Astoria

Harry signed the contract! I was mentally doing a happy dance. He must be happy too because he was smiling so big. I smiled too. Everything was perfect! And then he brought out the bag of sweets.

Darn! I'm full from eating that large crate of peaches my parents sent me this morning. If I only I knew he was coming today, I wouldn't have eaten so much. I don't think I can eat anymore but I have to eat his sweets. If he becomes displeased he might cancel the contract. My hand hovered over the bag. I have to find something small or...chocolate frog! Yes! They always jump away when I open them. I won't have to eat it if it jumps away. I opened the box and just as I thought, it jumped. Yes! Runaway little frog! Run!

My happiness was short lived. Harry sprung up to catch the frog. Oh...Harry was a Seeker... He'll catch it! I can't eat another bite! My stomach will pop! I did what I have too. I threw myself at him. Um...just to be clear it's not in the romantic kind of way. I pulled away from him. His looked like he was lost in a daze.

"I'm sorry, Harry. Are you all right?"

He said he was fine.

He doesn't look fine.

"Thank you for this gift." I motioned to the bag. "My students will love them."

My students will eat anything.

He looked pensively at the bag.

Does he expect me to eat all of that by myself? I can't. I have to get rid of him.

"Thank you again for bring me your contract. I appreciate it. I have this um...thing I have to do."

I have to find something to do. It a good thing he had somewhere to be too. Harry left and I was alone. I don't have to do anything but I should leave my office encase he returns. I grabbed my bag and walked along the corridor. Where should I hid? Wait, why should I hid? Oh...goodness...I'm avoiding him when I should be talking to him. What is wrong with me? I'm being stupid.

"Something troubling you, Greengrass?"

It was the portrait of Professor Snape. Although I'm also a teacher I still consider him my professor. What happened in the past and what others say about him doesn't matter to me. He was a brilliant teacher and considerate. He will always have my respect. I would never forgot how he would come find me when I was at my worse and trying to hid myself. We never talk when he did that or mention it. It felt like he knew I prefer the silence. I want to talk now.

"It's about..." Professor Snape was indifferent to Harry. If he knew about Harry, he might be bias. How to define Harry without telling him it's Harry. "A student came to to me for advice. She has feelings for a another student but he was never available. She accepted it and moved on. Currently, he is available. They are supposed to work on a school project together. She is fine with it but...he appears over friendly."

Professor Snape was impassive as he listened.

"You need closure."

Of course he knows about Harry and me. He was a spy.

"How long?" I asked him.

"Since he fixed your glasses."

He knew from the beginning. My cheeks were in flames. I can look at the bright side. I don't have to go into details if he already knows.

"I can relate to your unrequited admiration for a clueless Gryffindor. Therefore, I feel I should share information I have come across. I overheard a certain clueless Gryffindor is in possession of an interesting reading material."

What is he talking about?

"Do you mean a book?"

"I also overheard an old ghoul requesting matchmaking advice."

"A matchmaking ghost?"

"He said his favorite student was suffering from an unrequited love for a clueless Gryffindor."

I thought over what he was telling me. Clueless Gryffindor? A book? Matchmaking ghost? Favorite student?

You know…Harry was a Gryffindor. I write in my diary all the time that he is clueless of my crush on him. That is if I wasn't talking to Professor Binns about him. Professor Binns often said I was his favorite student…

OMG! Professor Binns! The traitor!

"He's in greenhouse five."

"Thank you."

I sprint to greenhouse five to confront Professor Binns but ran into Harry and Neville. When Professor Snape said greenhouse five I thought he meant Professor Binns was in there, not Harry. Harry had a huge smile on his face when he saw me. He was smiling earlier too. Has he been taunting all along? I want to die!

"Hi, Astoria." said Neville.

I couldn't run out of the room fast enough. I need to hide. Where?!

"Astoria!"

I look back to see Harry running after me. Oh no! He's catching up! I have to run faster! I looked ahead and saw something dark flash in from of me. Was that a chocolate frog? It's getting closer – no! I slipped on it! I fell on my back and got the wind knocked out of me. What is a chocolate frog doing out here in the – don't tell me it was the one I let go! My mother would call this Karma. If I knew it was going to come back to destroy me I would have bit the legs off when I had the chance.

I see two Harrys kneeling next to me. They slowly disappeared into one. "Astoria! Can you hear me?" his hands waved over my eyes.

I rolled to my stomach and attempted to crawl away from him. Maybe if I act like I can't hear him he'll go away. Oh...god! He throw himself on the floor and is mimicking me! Why can't he go away? Why?

"Are you looking for something on the floor?"

Fine. Let's go with that. I will never live this day down.

"Y-yes." I think I saw that without stuttering.

"What is it?"

"My..." think of something! Quick! "A key."

Harry actually found one. "Is this it?"

Where did that come from?

"Y-y-yes, thank you." I took the key from him.

A first year student appeared. "That's my key. I've been looking for that."

Where did this key and this student come from?

"It is yours. Sorry, dear, I was mistaken." I gave the key back to him. "Off you go." I pressed a smile on my face for the student as he disappeared the other way.

Harry was right back on the floor, searching for my non-existing key.

"Stop, Harry. Please."

"But we've got to find it. It must be important for you to come running to look for it like that."

Why does he have to be a nice person?

"I'm sorry, Harry. There is no key. I lied."

"Why did you lie?"

I'm an adult. I can talk to him like an adult.

"Because I can't face you. I discovered Professor Binns has betrayed me." Stop stalling and say it! "It's about me and you."

"Are you saying he was the one who sent me your diary."

WHAT?!