Chapter 18: An idea gone too far

It was passed dinner time and Zoey, together with Bridgit and Echo, was heading back up the Seventh Floor of the North Tower; Zoey nervously but her lip as she played with the sleeves of her robes. She never got detention before and when she imagined getting one, though she never actually thought she would, she had hoped it would be in the morning for Hogwarts looked rather scary in the dark.

Zoey jumped when she heard cackling down the corner.

"Don't be so nervous Zoey, it's only detention…it's not the end of the world," Bridgit said, rubbing Zoey's shoulders for comfort. Zoey continued to nervously play with her sleeves as her eyes darted from one side of the castle to the other.

"But I've never gotten detention before," Zoey said as she looked up at Bridgit. She then looked back down only to see Echo sitting in a corner rocking back and forth while wrapping her arms around her knees. "Shit. Detention. End of the World." Echo muttered.

"Look at her!" Zoey exclaimed as she whipped out her hand to point at Echo, "What exactly happens in detention?"

"Detention. Mind-numbing nothingness," Echo muttered again as she continued to rock back and forth.

At the sight of Echo Zoey felt her panic rise, "How can the twins survive detention every other day?" Zoey moaned as she leaned against Bridgit.

"You two are over-reacting, I mean, look at Fred, George and I? We get detention all the time, but we're normal," Bridgit said making Echo and Zoey look at her oddly, "Okay, I'm normal, I don't know what went wrong with those two"

"You call yourself normal?" Zoey asked slowly. Bridgit gave an innocent smile.

"Let's just get this over with," Zoey sighed as she clutched onto Bridgit's arm for dear life.

Echo stood up from the corner and joined the other two in entering the Divination classroom. When they opened the door they were greeted with a surprise.

"Look what the cat dragged in," Fred said making Bridgit smirk

"I can't believe I'm stuck in this lake and I can't escape because I'll get in more trouble," Echo said as she leaned against one of the tables. Zoey looked at her oddly. "What are you talking about?" she asked but it seemed as though Echo did not hear her.

Bridgit released Zoey's hold before walking towards the twins and whispering, "Don't mind her. She hasn't been onto one detention and she's already gone crazy" She said with e jerk towards Echo.

Fred and George nodded their head before focusing their attention back to the "noobs" or detention.

"So Zoe," Fred smirked, "What did a goody-two-shoes like you do to get landed here?"

Zoey licked her lips as she played with her sleeves again. She felt her cheeks burning, "F-fortune telling"

"That's it?" George asked

"Aren't you suppose to fortune tell?" Fred asked as well, "You were in Divination right?"

"It was more like.. Trelawney couldn't accept that what Zoey did was kind of Fortune Telling," Bridgit said, "Stubborn Loony"

"It was just muggle origami," Zoey mumbled as she pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose.

The twins looked at her oddly.

"What's 'Origami'?" George asked her with a genuinely confused expression

Echo coughed and answered for Zoey, "Origami the Japanese art of paper-folding, gidiot"

Zoey let out a snort at Echo's choice of word. She later blushed when Fred looked at her. "Sorry," she blushed. Fred shook his head before turning his attention back to the others.

"What's Japanese then?" Fred asked making Bridgit burst out in laugher.

"Dear Merlin," Echo sighed as she slumped to the floor. Zoey bit her lip to keep herself from laughing at the twins' question. She could understand why they didn't understand what 'Origami' was for they were raised in an all wizard environment but not knowing g what 'Japanese' was, was just a bit laughable.

There was no time for explaining to the clueless pure-blood wizards for the door opened revealing Professor Trelawney in all her gaudy shawl glory.

"Loony," Echo coughed.

"Everyone in your seats," Trelawney said as if she did not hear Echo's comment. Bridgit had stopped her fit of giggles.

The five students made their way to their assigned seats, Zoey with George up front, Echo and Brigit behind and Fred just a little bit beside Zoey and George's table. "Why do I have to be alone?" Zoey heard Fred grumble as he slumped on his seat.

Trelawney began to explain to them how their detention was going to work out.

"Three of you are here because you tried to make a fake fortune telling device, while the other two are here because they thought it was funny to have dung bombs replace my crystal balls and explode in their classmate's faces," Trelawney said as she gave them all a death glare that couldn't be taken seriously since her glasses made her look like a bug, "Now, what I want you all to do is write a two scroll essay on why Divination is important. Go on now. Begin!"

As the hippy, a nickname Bridgit came up for Trelawney, finished discussing their detention, the five students took out their school materials and started to write. Forty minutes had passed and Bridgit and Echo were nearly done with theirs. Zoey was half way through and the twins barely had two paragraphs written.

"You two should focus and stop messing around," Echo said, not taking her eyes of her scroll.

"Why? Little Miss Perfect afraid of getting in trouble? Wait, you already are in trouble," George retorted, making Trelawney look up at them

"I hate you, gidiot. Along with your brother, Captain Stupidity," Echo glared

"Hey!" Fred said, "I'm obviously the gidiot!"

"No, no, no Gred you are deeply mistaken. You are obviously Captain Stupidity," George said with a diplomatic sort of tone.

"Oh but that's where you're wrong dear Forge. You are Captain Stupidity," Fred said with a shake of his head, "What do you think Zoe?"

Zoey looked up from her essay, "Does it matter? You both are morons"

"I concur," Echo smirked as she patted Zoey's shoulder.

"That hurts Zoe. Right here," Fred said pouting and pointing to his heart. Zoey didn't seem to hear him for Bridgit then said: "Don't insult the morons of the world! Fred and George are way worse than them!" she said acting offended for the morons.

"World? Seriously, World? I thought the whole universe," Echo laughed to herself.

"Hmm… good point," Bridgit said giving Echo a low-five

"Hey!" the twins exclaimed, obviously getting offended.

"Well, what else are you? We could always call you girls to insult you more, but that would be insulting us more," Bridgit said.

"Hideous feminine specie," Echo said

Zoey shook her head as she turned back to her essay, "Seriously you guys keep it down," Zoey said as she tried hard to not get into any more trouble.

Time passed and eventually Trelawney bored herself to sleep. Fred and George took this opportunity to pack up their unfinished essays and get up from their seats.

"Where are you guys going?" Echo asked as she kept her quill and placed her essay on Professor Trelawney's table.

Fred and George didn't seem to hear her for they were in deep discussion.

"We should pull a prank on Trelawney," Fred said making George smirk and nod

"What?" Zoey asked in shock as she placed her essay on the table as well.

"We should pull a prank on her as pay back for detention!" George explained.

Echo pulled up her bag and approached Fred and George to thump them on their foreheads, "This is not a good thing to do, Tweedledee, Tweedledum"

"And since when did we do anything good?" Fred asked as he angrily rubbed his forehead.

"Normally, I would agree to this, but she's still a teacher and even a harmless prank is still a major offence," Bridgit said as she joined them

"Don't be such a weak girl. Where'd the prankster within you go?" Fred teased knowing he was puching Bridgit's buttons. They exited the classroom.

"Fred, don't," Zoey pleaded as she quietly closed the door

"Yeah listen to Zwei," Echo said, her voice now very serious

"You're such girls!" the twins said, continuing on their way to wherever they were going.

"Why do you want to prank her?" Zoey asked as she followed them. They were going down a path unfamiliar to her.

"Because revenge is sweet," Fred said

Zoey's eyebrows knitted in worry as they started to ascend stairs. She was beginning to panic.

"Wait a minute," Bridgit started, "Why are we going to the Astronomy Tower?" Bridgit shouted at the twins.

Zoey jumped and started to shake. The Astronomy Tower was the tallest tower in Hogwarts.

"The stuff we need is up here," George bluntly answered.

The twins pushed open the door and it made an eerie creak. They entered with Echo and Bridgit following closely behind. Zoey stared at the door in fear before entering herself.

"Listen gidiots, this isn't a good idea," Echo said as the door swung close.

"If you don't think this is a good idea then why are you here?" Fred asked the three girls.

"Because we're sure that you'll do something more utterly stupid than the things you've already done!" Bridgit answered.

"Oh will you just shut it you little Miss Prankster Wannabe, we know that you got the skill but you don't have the courage to be a prankster," Fred said with a hard glare.
That was the final straw for Bridgit. She pulled out her wand and fired a stunning charm towards him.

Zoey let out a scared gasp as Fred dodged it.

"What the bloody hell is you problem!" George shouts back at her. He, too, pulled out his wand and shot a jinx at her. Bridgit dodges the jinx as well and Echo fired a blasting charm towards the twins getting irritated by their behavior.

"S-stop," Zoey stuttered out but none of them hear her. She started to panic as they all held their wands high ready to cast a spell at any moment.

"STOP IT!" Zoey screamed as she ran in between the four of them. She was too late. They all shot their spells at once and it all hit her at the same time. Zoey gasped in pain as she stumbled and hit the cold, stone wall before slumping over and was dangerously close to falling of the tower.

Either she was frozen in shock or from the spell, Zoey did not know. She could hear the scared yells of her friends but she could not respond. Her glasses fell off.


Hey~! The title say it all. The idea of the prank just went to far, things got out of hand and BAM! yeah...

My chapter are shorter than usual... sorry about that. It's test week and there are still a lot of requirements and homeworks. I just can't wait for it all to end!

I had a lot in mind to say... It's early morning right now... I have to get ready for school...

Anyway. That "TROLL IN THE DUNGEON" scene isn't appearing the way I've planned... oh well xD

garsh I'm tired. I wanna go back to sleep. My pillows are still cold.

I dedicate this to my friends again and to everyone who took the time in reading this story...

yawn

me tired.

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(PS: the ending is a bit anit-climatic... maybe? I don't know... stay tuned for the next chapter!)