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'Bold italics' is the twin's talking telepathically through their twin bond
Chapter 6 – Monday
(Ariadnae POV)
On Monday morning of our second week of school, Red and I were sat at the Slytherin table in the Great Hall eating breakfast with Blaise and Theodore, when a murmur of excitement travelled down the table.
"You hear that Blaise, quidditch tryouts are on Saturday. Are you going to try out for your position again?" The girl next to Blaise, Millicent Bullstrode, asked him.
"I will." He replied.
"You play?" I asked him, taking a sip of my tea.
"I do, I'm a chaser." He smirks at me. "Either of you two play?"
"Well Red isn't interested in quidditch, but I play as a seeker." I smirk back at him, before Malfoy pipes up from down the table.
"Not here you don't, mudblood." He sneered at me disgusted, and I simply rose an eyebrow at him.
"Let me guess, you're the Slytherin seeker." I stated rather than asked, his petty behaviour already giving me the answer.
"I am, and there's no way a girl, let alone a filthy mudblood, could beat me." He lifted his chin up in a manner that I assume was supposed to show his superiority, but just made him look like a child, and I couldn't help but laugh.
"We'll see about that Malfoy." I heard Red snort beside me as I goaded the stuck-up blonde.
'Well this will be fun.' She said through our connection.
'Indeed Sister.' I chuckled, making a mental note to add my name to the sign-up sheet when we returned to the common room after classes.
The days classes flew by without much happening. In Potions we learnt the theory behind the Animagus Potion and were given homework to learn more about the potion, and the steps required to become an animagus. In Herbology, we learnt about self-fertilising shrubs, which was followed by more lessons about animagi in Transfiguration.
After lunch we had Politics class, in which we handed in our homework assignment on the Courts of the Wizarding World, and we had a quick fire quiz where Professor Malfoy fired questions at people about what they should have learnt for the homework. The students that couldn't answer their question lost five points, and those of us that could gained five points.
The final class of the day was Care of Magical Creatures, and we were given the lesson to work on our group assignment, whether we wanted to do that in the field we called a classroom or elsewhere. After meeting up with Harry, we decided to head to the library to work some more on our assignment.
"So where have we gotten to on our Centaur clan specialities assignment?" Red asked as we sat around the table in the library.
"Well as you know the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest are of the Ojibwe Tribe and they specialise in astronomy and astrology. They use the stars as a way of predicting the future as well as for navigation." Harry started. We had decided at our initial meeting that as Harry knew some of the tribe members, he would focus on that and we would use that as our baseline.
"The Kanza Tribe from The New Forest in Hampshire specialise in the weather. They are the meteorologists within the British centaur community." Blaise continued with the tribe he had been tasked to research.
"The Numakiki Tribe from the Dalby Forest in Yorkshire specialise in tides and rivers. They are essentially the fishermen tribe of the centaur community within the UK. They also lead on the Ecology Preservation Committee for Centaurs." Theodore explained his tribe.
"The Numinu Tribe from Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire are a warrior tribe. They specialise in all weapons as well as hand-to-hand combat. They are the defenders of the centaur community within the UK." I explained about my own research.
"And finally the Mikasuki Tribe. They live in the Delamere Forest in Cheshire and specialise in horticulture. They are more of a farming tribe within the British centaur community." Red finished her own introduction.
We collated the information into the start of our presentation and then spent the rest of the hour discussing what we had found out. By the end of the allotted class time we were happy with the content of the presentation and made plans to have a meeting with Firenze to discuss the centaur community and to get to know him as more than just our Astronomy Professor.
After leaving the library we went to out respective common rooms to drop our bags and school supplies in our dorm rooms, before heading to the Great Hall for dinner. Whilst dropping off our bags, I also signed up for the quidditch trials taking place at the weekend.
(Harry POV)
I walked into the common room after leaving the library to find Ron and Hermione waiting for me on the sofas. I don't know what was up with them lately but they were really starting to bug me.
"Where have you been?" Hemione stood up and cocked her hip with her hands on them as she glared at me.
"In the library. Doing my Care of Magical Creatures homework." I replied, confused by her question.
"Let me see it then." She demanded, holding out her hand.
"No Hermione, it is my group's work." I felt my brow furrow.
"Harry show me. We both know you suck at homework. And who knows what those idiot Slytherin's will be writing. I'll correct it for you." She waved her hand in a gesture to hand over my work and I felt my anger grow.
"No. I am perfectly capable of doing my own work thank you very much. And don't insult my group mates. You know absolutely nothing about them." I bit back.
"We know they're Slytherin's mate. What else is there to know?" Ron yelled. He always had been useless with volume control.
"How about the fact that the Black twins are my cousins?" I ground out, in the process reminding myself that I needed to ask them how we were cousins.
"Bollocks mate. There's no way you're related to slimy Slytherin's!" Ron's voice somehow got louder and I felt the anger in me rise further.
"Do you know what Ronald, Hermione, I have had it with you two. Telling me what to do, who to be friends with, trying to control my life. I am a big boy and I can make my own decisions. They are my family, and you know what? It's not like I have a whole lot of that. I can't afford to push them away just because you can't deal with the fact that they're Slytherin, or because you're jealous, or whatever else your problem is. So, the both of you can bugger off until you realise that I am not some miscreant child who needs your help, and until you both grow the fuck up." I spoke calmly, belaying the anger I felt, before stalking up the stairs to leave my bags in my dorm room. I then went back downstairs, past where Ron and Hermione were still stood in shock, Ron turning more purple by the second, and out to dinner.
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