Chapter 9

The first of September rolled around again, this time harry, Ron, and Hermione were off to their first year at Hogwarts. Desiree had told the twins of the new prank ideas she and the marauders had come up with and everyone waited at platform 9 3/4 .

"see you at Christmas." Lily said hugging her two older children. Marshal who was ten months was in the pram by James.

"mum Mr. and Mrs. Weasley are going on vacation to visit Charlie and all the kids are staying at school. Can they come stay with us?" Desiree asked.

"ill talk to molly and Arthur about it." Lily said hugging them again.

"hug!" Desiree looked to see her youngest brother holding out his arms.

"come here marshal." She said taking him from the pram and hugging him. Harry also gave him a hug before the two jumped on the train with the others.

"why don't we find our own compartment." Ron suggested as Desiree and the twins left without another word.

"good idea." Harry said. They found an empty compartment near the end of the train. "here looks good." The three walked into the compartment. Fred and George came to check on Ron like their mum had said.

"you don't mind if we just leave do you?" Fred said knowing Ron wanted to be left alone.

"yeah we promise to check in every so often." George said smirking.

"no, that's fine, you go ahead." Ron said. They smirked evily and left. Back in their own compartment they saw Desiree showing lee the new pranking tactics.

"it's the perfect prank, we would be no where near the scene when the prank started, making the rule inicent until proven guilty come into affect." She was explaining the coin prank.

"so who's idea was it to have their pants fall down?" lee asked laughing.

"Sirius." The twins replied walking in.

"sweat." Lee said.

"it's the four of them! I know they are guilty!" Snape was yelling from inside the headmaster's office, the Minnie marauders were stifling giggles outside the door.

"now, now severus you cannot prove that. Other Gryfindors say they were in their common room during the time of the prank, inicent utill proven guilty." Dumbledore walked out of the room. "you four may go back to your common room."

Snape came out a moment later looking livid.

"oh severus they're just children." Sprout said as he walked into the teachers loung.

"and they really don't need to spend so much time in detention." Flitwick said. "takes away from study time."

"study time?" Snape asked. "what studying, pranksters never study."

"yes well, Desiree is much like her mother, when she's not planning pranks I've seen her spending time in the library studying." McGonagall said. Snape scowled and left the room.

"the plan was exicuted brilliantly." Lee said in the common room after most people had gone to bed.

"I have to say not getting in trouble for it defiantly made it all the better." Fred said.

"yeah a nice change." George said.

"all you need is a good alibi." Desiree agreed.

"who wants to sneak down to the kitchens? I'm getting kinda hungry." George said.

"fine with me." Desiree said. "but we wont all fit under the cloak."

"George and I will go, anything in particular you want?" Fred asked.

"some of the patato salad stuff we had last night." Desiree said.

"I want some fortune cookies." George said.

"your coming with me you don't have to tell me." Fred said.

"oh right." George said, the two of them then grabbed the map and cloak and walked out of the common room.

The next morning the three – Fred, George, and Desiree – sat at Gryffindor table as the first years worried about flying – well Neville and Hermione anyway.

"don't worry Hermione flying is easy." Desiree tried to calm her.

"maybe for you, but I've never been on a broom." Hermione turned back to her book still trying to pick up tips. Desiree turned to her brother. "you gonna try out for the team? I've heard of first years who get on reserve."

"yeah I can try," harry said. "probably wont get on."

"sure you will, you fly better than most of the quidditch players at school." Fred said.

"especially at seeker, and that's exactly what we need seeing as our seeker left this year." George said. "two chasers too."

"yeah Dez you should try for chaser." Fred said.

"I think I will." She decided.

"sweet, now all we need is one more chaser," George said.

"maybe Angelina will try out." Fred said smirking at his brother. Desiree laughed as George sputtered out his drink. This sent harry and Ron into fits of laughter as well. Hermione just rolled her eyes and turned back to her book.

"not funny." He sputtered.

"oh I beg to differ." Desiree said still laughing. "it was very funny."

"was not." He said stubbornly.

"was too." Said the rest of them who had seen. George pouted and refused to talk to them the rest of breakfast.

"wood." Desiree said coming up to him in the common room before classes.

"hey Desiree, you gonna try out for chaser?" he asked.

"yes actually I was wondering when tryouts were." She said.

"oh I was thinking this Friday." He said.

"hope we get a good seeker and another great chaser." He said smiling and walking away.

Desiree watched out the window of the history of magic classroom at the firstyear flying lessons. She watched as one of the boys fell from their out of control broom and madam hooch took him to the hospital wing and told the firsties that anyone who flies while she's gone would be expelled before they could say quidditch.

Desiree had to restrain herself from cheering as harry followed the Malfoy git into the air and caught the rememberal. Take that git! She thought.

"harry potter!" Desiree cringed as McGonagall started yelling to him about his safty and all that. She saw that harry looked worried as she led him away, he must be worried about being expelled. What a silly thing to worry about, the worst he could get was a few detentions.

Desiree tried to pay attention to the lesson but that of course was a lost cause, and since the flying lessons were over she had to find something else to entertain herself. So she spent the last half of the class playing hangman with her friend Morgan from her year. She spent most of her time with Fred and George but she still had a few friends from her year she mosty saw in class or when Fred and George were at hogsmead.

After class she went to lunch and found Fred and George immediately at Gryffindor table.

"hey guys." She said sitting down.

"hey Dez." They responded. Just then wood came litterally skipping into the great hall. The three burst out laughing.

"guess what!" he exclaimed still skipping.

"what?" Fred asked.

"McGonagall just put harry on the team! And he didn't get in trouble!" he said.

"yes!" the three exclaimed loudly.

"your joking!" Desiree heard Ron exclaim. Great way to keep it secret. Ron was exclaiming quite loudly Desiree, Fred, and George walked over.

"well done harry." George said.

"I tell you, we're going to win that Quidditch cup for sure this year," said Fred. "We haven't won since Charlie left, but this year's team is going to be brilliant. You must be good, Harry, Wood was almost skipping when he told us."

"he was skipping." Desiree said.

"yes well we already knew you were brilliant anyway so how did you impress him?" Fred asked.

"well um." Harry started looking embarresed.

"I saw it, he didn't impress wood. He impresses McGonagall." Desiree said letting it sink in for a moment before continuing. "Malfoy took Neville's rememberall and harry went after him on a broom and caught the rememberall in the fifty foot dive."

"wow!" the twins breathed.

"hey potter!" it was Malfoy.

"what?" he asked. "more fearless now with both feet on the ground and your cronies behind you than in the air."

"I could take you anytime potter." He sneered. "wizards duel tonight midnight, wands only, no contact."

"harry don't do it!" Desiree said.

"why not, don't want to be a chicken do you?" Malfoy sneered.

"course not, Ron's my second." Harry responded.

"how about someone who can actually duel." Desiree suggested.

"mine's crabbe. Trophy room. Its always unlocked." He walked away after that. Desiree hit harry on the back of the head.

"ow. What was that for?" he asked rubbing his head.

"agreeing to duel when you don't even know how." Desiree said. Then she hit him again. "and that was for choosing Ron as your second."

She hit him one more time.

"and that one?" he asked.

"that was because its fun to hit you." She said walking off with the twins. Harry sighed.

"you really shouldn't have agreed to that you know." Hermione said.

"yeah oh well." Harry muttered.

A/N so tell me what you think, I still only have one review. That by the way is really annoying because I work really hard writing and it seams as though people don't like what I write when I get next to no reviews.

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