━━━dancing queen!

BIRDIE LOVED COOKING if she hadn't already mentioned it like a bajillion times — now you know. It was her way to unwind and something she did to get rid of stress, however, this situation she was in right now was very stressful.

Let's start from the beginning of the day.

Birdie was planning to spend her day like she usually does, get up, take a shower, get dressed, pour cold water on Bianca, hang out with everyone at breakfast, attend classes, go to the kitchens and go back to her room to sleep.

Yeah, she didn't get through all that normally.

For one she had a stubborn Weasley following her around all day, and no, it was not Fred as much as she wanted it to be. It was his little sister — Ginny Weasley. Birdie had always thought she was a sweet girl, I mean she was sweet when she wanted to be, the girl was actually just like her brothers so Birdie didn't know how sweet she actually was.

"Come on!" Ginny whined, "You have to say something"

No, no, that was the thing.

Birdie couldn't talk because she had a fucking leaf in her mouth, so it was getting pretty hard to explain to the young girl what she'd done to create the rainbow hair bomb.

Birdie held up a finger, motioning for Ginny to give her a minute as she walked inside her dorm room.

Man, the Weasley's are persistent.

As soon as she closed the door behind her she let out a frustrated scream, turns out life's a lot harder when you can't speak, she couldn't eat well in the morning, she had to take just liquids and she couldn't crack jokes during classes.

This all seemed like such bullshit.

But she knew that for her best friend getting transformation partners, this was a small price to pay. Birdie quickly took out a notebook writing down the whole process of the dye-bomb, and then wrote 'that good enough for you, you little gremlin?' not exactly a good impression but what else was she gonna do.

She walked out with the parchment in her hand and handed it to a confused looking Ginny, "Thanks, Birdie!" she passed her a bright smile, "Have a great day!"

If Birdie had just created a monster, she could care less.

"God what a fucking day" Lorelei said as she fell head first on Birdie's day, "I had to speak with a lisp, and let me just say — my high master was NOT happy"

"At least you're able to speak" Birdie said with extreme struggle, "I can't fucking speak without worrying I'm gonna swallow the leaf or something"

"Just use a sticking charm, dude" Lorelei said in an obvious voice, "What have you been doing?"

"Not what I should be apparently" Birdie sighed, she took out her wand from her cloak's pocket and then muttered an incantation that could do a good enough job at keep the leaf where it is.

"Sometimes I think you forget you're a witch" Lorelei said looking over at the frustrated brunette, "Hey, you're going to the kitchens, right?"

"Yeah, why?" Birdie said but the groaned, "Shit, dude! I won't be able to taste what I make"

"Ha! Maybe that'll teach you well" Lorelei snorted, "You won't be able to lick the spatula this time"

"I will literally throw this lamp at you" Birdie said, "But yes, I am going, you wanna come with or something?"

"Yeah, I have nothing better to do" Lorelei shrugged, "and I'm avoiding my High Master, so..."

"Great to know I'm not someone you come to just when you're bored" Birdie passed her a sarcastic smile, "Come on, I don't wanna be late"

"It's past the curfew" Lorelei deadpanned, "We're already late"

"Then I don't want to be even more late" Birdie said and pulled Lorelei up to her feet, "Come on, I'm not gonna drag you all the way there"

"I wish we could apparate inside castle sometimes" Lorelei groaned, "Walking is too much sometimes"

"It's just to the kitchens" Birdie said hooking her arm around Lorelei's, "It's just down the hallway"

"Too much walking" Lorelei shook her head.

"What's up with you?" Birdie questioned, "You're usually the one who's more active than me"

"Karkaroff's been tiring us off" Lorelei yawned, "He says we have to win or else his reputation will be tarnished or whatever"

"That's bullshit" Birdie said, "He doesn't have a good reputation to begin with — what is he even worried about?"

"Right?" Lorelei exclaimed, "It was tempting to say it out loud but I had to control my mouth"

Birdie nodded in agreement and the pair of best friends made their way to the kitchens by tickling the pear on the portrait, "I always thought the pear's cute, the way it giggles melts my heart" Birdie said tickling the pear one last time before walking in.

"Birdie, it's literally a pear" Lorelei said in a monotonous voice, "In a portrait"

Birdie shrugged and then as soon as she looked up she saw Harry and his friends in the kitchen, Regan and Ron were beside Harry as Hermione walked around seizing their hands and showing them around, almost as if to prove something.

"Ms Potter!" Rocky the house elf came forward to greet Birdie, "Roxy look, Ms Potter is here!"

Another scrawny elf joined Rocky's side and both of them looked up at Lorelei, "Ooh, Ms Potter has come with Ms Black!"

"Oh, Rowena!" Lorelei exclaimed rushing forward to hug the two tiny elves, "I've missed you two! The house elves in Russia are mean, now how about you tell me how you've been up to and cook me some of your special chocolate chip cookies?"

It didn't take Lorelei a second to go on and start talking to the house elves, she's always loved them, sometimes when she was full she would still eat whatever they cooked up for her.

Birdie shook her head and was about to go to her corner when Harry called out to her, "Birdie!" he passed her the signature 'help me out of this one' sibling look.

"Oh, hey, Harry..." Birdie said awkwardly, "What are you guys doing here?"

"Hermione's trying to force the elves to be free again" Regan said with a sigh, "You can see its not working very well, how long before you think they kick us out"

"I give it five minutes" Ron said, "Maybe even less, who knows?"

"What do you mean forcing them?" Birdie frowned, "She should know talking about freedom to the elves should be done in a sensitive way!"

"I wouldn't be surprised if she handed them a sock the next minute" Harry grumbled, "I don't get the problem, they look happy"

"Maybe they aren't" Birdie said with a sad smile, she then tried to flatten Harry's hair like she always does, "You never know what's happening with someone, house elves — they're selfless, they hide their emotions and don't allow themselves to have basic rights, she just wants them to know if they ever want the freedom, it's there — however I do think she should take a gentler approach"

"No shit, she should" Regan said with a scoff, "I'm pretty sure if Winky could she would've chucked a bottle of butterbeer at her minutes ago"

"Hey, Reg, you should try these!" Ron came forward with a plate of cream cakes in his hand, "They're amazing!"

"Ooh, cream cakes!" Regan said and she walked away almost in a trance, eyeing the cream cakes in such a way that one could think she was in love with it or something.

After Harry and the rest left, Birdie and Lorelei had spent the entire night in the kitchen chatting up with the house elves and trying however many smoothies they could make.

Birdie had missed this.

✿

"GOD, I WOULD pay to be in Slytherin right now" Birdie said as she watched Professor Sprout clear out the classroom with her wand and clear out some space for students to stand in the middle.

"I never thought I would say this" Bianca said, "Like, ever but me too"

"Whatcha guys doin'?" Lorelei popped in, sitting between the two girls who jumped because of her sudden appearance.

"What are you doing here?!" Birdie exclaimed in a hushed voice, "If someone sees you here — you're dead!"

"Chillax!" Lorelei said and wiggled between the two on the bench, hogging more space for herself.

"The fuck is chillax?" Birdie said with a frown, "It's not even a real word!"

"That's exactly why you need to chillax" Lorelei scoffed, "Besides, even if Professor Sprout does see me — she's not gonna do anything, she loves me!"

"Don't you have this class yourself in your ship or whatever?" Bianca asked, chewing on one of the bubblegums that changed into small animal shapes when you blew on them.

"Yeah, but we did that back in Durmstrang" Lorelei said waving her off, "I think this is much more fun though"

"Ok, everyone!" Professor Sprout exclaimed, clapping her hands together with excitement, "The Yule Ball has been a tradition of the Triwizard Tournament, since it's inception! On Christmas Eve night, we and our guests gather in the Great Hall for a night of well mannered frivolity, as representatives of the host school, I need you all to go out there and have fun, while dancing like everybody's watching, because the Yule Ball is first and foremost — a dance. Helga Hufflepuff did not teach her students how to dance and sing as an extra subject for you all to drag her name through the mud"

"Yo, Helga Hufflepuff taught dance too?"  Lorelei asked, her voice filled with amazement, "Wicked."

"Inside every girl!" Professor Sprout started again, her spit landing on a few of the students sitting in the front row who immediately backed away, "A secret swan slumbers longing to burst forth and take flight" Professor Sprout then started stammering as if she'd forgotten what to say next, she turned around and looked at the piece of parchment on her table and then turned back towards the students with a smile.

"Do you think every teacher is reading from this pamphlet or something?" Birdie asked in a hushed whisper, her and Lorelei's eyes widened comically at the same time as they looked at each other.

"Snape is teaching this too then!" Both of them whisper yelled at each other at the same time.

"Dang it, I should've gone to the Slytherin common room instead" Lorelei said with a huff, "Too late now"

"Inside every boy a lordly lion prepared to prance" Professor sprout said and looked at the parchment in her hand again.

"Ew?" The three girls said in unison.

"Roar" someone muttered from behind them and everyone fell into a fit of giggles.

"Mr Diggory!" Professor called out and Cedric almost fell out of his seat, "Will you join me please?"

"What?" He stumbled on his words as he stared at the Professor with his mouth open.

"I said — will you join me?" Professor Sprout reached her hand out that Cedric hesitantly took, "Now put your hand on my waist, please"

"Oh, um—" Cedric awkwardly hovered his hand over her waist.

"Oh. My. God" Lorelei breathed out, "Never let me forget this, ever"

"Bold of you to assume I wouldn't remind you of it everyday" Birdie replied, watching the two dance in the front with a smirk on her face, so many years of blackmail material.

Bianca cupped her mouth, turning away from everyone and then released a wolf whistle, every released a laugh at that. Professor Sprout shook her head and then motioned for everyone to get up front too.

Instead of practicing the formal dance, the Hufflepuff kids spent a whole class having fun and unwinding while jumping around happily. Someone put the songs by ABBA on the machine and no matter the blood status everyone screamed out the lyrics while spinning around in circles.

"YOUNG AND SWEET ONLY SEVENTEEN!" Birdie screamed as she spun around.

"OOOOH!" Everyone exclaimed together after that, the songs were played for around an hour until Severus Snape came in and everyone had to practice the actual dance.

Yeah, Birdie loved being a Hufflepuff.

had to upload a chapter for the twin's birthday, april fools? no idea, national weasley twins day for me.