Chapter 9

After practice Fred and Gorge cornered Holly and asked her if they could help in any way with the prank she was planning on Umbridge.

She allowed them to help because she was not very good at magic since she had only been there for a week or so. Once involved Fred and Gorge would not stop grinning.

The next morning when Everyone entered the great Hall for breakfast they almost fell to the floor from laughter.

When they walked in they saw coloured and moving pictures of the Umbridge incodent that occured yeaterdy morning. There were dozens upon dozens of them which zoomed around and made it look like Umbridge was flying around the room. It was impossible for them not to laugh at the sight. At the staff table Umbridge looked like she was going to have a corinary if this kept up which only made everyone laugh harder.

Even the teachers were finding it hard to keep a straight face at the sight in front of them. 

Finally Umbridge had had enouph and tried to get rid of the pictures with magic but they ony moved out of the way and the ocupents in the picture stuck out her tongue’s at Umbridge. 

It was just too much for Harry, Holly, Foaly, Fred and Gorge who fell to the floor in hysterical laughter. They had been sitting at the Gryffindor table but had toppled out of their seats at the sight they were witnessing.

Umbridge’s face was almost purple with rage and to Holly, Foaly and Artemis it looked like Root had had a sister and didn’t tell them. This in turn made Holly and Foaly laugh even harder. Hermione and Artemis were the only ones that were not rolling around in their seats laughing like deranged hienas. They turned disaproving looks at their friends and then looked away.

It took everyone in the ahll at least fifteen minutes to calm down. When they did Dumbledore stood up.

“It looks like we have some very ambitious pranksters in the hall at the moment,” he said calmly. “Now I want all of you to finish your breakfast and run along.”

Everyone did as they were told still grinning at what they had seen. After breakfast was over Holly, Harry, Fred, Gorge and Foaly left the hall in high spirits. Ron had stayed to get more food and Hermione and Artemis didn’t want to speak to them just yet.

“Can I have a word with you please,” said a falsely girly voice from behind them.

 They turned to see none other the Umbridge just behind them. Holly, Harry, Fred, Gorge and Foaly all exchanged looks that clearly said ’Busted, we are in soooooooo much trouble now.’

“Can we help you Professor/” asked Harry nerviously.

“Yes, I believe that you all can,” replied Umbridge. Still in that falsely sweet voice that made Holly wnat to vommit.

“I have had a tip off that you were the ones that orcastrated taht little stunt in the great Hall this morning.”

“Do you have any proof of this Professor?” asked Foaly boldly. The rest of them winced. This was not going to be pritty. Not in the slightest.

“Yes, actually I do Mr Garrowson,”  replied Umbridge smiling.

“According to a friend of mine you were seen plotting together in the Gryffindor commenroom. And I believe that yeaterday You three-” She gestured to Holly, Harry and Foaly. “Had gone off to do something involving some sort of camera. Therefore it is my sad duty to punish the five of you.”

No one said a word. Holly and Harry knew what she meant by pinish and were not looking forward to this one little bit.

“After dinner tonight would the five of you come to my office for detention.” This was not a request as they all new but a comand so they all nodded their heads and Umbridge turned and walked away.

“We are in sooooo much trouble,” said Fred after a minute of silence.

2You have no idea,” said Harry and Holly together dryly.

So it was that after dinner that night the five of them found themselves at the door to Umbridge’s office. Hesitantly Harry knocked on the door and theyt were told to enter. Harry and Holly found that the office was just the same as when they had left. The only major difference was that the desk that they had worked at the last time was expanded to fit everyone. There were five seats and five rolls of parchment and Five extremely sharp quills.

“Ah, there you five are,” said Umbridge sweetly from where she was sitting from behind her desk. “Now I want all of you to write ‘I must not prank a teacher of this shcool’ on the parchment in front of you.”  

The five of them sat down and picked up the quill. Foaly, Fred and Gorge seemed confused that there was no ink. Just as they were about to ask they saw Harry and Holly writing with the quills. Apparently they didn’t need ink which was good enouph for them so they started to write.

Needless to say that when they found out what the quills did they were horrofied. They kept up what they were doing though.They did not let one gasp of pain escape their lips however. Abuout half way through the detention Harry and Holly’s skin stopped healing over the cut and it continued to ooze blood over the parchment. At about eleven o’clock, or so they thought it must be they were told to stop. Umbridge looked at their hands and let them leave.

After leaving the office Holly could hold in the sparks of magic any longer. They welled up inside her and flodded towards the cut on her hand. There in front of Harry, Fred, Gorge and Foaly Holly’s hand was incased in a swirl of sky blue sparks and when they cleared Holly’s hand was completely undamaged.

“How in the name of Merlin’s pants did you do that?” exclaimed Fred and Gorge together.

Holly exchanged a look with Foaly that clearly said. ‘We are in soooooo much trouble. What are we going to do and We are dead’ all at the same time.

“We can’t takh here,” said Foaly quietly. “Umbridge might here. Is there a place that we can go and talk privately?”

“Yeah,” replied Harry hesitently.,

“Good,” replied Holly beginning to walk away. We’ll tell you everything but first I think we aught go get Artemis, Ron and Hermione.”

“I agree,” said Foaly beginning to follow her. “Are you lot comming or not?” he asked the others who were just standing there. Harry, Fred and Gorge all hurried to follow them down the corridor up the stairs and to the Gryffindor common room. There they found Hermione and Artemis talking about something or other and Ron trying to finish his homework.

“What’s up,” asked Ron as they entered the room. It was late and Ron was wondering what had kept them so long in detention.

“Follow us and you’ll find out,” replied Foaly who walked over to Artemis and whispered something in his ear. Artemis’s eyes widened ever so slightly and he stood up.

“Where are we going to talk?” he asked.

2Hold on,” replied Harry who sped up to his dorm room and came back down with a strange fabric and an old bit of folded parchment.

2Exelent,” said Fred and Gorge together.

Harry bent down and opened up the parchment and tapped it with his wand

“I sollemly swear I am up to no good,” he whispered and no sooner had he said this that words appeared on the map.

“Mrs’ Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs are proud to present the Merauders Map,” Holly read from over Harry’s shoulder. No sooner had she read those words that they dissappeared and were replaced with a map of the school. There were tiny little moving dots with labels showing who they were.

“D’arvit,” murmured Holly and Foaly at the same time. This was incredible. It could even outdo Foaly’s scanners. (You all know that Foaly would never admit it so don’t expect me to make him say it.)

Harry looked at the map and pointed to a classroom that was just along the corridor from the Fat lady’s portrait.

“Now, everyone under the cloak,” said Harry. (In my story the cloak is big enouph to fit them all under just and no more.) They all did as Harry said. Holly, Foaly and Artemis looking a little confused before they were told that it was an invissibility cloak.

The wight of them exited the common room with the fat lady demanding to know who was there. They reached the classroom and opened the door. Harry was the last to enter and shut the door behind him. Fred and Gorge put up silencing sharms around the room so no one could overhear.

“Ok you three,” said Gorge. “What in the name of Merlin were those blue sparks about?”

So they told them. They told them all about their adventures, all about the people and all about finding Hogwarts. They told the same thing to them as they did to Dumbledore and at the end of it the five Hogwarts students were looking utterly shocked.

“So,” said Hermione slowly. “Your an elf and he’s a centaur.” The two nodded and got up from where they were sitting.

“Do you want us to turn off the gadget of Foaly’s so you can see what we really look like?” asked Holly.

The five of them nodded njumbly and Holly and Foaly turned off the machine.

All five Hogwarts students let out very audable gasps and a miniature centaur and an elf that did not ersemble a house elf in the slightest appeared before them.

“Oh,” said Hermione in shock.

“My,” said Ron after her.

“God,” finished Harry.

“Well now you know,” said Holly calmly sitting down again.

“Talk about a big secret,” said Fred who was trying to get over the shock of it all.

“Oh, for Frond’s sake,” exclaimed Holly to the five of them. “Get over it. Even Artemis wasn’t this idiotic when he first saw me.”

If glares could kill then Holly would have been dead and burried by the look that Artemis ws giving her at that point.

The others shook themselves out of the stunned state that their brains had gone into.

“Right,” said Hermione briskly. “That settles the matter I guess.”

The others looked at her as if she had grown a second head.

“Uh, Hermione,” said Ron hesitantly.

“Have you gone off the deep end?” demanded Fred staring at her incredulously.

“What?” asked Hermione. “Just because they aren’t human do you think that should make a difference what we think of them or how we treat them. This is the same rubbish that gets people like Professor Lupin in trouble. Because he’s different.”

“I agree,” said Harry. 2Just because they look different dosn’t mean that they are different. They are still the same people that we made friends with and I intend to keep it that way.”

Holly smiled at Harry and said, “Thanks.”

“You’ve told us all about your adventures so I think that we should tell you all about ours,” said Harry. Then he began to recount the story of his life at Hogwarts. When he got to the point about the order of the Pheonix he hesitated.

“It’s ok Harry,” said Holly. “Dumbledore told us a little about the order whn we were in his office. We don’t know who are in it but we know that it is a place where people that believe Voldemort gather to fight.

After that Harry continued and by the end it was very late in the night.

“Hey Holly,” began Fred when Harry had finally finished.

 ”Since you can heal do you mind getting rid of these cuts for us?”

“What cuts?” asked Ron, Hermione and Artemis sharply.

The five others showed them their hands and the gasped.

“The old HAG!!!” exclaimed Ron.

“How can she do this to you,” said Hermione horrorfied.

“Go to Magonigal,” said Artemis.

“NO,” said Harry and Hoilly sharply.

“There is no way that I’m going to give her the satisfaction of knowing that I’ve complaimed about it.” said Hary proudly.

“Niegher am I,” said Holly echoing Harry’s tone. “There is no way that I’m going to give in to that d’arviting witch. She’s almost worst then Sool and that’s saying something. I don’t know which one I have more.”

“Well now that we’re finished speaking,” said Gorge holding up his hand which was oozin  huge droplets of blood. “Would you mind healing us please?”

Hoily nodded and healed Foaly, Fred, Gorge and Harry’s hands so they looked as good as new except for Harry’s which still had the scars saying ‘I must not tell lies.’

“Thanks,” said Fred and Gorge together.

“I think that we should go back to the comon room before we get caught by Filch,” said Hermione beginning to walk towards the door.

“Agreed,” said Artemis and began to follow her.

“Looks like we’ve got a budding romance coming on,” said Fred grinning evily at Hermione and Artemis.

“No we are not,” said Hermione and Artemis at the same time which caused the rest of them to laugh. Holly and Foaly turned on the gadget and they all got under the invissibility cloak. They exited the classroom and walked to the portrait whole.

The eight of them reentered the Gryffindor common room and Fred and Gorge went up to bed.

“Hay Ron,” said Harry suddenly. “Isn’t that Percy’s owl?”

“Yeah,” replied Ron looking very suprised. He walked over to the window and opened it to take a letter from a large barn owl.

As soon as it was free of it’s restriction the owl took off. Ron turned to the rest of them and opened the letter. As he read through it his face bacame murderous. When he was finished he looked livid.

“Why the nerve of that, that….” He tailed off apparently not able to think of a word that did justice to what Percy had written.

“What did he write?” asked Hermione causiously.

Ron didn’t speak but handed the letter to her. Hermione read it through and by the end she looked disgusted. She gave the letter to Harry who read it. The other tree read it over his shoulder.

“What the D’arvit does he mean that Dumbledore might not be in charge for much longer?” asked Hermione nervously.

“I don’t know,” replied Harry heavily. “I guess that we’ll have to find out tomorrow won’t we.

With that the six of them went to their dorm rooms and went to bed.

Some other stories by Arya:

• Animagus choosus
• Moonlight Ritual

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