Sometimes all you need is tea. And chocolate. Longer Chapters up ahead. We don't own. Enjoy, toodles!
A Proper Cuppa
November 9th, 1992
Fourth year
It had been a stressful week. Between Mrs. Norris and little Colin Creevey being attacked, which had the entire school freaking out, not to mention end of term exams coming up; Leili had a headache and she was grumpy. The entire castle was on edge and it was beginning to drive her nuts. So, on their way back from Magical Creatures class Leili dragged Jo into the kitchen. "You find chocolate, preferably frog-shaped."
"Got it!" Jo said, speeding off towards the desert section of the kitchen where she got down on her knees and begged chocolate off of the elves. They were so happy to have someone to serve, they tripped over themselves trying to oblige.
While Jo got the Chocolate, Leili found a small kettle and two trivets. Leaving the kitchen the girls hurried back to their dorm where, careful not to set the floor on fire, Leili set about making tea. She set a protective enchantment down over the area before setting a small fire beneath one trivet. She filled the kettle with water, with a quick aguamenti and set it atop the fire. She stood up and admired her handiwork, Jo was grinning at her fiendishly.
"If someone comes in and doesn't look down, they'll probably trip over that, y'know." Leili grumbled an agreeing noise and looked around the room. Her eyes lit on the book Jo held out to her and grinned wickedly. She opened it up to the middle and set it down, upright, to one side of the kettle, she did the same with every book Jo handed her and pretty soon a circle of smiling, winking, strutting and posturing Lockharts enclosed the kettle.
Jo held out her hand and Leili gave it a quick slap before opening up her trunk and rummaging through it. She tossed a bag of whole-leaf green tea up to Jo and continued rummaging before emerging with two hatboxes. She set them down side by side gently on her bed and lifted their lids. Her grandmother was a tea enthusiast and had sent her a white teapot that looked as though it had been used during a Holi festival, with it she had sent matching tea cups and saucers, each a different color. Suddenly the silence was split by a scream and each Lockhart in the barrier was startled out of their frames.
"Silencio," Jo cast, by the time she got over to the kettle with Leili's teapot, four people came bursting through the door.
"We heard a scream," one Hufflepuff said, slightly out of breath.
Leili pointed and Jo lifted, "Kettle," they said.