The Next Golden Trio: A Harry Potter Next Gen Tale... [ON HOLD]

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{Rose}

My scream fills the silent halls, the echo making the noise a thousand times larger.

A hand slams down onto my mouth, making me bite the inside of my lip.

As blood fills my mouth I listen to the last faint rings of my scream.

"Jesus! What the hell did you do that for?!" The first boy says.

"She licked me!" Says the boy who used to have his hand over my mouth.

"Yes, well now she might have woken up half the castle, just because 'she licked you'!" The first boy says angrily, "Move her along!" He snaps at someone else.

"Ok, ok!" Another boy says.

I begin to move along, hovering, blind folded with a hand over my mouth.

I lick his hand, but he doesn't take it off, I try biting it, but it still doesn't come off.

I hover along for 5 minutes, wriggling around, biting and licking the boy's hand in my attempt to scream and alert the teachers.

I hear a creek of a door, and I'm turned left. I hear the creek again as the door shuts behind us

I am lowered onto a cool, slightly wet floor.

"Don't scream," someone whispers into my ear, sending chills up my spine.

The hand is taken off my mouth, and I spit out blood, "Where am I? Who are you?!" I ask angrily.

"Yeah, like we're gonna tell you!" Laughs the third boy gruffly.

"Nothing bad is going to happen," says the boy I vaguely recognise.

"Oh yeah, because we just kidnapped her to ask her about the weather!" Says the first boy sarcastically.

"Who the hell are you?!" I ask again, pushing my self up carefully with my hands, but someone pushes me back down, and my head hits the hard floor with a sickening bang.

"Careful!" Says the boy I vaguely recognise.

The first boy laughs, and sticks his hand into my pocket, rummaging around.

"What the hell?!" I yell, trying blindly to push him away, "GET YOUR HANDS OUT OF MY POCKET!"

"Got it!" He yells gleefully, pulling his hand out of my pocket.

"What have you got?!" I say desperately, but the boys have walked away a bit, I can hear them muttering to each other, a few feet away.

I stick my hand into my pocket, and fish around.

My messaging galleon's missing.

•••

{Albus}

I push the portrait hole open; my invisibility cloak leaving the Fat Lady very confused about who opened her, and run down the corridor, wondering why on earth Rose wants me to meet her in a bathroom at midnight.

I stop at the end of the hall, "Lumos," I mutter.

I look at the map, frowning, it is pretty amazing, it has the whole of Hogwarts, and tiny moving labelled dots.

"Messer's Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs," I mutter.

Padfoot?

That's the name of my dog.

I frown again, odd.

Then I shake my head, Rose, I think, think about Rose.

I unfold bits of the map, squinting to read the names of the dots by my feeble wand light. I finally locate Rose on the map, and my stomach flips over.

She's with Nott, Avery, Warrington, and Malfoy.

"Shit!" I yell, running down to the bathroom on the second floor.

I reach the bathroom, and carefully push the door open, and step inside.

My wand tip goes out, and I am lost in an impenetrable darkness.

I sniff the air.

Metallic.

Peruvian Instant Darkness powder?

I take a few more steps, before I realize that the floor is soaking wet.

I hear muttering from somewhere

else in the darkness, it sounds annoyed, and angry, but I can't make out the words.

I grope around in the darkness, along the wall, straining my ears to hear the angry whispers.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Whispers Nott

"I'm not doing this!" Mutters Scorpius.

"Direct us! You're the one with the Hand of Glory, we can't see a thing!" Nott whispers, but louder this time.

"FINE THEN!" Scorpius yells, and the Darkness powder vanish.

I blink rapidly in the semi-darkness, which now seems so much lighter.

It takes me a few seconds to take in the whole scene; the floor is covered in water, and Rose is lying in the middle, her legs locked together by the curse; Nott and Scorpius glaring at eachother; Avery and Warrington stupidly turning all the taps on.

"Locomotor Mortis!" I yell, pointing my wand at Nott. I miss him by an inch, hitting a pipe and causing water to spurt out everywhere.

The 4 Slytherins all turn around, wondering who shot the curse.

I pull my invisibility cloak off, and Nott's mouth drops.

"Riktasempra!" I yell again, it misses Nott; bounces off a mirror and hits Avery, who falls over, howling with laughter.

Nott pulls out his wand, "LOCOMOTOR MORTIS!" We shout at the same time. Our spells hit each other in the air and go off in opposite direction, mine hits Rose; it seems to undo the curse, and she runs over to me, screaming something about not having a wand; Nott hits a sink, which shatters, sending sharp china skidding across the wet floor.

"Locomotor Mortis!" Nott yells again. Rose and I duck, the curse rebounds off another mirror, hitting Warrington squarely in the chest.

"ARRGG! LOCO-" Nott begins, but Scorpius interrupts him, "Locomotor Mortis!" He says calmly, pointing his wand at Nott. Nott's legs snap together, and he slips over with a splash.

A strange silence fills the bathroom for a few seconds, except for the sound of Avery's hysterical laughing.

Scorpius, Rose and I all glance at each other awkwardly, before looking quickly away.

Then Scorpius savagely steps on Nott's face, there is a loud crack, and some blood runs down the side of Nott's face.

"OWW!! OHHH!" Nott yells in pain, clutching his broken nose.

"That's for Rose!" Scorpius says angrily.

He walks up to us, looking down at his shoes, "Here's your wand," he mutters, passing Rose her wand, "you dropped it."

"Thanks," she says quietly, taking her wand.

There is along pause before Scorpius breaks it, "I'm sorry!" He says, "I really am! Nott forced me into it, well not at the beginning, I wanted to do it because I was angry! But when I found out what he wanted to do, I tried to stop! I'm so sorry!"

Rose sighs, and I glance at her, 'your call,' I tell her silently.

"You did break his nose though," Rose says, the corners of her mouth twitching.

Scorpius looks up at her, hopeful.

•••

There are some things you can't do without becoming friends, and defeating 3 idiotic, troll like Slytherins is one of them.