Books » Harry Potter » The Ups and Downs of Life: The Life of Lucille Amelia Weasley

Author: Theellemonster

1. Capturing a Teddy 2. Snogs and Shotgun 3. Pandemonium 4. Boys and Watermelon Lip gloss 5. The Longbottoms 6. A Christmas to Remember 7. A Black Parade Corrupts my Sister 8. Sister Secrets, Prefect Problems

Rated: T - English - Family/Romance - Published: 07-25-15 - Updated: 03-05-16

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"That is ridiculous," Lucy informed her sister from the doorway of the Gryffindor sixth year girls dorm.

"Whatever, you're not even supposed to be in here. This is the Gryffindor dorm Luce," Molly shot back. Lucy rolled her eyes.

"I'm a prefect, I'm allowed wherever I want, but that's besides the point. I think this is just a little much. " Molly's four poster bed was in the far corner of her dorm that she shared with Anna Corner, Lillia Samuel, Sybil Brown, and Eloise Ferry. All of their beds had four posters and scarlet curtains, and a nightstand next to it, but Molly's corner was covered with posters from muggle bands like My Chemical Romance, Fall out Boy, and Panic! at the Disco and something called The black parade. Her nightstand was covered with black eyeliners (gel, liquid, pencil, crayon), containers of sparkely dark eye shadows and several strange coloured lipsticks and lip glosses. All of this was very un-mollyish.

"I like it, I am opening up a new chapter of my life."

"Right, and I'm closing the book!"

"Lucyyyyyy! We're aloud to be different you know!" Lucy knew that very well, from the ways they wore their uniforms(Lucy's tie was on straight, her skirt above her knees, a cardigan, tights and heels. Molly wore a pullover sweater vest, tie loosened, leggings and converse.) to their attitudes towards school,(Lucy was a dedicated straight O student where as Molly was...not.)

"I know that, but trust me, Mum is not going to be happy!" Lucy snapped.

"Je m'en fiche un peu!" (I don't really care) Molly mumbled. Lucy just sighed.

"Fine, but Mum will find out eventually and it's your howler not mine!" Lucy turned and stomped out, her robe swishing behind her.

"Hey Lucy! Wanna join our game of exploding snap?" James called to her from where he and his friends were playing the explosive game.

"That's alright, I have Prefect duties I have to attend to, I'm on grounds patrol with Charlie from six to seven," Lucy said, relatively glad for the excuse.

"But it's five forty five," James told her while Freddie asked,

"Charlie Starling?" Pointedly.

"To answer James, it takes a good fifteen minutes to get there from here, and to answer Freddie, yes that would be the one."

"The one who confiscated my fanged frisbee?" James said, slightly huffily.

"Yes," Lucy said pointedly,"On my orders!"

"What? You can't give orders, you're only prefect not headgirl!"

"No, but I asked at the prefect meeting that morning that everyone needed to start confiscating contraband!" Lucy informed him.

"Guys, it is her job, give her a break," Alice piped up while shuffling the cards. The boys just glared.

"Well, I'm off, don't get into too much trouble please!" Lucy called over her shoulder as she left the Gryffindor common room.

As a prefect, a lot of Lucy's spare time was devoted to patrolling the grounds or the halls, and keeping Peeves from destroying Hogwarts. This evening she had ground patrol with Charlie Starling, the sixth year Hufflepuff Prefect. They had arranged to meet at the hour glasses that divvied up house points so they could first dock or add the points they had given or taken from students. When she reached the hour glasses she glanced at her watch, it was 5:59. She closed her eyes at counted to sixty and sure enough as soon as she reached 59 she heard a voice.

"Hey Lucy, um, what are you doing?" Lucy opened her eyes and found her self looking into the bright blue eyes of Charlie Starling.

"Just checking your punctuality!" Charlie laughed.

"Of course you were, if you don't end up Head Girl next year I'll be shocked."

"Thanks," Lucy felt her cheeks. Charlie smiled.

"So, Five points to Gryffindor then ten points from it." The rubies shifted accordingly.

"James?" Lucy asked. Charlie nodded.

"And the points to the house were from Torrence Fawley."

"Of course she's a model student. Anymore?"

"Yes, five from Hufflepuff, twenty to Ravenclaw, and ten from slythrin." The Topaz, Sapphires, and Emeralds also shifted.

"All I've got is twenty to Hufflepuff," Lucy said, watching the Topaz move.

"Great! let's go," Charlie said, folding his arms behind him. Lucy did the same. When they walked through the large oak doors they were greeted by the usual last day of winter break activity. Snow still covered the ground so their main job was probably going to be managing the snowball fights that were obviously going to be taking place. Just as Lucy was thinking this an icy ball hit her on the shoulder, Lucy spun around.

"Okay! who threw that?" Charlie shouted. Lucy spotted Sam Zabini and Kris Goyle laughing near the side of the castle.

"Zabini! Goyle! Ten points from Slythrin for direct attack with ice!" Snowballs were aloud but ice balls were not.

"What? How do you know it direct attack! I could've been aiming for a wall or tree!" Sam cried, outraged.

"Lucy is not standing anywhere near a tree or a wall, and before you even think if saying it may just be poor aim, you are a chaser for the Slythrin team Zabini!" Charlie informed them both. "If you continue to argue against the ten points being taken I will make it fifteen and a detention!" Charlie was not one of the prefects to be messed with.

"Er, sorry!" Kris blurted out before scuttling away, Sam hot on is heels. Charlie sighed.

"Slythrin 4th years, are the worst behaved in Hogwarts!" He told Lucy.

"No," She said.

"No?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Fourth year Gryffindors are worse, I've given three detentions out to them, and term hasn't even started!"

"Good point, if you don't mind me asking, who are the dentionee's and what are they in for?" He asked, curiously.

"James got detention for trying to slip Molly a puking pastille-"

"Molly, your sister?"

"Yes, I also gave one to Kent Jordan for sneaking into the kitchens after hours, and one to Alice Longbottom for being an accomplice in both situations."

"How you know she was an accomplice?" He asked. "I'm going to figure she wasn't actively participating."

"Betrayal by comrades."

"Oh, so they gave up their cover and said Alice was in on it?" Lucy nodded. James might be a master on pranks and trouble, but he was terrible at lying to Lucy. She could exactly what was going through his head while he was trying to get out of detention.

They continued to walk around the grounds and were pleasantly surprised by the fact that everybody seemed pretty well behaved. There were some warnings given out, but no detentions or points taken. Lucy was actually starting to enjoy her patrol when she glanced at her watch to see that it was well after seven o'clock.

"Charlie, we should head back so that Kaitlyn and Richard know there shift is starting." Lucy told her fellow prefect.

"Good idea, Kaitlyn's probably already mad that we're not there!" Kaitlyn Finch-Fletchly was the Ravenclaw 7th year prefect(no, not Head Girl, and yes it was a touchy subject.) and preferred everyone be on time and orderly. They quickly made their way back to the oak front doors where they were greeted by Kaitlyn who was not to pleased by their tardiness.

"Seriously, Lucille you cannot continue to be late to the shift change!" Kaitlyn snapped at her. Lucy decided not to mention this was the first time she'd been late for anything prefect related all year. Charlie on the other hand didn't.

"Lucy hasn't been late for anything this entire year! You should think a little before you speak!" He informed Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn just rolled her eyes and stomped off. Richard Burbage followed, but not before giving an apologetic smile to Charlie and Lucy. Lucy returned it, then set off to the Ravenclaw common room.

The Ravenclaw Common Room was abuzz with chatter and laughter. Most people expected the Ravenclaw Common Room to be silent, filled with people studying. But on the contrary, it was full of life. Lucy found Jane, Liesl, and Ben sitting in a corner talking. Lucy plopped down on the love seat with Jane.

"What are we talking about?" Lucy asked her three friends.

"Apparently two Slythrin fourth years were almost given detention for back talking to a prefect when the prefect tried to take ten points when they threw an ice ball!" Liesl exclaimed.

"Can you believe it?" Ben asked, obviously not able to believe it.

"Yes."

"Wait-weren't you on patrol just a minute ago?" Jane asked. Lucy gave a small nod.

"MERLIN"S BEARD!" Ben shouted, all heads turned to him, Ben lowered his voice. "You're the prefect, right? You threatened detention on the fourth years, didn't you!" Ben started to look excited.

"Well, technically Charlie threatened them detention, I just was the one who was hit. Well, and the one who took the original points." Lucy said, somewhat reluctantly.

"That's wicked!" Ben laughed. "Of course you'd be the one to accidentally create school-wide drama!" Lucy glared at him.

"This isn't funny!" She snapped at him. "I do not want this to spread around the entire school! I do not want this written on my Head Girl application recommendation from Mina!"

"Hey, chill. You don't need to be super prefect to get a good end of the year report from Tyler and Mina. I screwed up a lot last year and I still got an okay-report from Will and Rylie." Will George and Rylie Roberts were last years Head Boy and Head Girl. And Tyler Kent and Mina Wood were this year's Head boy and Head Girl and at the end of every year the Head boy and Girl would write up an end of the year report for each of the prefects. This year they would also be getting recommendations for next years Head girl and Boy by either Mina or Tyler, depending on their gender.

"Um, that's exactly what is going to get me to be Head Girl!"

"I guess yeah."

"Lu is right, being like, supergirl prefect is what is going to make her head girl. But don't worry Lucy, if anything Mina will be impressed by the way you handled everything. And Mina's not one to believe crap rumors like some of the junk that's bound to go around," Jane assured her.

Lucy glanced over at Liesl's paper and only caught a glance of something-that looked like it said crumple something-before Liesl saw that Lucy was looking at it and pulled it away and tucked it into her bag.

"So...lessons start up again tomorrow. You guys ready?" Liesl said, seemingly ready to move on from the paper.

"Are you kidding? Ugh, I'm never ready for lessons to start up!" Ben complained.

"Aren't you just model prefect."

"Shut up Luce," Ben grumbled.

"Just Head Boy material!" Jane said laughing.

"Oh stop, Charlie Starling's obviously going to get it anyway."

"That's not necessarily true," Lucy chided.

"Uh, I heard he get's straight O's plus he got straight marks on his prefect report!" Ben informed her.

"No, he got marked down in attitude."

"How do you know that?" Lucy just shrugged. "Whatever."

...

"Can anyone tell me the incantation for revealing invisible ink?" Professor Gissele Bordelon asked the sixth year charms class that was made up of both Ravenclaw and Gryffindor students. Lucy was the only one who raised her hand. "Yes, Miss Weasley?"

"Aparecium is the incantation for making invisible ink appear but revelio is the spell that reveals ink that has been cast to be transparent."

"Very good Miss Weasley, ten points to Ravenclaw!" Lucy saw Eloise Ferry roll her eyes and frown out of the corner of her eye. Most Gryffindors thought that Professor Bordelon favoured Ravenclaw because she was their head of house. And nearly everyone who didn't think that thought that she favoured Lucy because like Lucy, she too could speak french but was not native to either France nor England. (Bordelon was from Germany and Lucy Australia.) Lucy knew this wasn't true though after all Professor Bordelon had been forced to pick her when no other student raised his or her hand.

"Right. So, today we will be learning both of these charms. As well as the spell to cast on normal ink that's on paper to make it transparent."

"Psst, Luce," Ben whispered. Lucy's head whipped around.

"Ben! We are in the middle of a lesson!"

"I know, I just wanted to know what time practice is."

"It's from the end of last class to dinner. Just like every other first practice of the term." Lucy reminded him in a hushed tone.

"Oh. Right." Lucy turned back around and accepted the jar of invisible ink Professor Bordelon had just handed her.

"You may talk amongst yourselves but please keep it down to a dull roar." Lucy scooted her chair closer to Victoire and Jane's desks. Victoire was already scribbling away in invisible ink, but Jane was staring into the distance.

"Aren't you going to, you know, write something?" Lucy asked Jane, pulling out parchment and dipping her quill in the invisible ink. She decided to write the riddle that she planned to use for the next Ravenclaw password.

I am the beginning of the end,

and the end of

time and space.

I am essential to creation,

and

I surround every place.

What am I? It was a difficult riddle that Lucy was sure only a Ravenclaw would get. She look over at Victoire who was trying out the incantation.

"Aparecium!" Victoire said. Nothing Happened. She tried again. "Aparecium!" This time, the ink appeared. All over Victoire's paper was written "Mrs. Edward Lupin" or "Mrs. Victoire Lupin" Lucy stifled her laughter. Jane laughed out loud. "At least I did it!"

"I can do it!" Jane said indignantly. "Aparecium!" And sure enough, the ink appeared. Jane had drawn a picture of a small girl on a tire swing.

"How did you do it on the first try?" Victoire asked huffily.

"Concentration, Vic."

"Aparecium!" Lucy said, concentrating, and the ink appeared. Victoire scowled. Thankfully Porfessor Bordelon decided it was time to move on.

"Okay class, who can tell me the incantation that makes normal ink invisible?" Lucy raised her hand, but unfortunately Professor called on someone else. "Yes Miss Molly?" Teachers only used "miss Weasley" when only one of them raised their hand.

"The incantation is raptaque Professor," Molly said.

"Yes, five points to Gryffindor!"

"Hey! When Lucy answered a question she got ten points for her house!" Molly said, slightly annoyed.

"Yes, but Miss Lucy did not glance at Miss Samuel's paper to get her answer, yes I saw that." Molly opened her mouth to respond but then closed it. "Okay class, lets all try that!" Lucy grabbed her regular ink and drew a flower in the corner of her paper.

"raptaque!" The ink disappeared. "Revelio!" The ink reappeared.

"Very good Miss Weasley!" Professor Bordelon said from behind her. Lucy beamed. The bell chimed.

"Okay! If everybody would put their ink on my desk on the way out that would be great, thank you!" It was a freaking mad rush all the out into the hall. Lucy grabbed Jane's arm.

"Hey, I have quidditch practice could you save me a spot at dinner tonight?" Lucy asked her.

"Sure Luce!" Lucy dashed to the Ravenclaw common room and thankfully caught the door on someones way in. She rushed up the stairs to her dorm where she dropped her bag on her bed and shrugged off her robe. She picked up Tabbi for a quick cuddle before she dashed back down the stairs and through the door and out on to the grounds to the Ravenclaw quidditch locker room.

"Hey Luce, have you seen my quidditch jumper?" Rose asked from her locker.

"Probably in you're locker drawer Ro," Lucy replied, grabbing her Jumper, leggings and boots before heading into the girls showers to change. The locker room was co-ed and most people just changed in there, careful not to flash anyone, but today Lucy was to tired and just changed in the girls shower. When she was done she headed back into the locker room where most of her team was waiting.

"Everybody ready?" Lucy asked. The team all chorused their replies and Lucy stood in front of the enchanted strategy board. Lucy was Ravenclaw's team captain, and her team was made up of her fellow sixth years, Liesl Longbottom and Ben Macmillian, fourth year Mellie McLaggen, second year Derek Wood, fifth year Lysander Longbottom, and third year Rose Weasley. The chasers were herself, Liesl, and Mellie. The beaters, Derek and Lysander. The seeker, Rose. And The Keeper Ben.

"Okay so if we want to have a shot at winning we first need to beat Hufflepuff this weekend and Either Slythrin or Gryffindor the next. Yes, Mellie?"

"If we beat Hufflepuff wouldn't it automatically be Gryffindor?"

"Yes, but knowing the Gryffindors something might happen to get them disqualified." Last year, Scorpius Malfoy and Al(the Gryffindor beaters) accidentely got themselves and their team banned from a match by enchanting a snitch during practice and forgot to uncharm it.

"Oh, but I think Malfoy and Potter learned their lesson, don't you Lucy?" Mellie asked. Lucy just shrugged.

"Who knows with them. Especially with James as well. But that's not important right now, when we go out on the pitch we're first going to pass the quaffle around. Then we're going to practice all together. But of course chasers will be going towards Ben's goal not the empty one!" The team nodded and stood up, grabbing their brooms. Lucy grabbed her Comet 320 as well as the chest of balls. Her Broom wasn't as nice of a one as her sister Molly's, because for their sixteenth birthday Molly got the new Firebolt and Lucy got a car.

Lucy mounted her broom, quaffle in hand. She lightly tossed it to Liesl, who passed to Derek, who passed it to Ben, who dropped it.

"Come on Ben! Please concentrate!" She groaned, Ben was very easily distracted.

"I was! But look!" He was pointing to the stands where two people in Gryffindor robes were sitting, Lucy sighed and felt herself slowly descending, she pulled back up.

"Ugh, I'll go deal with them you guys keep passing the quaffle-er well after you go get it." She doubted they would do anything other than watch her deal with the Gryffindors. She flew over to where the two Gryffindors were sitting and touched down next to them. She was slightly surprised to see that it was Molly and Dom who were sitting and doing homework.

"Molly? Dom?"

"Yes, sis?" They said together.

"Not to be rude, but what the hell are you doing here?"

"Well, we were bored and thought it would be nice to get some fresh air and when we saw you out on the pitch we thought it would be fun to watch you play. Watching you yell at people who aren't us is very relaxing," Molly explained.

"Okay, so I know that you guys probably aren't out here to watch our strategy and cheat, but my team won't be satisfied until I make you leave. They'll think I'm going easy on my sisters, okay?" Lucy told them.

"Fine," Dom huffed.

"Good. See you later then." Lucy flew back up to where her team was-like she suspected-sitting on their broomsticks and waiting for her.

"What was going on?" Derek asked.

"My sisters were doing their homework and wanting to watch me yell at people. I told them they had to leave."

"Wait, don't you only have one sister, Luce?" Mellie asked, tucking her blonde bob behind her ear.

"Yeah, I meant my twin Molly and my cousin Dominique Weasley, who's basically another sister."

"Oh."

"Anyways, let's continue!" They continued to pass the quaffle until Lucy deemed them warmed up. She then released both bludgers and the snitch. Rose already was very high up in the air reaching for the snitch before the chasers scored their first goal.

"Rosie, if you catch it just go back to the ground rerelease it and count to ten before going after it again," Lucy shouted up at Rose who just nodded. Lucy then saw Mellie drop the quaffle and she dove after it, catching it ten feet from the ground. She dodged around Lysander's beaters bat and the end of Mellie's broom and threw it through the left goal.

"Wooh! Yes, Luce! That was awesome!" Mellie shouted, clapping. Ben just grumbled.

"You'll do better next time Ben, you just haven't played in a while!" Lucy reassured him.

"Neither have you."

"Well..." Lucy said.

"There is a reason she's captain, Ben," Mellie told him.

The rest of practice went rather well. Lucy scored five more goals, Mellie scored three, and Liesl four. Ben blocked six, two of Mellie's, three of Liesl's and one of Lucy's. Rose had caught the snitch five times and Derek and Lysander had hit several bludgers. So you could say practice was good...that is until it decided to start to snow. Playing in January snows was not fun, and Lucy had to call it a day. She blew her whistle.

"Okay! Everyone in the locker room!" Lucy shouted. "Quick, quick! During thunder storms I'm not aloud inside until all of my team is. And I'm cold!" Her team flew quickly through the door of the locker room. And as always, Ben was lagging behind.

"Be-en! Hurry up, I'm freeeeeeezing!"

"Sorry Lucy I'm coming!" Ben zoomed up beside grabbed the handle of her broom and zipped off, nearly knocking Lucy off her broom.

"Careful!" They flew into the locker room.

The thing about thunder storms in Scotland is that it's cold. The thing about thunderstorms in Scotland in January is that they're down right freezing. And when water is freezing it's frozen. Frozen water is hail. Hail hurts when it hits you. Lucy understood that.

"Well guys, line up and I'll cast a protection from hail spell. Hurry, hurry, let's go!" Lucy told them. "Impervius! Derek you can go. Impervius! Impervius! Mellie, Liesl, go. Impervius! Impervius! Ben and Lysander! Impervius! Impervius! Rose you're all good to go, and so am I." Lucy slung the bag carrying her school clothes over her shoulder and walked out the door.

Sure enough it was cold.

"Aaaaaargh!" Liesl cried. Lucy turned her head to her.

"What?"

"It's cold!"

"Not really."

"Yes really."

"Not to me."

"But yes to me!" Liesl said.

The great hall was toasty and warm and filled with the smell of food. Ben, Lysander, and Derek took off running towards the Ravenclaw table. Lucy scanned the table for her friends. Her eyes landed on Jane, Ben, and Victoire arguing over god knows what. How Ben managed to get over there and join their argument so fast, Lucy had no idea. She grabbed Liesl's sweater sleeve and rushed on over. She plopped down next to Jane and Liesl next to Ben.

"I thought you guys would be back later! Why'd you guys stop playin'?" Victoire asked.

"Hey, airhead. Look up!" Ben told her pointing to the great hall's enchanted ceiling. Lucy frowned at Ben.

"She's not an airhead Ben!"\

"I know it's raining! I just didn't know the rain ever stopped you guys from playing!" Victoire informed Ben.

"It doesn't. It's just that it's not just raining, it's hailing and there's lightning and thunder, it would've been dangerous to continue playing," Lucy explained.

"Oh."

"Have you guys finished the essay for Patil?" Lucy asked, scooping mash potatoes onto her plate. Professor Padma Patil was the school's transfiguration teacher.

"Essay, what essay?" Ben asked.

"I wasn't asking you. I usually just assume you didn't do it yet."

"You mean the one on the properties of basic Transfiguration verses the properties of advanced Transfiguration?" Jane asked. Lucy nodded. "I've only finished half, I plan on finishing the rest after dinner."

"Oh, good I haven't started it yet so I'll do it while you're finishing yours," Lucy responded.

"I finished it but I haven't finished the homework for arithmancy so I'll do that," Liesl added.

"What essay?" Ben asked. Lucy just shook her head.