A/N-SORRY SORRY! This chapter was late D: I couldn't write yesterday because it was Christmas.

Anyway, hope you guys like this chapter, and had a Happy Christmas :D

Chapter Seven- Lee and Otter

(Still in Fred's Point of view)

I had started pacing, which is never a good sign. Also, nothing was fun to me anymore, now that she was gone.

It had been a month since Hermione left, and nobody had heard a word from her, or seen her. McGonagall was the butt of countless pranks though, everyone despised her after what she had said about Hermione. Most of those pranks were from my brother George. I know I should have been helping, but I just wasn't up for it.

Every day since she had left, I spent all of my free time in-front of the grand entrance, just hoping that maybe, just maybe, the short brown haired girl would walk through them. But according to George, she probably wouldn't return to Hogwarts. Not with her memory still gone.

About a week after she left, I wrote to the Daily Prophet telling them that she was missing, and the next day she was on the front cover. Every witch and wizard who fought for the light side was looking for her frantically, but it was like she disappeared off of the face of the earth. She was an eighteen year old witch, with basically no magic, lost. Needless to say, everyone's thoughts were slightly grim.

Nobody ever really bothered me when I was waiting for her. It was like everyone knew 'STAY AWAY'. Even the teachers never told me to move, even when it was only an hour to curfew.

One night, I gave up hope.

"Fred?" Ron asked as he walked into the common room, with his girlfriend Lavender at his side. "What are you doing up here? "

"It's the common room Ronald. I think I'm allowed." The sarcasm poured out of my mouth.

"We just thought you would be waiting for her again." Lavender piped up, then looked down when she met my glare.

"What's the point? It's been a month. She's not coming back." I said, with my voice sounding dead.

Lavender sat down next to me, and put her arm around me and whispered, low enough so only I could hear . "If she loves you back, you'll find each other." She smiled a small smile.

I looked at her with my eyes wide. And whispered back "how did you know?"

She smiled, stood up, patted my head, and said "it's a girl thing." Then left, dragging Ron with her.

I wondered if anyone else knew…

The next morning, George and I got up early, and snuck Lee back into the castle again. George had decided that I needed a little 'pick-me-up' so apparently they planned a 'day of fun' for me.

It sounded great, but I wasn't really looking forward to it, which George knew, and made his grin fade only slightly.

We got dressed, and left Gryffindor Tower before anyone else in the house even woke up. It took us a while, but we finally got to one of our many passageways out of the castle, opened the door, and saw a sleeping Lee on the floor in-front of us.

I smiled for the first time in over a month, when George woke him up. What he did, was transfigure the rocks in the passageway, into old muggle alarm clocks, which all went off at the same time, causing Lee to jump up and scream. Once he realized what happened he playfully punched George in the arm, who pretended to be hurt. I laughed.

What they had planned turned out to be pranks. Lots, and lots of pranks.

The first one we did was on McGonagall of course. We charmed her mirror into making her think her makeup wasn't showing up, when it really was. So by the time she left her quarters for the day, she had four times as much lipstick as she normally did, which made her look like a clown. We then charmed every mirror to do that, but only when she was looking in them.

Next we pranked Flitwick, by using a shrinking spell on everything in his classroom, and ourselves. When we walked in their for the class, he thought that he had grown six feet over night, and quickly ran to Hospital wing to be checked out.

And the last prank we did that day, was take normal, muggle sponges, and bewitch them to scrub Snapes portrait in the headmaster's office. The sponges only scrubbed where his hair was on the portrait, and you could hear his angry yells down the hallway.

By the time dinner came around, we put the notice-me-not charm on Lee, so that he could eat with us, before he had to go back. People were staring at us though, I guessed that it was because it looked like we were talking to an empty chair. The two of them thought that was funny when I told them.

Dinner ended before anyone wished it would, and in no time we had to go back up to the Tower, and Lee had to leave.

"Bye Lee-ah!" Me and George sang, and received a lovely hand gesture for using that nick name he hated.

"By Gred ang Feorge!" He yelled over his shoulder, as he ran down the passage way out of the castle.

We both smiled and raced up to the Tower, laughing the whole way there. When we got to the Fat Lady, she told us that the password was wrong, so we had to wait for someone to come out and tell it to us.

It was another hour until the portrait opened, and out came Harry, looking really tired. "Ron said you two weren't back yet, and probably didn't know the password." He said, barely keeping his eyes open.

"Yeah." We replied.

Harry yawned and said "Its 'Hooligans'" he said. "I guess someone pranked her again" then he went back inside, and up the stairs.

We walked in, and George went directly to the staircase. "Coming?" He asked me, as he noticed that I wasn't following him.

"I'll be up in a bit." I told him, and then he mumbled something, and went to bed.

I don't know why I didn't go upstairs at that time, but I'm glad I didn't.

A few moments after George left, a Patronus came in through the wall. It was an otter.

Hermione.

It stopped right in-front of me, and out came her voice.

"Fred. I don't know why I'm sending this to you, and not anyone else, but I just felt that It had to be you. I've been gone now for over a month, and it took me all this time to learn how to send a message to someone. (Thanks Umbride Memory). I need help Fred. I'm scared, and someone's been following me. I don't know who he is, but he has long blonde hair, and is very tall… Fred please come help me! I don't know what to d-*SCREAM*" Then the otter disappeared.


A/N-Uh oh, what happened to Hermione? Why is she screaming?

Next Chapter will be Hermione, leaving off when she stepped onto the Night Bus.

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