Chapter 8 | Victoire

Victoire marched down the familiar Hogwarts walls, with a million things racing inside her mind. This was insane. Why was she even doing this? She was meant to be the role model, leading by example. Instead, she was being the follower, following the instructions of her younger cousins.

Breaking into the teacher's office was not a good idea. She was bloody mental for even considering doing it. But no matter how hard her brain told her to stop, her legs just seemed to keep moving. A party at 1am in another house's common room was ridiculous enough. But now she was breaking into professor Tandlewall's office. She'd been spending way too much time with James.

Then again, this was to celebrate Albus and Rose becoming Gryffindor's...although it still seemed rather far fetched. But this was poor, little, insecure Albus and smart, worrisome, little Rose. They deserved to be celebrated. But if Victoire got caught, it'd be entirely their fault. Well, not entirely, but Victoire preferred to think of it that way.

However, watching her cousins being sorted reminded her of her own sorting. She was glad that the hat had put Albus where he had wanted to go. She'd never really been fond of that stupid hat.

FLASHBACK

"Weasley, Victoire," Professor Tandlewall read from the scroll in front of her.

A gorgeous little eleven year old Victoire bounded up the stairs to the three legged stool. She glanced over at the Hufflepuff table, where she caught Teddy's eye and they smiled at each other until the hat slid over her eyes, blocking her view of Hogwarts and turning into the inside of black hat. She pulled the hat up and looked out at the four tables in front of her as the hat provoked a conversation.

"Ah, another Weasley."

"Yes." Victoire mumbled distastefully.

"You don't seem very much like one," The hat commented.

"Not all Weasley's have red hair, you know!" Victoire snapped.

"Very well, but that's besides the point, my dear. The question is; where to put you?"

"Well, that is your job, isn't it? To question and answer where to put me?"

"Hm...yes...very sassy. But you have courage too, I see. Definitely do not lack wit either, my dear."

"I swear, if you call me 'dear' one more time, I will personally take it upon myself to incendio you into smithereens!"

"Incendio? That's rather advanced for a first year. You remind me of a girl that I sorted a rather long time ago..."

"Oh yes? And who was that?" Victoire enquired, curiously.

"That does not concern you...but you are very much like her. She was less confident, but nevertheless, you two have many similarities. A very wide emotional range, very intelligent too, and if you don't mind me adding, quite pretty."

"Yes, whatever! Where are you sorting me?"

"Why, the same place that I sorted her, of course." The hat paused. "RAVENCLAW!"

END OF FLASHBACK

As Victoire crept towards the office door, she smiled at the memory and pulled her wand out of her pocket, twirling it in her fingers. Shaking the door vigorously, she came to the realisation that it was locked.

"Alohomaora," she whispered with a grin.

She rattled through numerous draws until she found a rather capacious one full of floo powder. Strutting over to the fireplace, her cloak sweeping behind her, and her blonde hair bouncing on her back, she wondered where her destination may be. Trusting her instincts, she stepped into the emerald green flames and clearly stated, "The Burrow."

After a lot of spinning, Victoire stumbled out of the fireplace at the burrow, and into someone's strong arms. Coughing and spluttering, she straightened up and dusted the soot off her usually pristine Ravenclaw robes. She faced the person who had caught her, and stood on her tiptoes to give him a kiss.

"Awwwww."

Victoire snapped her head around to see Lily goggling at her and Teddy. Before either of them had time to respond, three boys and another girl entered the room.

"What in Merlin's name are they doing here?" Victoire turned back to face Teddy, with a look of worry tracing the beautiful features of her face.

"Well, I was kinda asked to babysit..." Teddy explained, scratching the back of his head nervously.

"This is not going to end well," Victoire sighed, casting disillusionment charms on all five kids.

"That tickles," Hugo giggled.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let's just get this over and done with." Victoire muttered impatiently.

Teddy took Lily's hand, and guided her into the fireplace. One by one, each of them stepped into the bright emerald flames, until their was only Teddy and Victoire left.

"I swear, if we get in trouble for bringing them, it's all your fault, Teddy Bear," Victoire teased.

Teddy held his hands up in surrender with a cheeky grin on his face. Victoire gave him a final glance before vanishing with a whoosh, as the flames engulfed her.

Landing on the other side, Teddy not far behind her, she placed a loose strand of her hair behind her ear. Lorcan, Lysander, Lucy, Lily and Hugo, were all waiting at the door. But of course, Victoire couldn't see them, because she was stupid enough to already cast the charm. Sometimes her sorting into Ravenclaw baffled her.

"Alright, everybody grab hands," Teddy instructed.

Victoire felt a sweaty hand on hers and knew immediately that it was Hugo's. Together, all seven of them marched towards Gryffindor tower. As they reached the fat lady, the disillusionment charms began to wear off.

"Pedere Porcos," Victoire mumbled the password to the fat lady.

"What does that mean?" Lily asked with a frown.

"Farting pigs."

Teddy watched with an amused smile as the confused look on Lily's face morphed into mone of disgust. The fat lady swung open without interrogation and the gang walked through. There was red and gold draped everywhere, and James was setting up the music.

"Vic, why did we let them do this?" Molly stressed, running over to Victoire.

"That is a very good question, Molly," Victoire bit her lip.

"Alright! Settle down everyone! Party's over!" Teddy instructed, taking action.

"We haven't even started yet, Ted!" James whined.

"Sorry, James, but if you have a party, you're gonna wake everyone up. So instead, I've brought some muggle films that we can watch."

"Ah, you're a champ, Teddy," Dom commented, jumping over the back of the couch and sitting down on it.

Victoire counted the votes of movies, while Teddy set up the projector. He was quite good with muggle technology, which the others were utterly awful with.

"Central Intelligence won," Vic sighed, handing the case over to Teddy. "All the boys voted for it."

"I still want 'Mary Poppins'," Lily sulked.

"Yeah, yeah, Lils, and I want to watch 'Frozen'!" James said sarcastically.

Alice came up behind James and suddenly started singing. "LET IT GO! LET IT GO!"

"Oh Merlin, please don't Ally."

"CAN'T HOLD IT BACK ANYMORE!"

"Oh my godric, will you just SHUTUP!"

"DA DA DA DA DA DA AND SOMETHING ABOUT SLAMMING A DOOR!"

"For the love of Dumbledore-"

"I FORGOT THE WORDS, SO I'LL JUST SING THE TUNE-"

"-Silencio!" Frank muttered, pointing his wand at his sister. "Never bring it up again, James."

"Thanks mate."

"We always watch 'Frozen' or 'Mary Poppins', Lils. We're watching something different just this once," Albus reasoned with his little sister.

"Okay, fine," Lily pouted, snuggling into James' side. "Only because this is your party."

During the movie, Lily, James, Molly, Hugo, Lorcan, Lysander, Lucy, Louis and Roxanne had all fallen asleep. The roaring embers died down as the flames in the fireplace danced and lulled them all into a dreamy state. They were only about half way through, when they heard a noise from behind them, and turned around to see what was going on.

A girl was walking down the dormitory stairs, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

"Jessica?" Rose asked sleepily. "What are you doing?"

"I couldn't sleep," the girl explained. "And I just came down to get my book."

"At two o'clock in the morning?" Dominique frowned.

"Well, I'm not the only one up at this ungodly hour."

"I know we shouldn't be up but-" Victoire began to explain.

"-I wasn't talking about you," Jessica said, and then pointed in the direction of the portrait hole. "I was talking about him. He's not even in Gryffindor."

They all turned around to see Scorpius standing in the doorway. Everyone was absolutely confused at what was going on, but nobody had any time to question it; because within an abrupt second, everything just went black.

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~I solemnly swear that I am up to no good~

*starts singing the part in the sia song that says I'm alive*

So...my updating schedule isn't going fantastic at the moment, but this chapter is finally here and I can promise you a chapter next week...because I wrote that chapter like 5 months ago...

So today's question is:
WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME JUST HAPPENED?

I know it took me a while to update, (I'M SORRY OKAY) but please still vote and comment! I'm sorry for the long wait.

And yes, sometimes I'm JK but I'm never JK Rowling. Deal With It.

~Mischief Managed~

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