Halloween day crept upon the trio very suddenly.
Harry grumbled darkly as he trudged behind Neville toward the Great Hall. "What the hell's so great about Halloween? It's just another holiday." The two sat down at the RavenClaw table to wait for Hermione.
Harry scowled as his glass filled with an orange like substance reeking of pumpkin. "What's this stuff?"
"It's pumpkin juice."
"At least it isn't milk." Taking a sip he regretted everything and spit it out all over the table.
Neville didn't seem at all surprised as he merely watched his brother hack up the drink. "Truth's balls that stuff sucks." Wiping his mouth on his sleeve he reached over for a glass of water.
"Damn wizards and their stupid weird drinks. Can't these bastards have some normal shit to drink?"
Hermione chose that moment to walk in, arms filled with a mysterious package. "Good morning Neville, Shorty." Harry opened his mouth to retort, but the taller girl merely slapped a hand over his face.
"Shut up midget, the adults are talking." Hermione left the smaller boy to stew in his anger before turning to Neville.
"What crawled up his ass and died?"
"Breakfast isn't agreeing with brother at the moment."
"Well, that doesn't matter at the moment." Ignoring the 'Hey!' shouted at them the girl set the package she had been carrying down before them.
"This was left on my bed this morning." Harry quieted as he also looked at the box. "What the hell is it?"
"I don't know, that's why I brought it down to see if you two knew anything."
"Why the hell would we know bastard?"
"You're right, any brain cells you try to use might all vanish."
"Why you-." Neville grunted as he held on to his struggling brother as he tried to leap at the smirking girl.
"Your buttons are so easy to push midget." Harry fumed, frothing at the mouth as he tried to attack the other.
"Could you two please stop making a scene? You're attracting the wrong kind of attention." Neville pleaded as he looked around the room.
Both Hermione and Harry paused in their actions to notice the silence in the air.
"Shit, let's take this outside." The only female of the trio quickly grabbed her mystery box and dragged both Neville and Harry out of the hall.
"What the hell? All this drama over some stupid junk?" Harry grumbled as he sat on the bed, kicking his feet. Hermione was tempted to tease him about not being able to touch the ground, but she kinda agreed with him.
"Who would send you a box full of junk? Your parents maybe?" Neville pondered softly, but the girl merely shook her head.
"They don't talk with me much, and they're not the type to send shit to me unless they want something broken." The boy shivered at the dark look the other had before changing the subject.
Harry took that opportunity to go and rummaged through the trinkets, not really bothering to listen to the two.
'Let's see here, what can I find that's interesting-oh, hello there.' He grinned widely, pulling out a large slab of rock.
Both teens looked over at him as Harry walked over to his desk. "Whatcha got there brother?"
"Oh, nothing really." He set the rock on the desk and stood back.
"Just gonna test a theory of mine is all." Harry clapped his hands and placed them right on the rock. A burst of electricity blasted through the room as the transmutation occurred, nearly sending the three to the ground.
Hermione cursed loudly as she felt the currents race through her body, nearly electrocuting her. Neville didn't fare much better, seeing as he was closer to the blast he got a bit burnt around his arms shielding his face.
Harry, meanwhile, was holding on for dear life as his theory went a bit to far. The table groaned under his hands and cracked, sending the boy backwards into the wall, Hermione and Neville close behind.
Upon being removed from the transmutation the electricity flowing through the room began to fade way as it's main source of power was gone, letting the three slide to the floor with groans and curses.
"Next time you wanna fuck around with unknown shit Fullmetal, warn us first." Hermione snarled tiredly as she glared at the curled up pre-teen.
Harry was to tired to responded with an insult, so he remained silent on the matter. "Well, at least that's over with." Their roommates chose that moment to walk in.
"What the bloody hell happened here?!" Looks like they're not gonna have a quiet evening.
"Ack! Damn tree." Harry spit out several leaves as he laid on the bed, a cast over his leg and in a foul mood. Neville merely hummed from beside him as he red through their potions text.
"It's your own fault for bothering it brother. Everyone warned you about going against the Whomping Willow." The boy just huffed before looking to the side. "How're your hands Colonel Bastard?" He called to where Hermione also laid, both arms wrapped in casts.
She threw him a dirty look. "Do I look fine you ass? I just got my ass served to me by a damn tree of all things."
Harry grinned at her anger, clearly enjoying it.
"The only reason you both are injured is because Hermione decided to throw you at the tree and that said tree retaliated by attacking you." Neville glared at both of them, causing them to gulp in fear.
"I didn't think the bastard would throw me at the damn thing, we were supposed to tag team the fucker." Hermione huffed softly as she looked away from them. "I couldn't resist the urge to do so." Neville sighed in annoyance at the two 'Adults' before him.
"Why is it that the two of you are spiritually older, but have the mental age of five? I'm the youngest out of the three of us and I'm much more mature then the two of you combined." He pressed a hand over the bridge of his nose.
"Why can't you two just act normal for once? You're gonna give me grey hair, and I'm not even forty yet!" Hermione and Harry glanced at each other in guilt before the smaller opened his arms.
"Come here Al, I know you're stressed out from all of our antics, we'll try to calm down on our fights for a while until you're better." He scowled at Hermione.
"You better agree too bastard." The colonel merely nodded before going back to reading the book she had snuck in to the hospital wing. After that whole emotional moment they spent the remainder of the time simply sitting in silence before the nurse ushered Neville out and forced the two to drink nasty tasting potions.
"What the hell?! This shit tastes like milk!"
She had then put them to rest and retired for the night. Harry had grumbled the entire night but fell asleep once the potion kicked in, Hermione following right after.
Soon, morning came and Neville popped in to check on them before heading off to class. He chuckled quietly before snapping several pictures of Harry cuddled up in his blankets, and of Hermione hanging off the bed, drool dripping from her mouth.
He hide the pictures away for future blackmail and went over to wake the chaotic duo. Knowing how the colonel was in the mornings he had brought peace offerings to not get on the other's bad side.
Hermione grumbled softy but accepted the offered coffee small smile before remembering she couldn't hold the damn mug. Neville merely levitated the cup close to her so that she could drink from it.
Harry meanwhile remained sleeping until Spike flew into the Hospital Wing and announced his presence with a hard thwack to Harry's skull.
"Ow! What the hell Spike?! Why can't you wake me up normally?" The large Bearded Vulture merely cawed before thwacking him again.
"Alright alright I'm awake." Throwing the bird a glare he turned his attention to the duo beside him.
"Where's my coffee?" "You can't have any, or you'll stunt your growth." Neville said as he set the empty mug to the side. Harry pouted at not having some coffee before Hermione made a comment.
"You can't really stunt his growth if he was actually growing, Shorty here is gonna remain small forever." Harry growled at the comment and made to lung at the other, forgetting that he was in a cast.
"Brother wait-" A loud crash echoed through the wing as the boy dropped to the floor like a sack of potatoes, clutching his other leg and letting out curses that would make a sailor blush. Neville sighed at his brother's actions before rushing off to find the nurse.
"Why can't these two stay out of trouble for once?"