Thanks for all the reviews. Ok, I remember I said in an earlier chapter I was changing this to T, I just realised it's already a T (I could have sworn it was only a K+) so no need to worry about that.

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It's weird having two parents who have completely opposite opinions when it comes to timing. We've got Mum who has to be everywhere early and then there is Dad who is always 'on time' which actually means he's always a few minutes late (or later). This is concluded to mean that we're either early or late, never just on time.

Depending on who is taking us to the station depends if we'll be running late or if we'll be easily early. This time, it's Dad who has landed the job of dropping us of at the station as Mum had to go into work early for a case on the Werewolf legislation of 1993 (it's not hard to guess that Mum's on the side to get rid of it completely and it's not a shocker that Teddy's right alongside her with this one). It's no surprise really that we're running a bit (and by 'bit' I mean 'lot') behind schedule.

"HUGO WEASLEY! GET YOUR BLOODY FREAKING FRECKLES DOWN HERE!" Rose shouted from down stairs. Hastily I slammed the lid of my trunk shut; an angry Rose was not one to be irritated, especially when she has actual authority over me (or will in an hour or so when we're on the train).

"COMING!" I called down to her and almost ran down the stairs, my trunk clunking along behind me.

Everything was rather typical when I got to the kitchen/dining room (where we were meeting). Rose was checking things off a piece of parchment, to make sure nothing important got left behind, her Head Girl badge was pinned on the front of her grey cardigan. Dad on the other hand was frantically running around the kitchen muttering "Where are the keys? Where are the keys?"

"Dad, you could just summon them." I told him as I heaved my trunk over to stand beside Rose's.

Dad smacked his head. "Of course. Accio Car keys." And with that the keys zoomed out of his pocket. Rose and I started laughing while Dad's ears went pink.

Speeding along the road to Kings Cross, Dad was only startled once and we avoided having any major accidents. I have to say I was very proud of him, you should have seen him the first time he took us out in the car, almost crashed us into a please-man, Merlin that was embarrassing.

But anyway, we made it to the station 15 minutes before the train was supposed to leave. Rose was in a slight state of panic because she's like Mum and needs to be on time. I'm just a go with the flow type person (although I detest being too late).

"It'll be fine, Rosie. You'll get there on time." Dad said casually as he loaded her trunk onto a trolley in quite a slow manner. It was almost as if he didn't want her to get on the train so she couldn't see that 'rotten, wicked, evil' boyfriend of hers. He just doesn't get it that his behaviour won't stop Rose going out with Malfoy; I doubt he ever will to be honest.

"Dad, the train leaves in 10 minutes; we should be on the platform!" Rose said, her voice getting higher and higher each word.

"Rose, we'll be fine. It'll take us two minutes to get onto the platform," I said as we made our way to the barrier between platforms 9 and 10, "then it'll take us 3 minutes to get everything loaded on the train and then voila, we've got 5 minutes to say goodbye to Dad and the rest of the family."

"Oh, okay." Rose's voice returned to its normal tone.

"Thanks." Dad mouthed to me. I just shrugged, a paranoid Rose is something no one should have to deal with. I pity Malfoy; I really do, if he makes it till the end of the year she'll be freaked over N. E. W. Ts and take all the anger out on him. That poor, poor guy. Well not really, I don't really like him much to be honest. But maybe that's because he's dating my sister.

"Well you too be safe this year." Dad said as he ruffled my hair (why do people do that? I'm not 4!) And have Rose a hug, "and I mean especially you Rosie."

"DAD!" Rose exclaimed, blushing beetroot.

That's it. I'm not commenting on anything more of that conversation.

Rose, Al, Lily and I (we'd been joined by Uncle Harry, Aunt Ginny and James) hopped on the train and waved as the train took off up the tracks.

"MAKE SURE TO CAUSE LOADS OF MISCHIEF! YOU TOO ROSIE!" James called after the train.

Lils, Al and I laughed and Rose was caught between being amused and disapproving of the situation.

"Well since I'm not a pompous prefect, I'll just be finding Vincent." Al grinned at us and then started off up the train carriage with his trunk.

"Well you two better get to the prefect carriage. We'll be telling you what to do soon." Rose turned on her business like voice and so Lils and I walked into the prefect carriage. Predictably Tiffany Zabini (right snobbish Princess she was) was a prefect, along with Patrick Lewis from Slytherin. There was Hazel (who waved at me when we came in, there was a slightly weird feeling in my stomach at that) and Alastair Walton from Ravenclaw. And the Hufflepuffs were Gemma Pauls and Liam Smith. Oh and I suppose there were some 6th and 7th year prefects that I don't really know the names of and I actually can't be bothered to find out for all 7 of you reading about my life (not that you'd want to know). Lils and I sat in the only two free seats, Lily's next to Gemma's (who she started having a conversation with) and mine right by the door of the compartment.

There were a few minutes of mindless chatter and Alastair and I talked about Quidditch, Liam knew more about Quidditch but I honestly don't like the guy (incident, third year, you don't need to know) so I wasn't planning on talking him, and to Patrick Lewis? Forget it!

Then after about 10 minutes, Rose and Malfoy (I know you are completely and utterly shocked that the guy who was second best in his year was head boy, please don't faint on me! Yes, that was sarcasm) came in and started talking about what our duties were as prefects and going over rules and regulations and things. I sort of zoned out after a few minutes (I knew Rose's whole speech, she was practising on me in the holidays) and it was so boring I actually don't want you to suffer. Don't get me wrong, it's not Rose who is boring, it's just that it is impossible to make rules an interesting speech topic (I know, Rose tried).

"And so that's it." Rose finished. "Any questions?"

Thankfully, no one put their hand up.

"Alright then, we'll need some of you to stay and patrol the corridors every once and awhile but most of you can go." Malfoy said and Lily and I quickly left (we wanted to find Beth and Alex, and obviously didn't want to get stuck with patrol duty).

"How was the meetings, oh mighty prefects?" Beth asked as Lily and I heaved our trunks into their compartment at the end of the train.

"It was o-"Lily started.

"Boring." I cut across her. She gave me a look but I just shrugged in response, "what? It was!"

"I don't think prefects are supposed to think that, mate." Alex chuckled.

"Na, I wasn't the worst there. Lily Travers from sixth year fell asleep within the first 10 minutes." I informed them and then slumped onto the seat next to Alex.

"And Rose was ok with that?" Beth raised her eyebrows.

"Are you kidding? Rose stuck her on patrol duty." Lily grinned.

Both Beth and Alex chuckled.

"So who are the other prefects then?" Alex asked us as he chucked me a chocolate frog.

"Tiffany Zabini," I pulled a face at him, "and Patrick Lewis from Slytherin."

"Hazel Richards," I only went slightly pink as Lily said that, "and Alastair Walton from Ravenclaw."

"And Gemma Pauls and Liam Smith from Hufflepuff." I finished.

"Ergh, they chose that prat to be prefect?" Alex asked.

"Well they did choose that prat too." Beth nodded her head in my direction.

"Hey!"

Beth just grinned.

"So did you actually finish that essay for Binns?" Alex asked me.

"Yeah, of course I did." I scoffed at his belief that I'd procrastinate. "Ages ago."

"Midnight last night?" Alex guessed.

"I'll have you know that it was 10:30 thanks." I told him.

The other three laughed.

"What? It's all finished, isn't it?" I defended myself.

"Yeah but it's so typical you'd procrastinate." Lily said.

"I know, isn't it great I never fail to disappoint with my typicalness."

"Not a real word." Beth muttered.

"You know you could actually try and do it before the last minute." Lily told me.

"Yes I could, but I don't really think I'll bother. Chuck me another frog." I said and Alex happily obliged.

"But-"Lily started.

"You're fighting a losing battle there, Lily." Alex said. "You'll never get him to study more."

"Well what about you then?" Lily rounded on him.

"Well...I..."Alex started lamely.

"We're waiting for an answer, Alexander." Beth had her arms crossed.

"Well obviously I'm just as bad as Hugo. You should know that, Bethany." Alex answered.

"Hold up. Hold up!" I interrupted. "How come he can call you Bethany without you exploding but I'm not allowed to use it?"

"Because Alex is nice, you're a prat." She shrugged. "And that reminds me, wasn't I supposed to jinx you for calling me Bethany?" She pulled out her wand.

"Ah...no...I don't remember anything like that....anything at all!" I said, looking worriedly at the wand pointed at me. Unfortunately Beth is an extremely good hexer and can shatter my shield charm in three seconds.

Needless to say, five minutes later I looked a little different to how I normally did. I'm not going into details so you can tease me about it later, Beth, Alex and Lily will have a good time doing it all by themselves.

"So does anyone want to play Wizard Chess?" I asked them.

"Of course. Get ready to get thrashed, Hugo Weasley." Alex said and pulled out his chess pieces from his trunk.

"I think I'll pass on that one, what say you Lils?" Beth said.

"Well I said I'd see Sam so I think I'll do it now while those two are absorbed in their game." Lily said and waved as she left.

Beth got out her essay and Alex and I started to play.

"Pawn to D3." I said and my chess piece moved.

"What does she see in him? Pawn to E7." Alex said.

"Lily in Sam Williams? Pawn to C4."

"Honestly mate, how else would I be talking about? Pawn to E1."

"I don't know. Some French girl you met over the holidays?" I shrugged. "Pawn to D5. Well he's pretty smart, I suppose."

"Pawn to F8." Alex made his move. "Do you really think that's all she sees in him? I mean-"

"Why don't I put you out of your misery?" Beth said as she put her quill back in the ink pot.

"What?" Both Alex and I turned around to look at her.

"Lily. Sam." She said in a slow voice, like she was explaining that the Quaffle goes through the goal hoops and scores 10 points to three year olds.

"Yeah, we get that part." Alex rolled his eyes. "If you're so smart, what does she see in him?"

"According to Lily, Sam's smart, funny, sweet and caring." Beth told us (well more Alex than me but I was still listening, the guy was causing my friend heartache and my cousin joy at the same time, it was a hard position, I'll tell you that). "It doesn't hurt he's good looking too." She added as an afterthought.

"Oh come on, he's not that good looking." I said automatically. Beth just raised her eyebrow at me. "Well he's not." I defended.

"To you, of course not, but to the rest of-"Beth countered.

"Come off it, his nose is off centre and-"

"His nose if off centre? Hugo Weasley, why on earth does that matter?!"

"Well you know-"I started.

"I think I'll just give up." Alex sighed with a particularly glum look on his face as both Beth and I turned around to look at him.

"Don't think like that Alex." Beth said and she sat down next to him and put an arm around his shoulder.

"Yeah mate, she'll work it out eventually that you were meant to be." I reassured him. It was quite scary, my usually cheerful best friend suddenly down about Lily not liking him. Obviously it had always been hard on him but maybe now everything was pilling on top of him.

Now you mustn't think I'm eating my words, I did tell Alex to get over Lily after all but I didn't mean it like that. I certainly don't want him wallowing in self pity for a few months. If he's going to give up on my cousin then he'll have to do it cheerfully (well as cheerful as you can when this sort of thing is happening).

Anyway, after five more minutes of encouraging pep talk from Beth and me, Alex did look a little bit more positive. I honestly don't know why it got him down at this particular moment. Suppose it's just part of growing up. Although I'm pretty sure mood-swings are more of a girl thing. It sums Beth up to a tee.

Now I really could go on and on about all our conversations we had over the train ride (but honestly, that would take way too long and honestly it would be quite boring for all 3 of us) but I think I'll just sum it up for you in a few words.

Quidditch.

Homework.

Lily and Sam (although not too much).

Prefect stuff.

And that's what we talked about (well there were more topics of conversation but those were the main ones). And then there were things we did.

Beth triple checked her essay.

Alex and I played Wizard Chess (he won).

We all played exploding snap.

Beth read.

Alex and I had a staring contest.

More exploding snap.

And that sounds like all of it.

Another chapter of my boring life for you all to enjoy, well tolerate at any case. Still confused over here about why you're here but that's beside the point.

I feel like I've gone on a bit too long now. Your thoughts on the matter?

Well I'll see you at the feast I suppose, if you haven't died of boredom or got off your lazy butts and found someone interesting to listen to.

Author's note: Sorry times a million for the wait for the update. I could go on for hours about how I've been busy at school (well I have had two major speeches I had to do for French and German but that's not too bad) and how I didn't have time but that would be lying as I just haven't been in the mood. Oh and I read some great fanfictions that took up a lot of my computer time. I do recommend you read "Marauders Advice Thingy" which is hilarious, although slightly inappropriate in some places (let's just say there is a reason it's a T).

But onto the point, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and if not, pop me a review (or if you did, I'm not fussy on the reviews I get). Thanks heaps for reading (I'll try and update faster).

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