8-8
The group had recovered from their argument, after Hermione had told them they were being silly and that they would be chucked out of the library. All their attention was on Harry, as he had informed them that he was going to fill them in on everything.
"I don't really know where to start." Harry says, nervously.
"From the beginning." Stephanie says, placing her hand over her brothers, comfortingly.
"Well, that would be the best place to start." Chloe adds.
"Hmm," He ponders. "At the sorting ceremony, my scar burned when I looked at Professor Snape."
"That's weird, so did mine." Stephanie gasps.
"What?" Lee asks, incredulously. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"She thought there was nothing to it." Jessica says.
"Obviously that's not the case." Grace nods.
"And then he picked on Harry in Potions." Ron contributes.
"To be fair, he wasn't paying attention." Chloe points out.
"Well he was, he was taking notes." Hermione says. "It just wasn't like that in the Professors eyes."
"So what else?" Fred presses.
"Then there was the case of the break in, at Gringotts." Harry says.
"What's your point?" Logan asks, not seeing how it corresponds.
"It was the vault Hagrid, Harry and Stephanie went to." Hermione answers.
"I had no idea!" Stephanie exclaims. "I haven't read a single paper."
"When I had that run in with Malfoy, that's how I ended up with Seeker." Harry says.
He had kept it a secret from his friends and surprised them.
"Really?!" Jessica shouts.
"Yep." George laughs at his sisters antics.
"You knew as well?!" Grace gasps.
"Yeah..." He shrinks back.
"Alright, who else?" She demands.
Slowly and tentatively, Fred, Lee, Hermione, Ron, Logan and even Cedric, raised their hands.
Jessica groans, shaking her head at Cedric. "Not you too."
"Well, this hurts." Grace says, holding a hand over her heart, in mock betrayal.
"You'll get over it." George laughs.
Her eyes widen, this time in mock astonishment. "Cut me deep, Georgina."
"Georgina?" Fred snorts, as the others laugh and George goes bright red at the feminine nickname.
"You shut it, Fredette." She adds.
"How manly." George snickers, his brother mimicking his earlier reaction.
"Beautiful, real beautiful!" Jessica laughs, tears in her eyes.
"Jeez, I haven't seen them this speechless since," Ron chuckles, wiping his eyes. "Well, never!"
"Ugh, weesht." They both grumble, hiding their smirks.
"Oh, Stephanie." Harry says, once they'd all recovered.
"Yes?"
"Dad," Harry says, looking her in the eye. "He was the Gryffindor Seeker too."
"Harry! That's wonderful!" She cries, pulling him into a tight hug.
"Yeah," He smiles, hugging her back. "I guess it is."
The rest all smile at the two siblings.
"There's another thing." Hermione says.
"What is it?" Chloe asks.
"When we were on the stairs, they moved and we quickly got off before they did so again." Hermione quietly explains.
"We ended up on the third floor." Harry whispers.
"You know, the forbidden one." Ron announces, not so discretely.
"Ron!" Hermione and Harry scold.
"You dimwit." Jessica hisses, smacking the back of his head.
"One thing led to another," Hermione continues.
"And we ended up in a room, trying to escape from being caught by Filch." Harry says.
"The door was locked, by smarty pants managed to use a spell to thingy it." Ron states.
"Alohomora." Hermione corrects.
"Right." Ron nods, oblivious to her annoyance.
"It came as a fright when we discovered a massive, and I mean massive, three headed dog, in the room." Harry shakes his head at the memory.
"We only just got out." Hermione adds, shivering just at the thought.
"A gigantic, three headed, dog?!" Grace whisper shouts.
"You're sure you weren't seeing things?" Lee questions, completely baffled.
"Yeah, like that's something three people can just randomly imagine." Logan scoffs.
Grumbles resonated between the group.
"I suppose." Cedric says.
"It is a logical explanation." Stephanie agrees.
"And that's why you're the Ravenclaw." Grace laughs.
"Hermione and her sharp eyes, also pointed out to us that it was standing on a trap door." Harry says.
"So it's guarding something?" Fred asks.
"Precisely." Hermione nods.
"Something tells me, this should be investigated." Chloe says, looking at each person.
"I agree." Jessica nods and so do the others.
"Any objections?" Grace asks, earning a shake of the head from them all.
"Splendid." Hermione says.
"This should be good." Cedric says.
"I never took you for a trouble maker." Jessica laughs, looking at the boy.
"It's quite exhilarating at times." He laughs in return.
"Look at all these rebels." Stephanie laughs, looking at the looks of excitement.
"I'm quite intrigued." George says, rubbing his hands in anticipation.
"Yeah, right." Grace gives a short laugh. "Only because you get to break the rules."
"Don't act like you're not the same." He counters.
"I never denied it." She says, her hands raised in surrender.
"So," Logan coughs, gaining their attention. "What's the plan?"