"Oh come off it, Harry!" She exclaimed while throwing her hands in the air. "There is no way for you to become a wizard unless you go back to school. Besides, Snapes gone. You have nothing to fear."
"The boy with the lightning scar sighed as he glanced out the window frowning. "I didn't fear him." He heard a pfft sound from behind him. He turned and glared at the yellow-eyed girl. "But the fact that there are still a few Death Eaters around and in hiding bugs me."
"They can't get you at Hogwarts." Ginny said while grabbing his hand soothingly. "Besides, you can't be a hero all the time. It's someone else's turn to do the job."
He nodded as Kassie stood up stretching and yawning. "Well, I'll see you when we reach Hogwarts."
"What are you up to?" Harry asked puzzled.
She laughed. "Just because I hung out with Fred and George a lot, does not mean I'm always up to something. I'm actually just going to do my Head Girl duties."
She waltzed out the door with Harry and Ginny laughing behind her as she tripped onto the hallway. Straightening herself up and closing the door she walked up and down the hallways covered in Hogwarts crests to make sure no one was misbehaving.
"So you're the new Head Girl." A dreamy voice said behind Kassie. She grinned as she turned around.
"Luna! I heard you made prefect!" She ran to give the girl a hug.
"It's been a long summer…" Luna said as she walked the corridor with Kassie. "A lot of sadness, and a lot of pain. But this school year will be great."
The older girl nodded sadly. "It's been hard without Fred." More than hard, nearly impossible. She thought quietly to herself as she brushed a tear that was threatening to fall.
Luna nodded and patted the older girls hand. "But he died for you. There's' a difference." She looked at her watch. "Oh crumpled horns! I need to check in with Michael!" She turned briskly and half skipped half walked down the hall and into a different train carriage.
Kassie sighed as she heard the new Headmistress, Professor McGonagall announce over the intercom that they'd be shortly pulling into Hogwarts.
"Night, the Heads are supposed to ride together." Draco Malfoy said full of disgust as he walked into the corridor she was standing in.
"Right, so where is the other Head?"
He smirked. "Right here."
Her eyes turned a vicious red. "You've got to be kidding me." She said through with her arms crossed. Of all the guys to be picked as the other Head, it was this obnoxious twit.
"C'mon Night, we don't want to be late." Malfoy said in a forced polite tone while gesturing for her to go. He'd even choose Granger over this girl. This girl was intense, and from what he picked up during the last fight, a great dueler being able to hold her own with Voldemort for awhile.
"After you, Malfoy. I don't need the worry of you cursing me in the back." She said through clenched teeth.
He rolled his eyes. "A gentlemen wouldn't do that."
"So any other guy apart from you." She said with a sneer.
Sometimes, Kassie wondered why the Sorting Hat didn't just put her in Slytherin. But then she realized the hat knew that she would kill everyone in there except for Blaise.
Blaise wasn't like the rest of the Slytherins. He'd actually, more than once, rescued her from Malfoy's little thugs, Crabbe and Goyle. And Parkinson.
Man she hated her.
Maybe even a little more than how much she hated Malfoy.
"Fine." Malfoy said crossing over where the door was. "I'll go first. Happy?"
"Immensely." She mumbled as she stepped out behind him. She could feel her eyes slowly fading back to their original color, a dark black. With her dark auburn hair she seemed like an obvious Goth. But as her eyes betrayed her emotions, she turned out to be a happy go-lucky-girl. Until the war.
The war had taken everything from her. During the Christmas of her 6th year the Death Eaters murdered her parents and little brother. Then at the end of the same year after a foolish attempt to awaken the dead Headmaster, his power had sucked into her, throwing her into a coma for the rest of the year and most of the summer.
She had stayed at the school her first take of the seventh year, purely to try to protect Ginny, Luna and Neville from the despicable Carrows and Snape, while trying to learn more complicated magic than the rest of her year.
She could even remember the night Fred died. She had been hit hard with a Stupefy that didn't keep her down and had let go of her wand in her flight. Fred and George, who were recently reunited with Percy, rushed to her side as Fenir Greyback and Doholv closed in on her. She could even hear Fred screaming…
She snapped open her eyes. Malfoy and her were on a threstal pulled carriage on the way to the castle. He glanced over at her as she in took a gasp and whispered one sharp word to him. "Dementor"
He nodded as he lifted his wand. "Lumos"
They both scanned the Forbidden Forest to the left and the lake to the right. Malfoy noticed how they were so far ahead of everyone else. McGonagall must've expected something like this to happen.
"There." He breathed pointing to where the Dementor floated.
She gave a quiet yelp, as the effects of the Dementor grew worse as it grew closer. She could see the blood from Fred's wound and remembered all the screams around it. She couldn't see anything but him. She raised her wand to protect herself, but the words wouldn't come.
"Expecto Patronum!" Draco yelled, pointing his wand at the Dementor. He pictured the time he got his first broom, the excitement of riding with his dad through the valley. Back before everything changed. His barely formed fox patronus managed to drive the Dementor away before it faded.
The mood changed completely. He still shivered at the after affects of the Dementor, but the sadness had been lifted away, his shoulders felt a little lighter.
He rummaged through his bag and pulled out a chocolate bar. "Here. It'll make you feel better." He said tossing half the bar into Kassie's lap.
"Thanks." She muttered lifting the chocolate to her lips.
"Are you okay?" He asked absently, not remembering clearly whom he was with.
She shrugged as Hogwarts pulled into view. "Better than when the Dementor was there."