Rough Diamond (The Poisonous Princess Book 3)

Champions

The best time of the year is Autumn, with no doubt !
But it also means rainy weather and cold tiling in our rooms. I froze my feet when I stepped out of bed.
So I put warm hight socks with my uniform and Malfoy's winter quidditch cape to protect from rain.
In the great hall, everyone was loudly chatting and eating.
October was here and with it, my favorite pumpkin latte and spice pie for breakfast.

I took a seat at my usual banch.
Poppy was full of energy and started a lively discussions when I arrived :

"So what do we plan for Halloween ?"

"We should organise something big because we have guests this year !" I joined.

"Something that stays in memories." said Tracey.

"Not too dark because we have to honor the school's reputation..."

The owls mail interrupted. Letters, boxes and newspapers were delivered.
Strangely, a bat was flying amongst the owl, carrying an envelope. We were all surprised when the black animal landed by my side.
From a close look, I finally recognised the cute flying-fox from Owlery.

I took the letter and picked a berry to feed it.

"Something is really abnormal about you, Green" someone said from the table behind.

"A bat is not a post-transporter ! It's dirty !" Said another Hufflepuff.

Peter Parkinson took my defence :"Shut it Kevin !"

I retorted : "If you weren't that ignorant, you would know that bat actually are the softest and feed on fruit. While your owl attacks mice and rats to later vomit back their skeletons."

The first-year got quiet.

I focused back to the letter and announced it.

"It's actually a letter from Gemma ! She suggested her idea for Halloween eve. Also she sents her greetings to all of you of corse."

She was expected me to become next year's prefect of Slytherin, with Draco as next prefect, so she shared her idea with me and not the actual girl in charge, whom she didn't like.

"Oh nice ! What does she suggest ?" They asked.

"A nightclub party ! A dark and forbidden dancefloor in the Sly' dungeon. She proposed, now that she is not student anymore, to help procure alcohol and good musics."

They all said in one voice :

"Wicked !"

"So many ideas are coming to my mind..." said Daphne with a smirk.

"Me too !" We said Moranna and I.

My brain turned fast : First we should keep the youngest in their rooms, we would have to make spells to make the noises unheard, and make sure Snape was busy. Also the password should be made specific for the night so other houses could be invited with that code and we would spread the code like an invitation to people.
I think we were all excited already.
But for now, we had to go to class.

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Hagrid animated his Care of Magical Creature session in the forest with, this time, a creature he breeded himself. He explained that he cross-breeded Manticore and Fire Crab together to make this new specie.
The Blast-ended skrewt, looked like an ugly headless scorpion. They had legs sticking out at odd angles. They were about a foot long and smelled like rotten fish.
I wondered how could it properly live like this.

We were asked to make duo to take care of one of the multiple pups.
Weasley and Granger were together to walk their slimy pet and Draco and I thought it was a given opportunity to play around.