Extraordinary (Sign it Series; BOOK 2)

Chapter 24

Maddy laid in a ball on the chair in the Gryffindor Common Room, her leather jacket draped over her head, a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory her grandfather had recently sent her in the mail opened in front of her.

Simon walked up to her, and picked up the leather jacket, causing Maddy jumped, and her book to fall to the floor

"I've been looking for you for ten minutes, and you're just curled in a ball reading?"

Maddy twisted, and threw her legs over the armrest of the chair. I'm not only into sports. I just like it. A lot.

"Alright, then. Anyway, Hermione wants to talk to us. Didn't say why though."

I'm coming. Instead of standing up, Maddy did some dramatic roll off the chair into a standing position. Where is she?

"Library."

I'm not surprised. Maddy picked up her book, and flipped back to her page of the book to put her bookmark in, and put it on her bag she had next to her. Are we heading or not?

"Yeah, let's go."

Can I have that back?

Simon handed her the jacket back, and she slipped it on. I'm going to put my bag in my room, I'll be back in a minute.

When she returned the two were on their way.

Maddy did a cartwheel down the hall, and Simon sighed.

"I've still yet to figure out how you do cartwheels in that jacket and skinny jeans."

It's a talent. But, I'm not even wearing skinny jeans right now. Maddy was wearing leggings with an oversized Weird Sisters shirt that Tonks had given her during the summer, which was tied in a knot at her hip, with her leather jacket. Her look was finished off with a pair of combat boots Allie had let her borrow. (Well, she noticed how Maddy kept eying them, and ended up just handing them to her, after noting they wore the same size.)

Simon looked at his own clothes, a pair of baggy jeans and a tee, and looked back at Maddy. "Are you somehow going to make your leather jacket a part of every outfit you wear?"

I'd be the type to show up to a fancy dinner with the jacket over my dress. Maddy told him, before doing an aerial.

"We're here, so you're going to have to stop."

Maddy shrugged, and opened the door, gesturing for Simon to enter, before following him inside.

They found Hermione with two textbooks open on both sides, writing small on a piece of parchment as if to squish as much on the page as she could.

"You wanted to talk to us, Hermione?"

Hermione looked up, and gestured to the two seats to her right, and fiddled her quill as they sat down.

"I heard about your problems with Umbridge."

Maddy's nose crinkled at the name, as if it were toxic.

"More Maddy's than mine. Umbridge would rather die than admit Maddy was her student."

Please have her die then. Maddy leaned forward, listening intently.

"We're going to create a Defence group with Harry as our teacher. We're planning our first meeting at Hogsmeade, but since you can't go—"

The only thing that's stopping us is rules. And when has that ever stopped me?

"You say we sneak out? I'm pretty sure Hermione was just telling us so when they move it to the school we can join."

Where's the fun in that? I say we sneak out. Does Harry still have that Invisibility Cloak? I can put it on and hop on Ron's back and ride into Hogsmeade.