Pranks and Perks (Weasley Twins x Reader)

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Finally arriving before the doors of the Great Hall, you, Angelina and Cedric stopped to talk with Professor McGonagall, who was waiting for the new first years to arrive. Outside a storm was raging, and you thought of how lucky you were not to arrive by boat as a first year today out of all day. But suddenly, as you thought you had gotten safely dry from the rain, a water balloon exploded on your head, as well as Cedric and Angelina. 

Peeves stuck out his tongue, threw the last of his water bombs into the air, and zoomed off up the marble staircase, cackling insanely.

"Peeves, get down here NOW!" barked Professor McGonagall, straightening her pointed hat and glaring upward through her square-rimmed spectacles.

"Not doing nothing!" cackled Peeves, lobbing a water bomb at several fifth-year girls, who screamed and dived into the Great Hall. "Already wet, aren't they? Little squirts! Wheeeeeeeeee!" And he aimed another bomb at a group of second years who had just arrived.

"I shall call the headmaster!" shouted Professor McGonagall. "I'm warning you, Peeves —"

You looked at Angelina and Cedric still in shock and pulled out your wand to catch a charm. Hot hair blew from the tip as you dried your clothes and this of your friends. You raised ans waved your fist at peeves in the air. 

"Well, move along, then!" said Professor McGonagall sharply to the bedraggled crowd. "Into the Great Hall, come on!"

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who were just a few meters below you in the stairs, slipped and slid across the entrance hall and through the double doors on the right, Ron muttering furiously under his breath as he pushed his sopping hair off his face.

The Great Hall looked its usual splendid self, decorated for the start-of-term feast. Golden plates and goblets gleamed by the light of hundreds and hundreds of candles, floating over the tables in midair. The four long House tables were packed with chattering students; at the top of the Hall, the staff sat along one side of a fifth table, facing their pupils. It was much warmer in here. 

You sat next to Angelina and Ginny who looked at you with shiny eyes and a diabolical grin. 

"Sat across me Fred !" she suddenly said. 

He did without really thinking it, but looked at his brother weirdly when he sat before you. Your eyes locked the whole time he slowly dropped his body on the bench. He did it with this attitude, a cocky smirk crossing his lips, as you looked at him with an almost inexistent smile. But it was here, and he was happy that you smiled, that your eyes shined with that "you're hopeless" light. He slowly tilted his head at you, to say hi, you mutedly said hi with your lips. 

The first years entered drenched in water as a thunder echoed outside, poor them. The ceremony began and finished very quickly. Just after that, the magical sky unexpectedly started to imitate the storm outside. Students screamed startled, when a man entered dramatically and pointed his wand at the ceiling, catching a spell. In a huge silence, his steps echoed on the marble, as his wooden leg hit the floor and he walked to join the teachers table.

"May I introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" said Dumbledore brightly into the silence. "Professor Moody."

It was usual for new staff members to be greeted with applause, but none of the staff or students clapped except Dumbledore and Hagrid, who both put their hands together and applauded, but the sound echoed dismally into the silence, and they stopped fairly quickly. Everyone else seemed too transfixed by Moody's bizarre appearance to do more than stare at him.

"Moody?" Harry muttered to Ron. " Mad-Eye Moody? The one your dad went to help this morning?"

You listened to Harry speak as you glared at the odd man that sat unbothered by this cold welcoming.  You had a bad feeling about him. Really bad one. He suddenly stared at you and grinned, a grin full of sombre intentions, disguised as a smile.