Round 8;

Team: The BallyCastle Bats

Position: Beater 2

Main Prompt - Hugo Weasley

-Additional Prompts

5.(word) stubborn
15.(creature) owl

Plus Drabble Club Prompt from Hogwarts Houses Challenges forum

Dialogue: "Bloody first years, they're a menace."

Story Title: Last Words

Summary: First years, Hugo and Lily meet a couple of older boys on The Hogwarts Express. No Warnings Necessary. Family.

He swished it and he flicked it, yet none of that seemed to want to work. His wand was being completely stubborn, refusing to work with him. Why did this hunk of junk even pick him if it didn't want to cooperate?! Hugo grunted in frustration. He sought the book in his lap that sat halfway open for assistance, but it was nothing that he hadn't already read. He clenched his jaw, shutting the book up with a huff.

His cousin, Lily, took his hand and gently squeezed it. She may as well have been his sister with how close they were, having only been born two weeks apart. Especially since they were the youngest of both their families, and were often treated like it, each able to relate to the position, and neither could help but to not quite like it a lot of times. They were always treated like babies. It had taken forever for Hugo's parents to realize that he could handle a baby owl, a creature Hugo had wanted since he was six. He had been extremely grateful when he had been finally allowed to buy one as his Hogwarts companion.

"You'll get it," Lily assured him gently. She had been quiet up until that point, knowing how Hugo felt about being disturbed when he was in 'the zone'.

"It's the one thing that I would like to do before I step foot into Hogwarts! Everyone else knows how! I don't want to be the only kid who can't do it!"

"Oh, now that's not true," she said with a thoughtful frown. "Lots of kids don't know how to change the colours of an object."

"Don't you dare mention the muggleborns! You know exactly what I mean!" Hugo narrowed her eyes in determination. 'I will change Ferny's feathers blue,' he thought to himself. 'I will do it!' He didn't want to be the only Weasley kid who couldn't cast the colour changing spell. Now that Lily could do it, he just had to do it too!

"Who cares if you can't do the stupid Charm spell right away." Lily shrugged. "It's not important. You are closer to changing a match into a needle than I am. That is a hard." She leaned across the table to search through her bag for a pouch of Razzy Dazzies (her absolute favourite candies in the world) and ripped it open. "Want some?" Lily offered him the Muggle treat.

Hugo absentmindedly shook his head, concentrating on his spell casting. The door to the compartment that they were in slid open, breaking off any sort of muse he had going on. Two boys, who looked about to enter their fourth year, stepped in, and took seats across from Lily and Hugo.

"Those spots are saved for my brother and cousin," Lily informed gently.

In sequence, the boys exchanged grins and leaned back into their seats, planting their feet up onto the table that separated them from Hugo and Lily.

"Not anymore, red," one answered, pushing Lily's bag off the table with a foot. The other eyed Hugo's owl with interest, making Hugo forget about his spell casting for the time being.

"What?" Hugo asked. He had a difficult time in keeping his voice calm, as he didn't like the way the boy stared at his owl.

"Pretty owl you got there," the boy said. "Bit scrawny though, hmm? Don't you ever feed it?"

"Of course he does!" Lily said indignantly.

"It's still just a baby," Hugo answered coolly, narrowing his eyes.. "You'd know that by the way her feathers look. But you're not quite the expert, are you?"

"My family raises owls," the boy defended himself with a scoff. "I knew she was a baby, I was only testing you!"

Hugo nodded slowly, biting his tongue and holding back a retort. He certainly didn't need to get into trouble before they even made it to Hogwarts.

Lily was glaring at the unfriendly boys. "My brother will be here any minute," she told them. "They are going to sit with us."

"Then you'll have to move, won't you?" The one who had dumped her bag sneered back.

"Yeah, cause we're staying," the other said, putting his feet down onto the floor of the compartment and leaning forward to jab his finger into Ferny's cage.

Hugo snatched Ferny's cage up from the table, setting it into his lap. "I'd prefer you not to do that, thank you," his tone now one step from a growl.

"You must be first years," the boy spoke with a scoff. "You have no clue who we are, do you?"

"We don't really care," Hugo said bluntly.

"Who are you?" Lily asked curiously.

"Don't humour them," Hugo told Lily. "They don't deserve your attention. Come on," he gestured for her to get up, doing it himself. "Let's go find Al."

The boys rose and the one that had teased Hugo pushed him back into his seat, making Ferny's cage crash against the wall. The poor creature squawked in fear, smashing against the cage in an effort to fly out of it.

"Hey!" Hugo snarled, snapping back up to confront the jerk, only to be pushed back down.

"You leave my cousin alone!" Lily shrieked.

"You can sit down too, red!" The other boy pushed Lily down. "We haven't properly introduced ourselves," he went on, as they towered above Hugo and Lily. "I'm Jared, and this Edison. You'll learn quickly that it would be in your best interest to respect your authority."

"Authority?!" Lily wrinkled her nose. "What are you; fourth years?"

"Third," Edison answered, balling up his fist in a threat. "And you don't want us as your enemies."

"Just let us go," Hugo spoke up. "If you're lucky, I won't mention this to her brothers," he nudged his head toward Lily. "Nor any of our cousins."

The older boys laughed. "You are funny, boy," Jared said. "What's your name?"

"You'll find out soon enough," Hugo told him, attempting to stand again.

"I said to sit!" Edison pushed him back. "You won't like it if you stand up again!"

Hugo pressed his lips together, about to lose his patience with these two. He gripped his wand, glaring daggers at Edison.

"You want to duel with me, kid?" Edison laughed. He nudged Jared. "The little firsty thinks he can duel me!"

Jared chuckled. "There will be plenty of time for that, mate," he told his friend, snatching Lily's pouch of candies from her hand.

"Give that back!" She leaped from her seat, and grabbed a hold of the pouch.

"Did I say you can get up, red?!" Jared jerked the candy pouch from her and easily knocked her back down. He smirked, popping one of the fruit shaped candies into his mouth. "These are pretty good," he complimented. "Have any more?" He took his wand out and cast the levitation spell to send Lily's bag to him.

"That's mine!" Lily shrieked, taking her wand from the place it sat next to her.

"What ya going do with the wand, red?" Jared didn't even look at Lily, too busy rummaging through her bag. "You're just a firsty. You'd be lucky if you can tickle me with it!"

Hugo hid a smirk. Lily was going to get a public reputation for herself before they even officially made it to Hogwarts. Everyone in their family didn't really mess with her. Being the littlest didn't always mean that you were the weakest.

"Let us go, and you won't have to find out," Lily told him, her voice a bit shaken.

"I'm not going to raise my wand to you, so put yours away, or I'll take it from you."

"Do you even think it's wise to have a first year raise a wand up to you to begin with?" Hugo asked slowly. "Think of the things she may try to cast and what might happen as an outcome."

"Shut it!" Edison snarled, showing Hugo his fist.

"Go ahead and hit me!" The red headed boy dared. "You're only proving that the both of you are cowards; Picking on two smaller kids!"

Jared rolled his eyes, tossing Lily's bag in between Hugo and Lily, tucking a collection of candy into his pockets. "Bloody first years, they're a menace!" He sighed mockingly. "Shall we show our superiority to them?" He asked Edison with a glint into his eye.

"Oh, we shall!" Edison said excitedly. Both boys pointed their wands to Hugo. The young boy closed his eyes, preparing for the worst, but his cousin cried out a spell, and Hugo let out a sigh of relief.

"Give us our wands back, red!" Jared demanded.

"How did she do that?!" Edison gaped at Lily who was now standing with her wand pointed at Jared, holding both their wands in her other hand.

"We're going to walk out that door-" Lily was interrupted as Jared launched at her, underestimating her. "Stupify!" Jared went limp and fell backward. Edison's lip began to tremble. He raised his hands up into the air in surrender.

"Do you have a problem with us leaving now?" Hugo asked cockily, gathering up his and Lily's items.

"N-No!" Edison stuttered.

"Good," Hugo said approvingly. "Let's go," he said, gesturing Lily out of the compartment.

"Fuchsia," Lily muttered under her breath.

Hugo rolled his eyes, but couldn't help laughing. Lily always had to have the last word. And this was one time that he could really appreciate it. Jared and Edison's pink hair would last quite a while.

"Don't worry, mates," Hugo taunted, dipping his head back into the compartment. "You can always tell everyone that you're Metamorphmagi!"

Okay, so maybe he had to have the last word too.

"Sorry, we're late," Rose's voice came up behind them. Lily and Hugo turned to see her, Scorpius, and Albus approaching them. "Thought you were going to save us a compartment?" She asked with a puzzled look.

"I think they had a bit of a problem." Scorpius tossed his head to the side, and they all looked into the compartment that Hugo and Lily had just left.

"The Sempter brothers," Albus muttered. "Did they give you any trouble?!" He asked Lily. "Because if they did-"

"They'll be fine," Hugo interrupted his cousin. "I think they now know that it's unwise to mess with Lily Luna Potter."

The group exchanged a few smirks before bursting out into hearty snickers at the Sempters' pink hair.