RECKLESS FUN | Blaise Zabini | Au

10- THE MARAUDERS MAP GIVEAWAY

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ZOE BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE of the truth potion went better than the four had expected. She had stood on the Gryffindor table at breakfast in the Great Hall, gaining everyone's attention, drunk a couple drops of the potion and let the boys ask few questions from her. One of the questions obviously being if she had let Sirius Black inside the castle. They had even managed to flee from the scene before the approaching Professor McGonagall got to them.

After the scene, most students believed Zoe. The ones who hadn't been convinced the truth potion was real were made sure by the foursome this would not be the case for long: few of the loud doubters had a couple drops slipped into their pumpkin juice during lunch, making them only speak the truth for a few hours, horrifying the lot of them.

After the rumors spread about this, everyone seemed to finally believe that even though Zoe was Sirius Black's daughter, she hadn't been the one to assist him inside and there had been other way for him to get in.

The girl earned respect from many of her peers due to her trick in the Great Hall and to be honest she enjoyed it. It was way nicer receiving high-fives than stares in the corridors again.

The school talked about nothing but Sirius Black for a few days. The theories of how the man had got in started flowing around again and became even wilder and wilder. Zoe didn't mind it, she found it rather amusing since she wasn't associated with the man anymore.

The weather worsened steadily as the days went by. The Slytherin Quidditch team wimped out playing against the Gryffindor team because of the bad weather and claimed it on an excuse of Draco's arm still aching.

The Gryffindors ended up playing against Hufflepuff and the weather in the match was horrible.

Zoe hadn't even been able to see the players from the stands due to the heavy rain. As if the match hadn't been played in bad enough conditions yet, the Dementors guarding the school arrived to the Quidditch pitch, bringing different kind of cold and shivers than everyone were already experiencing.

Harry had slid off his broom, falling about fifty-feet, scaring the life out of the Gryffindor team, Ron, Hermione and Zoe. Luckily, Dumbledore had slowed down the boy's fall so that he hadn't even broken his glasses. What was unfortunate, though, was that Cedric Diggory, the Seeker of Hufflepuff, had managed to caught the Snitch, bringing a victory to the House of badger.

The fact that Ravenclaw flattened Hufflepuff in their Quidditch match at the end of November meant the Gryffindor still had a chance to win the Quidditch House Cup. This brought Fred, George and Zoe to such a good mood they decided to share it with everyone else.

The three used the Glisseo charm to turn one of the non-moving staircases into a slide.

The first victims of the slide staircase weren't too happy about it. However it begun attracting other students to come by so they could just slide the giant staircase.

The student crowd drew attention, so soon Professor McGonagall and obviously Filch (since the man seemed to hate nothing more than children's laughter in Hogwarts) arrived to the scene.

To Filch's misfortune he came down the slide casted stairs and everyone bursted out laughing as he fell down. When the caretaker got up, he rushed furiously towards Fred, George and Zoe with his hands out, as though ready to strangle them then and there. Professor McGonagall had to jump protectively between her students and the man.

"Everyone except Weasleys and Black leave now!" Professor McGonagall told loudly, and the students scattered away. "Thank you, Filch, I can take it from here."