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The Kind Hufflepuff - Second Year
Chapter Twenty Six: Returning to Hogwarts
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Cali was leaning against the banister from the bottom of the stairs, her foot tapping against the wood as she glared up the stairs, waiting for Bertie to come down the stairs. "BERTIE!" She yelled for what seemed like the millionth time.
"CALM DOWN!" Bertie shouted back down the stairs.
"IT'S 10:30 ASSHOLE!" Cali shouted back up the stairs, her glare intensifying.
"Calista Higgs," Ethel Higgs growled from her place by the door as Cali rolled her eyes.
"Mom, he's going to make us miss the train," Cali whined, turning to her mother who promptly ignored her daughter. Cali had been understandably excited about going back to school, Cali had explained that she had just spent the entire summer at home and the last thing to have been excited about was the wedding and now that it was over, that just meant she would be going back to Hogwarts soon. Cali looked back at the clock, noticing that it was now 10:35 as she groaned aloud.
"If he makes us miss the train, can I stick Bas on him?" Cali asked her mother who laughed lightly.
"How about this? If you can get that cat to attack him, you can let him," Ethel Higgs replied to her daughter as Cali huffed, knowing full well that the only thing that Bas attacked was his own shadow when it scared him.
"BERTIE!" Cali shouted once more, stomping up the stairs as she threw open the door to see that he was frantically packing up his things. "Are you kidding me?" Cali growled, watching as the boy ran around his room to throw random things into his trunk.
"Shut up Cali, I meant to do it last night and then I completely forgot."
"I did it two weeks ago," Cali snapped. "MOM! COME HELP THIS IDIOT!"
"She's going to be mad," Bertie protested, throwing his hands up in the air.
"Well good thing we have to be on the train in less than 15 minutes," Cali shrugged, pointing to the clock in his room. Ethel Higgs walked into the room to see that the room was a complete mess with clothes strewn about the floor and general trash on the floor.
"Please tell me that you're not just now packing," Ethel commented after a moment as the boy grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry." Their mother rolled her eyes at this, taking out her wand as she muttered a quick spell that immediately caused everything to be packed neatly into the trunk before swiftly putting it away. "Now come on, we need to get you guys on the train." With that, she spun around with Cali following shortly after to grab Bas and her own trunks before the three of them met in the living room to apparate onto the station. Once they made it to Kings Cross, it became a race against the clock as the three of them ran throughout the station before finally making onto the platform, leading to a quick hug to their mother before darting onto the train.
"You're lucky we made it on the train," Cali warned.
"Well, we did."
"No thanks to you."
"I didn't see you helping the situation. You were just yelling at everyone," Bertie argued.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I missed it in the sibling handbook that I was supposed to deal with your screw ups," Cali countered.
"Merlin, are you PMSing?" Bertie asked, exasperated as the girl's eyes widened at the question before scoffing and stomping away from the boy as she went to search for Greta or Regulus.
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The Kind Hufflepuff
FanfictionThere were many things that you could hear being whispered throughout the corridors of Hogwarts from 1971 to 1979. Many of the whispers would be the discussion of the most recent prank that the Marauders had pulled, perhaps even a gushing of the lus...
