I'm Here When You Need Me- Chapter 11
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The next morning, Sarah couldn't sleep, so she did her morning ritual, then headed out to the common room. She was a little early for breakfast, so she decided to practice some of the spells that she had found in a book at the Library. They were spells that, normally you would need a wand for, but by following the instructions on the concentration needed to perform them, you could do them without a wand— wandless magic. For some reason, after last night's little unexpected twist, Sarah felt like she needed to know how to perform magic without her wand; besides, it may come in handy later.
She had only been practicing for about twenty minutes, when all of a sudden, the pencil she was trying to levitate with her mind, began to shake. She doubled her concentration, and sure enough, the pencil rose, graceful at first, then in her excitement, she made it fly up and hit the ceiling. That's enough for right now, she said to herself; she had heard footsteps coming down both staircases. Apparently everyone woke up at the same time, so practically the whole House came flooding down the stairs. Harry was in the lead on the boy's side.
"You're up early," he said, stifling a yawn.
"I couldn't sleep," she said simply.
He gave her a look full of concern, but she only smiled at him.
"Nothing to worry about, I just have some stuff on my mind," she said brightly.
"Are you sure?" he asked, still apprehensive.
Sarah nodded, and he slung his arm over her shoulders, guiding her to the portrait hole.
On their way to the Great Hall, both Harry and Sarah noticed that nearly everyone, save for Gryffindors and guest students, were all wearing some sort of very large badge; like something people would wear in a campaign for a person running for office. Sarah couldn't see what they said, because after Harry read one, he practically dragged her to the Great Hall.
"What's up Harry?" she asked.
"Nothing, I'm just hungry is all," he said with a hint of anger in his voice.
She knew that hunger wasn't the reason for the strenuous pace they were now going.
"Harry, what is on those badges?" she asked, a bit nervously.
He didn't need to answer. Right as they were going down the Grand Staircase into the Entrance Hall, Sarah spotted a group of Slytherins, Malfoy included. Malfoy saw her and waved, and as she was going to wave back, she noticed he was wearing a badge too.
Sarah stopped in her tracks, and Harry, seeing what made her stop, tried pulling her by the hand into the Great Hall. She let go of his hand and stood there. She couldn't believe what the badges said:
Support Diggory
The REAL Hogwarts Champion
But that isn't what made her stop. The badges were enchanted to change their message, and the one that made her angry said:
Potter Stinks
He should be put into a zoo
With the rest of the animals
Sarah couldn't believe that Malfoy would be wearing one of them, knowing that they would hurt Sarah, just as much as Harry. She walked up to Malfoy, and before she realized what she was doing, she ripped the badge off his robes, creating a large tear where it had been pinned. She looked down at it and then up at him.
"I can not believe you. I thought you had changed; at least a little. But now I see you are still the same bastard that I broke up with," she spat.
He looked at her with hurt in his eyes, but still had the same smirk on his lips. She couldn't stand the sight of him anymore. A crowd had gathered at her words. They were all watching, waiting for whatever came next. She slapped him right across the face as hard as she could, leaving a very visible hand print on his cheek. He automatically grabbed his face in pain, but Sarah only smirked.
"Fuck you, Malfoy."
All of the kids that were standing around them looked at her like they wanted to pat her on the back, but didn't for fear of what the Slytherins might do. With that, she threw the badge at Malfoy's feet, and walked into the Great Hall with Harry, but not before someone shouted.
"Oh, no you don't!"
Sarah and Harry looked around, and were shocked to see that Malfoy had his want pointed, not at Sarah like she would have expected, but at Harry, with a look of pure wickedness. When the crowd parted, Professor Moody came into view. He pointed his wand at Malfoy, and said a spell under his breath. Without warning, Malfoy was turned into a white ferret. Moody then said the incantation for levitation, and proceeded to bounce Malfoy up and down, while saying "This'll teach you to curse someone when their back is turned!"
All of this commotion, a large group of students rolling around in laughter, was even getting the teachers' attention. Professor McGonagall came rushing to the center of the pack, and looked at the scene with disgust.
"What are you doing, Professor?"
"Teaching," Moody replied, without bothering to look at her.
She paused for a moment, then the gravity of what he had just said washed over her. She opened her eyes wide and spoke.
"Is-is that a student?"
"Technically, it's a ferret, but yeah," he said, again not looking at her.
McGonagall waved her wand, and Malfoy reappeared, right where the ferret had been. He quickly got up, and ran in the direction of the dungeons, shouting things like "When my father hears about this." Professor McGonagall turned her attention to Moody, who looked like he had rather been enjoying himself. She pulled him aside, and the crowd disbursed. From the sound of it, McGonagall was scolding him like he was a child.