It's a Muggle Thing

Chapter Fifteen

Stanley's P.O.V.

    It had been a couple weeks since we found out we were going to be staying at Hogwarts. I had been keeping myself busy with Quidditch articles. But some big had just happened.

I ran down the hall, I needed to find somebody. I HAD IMPORTANT INFORMATION! Where is everyone? Seriously, it wasn’t nighttime or anything, it was after dinner I had just saw Starkiller, and the twins at dinner before McGonagall told me to meet her in her office.

Rounding the corner I basically collided with Starkiller.

“HEY! GURL HEY!” she yelled, helping me off the floor. “What’s the rush?”

“I have news,” I said. “You know how Mcgonagall called me to the office at dinner?”

“Yeah,” she said, looking uncertain.

“Well, when I got to her office, she had a newspaper on her desk. And I just figured it was the Daily Prophet from this morning-”

“SPIT IT OUT!” Starkiller yelled shaking me, as if that would help.

“MY ARTICLE ON THE GRYFFINDOR vrs. SLYTHERIN GAME IS IN THE PROPHET!” I yelled, jumping up and down.

“NO WAY!” she yelled, I told her we had to tell the twins and Lee. Agreeing we ran all the way to the Gryffindor common room. We didn’t even need to say the password, the Fat Lady just let us in.

We spotted the twins in the corner playing wizard's chess, with Lee watching. I looked at Starkiller, slowly we creeped up behind them.

“GINGERS AND LEE! STANLEY HAS IMPORTANT NEWS!” Starkiller yelled. She scared them so badly that George flipped the table as he jumped.

“Bloody hell, what was that for?” Fred said, moving next to Starkiller.

“She told you I have news!” I said, getting even more excited. I explained it to them. Lee just about peed his pants when I told him that McGonagall said Lee’s name would be there in the paper with mine.

“THANK YOU SO MUCH!” Lee cheered, jumping up and down. The twins were grinning, and Starkiller had an amused expression on her face.

“What?”

"Nothing," Starkiller said, an amused smile still on her lips as she shared a look with Fred and George.

I had a feeling that it wasn’t nothing, but I knew they wouldn't tell me. People are strange about things like that.

For the rest of the day, the only thing that was on my mind was whatever Starkiller and the twins were hiding from me.

......

“Tell me,” I said, walking next George. My next class was Potions with Snape. Starkiller and Fred were nowhere to be found, so I was pestering George to tell me what the look he and Fred and Starkiller shared ment.

“You know I can’t tell you. If I do Starkiller will have my head.,” he said, turning the corner.

“I knew that!” I said, irritated. “But it’s killing me not to be in on whatever you three are planning!”

George wouldn’t budge, no matter how long I plead. Leaving him behind, I went into Potions. Starkiller and Fred were in a deep conversation about who knows what. I sat down, away from them. George went over to them, and said something that made them look my way. I looked away not wanting to see their faces. I wasn’t angry, just irritated that I wasn’t included.  

Fred and George took their seats at some point, and Starkiller took her seat next to me. Starkiller looked like she was going to say something, but Snape told everyone to sit down and be quiet.

“Class, turn to page 521,” the professor told the class. We obeyed; no one dared to defy Snape. Starkiller and I have a “prank in private” policy that Fred and George seemed to lack.

Most of class went as usual, Fred and George causing Snape to get gray hairs. When class ended I walked out with Starkiller, she hadn’t said anything to me since I came into class. We walked in silence all the way to the Great Hall.

“Dude,” Starkiller said as we reached the doors to the Great Hall. “Sorry I can’t tell you what we were talking about. It’s kinda a surprise.”

“That’s alright,” I said grinning. “I like surprises.”