Harry Potter, Ghost Prince

Chapter 15: Detention

A.N. Alright guys, you waited long enough. Now go on and enjoy, hope it fits your expectations.

"Harry! Where are you?" Ellie called, before being shushed by Madam Pince.

Last time she remembered, Harry planned to study with Ron in the library. Since her own friends were busy with studying as well, Ellie was on her own right now. So, she decided to help her lil bro with his homework. But first Ellie had to find him. Unlike the others, she wasn't really bothered by the approaching exams. Why not, she was preparing as usual, it wasn't like all the knowledge was just going to fly out of her head and jump out the window.

Between having fun with her friends and tortu...pranking the ones who weren't her friends, Ellie tried to find the reason of the ghosts' strange behavior. Fruitlessly, sadly. They just stuttered something and tried to get as far as they could. She wasn't pestering...much, but her detective carrier obviously was having a rocky start.

Ellie kept looking around in search for her brother and soon found him sleeping on his book. Grinning, young Phantom tip toed to Harry

"Wake up Harry, you missed your Quidditch match!" She called.

That got an immediate reaction from the boy. Harry's eyes snapped open as he jumped on his seat. "What?! Why..."

Ellie burst laughing, rolling around on the floor and holding her stomach. Harry's face gained a deadpan expression.

"Haha, very funny," he said, rubbing his eyes and fixing the glasses on his face. "What time is it?"

The ghost girl shrugged. "Two pm. You slept through the entire morning."

Harry groaned. "Just great, quarter of my weekend has gone under Behemoth's butt."

Ellie sat on a seat nearby and tilted her head. Her long snowy ponytail fell on her shoulders. "Where is Ron? You usually stick together."

Harry pointed at a huge pile of books near him. For some reason, several books were rising and falling as a snoring noise was heard from there. Ellie took some and Ron's ginger head showed up from under the pile. Ellie giggled slightly, before looking at what her brother had written.

"Watcha doing?" She asked.

"Snape ordered us to write a scroll about uses of dittany," Harry rubbed his forehead. "Sometimes I wish for the Internet."

"I don't think there is an info about it," Ellie noted. "And do you remember one of Daddy's rules?"

"Don't say 'I wish' out loud, yeah, yeah," the boy rolled his eyes.

The girl brightened, "I know the book about it, be right back," she rambled before running off.

Soon she returned with a big green book in her hands. "Here we go, 'One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi', just what ya need. Should we wake up Ron?"

"If I'm going to suffer, then so will he," Harry shrugged, before giving his friend a shake.

Ron grumbled under his nose, but got up nevertheless. Rubbing his eyes, the redhead noticed that they had company.

"Oh, it's you," he mumbled.

Ellie rolled her eyes. He still couldn't get over the fact that she was in rivaling house. The girl crossed her hands and huffed.

"C'mon, Ron, she has found the book we need," Harry said.

"What's the point? I'll never remember this," Ron burst out, looking longingly out of the library window. It was the first really fine day they'd had in months. The sky was a clear, forget-me-not blue, and there was a feeling in the air of summer coming.