The beginning of term continued to go rather smoothly and Lucy assumed it would continue to do so. That is, until the upcoming weekend. That upcoming weekend was the first Hogsmeade weekend of term. The day that Roxanne had originally promised to have a girls day with Alice, Iris Cattermole, Delilah Jones, Dom, and Torrence Fawley. Since Lucy wasn't in Gryffindor she didn't know exactly how the interactions between the girls and Roxanne were going. But she had heard from Rose that things were certainly less than perfect. Roxanne was still obsessing over her boyfriend. Apparently the wisp of humanity and vulnerability Lucy had seen in her before they left for King's Cross was long gone. Lucy was currently discussing all of this on the Wednesday evening beforehand, from the end of Rose's bed in the Ravenclaw third year girls' dorm.

"I mean, I just don't know what is up with her anymore, I talked to Dom and she says that Roxanne hasn't even spoken to her in days!" Rose gushed to Lucy from the seat by the door that led to the adjacent bathroom.

"What about when they're in the common room? From what I've heard Gryffindors spend a lot of time in there?" Lucy asked her.

"They do, when I was in first year I would hang out in there a lot because Dom, and I guess Roxie sort of, were my best friends throughout childhood. But I met these guys and I stopped," Rose said gesturing to Lara Wilkins, Gloria Boot, and Missy Mclaggen, her fellow third year Ravenclaws. "But to answer your question, Rox snogs her boyfriend in the corner most of the time."

"Roxanne does know that she's only thirteen and it probably won't last, right?"

"Most girls who are in the puppy love phase don't quite realize it isn't permanent," Missy said from her bed. Missy, like her older sister Mellie, had a sweetheart face and blonde hair. But unlike her sister's bob, Missy's hair was long, and she wore large tortoise shell glasses. Lucy sighed.

"I guess I should've assumed that Roxanne would think she was head over heels in love. I guess I just hadn't thought she would drop all of her friends for a sixth year git."

"I still can't believe she's dating a sixth year though. I mean she's only thirteen!" Rose exclaimed.

"Well, we're also thirteen Rose," Gloria Boot told her.

"Yes I know, but Glo, none of us are going out with someone three years older than us!" Rose explained to her petite friend with short dark curls.

"How come the idea of being friends with a sixteen year old guy is frowned upon, but we all have no problem at all with being friends with Lucy?" Missy wondered aloud, mostly to the air than to the four other Ravenclaw girls.

"Well you see, first of all, Roxanne is definitely not just friends with Tanner Wood. But also it isn't a matter of friendship, because we all get along with Ben just fine. Also, Lucy is my favoritist girl cousin so she is exempted from the "sixteen year olds are gits" statement."

"Thanks Rosie. But yeah, most blokes my age are awful enough, going out with one when you're only thirteen is a terrible idea," Lucy informed them.

"So Lu, what's up with Molls lately? Last you told me she was listening to all those muggle bands and had all those posters in her dormitory."

"Yeah, so I wrote home to Aunt Hermione-your mum-and she says that those bands are popular with muggle teens in America. Apparently they aren't that bad and we listened to some of them of on the music app thing on those muggle cell phone things she got for us and the Longbottoms last year. But it's not the music that's bad. It's its affect on Molly she's wearing loads of dark makeup, darker clothes on weekends, acting all moody, and she even has a bunch of purple, black, and blue streaks in her hair," Lucy took a deep breath as she finished. Rose was quiet for a minute.

"Wait but Molly has red hair..." Rose started.

"Yes, yes she does."

"But doesn't it clash horribly then?"

"Yes Rose, it looks positively horrendous. Plus, her hair is WAY more ginger than ours does so it looks extra awful," Lucy said looking down at the dark red auburn hair that both she and Rose shared. Really the only differences between their looks that stopped Rose from looking like thirteen year old Lucy was that Lucy's waist length hair was very wavy, while Rose's was in ringlets. Plus Rose had freckles, and Lucy did not.

"Which girl is your sister Molly, again?" Lara Wilkins asked her from across the room.

"She's Gyffindor's sixth year prefect and quidditch captain. She's known in Gryffindor for being a little crazy and kind of rough and tough."

"Oh! my brother's told me about her!" Lara exclaimed, sitting up on her bed and tucking her light brown hair behind her ear. "He said that she's like, totally changed. He really liked her last year because apparently she's really funny and they were partners in care of magical creatures last year. But like she's supposedly pretty different now."

"Wait, your brother is Luke Wilkins, right?" Lucy asked her.

"Yeah he is!"

"Oh my god! I totally know him, he and Molly were friends last year! I was really sure Molly liked him, but you know how anti-boy and anti-dating Molly is. But I've heard all about him. I wonder why I haven't heard as much about him this year."

"Well he and Molly had a row at the end of last year."

"Really, what about?" Lucy asked, surprised. Molly was the arguing type, and definitely the grudge holding type, but not the full out row type. Lara shrugged.

"He wouldn't say. I had asked why I wasn't hearing as much about Molly I as I usually did on the Hogwarts Express on the way home last year. All he said was 'we had a row' and I guess that's all we'll know for a bit."

"I just wonder what possibly could've happened to get them to have a row. Molly's not really the rowing type," Lucy said.

"She isn't? She had quite the argument with Victoire last summer when you guys were at shell cottage, I heard from Victoire," Rose told Lucy.

"Nah, that wasn't that bad. Victoire was exaggerating. But when Molly does have a row with someone, it's bad. Like really bad. There's shouting and tears, and the relationship between her and whoever she had the row with is pretty scarred. And someone who knew her like Luke seemed to, wouldn't throw the words 'row' and 'molly' around together without meaning they actually had a row," Lucy explained to them.

"Yeah, Luke seemed pretty upset and like he didn't want to talk about it," Lara agreed.

"Now I really want to know what happened with them!" Rose said excitedly.

"Me too, if Mol didn't tell me it's something she really wants to forget," Lucy said.

...

"But Luc, you can't miss the first Hogsmeade Trip of term!" Tally Thomas, the seventh year gryffindor prefect exclaimed to her.

"Yeah but I'm just not sure i want to have to deal with family drama. Because two of my cousins a-" Lucy began.

"Okay everyone! Hush up, we have work to do!" Mina Wood said loudly to them all. All twenty four prefects and the headboy and girl where gathered in the prefect common room adjacent to the prefect's bathroom. They were gathered there for the prefect meeting they had every Friday evening. There were two prefects from each year in each house starting at fifth year, one boy and one girl. So there were six prefects per house, and eight in each year as a whole. The head boy and girl were not actually the seventh year prefects from their house, but they were usually the prefects for their house in fifth and sixth year. When Mina became head girl, Tally became the 7th female prefect for gryffindor house. And when Tyler Kent became head boy, Oliver Smith became the 7th year male prefect for Ravenclaw. Since there were 24 prefects plus Mina and Tyler all you really need to know was that Lucy was Ravenclaw's 6th year prefect and so was Ben. Molly(Lucy's sister) and Tate Corner were the gryffindor 6th year prefects. Charlie was hufflepuff's 6th year prefect. Lysander Longbottom was also a prefect for ravenclaw.

"SO EVERYBODY!" Tyler called out when people still continued to chatter, "Obviously we have stuff to cover since this is the first real prefect meeting this term!"

"Yes, and while we think things have been going pretty well we do have some important things that need to be touched on," Mina added.

"Right, so first we want to talk about evening grounds patrols," Tyler said. He and Mina had worked together for a long time and they had a habit of switching off who was talking every other sentence sometimes.

"Hall patrol within the castle has been going very well. Especially Lucy and Bradley as well as Molly and Ben, we'll probably pair you guys up again for more things in the near future," Bradley Marks was a slythrin fifth year. Lucy smiled, they had worked well so far. She didn't know Molly had been working with Ben though, she was surprised he hadn't told her. Mina continued, "But, their has been some issues with grounds patrol." Lucy gulped, remembering the incident while she had been paroling with Charlie.

"Hold on Mina, I just want to make it clear that the problem with the incidents during ground patrol, are not because of the prefects that had grounds patrol. They are because of the way their fellow prefects and other students have been reacting," Tyler cut in. Lucy let out a sigh of relief.

"Right, thank you Tyler. It has come to our attention that the four prefects involved in the incidents, Lucy Weasley and Charlie Starling, and Stella Skeeter and Eric Vance have receiving criticism for the way they handled the situations." Lucy didn't know that other prefects had had issues with grounds patrol. She was also surprised that Mina and Tyler had paired the fifth year hufflepuff and the sixth year together, seeing as they had a history of not working well together. Especially since Eric had some low expectations of the abilities of the members of Hufflepuff house.

"We would just like to make it clear that ice balls are in fact against school policies, seeing as ice balls do not occur naturally here at Hogwarts they have to be enchanted, they can be very dangerous. Especially when thrown at prefects or other students. Last week first year Jillianne Jones was sent to the hospital wing with a concussion, and if Stella had not been there to take points from the student-who shall remain nameless-that threw the ice ball, and take Jillianne to the hospital wing things could've gotten worse, and the students may not have learned their lesson. Stella, unfortunately did not get the support she should have from her partner and her fellow prefects." As she listened to Tyler, Lucy wasn't surprised to find out that Eric had been a prat to Stella.

"So in conclusion, these prefects handled things well and should not be harassed by their fellow prefects," Mina finished. Lucy was confused, she hadn't been harassed, and was unaware others had been. I'll talk to Mina and possibly Charlie after the meeting she thought. "Alright! second on our agenda is discussing recent problems with third years so far this term." Lucy sighed, she was pretty sure this would be a conversation dominated by the discussion of her cousins horrifying behavior.

"As we know, we have given out several detentions to the third years of Slythrin and Gryffindor, taken many points from those in Hufflepuff, and five points from Ravenclaw, who seem to be the most well behaved of third years, Tyler continued. Lucy smiled, Rose would be happy to know that.

The rest of the meeting seemed to blur, and in what felt like just a few minutes Mina was wishing them all a good weekend, when Lucy remembered she had wanted to tell Mina about how she hadn't been receiving harassment about her way of handling prefect matters.

"Mina?"

"Oh, yes Lucy? I hope you aren't upset that I "named names" about how you were one of the prefects who were receiving harsh remarks-" Mina began.

"Oh no! don't worry, nothing like that. I just wanted to tell you that no one had been reprimanded me for how I handled things, and I didn't know my fellow prefects were."

"Oh! I'm sorry-but wait, Charlie said that both of you were getting bullied or whatever, he said he talked to you."

"No, Mina. I swear, I had no idea."