Chapter 4-Finally Friday
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Chapter 4- Finally Friday
Jess's POV
Harry, Lily, Ron, Hermoine and I were walking out of the dungeons from the last potions class.
"Clearly fame is not everything." Ron snarled mimicking the stern tone of Professor Snape.
It was hard not to laugh because he did it pretty well. It was the finally Friday and Potions was, well unfortunately the last class.
"Ahh... the perfect way to ruin a day... Potions" I sighed as we all tried to make each other laugh
"Will you guys stop he is probably going to hear us and give us detention or we could lose house points." The very paranoid Hermoine hissed, constantly looking in back of us in fear that our dreaded potions master was in back of us all along breathing down our little necks.
"Will you knock off the act Hermoine, if you were a true Griffindor you would hate Snape like normal well- respected people." Fred Weasley said loudly as he came up behind us with George at his side.
You could literally hear our muscles tense at the sight of the twins, we all knew perfectly well what their reputation was with first years.
"All have you know Professor Snape is one of the greatest potion masters of our time and we should be honored to have someone with such knowledge as our proffessor. You should think about it, you certainly would not want him as your enemy." Hermoine stated warningly as we all rolled our eyes
"Well incase you haven't noticed Hermoine we are griffindors we have been on his "hit list" since the day the sorting hat shouted GRIFFINDOR!" Harry said emphasizing hit list and shouting at the top of his lungs Griffindor.
"And in Me, Lily and Harry's case it's been since the day we were born." I added
"Jess, its Harry, Lily, and I not Me, Lily and Harry." Hermoine hissed rolling her eyes dramatically as if it were common sense.
"Hermoine don't be such a martyr. Professor Snape is an unfair greasy…slimeball." Ron said
"Here here" we chanted as Hermoine looked around bewilderedly
"Hermoine don' t be so paranoid believe me you will have detention with Snape plenty of times there is no way to avoid it and housepoints… hell make up ways to take housepoints off and here me when I say this he is going to provoke you many times, the best way to get him back is to turn the tables so to speak." Fred Weasely said with a cunning smile
"So Harry..." George asked or was it Fred, who knew, changing the subject
"Lily" Fred said putting his arm around Lily and Harry
"Jess" they said looking at me
"Did you guys think about our proposition?" they said in unison
"Yes and we agree" I said
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Personally I thought it was a brilliant idea. It was going to be like following in their footsteps and I liked the sound of that. Fred and George brought fear and admirance to anyone's face. Besides if we were the Potter twins we needed to be known as something other than The Ones Who Lived.
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"Wait, wait, wait! What exactly are we agreeing to? What would we end up doing with you two for the next four years?" Lily said eyeing them suspiciously
"Teaching you the tricks of the trade." George simply said as if just that explained everything.
"Well not all of them but enough to consider yourselves masters. We do not want pranks and jokes to go down as a wrinkle in time." Fred added with a dramatic sigh.
"Yes, we cannot rest until we know that forever first years will live in fear. Besides without pranks and tricks the Griffindor parties will not be as prestigious as they are." George agreed giving us a wink
"However you will need to test some of our experiments but no worries the side effects are most of the time harmless." Fred said quickly
"Well you said you agreed so we will be off." George said slyly "thanks guys if you said no we would end up having to ask the Patils and being ones is a Ravenclaw it just wouldn't have worked."
They now ran off with grins plastered on their face
"See what you got us into Jess" Lily groaned as she punched my arm.
"Ouch and yes I think it is brilliant." I argued
"Well I am off to go study" Hermoine said " I will be in the library if you need me."
"Hey, I think I will go with you I want to see if I can get at least an hour of homework done so I will not have to worry about it." Lily said hurrying to catch up with her.
As they walked away, you could not help but stare at the odd pair. There was Lily with all her outgoing charisma and beauty and Hermoine with her bossiness and bushy hair which made her look sort of intimidating. Then again, Lily always liked to make friends. She hated to have enemies.
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I have to admit I felt a little bad how I reacted on the train to Hermoine I should probably apologize. I mean she wasn't that bad she just needed to grow up a little it seemed and stick her head out of the sand while she was at it.
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"I cannot believe those two, studying on a Friday." Ron said with an annoyed sigh
"Yea.... crazy" I managed to mutter
Ron's POV
We sat down on the grass. All the girls giggled when they saw Jess. Since the day they came to Hogwarts it always seemed to be this way. He always got attention like that. The funniest thing was he hated it but then again he loved to tease them. Girls were the thing that he did not take a big interest in, well at least not in that way but loved to pretend to. He often teased him with a flirtatious wink and what not but he knew deep down he wasn't into the whole dating thing. While Harry just did not really care, he pretended to be oblivious to the attention he got because of his last name and his forehead. He seemed happy though. No... more than happy he seemed to be in love with Hogwarts and this life. Girls would pay more attention to him if he seemed more interested. I was the guy with red hair and a poor family or otherwise know as Fred and George's brother. I had nothing that Jess and Harry had. Then again I did not have anything they had. They were abused and hurt and lived in tough situations. So maybe I am in a sense lucky. People were always curious about those Potters. What their reactions were when they were reunited and all. They must get that at least a hundred times a day and most of the time they answered it in a sarcastic manner because most of the time it was asked from perfect strangers. I will admit I was very ecstatic when I was able to see them reunited so maybe I shouldn't look down on those who are curious. I just wish I lived a prestigious lifestyle like them. I just have too many freckles, too many siblings and what is with this stupid red hair.
"Excuse me you two are Jess and Harry PPPotter, right" a giggling third year girl asked as she approached us. She had long brown hair, enough lipgloss to compete with the Atlantic Ocean and dark murky brown eyes. She was obviously popular in her year and if she did not put so much lipgloss on that you were tempted to put on sunglasses she just might get a guy. Only they wouldn't last a week because of her annoying fits of giggles.
"No, I am not" Harry said innocently "They are" he said pointing to me and Jess
She looked at me and laughed "You are sooo funny Jess." she told Harry
"I am Jess" a confused Jess spoke up
"Sorry Jess" she said as if she known him for ages "Well I better go by the way my name is Jill Vertness I am a Ravenclaw."
Then she walked back to her group of friends and pointed at us supremely as if she we were a hard obstacle to overtake and she was proud that she conquered it.
"I am going inside" Harry said rolling his eyes as he walked away still confused at why the girl would assume he was Jess.
Harry's POV
"Hey watch it you" Madame Hooch said as she helped me up as I nearly tripped over a stair.
"I am sorry Madame Hooch" I managed to say
"No wounds here I'm fine watch where your going though- say your a Potter arn't you."
"What is it like written on my forehead?" I practically shouted
"Um... dear it sort of is." she said quite taken back by my outburst.
"I am sorry" I said
"No harm done can't way to see you on a broom in two weeks." she said as she walked off
I did not exactly hear the last bit of what she said because I was tired and started to walk away to the Griffindor common room.
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I need some rest…
I plopped down on the couch and fell asleep.
Lilys POV
I cannot believe that Hermoine managed to convince me to get all my homework done, now I have the weekend free. I should hang out with her more often.
Just as I was walking out of the library, I accidently dropped a book. There was little lighting so I went down on my hands and knees trying to feel around for it. Just then I felt someone trip over me and fall on their face right in front of me.
" Oh crap" the person shouted as he went down
"Um.. I am sorry. Are you okay?" I asked guiltily as I managed to help up the groaning person up
"Don't worry about it. I think I'll live." he said in a hoarse voice
I immediately recognized his voice.
"Malfoy" I shuttered to myself
"What was that?" he asked still not knowing who it was
"Nothing, well I'll see you around." as I walked off quickly as possible
I ran into the common room. Where I saw Harry sleeping on the red velvet couch. I decided to wake him up just for the fun of it.
"Hi ya Harry" I said as I jumped on top of the lump of a guy.
"Ouch" he groaned and sat up to see me smiling like a maniac.
"What do you need?" he mumbled
"My most prized possession… my brother" I said deciding to annoy him.
"I will tell Jess your looking for him." he grumbled "As for me…. I don't know you."
He laid back down just to hear me ask Fred to transfigure a pen on the coffee table to an ice, cold cup of water. Then he sat back up.
"I guess you don't want me to go to sleep."
"No" I said
"Okay… What do you want me to do?" He asked
"The most simplest thing in the world Harry, lose to me at wizard chess." I said with an innocent smirk.
"Fine" he said with a defiant smile "But I do not know about the losing part"
Draco's POV
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It finally hit me when I was going down to the dungeon. It was Lily that I ran into. It had been a week since we talked on the train. There was something about her that made me like her. If it was any other witch, or wizard for that matter, I would have thought you missed the greatest opportunity that you ever had to socialize with a Malfoy. But now... it feels like I am missing something. I am looking around and seeing that my life is not so great and giddy... The ways that I learned, the ways that my father taught me to live seem so shallow and false now compared to theirs. Here I am unhappy and they are constantly laughing and just enjoying everything around them. Maybe money and power is not everything… I mean they have it those Potters have all of it but they do not care about it or probably never think of using it to their advantage and look what they have, happiness the thing I hate and desire at the same time. And Lily she is so… beautiful. I want to be with her… I want to hear her laugh at something I said not some little comeback that red-haired Weasel comes up with when I tease him about his family. He likes her, its so obvious, Jess sees it too. I doubt she will ever feel anything for him though but then again he has a better chance than me and that is not good….not good at all. I need to somehow be in their group, because she will never like me for just me, unless I am friends with all of them. I need to change my approach, change my ways with her and the red headed git, and that's what I am going to do. Yes, that is what I am going to do. But how?
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Hermoines POV
I walked back from the library. I have all of my homework done for next week. I could not help but be in a good mood. If only some of my fellow students started to work harder make it a little more challenging, I would just love some competition.
Just then Jess walked up to me.
Great. I have been trying to avoid talking to me lately, it was working quite well actually, being his intentions were the same.
"Hello Jess" I said calmly
"Erm… Hi Hermoine… Look I Just wanted to say I am sorry for what happened that day on the train." Jess said apologetically
"I am sorry as well for offending you on that day. I understand now why what I did that day was wrong." I replied truthfully
"Its alright you really didn't offend me that much it was just a crazy day and Ron with his explaination about how we have not seen eachother in ten years and how we barely met eachother. It was just really stressful." Jess said
"Well everything's ok now. I am glad we had this talk."
Jess held out my hand to shake. As I reached out to shake it he pulled me into a hug. "I am glad we got this all sorted out then." He said as we broke away flashing me a friendly smile.
"Yes, I am too." I agreed
We walked into the common room just in time to hear.
"Check mate"
A.N -Hi everyone Did you like this chapter? Truthfully I didn't but I figured it needed to have something like a regular day in their so it was a slow chapter on purpose. Yes, I am planning on doing something with Draco. I am planning on making changes for this fic. Sorry if that disappoints you but I am going to try to make it realistic as well. I might even add new character if I want to it will be another girl. How do you feel about that? Tell me now because I need to know whether to put her in or not. I always love suggestions on how you would like to see this done so it be cool if you tell me your suggestions. Ok now it's the time you have been waiting for all threw the fic who is the fairest Potter of them all.
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