AN: In case you were confused, Matt's name has been changed to Max from the previous chapter. Sorry for any confusion, but this is important in the story because I didn't realize we already had a character named Matt who comes in later in the story. Here's the next chapter though!
Disclaimer: We own nothing but the characters and plot.
"Hey, Max?" Scott whispered during Charms class.
"Shh." Max responded immediately not looking at him but staring down at his notes. Scott sighed. He was bored out of his mind. He thought regular school had been boring, but Hogwarts assigned lots of reading and essay writing. He hated using quills as well. He missed his mechanical pencils. Scott leaned back into his chair and tried to focus on what the professor was saying. He wasn't taking in much, and knew he'd have to ask Max and Kurt to help him with his assignments later. He tapped his fingers on the desk while bouncing his leg up and down under the desk at the same time.
After ten minutes of trying his best to focus on the lecture, Scott grew bored and begin doodling on his parchment paper. Why was class so long? Scott felt like he was going to die if he couldn't get up and go run outside for even just ten minutes. But he knew he had yet another class to sit through right after this one. There were too many subjects. Scott had started blurring the subjects and lessons together in his mind. It was only his second week and he was deeply confused and behind on everything.
Scott couldn't take it anymore after thirty minutes in class. He scribbled a note on his parchment and passed it to Kurt.
'Hey, Kurt. What the heck is the teacher saying?' Scott wrote with his messy handwriting.
Kurt looked up from his notes when the note landed in front of him and raised an eyebrow at Scott before looking back to the professor to make sure the professor hadn't seen. He then begin scribbling back quickly. He passed it back after looking around to make sure no one noticed. Scott rolled his eyes and read the message.
'We're discussing where Charms came from. You shouldn't be passing notes. Just sit through the class and I'll show you my notes later.'
Scott sighed and wrote back. 'But I'm bored! Don't they have recess around here or something?'
Kurt wrote back again and passed it back to Scott. 'No. Recess doesn't exist here. Look, we've got one more class and then it will be lunch time. Just make it through these next two classes and we can eat lunch outside so you can run around.'
Scott sighed dramatically again when he read the note and wrote. 'Okay. Fine.'
Kurt passed the note back without responding and Scott got the hint that he was too busy to respond. Scott tried to focus on the teacher again and write down as many notes as he could. But eventually Scott went back to doodling absentmindedly on the paper.
Scott was incredibly relieved when class was over. He packed up his stuff quickly and followed Kurt and Max out the door. "That was dreadful!" Scott complained loudly.
"We've got transfiguration next." Max reminded him. Scott groaned.
"Can't we just skip class and pretend we're sick or something?" Scott asked.
"Scott, some of us actually want to learn." Max replied.
"But we can just catch up on the reading later. Or we can ask Luther to take notes for us and go run around in the dorm instead." Scott argued.
Kurt laughed a little. "I don't think you've noticed this mate, but Luther hates us."
"Why?" Scott asked confused.
"We're not 'pure'." Kurt replied as if it were obvious.
"Pure what?" Scott asked practically skipping beside them to bounce some of energy off.
"Why are you skipping? Come on, mate. Cut it out." Max reprimand.
"Pureblood." Kurt replied answering Scott's question.
"Oh, you mean the blood status thing again?" Scott asked as he turned his skip into a gallop to satisfy Max.
"Yeah." Kurt nodded.
"Well what's it matter? We're all wizards, aren't we?" Scott asked confused why anyone would dislike some over what family they were born into.
"True." Kurt replied. "But some people believe that statuses affect how a wizard will be."
"I don't supposed you've ever heard of the Dark Lord, eh Scott?" Max asked as they climbed the stairs.
"No. Is that a video game?" Scott questioned.
"No. Look, a long time ago there were witches and wizards who discriminated against muggleborns and sometimes even halfbloods. Now most of that was solved when Harry Potter wiped out the Dark Lord, but the prejudice still exist. Seems to be growing again since some new muggle gangs around the UK have been killing wizards." Max explained.
"What?" Scott seemed truly shocked about this. "Who's Harry Potter? What gangs?"
"Oh dear god." Kurt exclaimed. "You know what, Scott. I'm going to run you through a history lesson 101 tonight when we get back to the dorms."
"Okay." Scott agreed.
Transfiguration turned out to be a little more interesting than charms considering Scott got to watch some magic being done and was allowed to practice some himself on a match. Scott was unsuccessful at turning the match into a toothpick, but he luckily wasn't the only one. Homework was assigned and finally they were free to go to lunch.
"I got mine into a thinner looking match." Max said as they were exiting the classroom.
"I got mine into a toothpick." Kurt shared proudly. "Took me forever, but it's definitely a toothpick now." Kurt held up his toothpick to demonstrate.
"I couldn't get it at all." Scott said. "Still looks like a match to me." He held up his.
"Hmm, well, I guess we could practice with it in the dorm." Max suggested.
"That's true." Scott nodded pocketing it. "I wonder what we're having for lunch today."
"I don't know, but I'm really in the mood for something with gravy." Kurt replied.
"I think I could go for some pork myself." Max said.
"I really want a lemon." Scott put out.
"A lemon? You actually eat that?" Kurt asked surprised.
"Oh yeah. All the time at home. It's my favorite. But it makes me super hyper." Scott replied. "I like lemon flavored anything. Lemon drops, lemon bars, lemonade."
"Lemon flavored things aren't so bad, but I'm talking about the actual lemon. You eat the actual lemon?" Kurt clarified.
"Yep." Scott nodded. "It's so good!"
"You're weird, Scott." Max said shaking his head.
The three boys took their lunch outside to Hogwarts' lawn. Scott ran off some pented energy as Max and Kurt went over notes from class. Scott was in the middle of his circuit back to where Max and Kurt were sitting, but paused when he saw people gathering in the court yard.
"Something going on in the court yard today?" Scott called to Max and Kurt. They both looked up and then to each other before getting up from their seats and coming over near Scott.
"What?" Max asked. Scott pointed to the court yard. The three boys looked at one another confused before all three begin making their way down to see what was going on. Scott could hear the crowd laughing as they approached. He squeezed through the openings to get a closer look and soon found himself near the front of the crowd staring at the scene. There were two boys lifted off the ground by their feet. Both were struggling and looked humiliated. Scott could see one of the boys had on nothing but some pink lacy girlish underwear on while the other had both a black lacy bra and green flowery underwear on. They looked very young compared to the other standing beside them with their wands withdrawn. Scott was shocked at the site, but admittedly found it a little funny.
"You know, I think they're missing something for their girl's night out." A girl from the three standing beside the two boys called to the crowd. "Ah yes, how are they going to attract any woman with those bland faces? They need to be dolled up a bit." With a wave of her wand the two boys were now being attacked with powder brushes and lipstick, smearing it all over their bodies and face. The crowd laughed but Scott could see the two boys were embarrassed and a little scared. Something didn't sit well with Scott about the scene despite it being somewhat funny. Scott went to step out, but he felt Max grab him and pull him back. Scott looked at Max with a questioning look.
"You want to end up where they are?" Max hissed at him. "Just laugh along. It will be over soon." Scott defiantly pulled away from him and stepped out of the crowd anyway despite Max's protests.
"Oy!" Scott called out drawing the attention to himself. "As pretty as the two look right now, don't you think you should've gotten their permission before dressing them up?" Scott said. The crowd seemed shocked that someone so young was stepping out to defend the two boys, but the crowd of three wrong doers simply looked at him with a raised eyebrow and smirk.
"I'm sorry. I don't believe I know you." The girl who'd made the make-up appear said.
"I'm Scott O. Smitten. First year Ravenclaw." Scott answered. "Muggleborn if you were wondering. But more to the point. I think you should let them down now."
"You know what guys, I think we found our volunteer for the guy they want to impress!" One of the boys from the three in front of him said loudly. The crowd gave little cheers and laughter and Scott had to admit he felt intimidated. He wanted to back down now and had wished he'd listen to Max, but there wasn't anywhere for him to run. "What do you say, Scott?" The boy grinned at him.
"I think I'm a little too young to be thinking of romance." Scott said teasingly not sure how else to deal with the situation. He'd never really gone up against bullies. How was he supposed to do this? There were a few laughs from the crowd behind him.
"Well, there's a first with everything, but let's get you dressed for the part, shall we?" The girl from before replied. With a wave of her wand, Scott felt his clothes shift from covering him completely to just his blue boxers. His face immediately went pink but he forced himself to laugh with the crowd. He'd always heard if you laughed along, it would get bullies to stop quicker.
"You're right. It was rather hot out here." Scott said out loud with as best of a smile as he could manage despite being completely red in the face.
"Oh, you're hot, are you?" The boy who'd asked him his name asked. Scott felt like he would be regret his statement in a few seconds. "Well, let me help." Suddenly there was less covering him. Scott looked down to find himself in nothing by a blue thong. Scott wasn't sure if he should be covering his exposed bottom or his package. He went with trying to do both, with one hand in front and one in the back. The blush deepen and the crowd roared with laughter and some wolf whistled him. "Better?" the boy who'd done this asked. But before anything else could happen a professor called out from across the court yard.
"What is going on here?!" A male professor called out. The crowd immediately parted and students begin going their separate ways as if they'd never seen or hear anything. The three wrong doers stood their grounds though and Scott stood there along with them.
The professor waved his wand and the two boys dressed in the frilly underclothing fell down to the ground. They immediately scurried off too afraid and embarrassed to stay.
"Well, these three were playing dress up with students." Scott explain nodding to the three standing there.
"So I see." The professor said. "Might want to go change now." He noted looking down at Scott's attire. Scott took his cue to leave, but he could see the look of vengeance on the three's faces as he did. He felt like he'd just made himself an enemy target. He should've listened to Max. Speaking of which, where were they?
Max and Kurt were nowhere around, but Scott felt like he'd be able to make it up to the Ravenclaw dorm without them… He just hoped once he got there he could get in. Scott had been having lots of trouble getting into the Ravenclaw dorm. He just didn't know any of the answers to the riddles. He was constantly found sitting outside the dorm until someone came by and let him in. Unfortunately for Scott, the same thing happened today. He was stuck sitting outside the dorm with nothing but a thong on until another Ravenclaw finally came and took pity on him.
