Disclaimer: Ok u all know that ordeal!!!! Well thanks fer all the reviews guys! I appreciate every word!!! ::grin grin:: So thanks again to you all!!! Well yea... gee how can I summarize this chappie...uhhh okay: Oliver gets his heart broken by none other than Nadia herself. She's got him confused and hurt, and Melina wants to burst with anger, but can Fred calm her nerves in the best way *ahem* he knows how? Professor Trelawney accuses Melina of commiting murder in the future. Malfoy seems to have taken quite a liking to the new Nadia but will the latest event change it all? And is Harry in as much danger as Melina leads him on to be?...okay guys those were more like questions fer u to think about than a summary and it prob won't all happen but on to the chappie!
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Oliver had been released from the hospital wing and seemed happier than he had ever been. When asked what happened to him all he could say was, "Madame Pompfrey said I drank a fitful sleeping potion." Everyone wondered how he managed to drink it since it was supposed to have an awful taste. He only half listened to people when they asked what he dreamed about and stuff. When it was time for breakfast the next morning he made sure he was one of the first in the Great Hall. He waited anxiously until he saw that familiar long blonde hair and blue cat eyes...except they weren't exactly cat eyes anymore (hey the voice thought the color would be too obvious!) but he didn't care.
"Hey Nadia!" His facial expression was happier than ever as he called her over to him. She just walked over to him, almost as if it was a burden and a waste of time.
"What is it, Oliver?" She asked, seemingly bored.
"Well, you know we have a Quidditch game at the end of the week and I was wondering if you were going."
"Yes, I am. But not to see you, Wood. I'm going to see my Draco play." She replied in a cold, icy tone.
"But...but.. what about you know, what happened in the hospital wing... how worried you seemed. Are you going to deny it?" The hurt on his face was more than obvious.
She rolled her eyes and let out a heavy sigh, "Look that was all me being stupid that's all. So just forget about it, alright? Move on!" The scowl on her face had double as she glared at Oliver. "Now if you'll excuse me I am going to eat breakfast." Without so much of a good-bye Nadia left Oliver, more than shocked, but heart-broken as well.
"Well, now maybe you'll learn where your boundaries are, Wood." Wood turned to the see Malfoy.
"Oh just leave me alone, Malfoy. You're the last person in this school and in England I want to talk to about this." Oliver walked into the Great Hall, angry at Malfoy for listening in on his conversation with Nadia, and heart-broken because of Nadia. "Maybe Malfoy's right. Maybe I did cross the boundary." He sat down and didn't feel like eating too much.
"What's the matter with you Oliver?" George asked, sitting across from him along with Ron, Harry, Hermione, Melina and Fred... who were flirting their little butts off. Not that anyone was trying to notice.
"Huh? Oh nothing, George." Oliver replied, flatly.
"Now c'mon, Oliver. You may be wicked at Quidditch but you're not so good at lying." George said
"Yea, I know. It's just..."
Melina interrupted him, "Let me guess. Nadia right? What did she do this time? Act like she cared then said forget you and went back with Malfoy?" Melina glanced over Oliver's shoulder at the Slytherin table and proved herself right. "Yupp, I was right. So how did she do it this time?"
"I'm starting to think you're just as bad as Malfoy when it comes to questioning me about her. And why do you care? All you do is despise her! Something is going on with her because it seems the closer I get to actually winning her over, something stops her. I don't think she is following her own feelings, I think she isn't even controlling them." He looked at Melina. "And I know I would be able to save my self heart ache and confusion only if you told me the story behind her. But you won't! You won't even tell us who you really are! I'm disgusted with all of this mess! I don't even know the truth about anyone anymore! You and Fred acting like nothing is going on! What, do you think we are that stupid!?" Oliver stood up, his face red hot with anger. He walked out of the Great Hall leaving everyone else thinking about what had just happened.
"Well that was..um eventful I suppose." Harry said.
"Nice choice of words, Harry." Fred replied.
"Okay, can anyone make out what in Merlin's name caused that?" Hermione asked.
"Like I said. It's all about the cat eyes. Those evil devil cat eyes." They all looked at Melina who looked like she wanted to absolutely wanted to burst with anger.
"Bloody hell, she looks like she could attack anything in sight, doesn't she?" Ron said. They all quickly agreed.
"Just calm down, Melina. This isn't your problem." Fred said.
Melina looked at him and sighed, "But you don't understand! It is my problem! It has always been my problem! I wish I could tell you everything to make you understand, but I can't I simply can't! I'm just sorry that I can't tell you all anything. It's not like it's a trust thing...it's just a..a ..oh nevermind! I can't eat like this!" Melina got up, or at least tried. "OH NO! NOT AGAIN! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS SPOT?!" Fred and George looked at each other for a moment and realized the problem.
"Oh um, well we sort of jinxed that spot as a joke so that some unknowing Gryffindor would possibly sit there... hopefully a first year. I guess we forgot to tell you about that." Fred explained. This defiantley wasn't the best time for a joke.
"You know if I wasn't so mad I would be a wee bit amused. BUT SINCE I'M STUCK TO THIS DAMN BENCH AND I'M BLOODY TICKED ITS NOT AT ALL AMUSING! SO FRED WEASLEY UNJINX THIS SPOT RIGHT NOW OR I WILL ZAP EVERY HAIR OFf YOUR HEAD AND EVERY FRECKLE OFF YOUR FACE!!!!" Fred gulped.
"Well, see that's the funny part. Heh, the spot only becomes unstuck when it wants to. The more you try to pull yourself up the longer you're stuck." Melina's face became such a dark red it looked like the blood circulation had been cut off.
"I AM NOT GOING TO SIT HERE ANY LONGER!" Melina took off her robes and walked out of the Great Hall wearing only her uniform.
"I better go try to calm her down." Fred said getting up. "You know.."
"We know we know... the leprachauns." They all said in unison.
"Yea, right. Oh when the bench lets go of her robes will you bring them back to the common room, one of you?" Fred asked.
"Sure, Fred, I will." Ron replied.
"Thanks." And with that Fred left the Great Hall to follow Melina.
Meanwhile, at the Slytherin table, Malfoy and Nadia watched the whole thing.
"Amusing, isn't it to watch those Weasleys' mess up every joke they try to pull?" Malfoy said, smirking. Nadia nodded in agreement.
"And that one Weasley is wasting his time with Melina. Hope he knows what he's getting himself into, a little actress if you ask me. But that will all change soon." Draco looked at her, not completely postitive about what she said.
"Well, we better hurry we have Herbology first." Draco informed her. She nodded and finished breakfast. They stood up and walked out of the Great Hall off to Herbology.
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"Today class we will be working in pairs." Professor Sprout said as she handed each student a plant. "Now if you pry open its mouth you will find the name of your partner in it. The name of the partner that appears will be the one you MUST work with. Your name will also appear in their plant as well, as to avoid confusion." She waited a moment before continuing incase anyone had questions. "Now open your plant!" All the students pryed open their plants mouth to see their partners name.
"Harry! We get to work together!" Parvarti said happily. Harry gave her a fake smile.
Ron silently laughed, "Too bad for you."
"Oh shut-up Ron. Who do you have to work with?" Ron shrugged and opened his plant. His eyes widened as he read the name. He glared at his partner, and they did the same.
"MALFOY?!" "WEASLEY?!"
Now it was Harry's turn to laugh, "Too bad for you Ron. You have to work with Malfoy." Harry tried to hide his laugh. What a pair they would be.
"PROFESSOR!! CAN I CHANGE!?" Ron and Draco glared at each other.
"No you may not Mr. Weasley and Mr.Malfoy."
"I got paired with Lavender. Not too bad I suppose." Hermione said, obviously trying to keep herself from laughing as well.
"Hey Melina, who did you get paired...uh-oh." Ron said as he read the name in Melina's plant. "I guess I can consider myself lucky compared to you." Melina wasn't listening as she stared, mouth and eyes wide open at the name staring up at her.
Harry and Hermione looked at the name, and both hoped that Professor Sprout didn't expect a good lesson, because they knew there would be arguments between Melina and Nadia.
"Well, I'm sure you all have had enough time to find out who your partner so now go join them as I explain the lesson." Ron moved, sulking, over by Malfoy who had a look of disgust on his face. Harry joined Parvarti, who seemed unusually giddy and Hermione joined Lavender. "Um Miss. Selmaya? Miss. McDormatt? Did you not hear that I said to join your partners?" Everyone watched to see what they would do. Nadia moved slowly, glaring at Melina and stood five feet away from her. "Class the plants you will be dealing with today are baby carnivorous plants. Each baby has a couple of cavaties in their teeth and you need to pull them out. The teeth are not yet strong enough to deeply penetrate your skin but they will hurt, so be careful. Each partner is to pull one tooth, while the other holds open the mouth and shines the light inside. I will be observing so off you start."
"Just find the black tooth and pull it. I won't be able to hold open the mouth too long, Harry." Parvarti said. Harry nodded and searched for the black tooth. Ron and Draco were having quite a hard time talking civil toward each other, let alone working together. Harry grinned at Ron as he watched him and Draco. He looked over at Nadia and Melina, who were glaring at each other, but doing their work even though neither one of them exchanged a single word.
"Keep the mouth open!" Melina yelled.
Nadia replied through gritted teeth, "I AM! Hurry and pull the tooth before I let go and let it take your hand!" Melina shot Nadia a glare and searched on for the tooth.
"Can't you do anything right Weasley?! How hard is it to hold open a mouth while I pull the tooth?!" Malfoy snapped.
"I'm trying my best! You try holding this bloody thing open! It doesn't just stay still!"
Malfoy got fed up and grabbed the mouth, "FINE! I'll hold open the mouth and you can get the last tooth!"
Ron replied, "Fine. And have fun." Draco did have a little bit of a hard time keeping the mouth open long enough. Finally, after a lot of snapping (literally!) Herbology was finally over.
"Before you leave students, I would like to say even though some of you worked with people you don't get along with, I commend you for putting that aside and doing your work. Now off you go!" Harry, Ron and Melina headed for Divination as Hermione headed for Arthimacy. Draco was holding his bandaged hand where he left his own hand get stuck in the mouth of the plant.
"It was hilarious, Harry! I shouted 'I got the tooth!' and he let his hand slip inside the plant's mouth and let go! He was screaming bloody murder! Never had such a good laugh." Ron said still quite amused.
"Too bad Nadia didn't get her head stuck inside it's mouth." Melina said in an angry tone.
"Oh c'mon, it couldn't have been that bad." Harry said walking up the stairs to the North Tower.
"HA! Not that bad?! A lot you know, Harry. I didn't see you having to work with someone you absolutely despise! You worked with Parvarti who fancies you more than anything!" Melina replied.
"She has a point. I know what it feels like to work with your most hated enemy." Ron said, entering the perfumed room. As usual the heat and smell made Harry suddenly very tired and lazy as he listened to Professor Trelawney say he was going to die again.
"Oh but look at this... it seems that another death will happen among one of you! No, no more like a murder!" Everyone, except Lavender and Parvarti, looked at Professor Trelawney like she had transfigured into Fluffy. "You my dear!" She pointed at Melina and continued, "Are going to attempt to murder someone but in defense of saving an innocent life. But it says here," She paused and flipped her tea cup again, "You will end up killing an innocent person instead." Everyone stared at Melina wide-eyed. Professor Trelawney did predict someone would always die, but never has she predicted one of them would commit murder.
Melina became red with fury, "Are you mental woman?! They let you come into this class, pose as a Seer and accuse young students of commiting murder?! Who do you think you are, Merlin?!"
"Now now! I am only telling you what my tea cups and crystal ball are telling me!"
"Well, you might want to inspect your tea cups and crystal ball because they seem to be broken, or cheap! You probably drew things on there and make them appear at the flick of your wand so people think you're actually what you say you are!" Everyone was surprised at her outburst. Last time someone had accused Trelawney of faking, they more than happily left her class. This someone was Hermione.
"Fine, if you don't like the truth then you can leave my class!" Professor Trelawney angrily barked at her.
"Oh thank Merlin! I thought I was going to pass out from the heat and the smell of a faker before I could ever leave this room!" She grabbed her books and quickly left Divination. "I don't bloody believe this! How could she ever get the idea that I would ever commit murder?! And she embarrassed me infront of everyone! Now they are all going to tell everyone to stay away from me because I will commit murder! I would never do such a thing." Melina walked down the stairs muttering to herself.
"Are you lost, Miss. McDormatt?" Melina looked up to see Dumbledore.
"Oh no... Sorry Professor Dumbledore but Professor Trelawney upset me and I accused her of being fake and she told me I could leave, so I did."
Dumbledore smiled, amused by what Melina said. "Did she predict you and Harry were going to die?" Melina shook her head.
"No. She said I was going to commit murder. Me of all people! That's what made me lose my head. I don't think that it was neccessary of her."
Dumbledore, still smiling, replied, "Don't take what she says too seriously. Everyone, well almost, think she is a joke and don't take what she says seriously. She has been saying Harry will die every year since he was 13."
Melina suddenly looked worried, "But Professor, what I'm afraid of is... what if she is right? What if I do commit murder?" Dumbledore's smile faded and he became serious.
"I don't believe you will do so, Miss. McDormatt. I have been watching you. As much of a temper as you have you are deeply caring. If for any reason you feel your life, or anyone else for that matter, is in danger come straight to me and let me know. Do you understand?" Melina nodded slowly. She had a lot she could tell Dumbledore. No, should tell Dumbledore. "With that said, do you feel there is something to tell me?" Melina hesitated, but shook her head slowly. "Well, then I will see you at the feast tonight. Oh and good luck at the Quidditch game on Friday. Hope to see more of your outstanding Chaser skills."
Melina forced a smile, "Thank you, Professor. See you." She walked off toward the common room, suddenly feeling a heavy weight on her shoulders and the desire to tell Dumbledore everything. But she couldn't make them all worry. Not until she was sure of what she thought.
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Duh duh duh!!! LoL Ok thats it for now! I don't think it's anywhere as long as most of the chappie's but yea. I know it was not as interesting but it will be!!! I promise! Once again thanks so much for reviewing! I luv u guyz bcuz the more reviews I get the more I want to write! I'm thinkin of writin another fanfic but I'm going to wait until I finish this one! And aww Oliver got his heart broken ::grabs tissue:: sad isn't it? OoOoO Malfoy is just so good at bein bad ::shiver: Don't ask. Well until the next chappie byee!!!