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But if I did own them...
heh heh heh...
I sat in my bed, I loved how Max was being so nice to me, trying to help, but I knew that she would get in trouble if I told her about the kids. Hufflepuff was a nice place, we had a much more variety of students then the other houses. The Slytherins were just a bunch of big-headed idiotic bullies. Ravenclaw students were kinder then the Slytherins, some of them were to smart and really know-it-all, but that was because they were smart, and I couldn't hold a grudge against them. Iggy was in there, and Luna was really cool. She'd taught me so much, I knew that I should be aware of Nargles from now on. Maybe that's where my scarf went a few years back... Gryffindor's were cool too, I mean, they had to be, with Max and Fang in it. They were brave, and pretty smart as well. Apperently they'd won the house championship for the last three years! But Hufflepuff, we were the left behinds. We were those who couldn't fit into any of the other houses.
I wished that I was in Gryffindor, I really wanted to be with Max. I stood up from my bed. There were crinkle marks on the yellow and black markings, and the badger in the middle looked really smudged. I ignored it though, I didn't really care. I walked down the steps, I knew that I had to get started on my homework. Proffesor Flitwick was determined to get us to learn the Wingardium Leviosa spell by the end of the month. It was October, and I couldn't wait until Halloween. I heard they serve lots of food then, and there are flying pumpkins! I grabbed my wand from my sock, where I kept it so I wouldn't forget it. I headed down toward the common room. Some kids were doing their homework, others were gossiping about the upcoming TriWizard tournament! I couldn't wait for that!
The other schools were arriving this Friday! I couldn't wait! Max, Fang, and Iggy weren't so interested. But this prefect that spent a lot of time in the common room was going to try out to be in it. His name was Cedric Diggory, and he was really nice. I had fallen earlier during my first week. The other kids had laughed, two girls came to help me up, they were in Max's year, and the boy Cedric offered to help me carry my books to the library. He said he was heading there anyways, and he wanted to help me. I had felt my face heat up, and I said, "No, thank you." So he handed me my books back with a smile on his face. He was at the library later though, and he was doing his homework, so I knew that he was just doing it to be nice. And he was really nice.
I walked to a yellow seat. I sunk down into it. Quietly, I pulled my shoe off and grabbed the sock. I quickly put my shoe back on, and set the sock on the floor. I pointed to it, and did the motion just for a run through. Then I started saying the words. I flicked my wrist, and said, "Wingardium Leviosa." The sock quivered a little, but it didn't fly up. I groaned, so I tried it again. This time I got it to rise a few milimeters before it fell to the ground. The next time it didn't move at all.
I did this for about a half-hour, and continued my practice. Max and Fang had a ton of homework apperently, and they couldn't see Angel, the Gasman, and Total as much anymore. I went down there just about every other day. Max and Fang went down there at least twice. On bad weeks they were lucky to get down there once. One time Max couldn't go at all. The teachers had piled homework, and then she had gotten into a fight with a Slytherin kid in front of Snape. That had gotten her three days detention. Fang had gotten two for not stopping her. Snape was a big peice of shit.
I really wanted to tell Max the truth, that I wasn't very good at magic. The day that I told her that I could hex some kid easily, I was the worst one in the class. I couldn't do magic to save my life. Give me my bare hands and feet any day.
Eventually I moved on from my "wonderful" magic working, and walked in my room again. This time some girls were gossiping in there. Some of them looked at me, and then snickered. I started to dig into my pack, only pretending.
"I can't believe that." One of the girls, Megan, was whispering. "That freak can't even to Wingardium Leviosa! I could do it quickly."
"I know. I figured it out a few minutes after you. I bet Nudgy over there, is the only one not able to do it in our entire class." another girl, snickered, staring at me. "What do you think Ginger?"
"I don't know. I heard a rumor that she lives in Shrieking Shack. She's only hanging out with Fang and Max to make herself seem cool." Ginger whispered.
"And Iggy. I mean, he's in Ravenclaw, but he's so strange. He likes to pull pranks, and I really like that." Megan laughed.
"Come on, you have to love Fang though. He's one of the coolest new kids ever! I heard he came from Durmstrang before he came here. My uncle went to Durmstrang, and wow, those people know some serious magic." the second girl, Lilac, squeeled.
"Seriously? Well, we all know one thing, Nudgy here will never amount to their level. I mean, Max is the coolest new kid. Then there's Fang. Dark and mysterious. Iggy made it easy to know he was here, I mean, who else blows up a toilet? Then there's Nudgy. The freak. Who nobody likes." That made me clench my fists at Megan's comment.
"I got to go know, I still haven't completed Snape's essay on whatever potion he wants us to do now." Ginger suddenly said, standing up from Megan's bed.
"I'll come with you. I still need to do that one too." Lilac agreed. "I don't get it, I know he said there are seventeen ingrediants to make it, but all I can find is ten."
"You got werewolves tooth, didn't you?" Ginger asked, as they walked out of the room. I knew this was my time. I could get Megan back. It would be fun.
"Hey Megan, could you wait there, just for a second?" I asked, the brown-haired girl looked at me, she didn't want to do it. "I have a surprise for you." She was silent for a moment.
Then with a sigh she muttered, "What is it?"
"Wait right there." I said, closing the door, making sure nobody else could see. I grabbed my clothes with my wing holes in them. I looked at Megan, she seemed confused, quickly I changed behind my bed. I popped up, she was looking at me clothes.
"Do you like them?" I said, a dark smile crossing my face. She shook her head.
"I like these clothes, you know why? I can do things that I can't do with my uniform."
She looked at her clothes, and then looked at me. "I don't believe you, what can you do?" she asked.
"This." I said, and my wings shot out from my clothes. "Freaky ol' Nudgy aye? Well, freaky ol' Nudgy can kill you in a second. You're lucky, you weren't one of those thousands of kids trapped in dog cages. Their organs were outside of them, and they died. I was a lucky one, hah! No. I'm the unfortunate one. I was born with these, and I've been keeping you safe for almost a year. So guess what, you better be nicer to me. Or you'll experiance my life, being only an inch away from death." I couldn't help it, this felt so good. The dark side of the Nudge. I hated this, I knew that Max could deal with this, but I didn't want her help, I wanted to do things my way. And if that meant breaking Megan's spine, so be it. I looked at her, her eyes glazed over, and she fainted.
'Good, now when she wakes up, she'll think that she was sleeping.' Suddenly I heard footsteps, I snapped my wings back in, and looked. Ginger was back.
"She wasn't asleep when I left." Ginger said suspiciously, looking at Megan.
"She fell asleep, so?" I said, looking at her. Ginger shrugged, and walked to her trunk. She dug through it, until she found what she wanted. It was her potions book, she carried it out. I sighed, and jumped onto my bed. I hoped that Max wouldn't be angry. 'She can't be angry, if she doesn't know...' I thought snidely. I knew that this was going to be good, Megan would probably think it was a nightmare, and she'd look at me. Her friends would think that she was crazy, and she would be a bit of an outcast for a while. But she didn't care, Megan would be fine. She knew that she would. And she also knew, that life would start getting good too. Hopefully her scare had worked though.
Sorry that this chapter is pretty short. I wanted to give an example on how life for Nudge was. It'll play in later in the story, I promise. Anyways, to make up for this short chapter, the next chapter the other schools will be joining for the TriWizard Tournament!!!!!
