Lost for Words

A Story based off of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' using an OC.

Chapter 1: Getting There

Amy Corbeau had to be one of the most interesting people ever to step foot into Hogwarts. Amy had strawberry-blond hair that went down to a couple inches above her waist, and bright green eyes. She had transferred into Hogwarts at the beginning of third year. She was put into Gryffindor House, where she had made the best of friends. There were always people she could count on, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Ginny Weasley. Amy had also been on good terms with Luna Lovegood after all the D.A. meetings last year, and Seamus Finnigan which she had always felt strangely awkward around, even after all the time they had spent together during the last two years. People have had accused them of going out with each other, but the two just merely kept saying that they were friends only. Everything had been different and quite hectic at Hogwarts ever since the rumors of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has returned with his followers called the Death Eaters, and stories of people dying, getting murdered, and being put in jail, as seen in the Daily Prophet which unfortunately had not always been one-hundred percent accurate. Year six was awaiting at Hogwarts.

The trip over to Diagon Alley had been quite normal, except for all the extra security measures, and every corner you turned there were huge posters plastered over the windows about the extra security measures. Amy thought all this was unnecessary; Voldemort would never come out into Diagon Alley, that was just ridiculous, and Hogwarts was perfectly safe to be at during this time, no one could ever get into there with everything they've got set up. She had also stopped by Fred and George's new shop, and found everything there to be quite amusing. There was no sign of Harry, Ron, or Hermione while Amy was there. They must have visited Diagon Alley at a different time.

Amy had finished packing up everything very quickly, wanting very badly to get on the train, and go straight to Hogwarts. Her owl, Lune, was quite comfortable in his new cage. Lune was quite an impressive owl; his feathers were as black as midnight, with beautiful streaks of gold surrounding the fringe of his wings, and tail, his eyes piercing gold. Lune had been a gift from Amy's aunt Juliette when she was eleven-years-old. Lune was more precious to her than anything; she had always given him excellent care.

The days were long and dreadful, just sitting around until it was the day to depart for the station. Amy was so glad that the day finally came to leave for Hogwarts. Amy and her aunt left for the station that morning. She bid farewell to her aunt, and assured her that she was going to be safe. A feeling of excitement had gone through her once her eyes laid sight on the scarlet red train that was to leave for Hogwarts in quite a bit. Seeing only a few people floating around, Amy had been early, probably because of the extreme eagerness to get out of the house and go to school, and seeing all her close friends. Seeing absolutely no sign of any of her friends, she decided to get on the train, find a compartment before every single one was packed, and load her stuff. She found an empty compartment, and put her stuff up in the luggage rack, along with Lune. Moments later though, she'd seen students filling and filing up the corridor, and noises of conversation and loud bangs filled her ears. Amy sat down in one of the seats closest to the window, and laid her head back. Seconds later she heard a loud clank, and saw the door sliding open.

"Amy!" said a warm, cheerful voice. Amy opened her eyes and saw that Ginny had come in, followed by Dean Thomas. Ginny went over to hug Amy. "I've missed you! How was your summer?" asked Ginny, as she and Dean put their trunks up into the luggage rack.

Ginny and Dean both sat down across from Amy, Dean holding up Ginny's hand and pulling her closer.

"Hey Dean. Um it was okay," said Amy, feeling slightly uncomfortable by her friends' flirtatious behavior, thinking about the person she wanted to do that with. . . And not being able to express her thoughts or words clearly to him at all

"Hi Amy," Dean said, staring at Ginny. Ginny could tell that Dean was staring right at her, but ignored him to talk to Amy.

"Just okay? Did anything happen?" Ginny said, detecting the dullness in Amy's voice. The corridors started to crowd up more, and the sounds of conversation and footsteps seemed to grow even louder.

"No, just boring is all," she said trying to make her voice sound more cheery like Ginny's. This statement was true, Hogwarts was the only place she had fun. She looked forward to coming onto this train every year, and hated the day where she had to go back home again.

"You should definitely come to the Burrow for the holidays, it was so much fun with you there two years ago," said Ginny, giving a friendly smile.

"I'll do that," Amy said, returning Ginny's smile. "So how was your summer? You see Harry?"

"Oh it was fun. Yea we all got to see Harry for a bit. Dad has been busy with his new job at the ministry, and Mum is the same as always. Hermione, Harry, and my brother were all asking about you, you should go and see them soon, once Ron and Hermione get off their perfects' duty."

"Yea I need to, it feels like I haven't seen them in ages," said Amy, thinking about all three of them.

Dean put his arm around Ginny, getting as close to her as possible. Ginny stared back at Dean now, Amy getting extremely uncomfortable by them. She looked out the window, trying to avoid the sight of them, until she heard a sound coming from the other side of the compartment. To make this uncomforting feeling even worse, something else had happened. The door had slid open, and Seamus Finnigan had come walking in. It wasn't that Amy didn't like Seamus, it was quite the contrary. Seamus was one of Amy's best friends, but ever since their fourth year, anytime they were together seemed completely awkward, and Amy's stomach had felt like it was tied up in knots. Her feelings for him were quite mixed up and oddly confusing, she could never explain them clearly, even in her own conscious thoughts. Whenever people asked them if they were going out or were a couple, she felt like her face was on fire, and never exactly said a straight answer, but it was always in the line of 'were only friends' or 'I don't like him in that way.' Seamus put his trunk down on the floor.

"Dean!" said Seamus, him and Dean slapping each others hands.

"Seamus, how ya doing?" said Dean, looking away from Ginny for a moment, to direct attention to Seamus, giving him a great grin. Ginny looked up at Seamus as well.

"Great," Seamus said, and Dean and Ginny immediately went backing to their flirting.

Seamus then turned to face Amy. "Hey Amy," he said quite nervously, loading his stuff up into the luggage rack with the others' trunks. Then he sat down in the available space next to Amy, looking down and also got a feeling of discomfort looking at Ginny and Dean. The sound of footsteps and people talking was growing faint now, almost gone. Almost everyone must be on the train now.

"Hello Seamus," she said, just as nervous sounding as him. "N-nice to see you", she said looking over at him, and forcing a smile over her feelings of absolute nervousness. He looked absolutely perfect in her eyes, scanning over him.

"Nice to see you too, Amy," he said giving back a warm and sweet smile. He now looked over at Amy, looking into her green eyes, his whole face turning scarlet red. Amy looked back into his icy blue eyes, unable to pull herself away from his gaze, her whole face turning as red as a rose as well. There was no other sounds coming from the outside now. The only thing Amy could hear now was the sound of her own heart beating, getting more and more nervous by the second.

Their staring was interrupted by loud noise from outside that had filled the room, the train was about to leave any minute now. Amy could tell by the way all the noises of people talking were completely gone, and the corridors seemed almost empty. A couple of girls that Amy had recognized from Ravenclaw from previous years had walked by, roaring with conversation and laughter.

There was almost no one outside at the platform anymore as Amy looked outside the window. The train started to move slowly, moving quicker from the station little by little. The engine started to roar louder as steam started to fly into the sky. Trees started to fill the scenery outside, the train engulfed by green.

"Looks like we're going now," Seamus said, looking outside the window as well. Allowing himself a quick glance at Amy, but she hadn't noticed, for she was still staring out the window.

"Yea. . . Just can't wait to get there," said Amy, in almost a whisper, turning her head back toward everyone else, and saw that Ginny and Dean were slightly apart now and looking outside. Amy gave a quick look toward Seamus, while something else also caught her eye. A couple of girls were standing outside, waving and smiling at Ginny. She pulled away from Dean and went over to the door, opening it, and said, "Um I'll be right back," looking at Dean and Amy. The two just nodded at her as she went outside the compartment. Then Amy stood up a moment later.

"I'll be back too, I want to see if I can find Harry, Ron, and Hermione okay," she said looking at Seamus, also giving Dean a quick glance. I'll give them time to talk, she thought, looking at both them now.

"Alright, I'll see you later then Amy," Seamus said, giving Amy the sweetest smile she had ever seen, her stomach twisting up in knots, and her face flushing. Dean merely gave a little wave, still looking outside the window,

"Yea you will," she said smiling back at him.

Amy stepped out of the compartment, slid the door closed, and gave a deep breath, thinking about Seamus. The thought of Seamus went out of her mind once she thought of finding Harry, Ron, and Hermione. She went off down the corridor, peering into the compartments, getting weird stares as she looked in. At last she found the compartment, and saw Harry, along with Luna Lovegood, and Neville Longbottom. She slid open the door as fast as she could, all three had stopped and looked at her, all of them smiling at her warm-heartily. Closing the door behind her, she went over to Harry quickly, giving him a big hug.

"Harry! I've missed you!" she said, both of them smiling hugely. She went over to hug Luna and Neville as well. Neville gave a slight blush, and got embarrassed as she hugged him.

"I've missed you too Amy!" Harry said, returning her smile and hug. She sat down next to Harry, looking at Neville trying to find his frog, and Luna wearing her Spectrespecs. She was glad to have friends like this.

"Hey, Amy, do you know anything about Draco Malfoy?" Harry said, looking up at her.

"Malfoy hmm. . . I know he's a jerk," said Amy.

"Well I mean, have you seen anything suspicious with him?

"I'm afraid not Harry. I haven't seen Malfoy since last year."

Then Harry told Amy his suspicions of Malfoy when he, Ron, and Hermione had seen him at Borgan and Burkes. Amy sat there quiet for a long moment, contemplating his suspicions, and looked over at Harry. This seemed quite normal for Malfoy; after all, he was always quite the trouble maker.

"Well . . .," said Amy slowly. "That does seem a little weird, but you know Malfoy, always getting in trouble, it's just him being stupid," she said in a sarcastic tone. "But . . ., if he does do anything like that again, tell me okay," she said looking at the door. Harry was about to argue again, but was interrupted by the compartment door sliding open.

Ron and Hermione had returned from their perfects' duty. Hermione and Amy hugged, and said their hellos, and Ron smiled at her, sitting next to Luna.

"Amy, it's so good to see you!" said Hermione excitedly.

"Good to see you too, Hermione," said Amy back, sounding more cheerful. "And you too Ron," she said smiling.

They all got to talk for a while to each other, and talking about what they did over the summer. They were interrupted by a girl who came running in, almost completely breathless, and looking exhausted. She gave a letter to Harry, explaining. Everyone looked over at him curiously.

"Great a letter from Slughorn . . . ," Harry said sarcastically. He opened up the parchment and scanned it through a couple times. Everyone kept asking what the letter had said.

"It's a letter requesting me for lunch, and he wants Neville, and Amy to come too," Harry said.

"Me?" said Amy, sounding very confused. Neville looking confused as well, almost asked the same thing.

"Yea," he said, looking at them both.

"Who's Slughorn?" Hermione asked.

"He's a new teacher," Harry answered back.

"What subject is he going to teach?" said Hermione again.

"I think Defense Against the Dark Arts," he answered. He stood up and went over to the door. Amy and Neville also stood up, looked at each other, and followed behind Harry. Luna was still stuck in her magazine, wearing her Spectrespecs.

"We haven't had a Defense Against the Darks Teacher for more than a year," said Ron.

"Yes, because of all the mysterious incidents that keep happening," said Luna, looking up through her big colorful shades, smiling oddly.

"We should go now," said Harry in a low voice, looking at the door. The three went out, closing the door behind them.

The three of them set off down the train corridor, and opened up the compartment where they saw Slughorn, and some kids sitting in all different places, spread out, which included Cormac McLaggen, a boy who was quite round and in Gryffindor, Marcus Belby, an extremely thin boy who was in Ravenclaw, Blaise Zabini, in Slytherin, and had snake-like eyes, and the last person sitting in the compartment, Ginny Weasley. Amy went immediately to go sit by Ginny, while Harry and Neville took their own seats across from each other. Slughorn greeted Harry most sincerely, slightly ignoring Neville and Amy.

"Ginny, why are you here?" she asked.

"Well you know Zacharias Smith? He kept bugging me about what happened at the Ministry over the summer, he annoyed me so much, so I hexed him. I though Slughorn was going to give me detention, but he thought it was good, so he invited me to this lunch. So why are you here?" Ginny asked back.

"I'm not sure actually . . .," she said with a perplexed expression on her face.

The evening dragged on for what seemed like days to Amy. Everyone was merely being interrogated about their relatives and connections. Amy was only asked once about her aunt, for she had been in the 'Slug Club' as well, and supposedly, was on a long list of Slughorn's favorite students. Slughorn kept going on about how great she was, which Amy got sick of after a while. When he turned his back, she mocked him and gave a rude hand gesture, which only Ginny saw, and laughed at. Harry was by far questioned the most, making it clear the Lily Potter was his absolute favorite student. After hours and hours of this, Slughorn had dismissed them. Harry and Neville went over to Ginny and Amy.

"Are you going to come back with us?" asked Neville to Amy.

"I think I'm just going to go back with Ginny, I don't want to crowd," she replied.

"Oh alright . . .," he said, sounding slightly disappointed. "Hey, Harry, wait up!" he called after him, when he saw him following behind Zabini. Neville went out behind Harry.

"Wait a painful evening," said Amy sarcastically, as she stretched out.

"Tell me about it. We should start heading back now," Ginny said back.

"Yea."

"You know what . . .," Ginny said as they walked down they corridor, back to their compartment. "I think Neville likes you," she said smirking.

"Hmm really?" she said sounding uninterested.

"Yea, did you see the way he acted around you?"

"I guess so . . .," she said in a boring voice, Seamus drifting back to her mind as Ginny talked about this.

Amy and Ginny got back to their compartment, Seamus and Dean roaring with laughter and conversation. They had gone quiet though once the two girls had stepped in. Ginny took her spot back with Dean, the two clinged together almost immediately like magnets. Amy took her seat back with Seamus, but tripped half-way to the seat, her face turning bright red almost instantly. Seamus kneeled down next to her.

"You okay?" he asked.

"Yea I'm fine," she said quietly, looking the other way, not wanting to look at Seamus at all this moment. She scurried back up to her seat and looked out the window, the sun almost setting, the sky turning brilliant shades of pink, gold, orange, and red. The forest seemed denser, many more plants and trees than before.

"Should be almost there," said Seamus.

"Yea," Amy said back, still looking out the window.

"So what took you guys so long?" asked Dean, looking at Amy, then Ginny.

"We got invited to some lunch," replied Ginny.

"Oh," said Dean uninterested, looking at Ginny.

"At least we got food," said Amy, the others laughing at this remark.

All four of them then put on their dress robes, figuring they were going to be there soon. Amy put her head against the warm window, and closed her eyes as she listened to everyone's faint voices and drifted off into a sleep. They were almost to Hogwarts. A little while later, Amy awoke finding her head rested against Seamus's shoulder, looking up, she saw that Seamus had his head against the wall, and fell asleep as well. Amy put her head up, and looked out the window, seeing that the train had just stopped. She rubbed her eyes and sat up. Students started to fill the corridor and noise started to fill the room. Dean went over and woke Seamus up. Dean and Seamus grabbed their trunks and stepped toward the door.

"Hey you guys coming?" Dean asked?

"Oh just give us a minute," Amy said, looking at Ginny.

"Alright," he said back, shrugging, and he and Seamus went out.

"Ginny, why didn't you wake me up or something?" she asked, as she was getting her trunk and Lune out of the luggage rack.

"It was cute, I though you would like it," she said smirking. "I know you like him, Amy," she said as she got her stuff down as well.

"What makes you think that?"

"Come on, admit it, you always act so nervous around him. Besides, you wouldn't care if your head was on him if you didn't like him."

Amy couldn't deny this. "Just don't tell anyone Ginny," she said, sounding agitated, walking out into the corridor.

"So it's true!" she exclaimed. But Amy didn't say anything more; she merely walked off, her face flushed.

They had caught up with Dean and Seamus over at the carriages. Amy felt more excited at the thought of going up to the school. Ron, Hermione, Luna, and Neville had taken the carriage in front of them. The four of them waited for the next available one.

"I'll see you guys up at the school!" Amy called after them. They all just waved, and then set off.

Amy, Ginny, Seamus, and Dean got into one of the carriages, and were pulled off to the school. Ginny sat next to Dean, and Amy sat next to Seamus like on the train. A thought hit Amy just now, where did Harry go? She hadn't realized before, but she just thought about it now. Maybe he had some weird business to do, Amy thought. Possibilities were swarming through her head, but she just decided to let it go, Harry always did things on his own anyway. Another year was waiting at Hogwarts.

Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns the right to all these characters and storyline.)