As promised, here's Chapter 7. But a quick A/N before you start to read, it'll clear a few things up; I imagined that Peeves spoke a lot like Rumplestiltskin from Once Upon a Time and how he spoke to all the girls and Mia is pronounced the way it is spelt (Me-uh). Thanks. Enjoy.

Chapter 7
Beats Flyin' with a Weasley

October 8th, 1989
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Quidditch Pitch

It had been now almost over a month since Anna had been attacked by Peeves, that had caused her to have fallen into a minor coma. Anna took her Pain Potions as directed by Madam Pomfrey and never forgot a single Potion, she had excelled in Charms—having been made Professor Flitwick's favourite student—, Potions—actually making Professor Snape smile and even laugh a few times, much to the shock of every student there—, Transfiguration—of course, everyone expected this—, but to everyone's surprise, she'd excelled the most at flying a broom.

Anna stood with Mia, Star, Amos, Ced, Tommy, Jamie, Pete, Al, Hols, Weave, and Clove; all stood in a line, two rows of students, girls to one side and boys to the other. Anna's Flying class was with the Gryffindors and that included the Weasley Twins, Anna rolled her eyes as she faced one of the redheaded twins. He winked at her and already had his hand hovered over his broom, as did the rest of the class.

"Now I want you put your right hand over your broom and say "Up!". Loud and clear. On my whistle."

Amos' Mum whistled and shouts of "Up!" were heard loudly.

Anna had her right hand positioned over her broom and she said "Up!" the broom flew up and Anna caught it perfectly with her right hand. Both Weasley Twins followed suit and their brooms also flew into their outstretched hands.

"Well done, Cloud. You too Weasleys! 10 Points to your Houses... each! Now I want you to mount your brooms and kick from the ground softly, hover for a moment and touch back down." Anna beamed to their Professor, whom beamed right back. "On my whistle..."

Anna mounted her broom as did everyone else, they all waited for the whistle...

The whistle blared and Anna kicked softly from the ground, hovering for a moment before touching the ground once again. The Weasley Twins weren't far behind her. Al, Ced, Tommy, Jamie, Amos, Weaver, and Pete were all right behind them.

Mia, Irys, Clover, and Holly were still hovering. "Mia. . . Take my hand." Anna said. Mia took Anna's outstretched hand and Anna pulled helping her friends' feet find the ground. One by one, Anna helped her girl friends find the ground.

Madam Hooch's whistle blew once everyone was back on the ground, the hawk-eyed Professor beamed at Anna. "15 Points to Hufflepuff for helping out. Well done, and thank you dear." She smiled to Anna, whom beamed her eyes flashing violet for the first time since Peeves' attack with the pile of leaves and hidden stones. "Alright class, that's all for today's lesson. Dismissed. . . Miss Cloud? May I have a quick word?"

"Oh. . . alright Professor," Anna said with a shy smile, she turned to her friends. "Meet you guys in the Common Room before dinner, could someone ask Tilly or Winky to grab Spi something to eat? . . . Thanks Star." With that her friends left her as they carried their brooms to the broom shed and retired to the castle before dinner to do some homework and talk as they all would sit in the fat, fluffy, yellow armchairs of the Common Room and talk about events that some might've missed. But Anna knew her friends, like always for the past month now, would ask what the Professor's would say every time they'd pull Anna back at the end of class to have a small chat.

Anna hoisted her broom—an old and over used Cleansweep 1400—onto her shoulder and followed Madam Hooch to he broom shed to put everything away for the night. "I'm extremely proud of you dear, not only have you excelled in my class, but in all your other classes, Transfiguration was expected of course, but the moment you got on that Cleansweep, no more than a month ago, my jaw dropped at your skill," Madam Hooch said as they put everything in the broom shed, Anna smiled and put down her Cleansweep. ". . . you truly have a gift. I know that first years aren't supposed to be on the Quidditch Teams but we'll see if Minerva'll let you audition once you turn 12, deal? It's a dangerous sport and a lot of people get injured but those are Quidditch injuries, no one has died . . . yet. I'll make sure you audition in your second year and perhaps we'll see if your friends will join as well. You're all quite the gang of friends. Well that's all I wanted to say, now run along. Don't want to keep your friends waiting, or worse run into that menacing Peeves again."

Of course everyone knew about Anna's injury from the Poltergeist, everyone was still seething at him, glaring daggers when he spotted Anna after classes and tried to apologize; but Poltergeists' don't mean nothing when they apologize, they manipulate in order to keep taunting, but what he did to Anna was unforgettable and unforgivable.

Anna's friends never left her alone anymore, unless she was pulled back by a teacher like today. . . Today was the day Anna could forgive him, she was a Hufflepuff and one tiny incident wasn't going to bother her, as it had everyone else.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Entrance Hall

Anna nodded to Madam Hooch before setting off for the castle. She entered the Entrance Hall to find it empty, the Great Hall empty as well, she beamed and her eyes flashed violet and they screamed mischief.

She listened for the faint sound of Peeves and heard him close by, she walked closer to the kitchens and the sound vanished, she let out a sigh of relief, she went to the stairs that led to the Dungeons and all was quiet. She went to the stairs and the faint cackling laughter of the Poltergeist grew louder, Anna walked up the stairs and she found him sitting on top of a chandelier, trying his hardest to unscrew the hanging candles.

Anna looked both ways to find herself completely alone with Peeves, before she smirked up at him and cleared her throat. The Poltergeist looked down at the intrusion, ceasing immediately from his actions like a first year being caught out after curfew. "It's alright Peeves it's just me, Anna, the girl you sent to the Hospital Wing... I-i came to forgive you... I'm a Hufflepuff and as a badger I can't hold a grudge against you, you didn't foresee the consequences of your actions and for that I forgive you," she was looking up at him, her hand outstretched as he flew down from the chandelier to take her hand. "By the way, it unscrews the other way, sweetheart." He beamed wickedly at her and winked.

"You should get out of here dearie, don't want to get caught in the crossfire of the soon-to-fall chandelier." He winked and she giggled.

"Don't need anything else falling on my head." She smirked and he chuckled quietly, nodding. "Goodbye Peeves, see you soon... oh and don't take my friends actions personally, it'll take them a while to adjust to the circumstances of what happened last month." He gave her an understanding nod, letting go of her tiny hand and then flew back up to sit atop of the chandelier, she gave him a wicked smile and turned on her heel to leave him to his business, feeling a lot better than she had been feeling for the past month.

She was almost to the kitchens when she heard the crashing of the chandelier and Peeves' familiar cackling laughter as he flew quickly above her and flew around the corner.

She giggled at his enthusiasm, finally arriving to the kitchens her eyes violet and still screaming mischief.

October 31st, 1989
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - the Great Hall

Halloween had fallen over Hogwarts in no time at all after Anna had forgiven Peeves for his actions to the now famous "The Crashing of the Hidden Stones of 1989" as the castle now called it, Anna, being a full fledged survivor for the incident, was now practically famous amongst the students.

Anna and the gang had started calling themselves "The Mischiefous Lot", courtesy of Professor McGonagall herself, having come upon the lot of students in the Library studying, and Anna never studied... ever.

Anna had simply smiled innocently to her Professor, her eyes flashing violet and screaming mischief, Minerva has simply smirked and said, "What are you Mischiefous Lot up too now?"

"Studying." was her received answer from the lot as she carried on, but not before hearing Anna say, "I think I've got our name guys!" She'd squealed, earning a glare and a sharp "Shhh!" from Madam Pince. "The Mischiefous Lot!" Anna whispered in a silent squeal, the lot had all agreed and silently thanked Professor McGonagall for her intrusion.

The Mischiefous Lot were currently stuffing their faces with candy, Anna and the girls were secretly shoving candies into their robe pockets whenever a Professor turned away. They talked and laughed, but Anna wasn't paying attention to the conversation, she had taken to watching the Weasley Twins every night at dinner, for the twins always did something stupid like, launching peas into one another's mouths, or pranking their third year brother, who's name was Percy, or playing jokes on their older, fifth year brother Charlie, or their seventh year brother Bill. It was always something stupid, like instead of mash potatoes, they'd switch it to pudding, earning themselves permanent detention that never ended for the two boys.

Tonight however, it was a special occasion and on special occasions they'd pull pranks on the Slytherins, Anna's—now—violet, screaming mischief, eyes were going from the Slytherin table to the Weasley Twins every few minutes or so. Until a pair of black and yellow painted nails had snapped in front of her face that she returned to reality and realized that she had been staring.

"Sorry," she mumbled to her friends, whom all shared a knowing look.

"Maybe if you tried talking to them Annie getting to know them, they'd be a wild card for our pranks." Mia said with a sly smirk.

Anna threw her head back and laughed loudly, shaking her head. "Peeves is a wild card, Mya." She smirked to Mia, who's hair sparked at the nickname Anna used to get a rise out of her, no one flinched at Peeves' name as it came out of her mouth, the lot knowing that Anna had forgiven the Poltergeist, but they barely forgave the spirit's actions, but did as Anna bid. "The Weasley Twins joining the Mischiefous Lot? They technically have their own talents that they show off every night at dinner and occasionally breakfast and rarely lunch," Anna shook her head, but gave a mischievous grin, her ocean blue eyes flashed violet, something that everyone had gotten used to; they mostly flashed, when she was either angry, in a dangerous mood, when she highly praised in class, or -like in that moment- up to no good. "They'd never agree to join us lot anyways, we're Hufflepuffs; they're Gryffindors." Anna said pointing to the Gryffindor table, where the Weasley Twins were taunting the Slytherins with some more Stinging Jinxes, making the lot laugh silently, Anna's eyes turned violet and she pointed her pine wand to one of the redheaded twins whom was now standing, Anna muttered the Stinging Jinx incantation and when the twin went to sit down, he jumped back up rubbing his arse his glare turned to the Slytherins thinking that they'd returned fire. Meanwhile the Mischiefous Lot were laughing silently at getting away with the Halloween trick.

Anna's smile was back as she grinned to the Gryffindor table, she then continued to stuff her robe pockets with candy.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Girls Dormitories

Anna entered the Dormitories with Mia, Irys, Clover, Holly and Weave in tow, Spirit following the lot of girls from behind. They all collapsed on one bed or other giggling at the fun they'd just had in the Common Room.

"I can't believe Amos kissed me!" Holly squealed then fell into a fit of giggles as she blushed to the tips of her toes.

"I know!" Irys squealed, sitting beside her—as she too—fell into a fit of giggles.

"I can't believe we just played that!" Mia squealed loudly as she fell face first onto her own four poster giggling.

"I told you girls it'd be fun!" Clover giggled as she sat at the foot of Weave's bed.

"Yea," Anna giggled, as she too blushed to the tips of her toes. "Where did you learn to play C?"

Clover held her chin high at the nickname, as though it were a high praise. "Overheard my older sister playing it with her friends," she said in a half-giggle half-hiccup, giggling loudly. "Except she always plays it with shots of Firewhiskey and a vial of Veritaserum."

"What's Veritaserum?" Anna half-hiccuped, then fell into another fit of giggles at her audacity to allow the gang to sneak in and drink a little too much Butterbeer.

Irys, Holly, Weave, Clover, and Mia immediately stopped giggling at Anna's question, having not known that she was Muggle-born.

"Annie? Are you Muggle-born?" Irys asked her friend in worry. Anna couldn't say anything, but she had also stopped giggling at the blanket of silence that had fell upon the girls, instead she averted her gaze and in a defeated sigh nodded, looking anywhere but her friends, not knowing how they'd react.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Mia squealed as she plopped right beside her best friend, putting her arm around her best friends shoulder. Anna let out a sigh of relief as the rest of the girls started chattering excitedly.

"I'm starting to thank the Butterbeer and the fact that we're all Hufflepuffs." Anna giggled to her girl friends in a drunken giggle. The girls all bristled then, suddenly, they were holding their sides and wiping the tears from their eyes from laughing so hard.

"Thank Merlin for Butterbeer and Hufflepuffs." Holly laughed, making them laugh all the more.

"Veritaserum is a truth serum, it's used to force someone tell the truth, it's dangerous if you use to much, but also useless if you use too little." Clover explained to Anna, taking the spot next to the Muggle-born witch. "Well I should get back to my Dorm, goodnight girls, tonight was fun. I'll leave some Sober-Up Potions for the lot of you, take it now. It'll help, really, it helps." She said pointing to the five vials of green Sober-Up Potion that was currently sitting on Holly's nightstand, the girls all grabbed one and in a loud "Cheers!" from Anna, they all clinked vials and drank.

"Wow! Thank Circe for Sober-Up Potions!" Irys laughed, the girls joining in. This was the best Halloween, Anna had ever had!