Chapter 8
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Fred's POV
I wanted to kill that old hag. No, I wanted to torture her and then kill her, Dumbledore had to know about this, the woman was insane, yet Bella didn't want us to do anything; obviously we were going to ignore her and lucky for me everyone else agreed however Hermione was a bit unsure. We let Bella sleep on the sofa while we gathered round the fire place, sitting on the old fashioned red rug and began concocting a plan to make the bitch suffer. So far Ron had suggested we lock her in a room full of cats until they eat her, Harry suggested we kidnapped her and gave her to fluffy and of course Hermione suggested we just went to Dumbledore. George and I thought we should prank her so much that she would have a break down and go crazy – this was by far the best plan.
"Fine, if we did your idea what pranks could we actually do?" asked Ron, the only thing proving he was related to me at this moment of time was his ginger hair.
"Dear brother have we taught you absolutely nothing in these past years?" I said with a tone of impatience.
"Firstly we shall start off with doing simple pranks, enough to play with her mind, we don't want anything too suspicious, after having our fun with that, the pranks will slowly get bigger and bigger, if we all work together on this is it will be brilliant, we can never get caught though!" exclaimed my twin, with a clear twinkle of revenge in his eyes.
The night roamed on, Hermione had dozed off with her head on Ron's shoulder, whilst Ron had fell asleep putting his head on top of Hermione's and his arm round her, it was actually quite cute. Bella was still sleeping and Harry was now cradling her like a baby, their relationship was admirable, he was so protective of her, it was one of the best brother-sister relationships I had seen, they were so close. Rarely did they fight however they always teased each other, just common banter, in some ways I was envious of him, I wanted to be that close to Bella.
"Naw the little ones are all asleep!" chuckled George, bringing me back to earth.
"Hey I am awake!" whispered Harry, looking offended.
"Hm only just, us older ones can manage going without sleep, you however you will feel like death tomorrow." I replied.
"Lucky for you it is the weekend, meaning perfect timing for operation 'crazify toadface' to begin!" chipped in George. Originally Hermione had pointed out that 'Crazify Toadface' was a rubbish name because apparently 'crazify' isn't a word, so now we all call it that just to spite her.
"Hm whatever, do you guys think Bells will be alright tomorrow?" said Harry clearly fearful.
"I really don't know Harry, these things are hard to tell, even though the pain will most likely be gone by the morning, we will still have the psychological effects from it to worry about, remember what happened to Neville's parents? Now of course I am not saying Bella will go crazy but I think to start off with she may be weary and cautious, and go into the occasional panics." explained my twin, Harry and I both looked at him, surprised by his sudden outburst of knowledge on this, answering mine and Harrys unspoken question he carried on to say, "I read a snippet about the effects of the Cruciatus curse from the '3 unforgivable curses' book whilst you were giving suggestions for pranks we could do."
"Ah that would explain it," I said, "So basically to summarise, we have to wait until she wakes up to really understand what kind of state she is in?"
"Yeah I reckon. We have got to be careful with her though and this is Bella, she will try to cover up what is really going on inside that head of hers."
Not long after this conversation Harry fell asleep, leaving me and George to sort what pranks we would be doing to Umbridge on the weekend, she wasn't going to know what hit her. The night flew by, until Hermione started to wake up, she opened her eyes, and started to rub them.
"Good morning Hermione!" said George and I startling her.
"Shh, don't wake the others up! What time is it?" she said still looking slightly disorientated.
"8 o'clock" we replied.
"Have you guys been up all night?"
"Indeed we have, you wait till you hear the pranks we have got installed for toadface!"
"How have you both got so much energy? You must be exhausted! It really isn't good for you to not sleep!"
"Relax H, we are fine, we have gone without sleeping many times!" I said, chuckling at how concerned she was.
"Still doesn't mean it is good for you."
"Never said it was! Anyway, don't you want to hear all about the pranks we will be pulling today?"
Before she could reply Ron stretched out his arms and grunted,
"Haven't you people heard of whispering?"
"Ronniee boy! You're awake!" I couldn't help but tease.
"Urgh don't call me 'Ronnie boy'. Will breakfast be soon, I'm hungry?"
"I swear food is all you think about, I think we should get ready first because in case you haven't noticed we are wearing yesterday's outfit, and then have breakfast after Harry and Bella have woken up." organised Hermione. I couldn't help but be nervous for when Bella would wake up, for all I know, she could be mentally unstable.
"Sounds like a plan" cheered Ron, clearly starting to become fully awake.
"Jeez Ron haven't you heard of whispering?" groaned Harry as he let out a yawn.
"Aw sorry I forgot." apologised Ron.
"3 down 1 to go." stated George, causing us all to stare at Bella.
"Haven't you ever heard of leaving a person in peace to sleep because let me tell you guys, staring at me whilst I sleep makes me extremely self-conscious." whined Bella as she blinked her eyes open. I couldn't help but stare at her, she seemed just like herself and relief flooded my body.
"People! I said quit staring!" she laughed, it was a wonderful sound, I didn't realise how much I missed it until then. Being the first to recover I said,
"Sorry, I think I speak for all of us when I say we were just admiring how wonderful you look right now." giving her a wink which caused her to moan and hide her face in Harry's chest. Hermione was next to speak, "Bella are you sure you're okay? I mean you don't have to hide your feelings from us, what you went through wa-"
"Hermione, I am not going to lie and say I feel wonderful because that's nonsense, my body is aching like hell, but mentally I am fine, okay well maybe not quite fine but I will get over it, now I know what I said last night about making you guys not do anything to Umbridge, and I also know that you are going to completely ignore me, so assuming you have already made a plan, care to let me in on it?" she laughed whilst Harry rubbed circles on her back.
"We taught you well Bella." Replied George, then going on to explain operation 'Crazify Toadace'.
Bella seemed pretty impressed with the idea and she even chipped in, giving us some more ideas of pranks we could do.
"So what prank are we pulling today?" questioned Ron.
"We shall start with something pretty simple today, it will be done during breakfast, some of you need to cause some kind of distraction, nothing major, while George and I will fly over the top of the hall and perform a spell, sending this pill," I held up the pill, "Into Toadface's drink, it will dissolve so she won't notice it, the pill makes her drink incredibly spicey and - wait for it – gives her green, itchy, pussy, warts on her face, she only needs to have one sip for this to happen!" I said excitedly, it was clear that I was very happy with the plan.
"How on earth did you make the pill?" asked Hermione looking astounded.
"Well we made it a long time ago, just doing trial and error, it was actually meant to make people's eyes change into animal faces, when we experimented on it, the warts were the outcome and we realised that it could come in very handy." Bella leant forward, and gave George and I a high five.
"This is going to be so good. Oh my gosh guys! I have an idea to make this even better, we should use that charm which takes pictures and gives you like 1000 copies of the photo, and then we could get Dobby to put them all over Hogwarts!" said Bella enthusiastically.
"Bella you genius!" I said, whilst she sat there looking pretty proud of herself.
"Wow guys, you have impressed me, this is a great plan! But wait, what are we going to do to distract all the teachers?" asked Hermione.
"Don't you worry about that Hermione, leave it to me." winked Bella.
"Hm just try not to get yourself in trouble with any of the teachers Bella." worried Hermione to which Bella just rolled her eyes.
After that we all went back to our dorm to shower and get changed, we met back up in the common room at 10:30, considering it was the weekend we were all just wearing our usual clothes, Hermione, Bella and Ginny came down to the common room, apparently they had filled Ginny in on everything. Bella looked lovely; she was wearing skinny black jeans, a white t-shirt with a dusty red leather jacket. She had her long brown hair down and wavy, not only this but she was wearing black eyeliner and red lipstick (the color matched her jacket) she looked stunning, it was casual yet beautiful.
"Alright boys, let's do this." Said Bella, leading the way out of the common room, I tried hard not let my eyes look down to her arse, however I failed and caught a glimpse, as hard as it was, I managed to pull my eyes away in case anyone realised.
We headed to breakfast - we were some of the firsts ones there. Sitting in our usual spot we waited for the hall to fill up more, however my eyes were set on Umbridge, she sat there smiling to herself, happily eating away at her meal, almost looking smug. Somehow I managed to ignore the screaming sensation to go up to her and rip her apart. George and I looked at each other and nodded, then I caught eye contact with Bella and nodded again, to show that it was time. Alongside George, I headed out of the hall and ran all the way back to the common room, where we grabbed our brooms and ran back. Bella had said that we would know when it was time to drop the pill in Umbridge's drink, so we stood by a small wooden door; this door was the one which our professors used because it led to the table which they sat on at the front of the hall. What we had wanted was for all the teachers to be distracted so that they wouldn't notice us enter.
Suddenly I heard a piercing scream; I recognized the voice as Bella's so I knew it was show time. I peeked through the door and saw the teachers leave their table and run over to Bella, however now it wasn't just her screaming, it was Ginny and Hermione too, I couldn't help but smile at it. Not wanting to waste time I hopped onto my broom and dived as high as possible so that I would be out of sight, George was right behind me. We had decided to put two pills in her drink, purely for curiosity of what would happen. I flew directly above Toadface's drink; I went a little bit lower so that there was more chance of it going in. Carefully, I pulled out the pill and gently let go of it directly above the cup, watching it fall, I crossed my fingers that it would land. I heard a small plop and saw a little of the drink splash out. Moving out of the way I watched as George mirrored what I did; his went into the drink too. Quickly we flew back out of the door and straight to the common room, as soon as we got to the fat lady portrait, we hopped off our broomsticks and did a quick high five while we went in and put the broomsticks away. Sprinting back into the hall, the commotion was still going on, we merged in with the massive crowd round the table; every single Gryffindor girl was screaming whilst all the boys looked either panicked or like they were searching for something. Meanwhile the teachers were looking bewildered. Once again I caught Bella's eye and nodded, I expected her to stop screaming, however I was only proven wrong when I saw Bella point to the floor and scream louder, with my eyes I followed where her arm was pointing too and saw a massive snake - you had to give this girl credit. By now every single girl in the hall was screaming, even the occasional boy. Snape walked over to the snake with an unamused face, picked it up, and simply walked out of the hall. As soon as Snape left everyone went silent. The tension was broken when Dumbledore spoke,
"Well, what an exciting breakfast this has turned out to be, now the snake has been removed please go back to your seats and resume eating your food." he and the other teachers all headed back to their table, still looking extremely confused. I took a seat next to Bella and chatter started to buzz through the hall again.
"How did you do that?!" whispered Harry, Ron, George, Hermione, Ginny and I.
"Simple. In the dorms I told H and Gin, that they had to follow my league, so when I screamed they joined in, I shouted the words snake, the rest of the table joined in, obviously there wasn't one, so I carried on screaming that there was a snake, when Fred and George confirmed they had completed the task. I mentally did a spell which we learnt in transfiguration and altered it a bit, so the snake appeared and Voila!" said Bella. Before we were given a chance to react, we heard a screeching wail come from Umbridge. I turned my head to face her and she had green warts bursting with puss on her face, they were the size of apples.
Huh I guess by using two pills it made the size of the warts enlarged.
Laughter erupted through the hall, people were ignoring any sign from the teachers to be quiet, we were all hysterically laughing, George looked at me with an expression showing me that he was satisfied with our work and I returned the look. I looked back at Umbridge, she was still wailing like a dying cat, looking around the hall I noticed Hermione performing the photograph charm, hundreds of pieces of paper landed in a neat pile right in front of her, quickly she separated them into piles, and gave them to myself, George, Ron, Harry, Bella and Ginny, we grabbed them and shoved them into our robes before anyone could notice. By now Umbridge had ran out of the hall looking somewhat mortified, the teachers had different reactions, I swear I saw Professor McGonagall smirk, Dumbledore looked like he was trying to hide his amused face, Snape glared at everyone (no changes there) and all the others looked around the hall suspiciously .
Everyone was still laughing when they headed out,
"Hey guys don't we have quidditch practice today, our game against Hufflepuff is on Monday?" asked George.
"Woah I completely forgot!" replied Ron and Bella in unison.
"Okay so you guys go practice Quidditch; Ginny and I will catch up on our homework and watch you." declared Hermione.
So we all went our separate ways, Angelina had been working us hard, she wanted us to thrash the Hufflepuffs and this was the first game of the season so we wanted to set a good impression. Once we got onto the field I spotted Hermione and Ginny lounging on the grass, doing their homework, I gave them a wave which they returned.
"Ah glad to see you are all here and on time, we are going to go straight into the mini games, so chasers we are just going to do some simple passing, beaters you are going to aim the your buldgers into the goals, keeper you are going to try and stop the buldger and seeker you are simply going to try and catch the snitch, let's go!" shouted Angelina as she jumped onto her broom with the a quaffle and flew up. Bella and Katie followed after her, I couldn't help but stare at Bella, her hair was being blown behind her, she flew with great speed and had a massive smile on her face – she truly was beautiful.
"Oi Fred, hurry up!" shouted George, so quickly I hopped onto my broom and went up to him.
"Aw Ron don't worry we will try to be nice on you!" I shouted, as I through the buldger into the air, aligned my bat with the hoop and whacked the buldger with a lot of strength towards the bottom left hoop, it was the perfect aim, however Ron got there just in time and hit the buldger back at us. The rest of practice went on like this and before we knew it, we were done.
"Okay everyone, you all did great today, I think we are ready to thrash the Hufflepuff, this is one of the best teams I have come across! Be ready for Monday everyone!" dismissed Angelina.
For the rest of the day, George and I carried on with our inventions in the common room and doing the occasional piece of homework. Nothing particularly interesting happened at dinner, except the fact that Umbridge didn't show up which made us all think that they were clearly struggling to remove the warts. We were all sitting in the common room discussing pranks, George and I telling them all of our ideas.
"I don't know how you aren't tired, but I am heading up, you coming Ginny and Bella?" said Hermione.
"Sure I am exhausted from Quidditch." stated Bella.
"I am tired from just watching you play quidditch!" laughed Ginny as she got up from the sofa.
"Night guys!" they all said in unison as they ran up the stairs.
That's when I realized something. I had an epiphany. I don't know why it happened at that moment of time, nor do I know why it happened. I also don't know why it took me so long to realize…
I was in love with Bella Potter.
A/N
Hey sorry if this is bad, it hasn't been checked by someone:( I thought i would give you Fred's point of view for a change! So what do you think?! Sorry this took me a while to post but i will try to be quicker next time! Please review and let me know, favorite if you like the story which i hope you do and follow if you want to find out what happens next! Many thanks to everyone! REVIEW, FAVORITE, FOLLOW! :D
