•°. *࿐ in which bee learns to love herself, and maybe a certain redhead.
tw/ contains violence, rape and abuse
this is the first fic i wrote so this is probably my worst writing
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BEE HAD been exchanging letters back and forth with her parents ever since her dad's injury. Sadly, according to Hogwarts guidelines the situation wasn't serious enough for Beatrice to get to go home for a few days, so she had to make do with what she had. Thankfully, Brian Gallagher was making a speedy recovery.
Hogwarts was no longer the home away from home it was once. Bee had started counting the days until the end of the year. Only a few months left now.
Firenze had taken of Trelawney's classes, and although he was a good teacher, Bee still preferred the crazy old women that she had grown to love.
Fred and George had turned eighteen on the first of April, they threw a massive party, inviting almost everyone they knew, and got absolutely wasted. Bee couldn't remember much of the night, but hey, that's when you knew it was a good party.
The DA had started to work on Patronuses, Bee hadn't been able to cast one yet but she was determined to do so in tonight's meeting.
"They're so pretty!" Cho Chang grinned as she watched her swan shaped Patronus danced around the room.
"They're not supposed to be pretty" Harry Potter sighed. "They're supposed to protect you, what we really need is a boggart or something, that's how I learned. I had to conjure a Patronus while the boggart was pretending to be a dementor."
"But that would be really scary" said Lavender Brown.
"That's sort of the point" Beatrice snapped at the younger girl and Harry shot her a meek smile. "This isn't meant to be easy." Bee was ever so slightly annoyed, she'd been trying for ages and still couldn't conjure a Patronus.
"I did it, I did it" Fred yelled. "Hah Lee you owe me two galleons, I got my Paronus before George."
"Dammit" Lee sighed handing over the money.
"What is it?" Bee squinted.
"It's a magpie" Fred grinned. "Wait what does that mean?"
"A magpie Patronus means you have an impressive mind and although some people may not see it you're extremely intelligent" Hermione started.
"Wicked" Fred interrupted.
"You're very determined but can also be stubborn and not want to admit you're wrong."
Beatrice snorted.
"What's so funny?" Fred raised his eyebrows.
"Nothing, it's just very accurate."
Fred nudged his girlfriend playfully. "Hey watch what you say cause when you get your Patronus I'll pick on you for it."
"It wasn't an insult" Bee insisted.
At that exact moment the door swung open to reveal Dobby, the house elf.
"Hi Dobby, what's wrong?" Harry questioned.
Dobby couldn't stop shaking, his eyes wide. Everyone in the room fell silent, listening intently to him.
"Harry Potter sir.. Harry Potter sir.. Dobby has come to warn you.. I was told not to-" Dobby hit himself against the wall.
"What happened Dobby?"
"Harry Potter, she- she-"
"Who's she Dobby?" Harry tried not to raise his voice. "Umbridge?"
Dobby nodded and attempted to bang his head against Harry's knees but Harry held him at arms length.
"She hasn't found out about us has she? About the DA?"
Dobby looked up at Harry unable to say anything.
"Is she coming?"
"Yes, Harry Potter, yes!" the house elf yelped out.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" Harry yelled. "Run!!"
Bee sprinted beside the crowd of other pupils towards the exit gripping to Fred's hands.
"Shit where do we go?" Fred asked.
"My dorm, we can pretend we were there the whole time."
Thankfully Fred and Beatrice did make it back the dorm on time but Harry wasn't so lucky. The next morning Bee was told about what happened.
It turns out Marietta Edgecomb had been blackmailed by Umbridge and therefore snitched on the group. Dumbledore had been fired and Umbridge had been promoted to headmistress. Everyone in the castle was whispering about exactly what had happened in Dumbledore's office the previous night. Bee almost couldn't believe he'd overcome to Aurors, the High Inquisitor, Minister of Magic and his junior assistant. There was different variations of the tale being spread but the main facts were the same.
Umbridge as Headmistress was literal hell. She'd appointed some of her favourites to be part of the High Inquisitorial Squad and the pricks were allowed to take points off anybody they wanted, for whatever they wanted.
"Bee, we need to talk" Fred frowned.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm leaving Hogwarts in a week, George and I, we have a plan. We always knew we were gonna leave early but ever since Umbitch got made headmistress we've been talking about exactly when we'd go and we have an apartment ready so we thought we'd just go for it."
Beatrice's heart sank, even though she had known this day would come for ages she wasn't quite prepared. "Oh, I'm really excited for you, but god Freddie I'm gonna miss you."
"Well, I was thinking, you could always come with me, leave school early and live with me and George."
"As much as I would love to get out of this hellhole I can't. I can't just leave school without any qualifications, I wouldn't get a job," Bee sighed.
"You could work in the shop, we aren't looking for any qualifications."
"M'sorry Fred, I just don't want to be one of those women that chases after her boyfriend, I need my own job."
"It's okay love, I understand. The offer to move in still stands for after you finish school though."
"I'd love that." Bee grinned.
Later that day when Beatrice was hanging out with Mia, Holly and Raven she brought up Fred's offer. "The twins are leaving school next week and they asked me to come with them."
"Really? That's awesome, are you gonna go?" Raven asked.
"I dunno, I told Fred I was going to stay here but I'm not so sure. The only reason I'm staying is cause I need NEWTs to get a job." Bee frowned.
"Well that's stupid" Mia blurted out. "There's plenty of well paid jobs you can get with only OWLs."
"Yeah with your OWLs you could be a Dragonologist, Author, Seer, Actress, Divination teacher, Journalist or even a Philosopher." Holly explained to her friend.
"Really?" Bee paused. "Maybe I will leave school."
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authors note - so it's my christmas holidays rn which means i have a lot of time to write, i've officially finished writing the order of the phoenix so in a few chapters we'll be moving onto half blood prince! <33
