Chapter 4: Goody two shoes breaks rules.
(Fred's Pov)
All thought of pummelling Ron went out of our heads when we heard that a troll was roaming the castle, students were screaming and some were running up and down the aisle. I'm not one to easily admit that I am scared of something but I sure as heck was scared now. "Silence, everybody follow their prefects to their houses immediately!" said Dumbledore. George and I regrouped with Harry and Ron but something felt wrong like I was forgetting something…. "Hermione! George, she doesn't know about the troll!" I said to him, we quickly grabbed the other two boys and dashed for the upstairs bathrooms. "Dumbledore said to go to the common room!" Ron shouted, I stopped and grabbed his collar "Look Ron, this is your entire fault so shut up and help us out. I really don't care what you do but if 'Mione is hurt..!" "Ok, I'll help you just calm down!" he said, continuing to run to the bathrooms.
When we there we saw a massive shadow that seemed to be moving and making a lot of noise. Jumping behind a wall, we peered out to look at the hideous creature as he continued on his path… heading straight into the girls' bathroom. "What should we do?" Harry asked and Ron being the coward that he is said "Maybe we should just go back to the common room!" George spun around and grabbed him throwing him in the direction of the bathroom… "After you" George said. We quietly came up to the bathroom and the wreckage was unbelievable. All the cubicles were smashed, pieces of debris lay everywhere and Hermione was stuck under one of the broken sinks trying to avoid getting hit by the troll's huge club.
"'Mione!" I yelled going straight for my friend, but forgetting the troll was still there I was clinging to his club before I knew what was actually happening. "Fred!" George cried as he attempted to distract the troll, meanwhile I saw my chance and jumped and landed old piece of a cubicle that had broken my fall and rolled quickly over towards 'Mione. "Fred" she cried wrapping her arms around me in a tight hug just as the troll was about to bring his club down on top of us, but there was no pain. I looked up and saw the club rose above the troll's head and then it just dropped on top of its head knocking it out cold. I sighed in relief as George came over and hugged us both, everybody was alright; yet I spoke to soon.
Professors' McGonagall and Snape arrived minutes later and I would probably be right in saying they were not happy in the slightest. 'Mione took the blame for all of us, everybody was quite taken aback by this… the "goody two shoes" was admitting to breaking rules. "Wow" was all I could think.
(Hermione's Pov)
"What was I thinking, I'm stupid!" I thought angrily as I took the blame for the troll incident, looking into McGonagall's' eyes and telling her I broke the rules! I took my punishment with my head held high because, as I looked over towards my friends I knew I had done the right thing for everyone. They were standing in a group all looking at me in a new light and I liked that. Something tells me that they won't underestimate the "bookworm" anymore.