Chapter 8
The next morning, after he and Al did their usual training, he greeted Hermione, who was sitting with Ron and Harry.
“What are you doing here?” Ron asked. Ed and Al sat down.
“I don’t think you know this, but when it’s breakfast and lunch, you can sit anywhere” he said grabbing his own breakfast.
“Going to watch the match Ed?” Ron asked. Ed shrugged “most likely, Takashi really wants me to know how the game is played” he said.
Al rolled his eyes. “Oh, good morning Professor Snape” he smiled. Snape walked by “Yes, good morning Alphonse”
“Hey Snape” Ed waved a cheeky grin and wave. “And Mr Elric” he sighed. He then walked off, and they noticed he was limping.
“That explains the blood” Harry whispered. They all turned to him. “Blood?” Hermione asked confused.
Harry looked around before looking at her and Ed. “Listen, I think Snape let the trolls in as a diversion, so he could sneak into the room Fluffy was guarding to steal whatever was there, but didn’t know how to get passed Fluffy and got bitten” he explained.
“Our Snape?” Ed asked, making sure. “It makes sense” Ron said.
“You all are idiots, it’s not Snape, and it’s Quirrell” Ed said. “What you mean?”
“Must I really spell it out for you? Quirrell is a new teacher, I didn’t see him until a week until the term started, why would Snape, a loyal and has been here for years steal something, when a new teacher, who will probably lose the job by the end of the year because of the cures, and has no reason to stay here, not to mention I actually saw him letting in the trolls, then we all saw him sneak into the third-corridor” he told them.
They stared at him a bit shocked. “And because we know Snape worked on making a potion for a trap for anyone risking to steal it” Al supplied. “He had plenty of times to steal whatever it was then, he doesn’t have to do it now” he took a sip of his tea as Ed grinned at them.
“So no, Snape isn’t the one to try and steal whatever it is, he was trying to stop Quirrell from stealing it” he finished his toast.
Before any of them could answer a Ravenclaw appeared. “ED! Why you here!? You promised you’d sit with us!” Hugo and Dean showed up. Ed sputtered as Dean leaned heavily on him. “Dean!” he glared pushing him off.
Hugo smiled at everyone “Hello!” he waved.
“I did not promise you anything!” Ed grumbled as the two sat down. “Well, you did promise to let us show you exploding snap” Dean said.
“You don’t know what exploding snap is!?” Ron asked in disbelief. Ed gave a leveled glare.
Taking out the cards, Dean dumped them on the table “Class doesn’t start until later, and we all have a study session for history, so let’s play until then!” Dean smiled.
He would have said to skip the session all together, but the history session were more knowledgeable then the actually class, all thanks to the Elric brothers.
They had immediately took over the session, taking out textbooks of different history’s before lecturing them on actual history then whatever professor Binns was lecturing them on.
Everyone had to admit, the Elric brothers were incredibly intelligent then any of them, handling the study sessions more like tutoring sessions.
“That reminds me, you and Draco need to get your stupid rivalry under control, or I will beat your asses” Ed pointed at Harry, who jumped at being pointed out.
“We don’t disturb your ‘lessons’ so it shouldn’t bother you” he said in defense. “But it does, because, believe it or not, I’m friends with Draco, and your little fights are distracting him from having friends” he glared at the boy of lived.
“Have you’ve seen that poor boy try and make friends? I am very sure I and Blaise are the only people he can even consider a real friend” he told them.
“How about this, you two work together in this study lesson, without fighting, I’ll talk to Draco, and at least try to get to know each other” he gave a look when Harry look to protest and Al took away Ron’s food to distract him “This is a good thing” Al said.
“If you keep fighting, it could end up terrible for the both of you, I know enough from brozer getting enemies and into fights to understand, you shouldn’t make enemies when you can avoid it” he gave a leveled look at everyone who was listening, and everyone felt like they were being judged.
“You have enemies?” Hugo asked.
Ed shrugged “Not like I made them myself, they just saw me and decided I was their enemies”
“You still didn’t help by yelling at them brozer” Al chuckled. “Not my fault they pissed me off!”
Soon, they all joined in a game of Exploding snap, Ed getting hang of the game quickly and winning just as many games before their study session began.
They met their history class in the library at one of the large tables.
“Alright, we will be going over the history of Emeric the evil” Ed started. “I got many books about the guy, and even ask my Goblin friend for help to get all the facts, I made a detailed summary to help you to understand” he took out some paper.
He passed it around. “Draco and Harry, you two will sit at that desk and work through your history homework together”
Both of course did not look happy about it, but didn’t argue against the golden kid, moving their things to the other table.
Ed nodded before helping out around him.
The session went well, from the looks of Draco and Harry’s grins. So Ed took it as a success.