The Owlery
Mariana wiggled happily in her seat, taking a bite out of her breakfast. "I could honestly live here forever."
"Well I don't know about that" a familiar voice said, "I'd likely go crazy." He put one leg over the bench and faced Mariana.
"Fred! What're you doing up so early?" She said, taking a drink of her orange juice.
"Fred? I'm not Fred! I'm George!" Mariana gave him a 'you're not fooling me' look. He laughed. "I needed to get a banana for the Ageing potion," He smiled cheekily, "I'd ask you what you were doing but it's pretty obvious. Are you always hungry?"
"I don't know if you know, Fred, but people do have to eat more than once a day. By the way, thank you for the food last night." She smiled back.
"Oh no worries. I didn't want you to die of starvation before you had the chance to see me win the Triwizard tournament." He winked and walked off, in search of a banana.
"I wonder how Zico is doing..." She thought aloud, "Maybe I should send Tom a letter telling him about everything... he'd want to know." Mariana shuffled through her book bag and looked for parchment and quill. She ripped off a piece of parchment as large as a sticky note and began to write.
Hello, Tom!
Everything is going great.
I met Harry Potter and I've made lots of friends.
-Mariana
On her way to the owlery, she saw a blonde headed figure walking into the same room she was about to. The boy stood inside, petting a rather large eagle owl, "It's beautiful..." Mariana spoke. The boy turned around.
"Who are you?" He glared at her.
"Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Mariana." Suddenly, a familiar hooting began and Zico began flying in circles around her. "Zico!" She pulled him into her hands, "I've missed you too! Do you see this?" She held out the same piece of parchment in a makeshift small envelope, "This is for Tom. Do you think you could make it there? To the Leaky Cauldron?"
The boy snorted, "I doubt it. Pathetic looking thing like that."
Mariana returned his previous glare, "Pathetic? And who do you think you are?" she inched closer to him.
"Me? You don't know me? I'm Draco Malfoy." He said as he too inched closer.
"Well, Draco, I don't appreciate you calling my snowy owl pathetic!"
"Aren't snowy owls supposed to be larger? He's a pathetic excuse for his own species! Even the Weasley's owl is better than that thing." He retorted.
"Scrawny little git, aren't you talking a bit too big right now since your goons aren't around?" A Weasley voice came from behind.
"Fred." Mariana's eyes widened. Fred motioned her to leave with him, "Hold on a sec." She went over to the window with Zico, "Remember, the Leaky Cauldron." She pecked her bird in his head and it flew off in a hurry. Fred put an arm around her shoulder and led her out of the owlery.
Draco stood there in silence, his eyebrows furrowed. He sighed annoyingly, "Go follow it.." he told his eagle owl, "Make sure that pathetic thing makes it okay."
Short chapter :] Forgive me. By the way, would any of you like to see a drawing of Mariana? Just a though.
