"We need a favor."
"Oh? I believe you already owe me quite a bit and now you are asking for more… quite bold of you I must say…"
"This is different"
"We…" Fred began, before glancing over at his sister cautiously. "We need you to remove someone from Hogwarts…"
"Remove?"
"You know what we mean, ensure he doesn't come back… through any means necessary."
"Ah… and who would be this unlucky bastard who has earned your hatred?"
"Lockhart."
Harry's eyes lit up just a bit, before he leaned forward… and for the slightest of moments the twins felt a shiver of terror run down their spines at the smile that crossed his face.
"Oh? Congratulations, you now have me intrigued. What has our pathetic excuse of a professor done to you?"
"Not us… Ginny…"
Emerald eyes flickered towards the youngest redhead for a mere instance, before focusing back onto the twins.
"Go on."
"He…"
Fred was interrupted by his sister as she spoke up. "The way he looks at me… it's… wrong, and just creepy. It is like he is imaging what I look like without clothes on, imagining what he would do to me…" The girl shivered slightly, earning a comforting double hug from her brothers.
A few silent moments later and they continued on for her, "The bastard gave her a detention two days ago for Friday evening. We don't want her anywhere near him, much less alone."
"I see… and what do you have to offer for my part?"
The two boys blinked in confusion, earning a soft chuckle, "This is not merely intervening when your sister was in a life or death situation. You are asking me to kill someone you know. That puts me in danger of being waylaid, surely you have something you can offer in return."
"We… uh…"
Another minute or two passed, before the boy-who-lived let out a sigh, "Pity, well good luck with your situation. I am sure if you talk to your parents they will…"
"They didn't do anything !" Fred exclaimed, standing from his seat as rage flashed in his eyes. "We did go to them, wrote them a letter and do you know what they said? 'We trust Dumbledore to choose the correct teacher, you are overreacting.' Can you believe this shite? Overreacting!? "
"Oooo oooo I know my Lord!"
The four students turned to the excitable blonde who had been working quietly thus far on some homework.
"Yes Luna?"
"Since you are saving Ginny's virtue then that is what should be the price. You can never own too many sex buddies after all."
"WHAT!?"
"NEVER!"
"Okay…"
The twins turned in shock towards their younger sibling, who was staring down at the ground to avoid eye contact.
"Gin you can't…"
"And if I don't? Either way my virginity is going to be taken, at least this way I have a choice. At least this way it will be to someone my age… someone who I…" She trailed off, a blush quickly consuming her face.
"Unless you two have something else to offer for my services?" Harry inquired, earning defeated shakes of the two boys' heads.
"Well fear not, although I will take your sister as payment I have no intention of raping her or any such nonsense. Now then onto business, I assume you want this done before Friday evening?" Nods confirmed the statement, earning another nod from the boy himself. "Very well, I think we will plan for tomorrow night then, be sure that both of you and young Ginny here have a solid alibi for the time between seven and nine in the evening. Wouldn't want you three to be linked to the act after all, now would we?"
...
"Neville."
"Draco."
"Congrats about your parents being back."
The Longbottom grinned, before nodding, "Thanks, I appreciate it."
"Listen… I don't know if you have anything planned for the summer but…"
"But?"
"I mean… with our Lord off doing… whatever it is he does I thought you might want to get together. Maybe do some schoolwork or just go flying or something…"
The Gryffindor blinked twice in confusion, before grinning even wider, "Sounds fun, I mean we might have to keep our parents out of it lest they start accusing each other…"
"Yeah no kidding, adults are morons."
"Also… if I have to go flying you have to come with me on a camping trip."
Draco paused, weighing the positives and negatives of such a thing. He hated camping, and the outdoors in general, but also knew that Neville abhorred heights. "Alright… but you have to come to a professional Quidditch game with me. One game, plus five separate flying sessions for a day of camping."
"Four sessions, and I will buy snacks at the game."
"Deal!"
...
"Professor?"
"Ah Harry, please come in. What can I do for you?"
"Well I was just hoping that you might indulge a request of mine. I was hoping to get an honest assessment of my dueling skills against someone above a student level so I was thinking that maybe…"
The boy trailed off, leaving Lockhart to fill in the blanks for him, unfortunately it took longer than Harry was hoping, as the man stared off into space for nearly a minute before coming to the correct conclusion.
"You wanted to test yourself against me?"
"After hearing about all of your amazing conquests sir I was hoping to see how I measure up."
The gleam that appeared in the man's eyes was more than a little unsettling, as he cleared his throat with a nod.
"Yes… yes I suppose I can do that. I assume you want to keep this a secret yes?"
"Yes sir, if anyone else knew…"
"No, I completely understand, we both have images to maintain. Shall we make this a bit more interesting though? The winner gets to play a game with the loser for the rest of the evening."
The boy's head cocked to the side in an innocent expression.
"Game sir?"
"Yes, oh don't worry my dear child, I promise you will enjoy it." The young potter was forced to ignore the sudden urge to rip the man's tongue from his mouth after he licked his lips in a rather disgusting manner.
"Oh, okay."
"Perfect, let me just set up the platform." a few waves of his wand later and the two stood opposite of each other.
"First we bow and then we begin!" the man called, before sending a stunner at the raven-haired boy.
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