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So the rest of the next day went by pretty much uneventful. The Weasley twins had managed to hook me into a prank that ended with Snape having permanently hot pink hair that cascaded to his shoulders in curls. He and the other teachers have yet to undo it, but the twins have pulled their magic and we haven't gotten caught, or at the very least they have no actual proof we had done it.

Ron, Seamus and Dean had all gotten detention and five points docked each in potions for all misbehaving. Ron and Seamus had paired up together while Dean had snagged Neville and the three, Neville actually trying to get the potions done though we all know he isn't very good at it, had goofed around and ended up exploding their potion and soaking the Gryffindors and Slytherins surrounding them with potion glop. Hermione had pulled a clump of goo from her hair and gave me an irritated look.

I think that's all...

That night right after dinner had ended I bid Hermione goodbye and made my way towards the greenhouses were I would be serving detention with Harry. I met up with Professor Sprout and Harry at the main entrance and we were both lead to Greenhouse three, which we were both excited about because we had never been in there before, only Greenhouse one. I glanced at Professor Sprout as we walked and asked "So this is safe right? I thought first years weren't allowed in Greenhouse three."

"Well Miss Potter I think you and Mr. Potter would be fine in here with me no? You seem to have a handle at Herbology pretty well."

"Not as well as Neville." I added.

Professor Sprout smiled fondly "Yes, such a good lad."

"So what's all in Greenhouse three?" Harry asked excitedly.

"There's several different things in there Mr. Potter, some of the plants being very difficult for a first years so please pay attention. Now, you will be working in the Flora faction, which is basically where all the magical flowers are stored. For your detention you will just have to prune and care for them until I deem you ready and then you may head back to your dormitories. Very simple."

"Says you, I've never gardened in my life. Would never let mum make me." Harry whispered to me.

I rolled my eyes "Oh please, gardening is by far my favorite chore."

"Why?" He asked incredibly.

I shrugged, the greenhouses coming into view "Well it's easier to me I guess and I get to be outside. Easier to get away from the Dursleys too cause they hate the heat."

Harry hummed in thought "I guess there's that. What else do you like to do?"

I thought for a moment "Uh cooking."

Harry looked at me sideways "Yeah?"

I nod "What do you like to do?"

Harry frowned "Uh I like to play Quidditch."

"Oh really Mr. Youngest-Seeker-In-A-Century." I teased.

Harry rolled his eyes "Yes really."

"What else." I pushed.

"I don't know really, I play Quidditch a lot. And I mean a lot. I pull pranks a lot on dad, Moony and Pads."

I smirked "You'll have to tell me about them sometime."

"Will do." He replied softly.

Professor Sprout interrupted us before our conversation could go any further, telling us we had arrived at the Greenhouse. When she opened the doors and we walked in I didn't know what I expected to be there, but I was certainly disappointed. It looked exactly the same as Greenhouse one, same dirt hiding in any crevice it could and tables and stools sitting around with various plants and herbs surrounding them. The most noticeable difference was the rather large Venomous Tentacula that sat upon the front table, its leafy vines sneaking around the table as it searched for something to grab onto, preferably prey.

Professor Sprout walked towards the plant and tapped one of its vines, causing it to try and snag her hand. She scolded it and turned towards us "Now I'm sure you know what kind of plant this is."

We both nodded, eyes traveling over its giant eyeless head with fangs.

"As you should know the Venomous Tentacula is a very dangerous plant and its poison, if it bites you, is highly fatal. Watch out for his vines as he will try and snatch you, but a quick Diffindo (1) can stun the creature and you can get away." She told us as she slapped away a traveling vine headed for her arm.

She then told us to stay put as she went to go grab the needed supplies. I looked at Harry who was warily watching the Tentacula "Isn't the Diffindo spell taught in second year charm classes?"

Harry nods and I sighed "Then what the heck!?"

Professor Sprout then came back and merrily dumped the supplies on the table and pointed out the section of the Greenhouse that we would be working in. She then left us to our work and went to the front of the Greenhouse to grade some papers. I picked up some sort of rake thing "What is this?"

"Oh you don't know Miss Gardening Expert?" Harry teased as he walked over to the flowers.

"Oh shut it Harry." I swatted at his head as I passed.

I sat down on my knees and peeked in the bushes, snatching some brown leaves. I peeked at Harry who had stopped working and was sniffing the air looking around the Greenhouse "What is that smell?"

I experimentally sniffed the air and raised an eyebrow "That flowery smell?"

"Oh don't look at me like I'm insane." He frowned at me "It doesn't smell like these ones here."

On a hunch I looked up at the ceiling, nobody looks up these days, and tilted my head "Found it."

Above us and attached to the ceiling, their roots and vines overflowing from an overhead open window, where giant flowers. The colors ranged from orange, red and yellow and looked exactly like umbrellas. And remember how I said 'giant' flowers, I mean it, they were huge! At least three feet from the diameter of the flower and the petals folded down quite a ways down the five inch thick stem.

Harry started at them with wide eyes "That would be 'em."

"Umbrella flowers." I stated in awe, remembering the name from some book Neville was telling me about and I couldn't help but think that the name was quite fitting.

"Umbrella flowers? Fitting name you think?" Harry mussed.

I nodded "Yeah, it is. Those things are huge!"

Harry bobbed his head a little "They are."

We worked awhile more in silence, the only noise was of the clipping of leaves and the humming of Sprout. I felt Harry look at me a moment or two everyone in a while, which was getting pretty annoying, but I ignored it and continued to work, guessing he would speak when he wanted to. But when he finally did speak I wasn't expecting what he said.

"So you know this morning at breakfast, Malfoy somehow found out I was the new seeker, so he was all peeved and stuff so he challenged me to a Wizard's duel. You know what that is?"

I bit my lower lip and nodded. I really didn't, but I mean, how much more complicated could it be? I mean it had the word 'duel' in the name so I'm assuming it's a duel.

"Well," He continued "I've become good friends with Theodore Nott, I mean he's better then Blaise Zabini who mostly keeps to himself, but he's not the worst… anyway, he told Malfoy he was my second before I could say anything and so that's what I'm doing at midnight tonight... Thought I'd better tell you before you found out on your own and killed me." He chuckled at the last part.

"You're serious?" I asked him surprised "Where?"

"Trophy room." He clipped a rotten stem.

I shook my head "You do realize that it's probably a trick right? I bet he expected you to refuse anyway."

"That's what Daphne Greengrass said after she punched my shoulder 'for being stupid'."

"Well she was right to call you stupid. It is. He's probably not even going to show and Filch will end up finding you and hanging you by the dungeon ceiling by your toes."

Harry snorted "Please, he hasn't gotten Dumbledore to pass that and you know it."

I exhaled loudly "Still it's not—"

Professor Sprout walked over to us cutting me off mid-sentence "This looks great! I think you're good for tonight, so you best be off towards your dormitories."

I glanced at the flowers, some brown leaves still poking out, but decided if she was letting us leave early then I was going to take it. We both jumped up and dusted the fertilizer off of our clothes and headed out into the brisk September air "We've only been in there for at least an hour! I wish I get her more often for detention than Filch."

"Harry you aren't seriously considering going tonight are you?" I asked him.

Harry sighed and ran his hand through his hair "Ah I dunno."

He turned to look at me so I pouted out my lower lip and widened my eyes. He glared at me and turned forward, pretending to be unaware of me still staring at him. He groaned rather loudly "No, I guess I won't."

I nodded satisfied "Good boy."

Harry pouted at me and we walked the rest of the way back to Hogwarts. We opened the large doors and walked past Snape who glared daggers at me, his hot pink curls swaying with the breeze the open door had carried in. We both smiled at him innocently, muttering our hellos.

Harry nudged my shoulder "So how'd you three manage to do that?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I replied innocently.

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"Half-past eleven." I whispered to Hermione "I'd better go."

"I'm coming too." She retorted "You think I'd let you go on your own? You're insane."

I snorted "And that's why I love you."

Hermione laughed softly so as not to awake our dorm mates "Alright, so let's go and hope your idiot of a brother doesn't get caught."

I agreed and we both climbed down the flight of stairs, thankful no one was awake, and we both clambered out of the portrait hole. I couldn't help but wonder when I had become ok with Harry being called my brother.

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We both tiptoed into the trophy room and were surprised to see someone already there that wasn't Harry. It was Daphne Greengrass. She looked just as shocked to see us as we were to see her. Hermione dragged me in and looked at the girl strangely "Daphne Greengrass? What are you going here?"

"I'm stopping Harry and Theo from being idiots and having a Wizard's duel with Malfoy and Crabbe… What are you two doing?" She asked.

"The same thing." I replied.

"Idiots." Daphne shook her head and folded her arms over her chest.

"He told me he wasn't coming, but I came just to make sure." I explained.

"So did I." Daphne admitted.

Hermione glanced at all the trophy cases and then back at us "Hopefully Filch doesn't find us."

"I—" Daphne stopped before she could start when we started to hear voices and they weren't the voices of Draco Malfoy or either of his cronies.

Walking around the corner with Theodore Nott on his tail was Harry Potter. They heard Harry ask Theodore amused "And if I wave my wand and nothing happens?"

"Throw it away and punch him on the nose." I told him dryly.

Harry and Theodore looked up with the 'deer in the head lights' look and they both stopped in their tracks.

"You're dead." Theodore whispered to him blandly.

Harry glared at him "It's your fault I'm in this situation, I'm bringing you down with me."

"I'm only allowing you to bring me down with you because I'm not leaving my best buddy alone in the clutches of stellar, but sneaky Daphne Greengrass, the redheaded goddess that's your evil little sis Hope Potter and her gorgeous, but wickedly smart best friend Hermione Granger." Theodore smiled graciously at us.

I stared at Harry with a 'what-the-fuck' face while Daphne walked forward and hit him in the shoulder, leaving Hermione to scrunch her nose delicately and say "Yeah this just got awkward."

I tossed my head to get my hair from my face "Thought you said you wouldn't be going tonight."

"Yeah," Harry ran a hand through his hair nervously "about that."

"I made him." Theodore deadpanned.

"You two could have both been caught and then heaven knows what Filch would do to you!" Hermione reprimanded them in a slightly hushed voice, hands on her hips.

"He'd hang you by chains on the dungeon ceiling. By your toes." Daphne stated simply.

"Why do you both say that!?" Harry exclaimed wildly.

"Because that's what Filch says." Hermione replied in a tone as if it were obvious "All the time."

"It's true." Theodore stated as he bobbed his head "We should make him a T-shirt."

I must have gotten 'the look' as Hermione calls it on my face because she shook her head viciously "Nope. Whatever you're thinking, eject it."

I snickered "Eject."

Daphne clucked her tongue "I told you two Malfoy was just setting you both up, its twelve o seven."

"Maybe he's just late?" Harry trailed on glancing at Theodore.

Theodore shrugged his shoulders "How am I supposed to know Potter?"

Harry glared at him.

"I told you he hadn't expected you to accept so he wasn't going to show." I said in a sing-song voice.

"I bet you he may have tipped off Filch too." Hermione realized suddenly as we started to hear footsteps and Filch's croaky voice fill the silence "Sniff around, my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner."

"I blame you both if we get caught." Daphne snapped at the two.

Harry ignored her and waved at us frantically, leading us towards the other door and away from Filch's voice. We all snuck down the hallways and maneuvered between suits of armor, Filch's footsteps never fading. Theodore had looked behind him to check on Filch and had tripped over his own feet slamming into a suit of armor. We all froze at the large crash and then heard Filch's footsteps get louder as he was no doubt running, so we did the only reasonable thing to do.

"RUN!" Daphne all but screamed.

We ran down corridor after corridor, no one knowing if Filch was behind or not, we ripped through a tapestry that turned out to be a hidden passageway and we ended up near our charms classroom, which we knew was miles from the trophy room. I looked at Harry "Malfoy tricked you, you do realize that right? Filch knew someone was in the trophy room, Hermione was right, he must have tipped him off."

"Yes," Harry gasped "I get it. But right now we need to get back to our dormitories before he find us."

"Let's go." Theodore rubbed at his sore side.

A nearby door rattled and Peeves flew out, he gave a startled squeal of glee at the sight of us "Wandering around at midnight Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty."

"Not if you don't give us away, Peeves, please." Hermione pleaded desperately.

"Should tell Filch, I should." Peeves said solemnly "It's for your own good you know"

"Oh get out of the way." Theodore growled, swiping at Peeves. That was stupid, figures.

"STUDENTS OUT OF BED! STUDENTS OUT OF BED DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!" Peeves bellowed.

We all cursed and ducked under Peeves, running until we all ceremoniously ran into a looked door. Hermione was the first to jump up, knocking Theodore out of the way as he moaned miserably "This is it! We're done for! This is the end! Goodbye world!"

"Move!" She yelled at him, snapping out her wand "Alohomora (2)!"

We all piled past her as it opened and we shoved it shut just as we heard Filch reach Peeves, his breath coming in great gasps. "Which way did they go Peeves?"

"Say please."

"Don't mess with me," Filch growled "now where did they go?"

"Shan't say nothing if you don't say please." Peeves sang.

"All right— please."

"NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn't say nothing if you didn't say please!" Peeves cackled and whooshed away, Filch cursing after him.

I breathed out a shaky laugh "He thinks this door is locked, I think we'll be okay."

Harry suddenly tugged on my robes "What?"

I turned around just as the others did and we all gasped. This wasn't a room, it was a corridor, the forbidden corridor to be exact. And know we knew why it was forbidden.

We all clutched to each other as the head or should I say heads swiveled to look at us. It had three large heads each with a set of dark eyes, three noses, three disgustingly drooling mouths and large yellow fangs. And the thing took up the whole dang room. It stared at us and was standing quite still, its six eyes blinking. The beast started to growl, great thunderous growls.

Daphne must have opened the door, having being closest to the doorknob, and we all fell backwards. Luckily Filch must have went off to look for some other unfortunate souls because he was nowhere in sight. We all ran down the corridors until Hermione couldn't take it anymore and collapsed against the wall. We all were thankful for that and sunk towards the ground with her.

"What— do you think they're doing keeping—that thing is a school?" Harry panted.

"If any dogs needs exercise, that one does." Theodore muttered.

I raised an eyebrow at him and traded a glance with Daphne who shrugged.

"You don't use your eyes do you?" Hermione asked as she clutched a stich in her side "Didn't you see what it was standing on?"

"The floor?" Theodore asked lamely.

"No not the floor! It was standing on a trapdoor, it's obviously guarding something." Hermione straightened herself and turned on the boys "I hope your happy because we could have been killed—or worse, expelled."

"How is that worse?" I wondered aloud.

"Hope." She glared at me.

"But she's right," Daphne broke in "we could have been killed."

"But that should be the worst." I sent a pointed look at Hermione.

"Now if you don't mind, we will be going to bed."

"We?"

"Yes Hope, we. I know I came along willingly, but we really should be going to bed. It's nearly one."

"We should be doing that too." Daphne voiced.

I groaned and got up "See you Harry, Theodore, Daphne. We will defiantly be talking later."

"Bye Hope, Hermione." They all chorused.

I glanced at Hermione as we went through the portrait, the Fat Lady tutting at us disapprovingly.

I guess I know where that package from vault seven hundred and thirteen was.

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Diffindo (1) - The Severing Charm is a charm used to precisely and accurately cut something

Alohomora (2) – is a charm that unlocks and opens doors and windows that are not protected by magic