Chapter 30: hmmm!
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"Watcha looking at," came the annoying voice of a certain Slytherin, as they joined my side.
Still I didn't let on to my annoyance as I smiled and turned to her, "Just people watching. What's up with you?"
"Nothing, just hear to give your present," she said, taking out a pre-opened box of every flavored bean.
"Oh, and I'm sure you took the chance to take out all the foul ones, how kind," I said in a deadpan voice, throwing in an eyeroll for effect, then put the box filled with only foul tasting beans away.
We chatted for a few minutes before I decided enough time had passed, "Well it's been a pleasure Tracey, but I have somewhere to be and you have a class to be late to, sooo…"
Wide-eyed she finally saw that the corridor was mostly empty, "Wait, late? Crap what's the time?"
Looking at my watch, I showed her, "You're 8 minutes late. I'd hurry if I were you."
She growled as she threw a narrowed glare at me and ran to her class, "I'll get you for this Charles!"
I just waved her good-bye. Now I had a couple more minutes before my own class started so I decided to double check everything one last time to be sure.
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Great Hall:-
It was finally dinner time, and everything was going as planned.
Hermione was still in the bathroom crying and missing from the room.
I saw from the Ravenclaw table how Neville leaned in to tell Harry and Ron about it, with the latter momentarily pausing in his shoveling of food down his throat to look guilty.
If I was going to pull it off, then I would need to act now.
I waited until Terry who was just about to take a sip from his goblet to spring my trap. A rubber spider jumped out of a pile of sweets onto the unsuspecting boy's plate, causing him to jerk back in surprise.
I was drenched in pumpkin juice from head to toe the next second, a small sacrifice.
"Oh damn, sorry Charles, I didn't mean to," he stammered trying to hand me a napkin.
I took the napkin to wipe my face, "Hey don't worry about it, the Weasley twins have been pranking people all day, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Besides, I was going to the bathroom anyway."
Terry looked relieved that I wasn't mad at him as he continued to apologize.
I stood up from my seat and headed to the entrance, passing the Slytherin table where Tracey pointed and laughed at me. I could have simply used a cleaning charm on myself, but that was a second-year spell that I wasn't expected to know yet, and seeing as no one had offered, it meant that everyone was too caught up eating to pay any attention to me.
I decided to leave the pumpkin juice on as I strolled to the second-floor bathrooms, all the others were indisposed on account of all of the dung-bombs that I had planted earlier today.
The map function in my vision showed that there was no one nearby, meaning I at least had a couple minutes before the troll came.
I walked up to the girl's bathroom, hearing sniffling coming through the large door. I knocked on the door, making sure to speak in a voice loud enough for her to hear, "Granger, it's me, Charles. I noticed you weren't at the feast."
No response.
"Granger, I know you're in there. Come out."
Still nothing.
"Okay, if you don't come out in the next 5 seconds I'll take it to mean you're in the middle of your business and leave," I announced boldly, "5. 4. 3.-"
The sound of a stall door being flung open greeted my ears before hurried footsteps could be heard coming closer. The door was finally opened by a small fraction, enough to see the red-faced girl peek out.
Adopting a caring smile, I greeted her, "Hey."
"…Hey. What are you doing here?" she said, still hiding behind the door.
"You weren't in class today or at the feast so I was umm…" I trailed off, pushing blood into my cheeks and looking away, "Anyways, mind explaining why have you been in such a mood to lock yourself in the bathroom for half the day?"
"…no," she said cautiously before then asking, "why are you covered in pumpkin juice?"
I rolled my eyes at her attempt to change the subject, "The Weasleys pranked our table, and Terry ended up spilling his entire cup on me."
"Why didn't you just clean it up then," she said, widening the opening slightly.
"It gave me a good enough excuse to leave," I told her with a smile, "So you mind telling me what was so important for me to walk all the way here drenched in pumpkin juice?"
Hermione's response was to shut the door again.
I stayed silent for about a minute before she finally spoke again, "…Are you still there?"
"I'm still here."
I heard her lean against the door and slide down, which I copied so we had our backs to each other.
"I thought it would be different," she said with a melancholy feeling, and I could almost picture her sitting against the door with knees tucked to her chest.
"What do you mean?"
"I had just started my first year of Secondary School when I got visited by Professor McGonagall you see, and at the time there was a really mean group of girls that took turns picking on me. When I was told I was a witch and could study at Hogwarts I had been so excited, not because I found out magic was real, but because it meant I could get away from all the teasing at school. I was hoping this time it would be different, that I could have friends, that people wouldn't be the same… but I guess I was wrong."
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