Anon's Trophy [One shot write prompt]

Merula had found herself to be at a receiving end of a particularly nasty exchange with her worst rival, a gryffindor called Anon Ymous. The boy was infuriating with his swagger and cocksure behaviour.

"Flipen..." The witch started.
"Depulso" The boy said flourishing his wand in a pompous manner.
The girl felt like the boy had started toying with her again, there was no force behind it, he simply flicked her wand arm back, before she could cast anything.
"You are such a dick, Anon!" She shouted.
"And you lose concentration quickly when you're angry, Snyde." The boy said smiling his infuriating smile. "You should learn to control your emotions."
"Flipendo!" The girl shouted, seeing red. But her spell missed the boy, who slid to the side.
"Expelliarmus."
Merula felt her wand flick out of her hand, she immediately dove to get it, but the boy was faster again.
"Accio Meru's wand." The boy said smiling and grabbed the wand he summoned.
"Give it back!" Merula shouted at the boy.
"No!" He bellowed smiling at the people who were watching the spectacle. "This duel is over, ladies and gentlemen! I have once again defeated Merula Snyde."
Merula stomped her foot in anger and frustration.
"I will give you your wand back, Merula." The boy said holding the wand out.
Merula just stomped towards the boy angrily, but when she reached for the wand the boy pulled it back over the girl, keeping it just far enough for her to reach.
"Ah ah ah, Merula... I can't just let you have without some form of penalty for challenging me and losing." The boy said smiling infuriatingly.
"What do you want from me?" Merula asked getting angrier and more humiliated she had ever been.
"I want something from you, something that will remind me of this triumph."
Merula knew the boy wanted to humiliate her for good this time, the way he said it... She just wanted her wand back, so she could slink back and immerse herself in something that lets her forget this ever happened.
"What do you want?" She asked resigned.
"Aahh... Me-ru-la...  I haven't decided yet..." The boy said dragging the farce on for as long as he could. "I thought at first I'd ask of something personal you own, but I honestly doubt you have anything I'd be interested in..."
"Just give me my wand back already!" Merula was starting to get frustrated again.
"Only if you promise you will give me something in return." Anon said smiling his smile and tapping his chin with her wand.
"I am supposed to just promise to give you something, without knowing what that might be?" The girl asked annoyed.
"I could just keep your wand, surely it will always remind me of this..." The boy said. "But you will never be able to finish your studies and... Ah... Challenge yours truly against another duel." The boy laughed lightly, and waved at the people laughing with him.
"You're an ass, you know that, Ymous?" Merula said almost at breaking point.
"Oh, I know, but you'll never learn if I mollycoddle you. Here's your wand." The boy said and smiled at the girl, who left the room humiliated, as the boy lifted his hands to the air and received cheers from his peers.


Merula had never been humiliated that much before, she hated how Anon acted in the school, and she kept trying to knock him down a peg. But it always backfired on her. She just hid under her sheets with her book, hoping she could forget all about the day.


"Aha!" Explained the handsome adventurer. "This banshee will be no match for me!"
The townspeople were cheering on the brilliant wizard who had promised to help them with their banshee problem. One young girl in particular approached the wizard coyly.
"Mr.Lockhart, thank you so much for your help..." Merula said
"It's no trouble, for a wizard like me. I face challenges like these every day!" The dashing adventurer flashed his picture perfect teeth and laughed lightly.
"Is there anything I can do to help you?" Merula asked.
"Well, I do not know where the banshee is, of course I could track it easily with a simple charm." The wizard laughed lightly and flashed his teeth again. "But if you're keen on helping, you could tell me where the banshee has been sighted."
"Of course, I can even show you where it has been seen, Mr.Lockhart" Merula agreed quickly. "I would love to assist you on an adventure."
"My dear girl, this could get dangerous." The adventurer said smiling and brushing his perfect hair back.
"Oh, when I am with you, I feel perfectly safe." Merula said quickly.
"Very well, then!" The wizard said flexing his muscles and smiling at Merula.
Merula followed Lockhart on his adventure, they stopped every now and then to dashingly sort some magical conundrum or solve some unsolvable puzzle without effort. The dashing wizard was on a roll and there was nothing that could stop him.
"This is where the banshee was last sighted, Mr.Lockhart." Merula said looking around varily.
"Aha, I can sense her presence!" The dashing wizard declared triumphantly and pulled out his wand. "Stay close lass!" He said and showed his perfect teeth again and immediately ran off leaving Merula alone.
"Mr.Lockhart!" Merula said running after him. "Wait for me!"
The girl was alone now, she looked around and was immediately swooped and picked up by the banshee.
"Let go!" Merula shouted as she was carried into a burrow, by the ugly screeching blonde banshee with braided hair.
The banshee laughed at the girl with a chorus sounding like a bunch of students making fun of her.
"Stop it!" Merula shouted.
"I'll save you! Lass!" She heard a dashing adventurer wearing red sunglasses and a dashing smile.
"Depulso!" He shouted and the banshee exploded.
"Are you okay, miss?" The adventurer asked and picked Merula up.
"I am now." Merula answered and closed her eyes and puckered her lips in anticipation.
The adventurer kissed the girl passionately, and pulled back laughing a familiar laugh.
Merula opened her eyes and saw Anon's face looking at her. She immediately blushed and crawled back.
"Something personal, Me-ru-la... Something that will remind me of this triumph." Anon said.
Merula woke up covered with cold sweat, and heard the book she was reading before bed fall on the floor. What the fuck did she just dream about...


Merula spent the next few days avoiding confrontation with Ymous, she was tired of dealing with his personality. It oozed into everything, she couldn't even read any more Gilderoy Lockhart novels, because all Lockhart's mannerisms reminded her was Anon's stupid pompous swagger. Did every cocksure dashing rogue act like total jerks? There even were similarities with Lockhart and Ymous, where Ymous' adventure was solving the mysteries of the vaults and breaking curses. Merula had fantasized in taking part in one of Lockhearts adventures, but now that she noticed that Anon was on an adventure of his own. That fantasy was ruined, she was part of someone's adventure, except she was more like the banshee that gets blown away by a single depulso. The girl was completely demoralized.
Anon was being infuriating about the situation too, he had talked about not wanting to mollycoddle the girl, but now he left her alone. Perhaps he was content in defeating the girl once and for all. He was right, but Merula was too proud to let it pass like this. He had demanded something of hers in return for her wand, and she would be damned if she was indebted with this asshole.

She walked up to him in gryffindor table.
"Ymous." She called out to him.
The boy turned around with his stupid smile and acted like he owned the entire gryffindor table. Ah, if it isn't my dear rival... You have been quiet recently, Merula. Have you been plotting something against me." The boy laughed and the girls in the gryffindor table just sighed at him longingly and shot nasty gazes at Merula.
"No, I am here to repay my debt." Merula said frustrated.
"What debt... Oh... Yes... The debt, right... Of course the debt." The boy said stopping to think for a while.
Merula was astonished at the boy, how much of an asshole was this fucking guy, he demanded something of hers and immediately forgets about it?
"Let me think, something that will remind me of you..." The boy said passingly.
"Just spit it out!" Merula said ignoring the boy dragging this humiliation on.
"I want your red locks." The gryffindor said smiling infuriatingly at the girl.
"W-what..." Merula asked surprised. "Why?"
"Oh, no reason, it would serve as a trophy." The boy laughed lightly and turned back.
Merula felt tears falling on her cheeks, the boy really hated her and wanted to humiliate her as much as possible. But she was too proud to tell the boy to fuck off. She just pulled her hair forward and pointed her wand at the base of her discoloured locks.
"D-diffindo." she said past her tears.
Anon just turned quickly and noticed the girl was crying.
"Merula, I wasn't being..." He started.
But the girl just yanked his hand and put her hair on his opened palm and left the great hall in complete humiliation. Leaving the boy completely speechless.
The gryffindor table erupted in laugher and cheers over Anon's trophy over the wicked witch. but Anon wasn't smiling.


Merula couldn't sleep, she had looked herself from the mirror, and her hair looked completely alien with her locks shorter than the rest of it. She threw away her Gilderoy novels and tumbled in her bed in frustration. She was completely humiliated, but she would make the boy pay eventually She would destroy him, somehow.

Next few weeks, Anon had become completely silent, he wasn't acting like he owned the school anymore. Merula was also keeping low profile, she spent all of her free time plotting against the boy, she kept her ears open over any rumors that would help with her vengeance. One evening she heart a few gryffindor girls gossip.

"He carries a locket with him everywhere." One girl said.
"No one knows what picture he has in it, I bet it's Penny Haywood." with her voice full of jealousy.
"Of course it's that slut Haywood, she got her claws on our Ymous, before any of us gryffindors could do anything... I hate that Hufflepuff." One girl said angrily.
"I heard he looks at the picture wistfully, but is extremely careful not to let anyone see what it is." One girl said with her voice filled with curiosity.
"I heard he flippendoed Rowan trying to glance at the locket when he was stroking the picture during night."

Merula was wondering about a rumoured locket. She had never noticed Anon wear any jewelry around his neck, maybe it was under his robes. She snuck a few glimpses on the boy during the dinner. The boy was wearing something around his neck, but it was under his robes... Merula had not noticed it before, it must be a picture of his girlfriend.
Merula decided she would take it as a trophy and destroy it for her humiliation. She rubbed her sheared hair to fill her heart with vengeance. She would have to steal the locket somehow. But how do you get something like that, he probably never removed it... She needed a plan.

Few days went on, she observed the, now quiet gryffindor boy. She realized the boy had to take the locket off him when he played quidditch, jewelry of any kind was prohibited. That was when she'd strike!

She waited for the gryffindor to have it's quidditch practice later that week, she snuck to the quidditch pitch disguising herself as a bush, using obfuscation charm. No one expected anything. She slowly crept her way to the gryffindor changing rooms and unlocked the doors with her wand, she quickly opened all the lockers until she found Anon's locker. Once she found the locker she took the locket and started giggling maniacally. She had thought of a hundred ways of destroying the locket infront of Anon's stupid proud face, wiping that smirk off it for good. She escaped the locker room and decided to wait for the boy at the site of her previous humiliation in the castle courtyard.

Merula didn't have to wait for long, the boy was running into the castle looking around terrified.
"Ymous!" She shouted at him. "Looking for this?" She said dangling the locket infront of her.
"O-oh, M-merula, where did..." The boy said nervously, without a hint of his infuriating smile.
"Try to think a little, you idiot." She said trying to laugh evilly at the boy. "You humiliated me, now I will destroy this picture of your loved one infront of you."
"Y-you didn't open it?" The boy said surprised. "I mean, no! Don't do that, anything but that!" The boy said quickly.
That sounded suspicious, why did he care if she opened it or not, she didn't care about his picture of Penny.
"What are you talking about, aren't you worried I will destroy this picture? How would you explain to your girlfriend, that you lost her picture?" Merula asked surprised.
"Uh... No! Don't, how would I?" Anon said and blushed intensely.
"What the hell is wrong with you, what's in this damn locket?" Merula said annoyed.
She opened the locket and dropped it blushing equally intensely.

The locket had her discoloured locks in it...