nine cloud nine

Monday, November 1st, 1993
Gryffindor Common Room.

FUCK SIRIUS BLACK.

All because of his little dramatic stunt yesterday we ( the undeserving of trauma gryffindors ) have been cursed with trauma.

What is this trauma? You may ask.

SIR CADAGON, the new paining thats guarding the Gryffindor common room.

That fucking IDIOT has already changed the password twice, from one hard to remember word to another hard to remember word. TWAT.

And he constantly goes on and on and on about how brave he was and even tries to challenge us to duels and all sorts of weird shit, Fred and George took him up on this offer and he ran away. what a scaredy cat.

When I become a painting at hogwarts ( which is my life goal. You can't deny that it'd be so cool though ?!?!?!? ) I will not hesitate to fight him. Numerous times.

Just want the fat lady and her singing back.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 1993
Transfiguration Classroom.

Downside of having 5 quidditch obsessed friends : they don't shut up about the upcoming match and their tactics.

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Thursday, November 4th, 1993
Gryffindor Girls Dormitory

Apparently the match is now Hufflepuff vs Gryffindor due to "medical grounds" load of bollocks. im currently having to put up with Alicia ranting about it. Yay?

They've been training a lot recently ( almost nightly ) I just pray that we win. the sadness of Fred, George, Angelina and Alicia would be too much to deal with.

Fuck it, me and Carla are going to study for this Divination test we've got coming up. oh. now Fred's joining us. GREAT.

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Friday, November 5th, 1993
Gryffindor Common Room

Now some ( that being the lovely Minnie McGee ) might say that is Gryffindors have a reputation for being "reckless, party animals who don't have an ounce of sense in their brain." at times ( quoted exactly from the lovely lady herself ) one of those times being quidditch matches.

Which, admittedly is true. We get very riled up. ( can you blame us, we wanna win!! Bring competitive is very much a Gryffindor trait )

So as resident prefect me and olly have been tasked with making sure there's no reckless behaviour tonight, the night before our first match of the year.

We drew straws and as lucky as ever I got the short straw. I had to stay up until 12 o'clock making sure there was no "acts of carelessness in our wonderful common room." Great. because thats exactly how I want to spend my night.

It was a rather eventful night, HERES A LIST

A LIST OF SOME OF ENCOUNTERS THAT E.A.DEVEREUX HAD TO PUT UP WITH THE NIGHT OF THE QUIDDITCH MATCH

1. I got into a scrap with a second year who single-handily tried to get all those who were still there "up and pumping" at about half nine

2. At around ten I had an incident in which a sixth year had supposedly gotten into "an incident that involved liquid in his bed that needed help cleaning up" ( this was followed by echoes of laughter - no doubt a hilarious dare. I was amused )

3. About half ten I had to console a fourth year who found out her ravenclaw boyfriend was cheating on her

4. At eleven I had to deal with Fred and Olivia.

That's caught your attention hasn't it diary. It caught mine too

Well, I was just sat there, my Arithmancy book on my lap while I was sat cuddled up in my red blanket sat in front of the fire on one of those really comfy sofas with some really nice cookies from the kitchen ( I did a funny little smell to make them keep that just-out-of-the-oven texture on them )

I mean if I'm doing an all nighters might as well have some snacks, right? right.

Well anyways, Fred and Olivia.

They come bouncing in just after 11, fresh from a night time adventure as it seems.

Fred likes night time adventures. ( trust me. I'd know )

He never told me how but some how he always knows where filch is, the secret passages, where the teachers are, he knows Hogwarts like the back of his hands. It's a dumb trait. But an amusing trait as well. Useful for night time adventures. ( I can be nice!!!!!! )

Anyways, let me try to stop getting sidetracked.

They come in, clearly not expecting me to be here.

Olivia takes one look at me and is all "oh Fred, can we have five more minutes please." Thinking she's getting under my skin, she's not. I just send them a small smile and turn back to my work.

I hear Fred mumble something about how he has to be up "bright and early" for his quidditch match.

From the sounds of it they elope there lips together again ( surely they've done enough of that!!!! ) before a sweet "goodnight honey" from Olivia.

Weird. Fred hates pet names. So do I, if someone  calls me angel or some shit I will not hesitate to slap them.

They part ways and you'd expect that to be the end of it right, diary?

Wrong, diary!

Only one pair of feet make their way up the stairs to the dorm rooms.

I turn around. Stood there is Fred.

"What are you doing here?" He asks as he walks over to the sofa. I schooch over so he can sit down.

"McGonagall said I need to stay down here, incase of any reckless behaviour. Luck of the draw placed me down here and not Olly."

Fred looks amused. "Of course."

"Excited for tomorrow?"

"Excited isn't the right word. Nervous?" Fred responds his eyes staring straight at the fire that's flickering right in front of us. its a pretty fire. not that fires can be pretty. its jus - EURGH. STOP GETTING SIDETRACKED EVIE!!!!

"You shouldn't be." Well i meant to just kind of think that but my big fat ugly mouth kind of — blurted it aloud.

Fred turns to look at me quizzically. "Why?"

"Well it's just. Uh, you're a good beater. Yeah. You have nothing to be nervous about." I say, averting my eyes from the fire to his face to my Arithmancy textbook.

Fred's lips turn into a smile. "Who'd've thought. Evie Deveruex. Actually being nice."

"I can be nice!" I protest.

"Go on then."

"I just was!"

He laughs, and looks at me. "Are you ever gonna admit it."

Now I'm confused. "Admit what?"

"We're friends, aren't we?"

"No were not. We can't stand eachother! I despise you, you hate — "

"But evie, what about all our memories, the detentions we spent together."

"Please shut up before I throw this book at your head." I pause struggling to even lift my Arithmancy book up "it's heavy" I say nodding

"But seriously. We're friends."

This was weird because he said it as a statement. Not as a "would you like to be friends" question, as a statement, so I didn't really have a choice to say no. I was kinda forced to give in, let's be real.

As I always say, if in doubt raise your eyebrows! So that's what I did

"Well I helped you with your grade, we can clearly talk together, for example the night in the great hall, and you don't seem make disgusted faces anytime I'm near you."

I made a face just to protest this point. also it seems as though someone's spent a lot of time thinking about this.

I think for a moment because - because I want to be friends with him now. I'm not saying I feel the same way I did a year ago, I definitely don't want my tongue down his throat, but I do want to be friends. Friends. Friends with Fred. Just that. Nothing else. Just friends.

"Yeah. I'd say we are. I mean you brought up my Defence grade, that's gotta be worth something"

And I smile, for real this time. And he smiles back, and it's nice. It's just friendship. It's nice.

"Took you long enough. But you've put me on Cloud nine there Evie!" And I laugh again - it's not really a laugh, more of a happy breath of air ???? You know what I mean !!! ( Of course you don't diary you're not a real thing !!! )

"Oooh! Maybe we should get freindship bracelets!"

"Would love to."

"Mine would say Fred is the spawn of Satan." I remark

He is ginger. All gingers are the spawn of Satan.

"Can I ask you a question, Fred."

"Go for it"

"Why did you start dating Olivia so soon after we broke up."

He looks at his wrist less watch "would you look at the time I need to be going."

"Don't make me revoke the contract." I say, rolling my eyes

"Look, that's a conversation for another day." Great. "But I am sorry. Really sorry. It wasn't nice of me and I should've waited."

Oh. Apology accepted I guess...provided he tells me one day.

"just tell me one day, yeah?"

he laughs "there's not really a lot to tell."

"You best get going though. Gonna need your beauty sleep."

Fred laughs. "Thought you said I'd do fine."

"Did I? Don't remember that, must've been possessed. Or maybe an evil twin. Ha Ha you're an evil twin."

He gets up, and walks away.

"Fred?"

"Yeah?"

"Good luck tomorrow."

"Thanks Evie."

I watch him head up the stairs to his dorm, taking a final look back at me as he walks up and it all feels so familiar. But it's nice and I like it.

so yeah. Friends?

I'll take it.

I mean he can be a git and a twat, but he's not half bad. And I mean I'm friends with everyone else in our group. Might as well become "friends" with Fred.

Lets just hope it doesn't evolve into anything else.

Whats the worst that could happen y'know?

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Friday, November 5th, 1993 or is it Saturday yet ?????
Gryffindor Girls Dormitory

Can't sleep. I'm thinking about lots of things I need to make some lists diary.

ONE E.A.DEVEREUXS OPINON ON BEING OFICIALLY CLASSED AS FRIENDS WITH FRED WEALSEY

1. Its a bad thing. this deserves sub-points
— ex
— can be annoying
— VERY annoying girlfriend
— prick at times

2. He is a nice person and admittedly I find him funny at times

3. He is also smart and helped me get my DADA grade up from a T to an A... that's impressive

4. He seems to have lowered his % of twattiness since the year started

Hmmmmm..... maybe its not so bad

5. It won't evolve into anything more like super-best-friends it just means we're ( mainly him,,, he's the annoying one ) not gonna be annoying or rude anymore and will be nice from time to time.

6. I'm a MATURE and GROWN woman. I can do this.

HOW DOES ONE E.A.DEVEREUX ACTUALLY FEEL ABOUT ALL OF THIS?

1. Slightly annoyed. I spent two months and the whole of summer saying and convincing people that we aren't friends and wouldn't become friends and now we are. hmmm. people might start to think im a pushover. hmmmm

2. Happy. look to point 2 and 3 of previous list

3. Confused. why does he even want to be friends with me, if I have been rather rude and annoying to him at times. Probs because I'm gorgeous.

4. Also happy that he apologised for dating Olivia so quickly after. I wonder why exactly he dated her so quickly after and what's so secretive about it....maybe i'll find out one day

I'm going to try and sleep ahead of the quidditch match. Goodnight

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Saturday, November 6th, 1993
The Great Hall

The Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff match is today!! okay so despite not being a super-mega-die-hard-quittich-obsessed-finatic like some people *cough* Alicia, Angelina, Lee, Fred and George *cough* I can appreciate the sport and would be rather pleased if Gryffindor won

So I'm here wearing some mom jeans and a white graphic tee with an oversized Gryffindor zip up hoodie and lots of red accessories and makeup....gotta show my support.

However, there is one problem today, its raining, VERY FUCKING HEAVILY

If someone doesn't like get pushed off their broom id be shocked.

Neither Fred or George are eating anything and nor is the quidditch captain ( Oliver Wood, 7th year )

Alicia's is being ( a pig ) smart and eating, and saying its only "a bit of rain"

I scoffed while helping myself to a second bacon sandwich, its A LOT MORE than "a bit of rain"

After that I make sure to give Alicia and Angelina a BIG HUG each and tell them and the twins and the rest of the team for that matter, good luck.

However im not going to be bringing you to the match, don't want to risk getting you wet diary so au revoir diary!!!

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Saturday, November 6th, 1993
Gryffindor Common Room

well that wasn't a fun quidditch match.

guess who made a reappearance??? the dementors!!! they scare the living shits out of me, it was horrid.

I was stood in the stands with Olly and Carla, huddled under a umbrella ( prior to the game we all ran back to the common room to get scarfs, hats and gloves and extra layers because I was literally freezing my ass off ) wile Lee was in the commentators box shouting about what was happening, all though I couldn't quite hear him with all the thunder that was going on

and regardless of any dementor-related-shit this was always going to be a hard match, the weather was unbearable. poor Harry Potter looked as though he was eventually going to be blown off ( he eventually was, sadly ) honestly the entirety of both teams looked as though they were about to be blown off course at any second. they where all about a few cm away from being hit by the quaffle it was really scary to watch.

Gryffindor where around 50 points in the lead when the lighting started to strike, luckily Wood called time out for some reason for a few minutes, I wanted to go down and see Alicia and Angelina but I was too cold to even move my fingers, they eventually came back onto them pitch. Hermione Granger, one of Harry Potters best friends, was sat infant of us and was mentioning to Ron Weasley ( Harrys best friend and the sixth Weasley child ) how she's put a water repelling charm on Harrys glasses which was a smart move.

Harry and Cedric ( 5th year, Hufflepuff captain and seeker. I liked him at one point, fun fact ) were racing off into the distance, getting higher and higher. It seemed as though one of them had seen the snitch.

"is this safe" I said to carla as lightning and thunder erupted again

"think so...they would've called it off otherwise" which is a fair point

and then suddenly all the shouting and thunder was replaced with an eerie silence as the pitch then became flooded with thousands of hooded black figures that were vaguely familiar, it took me a few seconds to put two and two together and realise these were in fact dementors. the very same things that had searched the train at the begging of the year. they're really ugly and horrid creatures if im being honest.

anyways, they go after Harry, I look around for signs of my friends I see Fred, then Alicia stopping one the ground before running into the changing room, quickly followed by Angelina and George and some other people that I cant quite work out. It seems as though the only people left are Harry and Cedric, who seemingly haven't quite noticed that there are dementors tailing them.

Harry notices eventually but then something truly horrific happens. he falls 50ft feet off his broom. and everyone ( myself included ) was screaming, his broom flew off to merlin-knows-where

Suddenly Dumbledore ran onto the field wand in hand, and he whirled his wand casting what I ( actually carla says this, I'm just taking her word for it ) believe to be a patrons that repels dementors and it did just that, I could make out his face from the stands and boy he was angry.

Eventually Cedric came down to the ground a tiny golden spec in his hands and then it hit me, he'd caught the snitch and Gryffindor had lost eventually we all trudged back to the common room which is where we are now. I haven't seen any of the others yet though.

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Saturday, November 6th, 1993
Gryffindor Common Room

just seen the others, they've just got back from the showers. I made sure to give them all ( even Fred ) big hugs because I was in fact very worried for all of them.

they then go onto explain ( rather bitterly ) that Cedric tried to get a rematch as he hadn't realised what was happening, but Hufflepuff won fair and square. Apparently Harry blames himself and now his brooms broken and what poor boy, honestly that boy cant catch a break I feel really bad for him

Angelina then goes onto explain how they could still win the cup if they play it right for the next few matches

"you always be a winner in my eyes babey" I say to Angelina with an overly exaggerated wink.

everyone laughs.

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Monday, November 8th, 1993
Gryffindor Common Room.

Just had that fuck-off-Divination-test. Went shit. There is nothing fun or interesting about looking into a clear ball and being assessed on it. I wish I was a seer so I could just be fucking amazing at this subject.

Also : Trelawney ? Keeps ? Changing ? How ? Good ? I am ? At ? Divination ? Like, make up your mind woman !!!!

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Wednesday, November 10th, 1993
Divination Classroom.

Guess my predictions about a rat infestation and my deepest wishes coming true in June weren't depressing enough.

I'll make sure to predict her getting sacked or a massive war next time

libby talks.....
This has got to be one of my faveourite chapters that I've wrote/planned so far, THEY'RE FINALLY FREINDS!!! Let's got ladies!!!
Also have a MASSIVE headcanon that lowkey everyone's predictions in Divination are true but no one believes them ( ron and harry's always are!!!! ) so lowkey every divination thing evie/anyone really does is lowkey foreshadowing hehehe ;-) keep eyes peeled ;-)
Hope u enjoyed that chapter this past two have both been 3000+ words which is impressive 4 me. Comments&votes are always appreciated :)