Reality Bites Harry Potter

The not so golden trio

Hogwarts is abuzz with pre-halloween excitement. It's still 2 and a half weeks away yet everyone was already ready. I make it to the room of requirement and smile when I see all the tables covered in paint and glitter. The initiates and members all start to make their way inside and I'm surprised to see 2 groups completely empty handed. I let everyone get settled before starting to walk around. Susan, River, and Lexia have a paper covered in more glitter than paint and I smile big. "Although I love this I don't think any of the boys would wear it" I say and Brendan raises his hand. "I would!" he says and I laugh. "Good support of the group" I say, smiling at him. I come to Ron, Draco, and Lacey next and frown. "Nice invisible crest, guys. Really shows team spirit" I say and Lacey looks about to cry. "I tried" she says, holding up a pink heart shaped paper. "Good effort but why pink?" I ask and she shrugs. "They were arguing so much I had to do my own thing. I panicked" she mumbles. I sigh. "You both are eliminated. Sorry, Lacey. Fuck off, Ron" I say. He angrily storms out of the room and Harry and Hermione watch after him but don't jump up to follow. I keep moving, trying not to let Ron steal the attention. I see Pyper, Daphne, and Addie's next and smile. They'd made a badge shaped crest with stripes that had all of the house colors. They'd drawn the Hogwarts insignia in the middle and I smile. "This is exactly what I was hoping for when I put you in groups. This is definitely in the top 3" I say as I keep looking around. I get to Hermione, Corey, and Blaise next. "Blaise, explain" I say as I look at the messy blob of colors on the paper in front of me. "I tried telling her it looked like crap, I tried saying that we should organize it a bit more, she yelled in my face so I let her do it her way" he says. I sigh. "Hermione, this is absolute shit. What exactly were you trying to say with this?" I ask and she frowns. "I was trying to show how all 4 houses could mix well together to create a controlled chaos of amazingness but all the paints mixed together and it turned brown." I shake my head, rolling my eyes. "Go back to elementary art school, Hermione. You and Corey are both eliminated" I say, turning to the next group. "Wait! You can't kick Hermione and Ron both out and expect me to stay. With all due respect, they're my best friends" Harry says. I smile sadly at him. "If you'd like to leave you can. No hard feelings" I say. He nods, getting up and following his friends out. I walk over to Brendan, Destiny, and Hannah's work and smile. "You've made good use of glitter to highlight the writing, but I don't necessarily think we need a motto yet. Other than that, fantastic" I say and they all smile. I see a few others and they're ok but its not until I see Luna, Ginny, and Pansy's that I am honestly surprised. "Girls, this looks absolutely amazing! It's up for a vote obviously but this is definitely my favorite of them all. Great job" I say and they all hug and smile excitedly. Everyone walks around and votes on the crest and to no one's surprise the girls won. We spend the rest of the meeting snacking and just intermingling with each other. I'm happy to see that everyone is mixing now and not just sitting with their designated houses. The meeting ends and I head back to the Hufflepuff dorm room, feeling exhausted. "This was fun but I didn't feel very involved. Next task, I want to be more hands on" I say and Hannah smiles at me. "Why don't we do a relay type event? Something where everyone is involved and you get to be in charge of setting it up" she says. I smile, sitting up and grabbing a notebook and pens. I start writing down ideas and soon have it all planned out. "Ok, I need ink and parchment paper, let's get these invitations over with. Plus we should really make the Halloween bash invites up too" I say. Hannah, Susan, and I get all the invitations done in 4 hours. "Now, to find a cool way to seal them" I mumble, starting to think. "I have a badger stamp in my luggage if you had the wax we could make the seal" Susan says. I jump up, running down to the commons. "Does anyone have candles I can use?" I ask and people shake their heads. I grumble to myself, heading out of the commons and rushing to the room of requirement. "If you can't help me no one can" I mumble, pacing in front of it before going in and finding the candles I need, already melted in nice little pots. I rush back to my dorms, making the seals and smiling when they turn out just as pretty as expected. "I can't believe we actually have a crest now. Like we are an official club" Hannah says and I smile. "We honestly are. I'm proud of us" I say, splitting the invites between the 3 of us. We go to bed, all feeling tired yet excited. We head down to breakfast together the next day, handing out the invites and then eating. "Really, girls? You couldn't find a way to include me?" Pyper asks and I smile. "Sorry, Pyper. We had inspiration hit in the middle of the night and just wanted it done. You can help plenty though with Halloween. You and Pansy get to hand out all the costumes yourselves" I say. She pouts. "That doesn't sound nearly as fun" she mumbles. I shrug. "You know what they say. A gingerpuff's work is never done."