Several weeks have passed by and its now mid October. The air is chilly but the sun if shining. Cosmo has grown quite a bit but is still very small compared to Crookshanks, who is actually quite fat and reminds me of Garfield except he's much less sassy. The day had gone by so far so good. We have our first flying lesson today. Why? because it's the start of Quidditch season! Yay! I can't wait to go to Quidditch matches and learn to fly. All people have been talking about is Quidditch and flying, the school uses the beginning of term as a way to prepare first years and get everyone settled. I was unsure about my flying skills, unlike Harry who was born with it and any other witch or wizard that had flown before, I was completely inexperienced. But I can tell you who wasn't.

Draco, actually he'll tell you himself, in fact he won't shut up about his supposed impeccable flying skills. All he does is boasts about himself and its rather annoying. I feel a little bipolar around this boy, I'm nice to him but then he always pushes my buttons and crosses the line making me snap at him and come back at him.

it was around midday, 2:30 i think and we have flying lessons at 3:30 in the fields. I was about to walk into the Grand hall when I saw Cedric, Jack and Finn talking outside. Jack stopped talking when he saw me and waved making the others turn around to face me, I smiled and waved back at Jack and Cedric and Finn returned the gesture

"Hi guys" I smiled

"Hi Cymbelline" the twins said

"Hi" Cedric said

"Are you going to the hall?" Jack asked

"Yeah I am, are you guys?" I asked

"Yeah we were just about to" Cedric answered

"Come on then" I smiled as we entered the great hall, I walked down the hall and surprisingly Jack, Finn and Cedric followed

As I got closer to the table I saw Seamus waving his wand at a glass of water and saying an incantation " Eye of rabbit, harp string hum. Turn this water, into rum" He looked at the water and shook his head before trying once more

"Oh no" I said shaking my head

"What's wrong?" Cedric asked me

I walked faster to the table and tried to stop Seamus, as I approached the table he was about to start the incantation once more "Seamus don't! it's going to-" I was about to finished my sentence when a mini explosion and poof of smoke came from his wand "-explode...well I tried" I shrugged and took a seat next to Harry, I then picked up a napkin of the table and handed it to a shocked and covered in soot Seamus

"Thanks" he said shakily taking the napkin from my hand and wiping the soot of his face, I just laughed...oh Seamus

Cedric to a seat next to me and Jack and Finn sat next to him, I turned to them and smiled "oh guys, you already know Harry, Ron and Hermione, well this is Seamus and Neville" I said pointing to the shy awkward boy and the boy who's still covered in soot "guys this is Cedric, Jack and Finn" I said pointing to each boy.

They exchanged greetings before we all began to chat, about guess what? Quidditch, upon hearing this conversation Fred and George who sat further away, shuffled up and joined in. We were all talking about the sport, well everyone but Hermione who as usual had her nose in a book.

"Cedric here has just been appointed Captain and he's the teams Seeker" Jack praised his friend who blushed slightly not used to all the attention and compliments

"And we're beaters" Finn said indicating to Jack and himself

"Huh, funny" I chuckled

"What?" Jack asked me quizzically

"These two are also beaters for the Gryffindor team" I said pointing to the twins

"Hey, how did you know?" asked the Weasley twins

oh crap...think think think "Gotta know your house team right? I heard we haven't got a seeker but that Wood guy is keeper and captain...that's all I know though" I shrugged and its true that is all I know...Apart from the fact that after today Harry will be named Seeker. The twins seemed to by it but I mentally scolded myself for not being careful with my words

"Mails here" Ron said as the owls all flew in looking for their owners and dropping letters or parcels in their laps

A few owls flew over our heads, letters being delivered to Ron, Fred, George, Cedric, Jack, Finn and a parcel for Neville. The boys got letters from their parents but Neville got a Remembrall, but of course I already knew that.

"Can I borrow this?" Harry asks Ron, holding up the newspaper he received with his letter, Ron nods "Thanks"

"Hey look, Neville's got a Remembrall" Seamus said in awe, we all turn to look at the little clear ball in Neville's hand

"I've read about those. When the smoke turns red, it means you've forgotten something" Hermione said looking up from the book she was reading

"The only problem is, I can't remember what I've forgotten" said Neville looking at the now red smoke in the ball

"Hey, Ron, somebody broke into Gringotts. Listen, Believed to be the work of dark witches or wizards unknown, Gringotts goblins, while acknowledging the breach, insist that nothing was taken. The vault in question, number 713, had in fact been emptied earlier that same day" Harry said

"Isn't that the vault you and Hagrid went to?" I asked Harry leaning over and looking at the paper in his hands

"Yeah but how did you-" I panicked but stayed relaxed on the outside

"I think its time for flying classes don't you?" I looked at the rest of them avoiding eye contact with Harry

"Yes, come on, I don't want to be late, even if I hate flying" Hermione said, clasping the book tightly around her chest

We all stood up and thankfully Harry didn't ask me anything about what I said earlier...I really can't keep my mouth shut can I?! Damn.


We went outside to the field where Madame Hooch waited for us in the alleyway before the field. Her silver hair stuck up in all directions. There was a bench to one side of the alleyway and on the other numerous brooms lined up "Right, placed any unneeded books to the side over there and then pick up and broom and follow me" she said

I walked over to the brooms and grabbed one then I followed Madame Hooch out of the alleyway and into the field along with the rest of my friends and class mates. Unfortunately Draco was in this class and I knew he was going to cause trouble. Madame Hooch organized us in lines facing each other, with us four is was Hermione, me then Harry then Ron. We each had out brooms to the left of us and waited for the lesson to begin.

"Good afternoon, class" Madame Hooch called as we all stood in line

"Good afternoon, Madam Hooch" the class replied

"Good afternoon, Amanda, good afternoon,Welcome to your first flying lesson. Well, what are you waiting for? Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick. Come on now, hurry up. Stick your right hand over the broom and say, Up!" she got straight to it.

I wasn't exactly afraid of flying more exited, I didn't know what to expect, I knew that if you were scared the broom wouldn't come to you also if you weren't into it

"Up!" me and Harry said simultaneously and surprisingly my broom shot up in my hand as did Harry's

"Whoa" Harry said staring at his broom then me

"Cool" I smiled and then looked at Harry who seemed pretty pleased

I look at Draco to see him call for his broom "Up!" the broomstick flies up and Draco grasps it firmly with smug look on his face

"With feeling!" Hooch yells

"Up. Up. Up. Up." Hermione repeatedly calls for her broom but it just rolls around on the ground

"Hermione it knows what you're feeling, you're scared and don't want to fly so it won't come to you" I laughed "try again" I said and she listened to me, nodded then continued to call for her broom

I look at Ron just to see his broom file up and conks him on the nose"Ow!" Harry laughs at him as do I "Shut up, Harry" Ron laughs while rubbing his nose

"Now, once you've got hold of your broom, I want you to mount it and grip it tight, you don't want to be sliding off the end" she said as the class mounted their brooms. It felt odd to sit on a broom but it wasn't as bad as I thought "When I blow my whistle, I want each of you to kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your broom steady, hover for a moment, and then lean forward slightly and touch back down. On my whistle...3...2...1" She blew her whistle and Neville was instantly raising off the ground.

He looks quite frightened" Oh..." He said panicked

"Mr. Longbottom." Madame Hooch is confused a little as to what is happening

Students started calling his name telling him to come back down" Neville...Neville..." but I knew it would be no use

Neville begins soaring away"M-M-Mr. Longbottom Mr. Longbottom!" Hooch calls...right time to step in, I mounted my broom once again

"AHH!" Neville screams as he flies faster and faster

"Damn it Neville" I said making a few students turn to look at me, I then pushed up from the ground not caring about my own safety just knowing I didn't want Neville to break his arm, it was what I was here for anyway...I'm just doing my job

I began to lift up off the ground making more students turn to look at me, I hoisted the broom up slightly making me go higher and higher then leaning forward making me go faster, I ignored Madame Hooch and the rest of the students who were telling me to come back.

The wind blew threw my hair and cloak as I followed Neville and his rouge broom "Hold on Neville!" I said trying to calm him down, although I was saving him and flying as fast as I could, there was something deep within me that never wanted to come down. To fly in the sky, I felt free.

Turning my attention back on Neville, he then flew up and into the alleyway appearing near the roof before falling of the broom which flew off into the Forbidden Forest and getting his robes caught on a statue. I quickly flew towards him and as he slipped from the robe and fell, I caught him just before he could make impact. But his body weight made me slip too, leaving me with one hand on the broom clinging for dear life and the other clamped on Neville's jumper

"Argh...Neville I can't hold us much longer" I said trying to regain grip on my broom, students ran to us along with Madame Hooch, we were a bit higher than I hoped but not high enough to break anything...I hope "Neville" I hissed, he looked up seeing my hand lose its grip ever so slightly "Neville, listen to me okay listen carefully, I can't hold us much longer so I need you to relax yourself okay, I've going to drop you and when you come down I need you to tuck and roll so you don't get hurt, got it?" I questioned loud and clear, my arm getting tired, he meekly nodded and then looked back down at the students "okay on three okay, tuck and roll" he nodded once again preparing himself "one...two...three" I said letting go and closing my eyes a little before I lifted my body ever so slightly and grasped the broom with both hands

"Is he okay?" I called looking down seeing the students circling Neville who was on the ground and Madame Hooch who was hunched over him

"He's fine, just a sprained wrist" Madame Hooch called

Just sprained...well at least its not broken, I sighed with relief. I began the next struggle which was getting me back on my broom. With all the strength I had left, I pulled my body up and swung my leg over my broom and successfully hoisting my self back on. I then lowered myself down to the ground ever so slowly and when my feet touched the floor just next to Neville, I tossed my broom aside and look at him "Are you okay" I asked Neville

"Y-yeah thanks a lot" he smiled slight, the look was then replace by pain and Madame Hooch moved his wrist a little

"O-o-oh we need to get you to the hospital wing" Madame Hooch said standing up and helping Neville" Everyone's to keep their feet firmly on the ground while I take Mr. Longbottom to the hospital wing. Understand? If I see a single broom in the air, the one riding it will find themselves out of Hogwarts before they can say, Quidditch. "

"Quidditch" I mumbled making my friends laugh, they praised me for helping Neville and my flying skills till we were interrupted

"Did you see his face?" Draco snickers bring all the attention to him and Neville's Remembrall which he was holding "Maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he'd have remembered to fall on his fat ass." He laughs, I scowl at him for insulting my friend

"Give it here, Malfoy" Harry snaps, I smirk at Draco

"No. I think I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find" Draco said as he hops on his broom and soars around group, then through "How 'bout up on the roof?"soars off and hovers high in the sky

"What's the matter, Potter? Bit beyond your reach?" he taunts him while holding the ball out

Harry grabs his broom and runs to get on it but Hermione tries to stop him "Harry, no! You heard what Madam Hooch said! Besides, you don't even know how to fly" I laughed

"Go on Harry, you can do it" I encouraged him to fly

Harry lifts of and is now in the air, across from Draco "What an idiot" Hermione mumbles and I just laugh "you to, you shouldn't encourage him!" she scolded me as a mother would her child

"Give it here, Malfoy, or I'll knock you off your broom!" I hear Harry yell

"Is that so?" Draco mocks, Harry makes a dash for him, but Draco twirls around his broom in a 360

"Have it your way, then!" He throws the Remembrall into the air with all his might and flies across the yard and Harry quickly zooms passed trying to catch it, Draco then lands back on the ground and gets praised by his fellow Slytherin house mates. The rest of the students watch Harry intently as he soars after the ball, I am grinning madly.

"Why are you so happy?" Draco scolds me

I smirk at him "Harry's going to catch that ball" I state

"Oh really..."

"Really, I reckon he's got the talent of a seeker, catching that ball would be no problem" I said, Draco scoffs.

But I was right, cheers irrupted around us has we see Harry fly back down with the ball in hand, I turn around to Draco give him one last smirk before running off towards Harry, the rest of the class following close behind, when he touched the ground and ran toward us I gave him a quick hug and praised him "that was amazing" I said happily, the rest of the class congratulated him and I looked up to see Professor McGonagall make her way over making me smile, knowing what about to happen.

"Harry Potter?" she calls for Harry and he turned around to see her standing there "Follow me" he turns back to look at me sadly before walking away with the Professor

I can't help but smile "Harry just got in trouble and you're smiling?" Ron looked at me as if I was crazy

"He's not in trouble" I shrugged "he's going to be rewarded" I smiled, I know I wasn't meant to tell them what was going to happen, I just very very discreetly explained...I guess...ah what the heck that won't hurt anything

I see Draco and his goons laughing and I glare at them before returning back to the alleyway with the rest of the class. Flying lesson ended shortly and Harry didn't come back. But me and Ron were making our way to their common room they bumped into Harry who told us the great news.


"Guys, wait up" Harry called as he ran over to me and Ron "guess what" he said grinning

"What?" I smiled back already knowing the great news

"I've been made Gryffindor's team seeker!" he smiled happily

"Seeker? But first years never make their house teams! You must be the youngest Quidditch player in-" Ron said but Harry cut him off

"A century, according to McGonagall" Harry clarified

"That's brilliant Harry" I smiled and gave him and small hug

"Thanks"

"You even said he had Seeker skills today in class, Cym" Ron piped up, I just shrugged

Fred and George approach us and walk along with Ron, Harry and "Hey, well done, Harry, Wood's just told us!" said one twin

"Fred and George are on the team, too. Beaters" Ron said

"Our job is to make sure that you don't get bloodied up too bad. Can't make any promises, of course. Rough game, Quidditch." the other twin explained

"Brutal. But no one's died in years. Someone will vanish occasionally.."The first twin adds while they walk away and we walk towards the courtyard

"But they'll turn up in a month or two!" the other adds laughing

Ron see's the uneasy look on Harry's face and tries to cheer him up "Oh, go on, Harry, Quidditch is great. Best game there is! And you'll be great, too!" Hermione jumps up from her work and comes to join us

"But I've never even played Quidditch. What if I make a fool of myself?" Harry questioned us looking worried, I just laughed

"But you won't make a fool of yourself Harry, It's in your blood" I laughed, the boys look at me oddly but Hermione back me up

"She's right you know, come see" she leads us the trophy case, Hermione points at a plaque of Quidditch players, One lists Harry's father as a the team Seeker.

"Whoa. Harry, you never told me your father was a Seeker, too" Ron exclaimed

"I-I didn't know" Harry stuttered as he looked in awe at the golden plaque in which his fathers name was carved

"He was a great seeker Harry, he had talent and so do you, you're going to do amazing" I smiled reassuringly at the boy


We walk through the halls and come to the changing stair cases, we all walked along the stair case that lead to our common room " I'm telling you, it's spooky. She knows everything" Ron said to Harry, talking about me "How is it you know everything?" He turns to me "You know more about Harry, than Harry does!" he exclaimed

"Who doesn't?" Harry added, he's got point, his life story is legendary, there isn't a wizard alive that doesn't know it

I just shrug but then I hear a scraping noise, staircase shudders and begins to move I grab onto a railing to keep my balance "oh no! not now!" I said knowing exactly whats going to happen next and I wasn't too exited about meeting Fluffy

"Ahh!" Ron exclaims as the staircase starts to turn, Hermione gasps

"What's happening?" You can hear panic in Harry's voice

"The staircases change, remember?" Hermione points out as the staircase stops, in a new place, the 3rd floor corridor to be exact

Harry taps Ron "Let's go this way." he said motioning to the door in front of us

"Before the staircase moves again" Ron gulps, They all open a door and walk into a spooky, dark room I hesitate but follow swiftly not wanting to be on my own

"Does anyone feel like...we shouldn't be here?" Harry asks quite unsure as to what this place was but I was sure...100% certain, it was as if everything just got much colder and the only heat was coming from the door behind us

"We're not supposed to be here. This is the 3rd floor. It's forbidden" Hermione said, suddenly, a flame lights on a tall stone support. At that moment, the caretaker's cat, Mrs. Norris, comes running in and meows making us jump

"Let's go." Harry said, not noticing the cat which I was staring at, the cat meows again grabbing the others attention

"It's Filtch's cat!" Ron exclaims

"Run!" Harry calls and we all run across the corridor, the flames on the pedestals are lit as we run past. We get to the end of the corridor, to a door, I'm more scare now knowing whats behind there, Harry grabs the handle, but it's locked.

"It's locked!" Harry said tugging on the handle

Ron begins to panic even more, almost as much as I am "That's it, we're done for!"

"Guys I really don't think we should go in there-" Hermione cuts me off

"Oh, move over!" She said and she pushes through us and pulls out wand "Alohomora" she casts the spell and the door unlocks it self and Hermione pushes it open " Get in." They bustle in but I hesitate only having Hermione pull me into the room unwillingly. They shut the door behind us and I freeze seeing the dog

Ron was loud and the dog began to move "Alohomora?"

"Standard book of spells, Chapter 7" Hermione said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, the dog opens it's eyes seeing me and then they all begin to wake

"Guys..." I said and I tapped Hermione's shoulder

"What?" Hermione said slightly irritated

"Look" I whisper pointing to the dog which as now noticed all three of us. I quickly look down and see the trapped door, huh... It's bigger than I thought

The dog growls at us making me shiver, he then barks and growls louder making us all scream and run out of the door. The dog is barking loudly and tries to get through but we push on the door and lock it before running like mad men until we get to our common room

"Capput Draconis" I said breathlessly and the pink lady revealed the passageway letting us through

"What do they think they're doing? Keeping a thing like that locked up in a school" Ron seemed outraged and baffled

"You don't use your eyes, do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?" Hermione pointed out

"I wasn't looking at its feet! I was a bit preoccupied with its heads. Or maybe you didn't notice, there were three!" Ron exclaimed as we began to make our way up the stairs to the dorms

"It was standing on a trap door" I said

"Which means it wasn't there by accident. It's guarding something" Hermione clarified, i just nodded in agreement trying to catch my breath

"Guarding something?" Harry seemed a bit confused to the idea

Hermione nodded "That's right. Now, if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed...or worse, expelled!" she turns and leaves, shutting the door to her dorms and then there were three

"She needs to sort out her priorities!"Ron said and Harry nods in agreement

I just look at the two boys and sigh "Well, see you in the morning, night" I said

"Good night" the boys said as I headed to my dorm room

I walked along the hall until I reached my dorm, I opened the door to see no Hermione, she must be in the bathroom. Cosmo meows and walks over to me and purrs, i hold him in my arms and give him a little hug "Hey Cosmo" I said before putting him down and he then wanders off and sits on the window sill staring at the night sky

I pulled out some PJ's and put all my belongings that were in my pockets, in the top draw of my bedside table. Hermione then comes out of the bathroom all ready for bed

"A bit odd don't you think?" Hermione said, climbing into bed

"What is?" I asked

"The dog, I mean, I always thought Hogwarts was a safe place but if they need some creature to guard something then I guess it's not as safe as I thought" she said

"Hmmm true" I shrugged

"I wonder what it could be guarding" she questioned

"I don't know, but whatever it is I have a feeling we aren't supposed to know" I lied, heading for the bathroom with my pajamas in hand

"Hogwarts really isn't as safe as I thought then" she said "good night"

"Goodnight" I said ..she really has no idea how unsafe Hogwarts is.

I got changed and ready for bed, of course not taking of my parents locket. I wasn't tired and doubt I could sleep after meeting Fluffy but Hermione seemed to have no trouble with entering dreamland as she was already fast asleep when I re entered our room. I headed over to the windowsill and sat down next to Cosmo. He stood up and made his way over to me, sitting on my lap, allowing me to stretch my legs out and be more comfortable.

I stroked him with one hand while in my other hand I held my locket. I stared out of the window, it was a full moon, I always have loved the full moon, I feel drawn to it, I have done ever since I was a child. One of my mum's favourite hobbies were stargazing, she had a telescope at home and would stay up late to look for constellations, she taught me some when I was younger. I always loved the stars like my mother.

I began to think about the upcoming events of Harry's first year and the next few years...The Philosophers stone, the mirror, Christmas... Next year, Ginny opening the chamber of secrets. Ron never mentioned Ginny which was odd but I guess he just didn't want us to know, oh well. Tom Riddles diary and Dobby...Oh Dobby is going to be a nightmare, I have to keep an eye out for him. Harry's third year is were we meet Sirius. It was the year I was most exited for, I wanted to help Sirius defeat Peter Pettigrew or Scabbers should I say... I hate the rat but I try not to make it obvious, I don't want to upset Ron.

Harry's fourth year came to mind and I nearly cried. Cedric...his time is limited and he had no idea. I was the only one that knew. It kills me on the inside. My mind ran through every detail of each book and movie trying to grasp what was going to happen. I knew roughly but sometimes during the day, I would get so caught up in what I was doing. I'd forget.

I crawled back into bed and my mind was restless but I pushed all my thoughts aside so I could be ready for a new day.


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