A couple of minutes later, James, Fred and Louis walked through into the Great Hall. Rose suddenly remembered something. 'Hey, Charlotte.' She said. 'What did you mean, in DADA class, about them being down at the back of the class? You said that you knew why they were there.' All the girls faces turned to Charlotte, who looked confused. 'Wait, you mean you guys don't know about that?'
'Know about what?" interrupted Louis, who was with James and Fred behind and had just sat down next to Chloe. 'Oh, Rose was just asking why you were at the back of the class all day today. Well, you see Jasper told me that they were down the back because-' Charlotte's mouth was covered by James' hand, who was next to her. He smiled at the girls then dragged Charlotte down the table. Louis and Fred followed, and they had a furious whispered conversation. In the end, Charlotte walked, looking annoyed, back over to the girls, who were all by now curious as to why the boys were down the back of the classroom all day, as the boys were in 7th year and the girls were in fifth. 'Well?' asked Chloe. 'They won't let me say.' said Charlotte. Then a smile came over Charlottes face. 'They won't let me say.' repeated Charlotte dazedly, then grabbed a quill and some parchment and started writing quickly. James stood up and grabbed the quill. 'Hey!' said Charlotte. 'No.' said James. 'Why not? It's not that bad.' replied Charlotte. 'Look, just don't, okay?' said James, turning red. 'No.' said Charlotte defiantly. 'No?' 'No?!' 'No!' 'No.' said Charlotte, certain. By this time they had the Great Halls attention. 'Look, Charlotte,' said Fred. 'Just don't, okay.' 'Why not? You are being completely ridiculous. I'm telling them.' Charlotte said, and started speaking loudly. 'James, Fred and Louis were with the Fifth year all day because they were caught-' she was stopped, yet again, by James. But this time, he grabbed her waist and pulled her extremely close, and started leaning in to kiss her. But he had forgotten one tiny detail. Cole.
'Um...What the hell do you think you're doing!' yelled Cole. 'Excuse me, doofus. But why are you going to start making out with her?' and with that he shoved James hard away from Charlotte. But before he could do more than that both Billy and Oliver grabbed onto him and held him back. 'What d'you mean,' asked James cockily, and both Louis and Fred stepped up next to him, looking worried. 'Charlotte's out of bounds.' snarled Cole, and wrenched himself out of Billy and Oliver's grip. 'Well, she's not your girlfriend, now is she?' replied James. 'Shes not yours either.' said Cole. 'Yeah, well, what are you going to do, drown me in your tears? I see a pretty girl that's not got a boyfriend and looks pretty hot to me. And you've had her around for what, 5 years, and still haven't got her? She looks single to me. Not yours.'
'Okay, you know what guys, can we just dial it down and um, just move away, okay.'said Charlotte who was standing next to both boys and pushed both boys chests so they stepped back a bit. 'You know what,' said James. 'Shes right. I'll see you on the Quidditch field and we'll settle this all then.' 'Okay James.' said Cole, nodding and turning away.
'Or we could straighten it out right here.' said Cole, and turned around and punched James right in the face. James immediately punched Coles stomach, and they fell to the ground. Grace, Rose, Chloe, Isabelle, Alice and Sophia were yelling "Stop! Stop!" Everybody in the Great Hall was either sitting in silence watching, yelling at them to stop, or cheering on one of the boys. Headmistress McGonagall and Headmaster Ngatoro were commanding the boys to stop but they just kept punching each other. Rose stopped yelling for a second and looked around at all of her friends. Everyone was yelling, but the only people she could see was Alice, Chloe, Isabelle, Grace and Sophia. Then she turned back around to see Louis join the fray. He was thrust out moments later, clutching at his arm. There was a red mark, that would later turn to a bruise.
Suddenly, a red light went over the boys and burst into sparks. Then another red light came over, and both boys were hoisted unceremoniously into the air by their left ankle. 'Oi!' grunted Cole, still attempting to punch James. 'We were in the middle of that!' said James angrily, twisting so he could try and reach Cole better.
The blood was rushing to their heads, and their faces were turning red rapidly. Charlotte stepped in front of both the boys, and gave them both a Death Glare. They both shrunk back and avoided eye contact with her.
'Excuse me, but what was all THAT about?' said Charlotte in a deathly quiet voice. The entire crowd had become silent, and were either staring at Charlotte, or the two boys. Rose was suddenly reminded of her mum, Aunt Fleur, Aunty Ginny, and Grandma. Charlotte must have the Weasley temper, thought Rose. She continued to watch, with gathering courage. 'I thought I told you to calm down? What part of CALM DOWN did you not understand?"
