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Author's Note: I don't know how this happened. It was suppose to be a one shot, it grew to being about a ten different pieces, most of which are already written. I am release them in smaller pieces to make it easier to navigate. Thanks guys.
She could remember the exact moment that she knew she was in love with a complete stranger. It had been at the second quidditch game of the year, Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff, neither her house team she was just there to cheer for the defeat of the Gryffindors. They were the rivals of the team her brother played for, how could she justify cheering for their victory. Ariyanna had accompanied her housemate Lana Channel and her boyfriend Will Harper. Harper played for their house team so there was no chance he would be missing the game and Lana just wanted to accompany her boyfriend wherever he went. She was loyal to him, even if sometimes Ariyanna doubted his loyalty to her. The three were Ravenclaws, however they could not be more different in standings. A pureblood, a muggle born, and a half-blood; she knew the fact that one of her closest school mates being a muggleborn would always make her father cringe; perhaps that was why her brothers purposely ignored her existence at Hogwarts. Ariyanna Pucey could have followed the legacy set down by all of her ancestors before her, however she differed from the norm and was sorted into Ravenclaw, for the longest time she actually cursed her own house and wished she had been sorted into Slytherin, but in the past year or two she had become more accepting of her house. Realizing it was her sense of wit that conquered the bloodline legacy in the sorting.
"Ari, you do realize the quidditch pitch isn't meant to be a fashion show correct?" Will asked her, snapping her out of the conversation that Lana and her had been engulfed in about her sense of fashion. "Who wears a beret to a quidditch match?" He had clearly become annoyed of Lana's attention not being concentrated solely on him.
Ariyanna smiled wrapping an arm around Lana's, "I do, clearly. Since when do you even know what my hat is called Mr. Harper? Have you perhaps been studying the fashion magazines Lana leaves laying about?" She laughed, smiling at her friends. In that moment she saw a glimpse of the players entering the stadium, first the Hufflepuffs then the Gryffindors. She cheered at their entrance it meant that soon the game would begin.
Lana took the moment of distraction to ask Ariyanna something she knew that she had been dying to ask for weeks, "are you really over Macmillan?" Gregory Macmillan was Ariyanna's most recent ex-boyfriend, she had never managed to keep one long and he was no exception. She found him dreadfully boring after their second date but held hope that he would soon stop talking solely of quidditch and schoolwork however after a month of it she had politely asked him to stay as far away from her as he could. Ariyanna nodded as she watched the golden jersey fly about, he had so far done as she asked and hadn't made a large fuss about the break up. She watched as he drew closer and it wasn't until she felt Lana pull hard on her arm that she ducked just in time to not catch the tail end of his broomstick. The broomstick breeze as he flew by however had been strong enough to make her hat blow off her head and go drifting down into towards the field. Greg, was the Hufflepuff's seeker, of course his broom was one of the fastest but she had never expected he took the break up so badly that he would purposely fly close to her to endanger her.
"Watch it you bloody prick!" Lana yelled at the top of her lungs as he flew away.
Ariyanna was to taken back to even care about him. Her hands went to her head and smoothing out her hair, "I liked that hat." She said simply as though to tell Lana not to get upset by his childish behavior.
Will, always the more level headed of the couple, told her they could go down to the pitch after the game and he would help her find it. It was then that a red blur came by the pitch she watched as he successfully caught the black beret as it fell, he had went almost downward in a straight dive to catch it only to then pull up at the last moment to be brought back up, a loud roar came from the Gryffindor stands. He flew up towards the stands she was in "Somebody lose something?" Even though she was their to cheer against Gryffindor, along with most of the other people in the stands the stand cheered. "Weasley! Weasley! Weasley!" His name rattled in her ears. Lana waved him down for her and he flew over to in front of the two girls and Will, Lana reached out and took the beret back noticing Ariyanna looking away, her hand close to her face. Lana had known her long enough to know she didn't like to have a fuss made over her, Charlie Weasley, seeker of the Gryffindor team, handed it to Lana however he looked past her to Ariyanna. Lana mouthed a thank you and he nodded before taking off.
Lana handed Ariyanna her hat back which she quickly stuffed in her coat pocket. She sat down in her seat while the rest of the crowd stood for the heart racing game, Gryffindor had came out victorious however she couldn't tell you anything about the game. She just sat their staring blankly at the field.
When the game had ended, Lana had stuck around in the stands when Will had left to congratulate his friends on the other teams for the great game. "You should really thank him, you know that right?" Lana said simply looking at her friend with caring eyes.
Ariyanna looked at her through her bangs that where no longer being kept nicely in place by her beret. "And how exactly do you think I should do that? It's not like I've ever spoken to the bloke before." Her hand found its way back into her pocket as pulled out her hat.
"He was looking at you, I think he recognized you from somewhere." Lana said simpl, standing up and stretching her arms above her head.
"It's not that large of a school and I do have a bit of a reputation." She rebutted quickly as she also stood, smoothing out the front of her skirt. "I guess I can ask Will if he could tell him thanks for me."
"Its not the same. You, as in Ariyanna, need to thank him. You know that him catching your hat was a cooler catch than him catching the snitch." She said simply. "Now come on, I'm missing being arm candy to give you a pep talk." She said walking away, but it made Ariyanna smile slightly.
"Some kind of pep talk, sounded more like orders to me." Ariyanna said to herself quietly as she followed her friend. She knew that was just Lana's way of showing her she cared, but it was Charlie Weasley, a member of the family, families like her were taught to hate. Ariyanna was also taught to hate witches like Lana also, and she had never hated her.