Sometimes We May Be Almost A Little In Love

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter only the few characters that I have made up purely to get the voices out of my head……

Altercations and Castration

Kat had never been one to conform. Hell she wasn't one for doing anything remotely close to what other people wanted to do. But, she guessed that came with growing up with six brothers and sisters. Looking out for number one was the key to survival in a family like hers. Along with the fact that they were all magical it was safe to say that the Potters were quite abnormal to any normal person who might come across them.

Normal was not in their vocabulary really. Nor was normal part of their daily lives. Just by their last names they were already looked at strangely, whispered about as people recognized the tell-tale auburn hair or jet black hair that every Potter was equipped with. Most of the Potters were not even involved in anything that they were famous for. It was mainly that Harry Potter, Kat's grandfather, defeated Voldemort and her grandmother, was Ginny Potter, the famous, now retired, quidditch star.

Then there was her Great Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione, two-thirds of the Golden Trio who defeated Voldemort along with Harry, he rest of her Weasley relatives, and that did not even include her family that was not related but might as well have been and her parent's generation of Weasley's and Potter's.

So no, Kat was not normal, and being the daughter of two great wizards she was proud to call herself talented. Unfortunately, she also inherited the famous temper of her Grandma Ginny and her mom, but not the beautiful auburn hair, which was inevitable for every Potter or Weasley woman. Not to mention her mother's side of redheaded relatives.

James Sirius Potter, Kat's father and son to Harry and Ginny Potter, married at the age of eighteen to a beautiful Miss Ally Donahue (Of course a redhead because all of the Potter men eventually fall in love with redheads). They had Kat's older brother, Harry Jr, soon after and then came Kat and her twin brother (curse of the Weasley side of the family), Cameron. A year after the twins came Luna, who was the only Potter ever to have blonde hair, hence the name. Next was Sirius, and then Remus. Kat had gotten her name from her Great Aunt Katie who was married to her Great Uncle George. Cam was named after Ally Potter's brother.

A big family was something Kat had always had, could not possibly imagine not having, until she got her letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She and Cam were excited beyond belief. They had heard so much about Hogwarts from Harry who was only a year older than them and going to be in his second year. Kat was especially excited because she could not wait to break away from her large family and finally make a name for herself that wasn't permanently attached to her families'. She was finally going to be her own person.

When she stepped into the great halls of Hogwarts for the first time and talked with her new Gryffindor (how cliché, a Potter in Gryffindor) housemates, she realized that not everyone had a huge family like hers. That it was possible to be your own person even if you still had a name like Potter. Take her cousin for example, Lilly, daughter of Rose and Scorpius Malfoy was as blonde as snow and had the name Malfoy for goodness sakes and she was sorted into Gryffindor.

So, even though she and Cam had managed to make it into Gryffindor along with Harry, they split up. Kat making fast friends with a scrawny boy with dark hair named Theo Longbottom and a girl with auburn hair that was surprisingly not related to her named Luisa Bennet, they ended up fast friends and joined the group that Cam had formed consisting of Zachary Zabini, Seth Summers, and Landon Turner. Lilly sometimes hung out with them but usually stuck with Teddy Jr. and her other friends.

Kat had inherited her relative's quidditch skills and so as a first year made the team as a beater. The other beater being none other than Zachary Zabini. That child was out to ruin her life…..

"Kat! I swear to Merlin if I find my green sweater in your possession again I'm going to get Zach to help me toss you out the window. I don't care how much wand-less magic you know I will still get the same satisfaction none-the-less!" her angry twin called as he made his way into the compartment that she had managed to snag for her and her friends after saying goodbye to her parents for her seventh year at Hogwarts.

Flipping her long jet black hair over her shoulders, she glared at her twin brother with her green eyes. He scowled back with his equally green eyes until a boy with dark brown hair and hazel eyes stepped into the compartment with a skinny black haired boy, a grinning blonde and a redheaded girl with a condescending look on her face.

"You two are at it again?" Luisa groaned and shot Cam a glare as she stepped next to her best friend, "Your sister did not take your green sweater, its right there your wearing it you idiot!"

Still scowling, Cam glanced down and realized that he was indeed wearing the green sweater and his ears went red.

"Er..well…none-the-less!!" he exclaimed, dramatically jumping up on the seat, ever the entertainer that one, "Kitty-cat don't steal my things…and now my beautiful Bennet I would like to extend the exclusive invitation to you fo….."

"No," Luisa ground out, interrupting his inevitable tirade about how they were, 'Meant to be.'

"Aw Bennet, don't be like that, we're perfect for each other, right Zach?" he glanced at the brown-haired boy who was watching the scene with an amused glance as he lounged in the seat across from Kat.

Zach raised one of his perfectly Italian eyebrows at his best mate and then glanced meaningfully at the angered redhead who was still standing with an enraged look on her face even though the rest of the teens had taken a seat.

"Sorry Mate, I think Bennet's got a grudge from that time you glued her to her seat in Potions, or maybe when you turned her hair yellow, or it might be that time when…."

"Oh shut it," Cam grumbled and plopped down next to Zach and Seth with Theo across from him.

Finally calming down, Luisa pushed Zach out of the way after he patted his lap suggestively at her and once the boys were off in their own little world she turned to me with one eyebrow raised, her signature "Your about to do what I want or I'll hex you look." Kat rolled her eyes at her friend.

"Seriously Lu? It's not a big deal," she huffed.

"Not a big deal! Katarina Potter, you're dating Tom Hartfew the hottest Ravenclaw that I have ever seen in my life on earth!"

Kat raised one eyebrow at her and then noticed the silence on the other half of the compartment and gulped. Lu and Kat shared a look and then glanced cautiously in the direction of the boys. Every single one of them was staring at the two girls in horror. Cam seemed to be coming out of shock and slowly turning a redish-purply color. Seth was shaking his head in disbelief and slowly rising to his feet. Theo was slightly calmer but was still getting to his feet like the rest of them. But worst of all was Zachary Zabini. He had already stormed out of the compartment, Cam, Seth, and Theo hot on his heels.

"Bloody hell Lu did you have to say it so loud," Kat cursed at her best friend as the two girls raced after the boys.

"Well, this would not have happened if you would have just told them in the first place, at least, it would not have been quite this bad," she grumbled back.

When they finally caught up to them it was quite the sight. Students were running away and diving underneath seats and behind doors to avoid the hexes three Gryffindors were sending towards five or six Ravenclaws. Zabini was sporting a black eye while Tom looked much worse with two black eyes and blood coming out of his mouth.

Those boys were going to get it good, is the thought that flashed through every spectators mind as they watched Katarina Potter stalk up to them, easily avoiding any spells without even trying. Luisa Bennet was right behind the black-haired girl glaring daggers at the two Ravenclaws who had stopped in the midst of a spell towards Cameron Potter at the sight of the reputed hot-headed (and rather talented with spells) Gryffindor Princesses. Once the Ravenclaws sweated a bit longer and Luisa finally turned her head to glance at Cam, they bolted, and after another heartfelt glare at the spectators and the other Ravenclaws they too were gone, leaving Lu to heal Cam's bloodied face and pull the other boys out of Kat's path and line of sight. It was not too hard seeing as she only had eyes for the Italian and her boyfriend.

"We overreacted again didn't we," Cam muttered to Lu, wincing as she pushed unnecessarily hard on one rather large bruise.

"What do you think!" she hissed back, "I mean Merlin's Shaggy Pants you can't go running off beating up every boyfriend of her's! A: She'll kill you, B: Even though Hartfew is a cheating bastard who deserves to get beaten to a bloody pulp for even thinking about dating your sister, she deserves to make the decision on whom she dates for herself. Oh and next time just be more subtle about the threatening, like cornering him after a meal and saying something like, 'I swear to Merlin if you hurt her in any way you'll wish you'd never been born,' rather than say beating him up before he actually does anything to her."

"Damn I knew there was something I forgot," Cam frowned ruffling his messy black hair, an annoying trait he picked up from many generations of Potter men.

"Now shush I want to see this," Seth mumbled to them.

The two boys had not noticed the angry black-haired girl standing to the side of them as they fought. That is until she cleared her throat. Even that was menacing. The petite five foot; four inch beater was highly underestimated most of the time. Only those who knew her temper, and that was pretty much everyone in Hogwarts.

The boys stopped immediately and Zabini got off of Tom with some reluctance and a cold glint in his normally laughing hazel eyes. Zachary Zabini and Katarina Potter had never gotten along. Their parents were basically family, so he was always at their house, not to mention he was Cam best mate. From that first train ride they had not gotten along at all. It was hard not to fight for them. They always seemed to be bickering about one thing or another. So the fact that he was beating up her boyfriend was the last straw for Kat.

"You…You…idiots!" she gritted out through clenched teeth.

Both boys winced slightly at the cold tone of her voice. That was from the Weasley side of her. She could put Molly and Ginny Weasley to shame with that glare and tone.

"What, pray tell, could you possibly be thinking," she continued, "You,"

She pointed to Zabini.

"Should not be beating up my boyfriend who has done absolutely nothing to you, or me for that matter except ask me out," she then turned her hard gaze to the blonde, "And you, shouldn't let that git provoke you, he's a Bloody idiot and I don't care what he did you can't just go around throwing punches at people," she interrupted Zabini as he opened his mouth to protest at that statement, "No matter if I do it or not!"

His mouth snapped shut and he crossed his arms and glared at her, she glared back.

"This is none of your business Potter, the fight had nothing to do with you at all," he growled.

She inched closer to him poking him in the chest with her small finger and glared up at him internally cursing her small height and his tallness.

Tom inched away from them without them noticing whatsoever, he walked over to their friends who were doling out money to the redhead, Luisa, Tom thought her name was. He caught the end of the conversation.

"…..sexual tension if I ever did see it."

Confused, Tom glanced back at Zabini and his girlfriend. The girl was clearly furious and was poking him while yelling unintelligible things at him. The boy was smirking at her but she did not seem to notice. Behind the smirk there was something….Tom was not quite sure….but he was not going to let it be what he hoped it wasn't.

He glanced at the redhead who was grinning smugly at him. Tom narrowed his eyes and turned back to the two who were now making their way to the group. The train had stopped and it was time to head to the carriages. Tom grabbed Kat's hand with an apologetic look and stood on her toes to kiss him on his cheek. He grinned and pulled her away from her friends to get their own carriage.

"I don't like it," Cam mumbled gloomily later on during the Welcome Feast as he watched his twin sister at the Ravenclaw table with her boyfriend.

The redhead next to him gave him a look.

"Cameron Potter, you are just going to have to get used to it," she announced, "Because, she's serious about him, she likes him unlike the others and she will not listen to reason."

"I know but…" Cam started and glanced over at his sulky best friend who was scowling at his pudding, with his head in his hand while he furiously stirred the pudding with the other.

"I know," Luisa said quietly, "But what can we do? He hasn't ever said anything about it to us or to her, even though we've known they are meant to be since they were five and she pushed him in the mud because he tried to kiss her."

Cam turned to her amused.

"Lu, I'm pretty sure we didn't know you at that point in time," he told her slowly.

She waved her hand airily at him.

"Details…" and continued eating her dinner.

Cam raised his eyebrows at the strange redhead who was so very strange and yet it worked well for her.

"You know," Cam started.

"No," she replied without looking up.

"How do you know what I'm going to say?"

She sighed and spun to face him.

"I know you, and you were going to say we should come up with a plan to get them together, and I say no, she'd kill us."

"But she wouldn't have to find out!" he whispered back to her.

Luisa bit her lip.

"Fine," she relented after staring into those bright green eyes of his, they always got her.

"Yippee!!" he clapped happily like a two year old.

"I'm so in," Seth stated from the other side of her.
"So glad you were eavesdropping," she stated dryly.

"No problem," he countered.

"Me too," Theo whispered from across Luisa.

"Was the whole table listening in on our conversation?" Lu exclaimed.

Just then Lilly Malfoy plopped down next to Theo.

"Nope, just the portion related to you all and the less deaf or lovesick," here she nodded towards a still scowling Zabini with a purple and bloody eye, "And I'm in as well, you four can't have all the fun now can you."

With that she stood and left the hall.

"Great," Lu scowled, "Now we have the Malfoy helping out and half of the boy population of Gryffindors, look if any of you muck this up I'm going to personally castrate you."

With that she flipped her red hair over her shoulder and stalked out of the hall.

The boys who had heard her went pale. Cam turned to Theo and Seth.

"She's mental that one, but I am so turned on right now."

So this is my attempt at my first new fanfiction....haha...I've done stuff before on my old account but I think this ones slightly better....I hope anyways review and let me know what you think. You can flame if you want I really don't care I mean yeah I don't want those but if it's that bad I would like to know. So okie dokie and read and review is all I have to say.