A/N: I own nothing...except the OCs...The template for this, hopefully decent story, is owned by the incredible J.K Rowling.
"Professor?" I asked Mc Gonagall one evening in our extra lessons. "How much longer do you think I'll have these extra lessons?"
"Not much longer I should say especially if you keep up this standard of work." she replied with one of her very rare smiles as I managed to turn my cat into a hamper basket. "All your professors are talking very highly of you in particular professor Lupin. I should say maybe by Christmas you should be sufficiently caught up." Bearing in mind that Halloween was only a week away and Christmas usually came pretty quickly after that. I left the transfiguration lesson feeling quite happy, Professor Lupin had complimented me and I was almost done with these extra lessons.
The next week flew by and Fred George and I planned my first official trip to Hogesmade. "It'll be great Charlie!" exclaimed George. "First of all we'll go by the passageway that goes into Honeydukes cellar, seeing as the passage way behind the mirror caved in last year."
"How'd that happen?" I asked.
"Oh Fred and I were walking back from Hogesmade after a particularly wet day and the fireworks we had in our bags kind of went of in the tunnel causing it to cave in." he explained. "Anyway, so we'll go to Honeydukes, purchase some edibles, then head to Zonkos with Lee stock up on supplies then to The Three Broomsticks for a nice butterbeer."
"Then back to Hogwarts for the feast. Oh is Amanda coming with us." asked Fred.
"Nah, she's in the hospital wing, she's got a really bad case of the flu and is going to be in there for about two weeks." I said.
"Pity." said George
So Halloween came and I woke up early and headed down to the great hall for breakfast. On my way down I saw Fred and George in the common room with Angelina Johnson and Katie Bell. "Do you think we can win it?" asked Katie.
"Of course we can, as long as Harry can keep himself out of trouble long enough!" said Angelina.
"Yeah come on Katie, Wood's an amazing captain and keeper, you two are excellent chasers as is Alica and we're a dab hand with the bats." said George. "Not to mention that Harry has never let us down when it came to catching the snitch."
"Yeah, I suppose you're right." said Angelina.
"Too right I am-oh hey Charlie." waved George as I reached the bottom stair.
"Hey." I smiled.
"Just a little team meeting here come and join us." said Fred. I walked over and remained standing beside them. "I believe you already know Katie, she's in your year and this is Angelina Johnson. She's in our year."
"Hello." I smiled awkwardly at Angelina and Katie.
"Hi." said Angelina rather stiffly.
"Hello." smiled Katie brightly. "We're just talking about our chances for the quidditich cup this year. How do you think we'll do?"
"Er- It's like Fred and George said you've a really strong team, it's just due to chance that you haven't won it for the past two years. So if nothing unfortunate happens between now and the final you'll definitely win." I finished shrugging my shoulders.
"Well said Charlie." grinned George standing up and putting his arms around my shoulder. "Now if you two lovely ladies will excuse us, we're going to breakfast."
"You two coming?" Fred asked looking at Angelina in particular.
"We'll be down in a bit, want to get washed up a bit first of all." replied Angelina. And with that we walked down to the great hall.
After we ate breakfast we headed back to the common room and grabbed our stuff and began our journey to Hogesmade.
When we reached Hogesmade we spent our day as planned, buying dung bombs in Zonkos, "This lot'll keep Filch amused for a while shouldn't it." grinned George as we walked out of the shop and headed to The Three Broomsticks for butterbeer. "Ok first round on me I said as I headed to the bar to buy four butter beers." As I headed back to the seats with the four butter beers in my hands I seen the twins and Lee grinning evilly. "What?" I asked. However, I was too late as at that moment the four butterbeers had emptied themselves all over me of their own accord. There was an eruption of laughter coming from the twins and Lee.
"Well you did say the first round was on you." Cried Fred in hysterics laughing and wiping the tears of laughter away from his eyes.
"Gits." I muttered as I cleaned myself up.
"Sorry Charlie." gasped Lee through fits of giggles. "It was just too easy."
"Oh don't worry I'll get you back!" I grinned as I tipped the remaining contents of the butter beer over Georges head, it appeared he was the perpetrator.
After that we headed back to school my head filled with thoughts of revenge, the scrumptious feast awaiting us and a certain professor with piercing blue eyes sitting at the staff table, who happened to be present in a lot of my thoughts now a days.
After we had stuffed ourselves with the feast and had been entertained by the ghosts we headed back to the common room but when we reached the corridor we found it was full of students.
"Ah come on someone say the password already it's Fortuna Major" Shouted Fred up the hall. "Honestly after thee months how can anybody forget it!" he muttered. However the crowd still stood still and more and more students were joining it. After a few minutes we heard Percy pushing his way through the crowd. "Excuse me I'm head boy let me through!" when he got to the portrait of the Fat Lady I heard him shout. "Somebody get professor Dumbledore. Quick." I still couldn't see what was going on as I was in the middle of the crowd and quite small.
"What's going on I can't bloody see!" I said to Fred standing on my tip toes trying to get a better look.
"Dunno I-" Fred gasped. Then somebody in front of me moved their heads and I could see it too. The portrait of the Fat Lady had been slashed in several places and there were pieces of her portrait lying on the ground. The Fat Lady herself had vanished from the portrait. Just then Professor Dumbledore came along the corridor towards the portrait he was soon followed by McGonagall, Lupin and Snape.
"We need to find her." came Dumbledores calm voice. "Professor Mc Gonagall, please go to Mr. Filch at once and tell him to search every painting in the castle for the Fat Lady." Mc Gonagall nodded her head and started of in the direction of Mr. Filch when we heard Peeves cackling voice.
"You'll be lucky." he grinned broadly.
"What do you mean Peeves?" Dumbledore asked.
"Ashamed, Your Headship, sir. Doesn't want to be seen. She's a horrible mess. Saw her running through the landscape up on the fourth floor, sir, dodging between the trees. Crying something dreadful, poor thing." he added unconvincingly .
"Did she say who did it?" asked Dumbledore calmly.
"Oh yes." Said Peeves dramatically, trying to increase the tension and fear no doubt. "He got very angry when she wouldn't let him in, you see. Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black." There was a collective gasp from all the Gryffindor students and teachers.
"Prefects, head boy. I want you to lead the rest of your house to the great hall, the rest of the houses shall be joining you shortly." Ordered Professor Dumbledore.
Fred, George, Lee and I followed the crowd to the great hall where Ginny joined us a few minutes later.
"You ok?" Asked Fred hugging her.
"Yeah." She nodded.
"Right come on and lets try and find somewhere to sleep." Said Lee grabbing the sleeping bags Professor Dumbledore had left for us all.
That night not many of us slept. It was about three in the morning when I rolled over on to my side and seen Fred was also lying on his side wide awake. "You ok?" I mouthed
"Yep. You?" He mouthed back.
"Yep." I mouthed back again. At that I seen Fred smile and roll over falling asleep shortly after…