Chapter 9: Bad luck

Alex's plan did not go as planned, but she did finally find out what they were talking about.

A dream? It seemed so weird that he would actually think something like that happened. She knew that if she saw Harry in a dream she wouldn't go run off and tell Justin and Max…

Then again, Harry's parents were killed by an all-powerful wizard, and he almost died too. Could that possibly have anything to do with it? Possibly…

She pondered this the next morning as she strolled down the Great Hall.

"Alex! Hey, Alex! Over here!" yelled a familiar voice. When Alex looked up she was relieved to see it wasn't Sheldon; actually, it was Toni. The girl she had met the other day.

Alex waved back and walked over to Toni.

"So, how much trouble did you get into?" Alex asked her as she sat down.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Snape made me organize all his weirdo ingredients." She said. "It was worth it though to see a teacher hop like that." She said, laughing.

Then, Toni waved flirtatiously at a boy sitting at the Slytherin table. He had sleek, bleach blonde hair, and looked strangely evil, but he smiled back and waved the same.

"Who's that?" Alex asked, somewhat disgusted.

"That's Draco, my boyfriend." Toni said, smiling.

Alex's jaw dropped. She didn't see that one coming.

"Although, I don't really like him," Toni said.

Alex's shocked face twisted into a confused one.

She looked at Toni questioningly.

"Huh?" Alex asked confused.

"I'm really only dating him to find out Slytherin secrets like the password, the game plan for Quidditch, all that stuff…" Toni explained

Alex was no longer confused. That was a pretty smart plan…

Alex walked into the Gryffindor common room and plopped down on the couch. Today had been horrible.

First, in Charms, Alex could not, for the life of her, summon the books off the shelves. And, accidently, of course, a kid by the name of Seamus summoned a book into her face.

Second, in Transfiguration, McGonagall gave them the difficult task of turning a simple robin into a trumpet. Alex had accidently turned it into a tuba that screamed loudly and made everyone in the room faint, and ten points were taken from Gryffindor house.

Then, in Divination, she was told to stare deeply into a crystal ball, which she then got bored and fell asleep and accidently knocked it down with her head, which, in turn, hurt her head as well.

Defense Against the Dark Arts was not as bad. All they learned was several disarming charms.

But in Potions, Alex had made some sort of acid instead of what they were supposed to make and then spilled it, making a huge hole in the room. One of Draco's friends, Goyle, is what they called him, accidently walked into the hole and got stuck.

Over all, it was a completely exhausting day; all Alex wanted to do now was sleep…

"Hey, Alex!"

Alex had not gotten a bit of sleep at all when Max had jumped in front of her.

"Guess what?"

"What?" Alex replied grumpily.

"Today in class, we saw a—you know what, I forgot what I was going to say…" Max replied stupidly.

"Oh, what a shame," Alex replied sarcastically.

"Yeah," Max said glumly.

The entire week was horrible. Alex felt as though she could have gone through the whole year. She seemed to be having trouble in every class.

She was relieved, though, when the weekend had come. She ended up sleeping in so late that she missed breakfast and lunch. She really didn't care though; it was worth it.

She went down into the common and found Hermione's eyes glued onto a book—again.

Alex rolled her eyes. "How can anyone read that much?" she thought.

"Hi Alex!" said a friendly voice. Alex turned to see that it was Toni. "You sure slept in late." Toni said, laughing slightly.

"Yeah, well, it's been a rough week." Alex said glumly. And she went to sit down.

"Well," Toni said walking over to Alex. "I suppose if it was my first year while I was a third year, I probably would have had the same trouble."

"I basically kicked off one hundred points off Gryffindor." Alex said gloomily. She wondered how Justin was doing. Was he also having the same trouble?

"Well," said Toni. "Think of it this way: it is a new record." She said, trying to sound supportive.

Alex only sighed. That really didn't help at all.

"Hey, Justin," Alex said to her brother who had just walked past her. "Er—are you having any trouble in your classes?" she asked apprehensively.

"No, why?" Justin responded confused.

"Nothing—er—Max wanted to know." She said.

"Oh, okay," he said suspiciously, then he walked away.

Alex sighed again. If she was having this much trouble now, what would there be in the future? Will it become easier, or harder? Whatever it would be, Alex didn't want to worry about it now. She already had a lot on her mind…

(A/N: Okay, I'm not too proud of this chapter. I know some of you must think the same. I DID have something better planned, but I'm leaving that for the next chapter; it would have made this chapter way too long. Sorry. Anyway, despite the fact that this chapter is short, I hope you all leave a review, subscribe, and let me know if you have any ideas! My next update will be next Saturday the 19th. Thanks!:D)