CATS at Hogwarts

Chapter 7: James

I felt kind of guilty about it. But not really. What, you ask? Stealing the potion. Let me back up a little.

I had noticed Gabi signaling to Sahej to hold back a bit.

"Hunter! Mate, they're about to have a talk. We should hear it." He was a bit reluctant (I have no idea why; it's not as if we haven't eavesdropped before.) but I managed to pull him into a nook in the wall that had almost completely covered us behind a huge statue. Sahej and Gabi had stopped walking.

"Sahej! I don't know why I did it!" Gabi said almost desperately to Sahej.

"Do what? Oh, you mean nick some potion." She nodded.

"You saw me do that?" Gabi asked incredulously. Sahej nodded again, then smirked.

"So what are you gonna do with it?" Sahej had an evil grin dancing on her face. Gabi firmly shook her head. "Absolutely nothing." Sahej's face fell.

"Oh come on, don't be a rotten sport." She pleaded with Gabi.

"I'll think about it..." She consented. Greta came running up to them a bit later, and I heard Gabi leave. Soon, Sahej and Greta started to walk away too.

As soon as they were gone, I turned to Hunter. I could tell his mind was racing. "If we could get that potion..." He started to say.

"We could play the best prank ever!" I cried, and punched the air with a loud WHOOP!

"Uh, I'm not stealing anything, though." He turned his back on me and started to walk away.

"Fine." I grabbed his arm and turned him around. Hunter's a pretty tall guy, but I'm two or three inches taller. I looked him in the eyes. "I'll do it."

"You ready?" Hunter asked me about ten minutes later. We were standing below the girl's dorms. I nodded. "Levicorpus." Hunter waved his wand. I was flipped upside down, suspended by my ankle.

"Hurry up!" I hissed. "Having all the blood in your body in your head is not a comfortable position. SO HURRY THE HELL UP!" Hunter grinned cheekily and set me down on the floor outside the 5th year dorm. I fake glared at him and tapped myself on the head with my wand, muttering a Disillusionment spell. I quietly cracked the door open and peeked in. Gabi was sleeping on the bed in Muggle clothes, her robes discarded next to her. I looked into the pockets and found the small bottle quickly. I couldn't help writing a note that I left in place of the bottle.

'Thanks for the potion. Don't worry, it'll be used well.'

I snuck out of the room again and didn't bother applying to Hunter to get me down. I stepped on the stairs, which started wailing and created a slide. I slid down to the bottom and waved my wand so the Disillusionment charm was broken. Hunter ran up to me.

"Did you get it?"

"No, I got distracted by the Witch Weekly magazines. They had all the newest robe fashions! And then she started to wake up. Sorry mate!" I said as seriously as I could. Hunter smacked his forehead.

"You idiot." He moaned.

"Hah! Got you. Merlin's beard, it's so easy to fool you Hunt." I chortled and flopped on a couch in front of the fire.

"I hate you." He mumbled.

"I love you too, buddy." I retorted. He glanced at me strangely.

"Since when do you call people buddy?" He started to laugh. I was slightly embarrassed but answered,