Sorry its taken me so bloody long to update, Christmas, exams etc., blame them!

"Oi! You lot!" Lee Jordan came bounding towards the Gryffindor table at breakfast. "What?" Fred asked, annoyed that his discussion about his plans for the holidays had been interrupted. The Christmas break was just over a fortnight away and spirits were running high.

"Katie told me that Melinda Bobbin told her that Duncan Inglebee told her that a massive prank in going to happen tonight in the entrance hall at about half past seven."

George frowned, "Who organised this "massive prank"?"

"Someone has organised a prank and it's not us." Fred stated.

"Should be interesting though innit?" Angela Johnson shrugged.

"Might as well go and see…." Lee sat down and began stuffing toast onto his mouth.

"Alright," Fred muttered as he tried to finish a Charms essay under the table before classes started.

"Mmmm, ok." George was watching Cathy intently who had just spilled her orange juice over herself and the table and was desperately trying to wipe it off her books. She looked up, caught his eye and giving a slightly self – conscious wave, she went back to what she was doing. He smirked slightly and thought about how unusually funny she was.


Finnulla and Bella had been taking turns on keeping a lookout for Cathy. This had been going on for about half an hour before she returned to the dorms.

"Hi." Finnulla chirped at her from her bed. Bella was pretending to read a magazine.

Cathy eyed them both suspiciously but didn't reply and walked to her trunk.

"What ya doing?" Bella asked

"I'm going to have a shower; I always have a shower at this time." Cathy frowned at her, her arms full of shampoo and soap.

"Enjoy." Bella smirked as Cathy left to go to the bathrooms.

Cathy shrugged off their strange behaviour as she washed her hair and rubbed the orange juice out of the ends. She began to wander if George Weasley would like her more with straight hair. Staring down at her body she thought that she should maybe lose some more weight. Her parents had told her that she was lovely the way she was but she knew that they were just saying that because that's the sort of thing they have to say.

Cathy turned off the shower and went back into her dorm with the towel wrapped around her. Seeing that the other girls had gone she dried herself and put on pants. She tried to dry the ends of her hair but gave up because her hair was too long and thick.

She was startled suddenly when Bella and Finnulla burst into the room. Throwing the towel around her half damp body, she cried, "What the hell do you want?"

"Your rat! Timmy, we found him in the entrance hall" Bella had no longer finished this sentence when Cathy sprinted past her and through the empty common room, heading for the entrance hall. They had found her rat! She was delighted and with a small smile on her face, she sped through the school. The uncharacteristically deserted corridors never struck her as odd.

Everyone had been standing at the main staircase for around 10 minutes; the majority of the school had turned up. The news had spread quickly, assumed George. Everyone was trying to guess what was going to happen and Fred was talking about how they would top it.

"I mean if it is a success at all, we'll have to try and do something even better, we don't even know whose prank it is."

Someone yelled "Look!" and the crowd fell silent.

"Bloody hell!" said Fred.

George stared at Cathy. She stood at the top of the stairs, soaking wet. Her waist length hair created small puddles at her feet, as she tried helplessly to cover her front with a towel. The expression of shock on her face stunned everyone for a few seconds before a titter broke out which erupted into full blown laughter. George didn't know weather to join in or not, he didn't really find it funny.

"This is a pretty sick joke," Fred whispered, but he had a smirk that showed part of him found it amusing.

Cathy began to feel dizzy, they were all laughing at her. She wanted to cry but her face had gone numb. She stood, stunned for a good minute, before taking off, the towel flapping around her.

How dare those bitches do that? You'll make them suffer, won't you?

"Yes" she sobbed, "They'll pay"

She stumbled her way along the corridors, occasionally taking a wrong turn, before getting back to Ravenclaw Tower.

"Riddle me this, What is the beginning of the end, the end of time, the middle of yesterday, and nowhere in tomorrow?" the portrait asked.

Cathy screwed up her face, "I don't know, just let me in!"

"What is the beginning of the end, the end of time, the middle of yesterday, and nowhere in tomorrow?" it insisted, eyeing her up and down.

"I don't bloody know!"

After the jeering crowd had disbanded from the hall, George muttered some excuse about needing the loo and sprinted up the stairs towards Ravenclaw tower. He wasn't really sure why he wanted to make sure that she was alright, but he knew that no one else would bother to check on her.

Making his way up the tower, he could hear a small argument going on at the top.

"I cannot let you in unless you answer."

"Can you not give me a different riddle? Please!"

"No. That would be giving you an unfair advantage."

"To what exactly? It's not a competition ."

It was Cathy arguing with the painting. She sounded vicious, and George was beginning to doubt his plan. As he decided to turn quietly around, Cathy spotted him,

"Coming to laugh at Creepy Cathy some more have we?" she tried to sound indignant, but her voice cracked half way.

"I never laughed at you." he said calmly

"Well," she tried to cover her chest more with the towel, "What do you want then?"

"To see if you were ok"

"Like you care. I'm obviously doing just fine. If you'd excuse me…" she pushed past him to go downstairs.

George followed her, "Hold on! I'm trying to be nice. Remember our mutual friendship?"

She turned to look at him, "What?"

He rolled his eyes, "Look-"

Footsteps coming up the stairs had interrupted him.

"Shit!" Cathy panicked, wide eyed.

George noticed and empty classroom and motioned for her to follow him. Once inside she pressed her ear against the door and listened to the footsteps die away. Exhaling slowly she mumbled, "…..Thanks. That would have been terribly embarrassing. Not that I'm not already embarrassed because you can see my knickers along with the rest of the school because these girls in my dorm….they…you see…"

The rest turned into blubbing as Cathy sat down onto the floor and began to cry under her hair.

Unsure what to do, George carefully sat down beside her and patted her head awkwardly. She sniffed and looked up at him, before crying harder, and, to his shock, crawling onto his lap and wrapping her arms around his neck.

Cathy continued to cry into his chest, as George wrapped the towel around her properly, (he was on the verge of seeing her boobs), and tried to be comforting.

"A half naked girl wrapped around me, and all I do is pat her head like a puppy. There is something wrong with me." He thought.

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