Ember Potter and the Secret of the Gems

Chapter 31

So guess who's back? Sorry it's been a few months since I last updated, I kind of lost motivation for my stories and then life swept me up. Now this chapter was a bit rushed because I had no idea where to continue after the last chapter. This chapter is just to try and get back into the groove of writing.

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It had only been a few weeks since Ember and the other students returned from Christmas break, and she was already getting fed up with the school.

It wasn't the other students that were the problem, it was the Professors. For some strange reason, most of them were singling her out, trying to get her to act out so they would have an excuse to put her in detention. They seemed desperate to get her into detention, Ember didn't know why they wanted her to get into trouble but she had a suspicion that the headmaster had a hand in it.

He always looked at her with frustration in his eyes during dinner, she assumed it was because she hadn't gotten detention yet but that wasn't to last

The only professors who didn't try to get her in trouble were Professor Flitwick, Professor Quirrel, and her mom.

It was three weeks into the new school year when it seemed like the Professors were sick of trying to get her to act out since Professor Snape decided to give her a detention for no reason.

Ember was suspicious when she was told to meet the caretaker, Mr Filch, at the front of the castle at midnight. The reason she was suspicious should be obvious, whenever Snape gave out detentions he had them do one of two things, clean cauldrons in his classroom or have them clean the trophy hall. Neither of those sounded like what she was going to be doing for detention.

When Ember arrived at the front of the castle later that night she could say honestly that she was surprised to see Damien, Granger, Longbottom, and Malfoy were there waiting for detention as well.

"What did you four do to get detention?" She asked Damien as the five students started to follow Filch down to Hagrid's hut, she could spot Hagrid standing outside holding a lantern from where she was.

"Hermione and I were helping Hagrid out with a problem but we got caught out after hours because of helping him," Damien explained, sounding bitter at getting detention for helping someone.

Ember reasoned that he was feeling even more bitter when he realized that the one he and Hermione had helped was going to be supervising the punishment, meaning Hagrid was going to be punishing Damien and Hermione for helping him.

"That sucks, what about Longbottom and Malfoy?" She made sure to keep her voice down so Filch didn't hear her and her brother talking.

"Malfoy found out about Hagrid's problem and tried to snitch on us to McGonagall, she took twenty points away from him and gave him detention for lying to her and being out after curfew," Damien spoke just as soft, not wanting to get in trouble again.

"Neville heard about what Malfoy was planning and tried to come find us and warn us, sadly we had been caught by McGonagall and she thought we were trying to play a prank on Malfoy, she took fifty points from each of us,"

Ember looked at him shocked, "Wait, she took twenty from Malfoy but fifty each from you three? That's so unfair, people normally lose ten or fifteen for being out after curfew, you didn't deserve that many taken away! Neville didn't even do anything wrong besides being out after curfew, if she truly thought he overheard a prank then why would she punish him as if he was involved in the prank?"

Damien just shrugged since he didn't understand McGonagall's logic any more than Ember did. Soon enough the group finally got close to Hagrid's hut, Ember was happy about that. Filch had been mumbling about some disturbing things, things she was going to mention to Jasper and have her try to take care of this guy. She would also mention this detention and see if Jasper could have anything done about the school sending students to detention at midnight.