From friends to this -Year six (re-uploaded) Book 1/4

Chapter 21

The next morning was a Saturday, which would usually mean a rest for most students. However, when Tara got down to the common room that morning, it was quiet.

"Morning!" Cedric greeted Tara cheerfully, "How did you sleep?"

"Fine..." Tara answered, trailing off, tightening the waist of her robes. She looked around, "Where is everyone?"

"Watching students put their name in for the tournament." He answered with a grin, "Glad I did it before it got all busy."

She stopped fixing her robes and stood up straight, "I forgot!" She cursed herself, "I wanted to see if this plan of Fred and George's will work." She frowned.

Cedric looked at the clock on the mantel piece, "It's still early enough, you might still catch it." He told her, "but you'd want to get going now."

"Thanks, Ced!" Tara called as she ran in the direction of the entrance, "You're a legend!"

"I know!" He called back jokingly, "Good luck."

Tara ran out of the common room, and down the Kitchen Corridors, greeting the odd student she passed. The corridors were empty enough too, all the students that were awake were in the entrance hall from what Tara could guess.

As she neared the main staircases, she heard the sound of running footfalls, of at least two people from what she could make out.

By the time she got out of the Kitchen hallways and made it to the top of the stairs case she saw Fred, George and Lee running only a few meters in front of her.

She slowed to a stop and grinned as she watched the boys whisper to Harry, Ron and Hermione. A good amount of students were sat on the side, on the last few steps of the stairs, standing around the walls, toast in hand.

"Ready?" Fred said, looking between his twin brother and Lee, "C'mon, then- I'll go first-."

By the time she reached them Fred had already written his name down on a piece of Parchment and was only a breath away from the age line. He stood on the edge, like he was standing on the edge of a cliff. Tara casually took her place beside Lee, "What did I miss?" She asked, not taking her eyes off the twins.

"They took a drop of their aging potion before running down here." Lee answered, not at all startled at her sudden appearance. He too, like Tara and everyone else was watching Fred eagerly, waiting to see what would happen next.

Suddenly he took a great breath and stepped over the line. Tara and Lee looked at each other because just for a moment, they thought it had worked. George seemed to think so too, because next second he was yelling out in victory and leaping in after him.

But not even a split second later there was a loud sizzling noise, and before either Lee or Tara could advise the twins on what to do now, they were both thrown out of the golden circle before landing in a painful looking heap on the cold stone floor.

Tara and Lee took a step forward before hearing a popping sound and with that sound (without warning) both of them started to grow long white beards.

Lee grabbed onto Tara, erupting into a fit of laughter. He used her for support as Tara stood there, jaw on the ground-it that could've been possible, in utter amusement. The hall rang with laughter.

Fred and George scrambled to their feet, grabbing onto their new facial hair before looking at the other, and laughing loudly at each other.

It wasn't until Fred looked to Lee and saw Tara had joined him did he stop laughing. And that was when Tara started, the look of shock on his face was worth paying admission for. She shook her head avoiding eye contact with him in fear that if she looked at him she may just fall to her knees in a fit of laughter. George upon seeing Fred's shellshocked expression just laughed harder.