Irresistible - f.weasley

10: ☆ boys will be boys ☆

The next morning I woke up and the memories from last night flooded back to me. It absolutely made no sense how Harry's name spit out of the goblet of fire when I knew for sure he didn't enter himself, and even if he did there was no way for him to get past the age line.

I grimaced knowing how much unwanted attention he was going to get from this tournament and I felt kind of bad.

"How'd he do it you reckon?" Anastasia bursted out in the dorm that was full of us silent girls getting ready.

"How did who do that?" Hermione asked slowly.

"Harry of course," Anastasia replied, "do you think he asked one of the older students to do it for him?"

I turned my head sharply at her not believing what I was hearing.

"Did you see his face last night? There's no way he put his name and he already said he didn't," I said hotly not understanding why people wouldn't just believe his word. The tension in the room rose and once I got into my clothes I grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her out of the room.

"Ridiculous," I spit out in anger, "The fact that everyone knows how much he's gone through in his life and they all of a sudden think he wants some glory from a stupid tournament." Hermione nodded and I could tell she was holding something back.

"What is it? Do you not believe him either?" I said shocked.

"Of course I do! I'll always believe Harry's word but it's gonna be a tough next couple of weeks now because Ron hasn't come to terms with it,"

I scoffed, "Come to terms with? Are you kidding? All he needs to do is be a proper best friend and realize that Harry probably needs him the most now."

"Listen," Hermione said patiently, "I know you have good intentions but remember this is only your first year with us. So it's always been Harry who gets all the attention, you know it is. It's not his fault I know he doesn't ask for it...but-well-you know. Ron's already got all these brothers to compete against at home, and Harry is his best friend who happens to be really famous. He's always shunted it to one side whenever people see Harry and he puts up with it never mentioning it but I suppose this is just one time too many."

I listened to her and went deep into my thoughts. While I understood how Ron could be upset by not sharing the same kind of glory Harry receives, I can't imagine what it must feel like to think the world sees you as a liar and even your best friend agrees.

As time went on I noticed Hermione trying her best to take turns between the boys as they refused to be together. When she was busy having to do homework me and Ginny filled her positions and kept the other boy company. Truthfully I felt incredibly bad for Harry and I tried to lighten him up as much as possible. We both were currently sitting against the trunk of a tree by the lake exchanging muggle jokes.

"Why did the m&m go to school? Because it wanted to be a smartie," Harry spit out making us both laugh loudly.

"Okay okay I have one," I giggled preparing my next line, "How does NASA prepare a party?"

"How?" he asked while throwing a ball up into the air.

"They PLANET! get it!" I laughed while throwing my head back and poking his side making him chuckle as well. All of a sudden I could feel his seriousness creep back to him.

"I'm really scared to be in this tournament," Harry admitted after a brief period of silence. I sat up and turned my body towards him.

"Listen Harry I can't imagine how unfortunate your life has been with all you've had to go through. But I promise you have friends by your side this time and we will help you get through the tournament," he rolled his eyes a bit but I pushed further, "No seriously! We'll study like crazy and make sure to practice every hex and jinx possible."

As the sun began to set and it got quite cold outside we both headed up back to the castle just in time for dinner. When we arrived everyone else was already sitting and Hermione was with Ron and the twins. I glanced at Harry to ask where he wanted to sit and he just shook his head, "I'm actually not hungry I'll see you tomorrow," he muttered while turning back around. I sighed knowing that I shouldn't go after him as he probably needed his space.

"There's my favorite troublemaker i've missed you," Fred sang as he pulled me quite harshly onto his lap to hug me from behind at the table. Everyone laughed as I struggled to get out of his grasp seeing he was holding me tightly in his arms.

"Fred stop you're embarrassing me," I whined as I saw people looking directly at us including my dad who made a curious face, "great now my dad is going to ask me a million questions about having a new 'boyfriend'," I sat beside him next to Ginny once I pinched his arm causing him to loosen his grip.

"Oh so i'm your new boyfriend? Normally I'm used to asking the girl myself, but I don't mind this new change," he smirked down at me pushing me slightly with his hip.

"I'll pinch you again Frederick," I warned.

"Yeah right. I'd be surprised if you got a chance with her," Ron mumbled while in the middle of chewing on a chicken leg.

"And I'm surprised mum didn't teach you to chew with your mouth closed dear Ronald," we laughed as he just continued to wave his drum stick around.
We all were in light conversation when a boy in green robes and an almost white colored hair walked right by us.

"Potter isn't with you guys? That's surprising I would think that you Weasleys would wanna relish every bit of fame you can get. It's probably the only reason people know your names besides being filthy blood traitors," he spat at them while raising his eyebrows threateningly. Hermione grabbed Ron's arm and pulled him back in his seat when he tried to stand up. The blonde boy laughed with his friends and walked away. I sat there completely baffled that they let this kid speak to them that way and when he left I asked who that was.

"Draco Malfoy, proper git he is," Ron muttered while shaking his head.

"And you guys let him speak to you that way because...?" I asked waiting for an answer.

"Well our fathers work together at the ministry and we don't want to put dad in a more difficult position than he already is since Draco loves to cry to Daddy," Ginny answered while I just frowned.

"Well that just doesn't sit right with me," I mumbled while pulling my wand from out of my robes and waving it, "Ubi Vitae." I watched a small spark come out from my wand as Draco all of a sudden jumped up high into the hair and raised both his hands to clutch his butt. He wobbled out of the hall with his minions looking around for whoever did that.

"What spell was that," Fred asked while I just smiled proudly.

"That was an underwear rising spell, also knows as the ultimate wedge," I laughed while seeing everyone's nods of approval even Hermione's.

Fred however leaned closer to my ear while everyone else began talking, "You're definitely going to have to teach me that spell later," he whispered as I felt goosebumps rise on my skin. His lips barely touched the side of my ear and I somehow felt completely flustered. I don't know what it was about Fred that made me feel so weird inside but I pushed those feelings away and gave him my award winning troublemaker smile.

"Maybe one day," I said while biting the end of a carrot, "If you're lucky."

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