Authur's note: Sorry I took long to update.
I don't know Harry Potter.
Chapter 2
Sarah's POV
"Goodbye Sarah i'll see you tomorrow." I was saying goodbye to Melanie after hanging out with her in the park. She lived a couple of houses down from me, so she just walked me home.
"Bye." She started walking away to her house and I went inside the house. It looked like nobody was there, but they were probably somewhere around the house. I went upstairs to my room and dropped my backpack on the bed and put my wand on my desk. I kept hearing this loud noise which was coming from my little brothers room from the muggle radio my parents got him for his birthday. I get sick of him playing it so loud so I went to go tell him to turn in down. I went into his room and it looked like he was sleeping, so I grabbed a bat and poked him with it.
"Tommy get up and turn it down." He didn't wake up, so i poked him again. He still didn't get up and I was starting to get worried. I turned his body, so I could see his face. He was staring blankly at the ceiling. "Tommy this is not funny. Get up!"
I checked to see if he was breathing and he wasn't and he didn't have a pulse either. He was dead. I put him back on the his bed and ran in to my parents room. They weren't in there and then I heard a scream come from the hallway.
"Tell me where she is!" I opened the door a little to see a guy with a mask chasing my mother. My mother was heading to her room where I was, so I ran and hid in the closet. She ran in here and was trapped in the corner. I was gonna run out and help her, but I couldn't move. She knew I was here and she did that stupid freezing spell on me. She was gonna die and I couldn't do anything about it.
"I don't know where she is!" My mother shouted back at the man. He raised his wand higher and pointed it straight at her heart.
"I'm only gonna ask you one last time. Where the hell is she!?" He shouted.
"I don't know where she is."
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" The spell shot through his straight at her heart. She fell to the ground, dead, but had no marks on her. The man ran out of the room and I could hear him looking through the rooms looking for me. The spell my mom put on me was gone, so I could move around now. I heard the front door slam meaning the guy had left. I got out of the closet and ran down the stairs. I ran into the living room and saw my dad on the couch. He had his eyes closed, but there was blood run down his neck, so I guess he was dead, too. Tears started falling down my eyes because I realized they were dead. I ran to the front door and was gonna go down the street to Melanie's house so we could call the Aurors office.
"Ah, Sarah." I turned and saw the man who killed my mom was standing near the side of the house. He started walking toward me and I tried to pull out my wand, but i couldn't find it, then I realized I left it on my desk. I started walking backwards away from him. He pointed his wand at me.
"Avada-"
I felt something shaking me. I opened my eyes and saw Melanie looking down at me. I sighed in relief when I realized that it wasn't happening again. My parents and brother died about a year ago before my fifth year and until this day it still haunts me. But I still have my older brother Jared and my little sister Natalie. They were at my grandmother's house when it happened.
"Sarah, you okay?" She whispered to me. All my roomates were awake, looking at me.
"Yeah. Why wouldn't i be?"
"You were screaming. Were you having that dream again?" I looked at her shocked. I didn't ever scream before because of the dream.
"Yeah I had it again." I looked at the clock it was five thirty. I usually go for a run at this time, so I started getting up. The reason I get up so early to go for a run is because no one is up yet in the castle, so no one will bother me.
"Where are you going?" Melanie whispered. I looked at her.
"For a run." The other girls started going back to bed and Melanie did, too. I left the room to go to the Slytherin common room. It was a long, dark room with green lamps hanging from the ceiling. It was dark in here because the common room was under the lake. I walked out of the common room and walked through the halls and went outside. I started jogging along the path. By the time I was by the lake I was tired, so I stopped and sat under a tree. After awhile, I heard some foot steps coming toward me. I looked up and saw the Gryffindor Golden Boy, Harry Potter walking on the path.
Harry's POV
I woke up at around five thirty. Classes start at around seven, I tried to go to sleep for thirty more minutes. After awhile I gave up trying to go to sleep and got up. I got dressed in a T-shirt and jeans for now until I had to change into my uniform. Ron, Neville and my two other roomates, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnagan, were still asleep. I went downstairs to see if Hermione was up, but I couldn't find her. I started walking to the Great Hall to see if she was down there eating because usually she was a morning person, but she wasn't there either. There was only a couple of people in the Great Hall. Nobody I usually hang out with was in ther, I just went for a walk along the path from the castle.
I turned on my Ipod and started heading toward Hagrid's cabin. His lights weren't on so i just kept walking. Then I started feeling guilty because I realized I wasn't gonna be in his class this year. Well maybe I could sign up for it, if I could fit it in my schedule. I was walking by the lake when I started thinking about the classes I had take to become an Auror, but then I realized I couldn't because of my potions O.W.L. The thing I was glad of is that I wouldnt have to take Divination any more. Maybe I would just take History of Magic for fun and to be with Hermione.
I just kept thinking about stuff about school when I felt eyes on me. I looked up and saw that girl Sarah Mathews sitting under a tree. She looked pretty. She had brown hair that went up to her waist and blue eyes. When she saw me staring, she glared at me for a couple of seconds, then turned away. I just kept walking. I checked the time and it was already six. I started heading toward the castle and heard foot steps behind me. I knew she was following me. I went back to the Gryffindor common room and went to check if Ron was awake. He wasn't so I woke him up and we started getting dressed. We went downstairs to see where Hermione was.
"Hey Lavender!" I ran up to Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil. "Do you know where Hermione is?"
"I think she's in the Great Hall already." Parvatil told me. "So how was your summer?"
"Good. Yours?" I asked her. I noticed Lavender was watching Ron. Then she started talking to him about his summer.
"Mine was great. You wanna leave these two alone?" She noticed them, too. I nodded.
"We are going to leave you guys to talk." We told them, but they weren't really listening. Parvati and I started walking away from them to the Great Hall. When we got into the Great Hall, she went to sit by someone and I walked over to Hermione and Neville.
"Hey guys." I sat down by Neville and had a view of the rest of the Great Hall. The Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables were already filled up and the Slytherin was barely full.
"Hey Harry." Neville said.
"Good morning." Hermione said not looking up from the book she was reading.
"So what classes you going to take this year?" I asked Neville. I started putting food on my plate.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts, Herbology, History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, and im going to try to get into Transfiguration. What about you?" He said.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts, Herbology, Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, and maybe Care of Magical Creatures and History of Magic." I said. I looked up to the doors of the Great Hall. Dean and Seamus were walking in and some were some Slytherins. Dean and Seamus came over and sat by us.
"Hey guys." They said to us at the same time. We said hi back. Then Ginny came over and sat in front of me by Dean.
"Guess what I heard." She said looking at me.
"What?"
"Well I was just in the bathroom and some girls were planning on how to get your attention." She said. Seamus laughed.
"Your kidding. Who would want to go out with him?" He said laughing. I glared at him.
"Hey asshole. I have twice as many girls chasing after me than you do." I said. Hermione finally came out from behind her book.
"Ha! Yeah rig-" Seamus was interrupted by Hermione.
"I also heard some girls were planning on giving you a love potion." I looked at her.
"Did you take the potion away from them?" I asked. She shook her head.
"Why not?"
"Because they didn't actually have the potion with them they were just planning it."
"Who were the girls?" Neville asked.
"Romilda Vane and her friends."
"So this proves he is a better man than you. He's got girls chasing after him." Dean told Seamus.
"Okay. I'll admit you are the better man if you could make a girl fall in love with you." Seamus said to me.
"Wow sounds easy enough." I said.
"But I get to choose who it is." Seamus said.
"Okay you can, but she has to be pretty and no Slytherins." I told him.
"Yes it can be a Slytherin." He said back.
"No."
"Yes."
"Okay how about this we take a vote." I said.
"Okay then. If you guys say it should be a Slytherin raise your hand." Seamus, Dean, Ginny, and Neville raised their hands.
"I don't think it will be a good idea." Hermione said.
"Oh come on it will be fun. So can I choose the girl now?" Seamus said. I nodded.
"But she has to be pretty." Seamus turned and looked at the Slytherin table. I looked over and thought that the decision was going to be hard. There wasn't to many pretty girls in that house. Then I saw Sarah and her pack of friends walk in. Im guessing Seamus noticed too because he turned to me and smiled.
"I now made my decision."
"Who?" I narrowed my eyes.
"The Slytherin Ice Queen." He said. I had no idea who he was talking about.
"Who?"
"The Slythrin Ice Queen is Sarah Mathews, Harry." Hermione said. I looked over at the Slytherin table. Sarah was there looking at her food. Then her friend whispered something in her ear and she looked up at me. I turned away and looked at Hermione.
"Why is she called the Ice Queen?" I asked her.
"Because she is cold and distant to everyone." Neville said.
"Okay am I the only one that doesn't know her?"
"Harry you do know her." Hermione said. I shook my head.
"I don't remember her."
"She would always tease us with Malfoy remember?" I thought about it and then it clicked. I remember her helping Malfoy make the "I support Cedric Diggory" badges during the Triwizard Tournament.
"That's her?" I asked shocked. Hermione nodded.
"So are you going to take the challenge and be the better man?" Seamus asked. I thougt about it and I guess it was worth the try.
"Yeah i'll-" Hermione covered my mouth with her hand.
"I don't think that is a good idea." I took her hand off my mouth.
"Yes it is. Yeah i'll do it. Deal?" I held out my hand.
"Deal." Seamus shook my hand.
"You truely are a Gryffindor. Brave to take on that challenge." Dean said.
"You know it, bro." Hermione looked at me dissaprovingly."What?"
"This is bad. Your little plan is probably gonna back fire on you." She said.
"Nice to hear you have faith in me." I said trying to make her feel guilty. Ron arrived at the table.
"I wasn't saying that." She stopped talking becasue Professor McGonagall came over to discuss our schedules. Neville got all the subjects he wanted except for Transfiguration. He got Charms instead. Hermione got Ancient Runes, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Tranfiguration, Potions, History of Magic, and Care of Magical Creatures. She ran off to class after she got her schedule, claiming she was gonna be late. Then McGonagall came over to me.
"Potter I thought it was your ambition to become an Auror?" She asked me.
"It was, but I was supposed to get an Outstanding in my O.W.L." I said.
"Mr. Slughorn accepts Exceeds Expectations. Do you wish to continue with potions?" She asked me.
"Yes." The rest of my classes were Transfiguration, Defence, Charms, History of Magic, Herbology, and Care of Magical Creatures. I got all the same classes with Neville except for Transfiguration. Ron got the same as us too.
"Yes! We got two free periods before and after lunch where we could just hang out. The only bad thing is we have Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Defence, Potions and History of Magic with Slytherins." I looked down at my schedule and saw we had double potions and care of magical creatures on Mondays with Slytherins. The rest of the days we had one hour with them. I was about to get pissed, but then I realized this was my chance to get to know Sarah.
"It's not a bad thing for Harry." Neville said. Ron looked up at him.
"What do you mean?" He asked. We told him all about the bet.
"Are you bloody mental?!" Ron shouted at me.
"Nope. Don't shout at me though or I will turn mental on you." I said." Oh by the way, what happened with Lavender?"
His ears turned red and he looked down at his food. Neville and I heard him whisper something that sounded like "None of your damn buisness."
"I'm sorry what was that?" I asked him smiling.
"Shut up." That made me laugh even more. Then I felt eyes on me again. I looked around the Great Hall and met a pair of blue eyes. Sarah looked at me, then turned away.
"It seems like you already have her attention, huh?" Neville was looking at her.
"Wow I haven't even done anying. Let's go to class?" Ron, Neville and I got up just as Sarah and her friends were getting up. Then I got an idea.
"Hey Neville can you do me a favor?"
"Yeah what is it?" We were getting closer to Sarah.
"Use a spell and make Sarah's books fall out of her hands then start walking away with Ron."
"Why?"
"Because I'm going to help her pick up her books." Sarah and her friends got out of the Great Hall first. We got out then Neville said the spell and her bag ripped oppen and all her stuff fell out of her bag. Ron and Neville started walking away in the other direction. Then I started listening.
"You guys go I'll catch up with you. Just tell Slughorn I had a cramp or something." Sarah told her friends.
"You sure?" She nodded her head.
"Yeah go." They started walking away, just like I wanted. I looked over my shoulder and saw Ron and Neville watching from behind a plant. I shook my head and looked back at Sarah. She kneeled down to pick up her things and I walked up to her and kneeled down to help. She looked up at me and narrowed her eyes. I started picking up her books, but she tooked them out of my hand.
"Look I don't need your help." She said. I sort of liked her voice. "Especially from you."
I frowned. Ouch that hurt.
"Well it looks like you do."
"I don't."She said.
"Well too bad. I'm helping." I grabbed my wand and cleared off the ink from the books and grabbed her books. I stood up and she did the same thing.
"Give me my books, Potter."
"You know me? What's your name?" I asked her.
"I think everyone knows you. And I don't give out that kind of imformation to strangers." She said.
"True,but you know me. I'm not really a stanger to you."
"Will you stop being annoying and give me my books." She was looking a bit frustrated.
"No. and i'm not trying to be annoying i'm trying to help." She rolled her eyes."You are going to potions right?"
She narrowed her eyes at me. Then she nodded. I took the books out of her hand and started walking to class. When we were right outside I handed them to her.
"Thanks." She took them.
"Your welcome." Then I walked into class. Ron and Neville came in after.
