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Flora Carrow
Rita was flying around in her animagus beetle form, searching for groups of gossiping students to use their discussions on current events as stories to publish in the Daily Prophet. Then the crazy journalist spotted a group of four students walking in the woods, one of whom was Harry Potter (identified by his untidy jet-black hair). The other boy was a brown-haired portly boy, who Rita had no trouble recognizing as Neville Longbottom. Harry and Neville were accompanied by twin girls (one of them had her hair hanging down and the other had her hair in a ponytail). Rita changed back into her normal form and started following the four students from a distance. Unfortunately for the egomaniacal journalist, she stepped on a twig and froze in her tracks. Harry, Neville, and the twin girls stopped and turned around to face the egotistical journalist with their arms folded across their chests and glares on their faces.
"If it isn't the news editor from the Black Lagoon!" Harry responded in a snide voice.
"And you're supposed to be banished from the school grounds," Neville reminded Rita in a no-nonsense voice. "Because of your bloody tendency to slander people in the Daily Prophet, especially Harry."
"You also don't have any qualms about pushing Harry into the stupid spotlight," growled the twin who's hair was hanging down. "He hates that to the extreme!"
"Who are you?" Rita asked the girl.
"Flora Carrow!" the girl snapped. "And my sister is Hestia. She likes her hair in the ponytail while I prefer mine hanging down."
"Aren't you and Hestia the twin daughters of Amycus and Alecto?" asked Rita.
Flora and Hestia immediately lunged toward Rita and tackled her to the ground. Flora yanked the journalist by the hair and pushed her face into the dirt repeatedly while Hestia pummeled the beetle's back. Rita had dirt all over her face and she coughed and sputtered some of the dirt out of her mouth.
"Don't ever mention the names of our biological parents ever again!!" the Carrow twins warned Rita in a dangerous voice. "They neglected us for years and when we eavesdropped in on them planning to turn us over to the death eaters, we left and took up residence in the orphan tents in Diagon Alley ever since."
"How do Harry and Neville hanging out with you two help?" asked Rita, utterly terrified.
"We've been secretly meeting up with each other since Valentine's Day the year of the Chamber of Secrets fiasco," Flora explained to Rita. "Neville and Hestia appeared to be smitten with each other while Harry and I had a similar reaction."
"The four of us wanted to stay away from most of our fellow students because we didn't like all the gossip," said Hestia. "So we all would find ways of sneaking away to make minding our own business easier."
"That allowed us to bond much more stronger," stated Neville. "No one even saw that coming, especially the night of the Yule Ball."
"That was when Flora and I made it known that we were secretly seeing each other," said Harry. "And everybody in the Great Hall stared at me and Flora in utter shock. Now's the time for you to get utterly shocked."
Harry and Neville cast spells on Rita to keep her standing in place and prevent her from escaping. Then the Carrow twins started smothering honey all over the crazy truth-rejecting journalist. Once they were done, the spells keeping Rita in place were cancelled and she was pushed onto the ground. Then the four students began rolling her around in the dirt to cover her up as much as possible. To make matters for Rita worse, the forest animals were attracted to her because of smelling the honey all over her. Rita screamed and immediately made a run for it, but the animals relentlessly chased her. Harry, Neville, Flora and Hestia breathed sighs of relief.
"What now?" asked Harry.
"Maybe a swim out on the lake." suggested the Carrow twins.
"Sounds good." Harry and Neville replied simultaneously.
Then the four teens began heading for the Black Lake, with Harry and Flora holding hands while Neville and Hestia held hands. With Rita gone for good, the Daily Prophet can start hiring more competent employees. Things for Harry were finally looking up.
The End!
Author's note: Another one-shot finished. I'll leave it up to you to decide if the animals devoured Rita or not. Which girl should Harry be paired with in the next one-shot? Please let me know in a review or a PM, happy reading!