"Hey Jessi, hit that one toward the Slyerian chaser that's on Ron's tail!" Harry yelled as he flew past her, Malfoy was right be hind him. Malfoy was the seeker from the Slyerian team.
Jessi looked over to where Ron was flying. Harry was right; one of the chasers was on Ron's tail as he flew toward the goal. Jessi looked around for a Bludger. She finally found one down by where Malfoy was sitting looking around for the Golden Snitch. Jessi decided to leave that one there, it was heading right toward Malfoy. There were no Slyerian beaters anywhere near by over there. She turned to find a different Bludger to hit. She didn't have to look far to find one.
"Here try this one on for size." Jessi grunted with the effort of hitting the ball. It flew toward the Slyerian chaser. The boy looked over his shoulder just in time to severe on his broom to the left. With him now flying in a different direction Ron was able to throw the Quffle into the hoops at the end of the field. Jessi was hitting a Bludger toward the stands of hissing Slyerians when she saw a red blur go flashing by. She pulled up short on her broom. She knew that it was Harry. She hoped that he was after the Snitch.
The next thing Jessi knew was a sharp pain erupting from the back of her head. She grabbed the back of her head with one hand. She had just leaded up off her broom handled when something hit her in the side, causing the wind to rush from her lungs.
"FOUL!!" the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were screaming. Thomas flew to her side. Ron flew to her other side as she began to fall over.
"Careful, there Jessi. You can't fall off your broom now. Wait till we're like a foot off the ground." Thomas said. Jessi knew that if she fell now she would fall 50 feet till she hit the ground.
Madam Fooch flew toward them, "You guys don't have a back up beater. She has to play or you forfeit it."
"I can play. Trust me I can." Jessi said as Shannon, Katriena and Brian ran down some stairs to the edge of the field.
"Jessi you okay?" Shannon asked from the wall that stood in her way. She didn't try to climb over it because she knew that if anyone but the players were on the field during a game, there would be trouble.
"Yeah I'm fine." Jessi said to her sister. She turned back to her teammates. "I can do it. All we need is for Harry to get the Snitch."
They all nodded knowing that they couldn't talk Jessi out of this.
"Let's go than." Thomas said as they took to the air again.
Katriena and Shannon knew how much this would take out of Jessi. She would not be in a good mood if Gryffindor didn't win. They also knew that she would stop it nothing to win now.
Harry meanwhile was looking for the Snitch again. He had seen it when Jessi had been hit. He knew that the other team's beaters had done that on purses. Now he had to look for it all over again. He saw a flash of gold pass right in front of him. It headed toward the stand where the teachers were sitting.
"And Weasley heads toward the goals again...wait a minute is that the Snitch headed right toward us?" Hermione asked over the mike. The teachers around her ducked as Harry flew toward them. He pulled out of his dive with golden wings flapping helpless against his fingers.
"And Potter gets the Golden Snitch!" Hermione was yelling into the magical mike.
Jessi flew over to where the rest of her team was. She was laughing as something zoomed by her making her stop laughing and give a startled yell. She looked down to see a green blur zoom toward the keeper on her team.
"Look out!" Jessi screamed. The Gryffindor Keeper pulled her broom up just in time to keep from being creamed by a Slyterian Chaser.
"What are you doing?" Ron yelled at the chaser as he flew over to Alison, who was shaking like a leaf.
"That was an unfair game and you know it." Malfoy said as he flew down heading toward the field below.
Harry and Ron were still shaking their heads as the team left the locker room. They made their way back up to Gryffindor tower were, they knew, a party was going to be held. Jessi was holding an ice pack to the back of her head as she walked. The swelling had gone down but it let a headache in its wake.
They had just climbed through the hole behind the painting of the fat lady when someone threw some No-Heat Fire Works into the air. The common room was filled with stars and bright lights. Neville handed Jessi a butter beer when some people were climbing through the hole again. Everyone turned and looked to see three people who had their eyes covered and earmuffs on come through.
"Hey, look who wanted to join us up here." Alison said as she took the blindfold off one of the girls.
"Katriena! Shannon!" Harry said surprised as they took the earmuffs off.
"Sorry we had to do that to you but it was just something that had to be done." Thomas said as he helped Brian take his blindfold off.
"Don't worry about it. We understand that you don't want us to know how to find the Gryffindor common room." Katriena said as Neville sat down by her on a crouch. He handed her a butter beer. Katriena smiled at him. Everyone knew that Katriena and Neville had liked each other for some time. And just the last week before school had ended last year they had started to go out.
"Hey, Shannon how about some of these creams?" Ginny asked her best friend. She was holding out a plate with some cakes with yellow cream on them out to Shannon.
"Shannon don't...." Neville tried to warn her but it was too late. Shannon had taken one and bite into it. A minute later she was covered in feathers.
It took a few more minutes for her to molt. When she did she started to laugh.
"Where those the Carney Creams you were telling me about Jes?" Shannon asked her sister who was doubled up laughing.
"Yup." Jessi managed to say through her laughing.
"How do you know what they were?" Katriena asked Neville.
"When Fred and George first came out with them I eat one." Neville said taking a slip from his butter beer.
"They are always sending Ginny stuff from their joke shop. Just last week she gave me a Ton-Tongue Toffee." Harry said shaking his head, "I can't believe I ate it. And knowing what it had done to my cousin."
"What happen?" Jessi asked as Ron, Hermione and Ginny laughed their heads off.
"Yeah come on tell us." Katriena and Brian said together.
"Well, it happen back in my four year. The Weasley had come to get me for the last couple of weeks of summer break. Well, Fred and George went up stairs to my room and got my trunk. On their way back down they ran into Dudly. Well when Fred was going back to the fire, they were travel by floo-poder, he dropped some candy. He picked them all up except for one." Harry said shaking his head at the memory.
"And I take Dudly found it." Brian said as he laughed.
"Uh.. What is a ton-tongue toffee?" Katriena asked as she dug around in a dish of candy that was sitting in front of her. She found a hard candy that was wrapped in blue/green wrapping.
"Ah Katriena you might not want to eat.." Harry said as he saw the wrapping. But he was too late. But Katriena wasn't the one to eat it. Thomas had come up behind them and stole the candy after Katriena had opened.
Katriena's question was answered. She heard a gagging sound from behind her. She and everyone else in the room turned toward the sound. There was Thomas holding something that was coming from his mouth. His face was turning a green color.
"Oh brother." Harry mumbled as he chasten the counter spell. The thing started to shirk and they could finally see that the thing had been Thomas's tongue.
"So that's a Ton-Tongue Toffee." Katriena said to herself.
"Ginny did you leave that in there?" Ron asked turning back to his little sister, who was laughing.
"Yeah I wanted to see if anyone would eat it." Ginny said, "Sorry it had to be you Thomas."
"That's okay. But from now on I'll know to be more careful when I eat a piece of candy from that dish." He said to her.
Just than they all heard a booming noise go off. They all looked at each other than ran for the windows. They looked down on to the grounds of Hogwarts. They could see that something had happen down there.
"I have a feeling that this is not good." Ron said as he stood next to Hermione.
"Come on guys. We need to get these three back down to the main stairs. I have a feeling that the teachers of our houses are going to be coming up." Harry said he looked around for the blindfolds. Him and two others, one being Neville blindfolded the three non-Gryffindors. They than lead them outside the common room.
Harry was right. As soon as he and the others got back to the common room Professor McGonagall rushed into the room.
"All students are to report to the Great Hall right now." She said as the students started down out of the hole.
On the way down they were meet with our students from the other houses. Ron, Harry, Ginny and Hermione looked around. They didn't like the looks of this. They could over hear some people taking.
"Do you remember in our third year? When Black was lose? We all had to spend the night in the Great Hall." One girl said.
"Yeah I do. And some say that he is still on the lose." Her friend said.
Harry looked at Ron and Hermione. They could read what was on his mind.
"Harry I don't think this has anything to do with Sniffles." Hermione said.
Harry hopped that she was right. They all walked into the Great Hall. He could see the head master. All the talking stopped.
"Students I'm afraid that you will have to stay in here till this mess is over." He said.
"What happen?" someone called out from the coward of students.
"It seems that someone decided that they were going to try to blow apart the building." He said to them.
"What?" Students screamed.
"No it's not Voldemort. It seems that a Muggle found the old ruin place that Hogwarts looks to them. He got rights or something like that to tear down the place and so he is trying to destroy the school." Dumbledore said. As he said that name a lot of kids and teachers finched.
"The reason you are to stay here tonight is because if the Muggle gets to much blast he could take down a tower or cave in one of the dudgeons." This came from Professor McGonagall.
With a flick of his wand, Dumbledore brought big purple sleeping bags to the students.
"Just the same color as last time." Ron mumbled to the others as they grabbed a couple.
Jessi and her friends all grabbed a couple of sleeping bags as well.
"I wonder what happen? Maybe it had something to do with he-who-must-not-be-named." Brian said as he climbed into the sleeping bag. He pulled off his robe and wadded it up using it as a pillow.
"Hum maybe Brian but we probably won't know till morning." Shannon said as she did the same thing as Brian.
"Why don't one of us goes and asks the next teacher that comes in?" Jessi said.
"Who?" Brian asked as he raised off the floor a little, pushing his elbows under him.
"Katriena." Shannon and Jessi said at once.
They turned to ask Katriena to do that. What they saw was surprising. Katriena had not even got into her sleeping bag complete. A leg was sticking out, with one flap of the bag pulled up to all most her head. She was sound asleep. Her mouth was hanging open a little.
"How can she do that?" Jessi asked as she shook her head.
"I have no clue." Shannon said as she tried to wake Katriena up. She had no luck. The girl was out for the count. Nothing, short of an earthquake, was going to wake her up.
The others were just starting to drift off to asleep when a bunch of animals ran into the room. Even some of the owls were coming to look for their owners. Jessi was awoke by the sound of wings closing by her head. She opened one eye to see her owl, RoweWing. The owl was jumpy. Jessi sat up holding out an arm to the owl. She heard a squeak behind her. She turned to find that Katriena and Shannon had both sat straight up in their sleeping bags.
"Trouble what are you doing down here?" Katriena said as she tried to stop her cat from clawing her way into the sleeping bag.
"I think something must have happen." Shannon said as she held a terrified Pippin. The little rat was shaking like crazy.
"Hey what's going on here!" they heard from a few sleeping bags down from them. They turned to see in the little light they had that Ron was sitting up trying to catch a shrieking Pigwigden.
"Ron please catch that owl of yours." Hermione said sleepily next to him.
They could also see that Harry's owl had come into the hall as well.
"Hedwig what's the matter?" he asked the snowy owl. She kept on hooting. Nothing Harry did seemed to clam her down.
Shannon, Jessi and Katriena all looked at each other. Jessi nodded her head.
"Do you think we could get away with it?" Katriena whispered to her friend as Shannon was waking up Brian.
"I think so. But we'll have to careful about it." Jessi said as Brian sat next to her.
"I take you want me to keep watch and make sure that no one sees you go. Am I right?" He asked knowing what they were thinking.
"Yeah. And maybe only two of us should go." Jessi was saying right when the candles around the hall were suddenly lit.
"Hey what's going (yawn) on?" Thomas asked, as he sat up not far from Jessi and them.
"Don't know." Jessi said back.
Professor Dumbledore walked into the hall with the other teachers following him. They walked to the middle of the sea of sleeping bags.
"Students I'm afraid that we are going to have to evacuate the school." He said.
A chorus of yelling and talking followed.
"Please clam down. No one is going to sent home. It's not that bad but you're all going to stay in the village till this thing has passed." Professor McGonagall said to the students, "Now all of you head back to your common rooms. The head of your house will talk to there."
Katriena was walking back up the fight of stairs that lead to the dormitory with the other 7^th year Hufflepuff girls. Professor Sprout had told them that they were only to pack some cloths and books. And if they had an pets that they had to bring them with them. Katriena was glad about that she didn't like the thought of having to leave Trouble behind.
"Hey Katriena do you think we'll be needing all of our robes or will a couple be okay for a few days?" Kelly asked.
"A few robes should be fine. Plus some money might help." Katriena said to the blond head girl. Katriena pulled Troubles carrying case from under her bed. The cat took one look at it and took off.
Sarah, who's bed was closest to the door, slammed it shut. The other girls in the room knew better than to let the cat lose into the hallway. They had all been through this before.
"Come on Trouble. Come here girl." Katriena said to a hissing cat. As she reached for her, Trouble scratched her across the back of the hand. Katriena yelled with pain, pulling her hand back. The cat took off between Katriena's legs. Kelly and Sarah turned to corner the cat but they too got hurt.
As they sat in a carriage that was taking them to Hogsmead, Jessi looked down at Katriena's bleeding hands.
"I don't understand why you keep that monster." She said as she watched Neville wrap an old scarf around his girl friend's hands. There had been no time to run up to the hospital wing before they left. Trouble had done a number on her owner's hands. They were ripped to shreds.
Katriena winced at the pain as Neville tried the scarf; "I couldn't get rid of her. She's my friend. But now you know why I call her Trouble."
They could hear the cat hissing form under the seat.
"Well Hermione didn't have a better time trying to get Crookshanks into his either." Jessi shared the her room with Hermione and two other girls.
"I know did you see how Ron was helping her climbing into their carriage?" Brian said from where he was sitting next to Shannon.
"I know. But at least she didn't take almost 30 minutes trying to catch her cat." Katriena said through gritted teeth as they rolled over a bump.
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Jessi looked over to where Ron was flying. Harry was right; one of the chasers was on Ron's tail as he flew toward the goal. Jessi looked around for a Bludger. She finally found one down by where Malfoy was sitting looking around for the Golden Snitch. Jessi decided to leave that one there, it was heading right toward Malfoy. There were no Slyerian beaters anywhere near by over there. She turned to find a different Bludger to hit. She didn't have to look far to find one.
"Here try this one on for size." Jessi grunted with the effort of hitting the ball. It flew toward the Slyerian chaser. The boy looked over his shoulder just in time to severe on his broom to the left. With him now flying in a different direction Ron was able to throw the Quffle into the hoops at the end of the field. Jessi was hitting a Bludger toward the stands of hissing Slyerians when she saw a red blur go flashing by. She pulled up short on her broom. She knew that it was Harry. She hoped that he was after the Snitch.
The next thing Jessi knew was a sharp pain erupting from the back of her head. She grabbed the back of her head with one hand. She had just leaded up off her broom handled when something hit her in the side, causing the wind to rush from her lungs.
"FOUL!!" the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs were screaming. Thomas flew to her side. Ron flew to her other side as she began to fall over.
"Careful, there Jessi. You can't fall off your broom now. Wait till we're like a foot off the ground." Thomas said. Jessi knew that if she fell now she would fall 50 feet till she hit the ground.
Madam Fooch flew toward them, "You guys don't have a back up beater. She has to play or you forfeit it."
"I can play. Trust me I can." Jessi said as Shannon, Katriena and Brian ran down some stairs to the edge of the field.
"Jessi you okay?" Shannon asked from the wall that stood in her way. She didn't try to climb over it because she knew that if anyone but the players were on the field during a game, there would be trouble.
"Yeah I'm fine." Jessi said to her sister. She turned back to her teammates. "I can do it. All we need is for Harry to get the Snitch."
They all nodded knowing that they couldn't talk Jessi out of this.
"Let's go than." Thomas said as they took to the air again.
Katriena and Shannon knew how much this would take out of Jessi. She would not be in a good mood if Gryffindor didn't win. They also knew that she would stop it nothing to win now.
Harry meanwhile was looking for the Snitch again. He had seen it when Jessi had been hit. He knew that the other team's beaters had done that on purses. Now he had to look for it all over again. He saw a flash of gold pass right in front of him. It headed toward the stand where the teachers were sitting.
"And Weasley heads toward the goals again...wait a minute is that the Snitch headed right toward us?" Hermione asked over the mike. The teachers around her ducked as Harry flew toward them. He pulled out of his dive with golden wings flapping helpless against his fingers.
"And Potter gets the Golden Snitch!" Hermione was yelling into the magical mike.
Jessi flew over to where the rest of her team was. She was laughing as something zoomed by her making her stop laughing and give a startled yell. She looked down to see a green blur zoom toward the keeper on her team.
"Look out!" Jessi screamed. The Gryffindor Keeper pulled her broom up just in time to keep from being creamed by a Slyterian Chaser.
"What are you doing?" Ron yelled at the chaser as he flew over to Alison, who was shaking like a leaf.
"That was an unfair game and you know it." Malfoy said as he flew down heading toward the field below.
Harry and Ron were still shaking their heads as the team left the locker room. They made their way back up to Gryffindor tower were, they knew, a party was going to be held. Jessi was holding an ice pack to the back of her head as she walked. The swelling had gone down but it let a headache in its wake.
They had just climbed through the hole behind the painting of the fat lady when someone threw some No-Heat Fire Works into the air. The common room was filled with stars and bright lights. Neville handed Jessi a butter beer when some people were climbing through the hole again. Everyone turned and looked to see three people who had their eyes covered and earmuffs on come through.
"Hey, look who wanted to join us up here." Alison said as she took the blindfold off one of the girls.
"Katriena! Shannon!" Harry said surprised as they took the earmuffs off.
"Sorry we had to do that to you but it was just something that had to be done." Thomas said as he helped Brian take his blindfold off.
"Don't worry about it. We understand that you don't want us to know how to find the Gryffindor common room." Katriena said as Neville sat down by her on a crouch. He handed her a butter beer. Katriena smiled at him. Everyone knew that Katriena and Neville had liked each other for some time. And just the last week before school had ended last year they had started to go out.
"Hey, Shannon how about some of these creams?" Ginny asked her best friend. She was holding out a plate with some cakes with yellow cream on them out to Shannon.
"Shannon don't...." Neville tried to warn her but it was too late. Shannon had taken one and bite into it. A minute later she was covered in feathers.
It took a few more minutes for her to molt. When she did she started to laugh.
"Where those the Carney Creams you were telling me about Jes?" Shannon asked her sister who was doubled up laughing.
"Yup." Jessi managed to say through her laughing.
"How do you know what they were?" Katriena asked Neville.
"When Fred and George first came out with them I eat one." Neville said taking a slip from his butter beer.
"They are always sending Ginny stuff from their joke shop. Just last week she gave me a Ton-Tongue Toffee." Harry said shaking his head, "I can't believe I ate it. And knowing what it had done to my cousin."
"What happen?" Jessi asked as Ron, Hermione and Ginny laughed their heads off.
"Yeah come on tell us." Katriena and Brian said together.
"Well, it happen back in my four year. The Weasley had come to get me for the last couple of weeks of summer break. Well, Fred and George went up stairs to my room and got my trunk. On their way back down they ran into Dudly. Well when Fred was going back to the fire, they were travel by floo-poder, he dropped some candy. He picked them all up except for one." Harry said shaking his head at the memory.
"And I take Dudly found it." Brian said as he laughed.
"Uh.. What is a ton-tongue toffee?" Katriena asked as she dug around in a dish of candy that was sitting in front of her. She found a hard candy that was wrapped in blue/green wrapping.
"Ah Katriena you might not want to eat.." Harry said as he saw the wrapping. But he was too late. But Katriena wasn't the one to eat it. Thomas had come up behind them and stole the candy after Katriena had opened.
Katriena's question was answered. She heard a gagging sound from behind her. She and everyone else in the room turned toward the sound. There was Thomas holding something that was coming from his mouth. His face was turning a green color.
"Oh brother." Harry mumbled as he chasten the counter spell. The thing started to shirk and they could finally see that the thing had been Thomas's tongue.
"So that's a Ton-Tongue Toffee." Katriena said to herself.
"Ginny did you leave that in there?" Ron asked turning back to his little sister, who was laughing.
"Yeah I wanted to see if anyone would eat it." Ginny said, "Sorry it had to be you Thomas."
"That's okay. But from now on I'll know to be more careful when I eat a piece of candy from that dish." He said to her.
Just than they all heard a booming noise go off. They all looked at each other than ran for the windows. They looked down on to the grounds of Hogwarts. They could see that something had happen down there.
"I have a feeling that this is not good." Ron said as he stood next to Hermione.
"Come on guys. We need to get these three back down to the main stairs. I have a feeling that the teachers of our houses are going to be coming up." Harry said he looked around for the blindfolds. Him and two others, one being Neville blindfolded the three non-Gryffindors. They than lead them outside the common room.
Harry was right. As soon as he and the others got back to the common room Professor McGonagall rushed into the room.
"All students are to report to the Great Hall right now." She said as the students started down out of the hole.
On the way down they were meet with our students from the other houses. Ron, Harry, Ginny and Hermione looked around. They didn't like the looks of this. They could over hear some people taking.
"Do you remember in our third year? When Black was lose? We all had to spend the night in the Great Hall." One girl said.
"Yeah I do. And some say that he is still on the lose." Her friend said.
Harry looked at Ron and Hermione. They could read what was on his mind.
"Harry I don't think this has anything to do with Sniffles." Hermione said.
Harry hopped that she was right. They all walked into the Great Hall. He could see the head master. All the talking stopped.
"Students I'm afraid that you will have to stay in here till this mess is over." He said.
"What happen?" someone called out from the coward of students.
"It seems that someone decided that they were going to try to blow apart the building." He said to them.
"What?" Students screamed.
"No it's not Voldemort. It seems that a Muggle found the old ruin place that Hogwarts looks to them. He got rights or something like that to tear down the place and so he is trying to destroy the school." Dumbledore said. As he said that name a lot of kids and teachers finched.
"The reason you are to stay here tonight is because if the Muggle gets to much blast he could take down a tower or cave in one of the dudgeons." This came from Professor McGonagall.
With a flick of his wand, Dumbledore brought big purple sleeping bags to the students.
"Just the same color as last time." Ron mumbled to the others as they grabbed a couple.
Jessi and her friends all grabbed a couple of sleeping bags as well.
"I wonder what happen? Maybe it had something to do with he-who-must-not-be-named." Brian said as he climbed into the sleeping bag. He pulled off his robe and wadded it up using it as a pillow.
"Hum maybe Brian but we probably won't know till morning." Shannon said as she did the same thing as Brian.
"Why don't one of us goes and asks the next teacher that comes in?" Jessi said.
"Who?" Brian asked as he raised off the floor a little, pushing his elbows under him.
"Katriena." Shannon and Jessi said at once.
They turned to ask Katriena to do that. What they saw was surprising. Katriena had not even got into her sleeping bag complete. A leg was sticking out, with one flap of the bag pulled up to all most her head. She was sound asleep. Her mouth was hanging open a little.
"How can she do that?" Jessi asked as she shook her head.
"I have no clue." Shannon said as she tried to wake Katriena up. She had no luck. The girl was out for the count. Nothing, short of an earthquake, was going to wake her up.
The others were just starting to drift off to asleep when a bunch of animals ran into the room. Even some of the owls were coming to look for their owners. Jessi was awoke by the sound of wings closing by her head. She opened one eye to see her owl, RoweWing. The owl was jumpy. Jessi sat up holding out an arm to the owl. She heard a squeak behind her. She turned to find that Katriena and Shannon had both sat straight up in their sleeping bags.
"Trouble what are you doing down here?" Katriena said as she tried to stop her cat from clawing her way into the sleeping bag.
"I think something must have happen." Shannon said as she held a terrified Pippin. The little rat was shaking like crazy.
"Hey what's going on here!" they heard from a few sleeping bags down from them. They turned to see in the little light they had that Ron was sitting up trying to catch a shrieking Pigwigden.
"Ron please catch that owl of yours." Hermione said sleepily next to him.
They could also see that Harry's owl had come into the hall as well.
"Hedwig what's the matter?" he asked the snowy owl. She kept on hooting. Nothing Harry did seemed to clam her down.
Shannon, Jessi and Katriena all looked at each other. Jessi nodded her head.
"Do you think we could get away with it?" Katriena whispered to her friend as Shannon was waking up Brian.
"I think so. But we'll have to careful about it." Jessi said as Brian sat next to her.
"I take you want me to keep watch and make sure that no one sees you go. Am I right?" He asked knowing what they were thinking.
"Yeah. And maybe only two of us should go." Jessi was saying right when the candles around the hall were suddenly lit.
"Hey what's going (yawn) on?" Thomas asked, as he sat up not far from Jessi and them.
"Don't know." Jessi said back.
Professor Dumbledore walked into the hall with the other teachers following him. They walked to the middle of the sea of sleeping bags.
"Students I'm afraid that we are going to have to evacuate the school." He said.
A chorus of yelling and talking followed.
"Please clam down. No one is going to sent home. It's not that bad but you're all going to stay in the village till this thing has passed." Professor McGonagall said to the students, "Now all of you head back to your common rooms. The head of your house will talk to there."
Katriena was walking back up the fight of stairs that lead to the dormitory with the other 7^th year Hufflepuff girls. Professor Sprout had told them that they were only to pack some cloths and books. And if they had an pets that they had to bring them with them. Katriena was glad about that she didn't like the thought of having to leave Trouble behind.
"Hey Katriena do you think we'll be needing all of our robes or will a couple be okay for a few days?" Kelly asked.
"A few robes should be fine. Plus some money might help." Katriena said to the blond head girl. Katriena pulled Troubles carrying case from under her bed. The cat took one look at it and took off.
Sarah, who's bed was closest to the door, slammed it shut. The other girls in the room knew better than to let the cat lose into the hallway. They had all been through this before.
"Come on Trouble. Come here girl." Katriena said to a hissing cat. As she reached for her, Trouble scratched her across the back of the hand. Katriena yelled with pain, pulling her hand back. The cat took off between Katriena's legs. Kelly and Sarah turned to corner the cat but they too got hurt.
As they sat in a carriage that was taking them to Hogsmead, Jessi looked down at Katriena's bleeding hands.
"I don't understand why you keep that monster." She said as she watched Neville wrap an old scarf around his girl friend's hands. There had been no time to run up to the hospital wing before they left. Trouble had done a number on her owner's hands. They were ripped to shreds.
Katriena winced at the pain as Neville tried the scarf; "I couldn't get rid of her. She's my friend. But now you know why I call her Trouble."
They could hear the cat hissing form under the seat.
"Well Hermione didn't have a better time trying to get Crookshanks into his either." Jessi shared the her room with Hermione and two other girls.
"I know did you see how Ron was helping her climbing into their carriage?" Brian said from where he was sitting next to Shannon.
"I know. But at least she didn't take almost 30 minutes trying to catch her cat." Katriena said through gritted teeth as they rolled over a bump.
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