Best Friends, or Best Couple (Revised)

Summary- Katie/Oliver. Katie is going back for her sixth year at Hogwarts and Oliver is going back for his seventh. Has he been keeping a secret from his best friend Katie, who has been slowly slipping away since fourth year?

Disclaimer- All of this is mine, mine, MINE!!!! Sorry, I was talking to my brother who was trying to take my stuff. Anyway, all of this belongs to JK Rowling and those affiliated with her, except for some characters and the majority of the plot.

Chapter One

You Look Different

Dear Aunt Jackie,

I am soooooooo bored!! I don't know whether I can make it through the last few weeks of summer! I have absolutely nothing to do. None of my friends have owled me at all! I haven't gotten a single one! None of my muggle friends are around either. Their high school had a fieldtrip this summer and they all went to Italy. Even though I really love Hogwarts and all the people there, sometimes I wish I was just a normal sixteen-year-old girl. Well, I'm sure you don't want to listen to the woes of my teenage life any longer, so I will let you go.

Lots of Love and Beef Broth,

Katie Bell

Finally, I'm finished!!! You have no idea how many times I have written that letter in the past 4 ½ hours. But it's not like I had anything better to do anyway. Ok, well I think I had better put on my combat boots and go to Diagon Alley so that I can get an owl and send this to Aunt Jackie.

"Hey mum, I'm gonna go to Diagon Alley to get an owl," I called into kitchen where I knew my mum would be, cooking some scrumptious Italian dish for dinner, "I'll be back by dinner, I think"

"You better not think you'll be back by then Katherine Meatball," my mum said, walking out of the kitchen and waving a spatula at me. She had think, curly brown hair, warm blue eyes, and was just a bit chubby. "You will be back by dinner, which will be at 7:30 so don't be late. But do have a good time."

"Mum," I said pleadingly as I followed her back into the kitchen, "Please don't use my middle name where anyone, especially my friends could possibly hear it. Why couldn't I have a normal middle name like Emma has?"

"Because Katie my darling," she replied, smiling at me sweetly and squeezing my cheek, "You're my little meatball, and besides, Emma Angela Bell sounds much better than Katherine Angela Bell. Hmm…. Nope, you're stuck with Meatball until you get married little missy!"

"Like that'll ever happen," I snorted under my breath, "All the guys at Hogwarts are all big-headed, daft, prats."

 "I think you'll change your mind sometime soon Katie, I'm sure you will," she said smiling slightly and patting my head, and then turned towards the boiling pot of water on the stove, "And remember dinner is at 7:30, don't be late."

"I won't be. Love you mum," I said as I walked out of the kitchen, down the hall, and stumbled out of the front floor. I turned left at the end of the drive and headed towards muggle London where the Leaky Cauldron and Diagon Alley were cleverly hidden.

Yay! Here at last! Took me long enough to get here. I should have taken the Knight Bus. Dude, was that a vampire? You know, I heard that they were bisexual. Ok, innyhoo, I need to get to the Magical Menagerie and get my owl.

I wandered down the alley looking through the windows without actually seeing anything in them. Instead, thoughts of Oliver filled my head. I can't wait until I get to see him again…

"Oof!" I cried as I ungracefully ran into someone very solid and fell on my butt.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," I heard someone say in a thick Scottish brogue. I looked up and what do you know, I saw straight into the eyes of none other than the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, Oliver Wood.

"It's ok," I said grinning," Just help me up would you Oliver?"

"Katie, is that you?" He said after staring at me for what seemed like ages, but was really just a few seconds, "I almost didn't recognize you. You look different from when I last saw you, in a good way of course."

"So have you Oliver," I replied. Dang, he is looking finer than ever! Seeing him again totally makes me remember why I like him. "So, what are you doing here?"

"Just checking out the newest brooms," he answered automatically.

"I should have known. Well, I had better be going; I forgot to get my owl last time I was here so I need to go pick one out."

"Oh, all right," Oliver said. Was that regret I heard in his voice? It couldn't be, could it? "I'll see you on the train then."

He walked away; sighing deeply as if he really would have rather kept on talking to me. But, he couldn't really want to talk to me, I mean I'm ugly and… No!! I need to stop with the negatives! Alicia would yell at me and then kill me if she heard me talking smack about myself again. I guess I better get my owl, it's already 6:30 and I don't want to be late for dinner.

I turned and walked towards the shop, which was right in front of me, and was amazed by the number of owls I saw just in the window alone.

After ten minutes of looking, I finally found the owl I wanted. It was a dark shade of midnight blue, almost black, with little pink fleck in it, with big, yellow, orb like eyes.

Oh my gosh, that cashier chick was such a... urgh. I can't believe she tried to talk me out of buying Gwenabe! Gwen is such a doll! I don't see how anyone cannot like her! She is such a sweetie. Uh-oh, it's 7:15; I don't think I can make it home if I walk. I better flag down the Knight Bus if I want to be home on time for dinner, and trust me, no one wants to suffer the wrath of my mum.

End Notes-

· Hey people! I'm glad that you decided that my story was worthy of your reading.

· I'd really appreciate it if you would review since you read this far and all.

· As you can see from the beginning of this chapter, this is the revised addition of Best Friends or Best Couple because when I read through it a while ago I saw that I had way to many mistakes and I needed to fix them. And forgive me if there are still mistakes because I totally rewrote this chapter.

· I'll hopefully be rewriting the other chapters as well, and maybe I'll even add new one!!