crashing down // Fred Weasley

Unbreakable Vow

It was a week till Christmas break, luckily for Sophie the next full moon wasn't towards the end of December, Sughorn's Christmas party however was about an hour away and both Hermione and Sophie were trying to finds dresses.

"So who've you decided to take?"Sophie asked joining her friend in the bathroom and brushing her teeth.

"Was going to invite Ron but he and Lavender are a thing so i did something." She whined, "something really bad."

"What? What did you do?" She asked turning to face the girl who was baring a look of horror.

"I erm, asked Cormac."

"Cormac!"

"Yeah shh!" Hermione cried covering Sophie's mouth whiping toothpaste all over her palm. "Ew"

"You asked Cormac." She laughed before rinsing her mouth. "That's disgusting Mione."

"I know, i should have just gone with Harry for Merlin's sake." She whined covering her eyes.

"Who are you going with Gin?" Sophie asked leaving the bathroom, "anyone i know."

"No one." The ginger shrugged tightening the buckle around her ankle for her heels. "How about you, anyone we know?"

"Mason Vanity." Sophie smiled sliding her heels on.

"Vanity!" Hermione said opening the bathroom door, "you never told me he was a Vanity?"

"What's the big deal with him being a Vanity, who's that?" Sophie asked placing a white cardigan over her knee lenght black strapless dress.

"Ever heard of Evan Rosier?" Hermione asked as they headed down the dormitory stairs. "Well before he died he was with a girl called Emma Vanity, had a child and all, Mason. Evan was a death eater, Slytherin here at school."

"I know his parents are in Slytherin, i didn't know who they were exactly." She shrugged, "and no Mione i haven't a clue who Evan is, but we can't judge Mason based off of his parents choices."

"Well has he ever spoken to you about the war? Ever asked you strange questions, or acted funny around you about the topic?" She asked, "you can never be too careful."

"We spoke about what side of the war we were on breafly for conversation but he said-"

"-What? What did he say Soph?" Hermione asked again opening the door to Slughorn's office.

"He said he wouldn't become one unless he had too." She whispered thinking back to the conversation.

"Hey Sophie." Speak of the devil, there he was. Standing high and mighty his arm arched slightly to link with the girls and a nice smile planted on his face.

"Hey." She smiled back linking arms. "I'll see you guys later i want a drink." Sophie said dragging the boy over to the drink table in the corner.

The party in Sophie's eyes wasn't great, quite boring actually. Her and Mason had danced the whole of two times before he dissappeared claiming he had somewhere to be. Slughorn had fished Sophie into showing her his trophy shelf and students from years ago. Regulus Black being one of them.

"There's your mum." He beamed pointing at the pretty ginger woman stood in the photo, "amazing student she was, excelled in a lot of things."

"She looks so pretty." Sophie smiled looking down at her mother.

"Yeah she-"

But he was disturbed by the sighing crowd and the angry murmers of Filch followed by shoes scuffing along the floor. "Let go of me!" The cool voice of Draco Malfoy grunted.

Sophie and Slughorn turned around and watched as the platinum blonde was dragged across by the school's old caretaker.

"Found him upstairs Horace, claimed to have been invited." The old man sneered. "Reckon he was gate crashing."

"So what if i was." Draco mumbled standing up straight.

"Come with me Mr Malfoy." Snape appeared between the sixth year student and potions professor, "I'll take care of him."

And off they went following each other out into the dark corridors letting the parrt continue as if nothing hapened. Sophie watched her friend get dragged out of the hall, why was Snape stepping in. Why did he pull Malfoy aside?

She found herself looking back down at the picture of her mother again, taking in every feature looking at her wide smile and smiling back as if Lily could see her. She felt stupid but she couldn't help it. It was a happy picture of her mother at school, one she hadn't seen before and she defintely fit the discription Remus and Sirius gave her, perfectly.

"The unbreakable vow are you insane!" Sophie hissed at her brother. Her Ron and Harry were sharing a carriage on the train back to London whilst Hermione was doing her prefect runs. "Your telling me Snape made the unbreakable vow for Draco?"

"That's exactly what I'm telling you!" Harry fought back.

"That's, that's insane, Snape's on their side then?" Ron asked leaning against the window.

"Not a clue, i supose so." Harry shrugged. "Well, what happens if you break the vow, how serious is it?"

"Are you thick." Sophie said taking the potions book from her brothers palm and smacking him over the head with it. "You die you idiot."

After that the carriage was quiet for the rest of the ride. The train soared through the countryside followed by the old cottages and finally the outer city of London before passing through the under grounds and into King Cross Station.

"Coming?" Ron asked as him and Harry left the compartment.

"I'm just going to look for someone." She smiled squeezing through the two and walking the opposite way down the train towards the Hufflepuff seats.

"Mason." She said tapping the tall boy on the shoulder.

"Oh hey Soph." He smiled grabbing his trunk and walking alongside her towards the trains exit. "Mum wanted me homw, something she needs to talk about with me."

"Be careful." She whispered hopping of the train.

"Always am always will." He laughed hugging the girl, "have a nice Christmas okay I'll see you in two weeks."

"You too." She nodded watching the boy walk away. What if his mum wanted him to be one of them. A death eater. Like Draco. Sophie thought to herself, what if he was going to stop being friends with her because of it.

"Sophie?" A familair voice asked from behind placing a hand on her shoulder. She spun round quickly embracing her arms around him smiling slightly into his chest. "Missed me?" He chuckled.

"Always Fred."

Okay I'm done writing rubbish chapters, hopefully they're back to normal after this one :)