Chapter Seven: Detention

Harry, Hermione, Ron and I had to serve detention with McGonagall. Malfoy and his goons (whose names, I found out, where Crabbe and Goyle) had to serve detention with Snape.

'I'm sorry,' I apologized again to the other three. Harry just grinned at me and shook his head.

'Don't worry about it Lark, we're always in detention,' He said while Ron and Hermione nodded in agreement .

'Yeah," Hermione continued, glaring at the two boys in the room. 'We were out after hours anyway.' It made me feel slightly better.

We were dusting the trophies in the Trophy Room. The dust was filling up my nose and my lungs, and we were all sneezing like crazy.

'Besides, dusting is not so bad,' Hermione said; before erupting with a large sneeze.

'Yeah, if you're a woman maybe,' Ron grumped. Hermione stepped on his hand.

I sighed and went back to dusting. Ten, maybe twenty minutes went by. I began to get bored with dusting, and I noticed that no one was actually watching us.

I quietly spun my towel until it wound around itself. Then, I grabbed both ends and snuck up behind Harry.

With a flick of my wrist, I cracked the towel against his leg. He let out a cry and jumped up, staring at me in horror. I grinned and flicked him again. I wasn't doing it to hard because I didn't want to hurt him.

Suddenly I felt a quick pain on my thigh, I squealed and jumped around, to find Hermione, her face flushed pink and half-smiling.

'Got you!' she squeaked.

'Hermione?!' Ron said incredulously. She responded by turning and whipping him.

Eventually we were all running around and flicking each other. There were squeals of pain and surprise all around, and we generally forgot that we were supposed to be cleaning. We were so wrapped up in the game that we didn't notice the door open, and four people enter.

'Charming. Gryffindors,' a sarcastic voice said.

We froze, and turned slowly, to see Professor Snape standing in the doorway with Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle standing directly behind him, smirking in triumph.

'Uh oh,' I murmured.

Thankfully, Snape didn't punish us further. Or maybe he did, in a different way.

'Alright, you will all serve your detentions in here together.' Snape said, giving the room a glance. 'And I'll be in to check on you, so no more… towel whipping,' he said distastefully.

Once he'd gone, we stood around staring at each other. Us Gryffindors glared at the Slytherins, who glared straight back.

'This is your fault,' Malfoy snapped at Harry. 'If you hadn't knocked over the armor-'

'It wasn't my fault,' Harry said angrily. 'Besides, it was Ron who knocked it over.'

Everyone's glare shifted to Ron, except mine. I continued glaring at Malfoy.

'It wasn't my fault!' Ron countered. 'It was Lark's fault, her stupid kettle is what made you notice us, and if you hadn't stopped then none of this would have happened.'

They glared at me again. I continued to glare straight back at Malfoy.

'And if you hadn't stolen my wand I wouldn't have been out there looking for you anyway!'

Malfoy looked taken aback. 'You mean, you were only out there to look for me?'

I nodded grimly. To my surprise (and annoyance) he started laughing.

'And just how did you expect to find me?' He scoffed. I flushed bright red, and, quick as I could, stepped closer and flicked him with my dusting towel.

He screamed like a girl, and I laughed maniacally. 'You scream like a girl, Malfoy!' I jeered. He flushed as red as I was, except probably with anger. I don't know actually, he seemed pretty proud. Maybe he couldn't handle being teased by a girl? It might have been embarrassment.

He leapt at me with surprising agility and flicked me with his own towel, it surprised me that someone as uppity as him would know how to. I yelled and attacked him back, and before I knew it Harry, Hermione, Ron, Crabbe and Goyle had all joined the fray.

I guess all the squealing and yelling must have attracted attention, because the next thing we knew McGonagall and Snape rushed in, and everyone froze.

The result was us all being locked in Snape's classroom with lines to copy out, under the direct scrutiny of Professor Snape himself.

As expected, it passed without interruption.


Author's Note:

Sorry about the long wait! I hope to be quicker to update now, as i was just waiting for a lazy-bones to finish up her edit.