Chapter 16: Nymphadora Tonks.

I ran hurriedly to escape being caught, but suddenly I bumped into someone. When I opened my eyes, I saw a girl with pink hair wearing a robe of a Hufflepuff on top of me. "F**k that hurts," I thought, looking at the girl on top of me. "Who are you?" she asked with an angry expression. Her hair color changed from pink to red.

"I am Stifen Grindelwald. Friends call me Stifen. By the way, can you get off of me?" I asked her with a painful expression. When she finally realized she was on top of me, her face turned red, and her hair color changed to bright pink.

"Wait, her hair color changed from red to pink. Wait...wait...first, her hair was pink. That means she is...," while I was thinking about her identity. "Nymphadora Tonks, 6th year Hufflepuff," she introduced herself after calming herself.

"Are you a first-year? This is the first time seeing you," she continued to question me. "Yes, I am a first-year," I answered her questions by patting the dirt from my hands.

"Why is a first-year here so late on the first day at Hogwarts?" she asked me with a skeptical look.

Suddenly, footsteps started to come close. I cast a Disillusionment Charm on both of us after signaling her to keep quiet and stick to the wall.

In a few seconds, we saw Filch alone searching for the culprit, walking with a murderous aura along with a strong foul smell, searching for the culprits who made him like this even Mrs. Norris avoids him at all costs.

"Did you do that?" she asked me with sparkling eyes, to which I got struck in the awkward situation. 'This was the prank the twins pulled off. What should I answer?' I thought. When I was about to deny it, the twins interrupted us. "Lord Stifen, your idea worked," they both said coarsely with a fake bow.

"See you next time, Ms. Tonks," I said with a gentleman's look. "Nah, call me Tonks," she waved her hand, and she went her separate way. All four of us entered our common room and sat at the crouch near the fire. "She is Nymphadora Tonks, right?" Lee Jordan asked me with a surprised look.

Fred and George realized, all three of them looked at me with a shocked look. "What? Why are you guys looking at me like that?" I asked them with a confused look. "Dude, you don't know what you have done," Lee Jordan said with an unbelievable look.

"She was the most hated Hufflepuff student within her house. Still, I wonder how she ended up in Hufflepuff. She would have clearly been a good Gryffindor," said George. "She is the most scandalized student in Hogwarts. Many girls hate her, and only some of them are friends with her," Fred continued to explain the rumors about Tonks.

"It must have been hard for her," I said with a sympathetic look.

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I took my pocket watch and looked at the time. "Okay, guys, let's see tomorrow." I went to my bed and slept there. What I was afraid to notice was the grin on the faces of the three.

The next day, I woke up at 6:00 and went to do my morning exercise at the lake. I returned to the room and woke up Ron and Harry, who were still sleeping, and Neville, who was practicing the Disillusionment Charm in the common room.

When Ron and Harry got ready for class, I waited for them in the common room. We went to the Great Hall for breakfast, and while eating, I noticed many students in the hall were looking at us.

"Hey Harry, why is everyone's attention on us?" I questioned with a confused look.

"I don't know," Harry replied while eating. Ron, who was eating sincerely, suddenly remembered something. He panicked, took an empty plate, and looked at himself, sighing in relief. "Stephen, I think they are looking at you," Harry said.

"Did the twins play a prank on me without me noticing?" I wondered while looking at my reflection on the plate.

Hermione, who just entered the Great Hall, came straight towards us and sat opposite to me. "Hi Hermione, why are you so late? Did you practice overnight?" I said and took a glass full of pumpkin juice and drank it.

"Did you go on a date yesterday night with a girl?" she suddenly asked me. I almost splashed the juice I was drinking.

I looked at Hermione with a confused look and noticed she was looking at me with a sinister look of no mercy.

"Traitor, yesterday I asked if I should accompany you, but you refused. Now I know the reason," Ron said with a betrayed look on his face.

"You should have seen it. It was quite a scene to watch," Fred, who heard the conversation, added fuel to the misunderstanding. "Oh, now I understand, so these guys are the ones who spread the rumors." Hermione left the Great Hall angrily. "Why does she look annoyed? I should be the one to get annoyed."

Neville took the schedule and said today's first class is Herbology. All four of us went across the castle grounds and passed through a series of glass double doors leading into a long, narrow corridor, reaching the greenhouse.

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