November 5, 1993

Fred and I had a plan.

A brilliant plan.

A plan that only involved a minor alteration to the infamous blabbering beverage; yes we had created the 'Chattering Beverage'. One sip of it and the drinker would instantly be launched into a full blown conversation that could last for hours at a time. The target was obvious, now all we had to do was set up a reason for Julia to need a drink… the answer was simple… a study block. All we had to do was get Julia to come up to the Gryffindor Common room to help us study for our OWL's, slip her a fresh glass or Chattering beverage, and kick back and enjoy the show. It seemed like a pretty good plan to me considering the babbling beverage itself was almost completely undetectable when it was being used by the targeted person but we had no idea how our 'beverage' would work; hopefully it would have the same effect. Okay now you're probably wondering why Fred and I hadn't tested it; the answers simple… we were too worried about what would involuntarily spill out of our mouth to try it.

It was safe to drink though, it had no dangerous ingredients in it whatsoever so we wouldn't have to worry about Julia suddenly turning blue and end up rolling around on the floor coughing up blood which was definitely a plus. Now all we had to do was wait….

We were all sitting in the Gryffindor common room reviewing the uses of ingredients in potions when I asked Julia for help, "Hey… Julia? Can I ask you something?"

She looked up from her paper; her eye glasses were crooked on her nose, "Sure." She replied with her ever soft and quiet voice.

"A humblydugger is used in antidotes to poisons correct?" I asked and watched as Fred slipped the Chattering beverage into her glass of Pumpkin juice.

She nodded and repositioned her glasses, "Naturally."

"But isn't a humblydugger also used in some of the poisons that the antidotes cure?" I asked as Fred slipped the vial back into his pocket.

"Well it depends on the poisons but yes, it is in some of them." She replied and went back to her own book.

"Right, thanks Julia." I smiled as I looked back down at my book, I couldn't wait until she took a drink… I finally could learn what her secret was! If all went smoothly we would be able to use this new found information to break her out of her shell, if not… well I'd rather not think about that option….

A few minutes passed as I skimmed the pages, my mind barely acknowledging what I was reading… I kept glancing over the top of my book at Julia who was so immersed in her book that she had yet to take a sip of her Pumpkin Juice. The minutes eventually turned into a half hour, which then turned into an hour… Merlin Ravenclaw's read too much, no wonder they had to be sorted into a separate house; they probably needed extra desks in their common room so that they all could be able to study at night! By the time fifty minutes had passed though she caved in and took a drink… the effect was instantaneous…

"I can't believe you guys really want to be my friends, when I first got here I didn't think anybody would like me because I transferred in late. I thought they would probably think of me as a freak because I just randomly arrived in the middle of fifth year. Everyone's already been friends for ages, it would be awkward to just suddenly intrude upon a group of friends like that."

George looked up from his paper and stared at Julia in shock, he opened his mouth to say something but was cut off sharply when Fred jabbed him in the ribs.

"The Ravenclaw's don't like me very much, I don't know why though. I didn't have any friends for the first few weeks and I spent most of my time pulling pranks. I wanted to get a name out there, a reputation of sorts like Allison, Fred, and George."

Fred, George, and I exchanged glances as Julia continued to chatter about how she had planned her pranks out and how she had executed them without getting caught. How she had chickened out when professor Sprout had come outside to find the whomping willow a shade of pink. How she had been so close to getting a reputation on her own…. It was amazing how much information we were getting out of her; it was as if our potion worked through her most recent thoughts jumbling them all up into one mega unstoppable speech.

"Then as if a miracle happened Fred and George are dragging me down the hall after charms class. I thought they were going to threaten me to do their homework, like the Slytherin's do. Or beat me up to get back at me for accidentally making you stink."

I winced at the memory as I continued to pretend to read, but did she really think that? Did she really think we were like that?

"It scared me when you did that. You still scare me. You guys are really loud and you keep trying to force me to do stuff I don't want to do, like talk a lot."

My stomach dropped, oh no. If she realized she was talking she would be furious! She would probably hate us!

"That reminds me of the Slytherin's forcing me to do stuff, too. I hope my cousins were too proud to tell anyone about you hexing them, if my mum hears that some Gryffindor's stood up for me, she might get a little suspicious."

My eyes widened as I shoved my nose even deeper into my book, she was cousins with those jerks? No wonder she tried to stand up against them, she actually knew them!

"In fact, I can't believe I still hang out with you and that I'm sitting here right now. If my cousins find me with you guys again after you stood up for me, they are definitely going to tell my mom. My mom won't be happy to receive that news. She thought it was bad enough that I got put in Ravenclaw and not in Slytherin like her, but she figured it was better than Hufflepuff or, worse, Gryffindor like you guys…. Why is my mouth dry?"

Julia gasped as her hand flew to her mouth. Her eyes widened as she glared at us, slowly we all looked up from our books. Her voice was muffled as she spoke into her hand, it sounded like she as cursing.

"I can't believe you guys!" Julia snapped at as she started gathering her stuff "A couple smiles, welcoming arms, standing up against my cousins; I thought I had found some friends, but no! you aren't any better than my family. All you wanted was a Ravenclaw's help with some homework, and someone to teases and ridicule!"Julia snapped as she headed towards the exit "I just hope my cousin's don't catch me! At least I won't have to worry about them seeing me near this place or…" she glared at us "Any of these Gryffindor's again."

She stormed out of the common room.

"She's mad…" Fred muttered as he stared after her.

"You think?" I groaned as the door slammed shut, geez we had bad karma… everything seemed to be going wrong for us lately. Why couldn't one plan be executed successfully without having a wrench thrown into it?

Five minutes passed as we stared at the door in silence, eventually George broke the silence, "What did you guys do to Julia?"

Fred and I slowly turned to look at him his face had confused on it.

I groaned, "Well it doesn't matter now…"

George raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?" he asked

"It's better that you don't know…" Fred sighed as we got to our feet and left a confused George behind in the common room.

A/N

Sooooooo… if you hadn't noticed already I'm having trouble keeping up with my every Friday policy. So I might try updating sometime during the weekend. Anyways this chapter was kind of unique because Julia actually had something to say for herself! I didn't write the majority of it though, most of her dialogue was written by my band buddy Carro who is the person who created Julia :D I just edited it to fit in with the rest of the chapter! So thank you to her for her help! Hey why don't you thank her yourself in your reviews? :3

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