Chapter 33 - The Adding of Hufflepuff
People in this Chapter.
Lewis James Potter, Harry James Potter, Ronald Weasley,
Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Neville Longbottom,
Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ernie Macmillan,
Justin Finch-Fletchley, Wayne Hopkins, Zacharias Smith,
Gary Smith, Bobby Goldstein, Cedric Diggory,
John Sprout, Anthony Goldstein
The Hufflepuff boys showed up for the meeting with
Anthony in tow. "Hi Ant, what are you doing?" Asked Lewis.
"My twin is here for a meeting, so I followed." Said Ant.
Lewis just looked at him for a few minutes,
looked at Fred and he nodded ok.
"You can stay, you're here ahead of seclude anyway.
You boys are here because you are Joining the Brotherhood of the Owl, founded to protect Hogwarts agent a new threat."
"Why us?" Said Cedric.
"You and John are here because of Fred and George,
and I have plains on uniting all the First years.
If all you will join you will get advanced training you would not have gotten for years." Said Lewis. "So, would you all like to join the Brotherhood? Do you all want to talk it over?" Asked Lewis.
"Yes, give us a few minutes." Said Cedric.
Lewis and Fred walked out and waited in the hall.
"Fred explained the group to me completely,
we must join. This group will be the most important thang we can do as a group to help our school.
We can protect our school and learn spells.
Lewis knows spells some of our teachers do not know.
Twins do not you want to protect you another half.
We need to join so we can protect our school and our house.
The Gryffindors wants to protect the hole school,
but they need our help. We must live up to our founder values.
She would want us to help the Gryffindors,
after all this is our school as much as theirs,
so it is just as much our responsibility to protect as there's,
and it is purely our responsibility to protect our house.
So what do you say, so do we support them or do we let our Gryffindor Brethren down." Said Cedric.
"We do it, we must." Said John.
"I must do it, there someone I must protect.
I can't afford to lose Zac." Said Gary.
"Yes, can't lose this guy and he useless without me." Said Zac.
"Yes, same reasons but I want be able to protect him in his house but if I can come to his aid." Said Bob.
There were a few minutes of silence, then Wayne spoke up,
"I will, if we lose some one from our house or our school,
I could not live with myself?" Said Wayne.
"If you all are, I must join, not going let my friends risk themselves without me." Said Justin.
"Justin Sweety if you doing it so am I." Said Ernie.
"I know I am not a Hufflepuff, but if Bob joining,
I am to. I don't know this Lewis yet,
but my twin is not joining without me." Said Ant.
"So, we are all in agreement." Said Cedric.
"I think we should elect Cedric as the Hufflepuff team leader part of the brotherhood our part of the group." Said Bob.
"We agree." Said the rest.
"I know I can't vote, but good idea." Said Ant.
"Let me go and get them." He went out to the hall and said,
"Guys came in please, we got an answer."
"So, joining or not-joining?" Asked Lewis.
"We have a question." Said Cedric.
"What is it?" Asked Lewis.
"We want to join, but you must let my twin to." Said Bob.
"Ant, can you keep a secret from your dorm mates for months,
possibly up to a year." Asked Lewis.
"Yes, but will you add them, Ravenclaw needs protecting to."
Said Ant. "We are good people to. Please add us soon."
"I will add them in one month. I promise but will add you now,
and you can help me bring your bunch to the Brotherhood
in one month. Also, I want you to get to know two third years from your house, work with Fred to figure out who.
Make it seem like you need homework help to get to know them."
Said Lewis. "We need this before we can join your dormmates."
"You need to keep secrecy right." Asked Ant.
"So where do we meet?" Asked Cedric.
"There is a Hufflepuff House shield that is in the first-year dorm coded to the Hufflepuff Brotherhood members only
it is next to the dorm room door.
Put you hand flat on it and you will be teleported to the room.
Ant is a Ravenclaw Hose shield in your dorm next to your dorm door to coded only to you at the minuet.
I want all of you to go and use it." Said Lewis.
"Sure." Said the Brotherhood.
Lewis and Fred made for Lewis's dorm,
and use the transport circle to go to the Brotherhood HQ.
The Hufflepuffs started showing up one by one and one,
then lastly was Ant. When Harry asked,
"Lewis why is a Ravenclaw here?"
"Ant is Bob's twin, and our opening to get the rest of the first year Ravenclaw and finding two third year Ravenclaws,
and he Followed his twin. There us from another house."
Said Lewis. "We can't separate them."
"Guys you can look at your rooms after,
I am the groups co-leader, my name is Lewis Potter,
our other co-leader is Ron Weasley,
we also have house leaders ours is Fred Weasley
and Harry Potter my Twin. The rest of the Gryffindor Brotherhood is Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas,
Seamus Finnigan, and George Weasley." Said Lewis.
"Is Percy joining?" Asked Cedric.
"Why do you ask?" Asked Lewis.
"No offence Weasleys, but not sure he can be trusted.
He might fell he needs to turn us in. Seen him do it.
And redesigning the castle might be it." Said Cedric.
"We said we would consider him for membership,
but he must prove himself." Said Lewis.
"So have you voted for a Hufflepuff Leader?"
"They voted me leader of the Hufflepuff Brotherhood."
Said Cedric. "Not sure why but it was their choice."
"I can see why." Said Lewis. "Who do you want to be your
co-leader of Hufflepuff membership of the Brotherhood?"
"Justin." Said Cleric.
"Hufflepuffs, do you agree?" Asked Lewis.
"Agree." Said the Hufflepuff membership.
"Hufflepuffs go check out your rooms." Said Lewis.
"How did you know who was coupled together?" Asked Zac.
"I did do some checking before you guys joined,
and figured that out, but I had to make sure I know who I was invited into the Brotherhood." Said Lewis.
"You read our minds, though I felt someone was in my mind,
but almost did not fell it, your good.
You wanted to protect your members I can't blame you,
I would have done the same." Said Cedric.
"Promise to keep what you read from our minds secret."
Said Zac. "I think you read stuff we might not want known."
"I am not telling any thang I read from you guys and that includes those from my house, there your memories to tell not mine to tell." Said Lewis.
As the Hufflepuffs went to check out their rooms.
Lewis quickly set up Ant and Kev room.
Ant noticed Lewis almost passed out and Asked,
"Are you ok?" Asked Ant.
"Yes, help me to the kitchen please. I am really lightheaded form making your room." Said Lewis and they walked
to the kitchen and Lewis's grab something from the fridge,
and sat down to eat it. Ant walked to the door and saw his name above a door with his boyfriend's and went and looked in it.
"I need to quickly train you all from Hufflepuff to
protect your minds, I can't have anyone reading the
secrets of the Brotherhood from your minds.
Snape will try he tried it to me." Said Lewis.
He then trained them one by one how to fully protect their minds and recognize who trying to read their minds.
The Gryffindors and the Hufflepuffs spent the rest of the day in their rooms and exploring the HQ.
There were also eight empty rooms for more members.
A Room labeled dueling range, Hospital Wing,
The Dog Yard, Restricted Books Room, Kitchen, Personal Vaults,
Meeting Rooms Dumbledore, Meeting Rooms Black,
Meeting Room Hagrid, Meeting Room Merlin,
Obviosity, Study Hall, Map Room,
Pool – Hot Tub, Restrooms, Bathhouse.
The main room has Bookshelves all the way around the room, grouping round couches with magic fire pit in the center,
the roundtable in the center of the room, four smaller round tables to one side.
Lewis and Harry were sitting on one of the couches half asleep,
when Cedric walled up to him and sat down and said,
"Lewis you made this room somehow." Said Cedric.
Ron walked up and sat down.
"Why would you say that?" Asked Lewis.
"Because this is not part of the castle." Said Cedric.
"You have seen the Marauders Map." Said Lewis.
"You know of the Map?" Asked Cedric.
"Do you know who made it?" Asked Lewis.
"There are coded names, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.
Don't have a clue who they really are." Said Cedric.
"I know the names of all four." Said Lewis.
"Who are they and what do you know about them."
Asked Cedric. "Can't believe you know who they are."
"Sirius Black is Padfoot." Said Lewis.
"Do you mean Sirius Black the madman who killed some man named Peter Pettigrew." Said Cedric.
"NO." Said Lewis, "Serius is the man who saved my life also our godfather, and my father, James Potter or Prongs,
best friend. He never killed Peter, since Peter was their Friend, also called Wormtail. I found Wormtail turned him into Dumbledore to get our godfather out."
"So, you meet two out of the four of them." Said Cedrick,
"so who is Moony?"
"Remus Lupin was one of the friends." Said Lewis.
"What was with the names?" Asked Harry.
"Three of them are animagus, Dad or Prongs was a Stag,
Serius or Padfoot is a giant black wolf,
Peter or Wormtail was a Rat." Said Lewis.
"He was my family pet for a long time,
now I know why, after the dispute between him and your godfather he went into hiding and he chose my family house,
a home to wizards and witches, where he could lesion to the Wizard Wireless Radio, see the newspaper,
and lessen to a member of the British Ministry of magic."
"That is correct, I pulled it from his mind when I found him at your house." Said Lewis.
"So why is the last called Moody?" Asked Cedric.
"Lupin is still alive, and I can't tell anyone."
Said Lewis. "This is Part of the Castle, but I been able to hide it from the map completely."
"You know how to re-make the map don't you." Said Cedric.
"Yes, Yes I do." Said Lewis, "It was a co-creation of my Dad and my Godfather, you did not go into the map room I am guessing.
There is a 3D Map of the school based of the map."
"There a map room?" Asked Ron. "We have a need for a map room, we have that many maps."
"Yes, name a map and we have it." Said Lewis.
"The ministry of magic?" Asked Ron.
"Yes, public record." Said Lewis.
"We do have a nice HQ." Said Cedric.
Fred and George walked over and sat down.
"Yes, and after we get our Ravenclaw members in here,
not sure what to do about Slytherin. We need a few members,
in that house but half the first years can't be trusted,
and the other half are unknowns. We have to start figuring out trustworthy Slytherin or figure out a secure way to bug the Slytherin house." Said Lewis.
"Bug, why would we want to infest the Slytherin house with bugs, gross?" Asked Ron.
"Muggle term, maybe just American, it means to put spy devices in a place to keep an eye on something or someone,
muggles use camera and microphones." Said Lewis.
"I got two projects that need done, Cedric and John I need you to work on finding a list of trustable Slytherins.
Fred, George, and Ant I need you three to find two third years from Ravenclaw." Said Lewis.
"How long on each one?" Said Fred.
"The two Ravenclaws about 1 month. The Slytherin Project would prefer before the end of the school year and we do not have to find them all at once, but I do want two third years and two from any other year but the same year, and I have am thinking about Blaise Zabini and Oliver Rivers but we need to get to know them. We need them in pares from same year so there in same dorm so there someone to watch the other back." Said Lewis. "Now we have more people to keep an eye on Snape and Quirrell also on Fluffy room."
"Why are we keeping an eye on those two teachers and what a Fluffy that we are watching?" Asked Cedric.
"What, we are supposed to be watching them?" Asked Fred.
"I forgot to tell you about that, the rest of the Gryffindor Brotherhood knows about it." Said Lewis.
"Remember how I was talking about Nicolas Flamel,
with you and Percy."
"Yes." Said Lewis.
"Do you know what he made?" Asked Lewis.
"Seeing how he is six thousand years old,
it must be the recipe for the ultimate no melt ice cream."
Said Fred. Lewis tried to look at Fred with this shut up look.
"Seeing how he the oldest member of my clan,
of course we all know about the stone." Said Fred.
"Then you know why Voldemort and his followers getting the stone would be very bad." Said Lewis.
"There a theory that is the stone is used on the dead it will restore life." Said Lewis. "And I think we all remember what happened last time he was alive. I am going go rest some.
You guys enjoy the HQ." Lewis walked to the Exit point,
Touched the Lion and vanished.
"Think he really sleeping or just setting in his spot." Asked Ron.
"Setting till he becomes exhausted, or I secretly use a sleeping spell on him, like I do half the time." Said Harry.
"I'm going to play," he told Ron and Harry.
"If I don't, all the Slytherins will think I'm just too scared to face Snape. I'll show them... it'll really wipe the smiles off their faces if we win." Said Lewis.
"Just as long as we're not wiping you off the field," said Ron.
As the match drew nearer, however, the Twins became more and more nervous, whatever they told Ron.
The rest of the team was not too calm, either.
The idea of overtaking Slytherin in the house championship was wonderful, no one had done it for seven years,
but would they be allowed to, with such a biased referee?
They didn't know whether they were imagining it or not,
but he seemed to keep running into Snape wherever he went. At times, he even wondered whether Snape was following him, trying to catch him on his own. Potions lessons were turning into a sort of weekly torture, Snape was so horrible to Lewis.
Could Snape possibly know they had found out about the Sorcerer's Stone? They did not see how he could,
with their training but somehow snape was getting information.
Ron knew, when he wished the twins good luck outside the locker rooms the next afternoon, Ron was wondering whether he would ever see the twins alive again.
This was not what you'd call comforting.
They hardly heard a word of Wood's pep talk as he pulled on his Quidditch robes and picked up his Nimbus Two Thousand.
The Brotherhood sat together. Hermione, who could not understand why they looked so grim and worried,
or why they had both brought their wands to the match.
Little did the Twins know that Brotherhood had been secretly practicing a list of curses, ready to use it on Snape if he showed any sign of wanting to hurt their Twins.
Back in the locker room, Wood had taken Lewis aside.
"Don't want to pressure you, Potter, but if we ever need an early capture of the Snitch it's now. Finish the game before Snape can favor Hufflepuff too much." Said Wood.
"The whole school's out there!" said Fred Weasley, peering out of the door. "Even - blimey - Dumbledore's come to watch!"
The twins' heart did a somersault.
"Dumbledore?" Lewis said, dashing to the door to make sure.
Fred was right. There was no mistaking that silver beard.
They were smiling at each other.
Lewis waved the Weasley twins over.
Lewis said to them and Harry.
"We are safe there was simply no way that Snape would dare anything with Dumbledore watching."
Perhaps that was why Snape was looking so angry as the teams marched onto the field, something that Ron noticed, too.
"I've never seen Snape look so mean," Fred told Harry.
Someone had poked Ron in the back of the head. It was Malfoy.
"Oh, sorry, Weasley, didn't see you there." Said Draco.
Malfoy grinned broadly at Crabbe and Goyle.
"Wonder how long Potter's going to stay on his broom this time?
Anyone want a bet? What about you, Weasley?"
Ron didn't answer; Snape had just awarded Hufflepuff a penalty because George Weasley had hit a Bludger at him.
Ron, who had all her fingers crossed in her lap,
was squinting fixedly at Lewis, who was circling the game like a hawk, looking for the Snitch.
"You know how I think they choose people for the Gryffindor team?" said Malfoy loudly a few minutes later,
as Snape awarded Hufflepuff another penalty for no reason at all. "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potters,
who's got no parents, then there's the Weasleys,
who've got no money you should be on the team,
Longbottom, you've got no brains."
John turned and said, "You know you're out numbered.
No one up in this stand likes you."
Draco looked around and seen a hole stand of boys pissed at him with the look they might chunk him off the side.
"You might want to run for it. Your safety is at risk."
Draco and his two left.
"Ron!" said Neville suddenly, "Lewis -"
"What? Where?"
Lewis had suddenly gone into a spectacular dive,
which drew gasps and cheers from the crowd.
Ron stood up, his crossed fingers, as Harry streaked toward the ground like a bullet.
"Come on, Lewis!" Ron screamed, leaping onto his seat to watch as Lewis sped straight at Snape up in the air,
Snape turned on his broomstick just in time to see something scarlet shoot past him, missing him by inches - the next second, Lewis had pulled out of the dive, his arm raised in triumph, the Snitch clasped in his hand.
The stands erupted; it had to be a record, no one could ever remember the Snitch being caught so quickly.
"Ron! Ron! The game's over! We won! We have won!
Gryffindor is in the lead!" shrieked Neville,
dancing up and down on his seat and hugging Ron.
Lewis jumped off his broom, a foot from the ground.
He could not believe it. He had done it - the game was over;
it had barely lasted five minutes. Harry landed and run to Lewis,
and hugged Lewis.
As Gryffindors came spilling onto the field,
he saw Snape land nearby, white-faced and tight-lipped then Lewis felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up into Dumbledore's smiling face.
"Well done," said Dumbledore quietly, so that only Harry could hear. "Nice to see you haven't been brooding about that mirror... been keeping busy... excellent..."
Snape spat bitterly on the ground.
Lewis and Harry left the locker room alone sometime later,
to take their Nimbus Two Thousand back to the broom shed. They couldn't ever remember feeling happier.
He'd really done something to be proud of now - no one could say he was just a famous name anymore.
The evening air had never smelled so sweet.
He walked over the damp grass, reliving the last hour in his head, which was a happy blur.
Gryffindors running to lift him onto their shoulders; The Brotherhood in the distance, jumping up and down.
The twins had reached the shed. He leaned against the wooden door and looked up at Hogwarts, with its windows glowing red in the setting sun.
Gryffindor in the lead. They done it, he'd shown Snape...
And speaking of Snape... A hooded figure came swiftly down the front steps of the castle. Clearly not wanting to be seen,
it walked as fast as possible toward the forbidden forest.
Their victory faded from his mind as he watched.
He recognized the figure's prowling walk. Snape,
sneaking into the forest while everyone else was at dinner what was going on?
The twins jumped back on his Nimbus Two Thousand
and took off. Gliding silently over the castle he saw Snape enter the forest at a run. They followed.
The trees were so thick he could not see where Snape had gone. Lewis started following him with his mind until they heard voices and shared this with his twin. In this mental image stood Snape, but he was not alone. Quirrell was there, too.
They could see a nervous look on his face,
but he was stuttering worse than ever. They could catch what they were saying.
"... d-don't know why you wanted t-t-to meet here of all p-places, Severus..."
"Oh, I thought we'd keep this private," said Snape,
his voice icy. "Students aren't supposed to know about the Sorcerer's Stone, after all."
"Have you found out how to get past that beast of
Hagrid's yet?" Asked Severus.
"B-b-but Severus, I -" Said Quirrell.
"You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrell,"
said Snape, taking a step toward him.
"I-I don't know what you…" Started Quirrell.
"You know perfectly well what I mean." Said Snape.
"What is your little bit of hocus-pocus."
"B-but I d-d-don't -" Started Quirrell.
"Very well," Snape cut in. "We'll have another little chat soon, when you've had time to think things over and decided where your loyalties lie."
He threw his cloak over his head and strode out of the clearing. It was almost dark now, but the Twins could see Quirrell, standing quite still as though he was petrified.
"Where have you two been?" Hermione squeaked.
"We won! You won! We won!" shouted Ron,
thumping Harry on the back. Talk about showing Slytherin! Everyone's waiting for you in the common room,
we're having a party, Fred and George stole some cakes and
stuff from the kitchens."
"Never mind that now," said Harry breathlessly.
"Let's find an empty room, you wait 'til you hear this..."
He made sure Peeves wasn't inside before shutting the door behind them, then he told them what he'd seen and heard.
When Harry, Ron, and Neville where in the room.
Lewis secured the room for sound and locked the door.
"The Sorcerer's Stone is in danger,
and Snape's trying to force Quirrell to help him get it.
He asked if he knew how to get past Fluffy and he said something about Quirrell's 'hocus-pocuses.
There are other things guarding the stone apart from Fluffy, loads of enchantments, probably, and Quirrell would have done some anti-Dark Arts spell that Snape needs to break through.
The Stone's only safe as long as
Quirrell stands up to Snape?" Said Lewis.
"It'll be gone by next Tuesday," said Ron.
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