Soon Tryouts for quidditch were on and I mannaged to. I was sat at the Slytherin table at dinner with Draco, Flint and the ones who had tried out, Flint told me I had made beater and Draco had Seeker, even though Draco had no real talent for the role. We were sat talking and laughing when an owl I didn't recognise flew in and landed in front of me. I looked at the front.
To Eleanor, open in private
I smiled reading it, The others asked if I was going to read it, I shook my head and continued to talk to them. After a while I stood up, made my excuses and left the hall, I headed to a deserted corridor and sat of the floor with my back against the wall, took the letter from my inside robe pocket, opened it up and began to read.
Dear Eleanor
I was wondering if you wanted to meet me when everyone else is asleep.
I was thinking the top of the astronomy tower, midnight, I hope you can make it.
Yours Sincerly
Fred
I smiled to myself. I sat there to think a while when I heard footsteps, I folded up the letter and placed it back in the inside pocket of my robes. I looked around but didn't see anyone. I sighed tilting my head back against the wall.
"What are you doing here?" I heard a boy ask, I opened my eyes to see Ron, Harry and Hermione.
"What business is it of yous? I could ask the same of you but I don't" I hissed
"Are you waiting for Black to help him around the castle and kill me" Harry snapped at this I burst out laughing.
"He seems to be doing a damm decent job with my help, how many times has he gotting into Gryffindor tower now" I said through chuckles "Twice isn't it?"
"You seem ammused by all this" Hermione observed
"Indeed I am Granger, care to know why?" I smiled
"Inlighten me" she glared
"Everyone is under the impression that Black is a deatheater and a killer, Yet he had a chance to kill you when Ron spotted him" I laughed
"Exactly Ron caught him so he couldn't" Harry argued I laughed again.
"Potter, if he is such a danger, as soon as he noticed he'd got the wrong bed he would've slit Rons throat before he could call for help, then moved to you" I smiled
"Shut up Riddle" Ron snarled
"Why am I making a good point, besides, I why on earth would I want to help Black into the castle for him to kill, Harry, It'd make much more sense for me to do it myself" I smiled, they just glared at me and walked so I yelled after them "I'm making sense aren't I?"
I laughed as they walked of and ignored me. I walked the grounds for a while, it only felt like a few minutes when I looked at my watch, it was telling me, I was late. Then I asked for the time and and it was five minutes past midnight. I was meant to meet Fred, I ran as fast as I could to the astronomy tower and up the steps I was struggling to breath when I got up there. I was excpecting him to have left by now I pushed open the door and stepped through. I saw him stood looking over the grounds. I was so out of breath I started to cough and choke. He spun to see me doubled over choking.
"Eleanor?" He asked looking shocked then ran to my side panicked "Eleanor... Elle are you ok?"
"I'm fine, I thought i'd would've missed you so I ran here from the third floor" I gasped He laughed "What's so funny?"
"You daft sod, I just assumed you'd been held up by someone from your house, I was going to wait" He chuckled, at this I started to laaughed but stopped when it made me cough again. he made me sit down "Sit down and breath"
"I'm ok Fred" I smiled after I regained my breath. He chuckled again "Were you worried Fred?"
"Me worried about a Slytherin, of course not" Fred smirked I gave him a look that demanded the truth "Well maybe a little, don't want people thinking I killed you off"
"You could make out as though George killed me off after all, he hates me" I smiled
"I couldn't do that to him, he's my twin after all, he'll come around" Fred said seriously
"I was kidding Fred" I chuckled and so did he
"Well one never knows with you" Fred laughed. We sat talking for hours. It was early when we heard the commotion "What's going on?"
"I don't know you go down" I shrugged
"I'm not leaving you here alone" Fred said
"One second then" I muttered "Promise you won't tell anyone what I do next"
"I promise" Fred said
"Open your bag" I said he opened it up. I changed into my snake form and nudged the bag with my head then looked at him.
"Oh right" Fred said slightly shocked then regained his composure and helped me into his bag. Once I was fully curled up in his bag he flipped the top of his bag so it looked closed but wasn't shut properly, then I felt him lift the bag and headed down the stairs. When downstairs. I heard loads of peoples voices. I heard a boys voice so simalar to Freds, It was panicked and when I realised what the voice was shouting I realised it was George as he was yelling for Fred.
"Fred, has anyone seen Fred!" Georges voice yelled over all the noise of the others.
"Over here George!" Fred yelled, his pace quickened I could tell because, his bag was banging against his leg which was rather painfull for me as I was aswell, along with his books and other items banging into me. I tried not to make a sound and decided to wait until Fred gave me the all clear to come out of his bag.
"You had me worried when We couldn't find you" I heard George say in a rush then he yelled again "He's over here guys!"
I heard several pairs of feet, then the voices of Harry, Hermione, Lee and the rest of the Weasley's relieved greetings.
"What's going on?" Fred asked
"Black got into the castle agian" Lee's voice told him
"Have you noticed she's the only person not here" Rons voice said it held some bitterness to it.
"Who?" Fred asked
"Riddle we saw her skulking about earlier" Came Harry's voice
"Sitting down is hardly skulking guys" Hermione sighed
"She was sat on the floor in a deserted corridor and didn't you see her fold that note up and put it in her robes after checking no one was around" Harry argued
"Yeah I bet it was from Black, she's probably with him now" Ron snarled
"Well she wasn't" Fred rushed
"How do you know?" George asked sounding annoyed
"I ran into her not two minutes ago she was going down into the dungeons" Fred responded simply
"False alarm everyone, you'll be escorted back to your dorms by your heads of house" Dumbledores voice called over all the voice. I felt fred start to move again, After a few minutes, I felt the bag fall and me along with it and thudded on something hard. I didn't move figuring. Fred would let me out once his house matess were all asleep...
