It has been three weeks since Rosie's argument with Riley, Danny and I. She still won't talk to us. Every time either Riley or I try to talk to her she pretends we don't exist. Danny's not making an effort into talking to her because secretly I think he finds it a blessing for Rosie's nonstop chatter about books to be gone for a while. Today I was hoping it would be my lucky day and Rosie would finally respond to me.
I find her at the Great Hall without Alice today. This surprised me as Rosie would always be next to Alice in public since our argument three weeks ago. But without Alice there would be no other distraction which makes my job easier.
I approach her and say "Hey Rosie. How are you?"
No answer.
"Come on please talk to me Rosie. You don't have to do this." I plead.
Before Rosie has time to do anything Danny who had just joined us says "Kat give it a rest. She'll talk to us when she is ready and has realised she was in the wrong and she'll apologise to us."
At this Rosie is furious at him and yells "So it's my entire fault now. How could you say that? You won't even admit to being the smallest amount guilty. I can't believe you."
"Well it's the truth. First of all you won't talk to us and you act as through we the bad ones." Danny says.
"I won't talk to you. Danny you won't even approach me. That might be a good enough reason for Riley and Kat who have tried talking to me but you say there isn't a reason to and they should just give up. Nice friend you are." She says before storming off.
"Just great. She probably hates us now. Thanks Danny. You couldn't tell me I should just give up when she was gone could you." I say.
"Sorry but she just needed to hear that. She needs to come to her senses and realise what she has done bad, not think it's our entire fault." Danny replies.
"But you're thinking the exact same thing. You both think you're right." I say back.
"I don't think that." Danny says.
But before I can contradict him a package is delivered to me. It must be my broom as Cedric's, Leah's, Hayley's and the rest of the Slytherin team's came yesterday.(Author's note: I know it wasn't clear in the last chapter but they hadn't got their brooms yet.)
Before I can stop myself I rip open the package to find a shining broom in front of me. It is pearly white with the strands of the broom Ebony Black. Written in shining black letters MoonlitPhoenix. This broom would not only look amazing but it would ride amazingly too.
"Wow." Exclaimed Riley who had seen the package being delivered to me.
He wasn't the only one. A crowd had gathered to sneak a peek at my broom. By now everyone knew that Hayley, Cedric, Leah and I were playing for our house teams and also being allowed to buy our own brooms.
"We're going to win for sure this year with that broom." Said one of the Branning twins to the other.
Both of the twins played beaters for the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Cody the team captain stared in delight and said "To think we were afraid that the Slytherin's Team had better brooms than us. Kat's broom is going to wipe the smile of the Slytherin's team faces when they try to brag about their Passer-by's."
Gryffindors shouted in happiness because ever since the Slytherin Team ordered their brooms they have been nonstop bragging about them whereas I kept my broom a secret.
"Kat come down to the pitch tonight at 7:00 so I can give you a private session before we have a whole team practise." Cody told me.
I nod my head while thinking I can't wait to try out my new broom.
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I make my way down to the pitch a little earlier than 7:00 because I wanted to try out my broom to see how fast and exhilarating it was.
I was not disappointed. It circled the whole stadium in probably less than 45 seconds. I was never going to get tired of the feeling I got from flying.
"Come down will you now. You have plenty of time for flying later." Says a voice from below.
I fly down to meet Cody waiting for me with a large crate.
"Are the Quidditch balls in there?" I ask.
"Yes. Now do you know the basic rules of Quidditch? The positions, balls, points etc." Cody asks and to answer his question I nod my head in response.
"Good. We won't have to waste anytime then." Cody says sounding relieved. "First of all however you should know the beaters on our team are the Branning twins as you know, the three chasers are Lilia Vescot, Jodie Summers and Anna Bright, I'm the keeper for the team and of course you're the seeker. Got that. Good lets continue. As the seeker your job as you know is to catch the Golden Snitch. Today we'll practise with these mini balls because its dark and we don't want to lose the Snitch. Are you ready now?"
I mounted my broom and Cody threw about 6 balls in the air and to my surprise I caught all of them. We did a few training exercises for a little while longer. Once we finished I was feeling exhausted but Cody seemed to still be full of energy.
"Excellent work today. We might have one more private session and then you can join the team sessions." Cody says.
And with that I am dismissed.
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It has been 2 ½ weeks since my first training session with Cody. I had one more private session then I joined the team practises. Rosie still wasn't talking to me. Hayley and the Slytherin Quidditch team had taken to taunting me saying I had no talent as a seeker. Lessons were going rather well and were finally doing a bit more magic. Today is Halloween and there would be a feast.
We were having Charms now and it was pretty exciting as we would be attempting to do the levitating charm something everyone was anxious to try.
We are partnered to do the spell. I got partnered with Jade (a Gryffindor if you forgot. I know I should be incorporating more of the characters I have mentioned earlier.) Riley got partnered with Alice. Danny was partnered with Rosie who still couldn't stand each other.
"Okay class the incantation is Wingardium Leviosa. Can we all say that please" Professor Flitwick squeaked.
"Wingardium Leviosa." Everyone chanted.
"Get to work then." Flitwick said.
"Wingardium Leviosa." Danny said. "Why isn't it working? Come on."
"It's not working because you don't understand the proper way to do it." Rosie snapped which surprised me as she hadn't talked to Danny ever since the day I got my broom. "It's Win-gar-dium Levi-o-sa; make the 'gar' nice and long." (I had to put that it in. The part Rosie says is not mine. J.K Rowling wrote it and I had to put it in. It's one of the many important things Hermione taught me.)"
"If you're so great you doit then." Danny snapped back.
"Fine then. Wingardium Leviosa." Rosie said. The quill we were supposed to be levitating flew of the desk.
"Excellent. 5 points to Gryffindor Miss Branning." Flitwick said clearly impressed.
The bell rang and we were ushered out of class. We still had an hour before the feast started.
"She thinks she's so great and intelligent. Like were all dumb and she is a little smartical particle." Complained Danny. "I don't even know why your best friends with her Kat."
Unfortunately Rosie heard everything. She rushed past us and headed for a bathroom probably.
"Danny why would you say that. That was pretty harsh of you. Sometimes she can be a bit of like what you said she was but really she nice to be around most of the time. And whether you like it or not she's still my best friend. Look I'm going to see if I can find her I'll see you guys at the feast." I say.
I look for Rosie everywhere but I can't find her. Eventually I give up and go to the feast. At the feast there is pumpkins everywhere of all shapes and sizes. Whether they were in the form of pumpkin juice, pumpkin pastry, pumpkin soup or just plain pumpkin it was all delicious. I spot Riley and Danny. Riley seems to be trying to tell Danny something but Danny's not listening. I decide to sit with Alice.
The feast is delicious and more than ever I wish Rosie was here.
About halfway through the feast something happens.
"Spirits. Spirits in the castle. Dark, Dangerous Sprits" Someone screams. It's Professor Starr the Hogwarts Physician.
All at once people start everyone starts panicking. People are screaming, falling out of their seats.
"Calm down immediately everyone." Says Professor McGonagall.
There is Silence.
She continues. "Prefects lead your house to your house common rooms. Teachers come with me."
I get up to start to follow Felix when I realise something. I run to Danny and Peeta.
"What is it." Asks Peeta after seeing my worried face.
"It's Rosie. She's in one of the bathrooms. She doesn't know about the spirits." I say.
Danny and Peeta both gulp.
We follow the Gryffindor line, then change to the Hufflepuffs and finally were out of the crowd.
We search every bathroom to find Rosie. I remember something Jade said about how she was crying in the bathroom that had three broken stalls. Three broken stalls meant the bathroom in the dungeons.
"I know where Rosie is. Follow me." I tell Riley and Danny.
We run down to the dungeons. Just as we arrive at the entrance to the bathroom we meet the spirits. These ones looked extremely different to the ones we met so long ago. Their bodies were a dark shade of green and an ugly pattern of shadow purple adorned their bodies. At least the other spirits hadn't had a look of unnerving and evil about them even if they were angry.
The Spirit spotted us and made a brake for us. We used our elemental powers. Not much use. They were like ghosts really. I tried gathering water around it and freezing it but it was useless. Danny tried trapping it with the Earth but the spirit walked straight through it. Riley however was able to blow the spirit into the bathroom using his air powers and we then locked it in. We all breathed a sigh of relief when a scream came from the bathroom.
"Rosie." We all yelled.
We scrambled through the bathroom to find the spirit destroying it. Rosie was cowering under the sink. She tried with all her might to use her fire powers against it but the spirit wasn't affected, it just attacked her more.
"Hey if you want to pick on someone do it on someone who deserves it." Danny yelled.
The spirit turned around and lunged for Danny. He narrowly dodged it. I took my chance and ran for Rosie to help g her up all while I kept shooting water and then Danny seemed to realise something.
"Kat water affects it a lot but not in the sense you're using it. Don't spray it or attack it with water. It doesn't like it when you drop a load of water on it." Danny yelled at me.
I get ready to drop a load of water when Danny screams at me "Wait I have a better idea. Wingardium Leviosa." Danny says pointing to a sink with his wand.
The sink rose in the air on top of the spirit. Riley and I sensing what Danny was going for smashed it with our powers which make a load of water come falling down on the spirit immobilizing it. It fell down unconscious.
"What is going on here?" Professor Weasley's (Yes Ginny. She's called Professor Weasley even though she is married to Harry because otherwise there would be two Professor Potter's.)
"Evans, Parker, Walker, Branning what are you doing here when you were all ordered to go back to your house common rooms." Snape said and I can't help not notice there is a slash on her ankle and by the looks of it a spirit gash but not by the sprit I just fought.
"I thought you would all know better than to come after spirits especially you Rosie." Professor Potter said.
"Please Professor it wasn't anyone else's fault but mine. You see I had forgotten something in the bathroom that I really needed for today so I went to go after it. The others told me to forget about it but I was too stubborn and went after it. The others followed me because there was no time. If I wasn't so stupid they wouldn't have come after me." Rosie says.
"Is this true." Professor McGonagall asks us.
Danny, Riley and I are lost because Rosie just lied to teachers for us so we just nod not knowing what else to do.
"Well if that is the case 5 points from Gryffindor Rosie. But in all fairness you three took on a spirit. You three deserve 5 points each. Now all of you get back to Gryffindor Tower." Professor Potter said.
And with we all hurriedly leave and make our way up to Gryffindor tower.
We stop outside the portrait hole.
"Okay can you now explain to us what that was about." Danny asks.
"Well as you did just save my life I thought I would repay you." Rosie answers.
"We appreciate it." Danny says.
"And I thought I just say I'm sorry for what I said about the other spirits. I shouldn't have overacted and I shouldn't have stopped speaking to you guys. And Riley and Kat you guys tried to talk to me and I pretended you didn't exist and for that I apologise. I have been a horrible friend." Rosie blurts out.
"You shouldn't be apologising I should." Danny says. "I said some pretty bad stuff about you and for that I'm sorry. I should have said sorry sooner and tried to talk to you. It's me who has been a horrible friend. And I meant what I said about how the spirit should pick on someone who deserves it and after what I said it should have been me being picked on.
"Aww. We all friends now." I say. They all give me a look. "Sorry I ruined the moment."
We all start bursting out in laughter. And from then on we were all friends once more. Well I guess after saving someone's life from a spirit and them getting you out of trouble for it is just one of those things that bring everyone closer.