I've most likely just killed my fanfic right here, but this is what I have to do for everyone to understand. Heehee. Stupid me, I forgot that the readers (whom I love so very very much) don't know as much as I do, since I'm the one writing it. Do I make any sense at all??? Hope it works!

Chapter 9 3/4

It only took a couple of days with Harry Potter for Amanda to get to know all of his friends. Amanda was totally in love with Oliver Wood, but had to come to the realization that he was four years older than her. She had already met Fred and George Weasley, they actually got along pretty well, but had managed to tick off their younger brother, Ron, the very first time she had met him. She embarrassed Hermione in front of their whole potions class. Amanda did manage to make good first impressions with most of the other Gryffindors, however, and Hermione and Ron started to warm up to her.

"Ron?"

"Yeah," he looked up at Amanda, "What?"

"Well," she shifted feet, standing on just her left foot now, "I was wondering why you and Hermione are suddenly being so nice to me."

"I'm not at liberty to say right now." Ron closed the book that he had been reading and stood up. "Goodnight." he said shortly as he left the common room without waiting for a reply.

Hermione was Amanda's next victim. She found her in the library, "Hermione?"

Hermione didn't reply.

"Why are you and Ron so nice to me all of a sudden?"

"Harry told us that we weren't worth it to him if we weren't going to let him make any new friends," she muttered, "So we had to at least get to know you, and I personally, have decided to like you."

"I'm going to kill him," Amanda practically yelled, "How embarrassing! Making everyone be nice to me!"

"Shhhhhh. At least you're not being cursed every time you walk around a corner," she grinned devilishly, "If Harry hadn't gotten on my case, you would've been."

"Um, thanks, I guess, for not doing that," she scooted toward the door, "'night."

As Amanda walked slowly down the halls back up to Gryffindor Tower, she had a lot of things to think about. "Why would he make them do this? I really wouldn't have minded all too much if they had treated me normally, of course, he probably knew that Hermione would have done that to me," she shuddered, "a curse? I've never been cursed before! I really don't ever want to be cursed! Or jinxed...," she came to the portrait of the fat lady, "Oh no! I forgot the password again!!!" Luckily, Percy Weasley was on his way out to make the night time rounds and let her in (Merlin's Beard).