"Hey, Sara!"
She turned around and saw Harry running after her. "Hey, Harry."
"Do you want to go for a walk?" he asked, gasping for breath. It was later in the day and they had all finished classes. The sun was beginning to go down.
"Okay."
They walked around the grounds for awhile, talking about classes. "Hermione has flooded herself with work as usual," Harry told her. "She's probably doing her homework. I asked if she wanted to come too, but she told me to go without her.
"What about Ron? He hardly ever does his work... and if he bothered Hermione while she was working, she'd take his head off."
Harry shrugged. "I dont know whats going on. It seems like when one of them is missing, the other one is too."
They stopped to sit at the edge of the lake. "Ron said he saw you last night, sneaking around the castle while the rest of us were asleep."
"Well... What was he doing up?" Sara asked, defensively.
Harry shrugged. "He said he wasn't tired so he went for a walk."
"Oh... me too."
Just then, Draco walked by. The first thing he saw was Harry and he glared at him, getting tense and Sara saw Harry's muscles tighten. Then he saw Sara and droped his gaze, as he walked away.
"Sara... did you and Draco duel last night?"
"What?"
"Ron said he saw Draco, too, at a different time... and this morning, the class room across from the astronamy tower had been changed... somone pushed the desks to the other side of the room..."
Sara paused. she wasn't even in that room the night before... but Ron saw her and Draco, and how was she going to explain what Draco had just done? "... yeah... thats what we were doing."
Harry smiled. "You kicked his ass, didn't you?"
"... It wasn't that bad..." But Harry didn't hear her. "That's awesome," he declared, slapping her on the back.
"Yeah... real awesome..."