Chapter 10: Long Weekends
I am a little late where I live, but I was late bowling and babysitting so I won't make any more excuses. After tonight, I shouldn't have a problem anymore. Here's the newest chapter and I hope you all enjoy! R&R please!
Disclaimer: See Chapter One
The next morning, Harry woke up with something on his shoulder. He opened his eyes and saw red hair.
He smiled slightly and tried to sit up, but found he couldn't. He sighed and felt her look up into his eyes.
"Morning, Harry," she yawned and he waited for her to react. It took ten seconds before she jumped away and said, "Sorry, sorry, Harry."
He grinned and said, "Don't worry about it, Gin, nothing happened. Well, except the fact that I managed to sleep through the night without my potion."
"Is that a good thing?" she asked, still trying not to freak out.
He sat up and said, "Breathe, Gin, stop freaking out. You just woke up on my shoulder."
"And you don't mind?"
"No, Gin, in fact, it was quite nice."
She gave him a small smile and said, "That isn't something you should say to someone you only want to be friends with."
"I know, Gin," he said. "But sometimes they just fall out before I can think."
"I know what you mean," she sighed. "If that happened again, what would you do?"
"The same as I am now," he replied. "Trying to calm you down as you freak out about something that I truly wouldn't mind happening again, especially since it means we both get some rest without being potion induced."
She hugged him and said, "Thanks, Harry, still best friends?"
"Of course, but we're nothing more yet, Gin. This bond was given to us for a reason and if it means we're going to be together someday, I'd rather know for sure that we belong together."
She let go and said, "I agree."
He stood up and said, "Now, I do believe we slept through the night and that means we missed both lunch and dinner." He held out his hand and asked, "So will you accompany me to breakfast, Ginevra?"
"Of course, Harry," she replied and climbed out of his bed to take his hand. "But you'll have to accompany to Gryffindor Tower so that I can change first."
"Of course, Milady," he replied and walked her back to the tower. While he waited in the common room, Ron walked down from the boys dorms and said, "Hey, Ron."
"Hi, Harry," he said absentmindedly.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, mate, I'm good. You," Ron asked.
"Fine, just waiting for Gin," he replied.
"Okay, well, I'm going to go eat."
Ron left and Harry sighed. He wasn't going to get that diary back easily. Gin came down and they walked to the Great Hall.
"Hey, bro," Rigel greeted and they sat down. "You okay? You weren't at lunch or dinner yesterday."
"Yeah, we're good."
They all ate breakfast in relative silence until Harry looked up at the staff table and cursed.
"I have to go, guys, I have to meet Snape for some potions things," he said as he stood up from the table and turned to Ginny. "You coming, Gin?"
She looked at him in shock and then nodded.
"We'll see you all later," he said as they walked together to Snape's classroom. "You okay, Gin?"
"I'm fine, Harry, but thank you for getting me out of there."
"Not a problem. Sev said you can come with me any time you want, okay?"
"Thanks, Harry," she replied and sat down in the back of the classroom.
He walked up to the front and said, "I'm sorry I'm late, Sev, but I started eating before I realized the time."
"It's alright, Harry, I woke up late and didn't realize you were late as well. So what project do you want to start today?"
"Well, first, how did my potion work?"
"Flawlessly," he replied. "Now, answer my question."
"Well, see that I don't know. We could work on so many things, Sev. Just think of things we could develop."
"Yes, I know, I have thought about it, but why don't we start with something that would benefit you or someone you care about?"
"Well, in that case, I suggest we could try an upgrade the Wolfsbane Potion or we could work on a potion that would prevent the effects of the Imperious or Cruciatus curses?" Sev's eyes widened in shock at both ideas and he didn't answer for several minutes.
"Why don't we start on the Wolfsbane Potion?" Sev asked.
"Great, today or tomorrow," he asked.
"We can start working on that tomorrow, but I do believe Miss. Weasley is having a nightmare."
"Shit," Harry cursed before running to Gin's side. 'Wake up, Gin, come on. It's just a dream.'
She moaned groggily and looked up from his arms.
"What happened?"
"You were having a nightmare."
"Oh, I think I need to get something to eat. I'm really hungry all of the sudden."
"Okay, Gin, but we're going to talk about this soon."
She nodded and they walked down to the kitchens since it wasn't time for lunch yet.
They ate something small because they didn't want their friends to worry if they didn't show up to lunch and walked down to the tree by the lake. They sat down under it and stayed silent for a few minutes.
"What happened in your nightmare, Gin?"
"I don't know. I thought someone was talking to me and telling to me to go somewhere, but I didn't want to leave. It sounded weaker, like it was losing strength. Is that good?"
"Yeah, but I'm not sure how good it is that you're still hearing the voice, but maybe it takes time, we'll have to wait and see."
She smiled and he asked, "Do you want to work on homework or go find the others?"
"Let's go find the others, so they don't worry."
They walked to the common room together.
When they arrived, Rigel and Nev were playing exploding snap over by the couches in front of the fire. They went and sat with them and Harry called playing winner when they were done.
For the couple hours before dinner, they were normal until Ron came down from the boys dorms.
He walked over to the four friends and said, "I am so sorry, Harry, I lost it."
Harry's face paled and said, "It's alright, Ron, I'm sure it'll turn up. Why don't head down to dinner?"
Ron agreed almost immediately and Rigel turned to Harry.
"What was that about?"
"I'll explain later, I promise," he replied. "Gin, are you staying the night in my guest room again?"
"Yeah, if that's alright with you, Harry?"
"It's fine, I thought you might want to get some clothes for tomorrow and we can take them over before going down to dinner."
"Okay," she replied and ran upstairs to the girls rooms to get her things.
Harry and Rigel finished their game while she was gone and when she came back down, almost twenty minutes later, she had the weirdest look on her face.
'Are you okay?' Harry asked through their bond.
'Fine, Harry, I just had a letter from mum upstairs and she told me that she and dad were going to Romania for Christmas to see Charlie, so we're going with you and Neville a couple days after the train.'
'Great,' he replied and they all walked to his rooms before heading down to the Great Hall for dinner.
They sat down together with Hermione, Fred, and George sitting near them and had a pleasant dinner.
After, they walked to the Gryffindor common room to play games until curfew, but just before curfew, Fred and George stood up and said, "I think it's time we had that talk, Crusaders."
Harry, amused, asked, "Hermione, will you please excuse us? I believe that Fred and George need to talk and you are very much a stickler to the rules, not that I mind it, but for what we are discussing, we can't have anyone finding out."
"Not a problem, Harry, it's probably better off that I don't know anyways."
"Come on, guys, we'll go to Room of Requirement."
They stood up to leave, but Neville didn't stand.
"Rigel, you and Ginny go ahead. I'll be along in a minute."
They nodded and lead Fred and George out of the common room.
"Why aren't you coming, Neville?"
"I didn't realize you wanted me to," he replied.
"Of course, Nev, you're my brother. We'll have to explain some things, but that isn't a big deal. We'll just have three new members."
Neville grinned and they walked to the Room together. Harry opened the door and smiled at the awesome room. He saw Godric and Rowena's portraits and bowed to both of them.
"Good evening, Godric, Rowena.
"Good evening, Harry."
"It's Aerix tonight. We have three new members."
"Great," Godric said, clapping his hands together. "Do I get to come up with the names this time or are you going to let Ro do it?"
"We'll see who comes up with the best nicknames. Is that fair?"
"Okay, first thing: Welcome to the Crusader's of Mischief. I am Aerix, that is Redwood, and this is Shadow," he said pointing to Ginny and Rigel. "Now, the ones that will be coming up with your code names will be Godric and Rowena."
"Harry, you do realize you are calling two of the Founder's by their first names?" Neville asked.
"Yes, I do, and seeing as they are my ancestors and they asked me to call them by their first name, I don't think it's a problem." Neville nodded and Harry asked, "Is there any more questions before I start explaining?"
"Just one, Harry," Fred asked.
"Yes."
"Well, we want to know if we are just pranksters or is this group more than that?"
Harry grinned and replied, "Good question, for now, we are just pranksters. If that comes to change, well, all of you will be the first to know." They all nodded and began.
"This is a group of pranksters, much like the Marauders and the only reason we aren't the Marauders 2.0 is because Minny would shoot me and then Sirius and then my dad and then maybe James' picture, not to mention what my mum would do," he said with a shudder. "Now, last year, we did the Glacius spell and froze the Great Hall. At the beginning of the feast this year, we changed all of the teacher's hair to help the new first years relax a bit."
"That was awesome, by the way," Fred said."McGonagall looked like she was going to flip."
"That would be because I put a long lasting charm on hers."
George grinned and said, "Wicked."
"Okay, first order of business, since we have more members, we'll have to make a schedule of when we are going to meet. I say once a week is good unless we have a prank to work on." Everyone agreed and he went on. "Second order of business: You all need code names. Do you have any ideas, Ro, Godric?"
"Well, the twins should be something matching. Do either of you have animagus forms?"
"No, but we figured out what we would be if were. We never had the concentration to finish the transformation," Fred said.
"Fred was a hyena and I was meerkat."
"Wow, so fitting," Ginny muttered and they all burst out laughing.
"Okay, I have one for Fred," Godric said. "Cackle."
"That works, considering the way a hyena laughs."
"Devious for George," Rowena said. "Meerkat's are devious, little creatures."
"I agree completely," George said with a small bow to Rowena.
"Now, Neville, what do you think your animagus would be?"
"I don't know, Harry, is there some way we could find out?"
"Hey, Ro, is there a spell to tell what someone's animagus is?"
"Yes, I believe it's Anima Revelio, Harry."
"Okay, what year spell do you think it is?"
"Well, considering most of the students when I was there didn't even know it until they were out of school, I'd say a seventh year, maybe even a sixth."
Harry nodded and said, "Anima Revelio." The spell hit Neville and he slowly shifted into something much different than most of them thought. He was a lion. When he shifted back, Harry was in shock.
"Well, looks like you're the biggest out of all of us, Nev."
"What do you mean?"
"You are a lion," Rowena stated. "I wonder, yes, you show great courage and bravery. Much like Godric, what do you think?"
"Well, if I must, let's say you are Lion. It is a good code name and since it's your animagus, it's even better."
Neville smiled and nodded.
"Now, I don't think there will be anyone else, unless we can convince Hermione to come to the dark side and Draco doesn't need to be a part of this, since we could get in trouble."
"Agreed," Rigel said.
"Okay, since it is well past curfew, I'll send you all back to the common room that way you don't get in trouble and we'll meet again in a week to discuss a prank for Halloween."
He let them let leave together before Gin walked to her room to go to bed. Before she did, Harry gave her some of his potion and told her goodnight.
He walked to his room and settled down for bed, after taking his potion, and went to sleep.
So slightly calmer chapter and there are three new members to the Crusaders. I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and I'll will be posting next week on Chapter 11. R&R and thanks for reading!