Sneak

A/N: This chapter was so long, I had to split it into three! But the other parts are up already, don't worry!



"So how are we going to get out of classes for a whole day?" I asked Luiz. "We've only gotten out of half of them at a time before." We were back in the clearing while the rest of the school was at a Quidditch match.

Bill was always bugging me to try out for the team. He said I'd make a good Seeker. Pshaw. He just wants me on the team so his friend Jamie Wood, the captain, could keep an eye on me every night, and make sure I don't disrupt Bill's anal teacher pleasing.

"Easy. Your first class is Herbiology, right?"

"Duh."

"Well, you get bit by a mandrake, then when Sprout sends you to the hospital wing, I'll meet you by the Gryffindor common room, we go in, use Floo powder to get to London, meet my friends, and then boom. We're back before dinner, and you're already in your common room."

"Why do I have to get bit by a mandrake? And what are you doing?"

"Fainting in Potions. And you need to get bit because everything else in the damn Greenhouse is too poisonous. Unless you'd like to spill some undiluted bouber tuber puss on your-"

"Fine, I'll get bit. Let's try and make it a half-hour into class, so it doesn't look too planned."

"Fine. So, want to go enchant acorns and throw them at the Quidditch losers?"

"Sound's fun."

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Unfortunately, even the best laid plans of mice and men have their hang-ups.

I had just gotten bit, and was heading for Gryffindor tower. Man, those things had sharp teeth, I thought, as I played with a flap of skin on my hand.

I arrived and looked around. Luiz wasn't here yet, I had time to go and get a bandage. Bill kept a whole first aid kit under his bed. I could probably even find something to take the sting off...

"Persnickety." I said, then climbed in the portrait hole and made my way up the stairs to the sixth year dormitories.

I had just found the kit when I heard noises on the stairs. I dove under Bill's bed as the door opened.

"...and did you see that seventh year Slytherin with his ear pierced? It looks so disgusting." Steve's voice said. I had to resist the urge to grab his ankle and scare the shit out of him. From my vantage point, I could see him polishing his prefect badge before he sat down on one of the beds.

There's Percy in four years, I thought to myself.

"I dunno, it looked kind of interesting." Okay, that was Bill's voice, but it couldn't be him saying that. People who thought earrings were interesting were usually, well, interesting themselves.

"Do you have an extra bottle of ink? When that little snot Luiz ran into me just now, he broke mine. Covered half my books. I doubt he was on his way to the hospital wing."

"Here." I assumed Bill tossed him a bottle then. "You know, I'll bet he's not half as bad as he says he is."

"Yeah, your brother is, though."

"Don't talk shit about my brother when he's not here to defend himself."

Hey, I thought. Don't talk shit about me, period.

"Did you see Cedric? I know that was Charlie, it was all on the right side of his face. Luiz's right-handed. He would have beaten the left side of Cedric's face." (A/N: Read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' good book)

Bill was silent for a moment. I bit my lip.

"He didn't used to be like that, you know." Bill started, but the door banged open, and they both jumped.