Bread (Harry Potter au)

Chapter 4

I woke up to the sound of screaming. As did the other girls in the dormitory. We all looked at each other with worry and confusion then ran to the common room. We stopped to find three girls I'd never seen before.
"Who has done this to us?" The blonde one asked. Then it hit me. This was Malfoy and his friends. And they were UGLY. Everyone stood their laughing at the situation. Then Jo spoke.
"How would we know, Malfoy? After all we are just 'stupid girls.'"
It was at that moment I realized Jo was my hero. Malfoy walked up to Jo so they were face to face.
"Change us back now," he said. Or is it she said? Crabbe and Goyle were still standing back a few feet touching their own breasts and playing with their hair.
"Why should I? And besides, aren't you the greatest wizard in Slytherin? You brag about it all the time. If you're so great, why don't you change yourself back?" Jo asked with her neatly done eyebrows raised. Malfoy breathed very heavily, his nostrils flared.
"My father will hear about this!" And with that he turned around and disappeared back into the boys' dormitories with Crabbe and Goyle.
       "Hey I think the girls' rooms are that way!" Amy Frome yelled.
       "Leave her alone it's that time of the month for her," Zoe Accrington said. I marveled at the chaos Jo had created.
       "This is why magic exists," I accidentally said out loud.
       "I agree," Jo said.

I was sitting in the Great Hall at the Slytherin table. Luckily, the Ravenclaw table is right next to ours. I always sit at the very end of the table closest to the High Table where the professors sit. I sat on the side of the table closest to the Ravenclaw table. Avery sat right behind me at her table. Every morning we'd sit at the same place and sit kind of sideways with our legs on either side of the bench we were sitting on so we could eat and talk to each other. That day, everyone was talking about the same thing.
          "Did you hear what happened to Malfoy and his snobby friends?" I asked excitedly.
         "Oh my god, yes, it was gold!" Avery responded with a mouth full of pumpkin spice pancakes.
         "They haven't left the dungeons yet! I don't think they're going to class today."
         "Good, no one wants to see them anyway."

My first class was potions. I'm not very good at potions. My lab partner was a Hufflepuff named Phil. He was super sweet but he didn't really know what he was doing either. My favorite part of the class was when Snape asked where Malfoy was and everyone laughed.
       "What? What's so funny?" He asked. "Where's Draco?"  Then Phil spoke up.
       "Sir, I'm afraid She won't be very social today." The entire class LOST it. A Gryffindor named Dan even fell on the floor he was laughing so hard. Snape on the other hand wasn't so entertained.
        "QUIET!" He boomed. The classroom went silent. "5 points from Hufflepuff!" This ended with all of the Hufflepuffs in the room muttering things like,"What?" "That's not fair," and "but it was funny."

The rest of my day went fairly well. After potions is Divination. Which was really uncomfortable because Fred is in that class. Then Transfiguration which was fun because we got to turn our partners into gnomes. Then IT happened. That passing period after Transfiguration and before Herbology.
        I was walking through the hallway so I could go outside to the green houses. And for no reason at all, the world decided to fuck me in the ass. I tripped and out fell the books. My heels touched my back, my arms were spread out in front of me, and I swear to god I slid at least 5 feet forward. I could feel a million eyes on me. I knew if Avery had seen it she'd be laughing her god damn ass off. Luckily no one was doing that. They just seemed worried about me. Someone stopped to help me pick up my books. I didn't really look at them. I was too embarrassed to. I just gathered my things with them. They placed some things in my arms.
         "Thanks," I said.
        "Don't mention it," said a familiar voice.  Looked up to see Fred Weasley.
       "See ya," he said. Then he joined up with his brother again and they walked off. I stood there for a moment then remembered I had a class to get to.
       I kind of like Herbology. There are over 124 million species of magical plants out there and they are all different. Plus, Mrs. Sprout likes me so I naturally always get a good grade in that class.
     Next is lunch where Avery and I talked in our usual spot.
        "You fell? Holy shit why wasn't I there?" Avery asked laughing hysterically.
       "It was just like the movies," I said,"like I slid really far and books went everywhere." I was interrupted when a 7th year Gryffindor had walked all the way from the other side of the Great Hall where the Gryffidor table was, to us. It was Jessica Gilbert.
       "Yo, I saw you eat shit in the hallway. You ight?" She asked. Avery just kept laughing. I fucking hate her. I smiled and answered,"Ya I'm fine."
      "Okay, I was going to help but I saw Fred was already helping you so I was like naw." Then she walked back to her table. Avery stopped laughing and looked at me.
      "Fred?"
      "Aver-"
      "He handed you your books like in the movies didn't he?"
     "No!....Okay yeah."
     "EEEK!" She screamed. "I ship Bread so hard!" She said.
    "Lower your voice!"

The rest of my day went like this:
I had Care of Magical Creatures. Avery had this class at the same time as me so it was pretty fun. It always is. Hagrid is just a big 'ole sweetheart. I think Avery is his favorite student in our class. She is always so good with the animals and she learns about them really quickly. She even got to ride a hippogriff. Hagrid said he'd never seen a hippogriff warm up to someone that fast. Not even to Harry Potter it turns out. The creatures we were studying today were actually quite gross. They're called Vatikian worms. They looked more like black slugs.
       "Now who can tell me 'bout these bad boys?" Hagrid asked. They were far away from us closed in a bucket with a tightly sealed lid. With breathing holes of course. And of course Avery's hand shot up.
        "Yes, Ms. Fisher."
        "They come from the Erzeferig family and shoot blue slime when frightened or angered. When this slime makes contact with human skin, or any creature's skin for that matter, it blinds you for nearly a week. They are most commonly found in Hungary, but are also found in parts of England, Bulgaria, and Norway."
      "Very good, very good. 5 points to Ravenclaw! Now, we oughta be learning to tame these now. So whatcha wanna be doin is takin a sample of that there green powder and sprinklin it near them. They'll nibble on it a bit. The powder actually disables there slime gland for a few hours. Neat idint it?"
       We all took a small baggie of the magical powder and pinched some in our fingers waiting for Hagrid to open the bucket. When he did, the worms came out slowly. We all began to sprinkle the powder which reeked of rotten egg. But for whatever reason, the nasty things liked it. They ate it then suddenly didn't seem as intimidating. They seemed happier.
      "Hagrid, can I pick one up?" Avery asked. This earned an "ewwww" from the whole class.
     "Ya you can pick em up, they're actually real sweet creatures when their bellies are full and they can't blind ya," he answered. Avery then put her hands out gently toward the ground to let one wiggle into them. It just wiggled a little bit in her hand, but it seemed pretty calm.
      "Awe you're just a little sweetheart aren't you?" She asked it as if it were cute. The whole class gave her weird looks. Avery noticed.
       "Whatever, they just don't understand you. I know the feeling." This hurt my heart a bit. I hadn't really though my about it before but I don't think she really had any friends in Ravenclaw. I hope they are nice to her.

Next was charms. This class was really difficult but when you get good at a new spell, it's REALLY fun to play with. It means more shenanigans like turning Draco into a girl.
      The last class of the day was Defense Against the Dark Arts, the cursed job at the school it seemed. This year the teacher was Mr. Moody. He was really creepy. He honestly scared me. I also caught him drinking out of a flask. I think he's a drinker. Fred was in this class too. Along with his twin. They were in the table next to mine across the aisle. I kept thinking about that morning on my way to Herbology. He was super cute handing me my books. They might be kind of annoying or rude to teachers they don't like, but they were really sweet. I knew they were good people. All the Weasleys seem to be. Well, maybe not Percy. He's a self-centered prick. Then I realized I was staring and Fred was frowning at me wondering why I was still looking at him. I quickly turned to face front again. Why was I doing this? I got through the rest of class without embarrassing myself again. When we were dismissed I took a moment to gather my things. Then to my surprise, Fred walked over to me. I looked up at him and he didn't say a word but place a small item on my table without breaking eye contact with me. Then he left. I picked up the object which was a box. It was very small. I opened it, and a little string was all that was in there. It was in a loop. I pulled the loop and box grew larger with magic and I laughed knowing it must be one of the joke items they made. Then when the box stopped growing, the loop evaporated and a dust fell over everything. When the dust was cleared, a beautiful bracelet was left there. It was a charm bracelet. The charms included a wand, a serpent, a lion, and a rose.