A Harry Potter Fan Fiction
I don't own Harry Potter or that song Jump on it
Pre-Chapter Wind - Noel gets ready for her friends arrival to Hogwarts and learns they will be attending classes during their stay. Harry and Ron take Noel to the Quidditch Pitch. They return to the Common Room to find that the Common Room had put together a surprise party for Noel while Harry and Ron had distracted her. Noel falls asleep as Harry tries to help her to her dormitory.
-The Morning After-
I'm so uncomfortable, and yet not the same time. I just know that it's not my bed. I open one eye and check my watch. It's only 6:30...holy crap it's 6:30! I jolt awake, moving at super speed to get ready, not noticing Harry still sleeping on the couch where I just was. Wait a minute, that doesn't add up. I freeze and turn to look at him. He lifts his head and pats the empty space around him for a moment before rolling over to go back to sleep. That empty space beside him, I used to be on that empty space which means I had just slept with Harry for a night. HOLY SHIT! ME AND HARRY FRICKIN POTTER ON THE COUCH THE WHOLE NIGHT! Did I snore, or talk in my sleep, or drool? I've been known to talk in my sleep if I have too much sugar before bed. What if he heard something? I run all the way up the stairs and jump into my bed. Maybe I should avoid him today and talk to someone else in our house. I have other friends like Neville or Fred or Thomas. I mean really, who shares a couch with a person for the whole night? Who does that? I feel a hand prod me in the shoulder.
"Noel get up. It's 7:15 already." Hermione say. I hadn't realized that I laid curled up in bed for quite a while so I get up and finish getting ready. Hermione and I walk downstairs to find the boys waiting for us. Wait, I'm not ready to face him yet! I deserve a moment to come up with a plausible excuse as to why I wound up beside him last night.
"Took you guys long enough." Ron jokes.
"We can't all look like you can we?" Hermione jokes back coolly.
"Come on or we'll be late for breakfast." I urge, walking quickly out of the Common Room. Harry, noticing my haste to get away, keeps my pace easily.
"Hey, don't worry about yesterday. We were both tired and ended up on the couch together. Nothing happened." Harry says.
"I know nothing happened, it's just weird…"
"It's not weird at all. It was just two friends sharing a couch."
"Have you shared a couch with Hermione?"
"Well no, but I did sleep beside her in the Great Hall during third year in a sleeping bag if that helps."
"Not really. I'm just concerned about what I did in my sleep."
"It's not like you snored. You were pretty quiet compared to Ron and he sometimes jolts awake saying something about spiders making him tap dance."
"Thank god." I smile. We sit down at the table in the Great Hall and begin to eat when someone pokes me hard in the ribs. "I'm eating. Go away."
"If you say so Angel Face." A voice chuckles behind me. I whirl around and scream while vaulting into the boys outstretched arms. The arms pull me off the bench and twirls me around twice before setting me down.
"David!" I say. I had forgotten they were arriving today even though they had written me yesterday. I look around for the rest of the guys. Where are they?
"They're with Gramps and I came to get you." David says, as if he was reading my thoughts. "Let's get a move on. We've got four more guys who cant wait to see you." I grab my bag, waving goodbye to the trio, and let David drag me off to Granpi's office.
"Guys!" I yell as we enter his office.
"Noel." They say running to me and I give each of them a hug.
"I missed you all." I say, looking at each of them. David has light blond/brown hair, green eyes, and he was athletic like me because he's the Chaser on our team back home. Derek has tidy medium length hair and warm brown eyes. He's the quiet one, none of us knows the reason why except that he just is, who was easy to be around with. Jake has honey blond hair and blue green eyes. He was athletic also because he was the Keeper and team captain of our team. Richie and Drew are twin brothers with dyed different hair colors. Richie keeps his his hair a shocking white color while Drew keeps his hair deep black color even though their natural hair color is dark brown with eye colors of misty grey, both are Beaters of our team. These guys are my pals, my buddies in mayhem, my friends, and my family. "I was so worried about you after I left. Then I got your letter and felt relieved and I would have written back, sorry about that."
"We understand. Your Gramps explained how busy you were with school." Drew says.
"That's no excuse." I say. "I just feel so guilty."
"We can't let you perform with us later if you feel guilty babe, it's not a good look on you." Richie chuckles.
"And maybe I don't want to perform…" I mumble.
"You're performing and that's the end of it." Jake says in his stern leader voice. I groan. I hate that tone of voice he uses because it makes it hard for me to try to defy him.
"Well aside from that, we also received the bad news about school." David says, while Drew and Richie groans.
"Yes, it's time to be sorted into your houses that you will be staying in for the month." Dumbledore says. The boys and I sit down. Dumbledore puts the hat on each of them. Drew, Richie, and David ended up in Gryffindor, Derek in Hufflepuff, and Jake in Ravenclaw. "Well, you can plan what you will be doing in here until after lunch. Then set up in the Great Hall just before dinner. I will be off in the kitchens for now and then I will have a quiet lunch with Severus in his office. I need to talk with him about a few things." Dumbledore says, leaving us. We all turn to Jake, who was the brains of our band, as he pulls out a folder from his work bag. He brings that bag every where he goes. I bet he would bring it into the afterlife if he could.
"Okay group, I already have the song list for both tonight and Halloween, along with who with who will be singing them with the music sheets, and costume ideas that Noel will make. Also, Noel always knows how to make our shows better with her special effects so she will be doing that. Here are the song packs you guys can memorize for tonight while Noel and I get the costumes ready." Jake says handing us each a pack, mine bigger than their packs.
"OH YES FEARLESS LEADER!" Drew and Richie jokes, giving Jake a salute before opening their packs. I open mine and groan for a second time.
"What the hell Jake? Why am I in six songs out of eight?" I ask.
"Well you've been gone on vacation for a while so…don't give me that look. Okay onward to the costumes. The Halloween ones are already taken care of. I had them custom made. For tonight I had Louise back at home, she is our costume designer that we hired, to come up with a hard copy of the costumes for you to give you an idea make. Louise is very efficient, but we missed you...and your food our little angel." Jake says while ruffling my hair. I roll my eyes. It's always the food with the boys. Our group was called 'Heaven's Little Devils' and somehow I was their angel no matter how many pranks I pulled with them. I open my pack and find the design sheets.
"You're kidding right?" I ask.
"What?" Jake asks.
"Look at it. I'm going to look so out of place of how I usually dress nowadays." I complain while looking at it. It was a black sleeveless hoodie dress, red camisole, red and white stripped knee highs, and black converse shoes design. OH, and of course bling. A girl's best friend is her bling bling. What was wrong with it was how much arm and thigh it showed since it stopped mid thigh length.
"I think it looks cute." David comments after walking over to us to look over my shoulder and take a peek at the design. Of course he wouldn't see the problem since it was a little more than what I used to wear when we had gigs back home, but wearing this now would seem too much skin too soon.
"Well if it's so cute then you wear it." I say.
"You know I would, but that's a girls costume and I don't have your legs for it." David smirks. The boy's design was simple black dress shirts, black dress pants, black converse shoes, blings, and red belts.
"Your costume is more wearable than mine. You know I have to still go to this school after you guys leave." I whine.
"I don't understand why you can't just wear it…for us. Please. You haven't dressed up for us in ages because you haven't been home in ages." David whines back, building me a hypothetical coffin.
"I miss looking at my angel's legs, but you flew so far away from us that we can't see you every day like we used to." Drew says, lowering me in that hypothetical coffin.
"Me too, it sucks that our only angel is gone and we're stuck looking at each other." Richie says, slamming the lid shut and the three of them proceed to bury me in guilt.
"FINE, but I'm not going to be happy about it. If I get mobbed by some perv later on then it's all on your heads." I grumble. They always know how to push my buttons just right to get me to do anything for them.
"As long as you smile while performing tonight, that's all that matters to me." Jake says.
"Oh of course I'll be smiling." When I strangle the five of you to death later. Sure Derek is not saying anything, but his eyes spoke volumes and right now he's agreeing with them.
"Great, now all this haggling with you over costumes has made me hungry." David says, looking at me.
"So?" I ask, knowing where this was headed.
"Can't our little angel make her boys something to eat?" David asks.
"I don't feel like making anything after what just happened, so no." I say bluntly.
"Derek, make Noel make us something to eat."
"I guess I'm hungry too." Derek speaks up. See, always the right buttons.
"Fine." I concede. I always had a soft spot for Derek. Mostly it was because people weren't so nice to him when he first joined our group because they thought we had enough guys already with the twins, David and Jake. They wanted another girl instead, but we wanted Derek. I didn't care what they thought because Derek was a perfect addition to our group. Anyway, I began to be extra nice to make up for them not liking him and I kept at it even when people accepted him as a member. I snap my fingers and trays of sandwiches appear and jugs of juice with mugs. As we eat in silence, we hear the lunch bell ring for the end of lunch. Funny, I didn't even hear it for the start of lunch. We finish eating and I snap away the trays.
"We're going down in a few minutes. After that, we'll get dressed and do a rehearsal before dinner." Jake says.
"Sir yes sir." I chime.
"Oh captain my captain." The guys cheer.
We have our wands out, moving the tables around the stage that Jake had designed, and I created. Basically, I was the brawn of the group.
"Quietus." I say, raising my wand in the air, so that the rest of the school wouldn't hear us practicing. Jake hands me the costume designs, and I pop them on us, feeling really uncomfortable with the dress. It's so short that I can feel a breeze higher up my legs than I have come accustomed to and now the whole school with be able to see more of my legs than they are accustomed to. If I do a flip then they might look under my skirt. Note: do not do a flip tonight or I will die. If I accidentally do a flip, I will still die, but at least I'll die wearing clean underwear. After putting on a little make-up, I decide to calm down and find my happy place…in the North Tower...the Common Room...on the couch...with Harry. Okay, stop now. That's a little too specific for a happy place. How about at the lake? Yes, the lake on a Sunday morning sitting on a log. Now that's very peaceful. I can feel myself relaxing now, and then the bell rings. I think I'm going to be sick. That peaceful dock is too far gone now, so I pace around, listening to everyone eat dinner. They must be curious about the stage. Minutes later, Jake calls us to a huddle.
"Remember that just because this isn't a sanctioned event of ours, it doesn't mean I don't expect the best from each and every one of you." Jake says. "But even so, we should still have fun because we are at our best when we're together and doing what we enjoy to do. All for one,"
"And one for all." We recite. Jake goes over and nods to someone, I assume to Dumbles, to tell him we were ready to begin.
"Students and Teachers of Hogwarts," I hear Dumbledore start. I assumed correct. "I'd like to introduce the band that will be playing for us for Halloween this year. All the way from America, they are…Heaven's Little Devils." Dumbledore introduces us. We run onto the stage after a thunderous applaud and start the first chords to Jump On It – Hogwarts edition. During the whole performance, I felt really jittery with the school's eyes on us. After the last song, it was finally over, and the school cheers us on as we exit the stage. We wait a while, hydrating up, before I go over to where the Gryffindors were sitting, just to see how they were taking this other side of me all in.
"Hiya." I greet them with a huge grin on my face.
"Noel, you were amazing." Hermione says. "What is it that you aren't amazing in?"
"Well… I am afraid of spiders. Does that count?" I ask.
"Yes that counts." Ron says abruptly. I look at him curiously. So I'm guessing the tap dancing spiders was not a happy dream of his.
"And your outfit is so cute." Hermione says.
"Really cute." Fred says, making me blush. "Hello Noel's legs. I don't believe we've met." He says and I roll my eyes. "Will I be able to continue this conversation with you up in the Common Room? I'm acquainted with Noel the person but I'm really liking Noel the legs."
"Stop it."
"But I don't want to when teasing you like this makes you blush so much."
"Geez, you're just as bad as my boys. No wonder I like having you around a lot and as thrilling as my legs would love to continue this conversation with you, I have to stay and clean up after everyone leaves."
"Then we better go because the sooner we leave, the sooner you can come up." Fred says with a wink. I push him playfully as the group gets up to leave before I go back to the stage to see David joking with Richie and Drew.
"Hiya guys." David jokes, sitting down while twirling his hair with his fingers with knees together like a girl.
"Noel you're so cool. I'm glad I got to see you sing. Can I hold your hand?" Drew says, reaching for David.
"Harry." David giggles.
"Noel." Drew gushes.
"Harry."
"Noel."
"I didn't even introduce you guys to Harry yet and he didn't even say anything to me when I got there. If anything, Fred seemed more interested in my legs than Harry did." I fume, blushing even more than before.
"Fred openly flirting with you looks like a usual occurrence, meaning he needs to have a talking to from us sometime soon." Drew says. Dear lord, not this again.
"But we could tell Harry was Harry Potter because of his famous lighting bolt scar. Besides, they weren't wrong in their depiction of you two considering how he was staring at you." Richie points out. He was? "And you kept sending glances at him all during our performance." I did that? Really?
"Where are Derek and Jake?" I ask suddenly, changing the subject away from Harry and I.
"They went to find people in their house to walk with them. We stayed to clean up and we have you to walk us to Gryffindor." David says. Once everyone is gone, I clean up with a snap of my fingers and lead them to the Gryffindor Tower. I see everyone lounging around the Common Room and realize they must have been waiting for us.
"Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, Neville this is David, Drew, and Richie. The other two who isn't in our house are Derek and Jake." I say, introducing them to everyone.
"Which houses are they in?" Hermione asks.
"Derek's in Hufflepuff and Jake's in Ravenclaw." I say, watching my old friends start to mingle with my new friends. What a way to end the day.