Chapter 5: Suspicion
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Chapter 5: Suspicions
-After Dumbledore's lesson with Envy and Pride-
Envy and Pride's first lesson ended up a bit unexpected. The two didn't manage to get
one spark out of their wands, spending their last normal morning class into lunch,
which led to Dumbledore to say, "Don't worry, you two, you might be able to learn
something soon, it just takes practice."
"Professor Dumbledore," Said the voice of Severus Snape, with the figure walking into
the office. "May I have a word with you?"
"Sure, Severus. Will, Ed, you can go now. We'll come back to this some other time."
Said Dumbledore, motioning them to go out the door.
"Got it." Said Envy, walking out of the office, past Snape, with Pride following him.
"Looks like we have lunch now." Said Envy, as the two reached the entrance hall, they heard Harry say, "You know your mother,Malfoy? That expression she's got, like she's got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?" The two Homunculi saw that Malfoy's pale face went slightly pink, and Envy chuckled quietly enough so that Pride didn't hear him.
"Don't you dare insult my mother, Potter."
"Keep your fat mouth shut, then." Said Harry, turning away.
BANG!
Envy jumped slightly, and Pride copied, while several people screamed — Envy looked
around, trying to find the source of the BANG, then there was a second BANG, and a
roar echoed through the entrance hall.
"OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!"
Envy looked around again, and found the source of the voice. It was non other than
Mad-Eye Moody.
Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing
right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly
where Malfoy had been standing.
There was a terrified silence in the entrance hall. Nobody, even Envy and Pride but
Moody was moving a muscle. Moody turned to look at Harry — at least, his normal
eye was looking at Harry; the other one was pointing into the back of his head.
"Geez..." Said Envy, listening in on what Moody was about to say to Harry.
"Did he get you?" Moody's low and gravelly voice growled.
"No," Said Harry, "missed."
"LEAVE IT!" Moody shouted.
"Leave — what?" Harry said, bewildered.
"Not you — him!" Moody growled, jerking his thumb over his shoulder at Crabbe, who
had just frozen, about to pick up the ferret. It seemed that Moody's rolling eye was
Magical, and could see out of the back of his head.
"...What...do you...think of...that, Envy...?" Asked Pride blankly to his Boyfriend.
"I guess that's cool." Envy said, with a bit of confusion in his voice, then he went back
to watching the scene.
Moody started to limp toward Crabbe, Goyle, and the ferret, which gave a terrified
squeak and took off, streaking towards the dungeons.
"I don't think so!" Roared Moody, pointing his wand at the ferret again — it flew ten
feet in the air, fell with a smack to the floor, and then bounced upward once more.
"I don't like People who attack when their opponent's back's turned," Growled Moody
as the ferret bounced higher and higher, squealing in pain. "Stinking, cowardly,
scummy thing to do..."
The ferret flew through the air, its legs and tail flailing helplessly.
"Never — do — that — again—" Said Moody, speaking each word as the ferret hit the
stone floor and bounced upward.
Envy had to push himself not to laugh hysterically, so, he decided to hold Pride's hand,
and just watch the action, yet, try to turn his emotions more into a neutral state.
"Professor Moody!" Said a shocked voice.
Professor McGonagall was coming down the marble staircase with her arms full of
books.
"Hello, Professor McGongall," Said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
"What — what are you doing?" Said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the
bouncing ferret's progress through the air.
"Teaching" Said Moody.
"Teach — Moody, is that a student?" Shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling
out of her arms.
"Yep." Said Moody.
There, Envy lost control of his laughter, and laughed as Professor McGonagall,
transformed the ferret back into Draco Malfoy, who was lying on the floor, with his
sleek blonde hair over his now brilliantly pink face. He got to his feet, wincing.
"We give detentions, Moody! Or speak to the offender's Head of House!"
"I'll do that, then," Said Moody, staring at Malfoy with great dislike.
While Moody and Malfoy were talking, a few seconds later, Moody took Malfoy off towards the dungeons, Envy and Pride walked to the Gryffindor table, without any food, close to Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Don't talk to me," Envy heard Ron say to his friends.
"Why not?" Said Hermione in surprise.
"Because I want to fix that in my memory forever," Said Ron, his eyes closed and an uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret..."
Then Ron noticed Envy and Pride, and said "Oh! Hey, Ed! Will! If you want to, you can come and sit across from us, if you want to."
"Sure, I guess we can." Said Envy in a bored tone, still holding Pride's hand, moving from where he and his boyfriend were sitting, to across where the Trio was sitting.
"That was crazy." Said Envy with a tad bit of laughter back in his voice.
Harry felt that feeling once again, the same one from the previous encounters he had with these two new students. He knew something was off about them, he kept getting this one feeling in front of them, it was of discomfort and uneasiness.
Harry thought about telling Hermione and Ron after classes are done for the day about, but he knew he'd probably be told to tell Sirius through a note, and Dumbledore. So, Harry tried his best to ignore the feeling, and keep on going with his day like usual.
"What did Dumbledore want from you two?" Asked Ron to Envy and Pride, as Envy petted Pride's head.
"That's something that we can't say." Said Envy, with Pride holding onto his chest, feeling a big sense of comfort.
"You can tell us, we keep Harry's secrets..." Ron started saying, but Envy cut him off.
"It's private." Said Envy, still with the blonde homunculus holding onto him.
"Okay, I understand." Said Ron, while Hermione was starting to eat at a very fast pace, then before she set off to the library, she said bye to the four people she sat with, and then quickly moved out of the hall, to the library.
Right after she left, her seat was taken by Fred Weasley.
"Moody!" He said. "How cool is he?"
"Beyond cool," Said George, sitting opposite of Fred, and next to Envy.
"Supercool," Said the twins' best friend, Lee Jordan, sliding into the seat on the other side of George. "We had him this afternoon." He told Harry and Ron.
"What was it like?" Said Harry eagerly, which was what Envy was thinking as he was still petting Pride's head.
After Fred, George, and Lee exchanged looks of full meaning, Fred said, "Never had a lesson like it,"
"He knows, man," Said Lee.
"Knows what?" Said Ron, leaning forward, and so was Envy, so that he wouldn't miss a word.
"Knows what it's like to be out there doing it," Said George impressively.
"Doing what?" Said Harry.
"Fighting the Dark Arts," Said Fred.
"He's seen it all," Said George.
"'Mazing," Said Lee.
Ron dived into his bag for his schedule, and Envy stopped petting Pride, but let Pride keep holding onto himself, and then pulled his folded schedule out of his robes, unfolded it, and saw that he had Defense Against The Dark Arts on Thursday.
"Will Pride and I actually have it, or will we have another lesson with Dumbledore? I guess I have to wait..." Said Envy in his head, folding his schedule back up, and putting it back into his robes.
"We haven't got him until Thursday!" Said Ron, clearly disappointed.
"That's a shame. And...I see we have two new people here," Said Fred, looking at the homunculi.
"Yeah, do you know them, Ron?" Said George curiously.
"Not too well, but I did meet them earlier at Breakfast. The Green haired one is Will, and the blonde haired one cuddling Will is Ed." Said Ron, putting his schedule back into his bag.
"Nice to meet ya." Said Fred, looking at Envy and Pride.
"Yes it is." Said George.
"Well, Ron and Harry, we have some plans we need to attend to. Come on, George, let's go." Said Fred, getting up, with George following him.
"Okay. Nice meeting you two. See you around." George said to Envy and Pride, then left with Fred.
"Will, Ed, are you hiding something?" Asked Harry seconds after Fred and George left.
"...No...we're not..." Said Pride, still clinging onto Envy.
"Really?" Said Harry.
"Really." Said Envy.
This is just one of the weird things that happened, Harry felt that Envy and Pride weren't telling the truth, and something suspicious was going on, though, he felt like couldn't tell Ron or Hermione, but it might have made him feel a bit better if he did.
Well, there you have it! Chapter 5!
As you can see, Snape made a cameo in the beginning, and there was also the fact that Envy and Pride had a hard time with the first attempt at learning some spells Dumbledore had in mind, and weren't able to cast anyone of them. Though, it's only the beginning of the lessons, so they may get better as the chapters go on. I also needed to keep Moody "teaching" Malfoy in this chapter to keep the original story events from the book. And when I get to the Triwizard Tournament chapters, things are going to get whacky, trust me. And I already have an idea for what Envy can do in the future, though, I can't say what it is, you'll just have to find out. So, yeah. I hope you readers are enjoying this story so far, cause I swear, this is one fun story to write. One more thing, Ed may come back in a future chapter, but it'll only be temporary, because Pride was made from his body, and Pride's the one who is the default personality in this homunculi form. So, yeah. Until next time, *takes a picture of my dog* fuzzy pickles!