Ooh, introducing a new character in this chapter!

Disclaimer: If I were the great J K Rowling, I would have a lot more money than I have right now . . .

~Amaya~

Cairo's POV

"But this is illegal, Professor Moody!"

"It's your turn, Agatha. Come on, get ready."

I planted my feet, getting ready to be hit by the Imperius Curse. As Moody yelled, "Imperio!" I felt a strange sensation take over. I felt every thought and worry in my head was wiped gently away, leaving nothing but a vague, untraceable happiness. I stood there feeling immensely relaxed, only dimly aware of everyone watching me.

Then, there was Moody's voice, echoing in some distant chamber of his empty brain: Do the Hokey Pokey.

No, that's stupid, another voice in my head said. I recognised it as my own. I felt a smile slither across my face. My stubbornness was taking over now, thankfully.

Hop on one foot then.

Why should I?

Slap Lee Jordan.

I laughed out loud. Now there was something that I would do! I walked over to Lee and slapped him.

He put his hand to his cheek, where I had hit him. I grinned innocently. "Sorry, imperiused," I said sweetly, as he looked at me in shock. Fred and George started laughing; they knew me too well. They knew that I had resisted.

Moody seemed impressed. "She's been the only one to ward off the curse so far! Again, Agatha!"

This continued for a while. Moody asking me to do ridiculous things, and me not doing them. Lee seemed angry when he finally put the pieces together. Then I got to watch as others failed at resisting the curse. Lee got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I folded my arms and told him no, even though I knew he was doing it under the Imperius Curse. Francine Jefferson did a headstand until her face was very red. Angelina Johnson did laps around the classroom. Alicia Spinnet did the splits, which I'm pretty sure she couldn't do before. Theodore Jackson impersonated a donkey. Fred and George started square dancing. I was tempted to join them, it looked fun. I miss being friends with them . . .

After class, Lee walked over to me. "It's over, Cairo," he hissed. I said nothing, just sighed heavily.

Until he left to find Angelina, that is. Then I grinned and skipped over to Fred and George. "Guys," I said, stopping them in their tracks. They turn to look at me, Fred looking slightly hurt. "Look, I'm sorry for ditching you two for Lee. I should've known better than to risk our friendship for the sake of a relationship. I'm sorry for getting so working up over the whole 'locket incident' too. Could we be friends again?"

George grinned and hugged me right away. I hugged him back and then looked pleadingly up at Fred. "Freddie?" His glare softened and I motioned for him to join the hug, which he did. It felt so good to be friends again.

Fred's POV

As much as I hated to admit it, it was great to have Cairo back again. Even Lee had started talking to us again! Right now, while we planned a great prank on Flitwick, I appreciated Cairo more than ever.

"No, no, the door has to be open a little bit, or the bucket won't balance properly overtop! Move it a bit, or the water won't hit him!"

"I didn't know that muggle pranks were so complicated," George muttered under his breath.

"They are so not," Cairo contradicted, grabbing the bucket of water from George's hands. "You're just doing it wrong!" As she positioned the bucket perfectly over the slightly opened doorway, I heard footsteps coming from within the classroom. The three of us panicked (only slightly) and (with Cairo giggling like mad) we pushed each other around to hide behind a nearby statue, hoping that this would be good.

Our plan backfired though, when a Slytherin girl came out of the room, instead of the Tiny Charms Teacher. She had barely looked up when the bucket had drenched her with water. She fell over in shock, the bucket rolled beside her. Her blonde hair was drooping in it's ponytail and her blue eyes seemed stuck in a shocked expression. Wait, no, only one of her eyes was blue. The other was perfectly black all around. Creepy. She attempted to stand, but slipped on the puddle surrounding her, falling right back down.

George cringed next to me. He always felt so bad when our pranks affected an innocent by-stander. I felt bad too, but not as bad as he felt. Usually, he'd just feel bad and we'd walk away, pleased that our prank worked at all. But something about this girl must've got to him, because he got out of our hiding place and extended a hand to help her up. She begrudgingly took his hand, letting him heave her to her feet.

"Sorry about that, we're usually much more coordinated with our pranks," George apologised, smiling at her. "Oh shoot, I know you, you're in our year . . . Jade Zettair?"

"Jadyn," she corrected, through gritted teeth. She whipped out her wand, pointing it at George's chest. He took a step back in surprise. "And you two blood traitors, and the mudblood, did this to me, so I'm just going to give you what you deserve! CONFRINGO!"

"PROTEGO!" George yelled, blocking her spell just in time. He looked angry now. "What the bloody hell was that?! We didn't mean for that prank to get you, I tried to help you even, and you're trying to blow me up?!" Cairo and I had both raised out wands now, directed at the wet Slytherin.

"You're lucky I didn't use the Cruciatus Curse," Jadyn hissed menacingly. Cairo gasped, her knuckles whitening as she gripped her wand tighter. I got ready to say any spell, at any moment.

But George walked up to her, lowering his wand. "I don't think you would do that," he whispered.

"Try me."

George took a step back, spreading his arms out. "Go ahead then. Do it."

"George, what are you doing?!" I cried, wand still pointed at Jadyn. He said nothing, just stared stubbornly at Jadyn. She pointed her wand at his chest, but her hand shook and when her mouth opened, no words came out.

"I knew it. You don't have it in you, no one, except those as low as Death Eaters, do," George said, lowering his arms and turning his back on her.

I watched as Jadyn's eyes widened, then, obviously not used to being insulted, she yelled, "CRUCIO!"

George fell onto the ground, but didn't scream in pain. He gave a weak laugh. "You didn't really mean it," he muttered, trying, and failing, to get up.

"Maybe I didn't," Jadyn murmured, so low that nobody heard her. Except me. Cairo had already rushed to George's side, but I kept my wand pointed at Jadyn. She was obviously capable of a lot of bad stuff.

"What is going on here?"

I looked up to see Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall running up, McGonagall immediately helping George to his feet and Snape coming over to me and Jadyn.

"Ask that to her," I spat. "She used one of the unforgivables on my twin brother!"

Snape turned to Jadyn, who looked ashamed; or maybe she was just ashamed she had been caught. "I'm sorry, Professor. But they pranked me! A bucket of water fell on my head!"

"That is no excuse to use an unforgivable curse!" McGonagall scolded. "Mr. Weasley, please go with Miss Agatha and escort your twin to the hospital wing. We shall deal with Miss Zettair."

As I draped George's arm around my shoulder, to help support him, I cast one last glare back at Jadyn, who was looking seriously guilty. "What got into you, Georgie?" I asked, looking at my twin as Cairo and I helped him towards the hospital wing.

"Yeah, George, what the heck?" Cairo cried, from the other side of him, also helping support him.

"I don't know. I just felt - ARGH!" George looked like he wanted to punch someone. He sighed, "I seriously have no idea what came over me. Sorry guys, I was just being an idiot."

"You're forgiven, Georgie," Cairo said. "Just don't scare us like that again, please."