Chapter fifteen: Picholas Flannell

"Pass me a chicken nibble, would ya?" Barry asked pointing to the chicken nibbles, Andy sighed,

"Magic word?" she demanded tapping her fingers impatiently on the table.

"Wingardium Leviosa, but you know I still can't do that spell!" Barry moaned, looking longingly at the chicken - so close, yet so far...

"I actually meant please..." Andy muttered pushing the plate closer to Barry, while at the same time hitting Andrew over the head, because he was attempting flick her bra strap, since he had finished his food and was bored, "Flick it, and I will hurt you so much..." Andy growled warningly.

"And if she doesn't, I will. Always wanted to hurt you..." Lemo began, then started muttering about how much tall people piss her off.

"Hey! I'm tall!" Andy protested.

"Your different...Your a chick..." Lemo said before continueing her muttering.

"Also guys, we have herbiology last period, which means we can go visit the grounds keeper," Mione said.

"The grounds keeper?" Don asked through a mouth full of baloney sandwich.

"Donald, don't you listen?"

"Nope."

Mione sighed, but before she could say anything, Barry interupted,

"Mione, do you always have to sigh?"

She sighed again, only this time, it was to annoy Barry,

"Yep. Now Don, Hagrid is the grounds keeper. He is the person who owns Fluffy. Which is the four headed dog. Which is on the third floor. Got it?" she said this all very slowly as though explaining it to a two year old.

"Uh...Kinda..." Don said looking mildly confused.

Mione, Barry, Nick, Emo, Andrew and Andy all stood outside Hagrid's hut on the school grounds. Don and Lemo were with them, but Lemo got distracted by the squid and just had to go see it and Don got distracted by Jub.

"You knock!" Barry hissed.

"No, you knock!" Nick whispered nudging Andrew forward.

"Bags not!" Andy said, her thumb flew upwards, when suddenly the door flew open and the large man who had crossed the lake with the first years several months ago stood in front of them.

"Shit, does he have to be so darn tall?" Emo muttered.

"Excuse me, sir..." Andrew began, as a nervous Andy clung to him, "I was wondering..."

"Mr. Hagrid, we were wondering if you could talk about Fluffy with us..." Mione said, her confidence building, but Hagrid went pale - not because he saw Lemo and the squid, but because of the mention of Fluffy,

"How yer kno' bou' Fluffy?"

"Well, we-"

"Yer be'er come insi'e..." Hagrid said stepping back from the door, "Ba' Nose, Ba'..."

"Nose?"

"He me dog...BA'!"

The group stepped inside the small, but homey hut. In the fireplace a lively fire burned and crackled, Hagrid was holding back a huge, vicious looking dog.

"Aw! Ain't he just gorgeous!" Andy cried out rushing forward to pat the dog, which luckily turned out to be very friendly. Everyone else still watched the dog warily, "He's a tad bigger than Teddy, my sheltie," Andy said with a laugh, "But you have a beautiful nature!" she said patting it fondly as it bet it's tail hard against the floor.

"She loves dogs..." Andrew said.

"So do I!" Emo said, still not sure about the dog.

"Nose asi'e now...How yer kno' bou' Fluffy?" Hagrid asked, "Though' yer wer'n't 'loud in the thir' corridor?"

"We're not, but we got lost on our way to Charms...Because it was relocated..." Andrew said.

Hagrid sighed,

"Well, yer kno' anythin' else?"

"Nope," Andrew began, Mione kicked him, "Well, yes, we figured it must be guarding something, since it's standing over a trapdoor..."

"Yer, woul' be right ther...but I ain't gona say nuttin!"

"Aww, c'mon Mr. Hagrid!" Mione exclaimed.

Hagrid, obviously wasn't used to being called Mr. Hagrid, since he blushed,

"No, can't!"

"Well, Dumbledore obviously put safe trust in you, then Hagrid..." Andy said from her place on the floor next to Nose.

Mione caught on,

"Yea, because your so trustworthy, he knew you wouldn't tell a soul..."

Barry clicked,

"Yes, sorry to bother you."

Nick looked at the others in confusion, when it dawned on Emo's face,

"Yep, he wouldn't have told anyone else, but you, correct?"

Hagrid swelled with pride,

"Yer, almos' right! Meself, Dumbledore and Picholas Flannell are the only one 'ho kno'!" Hagrid didn't seemed to notice what he had done, until the group had left with triumphant smiles on their faces,

"Crap!" he said hitting himself over the head while pouring himself a whiskey.

At dinner Barry, Andrew, Emo, Don, Mione, Andy, Lemo and Nick were all in a huddle as they discussed their findings, when they were interupted by Dumbledore standing up,

"Attention students!" The hall immediatly hushed,

"Here with me, I have the first year Quidditch teams-" The hall broke out into excited whispers,

"As you all will be well aware, it is Quidditch season, so I assume other teams have begun training. Our first years teams are as follows..."

The group looked over at each other excitedly,

"Slytherin team consists of: Chasers; Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, Jo-anna Felcher, Beaters;-" Dumbledore broke off and looked questionly at Snape who nodded.

"-Beaters; Boyle and Cray, Seeker; Dracola Malfoy and Keeper; Blaise Zabini...Hufflepuff team: Chasers; Charlotte Borris, Jesse Meadow, Paul Pirrate, Beaters; Brooke McPea and Ross Plankton; Seeker Joel Tapsell and Keeper; Louie Montgonary...Gryffindor team: Chasers; Erin Parker, Don Weasel, Seamus Finnegan; Beaters; Andrew Watson and Leah Roberts - "

Lemo and Andrew high fived, missed, then covered it up by yelling,

"We get to hit balls!"

" - Seeker; Barry Saucepan and Keeper; Amber Rose...Ravenclaw team: Chasers; Jalayna Sheep, Craig Valentine, Kurtis Ian; Beaters; Kate Ranchester and Cesciller Purararara; Seeker; Keeley Parnapa and Keeper; Sean Anderson...Now all of you off to bed!" Dumbledore said smiling, as the excited students left the Great Hall.

"I can't believe it! We made the team!" Andy yelled jumping up and down.

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!"

Don rushed over to Jub and picked her up and twirled her around,

"We made the team!"

"I just had dinner, if you going to keep spinning me around, you might make me sick..." Jub said laughing. Lemo, Emo and Andy ran around jumping, and hugging everyone,

"It's all about poise and-Argh shit!" Emo cried.

Lemo and Andy rushed to her side. She was sprawled out on her back,

"So much for poise, eh?"

"Shut up..." Emo said trying to hide something yellow.

"What's this?" Andy said, grabbing hold of the yellow thing, "Oh no!" It was a banana skin.

Andrew cracked up,

"I thought that only happened in the movies! - Bad movies!" He added.

"Don't bother asking me if I'm okay..." Emo muttered pulling herself up.

"Hey, you okay?" Joel asked offering her his hand...