Safe House

Thirty Nine

"You'll never guess who I met!" I said to Ron as I rushed to his table in Herbology, cutting Hermione off from whatever she was saying to Harry and Ron.

"I was just getting to-" Hermione said.

"Gwenog Jones, or whatever" I smirked to myself, flipping my hair over my shoulder, I feigned cool as my twin brother's jaw dropped to the ground.

"The Gwenog Jones?! Captain of the Holyhead Harpies?" Ron sputtered.

"Yep, she's brill, we're good pals now" I told him.

"That's quite enough, Miss Weasley" Professor Sprout said "Back to your table, You're all lagging behind, Neville's already got his first pod!"

We all turned to see Neville sat with a bloody lip and nasty scratches all across his face, he seemed to not mind as he smiled at the unpleasantly pulsating green object about the size of a grapefruit.

"With all due respect, Professor, but looking at the sight of Neville, I think I'd rather not retrieve that" I told her. She glared at me as she pointed at my table which sat Theo and Blaise, Draco didn't take this class, which funnily enough, he didn't really take any classes, but he was always busy, always studying, always writing in that green notebook.

"What were you doing over there?" Blaise asked me as I joined him and Theo at the table.

"Probably telling Weasley who you guys met at the "Slugclub" Theo explained, not looking up from his book of "Flesh-Eating Tree's of the World"

"Oh, Gwenog Jones she's great" Blaise said.

"Yeah, well, are we quite ready or would the two of you like me to fetch some tea and biscuits to continue your little chat?" Theo said sarcastically, snapping on his goggles.

"Alright, alright, let's do this then" I rolled my eyes, putting in my gum shield.

"Keira, you get the pod, we'll fight off the vines" Blaise said.

"Count of three ... One ... Two... Three GO!" Theo said.

We all dived in, the plant automatically coming to life as its vines began to scratch and attack us, one grabbing a hold of my arm, Blaise hitting it away with a pair of secateurs. As we fought against the bramble branches, a hole opened up, I seized my opportunity, dropping my arm down the hole, the branches closed around my arm as soon as I got a grip on the pod.

Blaise and Theo imitated the other students as they hit back the vines, leaving them to open up again so I could get my arm free.

All three of us took a few steps back, breathing heavily.

"You okay?" Theo asked, taking out his gum shield.

"Yep" Blaise said, moving his goggles up to sit on his forehead.

"I was talking to Keira"

"I got the pod" I outstretched my hand out to them, the giant green bean sitting in my palm.

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"You did what?! Ginevra!" I scolded my younger sister.

"What, he was getting on my last nerves and it kind of just slipped out" She shrugged, but I could tell she felt a bit guilty.

"Does Granger know you spilled?" Theo asked.

We were sat in the library, Theo, Ginny and I, and she was telling us about the fight she had with Ron the previous night.

"I don't know, I hope not, she might do something horrible, like cut my hair off in my sleep" She muttered, patting her red hair subconsciously.