Lover of the light chapter 11
AN: Sorry for the wait. I don'teven have an excuse, I'm just a lazy shit. Big thanks to thestorychoosesthewriter for making this story readable :)
"So, Lee, where's that new secret passageway to Hogsmeade you found?" Fred asked Lee when we had walked out of the common room and were out of the fat lady's hearing distance.
"It's right behind the statue of Gregory the Smarmy. I haven't checked it out yet, but I'm damn sure It's a way out of the school," Lee grinned.
"Dammit, Lee. That's the one we found in our first year and it's a dead end," George said.
"What now?" I asked, they didn't seem very worried about the lack of passageways so I just assumed that they had a plan B.
"Don't worry, Ellie. We've got two other options. There's one on the fourth floor behind a mirror that leads to a trapdoor just outside of school borders and one behind a statue of a one eyed witch which leads to cellar of Honeydukes," Fred replied.
"I reckon that since there's so many of us we should use the one behind the mirror," Jo said, "sneaking in and out of that cellar can be tricky."
We made our way to the fourth floor and George pried open the mirror to reveal a narrow satairway that led steeply downwards.
George went in first, Fred and I followed him, after us came Jo and Lee closed the door after us. As soon as the door closed the stairway turned pitch black.
We started inching down the stairs and George said a spell that made the tip of his wand light the way for us.
"Hey, Ellie, can you do any spells yet?" Jo asked me.
"No, I haven't tried any. Why?"
"But you've got your wand with you, right?"
"Yeah," I replied uneasily.
"Let's see if you can do the spell. Take your wand out and say 'Lumos'," She ordered. As nice as Jo was, she sure liked to boss people around.
"I'm not sure this is going to work," I said, but did as she told me to. "Lumos," I uttered as confidently as I could and surprisingly the tip of my wand started glowing brightly.
Fred pinched my cheek. "Oh lookie, ickle Elliekins is all grown up and making magic." I saw George mockingly wipe a tear from the corner of his eye.
Jo gave me a pat on the shoulder. "Fred and George can make fun all they want, but you're quite the special snowflake. This spell is a few years ahead of you, Fred and George couldn't even Wingardium Leviosa their feathers in year one. I seem to recall George blowing his up."
"How about I put a dung bomb in your suitcase sometime?" George gave Jo a psycho looking smile.
"How about you don't," Jo deadpanned. They continued arguing and I tuned out to pay attention to our surroundings. We walked down the stairs for quite a while until we reached the bottom of the stairs.
We continued down a corridor that was just as narrow as the stairs, it's ceiling was so low that all of us had to awkwardly walk while stooping down.
Finally the corridor ended and I tried to peek from behind Fred as George opened the door to freedom.
They stepped out and I followed after them. The old trapdoor was covered by a bush and it was near a trail leading to Hogsmeade (at least that's what I assumed). It was far enough that five children crawling out of a bush would be left unnoticed by anyone walking along the path.
We started walking in the same direction as the trail, but didn't walk along it to avoid being detected. Luckily we weren't very far from the village and after a few minutes of strolling we arrived between the houses.
At first sight Hogsmeade was just another small village. It was normal-looking, definitely not something that would make a person speechless. It was a neat place.
"I reckon we'll go to Zonko's first and if we have any time left we'll visit Honeydukes too. Let's limit our time here to an hour, we really don't want to get caught today," Jo said.
Everyone agreed and we headed down the street.
Zonko's was a prank shop to fulfill even Fred and George's wildest dreams. All of them seemed to be old aquaintances with the shopkeeper, who welcomed them warmly.
"Nice to see you again Fred, George, Lee and Jo. And I see you've brought a new friend along, what's your name?" the shopkeeper, who looked like he was in his twenties, said as a greeting.
"I'm Elise."
"Nice to meet you! You can call me Jack. Have a look around, all prank-soaps are 5% off today."
I nodded and did as he told. Apparently prank soaps were soaps that did the opposite of what a soap should do. If someone tried to wash with them, they would cover the person with all sorts of stuff people really wouldn't want to be covered with. Like tar, bugs or even blood
I ended up picking out a box of multicolored sweets that turned your hair into whatever color you ate (temporarily of course) and two self-correction-quills. I mostly just looked around because I wanted to save up money for Christmas presents and I planned on going (moderately) crazy in Honeydukes.
We said farewell to Jack who told us to come back as soon as we could.
"Fred and George do you even have any money left for Honeydukes?" Jo asked George and Fred whose pockets and hands were full of pranking equipment.
"Of course not! We know you'll share your sweets with us," George said jokingly with a smug look on his face.
"Now what makes you think I would share my booty with you?" Jo answered indigantly and they started bickering again.
I didn't pay them any mind because I could literally smell the sugar coming from the half opened doors of Honeydukes.
I entered the warm shop first and I fell in love with it instantly. I just wanted to devour all of it's contents (except the humans of course, that's cannibalism).
I ended up buying a bunch of sugar quills (I find something oddly satisfying in buying school supplies, them being edible was just a bonus), two Honeydukes chocolate bars and a box of chocolate frogs. As much as I wanted to buy absolutely everything I was still saving up money for Christmas presents.
We paid for all of our stuff and Lee suggested that we should just go back to school through the trapdoor in the cellar of Honeydukes.
Everyone agreed, because it was quite chilly outside and no one wanted to walk all the way to the bush.
We waited for a while until the shopkeeper's back was turned and sneaked into the cellar. As quickly as possible with five people we got into the secret passage and made the trip back to school. It was a bit more comfortable than the one behind the mirror and it didn't look as it would collapse any second.
After a very uncomfortable journey (George and Jo argued the whole way into the castle) we arrived to the exit, which was in a statue of a one eyed witch.
It was past curfew, so the five of us had to be quite careful about going back to the common room. There was a close call with mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, but somehow we managed to not get caught by anyone.
Stepping into the common room I was greeted by a strange sight. Hermione was still up, she was sitting on one of the sofas, wearing her fluffy pink bathrobe and a scowl.
"Where were you?" she asked, Fred, George, Jo and Lee silently bid me farewell and I braced myself for a lecture from Hermione.
AN: I hope you liked it! If you did (or didn't) feel free to leave a review.