A New World ?G.W?

The body belonged to Barty Crouch, a member of the ministry of magic, but nobody knew what he was doing in Hogwarts, let alone in the forest.

"It doesn't make any sense!" Neville said throwing his quill down in frustration. We were in the library working on potions homework, and the school was still abuzz with theories in the past week since the discovery.

"I know it doesn't, but that finding out won't help with potions," and I nudge his quill back towards him.

"I hate potions."

"It's not that bad," I try to reason.

"No you don't understand," he sounds close to tears. "Snape hates me. Not in a failing student way but on a personal level! He always picks on me and humiliates me, I just want to get better at this subject so he'll leave me alone!"

"Oh Neville!" I say and rush to his side to put an arm around him, "You're so much better than that! You're so smart, and brave, and an amazing friend!"

He smiles at me and says "Thanks Y/N."

"No problem," I smile back. "Professor Snape is an idiot!"

"Is that so?" I hear from behind me.

Oh no.

I slowly turn around to face Professor Snape with a very unamused look on his face. "Detention. With me after dinner." He turns around and begins to walk out of the library, but not before calling "Do not be late Miss Y/L/N"

I spend the next few hour before dinner in my dorm reading and sulking, mainly sulking. On the way to dinner, I walk with Mandy, ranting about the conversation with Snape.

"Well maybe you shouldn't have said it then." She says which is the opposite of what I wanted to hear, and I roll my eyes. When we enter the hall I can see Luna is sitting with Ginny at the Gryffindor table and decide to join her, knowing I can't deal with the lectures from my other friends right now.

"Hey," I say as I sit down in between Harry and Luna.

"Y/N, Neville said you got a detention with Snape!" Hermione says in a worried tone.

"Yeah thanks for the reminder." I snap and instantly feel guilty for it. "Sorry 'Mione, I've made it four years without getting a detention and of course my first one is with Snape," I sigh.

"Hold on, you've never had a detention before?" Fred asks and I shake my head no.

"Well in that case, can't have you being lonely can we?" George says and immediately reaches into his pocket.

"No George what are you doi-" and I'm cut off as he throws something into the air and a single firework explodes above the table.

The hall falls silent and I'm staring at George open mouthed, it seems nobody knows what to say until Fred bursts out laughing.

"Wicked!" he says while high-fiving his twin, and this seems to break everyone out of their silent shock. The hall erupts with laughs and Dumbledore calls for silence.

"Who is responsible for this?" He asks tiredly. George simply sticks his hand up with a look of innocence on his face that makes me smile.

With a sigh, the headmaster turns to the potions teacher and says something we cannot hear from our place at the table, and after a very short conversation, Dumbledore turns back to face the students.

"Detention with Professor Snape after dinner Weasley. As you were."

George winks at me with a smile and I feel my cheeks begin to flush, and the butterflies are going crazy at the thought of detention aline with George.

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"You didn't have to do that you know," I say to George while we walk down to the dungeons after dinner.

"What and leave you all alone in your first detention?" He grins down at me, "I'm not a monster Y/N. But speaking of..." We arrive at Snape's door and I take a deep breath before knocking.

"Come in, ah Mr Weasley, Miss Y/L/N. How lucky am I that I get to spend my Saturday night with the pair of you." He studies us and his eyes narrow at me, "I thought Ravenclaws were meant to be smart, it's not very smart to get yourself a detention is it Miss Y/L/N" he sneers at me, and my cheeks redden with shame and humiliation.

"I thought vampires were meant to be the ones in long black capes, not potion teachers," George says and I look at him startled.

Snape decides to ignore the comment and instead tells us what we will be doing for the evening, "I will be back in a short while, no funny business!" And with that he struts from the room.

We get to work organising the ingredient cupboard and after a few minutes I say "Thank you. For sticking up for me. You really didn't have to."

He shrugs, "he shouldn't say those kind of things, especially if they're not true."

We work in silence for a few more minutes when he suddenly says "So I've been dying to know, what did you get detention for?"

I look at the ground and quietly say "Snape heard me call him an idiot."

He bursts out laughing, "No way! That's amazing! Fair play." And I couldn't help but laugh too. For the next hour or so, the conversation flows easy, I cleverly avoid talking about my life outside of Hogwarts and he tells me all about his, and about his dreams to open a shop with Fred.

"But you know, I don't know how likely it is," he says while pulling a jar from the shelf and looking at it confused.

I turn around and lean my back against the shelf I was working on, "You shouldn't say that! You and Fred have some amazing inventions, I have absolutely no doubt that if anyone can do it, you can,"

He looks almost a bit startled at my outburst of encouragement but after a few seconds a smile spreads across his face.

"Thanks Y/N, that really means a lot," he says and grabs a jar from the shelf behind my head. I can't help but notice how close he is to me, mere centimetres separating us as I try to keep my breathing steady. His hand hovers above the shelf and his eyes meet mine and for a second I swear the world just stops. There is no more detention, no more job to do, its just George Weasley and I.

Until there isn't. The door slams open and George jumps, backing up a few steps. I feel suddenly flustered and turn around to face the professor in an attempt to hide my red cheeks from George.

"Hmmm," Snape mumbles while inspecting the work we'd done. "Satisfactory, you may leave. I do not wish to see either of you again." and with those parting words I practically run from the room.

"So first detention, what did you think?" George asks me.

"Better than I thought." But I quickly add, "never again though."

He laughs and we reach the point in the corridors where we separate to get to our common rooms.

"See you tomorrow," he says, but it sounds more like a question.

"Yeah, see you." I smile and turn and head to my common room.

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After a few hours of sitting in the common room pretending to pay attention to a conversation going on, I try and be as quiet as possible and sneak into my dorm as Luna is in bed. I get changed and get into bed when Luna mumbles, "that was very nice of George."

"Yeah," I whisper with a smile she can't see. "Lovely."

A/N

Who knew detention could be so fun? 

xoxo