34. Duel

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Fred and George shared their eighteenth birthday in Hogsmeade, in the Hog's Head, along with Elodie and Lee.

"Come on Fred, walk yourself. I'm not sober enough to hold hands with a ten foot, a million pound, drunk, giant." Elodie hiccuped

Lee was attempting to hold George up, but the ginger fell straight to the ground.

"El, how exactly are we supposed to do this?"

"Honestly, Lee... I have no idea." She stumbled over to a bench and leaned back.

"Am I the only sober one?" Lee stomped his foot on the ground.

She woke up at dawn, to Fred resting his head on her lap, George laying in the street, and Lee with his head in his hands.

"Merlin's beard. And fuck, my head is pounding. Why did we do this on a school night?"

"To celebrate the best day of the year, darling." Fred mumbled from below her

"I'm going to get some waters. Stay here." Lee walked over to a nearby shop.

He came back around 5 minutes later with four bottles of water.

"Drink."



The four were back in moderately high spirits (except for a headache and the feeling of needing to be sick with every step they took).

Fred and Elodie held hands as they walked through the secret passageway, from Honeyduke's Sweet Shop.

They attempted to be as quiet as possible, but two people got in the way of that.
Emaline and Draco.

"Well, well, well... what are you four doing up at this hour?" Draco smirked

The Slytherins were dressed in their 'casual' attire.
Emaline still had some of her red streaks in her hair, that she dyed in support of Gryffindor in a Quidditch match, a few weeks prior.
She was wearing a green corset, with a black leather jacket and a black skirt.
She was different.

"Do you like the new style, Potter?" She smirked

"Yeah it's um... wild." Elodie exasperated, and rolled her eyes

"Now if you wouldn't mind, we've got somewhere to be." Fred attempted to walk in-between Draco and Emaline when Draco blocked his way.
Considering Draco was a fair bit shorter than Fred, he looked a bit silly.

"Yeah... funny one, mate. Now if you wouldn't mind we-"

"No... I think we should take this to Professor Umbridge. You know, because your up at ungodly hours, creating a racket throughout the castle."

"Come on, mate... it's their eighteenth birthday. Let them be." Lee groaned

"He said, no." Emaline stepped forward. She was around twenty centimetres away.

Elodie looked down at her.
"So how do you want to settle this, then?"
She slowly took her wand out of her coat pocket.

"If you're insinuating we embrace in a duel, I'm perfectly happy we do that. Shall we say... at 12:00AM in the Duelling Room?"

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