𝖶𝖨𝖢𝖪𝖤𝖣 𝖧𝖠𝖳𝖤 | 𝖥𝖱𝖤𝖣 𝖶𝖤𝖠𝖲𝖫𝖤𝖸

56

No Gryffindor before Fred had ever entered my common room and I doubt any of them was going to do it ever again.

"I know what happened to them." I snickered, devilishly, staring at my nails.

"Really? Go on, tell us!"

"Someone cut every single one of their trousers and now they can't get out of the common room because they're in their underwear."

"Who did it?! It had to be another Slytherin, so you have to know..."

A mischievous smile appeared on my face and I pretended to look at the ceiling and everyone seemed to understand.

"Wait, was it you?! Bollocks, Lilith!" Lee chuckled, giving a little jump. "Didn't know you had a mind for pranks."

George and Liv snorted laughing and Fred looked at me surprised while Angelina shook her head giggling.

"Well, if none of you wasn't doing anything against them, someone had to, am I wrong?"

"You know what, Lilith? I think you're my favourite Slytherin."

I crossed my arms in front of my chest and smiled. "Of fucking course I am, Georgie."

Once we were all ready to start the class, Harry called us and made us make a little circle around him to explain what the Patronus was and how to make the enchantment, then asked us to practice it as much as we could.

Since forming a corporeal Patronus required a lot of energy and Harry wanted us to practice them against each other later, I was content with making the incorporeal blue light appear, controlling it all over the room. Potter agreed and focused more on the people who had never done a Patronus to make them form a corporeal one. I saw Luna's hare - her prediction wasn't that wrong after all -, Ginny with her horse, Cho's swan and Hermione's otter.

Ron's Jack Russell Terrier almost trespassed me and the poor boy gave me a scared look.

"Blimey, I'm terribly sorry, Lilith. Did it hurt you?"

"Not a bit, mate, don't worry." I smiled at him and his expression relaxed, giving me a nod.

Then, I saw Neville still struggling with his incorporeal Patronus.

"I'm so useless..." he sighed, giving up.

"You aren't, Nev. Have you forgotten this enchantment is one of the most difficult ones to perform? Give yourself a bit of room, you'll end up getting it, I know it." I caressed his back and he let appear a little smile.

"How long did it take you to get it?"

"It took me two years before I got it thanks to Professor Lupin, and nowadays I still struggle with it sometimes. My uncle was raging because I wasn't even able to even make it get out of my wand..."

He felt a little bit better and thanked me, leaving a little kiss on my cheek and blushing a little bit. I gave him a hug and caressed his back again to show him my support. Neville was one of the purest souls I've ever met and sometimes I wished Draco was more like him and less of a Malfoy. Everything would have been easier.

"Fine, everyone, make a circle, we are going to practice them against each other. Luna, would you mind practice it against Smith?" Harry asked, calling our attention.

I got in the front row, watching how Luna's hare was way superior to Smith's incorporeal one, which annoyed him way more than expected, probably because he considered Luna inferior to him.

Then, George's magpie gave a funny loop with Finnigan's fox and Lee Jordan's lion played with Liv's hound.

"Ok, the last one..." Harry interrupted after his stag came back to him. "Lilith and...Fred."

Of fucking course, who else could it be? Bloody hell...

The two of us walked at the same time to each of the corners, while the rest of the group kept chatting between them about their own Patronus. Liv, Hermione, George and Lee were the ones paying us attention. I pretended to be calm and confident and Fred had an amused smile on his face as he ran his fingers through his hair.

With his brown shiny eyes fixed on mine and adapting the most correct posture for the enchantment, his voice mixed with mine as we said the words at the same time;

"Expecto Patronum,"

Two incorporeal lights got out of our wands and flew slowly almost reach the ceiling. The two Patronus fused together in a huge and bright ball of light.

Getting slowly down, the ball ended up in front of us, illuminating the room and finally breaking back into the two lights which went back to us.

But what I saw entering my wand made me freeze in my place and I felt my soul leaving my body.

A magpie entered in my wand. Not a German Sheppard.

I could feel how the blood abandoned my face and how my breathing became more erratic and laboured.

No, that could not be possible. It must be a mistake.

But the Patronus never mistakes its owner. Never.

I looked at Liv and Hermione, the two of them had their eyes and mouths opened widely as they stared at me while the rest seemed to not notice what just had happened. Starting to feel a bit dizzy and having every nerve in my body running high, my eyes went straight to Fred.

He was talking with his brother, who was patting his back, calmly and with that little smile still on his face. He seemed pretty relaxed and calm so I deduce, luckily for me, he didn't see what had happened.

Bloody hell, I was so fucked up.

I saw how Fred snickered and licked his lips when Lee punched his arm, joking. How he ran his finger through his hair again making his shirt tighter around his arm, and how he played with his wand in his hand, with the sunlight hitting his skin, making it almost golden and marking his little and almost unnoticeable freckles and moles. I felt myself melting at his view.

I couldn't deny it anymore.

I am in love with Fred Weasley.