Harry Potter: Raised By Roses

Chapter Forty-One: Padfoot

Sitting at the Winter Wolf table in the Grand Hall, the mystic souls were seriously sick of the redheads at this point. They were ready to start banging their heads against the nearest wall just to knock themselves out and finally get some peace and quiet.

They had to hand it to the twins, Percy, and Charlie. Those four obviously had very thick skin in order to have lived with those annoyances their whole lives. If anything, knowing that they were related showed why none of them cared about what others thought out them. They always had to ignore how their own mother criticized almost everything they did, so it was probably easy to ignore what non-family members think of them if they can ignore what their own mother thought of them.

It was like the woman could only ever see what they did as wrong no matter what they were doing. If she wasn't yelling at them, she was ordering them around. When she learned that Charlie still had not found 'a good and pretty girl to settle down with' that only added to the long list of things she wanted to change. Melody had even caught her trying to take the book that she had given Percy for Yule, saying that he needs to focus more on getting a job at the ministry instead of 'ridiculous artifacts that are probably fake, to begin with.' It took everything Melody had not to take the book herself and bash the redhead's head in with it. She acted like she was the boss no matter where she was and was driving everyone in Crystal Rose mad. And whenever any of them, her own children or Crystal Rose students, refused to do as she said, she would throw a tantrum that a five-year-old would be jealous of.

Her youngest two were not any better.

Ron was obviously a very jealous and envious person. He wanted a life of wealth, luxury, and power but was too lazy to actually try and earn it. So he simply would demand and shout at everyone while trying to bully them into respecting him. Not to mention how jealous he would look whenever he saw students with nicer clothes, jewelry, or even just new school supplies. When he saw Angela with her gold keys on her belt, he looked like he was about to literally turn green with envy. He was also such a bully that they had caught him several times trying to push around the younger students for no reason. They've seen the students aiming their powers at his back after he finally leaves them alone, tempted to vanquish the brat right then and there. If he kept this up, someone was not going to be able to keep their temper in check at some point.

Ginny was probably the biggest brat they were unfortunate enough to meet. It seemed that she actually believed that she could have anything she wanted just because she wanted it. She was driving the mystic souls insane with the number of times someone had to take something out of her hands that she tried to take. That included more flowers from the greenhouse, a flute made out of silver from the music room, and several pieces of jewelry that some of the younger students had that she tried to demand they give her. She even dared to try that with Angel for the diamond treble clef necklace she always wears. The normally sweet girl had to literally be dragged away by Lily and Hailey before she could call one of her instruments to use on the brat. But the worst part was actually how she also seemed to follow Harry around like a lost puppy. Everywhere he went, she tried to follow. Even when he was in the bathroom. All three Gardnas had to stop themselves from vanquishing her when she did that.

"How are Fred, George, Percy, and Charlie still sane after living with them for most of their lives," Krinos tried hard not to slam his head into the table.

"I feel like I'm going insane from just one day of them being here," T'challa groaned.

"We have to give them mad props for actually having self-confidence when their mother seems to think everything they do is wrong," Harry crossed his arms.

"I could never imagine having a mother like that," Hestia says. "Sure, mine died when I was young, but she taught me that being kind was my greatest strength. She encouraged me to be who I am."