Chapter Eight: The Repercussions of Dancing Curtains

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The next morning at Hogwarts was an unpleasant one. Morwen yawned, trudging after Leda, who always seemed full of energy, she figured it must be genetics, as Leif was the same way. The duo approached the Great Hall and grimaced when the saw the tally of their 375 points that they had lost.

Everyone in the hall was curious as to what had made the Ravenclaws drop so badly, and the rumor mill was in full gear. Someone had said that they had sabotaged a Slytherin Prefect's room, trying to explode it, and Snape had caught them just in time, another person had said that another Ravenclaw had tried to kill Snape in his dungeon by creating a huge explosion.

However, the only people who truly knew what had happened were Morwen, Leda, Jimmi, and Snape. Mordred knew half of the story, but was pretending to be oblivious, being that if he were ever caught with that book it would most likely result in expulsion.

The Ravenclaws, however, were the most in a tizzy. Aside from the Hufflepuffs, the Ravenclaws were the best-behaved house in the school, and the fact that they had already lost more than half of their points, hardly a week into the year, was astonishing. Everyone in the house was paranoid, trying to discover who was responsible, and punishing them accordingly.

Jimmi sauntered in shortly after Morwen and Leda, with Han and Terrence. Both of which were obviously shocked to see the house points.

"What the hell happened?!" exclaimed Han, shocked.

"I don't know, but what kind of idiot can lose over 300 points in a few days!" stated Terrence.

Jimmi's ears began to go red, and he glanced over at Morwen and Leda. Morwen looked stressed out, and Leda looked like she had just had 100 cups of coffee, annoyingly so. However, this was nothing compared to what was happening tonight, detention. With his enemies Malfoy, The Lovegoods, Davies, and Snape. It could only get worse for the poor Potter.

Morwen yawned as she stared at her pancakes. Leda had taken the liberty to put syrup on it in the shape of a smiley face. Morwen groaned and pushed the food away from her, "There's no way I can eat today."

"Aw, cheer up Ms. Grumpy Butt!" Exclaimed Leda in that upbeat mood she always had, she shoved a piece of toast in her mouth, "Why are you so upset anyways?"

Morwen sighed, "I'm concerned about Mordred, that's all."

Leda gave a small smile. "Do what I do-"

"Please tell me it has nothing to do with fire." Muttered Morwen.

"-and ignore it! Eventually it'll have to go away."

Morwen exhaled and looked over at the Slytherin table, where Mordred was goofing off with his friends. She also noticed Imy and Killian debating over something that was obviously immensely entertaining, a few other first year Slytherins joining in. Was she overreacting?

"Yeah, you're probably right." Morwen mumbled.

"Yep!" Said Leda happily, before digging into her eggs. "After breakfast, we should probably go visit Leif and Bert, don't tcha think?"

Morwen nodded, and had some coffee, her eyes kept drifting over to the Head Table, where Snape was conversing with the ghost Professor Binns, the History of Magic teacher and the head of Ravenclaw. She also noticed Professor Krum, the charms teacher and head of Gryffindor, joining in. she inwardly groaned, they were probably discussing punishments.

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After breakfast, Jimmi, Han, and Terrence headed down to their first class, Herbology. Han and Terrence kept sending Morwen and Leda suspicious looks.

"Jimmi." Said Han quietly, "Do you know who I heard lost us all the points?"

"Who?" Gulped Jimmi, hoping that they would know it was him.

"Malfoy." Stated Terrence, "Malfoy and the Lovegoods. Probably Davies too, as he wasn't down for breakfast."

Jimmi, seeing this as an excellent chance of escape, joined in, "Yeah, that's what I heard too." He said.

The trio walked down to the greenhouses, discussing possible ways to get the quartet back for loosing all of their house points.

Professor Longbottom, a tall man with a warm smile greeted them. "Welcome class!" he exclaimed, "Today we will be gathering Alkanet and Lotus from the marshes and in the woods, as Professor Snape-"he gave a tiny smirk to Jimmi, "Has informed me he is missing some."

Jimmi's ears once again went red.

"Now-"Started Longbottom, when he was interrupted by two girls, Morwen and Leda, running down the hill.

"Sorry we're late!" Exclaimed Leda, "We were visiting my brother and our friend in the Med bay!"

"We have a pass." Said Morwen quietly, handing it to him.

"Ah, no worries then." He said smiling, "As I was just informing the rest of the class, we're gathering Alkanet and Lotus-"

Morwen smirked and Leda snorted at Jimmi.

"-Flowers today." He said to them, then turning to the class, "Alright, half of you got to the marshes, and half of you go into the woods."

The rest of Herbology went by without much excitement, excepting the fact that all the fellow Ravenclaw first years were going out of their way to make problems for Morwen and Leda. For instance, Leda had finally found a Alkanet flower, when a fellow first year, Terrence, stepped on it intentionally. Also, when Morwen had cut down a lotus stem, Han had taken it away from her.

Morwen was finding herself to becoming more and more irritable, "Gee, you think they found out?"

"I wouldn't doubt it." Said Leda, for once gloomy.

"Looks like they don't blame Potter for anything though." She spat, noticing how Potter was blending in perfectly.

Leda nodded, "I don't like him." She said.

"mean either Leda, me neither." Said Morwen.

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At Dinner, Leif and Bert were released from the infirmary, meeting the two girls in the Great Hall. "Miss us?" Said Leif.

Both girls simultaneously shook their heads.

"Well, ouch." Said Bert, sitting down next to Leif.

"How's your guys' memories?" asked Morwen.

"Foggy. I remember wanting to go down to the Potion's room, and then that's it. oh! I also remember being pink." Said Leif matter-of-factly.

Their discussion was interrupted by several owls flying in, delivering the mail. All five of them (Morwen, Bert, Leif, Leda, and Potter) all received a note from Snape indicating what time their detention would be. Also, Leda and Leif both got letters from their father, asking how things were, and Bert a letter from his older brother who was working in France. Morwen's face fell considerably, when she saw the Howler.

"I got a Howler." She muttered, the crimson envelope sending shivers down her spine.

"You should probably open it," Said Leda, "If you don't it explodes." She looked at Morwen and grinned slightly, "Trust me, it's not good when things explode."

Morwen nodded and carefully untied the ribbon, and braced herself for the worst.

"MORWEN CIRCE MALFOY! WHAT ON EARTH WERE YOU THINKING? SETTING FIRE TO YOUR BROTHER'S ROOM?! OF ALL THE IMMATURE, IRRESPONSIBLE, STUPID THINGS YOU COULD HAVE DONE, THIS IS ONE OF THE HUGEST! YOU HAD BETTER STRAIGHTEN UP YOUR ACT, OR I AM COMING DOWN THERE MYSELF AND REMOVING YOU FROM HOGWARTS! THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU DO SOMETHING SO STUPID AGAIN, OR YOU OUGHT TO BE EXPECTING MANY MORE OF THESE!" Her father's booming voice echoed throughout the Great Hall.

Her face flushed red and the embarrassment was terrible, and it didn't help that everyone in the room was staring at her, after a while they stared at Mordred. She slumped in her seat, and wanted to crawl in a comfortably sized hole and die.

"HEY!" she heard Imy yelling, "IT AIN'T A BLOODY CIRCUS SHOW, ITS NOT LIKE ANY OF YOU HAVE NEVER GOTTEN HOWLERS!" She yelled.

Morwen turned around and mouthed a simple 'Thank you' to her friend, who smiled and nodded.

After that, things relatively went back to normal, although Morwen was a great deal angry with Mordred for snitching on her.

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When it was time for detention with Snape for that evening, Jimmi, slowly, as if heading to an execution, gathered his things and headed down into the potion's dungeon. He noticed Leif and Bert trailing behind him, in the same fashion.

In the common room, Morwen and Leda were awaiting Leif and Bert. "Ready to go?" Said Leda, in the cheerful mood she was always in.

"Yep!" said Leif.

Bert and Morwen just rolled their eyes, and Jimmi muttered something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like "Crazy."

The five made their way down to the Dungeon, which was still bright pink. And sure enough, Snape was there waiting for them. "Good." He said, "You all showed."

He walked up to them, who were all somewhat quivering where they stood, "You are going to be using these." He said, pulling out 5 toothbrushes.

"For what?" asked Bert, confused.

"Cleaning." He muttered, gesturing to the room, "I want it spit-shined, no magic." He said, leaving for his room, "And if you do use magic, I will know." He said. "If you dunderheads aren't completed by the time it's curfew, you will pick up tomorrow," He paused, smiling evilly, "And to show you the urgency that I need this all done tonight, if you don't finish, you are also cleaning up the Slytherin's common room."

The five of them did a collective shudder, Jimmi, because he hated Slytherin, the girls because they weren't really looking forward to going back to a place they had set on fire, and Leif and Bert because they knew how messy common rooms were.

Each of them took a toothbrush from Snape, who then quickly made his way for the exit, but before he left, he called back, "You'll be needing water for that." He conjured up two huge vats and left, chuckling.

"Jerk." Muttered Jimmi as he left.

Morwen looked over at him, "Well, it's your fault we're all down here!"

"No it's not! It's theirs!" he exclaimed, pointing to Bert and Leif.

"It is?" asked Leif, confused, "I don't remember."

"Of course not." Whispered Jimmi bitterly.

The five then continued working in silence, eager to clean his dungeon so they could evade the cleaning of the Slytherin's common room.

After about an hour, the combined efforts of the five only allowed the right corner to be cleaned. "Urgh! This is hopeless!" groaned Morwen.

"Oh shut up Malfoy!" Said Jimmi, "We don't need your complaining!"

"And we don't need your lying!" pointed out Morwen.

"What do you mean by that?" demanded Jimmi.

"Oh please, we've heard from everyone how you've putting the blame on only us! You were down here too Potter!" she yelled, "Or can you just not face the facts? No wonder you weren't put in Gryffindor, you're a bloody coward."

The twins and Bert just sat there and watched, knowing that last comment wasn't going to go over well with a certain Mr. Potter.

Jimmi stood up, his short temper kicking into gear, "Well, you're not in Slytherin because you're bloody lazy!" He gestured to the pink classroom, "You can't even clean!"

Morwen, now, also stood up, "Take that back!" she yelled.

"No, you, take it back!" He hollered back in her face, "Besides mine was true! You depend on rich, daddy Malfoy to do whatever you want."

Morwen withdrew her wand, "Don't make me use this!" she sneered at Jimmi, "And besides I don't depend on the pseudo legacy of my father to get attention!"

Jimmi whipped out his wand as well. "Don't even bring my father into this!"

"Why not?! You brought mine into it!"

Leda, trying to play peace maker, slowly stood up, "Both of you just calm down, we need to finish this room, and your bickering isn't helping anyone."

But the pair were fuming entirely too much to listen to Leda's reasoning. "You started this!" Yelled Jimmi.

"I did not! You did!" Cried Morwen. "You and your ignorant ways!"

"I'm the one being ignorant?!" defended Jimmi, "You won't even see your family for the Dark Wizards that they are!"

This, recalling Mordred, made Morwen snap, "That's it Potter! Extrantorelli- "

but at the same time, Jimmi was saying a spell as well, the two of them collided, causing a tiny explosion that knocked the two of them backwards and into the walls behind them.

Leda ran over to check on Morwen, and Leif and Bert reluctantly went to go check on Jimmi.

"She's out cold, and it looks like Potter gave her the Splotches's spell." She said, regarding to how Morwen was covered in huge, green spots, which were known to cause horrible itching and to be very painful.

"And Morwen did the all bones breakage in Potter." Reported Bert.

Just then, Snape walked into the room, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN HAPPENED THIS TIME?!" he bellowed. He narrowed his eyes, "Potter and Malfoy, I should've suspected." He looked at the remaining three Ravenclaws, "You continue cleaning, I'm taking these two idiots to the infirmary." He then growled something about Madame Weasley getting a lot of company, and left, the pair levitating behind him.

Leda, Leif, and Bert all looked at each other and collectively sighed.

"Preteens." Groaned Leif, and Leda and Bert nodded accordingly, before picking up the toothbrushes and getting back to cleaning.

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Chapter 8 is done! A woo-hoo! Not exactly funny, but I felt the need to write it this way. As I noticed Malfoy and Potter......er Morwen and Jimmi had yet to get into a serious fight. This was certainly a longer chapter for me, being 10 pages.

Next up: Recovery and preparing for Halloween!

TO MY REVIEWERS:

Storms and Piper: lol thank you for reading! I was feeling sad, lol Draco is rather annoying, but I thought I would try and redeem him somewhat through this story. Lol they probably would, except for the fact that Morwen hates Harry. . . . all hail the Supreme Goddess and the Master of the Keyboard

Blaise le Poussin Masque: lol thank you for picking the translation up again! I know its been forever. Lol I shall write : )

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