1995
HOGWARTS
"Harry! 'Mione! Ron!" Athena yelled out their names as the girl ran in the Gryffindor common room.
"What happened this time?" Asked Hermione.
"Who're you running from this time?" Ron asked after Hermione.
"Are you going to be receiving another detention?" Harry asked after the girl, the three now looking at the girl.
"Wow, not even a "hello Athena" or a "how's your day Fi?" question." Athena scoffed, walking over to the spot next to Hermione as she sat down. "I can't believe you people."
"Well, can you blame us?" Ron questioned, a corner of his mouth quirking up. "You're always in trouble."
"Yeah, normally when you come to us yelling our name-"
"-You're in trouble or running away from someone." Hermione finished Harry's statement.
"Yeah, but it wouldn't hurt to say "hi"." Athena rolled her eyes, grumbling.
The three laughed, Hermione shaking her head as she said "hi Athena" to the girl who possessed a grumpy three-year-old mentality.
Athena frown turned into an open mouthed smile. "Hi M! I've got some news for you guys! I'm not supposed to sound cheery, dammit-"
"I'm guessing it's bad news then?" Ron asked.
Athena nodded. "Filch just put up a new rule of the Barbie Bitch."
"I don't understand why you call her Barbie? She looks nothing like her." Hermione asked the girl
"Barbie reminds me of the colour pink, and the toad only wears pink so-"
"Alright that makes sense." Harry cut her off. "Now what's your news?'
"Oh yeah," Athena then started to lower her voice. "I think someone might have snitched about the DA."
"What?" Harry's eyes widened.
"How do you know?"
"I said I think, not too sure. But the new rule states that all organisations, groups, all that sort of thing, are banned."
Hermione quickly reaches into her bag, bringing a piece of parchment out and inspecting it. "No... it should come up on the paper if someone had snitched."
"What? How does that work?" Ron asked the girl.
"I placed a jinx on the paper we all signed our names on. If anybody's run off and told Umbridge, then we'll know exactly who they are, and they'd regret it."
"You don't mean..." Athena's mouth opened.
Hermione nodded, a smug smile appearing on her face as she let out a small "mhm".
Athena gasped, her mouth turning into a wide smile as she put herself on Hermione, giving her a terrible hug. "You bloody genius! How come I didn't think of that! Why didn't you tell me you placed it!"
"What's going on?" Harry asked confusedly.
"What do you mean by regret it?" Ron shot a question after.
Athena pushed herself off Hermione, the brown haired girl explaining. "Well, put it this way... it'll make Eloise Midgen's acne look like a couple of cute freckles."
"Since we're talking about a snitch here, it'll most like give the snitch a bunch of boils on their face, forming the words SNEAK or SNITCH." The Black explained further.
"That's bloody brilliant..."
"Isn't it? Anyways, when's the first meeting?" Athena asked. "I wasn't listening when Harry told us earlier."
Harry stared at the girl blankly. "When do you ever listen?"
"When someone mentions food or-"
"Watch her say trouble."
"-Something to do with getting in trouble." Athena finished her sentence, not hearing what Ron had whispered to Harry. "You know, when we go to muggle London, I want to go have a shopping cart race with someone."
"What!"
"You'll get us kicked out of the store!"
"Your point?" Athena shot back, earning faces that clearly screamed "no". "Oh come one! Please! Just once! Wait, actually you guys are useless. My dad would want to do it with me." She stood up, grumbling as she walked up the girls dormitory stairs. "You guys don't know what fun is anyways..."
"It starts after dinner!"
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"So this is how it normally looks when you train here Fi?" George asked, glancing upon the large room with dummies to train on.
"No. Normally there's more punching bags and less..." She walked towards the dummies, poking it with her wand. "Dummies..."
"Anyways, everyone... I want you all to erm- form two lines in front of this-" Harry pointed at the tall dummy with a wand. "-and bring out your wands. We're going to be practicing a simple spell first. Expelliarmus."
"The handy-dandy disarming spell. The one that could defeat Vold-" George placed his hand over her mouth, leaving muffled sounds coming from the Black's mouth.
"You know not to say his name Nana."
Athena pulled his hand away. "And you know that I don't give a flying fuck if I say his name. I can just become a bloody ghost and laugh while the death eaters and Moldy throw spells at me."
Lucky for her, nobody but George was listening, or else the air in the room would have thickened, creating an awkward tension. "Yeah whatever, don't say it in public at least."
"Yeah okay." Athena turned her attention to the first person on the line, who was Neville, and watched as he tried to cast the Expelliarmus spell, backfiring as his wand flew back, Athena catching it. "I'm hopeless." Neville muttered.
"You're just flourishing too much." Harry explained. "Try it like this. Expelliarmus!" Harry casted the spell, the stick the dummy was holding had flown to the side.
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"Just go ahead, you guys can go in while I distract Filch." Athena whispered, the two second years with her showing a nervous expression. They were heading to the Room of Requirement, but a while back, Athena had noticed the school's care taker had been following them.
"What about you?" Asked the twelve year-old girl.
"Don't worry. I can just tele- I mean I can out run Filch. It's fine." Athena reassured them with a smile. "Now, I want you two to keep walking past the wall of the Room of Requirement until you hear loud explosions and me laughing. Knowing Filch, he'll probably run as fast as he can to get me. That means you two can have the chance to enter the room. Capiche?"
"Capiche." The two nodded, Athena walking away as the two second years had followed the Black's instructions. Not long later, the two could hear the sound of a bomb exploding, running footsteps, and Athena's voice.
"Oh this would've been so much funner with a shopping cart!"