Chapter 5 Over Jarves' dead body
The first years sat around the fireplace that night talking and laughing about the day that had just slid past them.
"I still can't believe you got away with that!" Jacqui laughed taking up her quill again and started writing her parents like she promised she would do. Just then Marie, Will, and the older scrimmage team walked through the portrait.
"Hey Tyson! I heard Taglen trying to blame you, Potter, and Black for what happened to him today!" Denium sat down opposite of the red headed prankster, who just smiled that well know smile she often wore.
"Hey don't forget that me and Erayn helped!" Marie's head flew up from the book she was reading off on an arm chair to the side.
"We knew that…he didn't" Charlotte shrugged.
"Speaking of pranks, Ty. You've been able to do a lot of stuff today you said you were restricted from." Sophie looked puzzled.
"Oh that's cause Headmaster said that the restrictions were stupid when they couldn't pin it on me since now the sig that they found didn't quite look like mine. So he said that if I behave today then I could be off most of the restrictions while they 'investigated' it, and tomorrow he's going to tell if it's mine and I'm either kicked out or off the hook." She shrugged.
"You don't seem to worried about it." Lily spoke up.
"Yeah and you did a prank today AND Headmaster could tell you did it he just didn't say anything." Erayn twirled her quill with her fingers.
"I'm not worried, Headmaster told me that most likely I would be off the hook by tomorrow he didn't care that I did a prank... now Jarves on the other hand almost blew up when he heard. I've got the perfect thing to say to him tomorrow when Headmaster lets me off, I'm gunna tell him that he better go kill himself since he said that the only way I'd stay was over his dead body." Tyson smirked, her hair falling in front of her face, only to be pushed back again.
"Won't you get in trouble for that?" Whitney laughed.
"No cause I'm gunna say it when no one else is listening and he doesn't have any proof that I said it." With that the whole group either rolled their eyes and went back to what they were doing or burst out laughing.
"So how do you little monsters feel with the scrimmage in five days?" Justin got off the subject and smirked before sitting next to Sara and draping an arm around her.
"Ah! We're gunna cream you guys!" Rory smarted off. Rory also had his arm around Lily but he didn't look as natural with it, or as 'smooth' as Denium would say. Lily rolled her eyes and chuckled turning back to her own book when Rory replied to Justin.
"What?" Rory looked at Lily who shook her head laughing.
"See Bacon even your girlfriend doesn't believe you" Denium shook his head trying to look as if he thought it was all pathetic. Rory just threw a throw pillow at him.
"I didn't say that. I believe they will do well tomorrow I just thought it funny on how he replied." Lily stated as if it was a matter-of-fact. It was Denium's turn to roll his eyes in disbelief.
The next day Tyson was up and gone by the time everyone else even woke up. She skipped breakfast to talk to the Headmaster, Professor Bayns, and Professor Jarves.
"By all evidence shown here, and the aid of a wand tracking charm we have decided that-" Headmaster Dumbledore started but was cut off by Tyson.
"You have a wand tracking charm, you mean you can tell which wand a spell came from?" Her eyes grew big.
"Well sort of, it can only tell if a certain wand did it, it won't just say it was that one it must be shown a wand and it will say if it came from that wand. Also it has to be permanent meaning the it won't disappear until another wand removes it. And it has to be something that was done days ago, so we have to wait a long time, it takes forever to actually cast, and uses to much energy so no we really don't since only in the most severe cases do we use it." He smiled down at Tyson, who exhaled very much relieved.
"Though we should use it for every prank that goes on!" Professor Jarves spat. Tyson just glared at him before turning back to the Headmaster smiling.
"Anyways Tyson, we have determined that you are not guilty of the vandalism and are free to go." Headmaster and Professor Bayns both smiled though Jarves looked like he could kill.
"So who did it?" Tyson looked up hoping they would say Taglen and he would be expelled.
"Now that we have proven you not guilty we don't think it is that important to actually find out who did, this way Professor Jarves can be satisfied that you didn't do it." Dumbledore nodded then turned to Professor Bayns, "Now Professor you wanted to show me something you had for your classes?" Bayns nodded and both dismissed themselves leaving Jarves and Tyson alone in Headmaster's office.
"So I guess that you kinda have to kill yourself or throw yourself into the Forbidden Forest eh? I mean I'm staying in school and all, which you said wouldn't happen except over your dead body." Tyson smiled at Jarves who had tightened his fists, with big eyes Tyson quickly stood up and moved towards the door, but stopped and turned around, "Also you should learn that promising something then not doing it is bad" Jarves stood up and Tyson basically ran down the stairs and all the way to the Great Hall to tell her friends what had happened.
Slowly the rest of the week went by with both teams getting in as much practice as they could before the big match. The event turned out to be bigger than anyone would have thought, it was like a real Quidditch match with the whole school as a turn out for an audience. The flying instructor even volunteered to referee the scrimmage and provide Johnson's team with their own team robes. Dumbledor agreed with the trophy room and trophy for the winning side. The closer it came to the hour of the scrimmage Saturday morning the more nervous the teams got. And the more nervous the teams got the more motivation the rest of the group had to come up with. As it turned out the school was half and half with the whole 'rooting' for thing, and amazingly the house rival issue was forgotten, though the age issue flared. Third year and below were all rooting for the Gryffindor Team to win and prove those 'big' kids up, while 5th year and higher were rooting for Johnson and the Hogwarts Destroyers. Poor 4th year seemed to be torn in two not really knowing if fourteen year olds were considered the older kids even though there was a third and two fourth years on the team.
Finally it was the hour of the match both teams had 'butterflies' and were in their own locker rooms getting ready.