Another Use For a Wand
Their Halloween kicked off very loudly when a certain blue eyed Hufflepuff came crashing into the Great Hall with a stupid grin on his face.
Mikey's robes were stained with bright orange paint, his loud adrenaline filled laughter filled the already loud space as he vaulted (ans somehow missing everything on the long table) across chairs, peoples and tables trying to get away from something or someone.
Donnie and Leo sat on their usual spot on the edge of the Hufflepuff table, the former nursing his morning coffee, looking a bit cranky and annoyed by his brother's laughter, although a ghost of a smile appeared on his lips as he sips. The latter rolled his eyes at rhe youngest's antics with kindess, although he wasn't letting himself be unguarded, he knows what Dr. Prankenstein is capable of, even if he catches him on the act 70 percent of the time.
"Yo Ron!" Mikey shouts as he skids into a stop, doing a cartwheel before stylishly situating himself beside the red head, who stopped eating his cereal. "Where your brothers?"
"Still in the Gryffindor tower... Why?" Ron answers.
Mikey jus gave him a flashy grin. "No reason, no reason at all—"
"MIKEY!"
Harry and Ron both looked over the Great Hall's massive entrance to see a panting, orange paint covered Raphael. His hair, face and robes were covered in the same shade that Mikey has splattered on his own clothes.
"WHEN I GET YOU I'M GOING TO THROW YOU IN THE LAKE!" Raph yells, it almost seemed to reach every corner of the Hall. "THE SQUID WONT SAVE YOU WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU!"
Mikey winked at Ron and Harry's direction before zooming off towards Leo. He almost looked panicked when Raph, seemingly out of nowhere, manage to cross halfway through the hall with sheer anger alone.
"Mama Leo! Protect me!" Mikey yells as he launches himself towards his older brother, hugging on to him like a koala bear. The Slytherin had no choice but to play mediator, his uniform already getting stained with paint. Donnie's face twisted in dusgust before he scoots a little bit away, hoping not to get in the crossfire.
"No!" Raph shouts from where he stopped running, already stomping back towards the entrance where his brothers were near. "You don't get to pull a Mama Leo! Let him go and i'll—"
Their little siblings spat ended up being background noise as everyone continued with their day.
It was never a dull day without the Hamato siblings doing something loud and wild.
Whether it be Mikey's pranks (he has started befriending the Weasley Twins, one more member and the second coming of the Marauders is steadily coming) or Donnie's explosions, it was always a colorful day with them around.
"Raph is so scary when he's mad." Neville says from his place in the table. "I don't understand why Mikey pranks him all the time."
"Isn't he mad all the time?" Seamus says. "Besides it's funny."
"Not until it's directed to you." Ron says flatly, remembering that little threat Raph made back then.
Harry was starting to honestly view Raph as one of his friends. Well... A friend that disappears so suddenly and appears again, but hey, he's a great guy. He somehow gives great advice despite his snarky approach to things and his tendency to call them "idiots" is getting more on the endearing side than the "i'm annoyed side"
But yeah, Raph is very much scary when he's mad.
They didn't know that his anger can be used to fuel something they didn't know he was capable of.
Later that day, Ron has managed to insult Hermione after their charms class after she did the spell on her first try (honestly, Donnie would've done it first but his class was much later in the afternoon) she ran off, shoving past him and Harry, her hair covering her face.
"Way to go insulting your friends." Raph says with his usual bite, making Ron guilty.
Much like Raph, Hermione comes and goes, she usually hangs around her little interhouse study group or around Donnie, but otherwise, she joins their conversations even if she was unwelcomed. Harry honestly liked her contributions, Ron, not so much, maybe it was because it qas harder to befriend someone like Hermione when you dont know what to say.
Before the Halloween feast begins, the Hamato brothers have been shooting him a disappointed look (just Leo's looked made him feel like the scum of the earth) Donnie approached him before he went to his table.
"Hermione's been crying in the girl's bathroom all day." He says. "You better say sorry."
Ron kind of lost his appetite a bit now that he was reminded he was a complete asshole.
Raph sat a but farther away from Harry and Ron, not in his usual place beside or across Harry, next to Hermione. He tried to say something to remedy the situation but the prick lowered the knobs on his hearing aids so he wouldn't hear it.
"Save that for Hermione." He says.
Harry completely agrees, honestly, Ron was the only reason he wasn't searching for her right now. The guy is nice and knows what it's like to be the odd one out in school so he feels for Hermione, but he guilted himself into staying with Ron because he's rhe first friend he ever had.
So when Professor Quirrel shouted...
"Troll! Troll in the dungeons!"
Both of their hearts stopped.
They rushed out of there, bumping into confused Hufflepuff first years and ducking under them (Mikey narrowed his eyes at them before his eyes scanned the crowd, he looks at a pair of emerald green eyes and nods before he continues on his merry way)
It was fine at first. They almost ran into Professor Snape, who was oddly enough, going the opposite way. And they managed to trap in in a room!
Which happens to be the girls bathroom...
Thw two immediately panicked when they heard the scream and opened the door once more to get inside.
They saw Hermione cowering in the corner and had no choice but tk distract the hulking beast of a Troll form getting to her.
What surprised them more was Raph showing up.
Harry was dangling upside down, tje troll held onto to him from his ankles as he shook him around like a doll, he didn't get to shove his wand up the troll's nose in time.
"Do something!" He shouts at Ron.
He performed the first spell that came into his mind.
"Oi Peabrain!" He yells, making lpid noises woth the exposed pipes around them, it was enough for him to drop Harry in confusion, sending him skidding near Hermione. The girl grabs his shoulder and dragged him back to avoid the angry swipe it sent throughout the small room.
Ron was now it's target and it was mad.
"GET AWAY FROM MY FRIENDS!
Before it can even get one step closer a battle cry shouted from the door. The troll looked over at the noise before Raph launched himself at it, wand in hand and—
The Hamato lodged his wand, deep into the troll's head, through his eye.
It howled in pain, loud and echoey in the bathroom. Ron found his bearings and performed the first spell that came to mind as Raph was being bucked around.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" He makes the troll's disregarded club float up up in the air before making it fall on the troll's head, a sickening crack followed.
Raph yanks his wand out, noth minding the troll blood the spurts on him and his robes. His wand didn't even break. With surprising acrobatics, he flipped off of the troll as it topples forward, it's landing shook the whole place.
For a moment, the trio didn't see their Raph... For a moment they saw a battle stricken veteran in those emerald greens of his.
"Is... Is it dead?" Hermione finally asks as she helped Harry get up.
Raph looks down on his bloodied wand before shrugging. "Hope it is."
There were pairs of loud banging footsteps as three teachers burst into the bathroom. They didn't really realize the noise they were making, it would surely attract the attention of anyone close by.
Professor Mcgonagall bursts through, looking down at her students with worry before her eyes flashed wotj something dangerous and a hint of disappointment. Professor Snape followed, his frown deepening at the sight and poor Professor Quirrell feinted then and there.
"What happened here?" Their professor asked in a clipped voice, clearly trying to get her anger out of her voice.
Ron dropped his wand and Harry forved himself to stand straight. Before any of them can even open their mouths to explain, Professor Snape talked, he aas already crouched down next to the... Corpse.
"You were lucky." He says. "The troll is injured, but pretty much alive. It's going to lose an eye because of the pipe it fell face first into."
Pipe...?
The trio looked around, mouths opening and closing like a fish.
Raph was gone.
Any trace of him vanished.
"What were you thinking?!" Professor Mcgonagall starts. "You're lucky you weren't killed! Why aren't you in your dormitory?"
"I gkt a stomach bug, Professor." Hermione suddenly speaks up when the boy's throats were dry. "I was about to head tot he hospital wing but i felt like i needed to vomit and went on a detour... If Harry and Ron weren't there to help me i would've been dead, so please don't get mad at them."
The two gaped at her. Lying? To a teacher? This wasn't a Hermione behaviour at all!
"Well... Alright... Ms. Granger, i want you to go to the hospital wing, and i will check. Afterwards you could go to your dormitory and soend the rest of the feast there and as for you two..."
Hermiond gave them one last look before she walked out. Harry found the floor very interesting and Ron startrd playing with the wand in his hand like a drumstick.
"You're lucky, not many first years could take out a full grown mountain trolla nd survived." She sighs. "I suppose i shall give you five points each for your trouble. Now off you go."
Harry dragged Ron out of there before he can even protest about the points.
They rounded a corner and there Hermione was waiting for them.
"Thanks." She says after a long pause.
"And Ron, what do you say?"
The trio jumps at the voice. All of them looked up. On the rafters of the hallway was Michelangelo hanging upside down.
In fact, the other brothers where there. Donnie sat a but to their left (they realised he was the one that talked. He was fiddling with soemthing with wires in his hands), Leo stood up to their right while Raph sat with one leg up and the other hand and leg dangking off the edge, still holding on to that bloody wand.
"How'd you get up there?!" Ron shouts
"Doesn't matter, dudes." Mikey says, as if him being upside down directly above them was a normal tuesday. "What matters is that there's someone who needs to apologise."
Harry nudges Ron and nods towards Hermione, urging on his friend.
Ron grumbles before he takes a deep breath, not really looking Hermione in the eye.
"Sorry..." He starts. "... For... You know, making you cry."
"That all you got?" Raph pipes up form his place, finally dropping down on the ground with a roll, his brothers joining in soon enough.
Hermione sniffles. "Apology accepted."
"Awwwe!" Mikey coos. "I lovr happy endings."
"We won't get a happy ending if the ithers realized we're missing." Leo says. "Get back to your dorms, and please..." He turns to the other three Gryffindors. "Let's keep this a little secret, yeah?" He winks at them.
And so the silent walm tot he Gryffindor tower began, with the trio actually being able to call themselves one.
"Are we going to ignore that Raph stabbed a troll with his wand?"
"It was stabbed with a pipe."
"But..."
"Yeah, Harry. A pipe stabbed it, you were there, why don't you know?"