It feels as if this chapter is really choppy, it's probably just me being silly but anyway.
And yes, I do know that this chapter sucks but I couldn't come up with a better one.
I don't own anything except my OC's!
Cassie and Hermione were sitting in a quiet corner in the library, Hermione re-telling what happened in Hogsmeade.
"He...my dad and Harry's parents were friends?" Cassie questioned.
"Well, it would explain why you ended up living at the same place as Harry..." Hermione said.
Nodding Cassie thought for a while, "There's no way I'll be able to tell Harry now..." She said and wiped away a lone tear that had made its way down her cheek.
Hermione shook her head, "I think it'd be best if you didn't."
Cassie nodded and pulled her knees up to her chest, resting her chin on them.
"Well, then." Hermione began, "On a brighter note, what's going on between you and Fred? And don't try to deny anything, I've seen you two kissing!"
Cassie smiled, "I wasn't going to deny anything." She said and sighed, "But, honestly? I don't really know... I mean, he's told me that he likes me and we've kissed and all but I just...I don't know Mione."
Hermione's eyes grew wide, "What? He hasn't asked you to be his girlfriend or anything?"
Cassie shook her head and looked out the window.
Hermione sighed and scooted up next to Cassie, "I think you should try to pull back a little, Cass. Just to see if he actually fancies you or if he's just looking for someone to snog."
Cassie nodded and leaned her head on Hermione's shoulder.
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"Hey, Cassie!" She heard Fred's voice behind her as she was walking back to the common room.
She moved away a bit when he came to walk next to her, if he noticed he didn't comment on it.
"You see, I was wondering if you'd like to come spend Christmas with me and the others?"
Thinking of what Hermione had said she shook her head, "Sorry, Fred. I'm staying here with Harry."
"He could come too." Fred said and slung his arm over her shoulders.
Trying to discretely move away from him she continued, "I can't Fred. With all that's happening with my dad and everything I just want to spend some time alone with Harry."
This time she saw something flash across his face, "Oh, yeah...that's, that's fine. I understand completely." He said and pulled his arm back, stopping in his walk.
"I'm gonna go see if I can find..." He didn't even finish his sentence before he started briskly walking the other way.
Standing there staring after him, Cassie couldn't help but feel that she'd just made a huge mistake.
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"Merry Christmas Cassie." Hermione said, squeezing her tightly in her arms, "I'll see you next year." She said, releasing Cassie before going to hug Harry.
"Bye, Cass. Merry Christmas." Ron said, giving her a one-arm hug.
"Merry Christmas, Ron."
"Bye, Cassie. Don't do anything too mischievous while we're gone." George said, ruffling her hair.
She only huffed at him, trying to smooth her hair down.
Turning to Fred she smiled faintly as he opened his arms.
Stepping into them and after giving him a quick squeeze, she quickly let go before stepping back.
"Merry Christmas, Fred."
"You too." He said before heading towards the train without another word.
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Cassie and Harry were quietly walking down to the Great Hall for the Christmas feast.
Clearing his throat, Harry started speaking, "What's up with you and Fred, Cass?"
Twisting her hands together Cassie looked down, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Harry sighed and pulled on her arm to make her stop, "You know exactly what I'm talking about. Just last week the two of you were inseparable, it was actually a bit disgusting, and when he was leaving for the Holidays it was as if the two of you were strangers. Care to explain?"
She slid down the wall and sat on the floor, looking up at Harry through weary eyes, "I just don't want to get hurt, Harry. He hasn't asked me to be his girlfriend or even given me some kind of sign about what we are."
He scrunched his brows, "What do you mean?" He asked, sitting down next to her.
She took a deep breath, "The other day I was talking to Mione in the library. She asked if Fred and I were dating or not, you know how curious she is, and I couldn't give her a straight answer. Because I don't know. I don't know if we're together or just...snog-mates or something..."
He put his arm around her, "Have you asked him?" He said, slightly uneasy with a faint blush on his cheeks.
"No..."
He stood up and extended a hand towards her, "Why don't you ask him when he gets back?"
She let him pull her up, "Yeah, I'll do that. Thanks, Harry." She said and hugged him before continuing to the Great Hall.
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The holidays passed by fairly quickly for Cassie. Harry was mostly sat out by the Quidditch field, just looking or doing some of his homework.
She on the other hand just sat in the common room, not doing anything at all just staring at the wall and thinking about what to say to Fred.
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Nervously wringing her hands together, Cassie sat on the sofa in the common room, waiting for Fred to walk through the portrait door.
Hermione, who'd gone straight up once she got there, sat beside her.
"What if he won't talk to me?" Cassie asked, anxiously.
"I doubt that'll happen, Cass." Hermione said.
"But what if?"
"Then he's not worth it." Hermione said just as the door swung open and the twins came tumbling in.
"Hello ladies!" George said, throwing himself down on the sofa in front of them.
"Hi." They answered.
Looking up at Fred, who just was just leaning against the wall, Cassie stood up.
"Can I speak to you?" She said shyly.
He just nodded and made his way out of the room.
Walking down a couple hallways they came to a stop in front of one of the windows overlooking the Black Lake.
He leaned against the wall and raised one of his eyebrows at her.
Taking a deep breath, she began, "What are we, Fred?"
He furrowed his brows, "What do you mean?"
"Are we friends or..."
"Of course we're friends, Cass. Blimey! Where've you been these past years?" He said, trying to distract her.
"You know what I mean, Fred." She said, crossing her arms.
He sighed, "Well... We're...we're..." He stammered.
"Exactly, neither you nor I know what we are."
He grabbed one of her hands, "Well...what do you want us to be?" He asked, stepping closer.
When she couldn't find the words, she just stretched up on her tip-toes and planted a shy kiss on his lips.
"Does that answer your question?" She said, shyly gazing up at him through her lashes.
He smiled and placed his arms around her waist, "Do you want to be my girlfriend, Cass?" He asked, bumping his nose to hers.
"I'd like that." She said, her lips barely grazing his.
"Wicked." He whispered and placed his lips on hers.
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Heading down to Hagrid's Hut, Harry and Cassie were trailing slightly behind Ron and Hermione, listening to them argue.
"What's it about this time?" Cassie whispered to Harry, looking at the pair in front of them.
"Ron thinks Crookshanks ate Scabbers."
"Okay, that's ridiculous. Even if Crooks is a cat, I doubt his standards are so low that he would eat Scabbers." Cassie said, apparently too loud since Ron whipped around to glare at her before continuing his fight with Hermione.
"Your cat killed him!"
"Did not!"
They found Hagrid down by the edge of the Black Lake, tossing stones into it.
Cassie sat herself down on one of the large boulders littering the waterfront.
Leaning down to grab a slightly smaller rock than the ones Hagrid was throwing, she started turning it over in her hand.
"How did it go, Hagrid? The hearing?" Hermione asked, sitting down on the boulder next to Cassie.
"Well," Hagrid started, looking at the stone in his hands, "First off, the committee members took turns talking about why we were there." Cassie could almost hear him roll his eyes as he threw the stone.
"And then I got up and did my piece. Said how Buckbeak was a good Hippogriff, always cleaned his feathers." Hagrid sighed, "And then, Lucius Malfoy got up. Well you can imagine. He said, Buckbeak was a deadly and dangerous creature who would kill you as soon as look at you."
Cassie gripped the stone tighter, her hands glowing purple.
"And then?" Hermione questioned.
"And then he asked for the worst, did old Lucius." Hagrid sighed again, this time with more of a slump to his shoulders.
"They're not sacking you!" Ron exclaimed.
Hagrid turned to look at him, "No, I'm not sacked." He said and threw another stone, "Buckbeak's been sentenced to death!"
Hermione furrowed her brows, "Hagrid..." She then glanced over at Cassie and her eyes grew wide, "Cassie! Your hands!"
Glancing down, Cassie saw a bright glow surrounding her hands and she quickly unclasped them, the stone she'd been holding falling to the ground as she fell backwards from the stone in surprise.
Ron and Harry, who'd been staring at her hands in shock, started laughing when they heard her surprised yelp.
Glaring from her position on the ground, Cassie lifted herself up and huffed before she started briskly walking back towards the castle, with her hair looking like a birds nest.
Halfway back Cassie passed Fred and George, who were lounging under some trees with some people from their year.
"I'll see you guys later!" She faintly heard Fred yell as he hurried after her.
"Oi! Cassie, wait up!" She heard him shout as she slowed down.
He stopped in front of her, slightly out of breath, "Hi." He whispered, circling his hands around her waist.
She didn't say anything, just leaned her head against his chest and took a deep breath.
Grabbing his hand, she started leading him to a slightly hidden bench on the other end of the courtyard they were in.
She sat down and patted the space beside her.
After taking a deep breath she whispered, "I think something's wrong with me..."
When he heard the hopelessness of her voice he gently placed his arm over her shoulders, pulling her closer to him, "Nothing's wrong with you, Angel. You're perfect." He whispered back, placing a gentle kiss on her temple.
She shook her head, making her hair fall in front of her face, "All the time when I get upset my hands glow." She continued.
"That doesn't make you abnormal, it just makes you special." He answered, rubbing soothing circles on her arm.
She glanced up at him, scrunching up her nose, "Did you eat a dictionary for lunch?" She asked him.
His face broke out into a wide grin as he started laughing, his cheery personality lighting up her whole spirit as she started laughing with him.
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"What?" Cassie said, her jaw almost touching the floor as she looked at Harry.
"Exactly." He said, leaning back against the wall, "Pettigrew was on the map, and he's dead."
"Maybe you misread it." She said, looking at him with her brows furrowed.
He shook his head, "I looked several times and the name was still there."
"That's just creepy... hopefully it was some sort of malfunction."
"Well, Professor Lupin has the map now anyway so we have no way of searching for the name again."
"And I still can't believe you didn't hand the map in as soon as you got it." She said, slowly walking towards the courtyard.
Harry groaned, "You know, you've started to sound an awful lot like Hermione lately."
She rolled her eyes, "I'm just looking out for you, Harry. What if you'd dropped it somewhere and da-Sirius Black had found it? You would of had an even bigger problem than just some lost map then. "
"Professor Lupin already gave me that talk, I don't need it from you as well." He snapped, and started to briskly walk back to the common room.
Biting down on her lip, Cassie walked right through the courtyard, past Hagrid's place and stopped just a couple steps away from the Whomping Willow where she sank to the ground and pulled her knees up to her face.
Casually playing with the dead flowers on the ground she didn't see the Dementor approaching before she felt herself slowly lose consciousness.
Okay, first of all I'm so sorry for not updating since what feels like forever.
I've been sick and I've also had a ton of homework, so I haven't had time to write.
Sorry for the shortness of the chapter, but I didn't want it to go on forever since I already had the end planned.
Feel free to send in suggestions for the story, I'll give you credit if I use it, I'm having a bit of writers block so I've basically just been following the original plotline of the movie, which, as you can tell, makes for some pretty boring chapters.
Please review!