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Chapter 26

It wasn't until that weekend that Harriet found out about Draco setting up Harry and Ron for a midnight duel and Hermione and Neville getting caught up in all the commotion as well. It was lucky that they had never got caught. All the same Harriet was yet again not very happy with Draco despite their new best friend status. The only thing that had stopped Harriet from marching away from Harry the moment he told her to find Draco and give him a piece of her mind was because Draco had been making such an effort in the past days to keep on Harriet's good side.

Harriet often found herself with Draco, Crabbe and Goyle at meals and in classes and whilst Harriet would still insist on sitting with the friends she had made in the different classes she was happy that Draco was keeping things civil around her friends. She had only had to throw the occasional look at Draco before he was apologising or changing the rout of the conversation to something that would cause less slips from him and was more neutral ground for those who did not share the same views that he had grown up to believe in.

So on Saturday instead of storming off to yell at Draco, Harriet instead enjoyed the day with Harry. They were our roaming around the grounds looking for a place where they could hide from the masses that only the pair of them knew about when Harriet spotted Draco Crabbe and Goyle out of the corner of her eye heading towards them. Harriet grabbed Harry's wrist and pointed over to Draco.

"What is he doing here?" Harry clearly wasn't in the mood to deal with Draco today, and Harriet really couldn't blame him as she wasn't in the mood with Draco either; she would much rather deal with him that night when she had had time to calm down a little from him trying to get her twin expelled. Harriet looked around desperately and spotted behind a tree a small alcove that was in the side of a rock. She was surprised that she had spotted it because she was sure that Harry and she had already walked passed that spot several times that morning in their hunt for a den. Deciding not to hesitate, Harriet who was still holding Harry's wrist, motioned for him to be quiet and waited until all three of the boys who were heading in their direction were looking in the opposite direction.

Harriet seized her chance and dragged Harry as fast as she could over to the alcove and out of site. Harriet spotted a conveniently placed hole about the size of a fisted hand which looked over the grounds and up towards the castle. It was the perfect peek hole and she took up position behind it and peered out watching as the three boys turned back around and stopped as they realised that Harriet and Harry had vanished from where they were just a moment ago. Harriet could see Draco's frustrated gestures and could help but giggle glad that the boys were still too far away to hear. Harry came up behind Harriet and saw the little peephole looked around and saw a similar one higher up. He looked around and saw a couple of fairly large stones just outside the entrance.

"Tell me when they are not looking so that I can bring those stones in." Harriet nodded and a moment later gave harry the go ahead. Harry managed to bring in the flatter of the two in and placed it on the ground underneath the higher peep hole, however when he went back to get the larger one it was too big for him to lift and was almost sighted by Draco when Harriet dragged him back inside. A few moments later Draco had apparently given up and he Crabbe and Goyle entered back into the castle. Once they were gone Harriet and Harry both went over and tried to lift the large stone but again it was too heavy even for the two of them, then Harriet had an idea."

"OK, I'm not sure if this will work, but Hermione and I have been practising ahead of the lessons and we can manage the levitation spell on quills. Let's just try and see if I can manage on something so heavy before I tell you my plan." And with Harry's nod of consent Harriet took out her wand and cast the spell. The stone wobbled a little before slowly raising three feet in the air Harriet held it for a couple of minutes just to make sure then she slowly lowered the stone back to the ground with her face flushed with pride.

"Well done, Harriet!" Exclaimed Harry as he gave her a hug.

"OK. So here's the plan; I'll make the stone levitate and you push it and guide it over to the place that you want it then if you nod your head I'll lower it."

"That sounds like a good plan." So the two children perform the plan and both are really surprised when it works without a fault. Harry got up onto the stones which were now set with the larger one on top of the flatter one which provided steps that when harry stood onto with Harriet holding her hands up ready to catch Harry if the stones wobbled or were unsteady and Harry fell. Harry was now able to look out of the higher of the peepholes if he stood on his tip toes and the stones were steady and unmoving.

It was only when Harry came back down from the stones that the two children looked around properly. They found that they were not in an alcove as they had thought they were actually in a cave. They had a good look around and discovered that there were a couple of small indents in the stone walls that could be used as shelves and when they went back outside they found that the rock that they were in was more like a hollowed out rock than anything else. The entrance was almost invisible unless you were at a certain angle between the trees that covered the entrance and was looking closely at the surroundings. All in all it was the perfect den. The twins had their place that they could go to, if they ever needed space to themselves or to hide from people in general or even if they just wanted to spend some quality time together without being interrupted.

The twins only ventured out of their den to get food from the Great Hall at lunch time they didn't even eat at the table they simply took a large supply of food and after wrapping it up they hid the food in their bags and headed to the library and got out a couple of books on household charms.

When they were safely back in their den and had eaten some of the food they had brought with them from the great hall for their lunch they lay down their cloaks on the floor and each opened up the household charms books and started reading and alerting the other to a charm they thought would be useful and trying it out on their surroundings. They spent all afternoon in the den and by the evening they had managed to clean up the den, set stasis charms on the food that they had brought and even cover a few of the holes in the rock with a bubble charm which was much more advanced than they were expected to be able to do in their first year.

That night Harriet said goodnight to Harry as he walked up the marble staircase towards the Gryffindor tower and Harriet turned and headed towards her own common room. However her good mood did not last long as when she entered the common room and saw Draco sitting in the chair closest to the entrance; she remembered what he had tried to do to Harry and her other friends. Harriet huffed and tried walking past Draco towards the girls' dorms but Draco stopped her.

"Harriet, wait." He stood and hurried over towards her. "I was looking for you today where were you?"

"Draco, I do not need to be with you every single day, do I?" Harriet could feel her temper rising, and found herself thinking that she seemed to be losing her temper a lot since she entered the magical world. "I am allowed to spend a day with other people without you a couple of days a week? Unless I have completely misunderstood the terms and conditions of friendships." Spat Harriet; Draco took a step back in surprise at her tone and seemed not to be able to hide the hurt tone in his voice as effectively as he had hoped when he replied.

"Of course, you are allowed time without me I just thought it would be good if we hung out since we have no classes and don't have any homework to do." Then Draco tried to redeem himself for showing any sign of weakness. "Of course, since you were with Potter I didn't particularly want to be around you anyway today."

"I am a Potter, as you seem to have forgotten." Hissed Harriet as she spun on the spot and made her way to her dorm. Draco tried to follow calling out to her to stop but as he approached the girls' dorms a large bubble appeared in the corridor preventing anyone from getting closer to the girls dorms. Draco punched the bubble in his frustration and turned back to the common room.

Harriet meanwhile was in her dorm taking deep breaths trying to calm down. She didn't like being mad at Draco and especially since she hadn't got around to telling him why she was really angry at him. Harriet walked over to her bed and pulled some parchment, ink and a quill out of her trunk and wrote a letter to Draco explaining the real reason that she was so angry at him and just basically venting all of her frustration and anger out onto the parchment. She certainly wasn't going to send the letter. It just helped to be able to get her thought out onto a piece of paper were she could see them and therefore organise them in her mind more effectively, she had always done it like this ever since she could write it saved her from hurting people's feelings and allowed her to calm down and put some perspective to the things going around in her head.

Harriet finished her letter and folded it over and stuffed it into an envelope. She had forgotten to bring her large envelope from home that had all of her previous letters in it. Harriet then proceeded to take out another piece of parchment and wrote a genuine letter to Draco which she intended to give it to him this way she wouldn't get side-tracked or annoyed at anything else and Draco would know what was really annoying her. Upon finishing the letter she tossed it onto her bed and when she saw how Sammy slink into the room and sat for a while just petting him and talking to him.

Harriet then realised how late it was and crawled into bed with Sammy snuggling between her arms. Harriet was asleep before she remembered to remove the letter from her bed and as she slept a single movement of her leg as she slept sent the letter fluttering down to the floor just under the bed. Harriet slept on peacefully, confident that she would be giving the letter will be given to Draco in the morning, and he will realise why she was angry and all will be well between them again.

I know some parts seem a little unrealistic with the den but it is explained in the next chapter. I hope that you enjoyed and hopefully I won't be as long updating the next chapter.