November 7, 1993

What can I say? Fred and I felt lower then scum after the full effect of what we had done to Julia began to sink in. George was still out of the loop, but he knew that what had occurred in the common room had been primarily our fault… he just didn't know how we had managed to get her to talk like that.

Julia certainly had been keeping her promise as well… whenever we saw her in the hallways she would glare at us with so much cold hatred that I felt the chill all the way down to my toes, and she was never without her cousins either. Now that I really looked at them I could tell the resemblance… Julia may have had a more rounded face but she had some of the same haughty look about her (although it was dulled down quite a bit). Her eyes were a unique color however, but had the same shape as the majority of the Slytherin house.

It was obvious that she wasn't happy being with her cousins, the way they would force homework assignments up her nose was in short disgusting. Fred and I had never been like that! We had never tried to force her to do our homework, or even talk! Well… not until two days ago at least….

"-lison? Allison? Allison are you listening to me?" the voice of my Great aunt snapped me out of my daze.

"What…" I mumbled as I looked up at her worried green eyes.

"Class is over dear…" she looked me over quickly, "Is something wrong? You were zoned out for the whole lesson; usually you're much more attentive…. Do you need to go to the Hospital Wing?"

"No, I'm not sick… and I have detention with Snape tonight so… I…" I sighed and face planted into the desk, and she rubbed my back quietly, "I just… Fred and I messed up."

I felt her tense up, "Did something go wrong between you two?"

"No… were fine…" I mumbled into the desk, "We just did something to someone that we shouldn't have done and now they're really mad at us."

My aunt was silent for a long moment, after a long pause she asked, "Well, you're old enough to make your own decisions now so I'm not going to force you to tell me who this person was."

I smiled sadly and sat up in my seat, "Thank you…"

"You're welcome dear, and do remember that your counseling session is coming up soon so you need to decide on what you are planning to do after Hogwarts soon." She added, "I don't think you heard me when I announced that…"

"I didn't…" I shrugged as I stood up and headed for the door.

"Aren't you going to give me a hug goodbye Allison?" My Aunt asked as my hand reached for the door knob.

I nodded and walked back over to give her a quick embrace.

"I'll see you tomorrow Allison." She smiled at me and I nodded and left the room.

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It was admittedly odd to see Julia sitting at the Slytherin table with her cousins, her quill swishing back and forth across a piece of parchment so fast that it was almost a blur. They were making her write down their homework to? Wow… they really are lazy and stupid.

"I wonder if she remembers that we gave up Friday night to clean up a bunch of old cauldrons…." Fred muttered darkly as he stabbed a piece of steak with his knife ruthlessly.

"If she does I doubt that it matters… even if we did take the blame." I mumbled before I took a sip of my pumpkin juice.

George remained silent and I caught him glance over my shoulder from across the table. I raised an eyebrow at him and watched as he winced and looked back down at his plate of untouched food.

"George… are you okay?" I asked as I grabbed a roll from the plate in the middle

"Yeah Allie… I'm fine… just fine." He mumbled distractedly and refused to look up to talk to me.

"No you're not." I insisted and ruthlessly impaled my roll with a fork, "I know you to well George; you can't lie to me."

Fred glanced at me out of the corner of his eye.

"Neither can you Allison… I know you and Fred are keeping something from me. What did you two do that caused Julia to go off like that?"

My stomach dropped, "Well… we…" I gulped and my throat constricted.

Fred sighed and wrapped his arm around my waist, "We didn't mean for this to happen, we had an idea and thought that if we could get Julia to talk we could find out more about her and you know…"

"Well why didn't you tell me? I've never been left out of the loop like this before, I-" he sighed and shook his head, a pained look on his face, "You know what never mind, I'll see you two lovebirds later."

He rose from the bench in one swift motion and marched away.

"No… now two people are mad at us!" I groaned and Fred rubbed my side soothingly.

"It's all right love… George will understand… he's an easy going bloke you know that."

"I know… I just can't handle having two people mad at the same time." I mumbled into his shoulder and he kissed me on my head.

"Everything's going to be all right, you'll see." He murmured into my hair.

"I hope so…" I sighed, "Let's get going, I don't really want to eat anymore…."

"All right," he nodded, and we rose from the table and headed off to the common room, to get ready for our detention with Snape.

It's short, I know… I know… but it may be the last update for a while because I very well may be grounded after tomorrow because of my issue with procrastinating. I'm not going into details to bore you so on with the disclaimer…

Disclaimer: Would JK Rowling be facing the risk of being grounded tomorrow? No, I didn't think so.

Review please? Their probably going to be the only thing that will make me smile over the next few days…

Until I am ungrounded,

Drakefan077