Chapter 8 - Poor Red Eared Ron

Time seemed to fly by when Majie spent time with the Weasley twins. It had been a while since she had had so much fun! They had asked the house elves to bring down her favorite foods, ham, mashed potatoes, and gigantic chocolate chip cookies, which she made the boys test before she ate one. After dinner they played a rousing game of exploding snap in which Majie got a few burns, but she beat the twins single-handedly. The front of Fred's hair was even singed a bit from the time he stuck his face too close to the explosion.

After that they decided to go out and levitate random people's hats off the top of their heads, as well as reeking the normal havoc the twins and Majie usually caused. At one point Crab and Goyle walked past them, arms full of sweets and cakes. Fred levitated one of the cupcakes in Crab's arms suddenly, and he reached out to grab it, causing several of the ones in his arms to fall. They heard Crab curse and kick the cupcakes angrily. He and Goyle looked around the room, as Majie, Fred, and George all stifled down a laugh. Majie raised her wand and charmed up two of the cakes from the ground and forced one to fly into the back of Crab's head, and the other into the back of Goyle's. The boys spun around, placing a hand on the back of their heads. Ferociously, they turned and stormed off, stopping to look behind them once more before they turned around the corner.

"That was great!" Fred smiled. "Those bloaks had that coming to them for a while."

"Yeah, no joke." George agreed.

Majie looked down at her watch to realize it was nearly 11pm. All this fun made Majie wish she didn't have to go to bed, but she knew that if they stayed out of bed much longer they could get into trouble. She was in the process of walking the boys back to the Gryffindor common room when the three of them ran into Filtch patrolling the corridors.

"What are you three doing out of bed at this hour?!" Filtch's veins in his forehead flared.

"I requested special permission to a room for tutoring." Majie spoke up suddenly. "I am a Ravenclaw prefect and am walking these boys back to their common room now."

Filtch eyed them. He wasn't sure whether to trust this girl with the Weasley twins, he knew how much trouble they could be, but she was a prefect, therefor she had to be a trustworthy person. He let out a slight growl of disappointment that he couldn't get the worst set of trouble makers at Hogwarts into trouble, but let them go due to the lack of evidence of their causing trouble.

"Whew." Said George as Filtch was out of hearing range. "That man can be such a pain sometimes, I guess we stayed out a bit later than planned."

"But that's alright, because it was wonderful!" Majie exclaimed as they neared her portrait hole. Her cheeks immediately flushed by her own outburst, but continued, "I'm so glad you two dragged me out tonight. I really have missed being around you both. I don't know what I would do without you two! Oh, and thank you for the book!" She pointed down to the Herbology book the boys had found for her that included the Uthelredum leaf information she needed for her essay.

"It was nothing, you are one of the best," Fred started.

"and most attractive," George cut in.

"friends we have!" Fred finished.

Majie laughed merrily at the twins. "Thank you very much! I'll let you two go back to your common room by yourself now; it's not too far from here. Goodnight boys."

Both boys suddenly leaned in and kissed her on the cheek, one boy on each side. Majie turned bright red. She turned back to both of them and gave each boy a peck on the cheek as well and wished them off.

"Night!" Fred and George said in unison before leaving Majie to enter her portrait hole alone.


All the while Majie was out with Fred and George, Ron was busy looking for her after noticing she hadn't made it to dinner that night. Ron checked the library and asked another Ravenclaw prefect if he knew Majie's whereabouts as well. The prefect didn't know where she was. Ron was becoming quite flustered. He hadn't seen Majie all day, and now she was all but missing. By 10 or 10:30 (he wasn't exactly sure of the time) he wandered into the Gryffindor common room to find Harry and Hermione chatting away on a couch near the fireplace.

"Hi Ron!" Hermione greeted Ron lively. She and Harry both noticed the bewildered look in his eyes at the same moment.

"Ron what is it?" Hermione questioned.

"I can't find Majenta I've been looking for her since dinnertime. You don't think someone could have kidnapped her?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ron what are you talking about, someone kidnapped Majie?" Harry stood up quickly.

"Be serious Ron," Hermione started, "She is a prefect, she has a lot of things to do and -"

"She wasn't at dinner!" Ron cut her off. "She doesn't skip meals, at least not without me."

Harry coughed. "And what do you mean by that, Ron?" Hermione stifled a laugh.

"Oh shut up! This isn't funny. I think Majenta could have been kidnapped!"

"Well maybe we should go look for her?" Harry suggested.

"I say, we stay here, since it is well past the time when we should be out, and talk to a professor in the morning." Hermione, the voice of reason, tried to reckon with Ron.

"No way! I don't care about any rules, my girlfriend could have been kidnapped and well on her way out of the country by now and you want to give the abductor the entire night to stow away with her!!" Ron's ears were becoming red, he was fuming so furiously. It was amazing the vocabulary he could utilize when he was in a desperate situation.

"Well we can't just run around the school, maybe she was just too busy to hang around you today!!" Hermione exclaimed, standing up.

"Just because I have found someone who actually loves me, you are jealous!!" Ron's whole face had become red at this point.

"Oh yeah, someone who loves you!? Well I -"

"Ok!" Harry interrupted them. "Stop it! We don't know what is going on, maybe we can go to Professor Dumbledore right now and see what he has to say" Harry trailed off as he saw Fred and George wander into the common room.

"Oh man, what a great night! Majie is so funny, the way she beat you on exploding snap and managed to singe your hair at the same time!" George exclaimed.

"Yeah, and when she shot those cakes at Crab and Goyle's head, that was the best!!" Fred continued.

Harry saw Ron's head swivel around towards Fred and George.

"Fred! George!" Ron shouted. "What is going on? Where is Majenta? What are you talking about cakes and exploding snap?!"

"Oh, we just had dinner with her, and we played exploding snap after. Then we went out and played tricks on people, it was great!" George said happily.

"You were out with Majenta? Why didn't you tell me this? I THOUGHT SHE HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED!!" Ron's hands curled into fists.

"Calm down Ron. We hadn't seen her in so long, we had to take her away from you for a bit. We couldn't tell you what was going on and risk you ruining our surprise diner for her either. She IS one of our best friends, and has known us longer than you, you know?" Fred stated.

"I can't believe this!" Ron said, exasperated.

"So she is ok then? She is in her room?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, course." The twins said simultaneously.

"Alright, see Ron, she's just fine." Hermione stated pointedly.

Ron sighed. "Fine, whatever." He looked around at everyone in the room, his face expressing that he was slightly hurt by everyone's lack of seriousness towards him, except for Harry of course. Ron turned and walked up the stairs to go to bed. 'What was it that Hermione had against Majie anyways?' He thought to himself. His covers were much too warm and inviting for him to worry about anything for much longer though as he drifted off to sleep.

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