Because I - George Weasley

16: Because I Argued

It was later that week that the buttons appeared. They rotated between saying Potter Stinks and Who's Winters? in an attempt at mildly insulting Harry and I at the same time.

It was bad enough when my own sisters started wearing pins insulting their own last names, but when some of the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws started wearing them because Harry and I had taken something away from their house because we'd been chosen instead of someone from one of their houses, that's when it started piss me off.

Classes had grown lonely without the twins teasing me like normal. Instead they sat together a few rows ahead of me in ever class just to cut out the risk of me blowing up if they got too close.

On top of that, in every class, people from other houses would boast about their pins without me being able to say a word. It was isolating.

"Thanks guys," I muttered to a group of second year Gryffindors who were showing off their Winters for the Win badges.

I watched them walk away and then turned my attention back to the open classroom door just a few steps in front of me.

Moody was thumping around inside, preparing his lesson for us while most of my class was already inside and watching him.

Running footsteps started echoing behind me. The sound of someone running away from something they'd done wrong.

To opt of out George running into me like he had so many times before, I quickly slipped into Moody's class and into the furthest seat back before the twins and Lee and fell into seats in front of me, panting heavily and their faces red from running.

"What'd you do?" asked Angelina, turning to face from her spot in front of them.

"Don't worry about it."

It wasn't long after that two Hufflepuff boys entered the room, looking disgruntled. They each had massive holes in their robes in the same place lots of their classmates had their Potter Stinks badges.

"What happened to you?" Moody grunted.

"I don't know!" one of them said. "We were coming out of the bathroom and all of sudden there was smoke everyone and then our badges exploded!"

"Almost like someone's trying to call out your bad teamsmenship?" Moody said, a small smile on his face.

All of the Hufflepuffs looked around at each other, worried for the scolding that was inevitably coming.

"In case you haven't noticed, this is a tournament of school versus school, not house versus house. No matter which house the champion, or in our case, champions come from, it's your job to support them, am I wrong?"

The two Hufflepuffs flushed in embarrassment and Moody and I both seemed to notice that Fred and George were high fiving under their desks.

"So, a point from each Hufflepuff wearing a Potter Stinks badge," he said, causing an audible groan from all of the Hufflepuffs. "And detention to the Weasley twins and our champion from playing dirty, no matter how good the intent was."

Both of the twins went rigid.

"Me?" I gasped. "It's not my fault that they're absolutely idiots! I had nothing to do with it!"

"Can you prove that?" Moody asked me, weirdly calm.

"I wasn't there, therefore I've got nothing to convict me?" I said, dumbfounded.

Moody just grunted and turned away from me.

"You're actually about to punish me for something that happened while I was sitting in your classroom?"