Chapter 15: Percy the Perfect Prefect
Zoey cheered with the rest of her house as Hannah Abbott was sorted into Hufflepuff. She watched and clapped as the pink-faced girl took her seat with the rest of the Badger-Batch (a nickname Echo came up with for the house) the Fat Friar was waving merrily at the new addition to the house. Zoey gave another cheer as Susan Bones joined the table.
Zoey observed that most of the First Years looked a little frightened as they waited for their turn to be sorted. She noted that their fears could be from not knowing what house they'll be in and or they were still shaken from thinking that the Sorting Ceremony would have been harder than merely placing a wise old hat in their head.
Zoey knew for a fact that Ron had expected something more challenging than wearing a hat.
"You did what?" Zoey gasped in disbelief as she jumped of the train. From a distance, she could hear Hagrid rounding up the First years.
Fred gave a laugh, "I just told ickle Ronnie that he had to wrestle a troll for the Sorting Ceremony"
"Brilliant," George said as he patted his twin on the back and headed towards the carriages.
"Not brilliant. Knowing Ron, he believed what you said!"
"That's the best part," Fred said as he stepped into the carriage that could be pulled with no horse.
Zoey gave a shiver as she stared at the creature no one else could see. That creature was the one pulling the carriages to Hogwarts. The creature that only -from her knowledge- she would see and what many believed to be invisible or non-existent. To believe that the carriages pulled themselves.
"No it's not Fred," Zoey scolded as she sat beside Echo who was quietly reading a book, "I bet you've scared the boy! You should have just told him the truth"
"And where's the fun in that?" Fred asked
"You should stop babying the boy. He can handle himself," George added
"With the lies you've told him? The spell, the sorting?" Zoey raised an eyebrow.
"Besides," Fred said waving off Zoey's comment, "Just telling Ron that all he had to do was sit and have a hat placed on his head wouldn't scare him."
Zoey rolled her eyes and thumped Fred on his shoulder (though it didn't really affect him). "Anything else you've told Ron that I should know about?"
"That's for us to know," Fred began
"And you to find out," George ended.
Zoey clapped her hands as Justin Finch-Fletchley was sorted into Hufflepuff.
She waited patiently as the other First years went by. Hermione Granger was sorted into Gryffindor soon followed by Neville Longbottom. Draco Malfoy was sorted into Slytherin together with Theodore Nott and a pug-faced girl named Pansy Parkinson.
"Potter, Harry"
Zoey watched as everyone in the hall broke into whispers. She heard many ask:
"Potter, did she say?"
And
"The Harry Potter?"
She bit her lip and observed that "Harry Potter" was a small and skinny boy with untidy jet-black hair. He, too, had glasses perched on the bridge of his nose. Zoey watched silently, as did the rest of the hall, as Harry sat on the stool and had the Sorting Hat placed on his head. It was so big that it covered some of his eyes.
The time Harry sat on the stool seemed longer than the rest but soon enough the hat exclaimed:
"GRYFFINDOR!"
And everyone erupted in cheers.
Zoey watched quite fondly as Harry walked over, shakily, to the Gryffindor table. She saw Percy stand up to shake Harry's hand and laughed as the Weasley twins started shouting "We got Potter! We got Potter!"
"Okay! You got him, now shut it!" Zoey heard Echo exclaim from the Ravenclaw table.
The cheers died down and the Sorting continued. Zoey watched as Dean Thomas joined the Gryffindor's and Lisa Turpin joined the Ravenclaw's. Soon enough it was Ron's turn. Zoey kept her fingers crossed as Ron took his seat on the stool. No sooner than a second the hat yelled out "GRYFFINDOR!"
Lastly, Blaise Zabini was sorted into Slytherin.
Zoey looked down at her table and prayed that Dumbledore wouldn't choose now to make a long speech. She was getting hungry. She couldn't even remember if she ate anything during the trip to Hogwarts.
Like the heavens heard her prayers Dumbledore ended his greetings with "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
Zoey could have sworn she was drooling when the plates in front of her were magically filled with food. She hastily took a chicken leg, mash potatoes and gravy and placed them on her plate as she ate with great speed. She was sure that none of the Hufflepuff's would notice her un-ladylike behavior. After all, she was sure they didn't even know she was there.
Sooner than she had imagined the plates of food disappeared and Dumbledore once again stood up. She patted her belly, glad that it was now filled, as she focused her attention to Dumbledore. He gave the final reminders ending with a warning that no one was allowed to go to the third-floor corridor on the right hand side unless they wanted to die a painful death.
'That's a nice thing to say before bed,' Zoey couldn't help but think.
Zoey sat on a table at the corner of the library with a piece of parchment in front of her and a quill in her hand. It had only been a few days into the term and Zoey already felt at home. Hogwarts had that effect on her. She sighed as she dipped her head down and started to sketch onto the parchment.
Her mind wandered back to all the times she had fallen asleep during the train ride and she painfully remembered all the dreams she had. Unconsciously, she had drawn a box in the middle of the paper surrounded by turned over furniture and broken glass.
"Blimey Zoey! I didn't know you were that good at art!"
Zoey jumped at the voice and saw Fred looking over her shoulder.
"Fred!" Zoey gasped, "What are you doing here?"
"What does it look like?"
Before Zoey could reply Echo, George and Bridgit emerged from behind the shelves each approaching Fred and herself. Zoey hastily folded her drawing and stuffed it into her pocket.
"Tell me, Fred, why am I dragged into this? I've got Potions to attend to," Echo said as she stood beside Zoey.
"Potions smotions," Fred said childishly, "Besides, it's Lunch right now and you've got Potions after Lunch"
"But I want to finish early…," Echo grumbled
"You already have assignments?" George asked as he took a seat across from Zoey, beside Bridgit who was beside Fred.
"Of course. It's Snape we're talking about"
"Professor Snape," Zoey found herself correcting.
"You know, when you correct Echo it makes me think of Percy when he… you know tries to control Fred and George," Bridgit started, "Always making them act and do stuff his way"
Fred and George gave a snort while Zoey looked wide eyed at the Ravenclaw.
"No… I couldn't… do I?" she stuttered out
"No Zoey. I'm just messing with you," Bridgit gave a smile.
"Speaking of Percy," Echo began, "You guys never told us what you did to him on the train"
"Let's just say…things got a little flashy," Bridgit said as a smirk formed on her lips.
"Okay, now I don't like where this is going. Can I go to Potions now?" Echo asked as she folded her arms across her chest.
"Why Echo, Why wouldn't you want to hear-" Fred started
"-What we did to Percy? Don't tell me you're protecting 'Percy the Perfect Prefect'," George finished
Echo scowled, "I wouldn't do such a thing"
"So what did you guys do to Percy?" Zoey asked
"Well, do you want to hear it or are you heading off to Potions and miss out on this amazing story?" Bridgit asked, looking playfully at Echo.
Echo bit her lip before giving a hard look at everyone, "Fine, I'll stay. But I won't take part in conversing with you people"
Zoey rolled her eyes and smiled. "Typical. So what happened?"
Bridgit grinned. "Well, when you were asleep, I walked into the compartment-"
"-and was looked so angry that you could see the smoke coming out of her ears," George interrupted
"Red-face and all," Fred added, "She could have been confused with the Hogwarts Express"
"Anyway," Bridgit continued choosing to ignore the twins' interruptions, "They, well Echo, asked me what was wrong and I answered that Percy gave me a demerit because I was planning a prank on the Slytherins"
"So, when we heard that Little-Miss-Wannabe-Prankster over here wanted to get back at Percy, we couldn't resist the opportunity to suggest a prank for the bloody little prefect," Fred continued.
"So what was the prank?" Zoey asked curiously with a tilt of her head.
"I put a spell on my camera that would make clothes turn invisible," Bridgit said sending a glare at Fred for his annoying comment
"We then walked up to Percy and took a picture of him," George said already beginning to laugh.
"He even smiled like a bloody politic!" Fred added, "He was completely clueless!"
"What do you expect from a pompous prat? A 'Hello'?" Bridgit asked sarcastically.
"So," Zoey interrupted, "What happened after?"
"His robes and uniform disappeared and he patrolled the train half naked!" George answered making Fred and Bridgit smirk.
Zoey held back a bark of laughter, "H-he didn't even notice?"
"No he didn't!" Bridgit laughed, "By the time he realized it he ran around the train screaming 'Where's my badge?'"
Fred and George joined in the laughter.
"He was running around half-naked and all he cared about was his freaking prefect badge!" Bridgit said.
Zoey let out a laugh before quickly covering her mouth. She hoped Madam Pince did not hear her.
"Detention was so worth it," Fred said still laughing
"Detention?" Zoey asked as she controlled her laughter, "On the first day back?"
"What's so surprising?" George asked
"We are the Weasley Twins!" Fred said
Zoey shook her head, "Should have known"
Suddenly the bell rang.
"Oh… Lunch's over?" Zoey asked as she pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose.
"Apparently," Bridgit said as she pushed back her chair to stand up.
"What classes do you have next?" Zoey asked as she, too, pushed back her chair.
"Potions obviously," Echo spoke for the first time in a long time as she got up as well.
"Same here," Bridgit said as a look of annoyance appeared on her face, "I hate Snape"
"We've got Charms," the twins said as they stood up in unison and pushed their hands in their pockets.
"How about you Zoe?" Bridgit asked
"I've got Potions too," Zoey replied with a small smile.
"Well, we better go before Snape blows a cap and deducts points," Echo said, she really wanted to get to Potions.
"Yeah, we should," Bridgit agreed.
Zoey watched as Bridgit, Echo and George turned to leave to library. Without meaning to, she placed her hand in her pocket and slightly played with the parchment. Her eyes glazed over as she remembered the dusty room, the box and the pain of a thousand knives her aunt gave her. She gave a shudder.
"Are you cold?"
Zoey jumped. She had forgotten Fred was still with her. She turned to look at him and noted he was leaning against one of the many bookshelves looking at her.
"No…just remembered something," she bit her lip.
"Was it a bad memory?"
"I guess you could say that," Zoey gave a weak smile.
"You want to talk about it?" Fred asked as he walked over to her and pushed a strand of hair away from her face. Zoey blushed. Should she tell him?
"N-not right now…," she whispered, "We'll be late for class."
She felt Fred's hand softly graze her cheek before taking hold of her own hand. Her blush deepened.
"Okay," he said, "Let's go then?"
Zoey smiled as he grinned, "Sure"
And here is Chapter 15~!
Did I do this instead of my project? Yes! PROCRASTINATION AT ITS BEST! (or irresponsibility XD)
A little story telling before the dedications: I am part of the softball intrams in my school. Sadly, we lost but I still feel very happy because for the first time I was able to hit the ball on my first try! I was like "Think Beater. Think Beater. Think Fred. Think George. Think AWESOME!" and I hit it! YESH!
Right.
I dedicate this chapter to my two awesome friends (one of them being "ZoomSkater14")who helped me once again in typing it up :D Love you!
I also would want to dedicate this to "Taka" may we be able to finish all our requirements! "YukiKyoMomiji" for her amazing curiosity that inspires me for new chapters that you all will be seeing in the future, "yvonna" for her question and reviews and "wHaT's In A pEn-NaMe " for asking a "Fred/Zoey moment" sorry if it's a little small but it's there! :D
I would also like to thank all you awesome people who reviewed, alerted and favorited! You are all so beautiful!
Now for some question and answers: Most of you ask if Zoey's ever going to reveal her past to her friends I can't say much on it but Yes she will. When and how? I can't say.
Will she meet her father again? Of course. How? I can't say. when? I think it's obvious :P
Are Fred and Zoey going to develop a relationship and kiss? Of course! When and how? i can't say :D
And that's it for today!
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