October 13, 1993

We ended up skipping the first part of Charms to get cleaned up. After a good shower and a change of clothes we were good to go and arrived in the middle of class… I'm sure we looked pretty funny with damp hair, but I really didn't care….

"Hey Allison!" Lee laughed as he floated in front of my face, apparently we were practicing the levitation charm… "Long time no smell!"

I narrowed my eyes but slowly my face broke into a small grin, "Your hair looks nice today Lee."

He laughed, "Right… right… Hey Angelina! Take me up!" He called to the back of the classroom.

"Lee, I've been levitating you all day, it's your turn!" Angelina called across the classroom.

"No it isn't…" Lee laughed as he floated through the room, I grinned as Angelina dropped her wand and let him fall to floor.

Fred sighed as we headed towards the front of the classroom, "We'd better tell Flitwick why were late."

Once we got to the front of the room Flitwick had turned to face us, "Ah, hello Fred, George, Allison… no need to worry, your excused…"

Wait… what?, "Were excused? How did you know…" I asked a bewildered look on my face

"Oh my dear the whole school knows what happened in the dungeon, thanks to the Slytherin's of course…" Flitwick smiled.

"They do…" I mumbled my eyes wide.

I saw Fred and George grimace, "Oh great…"

"No need to worry, fortunately for you this class only has your fellow Gryffindor's and some of my Ravenclaw's… You should be able to finish off the day nicely, now go on… practice!" The short little man shooed us off, his always kind smile was etched across his face.

We headed to the Gryffindor side of the room, "Come on Allison, I'll be your partner." Fred smiled at me, his eyes flashed at me mischievously. "George you can work with us to…"

I heard George groan, I still couldn't help but feel sorry for him; it must be pretty awkward to have your twin brother and one of your best friends to start dating…

"We cant have three people in a group…" George sighed.

"Well there isn't anybody else who is without a partner…" Fred replied grimly.

My eyes searched the room, it seemed that what Fred said was true… but my eyes froze on one lone figure who was standing in the corner of the room levitating her desk. It was Julia. "Fred, George… look it's that girl from the train… Julia."

"What! She's a fifth year?" George asked surprised as he turned to face me.

"I guess so…" I sighed as I turned back to face him, "But it looks like she doesn't have a partner… why don't you go over and work with her George, you're already acquainted with her…"

I heard Fred clear his throat and I turned back to face him, "Allison… she's watching us…"

"What?" I asked surprised as I turned to face her. She was glancing over her shoulder at us; a guilty look was painted across her face. I raised my eyebrow and redirected my attention to Fred, "What do you reckon?"

"Allison, you don't think…" Fred muttered

"What?" I asked

"Think about it, Julia wasn't here since first year… and we've been the only pranksters at Hogwarts until now…" Fred mused thoughtfully.

"But she's a Ravenclaw…" I replied

"Which would explain why she has all the extra time," George grinned, "They always finish their homework first…"

I nodded thoughtfully, "But what about her late arrival?"

"Simple, she was homeschooled… she doesn't have an accent…" Fred smiled at me

I gasped "This is the exact opposite of what we originally thought! What's the likely hood..?"

"I know, but she was taught well… she conjured the patronus on the train you know…" Fred sighed

"But…" I whispered, the evidence was clear yet I couldn't believe it… "It's…"

"It's the only possible answer…" George sighed

"Sometimes I find it hard to believe you two are the same boys that sit in History of Magic doodling ridiculous pictures of Snape getting sat on by Hagrid…" I sighed and they laughed…

By the time class ended Fred and I had both earned a couple of bruises from being flown into the ceiling and dropped whenever our attention wavered from anything other then the task… We were both relieved to be out in the halls and on our way to dinner… but before we could head downstairs for a well earned meal we had to find out if Julia really was the mysterious prankster, and to do that we had to corner her…

"Come on!" I hissed as I pushed my self against the wall next to Fred, on the other side of the door George stood. We were going to catch Julia when she walked out the door. She had stayed after class to talk to Flitwick.

"She's coming…" George hissed, just before Julia walked out the door…

"Hello there!" Fred smiled as he looped his arm through on of hers

"Pleasure to see you again!" George gave an identical smile

"Wh-what?" Julia whispered, "Oh you're from the train… right…"

Fred and George dragged her across the hall, "Julia… are you the prankster; did you charm the whomping willow?"

Slowly she nodded her head.

"And you threw the dungbombs today as well?"

She nodded again.

"Good grief…" I mumbled, but before I could say anything else a brilliant idea came to mind. "Well… if you're going to prank you might as well prank with the masters…" I smiled, a plan forming in the back of my mind.

Fred glanced at me, I gave him a look and he smirked, "Yeah… come on hang out with us, we'll teach you everything we know."

"Why…" Julia whispered, "I… I don't …"

"Julia, you didn't have a partner in Charms today… you need some people to hang out with…" I smiled

"But why would you want to… I mean I… I made all of you smell horribly today!" Julia squeaked out

"So?" I smirked, okay to be quite honest I wanted to get Julia back… but still it was to good to be true! Perhaps Fred and I could set her up with George… but she would seriously need a self confidence boost if something like that was going to happen… and we would also need to slowly bring her into the group… If we succeeded in this George might finally have somebody, if not… "Come on lets go to dinner." I laughed

"But…" Julia tried to get out, as Fred and George began to drag her down the hallways by her arms.

I know its wrong to mess with people's love lives… but George needed someone… little did I know what Fred and I had stepped into…

I honestly don't know what to think about this chapter… as you already know Julia belongs to my buddy from band and I'm not sure if she was gracefully brought into the story… x sighs x oh well… I know this chapter was short… but another is going to be up soon! :D oh the joys of winter break

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