"Ah Miss Targ it would appear your two hours of lines is over." Addie mentally ridiculed Snape's victorious tone; note passing seemed to be the smallest crime in Addie's whole track record. "Come, I'll escort you back to your common room." Addie remained silent on the walk back. Her hand hurting and Snape's lecture on how come negative influences may harm her obvious superior knowledge seemed to be worse than the two hours of lines.
A large crowd forming in one of the gardens caught Addie's attention, she stood eyes widening taking in the cause. There in the center of the garden was a balloon of a person; if Violet from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had a similar ill fated cousin this would be them. Addie immediately recognized the blonde hair and clumsy goons trying to help. Malfoy saw Addie and Snape and opened his mouth as if to scream out some obscenity. Words did not escape his mouth but a cloud of gray smoke in a peculiar shape. The "A" was followed by two cloud "D"s and more kept coming while his body slowly shrunk toward normalcy.
By the time Malfoy was successfully his annoying normal size the clouds hovered near the heads of about 20 students. "Addie and her Ladd-ies"
Snape was in Addie's face within seconds. "Who did this Miss Targ? You were in detention with me so obviously your accomplices acted alone. I need to know these girls names." Addie understood why Snape concluded the criminals were girls. Having no faith in the intelligence of minors Snape thought the said criminals misspelled ladies. The actually criminals were far from girls and Addie knew no one else would have the knowledge of or access to her puff up print recipe.
"Professor Snape, I'm very sorry but I honestly have no idea who or why." Addie's sly smile and innocent eyes sent Snape storming off, most likely to Dumbledore.
Addie couldn't contain her glee as she practically sprinted to the common room. To her surprise they were not there waiting for her, she had to see them and thank them. She still wasn't sure that both of them were behind this act. George being the closer twin with Addie was obviously the brain, he knew how much Addie loved to laugh. If Fred participated at all it would be the bare minimal, right? Addie went to the golden passageway; she had grown quite fond of staying in there looking at the names and imagining different times and people. The boys and she usually kept the map there for safe keeping. Addie thought she would hunt down the boys using it. The map wasn't there to Addie's dismay.
"Dang I never should have showed them this place", Addie muttered to herself. Addie had allowed the boys to use the area last year for prank planning in privacy, she had no idea once someone entered the hall they would be one of the allowed name back in. Fred and George's name now joined the hall in gold right under Addie's own. She knew they had the map and they would come eventually to see her reaction. Addie occupied her time with studying.
"Well well Addie, our troublesome note passer, was detention exciting and beneficial?" George didn't bother hiding his victorious smile. Fred came through after him playing it cool, typical Fred.
"You guy are so amazing and awesome and ah I cannot thank you enough! After two hours of torture laughter was the perfect sure. How on earth am I going to repay you?"
"It was Fred's idea but I did practically all the work so I will humbly take credit for your enjoyment."
"Well it was my fault you were in detention, and not even for a crime you can be proud of. And you can't be upset that we used your recipe because it was for your benefit."
Addie was in pure shock that Fred, the one who spent that past two years torturing and bruising her self esteem, did something to make her feel better. The thought made Addie beyond uncomfortable. "Well uh thanks guys, I guess I'll see you two tomorrow for the Hogsmeade trip."
"Earth to Addie!" Lottie was attempting to win Addie's attention again. "Seriously why did you even come? You're so out of it and you have no advice for me about Lee. Could someone please help me find where the heck my best friend has gone?" Addie had spent the majority of the Hogsmeade trip thinking and day dreaming of doing anything but shopping with Lottie. Honestly the day had started our perfectly fine. The girls were having fun checking out the first couple of shops but when Lottie's 55 mile an hour conversation turned to mindless babble about Lee, envious female students, and the importance of a proper reputation Addie escaped to a mental oasis. Addie was starting to feel more and more distant from Lottie. This did not sit well with her. Lottie was there when no one was and they always understood each other, well until now. Lottie seemed so focused on appearances and superficial materialistic attractions. Addie preferred less focus on the drama of situations and more on the adventure. "Fine! Addie! Fine! We'll discuss something else! I thought boys would be a good subject since you are constantly side by side with two of what I assumed were boys."
Addie and Lottie never talked about Addie's growing friendship with the Weasley twins. "Huh? Oh I'm sorry Lottie I know I haven't been a real big help. Look if you don't want to be with Lee anymore than why are you? If he isn't what you want then explain that to him. I don't know why you want guy advice from me, relationships is an area I have less than no experience in." Addie never had romantic feelings for anyone so far. She was close with Fred and George but she never saw them like that.
"You know what you're right why am I asking you? I'm going to go find Robin or Avilson I'll see you later." Lottie walked off not angry more frustrated with wasting her time and having no resolution to her so called dilemma. Addie had no idea who Robin or Avilson were, but from Lottie's reaction she probably didn't want to know them. Addie felt like she needed to talk to someone about Lottie, but a down fall of having only guy friends left on your friends list is understanding the lack of mutual emotional capacity. What Addie was going through was not something a guy would want to hear about. George would surely distract Addie from this mental predicament however, and that was exactly who she went off looking for.
15 minutes of walking the simple yet winding and looping streets with still no sight of the twins. She had almost given up and returned to group of students waiting to return to school when a picture stopped Addie. It was a simple picture of a man; it was framed with an expensive black cast iron trim. She recognized the man instantly and wondered why he was there. Under the photo of Addie's Uncle Larry was an engraved metal slate of sorts honoring him.
