melissa raised a brow as she chewed her toast.
"I want to solve a riddle!" She explained, as if it was supposed to be obvious. Melissa shrugged.
"Well, hello ladies!" They looked up to see Darius and Diego walking over to the table. They sat down across from the two girls.
"Thank Merlin you're here. This girl is excited about going back to the commonroom." Melissa teased, pointing a finger at Ginger. Ginger blushed.
"Shut up, don't say you don't think it's cool!" She defended. Diego and Darius rolled their eyes.
"Sorry Ging, but Mel's right." Darius said. Both the first year girls whipped their heads to look at Darius.
"Ging?" Ginger questioned.
"Mel?" Melissa narrowed her eyes.
"I told you, Mel, I have a nickname for everyone!" Darius defended with a steely look. Melissa rolled her eyes.
"Mel is not a nickname, it's what my family calls me. Find another one." She took a drink of her juice just as a few more kids joined them at the Ravenclaw table.
"Okay, Okay…" Darius held up his hands, his eyes distant. "Lissa, Mel, Is, Mis, Missy!" He snapped his fingers with a smirk. "Missy! That's your nickname!"
The few kids at the Ravenclaw table giggled when Diego, Melissa and Ginger groaned in unison. Perfect unison.
"Fine." Melissa muttered as she finished her last bite of toast and started on her eggs.
"I love your outfits!" Darius then randomly brought up once he had a plate full of food himself.
Ginger and Melissa shrugged at the same time. "Blue looks good on us." Ginger said. Diego laughed. Melissa smirked.
"Missy!" Melissa stopped walking, but didn't turn around when someone used her new nickname. It had only been a week since she arrived at Hogwarts, and now everyone called her Weasley, Mel or Missy. When talking, she apparently was refered to as Diego's sister.
"Miguel wants me to give you a message." She turned around to find herself Face-to-face with Blake Goyle, in blue Ravenclaw robes, books and wand in hand, black hair tattered.
"What?" Melissa demanded coldly.
"Did I say I was going to talk?" Before Melissa could think, Blake pulled out his wand and yelled. "Expelliarmus!" She went flying backwards and landed with a thud and a scream.
"Hey! What is going on here!" She sat up to see the Ravenclaw prefect, Holden Tokes storming over to them. Blake lowered his wand, his face turning red.
Melissa noticed that her wrist was bleeding, and her head started to throb. Holden snatched away Blake's wand with a fierce whisper, before he jogged over to Melissa and bent down to her.
"Melissa, are you alright?" He helped her shakily to her feet and she nodded, rubbing her head.
"Thanks, Holden." She murmured, glaring at Blake. The prefect nodded.
"Go back to the commonroom, I'll take Blake to the headmaster's office." He turned away, and grabbed Blake's arm, dragging him away once Melissa's vision focused. She picked up her books and her wand that had got separated from her, and quickened her pace so she was jogging through the hallways.
She ignored the few kids she got greeting from, and stopped, relieved once she was inside Ravenclaw tower. A voice boomed from the wall.
"At night they come without being fetched and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?"
She thought about it for a minute, like everyone, but then answered firmly. "Dreams."
The statue clicked and rolled out of the way, for Melissa to walk through. It smashed shut behind her, and she entered into the commonroom to see Diego and Darius on the couch, reading textbooks, Ginger playing chess with a first year boy, Henry and a few other older kids hanging around.
"Hey Mel!" Diego called, his eyes never leaving his page.
"Yo Missy!" Darius murmured, still reading his own page.
"Hey Mel!" Ginger greeted with enthusiasm as Melissa passed her. She didn't respond, just hurried up the stairs to her dorm.
"Want me to punch him?" Darius asked enthusiastically as him, Melissa, and Ginger sat at the Ravenclaw table for dinner. Word from the incident two days ago had spread fast.
Ginger looked up, chewing. "Say, where's Diego?"
Darius smirked as he stabbed a piece of corn. "He's in Professor Brown's office. He knocked Goyle out cold."
Melissa's eyes widened, and Ginger gasped. "Diego knocked out Blake?" Ginger took the words right out of Melissa's mouth.
Darius nodded. "Blake was just roaming the hallways with Connor from Hufflepuff, and Diego shows up, and punched his lights out. I'm surprised you haven't heard." Melissa giggled, looking back down at her food.
"Wow." Was all she could manage through her small fit of laughter.
Moments later, Diego still hadn't showed up, and the familiar screeches sounded. The windows blew open and hundreds of owls swooped in, making kids screech and squeal as they dropped letters and packages.
About twenty swooped in for the Ravenclaw table at a time, and two different ones dropped two letters in front of Melissa. Confused by who the second one would be from, she set them down. They both read "Melissa W."
Before she could tear open either one, she looked up when Diego plopped down into his seat that was saved. His jaw was clenched and he looked exhausted. An owl came and dropped one in front of him. It wasn't a howler, but Melissa was sure it had some nasty things in there. The headmaster obviously wrote her mum and dad.
Melissa decided it was none of her business, and she picked up one of the letters, recognizing her mother's handwriting. She opened it carefully, unfolded and started to read.
Dear Melissa,
How come you haven't written since your first day? Everyone at home wants to hear from you! Even Diego hasn't written since that day either. You kids.
I hope your classes are going well, I don't want to receive any letters from the headmaster about you stirring up trouble. Diego has already caused your father enough stress.
I expect to hear from you very soon, and if I don't I'm coming down there, mark my words. Remember that we're all proud of you back at home for making the Ravenclaw house and starting off your year well.
P.S: Beth insisted that I say hello for her. She's your biggest fan back home. Keep up the great work sweetie!
Love you,
Mum.
Melissa rolled her eyes discreetly as she folded the letter back up and set it down beside her plate that was half-eaten. She picked up the other letter before looking up and read.
Dear Melissa,
This may seem a little weird that I'm writing to you, when we're in the same school, but to be completely honest, I'm a little scared to try and find a Ravenclaw.
I'm glad that you like Hogwarts I knew you would. The classes can sometimes be super boring, but when that happens, just remember that I'm somewhere else in the school wishing that I were with you.
All is good on my end, Brittney seems to want me to try out for the Gryfindor Quidditch team, but I'm not completely sure. Do you think I could make it?
Anyways, hope you're doing good, maybe we can talk in the halls sometime or whatever. You can come and find me.
Love you Cuz,
Daniel.
Melissa had to keep herself from laughing after she finished reading the letter. She folded it up with a small shake of her head and placed it on top of her mother's. She would write them after.
"Are you kidding me? That's totally not fair!" Melissa's attention was dragged up to Diego when he practically screeched in disbelief. He slammed his letter down to the table, a scowl glued on his face.
"What's wrong?" Melissa asked, seeing as Ginger wasn't really paying much attention, reading her own letter, and Darius was off goofing around with some other dude at the other end of the Ravenclaw table.
Diego looked over at his sister, his eyes filled with fury. "First I get detention all month, and now Mum says that I can't have or use my drum set until the end of this year!" He cried in misery.
Melissa's eyebrows furrowed in sympathy. "I'm not saying that taking away your drums is completely fair, but Mum always warned us that there would be consequences if we started fights at school." She reasoned.
Diego buried his face in his hands and screamed into them, definitely pissed off. He stayed that way for a good five minutes before he looked up, and let out a long, rough, exaggerated, angry sigh, rolling his eyes.
"Fuck parents." Then he stood up and stormed out of the Great Hall, leaving Melissa staring after him in sympathy. If he got punished for defending Melissa's honor both at home and school, what else could he get punished for?
