Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, but Jade is MINE and Rachel belongs to my best friend. (It would be scary if I owned Harry Potter.)

Chapter Eight

Returning to School

Jade got off of the Hogwarts Express and the first thing that she noticed was that Hagrid wasn't there, instead she saw Professor Grubby-Plank. She wondered where he could be for a moment before a Prefect told her that she was holding up the rest of the students. Jade quickly caught up with Fred and George and got inside of a carriage that would take them to the school.

Inside the Entrance Hall there was a bunch of students all crowded around catching up with one another. Fred, George and Jade pushed their way through them and towards the Great Hall.

"You'd think that they would do all of their catching up on the train." Muttered Fred taking a seat.

Jade sat on his right side and said, "No kidding. But then you can't forget what Dumbledore said, and they are probably taking about Harry as well."

"I wish they'd just lay off, people keep looking at us funny just because we know the 'crazy' Harry Potter." Said George angrily.

"Shhh, here he comes." Jade muttered under her breath.

Harry, Ron and Hermione sat not far from the troublemaking trio but the tree of them were sure to keep quiet just in case.

When Professor Umbridge interrupted Professor Dumbledore's speech not only were the teachers appalled and surprised but so was Jade. Fred noticed that when Umbridge spoke Jade's hand twitched just slightly and he could tell that Jade instantly hated the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher.

By the end of Professor Umbridge's speech more than half of the students in the Great Hall had lost interest, including Fred, George and Jade. Fred was staring at Umbridge his eyes unfocused and clearly not taking in a word, George was falling asleep his head propped up on his hand, and Jade was staring at the enchanted ceiling watching the weather. Professor Umbridge finished and the trio came back to real life with some difficulty.

The next few days passed without incident unless you count Jade cursing Malfoy and receiving a detention from Professor Umbridge. Fred and George were making great progress with their Skiving Snackboxes, though they were willing to test the products on themselves Jade refused to test the candies herself.

"I fully support your joke shop, but asking me to test your Puking Pastilles is going too far." She argued one night in the common room.

"Why won't you just try it?" Asked George trying to hand her one.

"Because puking disgusts me." Jade said with an air of finality. "I will help your joke shop just not in that way." Jade reached into her pocket and pulled out a slip of paper, she handed it to the twins.

The twins looked at the slip of paper and their eyes widened. "This is for us?" Fred said in disbelief.

"Only if you two let me help you own and run the joke shop." Jade said with a smile.

The twins cracked into identical grins and said, "Deal."

"I'll see you two later," said Jade checking her watch, "I have detention with Umbridge." She left the Common Room and headed towards Umbridge's office.

A few minutes later Jade knocked on the door of Umbridge's office. After a moment she head a sickly sweet, girly voice say,

"Come in dear." Jade opened the door and saw Umbridge sitting at her desk, she motioned for Jade to sit down in a chair near her. Jade sat down and looked around.

"You will be doing lines for me." Umbridge said nodding towards a piece of parchment and an unnaturally sharp black quill. Jade picked up the quill and began looking for ink. "You will not need ink. Now please write, 'I will not curse students'. You will write until the message has sunk in."

Jade placed the quill tip on the parchment and wrote: I will not curse students. She suppressed a gasp of pain as the words were carved into the back of her right hand. The cut healed over again and she wrote the words again. During the entire detention she never faltered and she didn't make a sound until Umbridge stopped her.

The cut didn't heal over for the last few minutes of detention and when Umbridge took her hand to examine Jade's fingers twitched slightly from pain and the cut was bleeding profusely.

By the time she had reached the Common Room the blood from the cut had soaked through her handkerchief and blood was dripping from her fingers. Fred and George looked up from an order list that they were making they greeted her. Jade smiled and waved her hand then flinched at the pain hit her.

"What HAPPENED?" Fred suddenly demanded making Jade jump.

"It's nothing." Jade said quickly hiding her hand from view.

"Let me see!" Demanded Fred trying to jump for her. Jade jumped out of his reach and said loudly,

"It's nothing, don't worry about it!" Fred still wouldn't give up he tried to jump for Jade again but this time Jade pulled out her wand and yelled,

"Impedimenta!" Fred was knocked off of his feet. "Now cut it out, if you quit making a big scene I will explain it all in your dormitory." She whispered.

The twins followed Jade to their dormitory, which was still empty, she sat down of George's bed and began to explain what had happened in Umbridge's detention.

"SHE DID WHAT?" Jade jumped at the twins' reaction then looked at them they both looked furious. Jade stood up and Fred took her right hand, she looked at him, he untied the handkerchief and tied a fresh one around the wound.

Jade's slender fingers twitched again and she winced, the wound still stung. George had just stepped out of the room, he wanted to talk to Lee about the Snackboxes. Fred looked at Jade and said,

"Sorry, my hands are a little rough, it's from inventing things." Jade shook her head.

"No, it's ok, it just stings a little." She gave Fred a weak smile and then turned around and headed towards her dormitory.

Fred could feel himself flushing but he could not understand why he was so embarrassed, he laid down on his bed and stared at the top of the bed's canopy and drifted off to sleep.