Chapter 5
Hogsmeade
As they all had hoped weeks went by, and were luckily very un eventful, they had a few more Quidditch matches as friends, and the real Quidditch was coming up soon, Raven had been giving Malfoy out some of her Tactics, and Malfoy was accelerating as seeker. Raven liked Draco being her friend…
Raven had bugged Potter about her money, and he still hadn't forked it over, so she wasn't very happy about that. She had gotten a few letters from her mom, and had taken a few Pictures for her cousin, she was going to wait til Draco's first Quidditch game to give him any of those pictures. Hagrid hadn't let them have Chocobo Duels, right now in Care of magical creatures they were studding "Siths" Which were cat like people, possibly warecats, but not really. They were like real people, but friends of Hagrid's and they were letting the students learn about them, so there wasn't too much "grooming" involved. A Hogsmeade trip was coming up soon so that got a few of the students excited. Raven had managed to catch back up on her homework and was maintaining decent marks in school, though she wasn't always super dedicated. Draco had become a really good friend, but she still wouldn't let him know "AL Bhed" yet. She might in time…. might. She of course woke up everyday around the same time and snuck down to the common room, sometimes she was alone, sometimes Willow joined her, sometimes Draco, and on rare occasion, both. First Quidditch game of the season, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff, Of course the Slytherin Rooted for Hufflepuff.
Raven, Willow, and Draco all sat toward the front of one of the booths, paying attention to the game, behind them where all they're other Quidditch friends.
"think potter will catch the Snitch?" Malfoy sneered.
"I dunno, why don't you go dress up as a dementor," Raven replied, tauntingly.
"Hey that was in my third year, okay? I got in enough trouble for that!" Draco said, Willow and Raven laughed.
"I was only kidding Draco," Raven said, elbowing him playfully in the side. He grinned at her, and elbowed her back. Just then a Hufflepuff beater knocked a bludger into Potter, sending him spinning, Draco, Willow, and Raven all shouted in cheer for the beater, along with all the other Slytherin's, and he bowed to them. But a Gryffindor Chaser had the Quaffle and managed to score a point, Gryffindor was in the lead now. Raven always had an eye for the snitch and she spotted it, down at the corner of the arena, close to the ground, She nudged Draco.
"what?" he asked her.
"Look down there, the snitch, it hasn't moved for a while…" Raven said, Draco looked down, he spotted it.
"Well if Hufflepuff wants to win they need that," Draco said. Suddenly Potter went down into a dive, he must have seen it, the other seeker tore after him, they both dived toward the ground, Raven closed her eyes, not wanting to see who caught it. There was a roar and see opened her eyes, Potter had gotten it, All the Slytherins hissed and booed in Anger. The Hufflepuff Seeker snapped and Harry's entire team swarmed around him, in praise. Raven stood angrily and walked out of the Arena across the grounds, Draco and Willow close behind her.
"Perfect Potter…." Raven sighed, "Draco when your seeker, glance at me everyone in a while to see if I've spotted the Snitch okay?" Draco nodded slowly. Raven stopped.
"Oh well, Hogsmeade coming up soon right? So we're good, besides we've got the whole season left to win the Quidditch cup. Hey it's the week end, what you guys want to do, and I'm not in the mood for Quidditch, or Homework." Raven said.
"Up for a game of wizards chest?" Willow asked her.
"Uhhhh Yeah sure," Raven replied. The three of them walked up to the Slytherin Common room, and Willow ran upstairs to grab her bored and Raven's Chest pieces. Raven and Draco went and sat around on of the few Tables in the Slytherin common room. Raven rested her arms on the table and let her head lie on her arms. Draco sat there in silence and thought… But soon Willow ran back downstairs and set the bored down on the table and handed Raven her box of Pieces. Willow spread open the board and set her pieces down in their spots, Raven placed hers on the bored as well. The pieces where moving and yelling, as they always did, they played for a while, not really taking any of each others men, but that's when the game started getting brutal, every other move sent little chunks of chess board pieces everywhere, it finally got down to the point where they both only had a knight, a queen and their king left. Raven paused.
"Call it a draw then?" Raven said, Willow nodded, and both kings dropped their swords, the Queens bowed and the knights got off their horses, Draco laughed to himself some, he'd never seen a draw before and it was kinda funny. Raven and Willow packed everything up and Willow volunteered to run the pieces up to the dorm. Willow was rather annoyed, she suspected that Raven liked Malfoy and Malfoy liked Raven, but they would never admit it, and they didn't think the other liked the other, probably, so yeah… Willow walked back downstairs and Raven and Malfoy had moved to a couch in front of the fire, leaving a spot in the middle for Willow. Willow went over and sat down, it was getting late and there wasn't much else to do, so they all just sat there talking. Soon other Slytherins were drifting in and out, so they decided to head off to bed. Raven slipped into her Pajama's and drifted into a dream, which started out normal enough.
*~*~*~*
Raven and Draco were in the library, studding for a test and Willow was off somewhere looking for a book. After about 20 minutes of studding they both looked up from their books, where had Willow gone off to? It seemed odd that she hadn't found her book by now. They searched the rows of books for her, but she wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Maybe she's gone back to the common room, and we didn't notice because we were studding," Raven said.
"Yeah probably," Draco said. The two put their books back and walked out of the Library. They walked along the corridor and come to the portrait, Raven muttered the password and they walked in. The common room was empty. It was the weekend, of course all the other students were off other places, Raven and Draco walked up to Raven's dorm to see if Willow was there, They got to the door, and opened it, walking in, No Willow. Raven went and sat down on her bed, looking down at the floor, trying to think where Willow might be. Draco came over and sat next to her.
"So… Raven," he said, she looked over at him.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Have you read the book that your father gave to you yet?" He asked, changing what he was going to say.
"I've read some of it…" Raven replied, then looked back down at the floor. Raven felt weird… different… she wondered what it meant. She looked back over at Draco and he set his hand down on the bed next to hers.
"I wonder where Willow could be…" Raven said.
"I dunno," Draco said, "so… Are you ready for the test we were studding for?"
"I guess I am, Potions shouldn't be to hard, how about you?" Raven asked, looking back at Draco.
"Yeah I think I'm ready for the test." He replied. Raven paused.
"Why does this seem weird, or is it just me?" Raven asked.
"I think it seems weird…" Draco replied, "Raven… I have a secret to tell you…"
"What?" Raven asked.
"I think I kinda…. Have a crush on you," Draco said. Raven looked at him, and his cheeks went slightly pink. Raven looked at him for a moment, not sure what to say at first.
"Draco…" Raven began.
"I have another secret…" Draco said. Raven just looked at him, not knowing quiet what it would be.
"I think I kinda want to kiss you," He whispered. Draco looked at her, and slowly leaned closer to her, and pressed his lips against hers. Raven, a bit surprised at first, put her arms around him, and he placed his hand on the back of her head. Raven returned his kiss, closed her eyes…
*~*~*~*~*
Raven sat bolt up in her bed, eyes wide… She looked around.
"Just a dream…" She whispered to herself. She shook slightly, what a weird dream… She and Draco…
Raven stood, seeing the time was what it normally is when she wakes up. She sighed and walked over to the window, swinging it open, Senosuke flew up to her and Raven petted the bird, it hooted softly, and swooped down form her window. She walked out of the dorm on down into the common room, sitting in front of the fire place, her knees drawn up to her body, she hugged her legs and rest her chin on her knees, watching the flames, she sighed slightly to herself as she watched the flames dance. The end of her dream seemed to keep replaying in her mind. There was no way she was telling anybody about that dream… besides, she got to go to Hogsmeade today, and she didn't need that hanging over her. But she kept thinking about the kiss, in her dream… she wondered if she dreamt it because she willed it or not… Raven wasn't very open to her own emotions, she didn't trust them. She had not been sitting there for to long when Draco came down and sat next to her, she didn't look at him, because she didn't want to give him the wrong facial expression.
"You know, it's the weekend, you figure you'd be able to sleep in, even for a little while," Draco said. Raven smiled slightly.
"Yeah well, that's me for you, I don't think it's entirely fair, but that's the way it works," Raven said, still not looking at him, "though I am really tired right now…" Raven paused a moment thinking… a lot of times, when you remember a dream, and you know you were asleep yet your still tired, it means you were on an astral plan, and mentally that kiss might have happened…
"Your always tired, you do too much, I think," Draco said to her. Raven didn't notice that Malfoy was looking at her, because she was to intent on the fire, Malfoy was watching the flame reflected off her Silver black hair, which seemed to make her glow. Draco shook his head, and looked back into the fire.
"You excited about Hogsmeade?" Draco asked her. She nodded.
"I guess so, I like it up there, I can't wait to get a butterbeer," Raven said to him. Draco nodded.
"Or visit the old shrieking shack?" Draco said with a slight grin.
"What was with that?" Raven asked.
"What?" Draco replied.
"That grin…" Raven said.
"What grin?" He said, part innocently, part playfully. Raven just nudged him with her shoulder. He smiled at her, then nudged her back. She tilted her head, and rested it on his shoulder. He let her, even though it made him perk a brow. Truthfully she didn't know why she'd done it either. They continued to look into the fire, talking about Hogsmeade. After a while Raven stood up.
"I'm thinking it's about time to go back to the dorms," Raven Said, Draco looked up at her, then stood. Raven looked at the staircase.
"What's wrong?" Draco asked her.
"What do you mean?" Raven asked confused.
"You've seemed slightly jumpy, and you acted differently when I came down, like you didn't want to look at me…" Draco said.
"Oh… think nothing of it, I just had a ba… a weird dream," Raven replied.
"ba-a-weird," Draco said in a slightly mocking tone. Raven smirked at him.
"You know what I meant," Raven said. Draco looked at her.
"Want to tell me what the dream was about?" He asked. Raven shook her head.
"Its nothing Draco, never mind," Raven said, she turned to the stairs again. Draco laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you sure its nothing? You can tell me Raven, whatever it is," He said.
"Really its nothing, besides…." She said, thinking of a lie, "I don't really remember it all." Draco paused and looked at her, seeing she had set her mind on not telling him, so he thought he'd joke around with it a bit now.
"Well then, was it about me?" He asked. Raven turned her head to look at him, her eyes narrowed in a "drop it" type manner.
"No Draco… it wasn't I said forget it," Raven said, in a dead tone. Draco stepped back, looking down.
"I'm sorry…" Draco said.
"No I am, but come on, let's go upstairs, I'll talk to you later," Raven said.
They made their way back to their dorms; Raven slipped into her bed, and pulled her sheet over her head, shutting her curtain. She closed her eyes, resting. She knew she wouldn't tell anyone about that dream, Willow didn't need to know and Draco REALLY didn't need to know. She lay there, knowing she wouldn't fall asleep. When she fell asleep, she fell asleep late at night and woke up when she woke up, but that was it, so she was always a bit tired. After a while of laying there and staring at the Green curtains around her bed, Willow pulled her curtains to the side.
"Hey," She said.
"Hey," Raven replied. Willow was fully dressed and the other two girls were gone. Raven sat up, holding her head, she had the slightest bit of a headache.
"You alright?" Willow asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Raven replied, waving her hand. Raven got off of her bed and slipped into some clothes, then threw on a black robe. The two girls walked down to the great hall, grabbing a quick breakfast. Willow and Raven walked around the school talking, about random subjects, waiting for the time to depart for Hogsmeade came. For no apparent reason, Willow Poked Raven in the side, as she so oftenly did, Raven hopped to the side, and looked over at Willow. Raven poked Willow in the side, then broke out into a full sprint down one of the halls. Willow looked at her and began to chase after her.
"Hey, get back here," Willow called after her.
"Catch me if you can," Raven taunted playfully, Willow Ran Faster, and Raven pulled a sharp turn, and Willow slide a few feet past the hallway she had run down. Willow stopped sliding and stepped sideways and began running again, Catching up to Raven rather quickly, Raven went to turn again, but slammed into someone, tumbling over them, and sprawling across the ground.
"Ugh…" Raven said, lying on to ground. Raven looked over at who she had crashed into.
"Oh… Potter…" She said, sitting up.
"Watch it Raven," Hermione said, rather snobbishly.
"Ah shut up you yuppie priss," Raven said, standing, glaring at her.
"Hey Raven," Ron said, "what's with you and Malfoy all of a sudden? Trying to get some Slytherin Glory?" Raven's eyes flared, he had apparently hit a nerve.
"Shut up Weasly, Your grand friend Hagrid isn't here to stop me from attacking you, so I suggest you step down." Raven shot back at him, He only grinned.
"Wipe that gay look off your face, Weasly, it clashes with your hair color," Willow said. Harry Finally stood.
"The two of you are just sad," Hermione threw in, "why do you pick on us so much? Are you jealous that we got into Gryffindor and you didn't?" Raven's eyes flared, she could hardly contain herself, and she threw out a hand catching Hermione around the neck, pressing her against the wall, almost knocking down a picture.
"You want to know something?" Raven hissed, "I was IN Gryffindor at first, but I convinced Dumbledore and Snape to let me switch, because I didn't feel like I fit in, so don't tell me I'm jealous of you pathetic, overly well treated house, or you well seriously regret it." Raven's eyes were narrow and she was just glaring at Hermione. Hermione's eyes Grew wide, Raven just stood there pinning her to a wall by her neck, Raven shook her head, let go of Hermione, and she fell to the ground, rubbing her neck. Raven turned and walked away, not wanting to get anymore engrossed in anymore fighting, because when she got mad, she was explosive. Willow walked after her, quick in pace.
"You do realize…" Willow began. Raven put up a hand to silence her.
"I realize I jus stopped myself from killing her, but I know I can still get in trouble for it if they decide to run to a teacher and tell on me, like the immature, weak Gryffindor they are," Raven stopped shaking in rage, she balled her fist and punched the stone wall, a few pictures above where her fist hit actually shook. Raven breathed in heavily. She pulled her fist back and a drop of silver dripped from her knuckle. Raven stared at her silver blood, even though it was Silver, it was blood just the same, something inside of her lurched. She simply licked the blood off of her hand, and began to walk to the Slytherin common room.
When they finally got there, Raven wrapped her hand and then plopped down on her bed. Willow looked at her concerned.
"I almost bit her… Willow, I almost attacked her… my god, what if I had, what if I couldn't stop myself?" Raven said, looking rather upset.
"Calm down Raven, the point is you didn't, so you don't have to worry about it," Willow said. She sat in the Slytherin common room, Willow in a chair across from her, they talked for a while, the time for Hogsmeade seemed to never come, but finally, Slytherin began to poor from dorms into common room to go catch they're ride to Hogsmeade. Shadow and Spyke spotted Raven and Willow and walked over to them.
"Hey," Shadow said.
"Hi," Willow said, Raven remaining silent. The portrait swung open and McGonagall and Snape walked in.
"Miss Solaris, I'd like to have a word with you, now." McGonagall said.
"Shit," Raven said, walking through the crowd and going over to her. Raven followed McGonagall out the door and into the hall.
"your gonna keep me form Hogsmeade aren't you?" Raven asked as soon as the portrait shut.
"No, Miss Solaris I'm not, but Hermione Granger came to me rather distraught over the fact that you had assaulted her." Professor McGonagall said, looking at her over her spectacles.
"With all due respect, she didn't help any, you must know you noble Gryffindors aren't all that perfect, professor," Raven said, looking down, "And I'm not declining attacking her…" McGonagall Eyed her, pupils narrow.
"You know I could expel you for attacking her," She threatened.
"I'm sorry professor, but students have gotten into fights before, its not my fault you don't like me because I wanted out of Gryffindor," Raven spat. McGonagall's eyes widened.
"Miss Solaris, dare you not mutter I am prejudice against your house!"
"I said nothing of the sort, I simply said that you didn't like me because I wanted out of your house, and into Slytherin, there is more for me here, now can I go?" Raven said.
"I'm afraid your tongue knows no bounties or respect, I'll be forced to give you two days detention… I will give you the papers next time you are in my class." She turned and walked off; Raven scowled after her, but knew damn well her mouth got her in trouble a lot. Raven turned muttered the current password "blood chain" and walked in, walking over in a fury to Willow and the rest of her friends.
"I hate that blooming git!" she yelled in rage.
"What happened?" Willow asked.
"2 days detention, can you believe it? 2! For THAT" Raven growled.
"What did you do?" Shadow asked.
"None of your damn business!" Raven said.
"Sorry for asking," Shadow said.
"I'm sorry, I'm just a bit on the angry side, I might tell you later, but I'm sure exaggerated rumors are going to e flying around like hell bats." Raven said. Draco walked over and looked at Raven.
"Hey, what was that about?" looking kinda concerned. Willow gave him an "I'll-tell-you-later" look, Draco nodded. Raven shut her eyes, then they were all instructed to move out to the carriages. Raven and willow sat next to each other talking.
They made it to Hogsmeade and stepped out into the snowy air. Raven decided to ignore her mood, she ran over to a heap of snow, quickly took some up into her hand and chucked it at Willow, full speed, it hit her sending snow all over, Willow laughed and Raven grinned, Willow scooped up some snow, chucked it toward Raven, But Raven ducked, it sailed over her head and slammed into the side of Professor Snape's head. Willows eyes went all wide, and Snape turned his head toward her.
"Oh shit…" Willow muttered, But Snape saw who had thrown it, and for one of the first times, they saw a half smile creep across his face, he actually picked up a snow ball and tosses it in Willow's direction, Willow was hit on the shoulder. Snape looked and her.
"Carry on," Snape said, and then walked away. Raven and Willow looked at each other. Both Girls cracked a smile then began to laugh, Everybody had spread out through the town, but Draco approached Raven.
"did I just see what I though I saw?" He asked amazed. Raven chucked a snowball at him.
"Yeppers," she said. Malfoy looked at her.
"Yeppers?" he asked. Raven laughed and shrugged.
"New word, I guess," Raven grinned. Draco grinned, picking up a snowball and chucking it at her. They had a small snowball fight, but then decided to stop after Draco and Willow both hit McGonagall… not to accidentally…
"Did she see us?" Raven asked they had hidden behind a huge stack of wood before McGonagall had.
"We'll know if we get detention…." Willow said, "I meant me and Draco, you don't need anymore, Raven."
"Well, shall we go get a butter beer?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, then I want to go look at dress robes, aren't they having a ball again this year? I heard a few people say they might be having a Yule ball every year, instead of just on the goblet of fire years," Raven said. Willow laughed.
"And now we can get a guys opinion on our dress robes," Willow said.
"Ah… I think I'll run into the owlry as you people do that," Draco said.
"Yeah you do that," Raven said, as they began to walk to the Tavern ((author note: forgive me, I cannot remember the name of anything at this point…)) The three friends made their way around and sat at a table in the tavern. Draco went to order three butter beers from Rosemary, The tavern keep. Raven and Willow talked about what kind of dress robes they might get.
"Definitely black… maybe Blood red though…" Raven said.
"Nah… I think you'd look good in gray… I want to check out a dark purple," Willow replied. That was about as close to "girl talk" as they normally got, they didn't pride themselves on being to incredibly feminine when it came to that sort of stuff. Draco came over, setting the butter beers down.
"you know Draco, people are thinking its odd that your all of a sudden hanging out with us… why is that?" Willow asked.
"I was just interested in finding new friends," he said with a shrug, "Crabbe and Goyle can get kind of dense. And people can shove off, it doesn't matter what they think, anyways, what happened to land you two days of detention?"
"Well," Raven began, "Granger, Potter, and Weasly decided they wanted to challenge me of what ever, Granger made a comment and I kinda snapped, I ended up pinning her to a wall be her neck… then I sorta back talked to Professor McGonagall… so that landed me 2 days." Draco smiled. They finished their butter beers while talking about the Yule ball. After they were done Draco headed off to honey dukes and Raven and Willow went to look for Dress robes.
They glanced trough the racks of Dress robes, a short woman walked up to them.
"Can I help you to ladies?" She asked.
"We'll manage," Raven replied, the women merly nodded and walked back to the paying counter. Willow laughed and tapped Raven's shoulder.
"Look at one of those new Designs, where the top of the robe is low cut and rests below the shoulders… I dare you to try it on," Willow said. Raven looked at her, Willow knew Raven hardly ever turned down a dare. She took one of them, a dark green one, off the rack and ducked into the Changing rooms. Willow smirked in amusement waiting for Raven to come out in the dress robe. Raven slipped out of her own clothes in the dressing room, and slipped on the dress robe. Raven looked at her reflection, the mirror looked back.
"You know that's hot," the mirror said.
"Yeah but kid of… low…" Raven replied.
"Go show Willow now," Said her reflection… She knew muggles talked to themselves in a mirror all the time, but to some point, this was ridiculous. She walked out of the dressing room; Willow examined her, and then smiled.
"What?" Raven said. Willow merly smiled.
"Damn, where is Draco when he needs to be around?" She said playfully.
"Draco doesn't need to see this, nobody need to, look at me… my god," Raven said.
"Well it's meant to make you look sexy, Raven," Willow replied.
"I don't want to know if it fulfills that, I'm changing now," Raven said.
"Well, Raven, your looking awfully hot there," said a voice from behind, Raven perked a brow then turned her head, a boy stood there, with black hair and cold green eyes.
"Oh my god! Luke!" Raven turned immediately form him, yanking the shoulders of the robe, up near her neck, making the bottom hang above her ankles, "When did you get back?" She asked slinking back into her changing room. Raven quickly changed into her normal clothes and walked back out.
"Yeah," Willow said, "I though that you were out of Hogwarts because your mother was really sick."
"I was, but mum got over it, and Gram finally had time to come down and care for her, its only about 2 months into the school year." Luke said.
'Luke Stargun,' Raven thought, 'I haven't seen him since last year, I wondered what happened to him." Raven stood for a moment, remembering him, she used to like him, and she wondered if he still did.
"Well, its good to hear your mum is better now," Raven said.
"How's your mum?" Luke asked, meaning it playfully.
"In hiding from the high Vampiric Council, My fathers dead…" Raven said in a low tone.
"Oh god, Raven, I'm sorry…" Luke said, looking down.
"Ah, don't worry about it, I've shed my share of tears over it already," Raven said.
"How did you know where we were anyways Luke?" Willow asked.
"I saw you guys walk in, I've been trying to talk to you ever since I heard McGonagall call you in the common room, what was that about anyways?" Luke replied. Raven quickly explained what had happened. Luke nodded.
'God he's cute…' Raven caught herself thinking, but then shook herself out of it.
"Well we have one more Hogsmeade trip until the Ball, lets go get Draco," Willow Said.
"Draco? Malfoy?" Luke looked confused.
"Yeah he's a friend for some odd reason this year," Raven replied. The three walked out of the shop and over to HoneyDukes to find Draco. Raven tapped him on the shoulder; he turned and smiled at them, then looked to Luke.
"Who the hell is that?" Draco asked.
"This is Luke, he's a really good friend," Raven said, Luke held out a hand, Draco looked down then shook it.
"Well!" Raven said, "we'll get some candy then head back, it's almost time to go home." Raven and Willow got a few blood pops, and then some chocolate frogs. They walked out into the snow, which had strted to drift from the sky again.
"Well, Raven, Willow, we've got a lot of catching up to do don't we?" Luke said.
"Yes, but we'll to that later," Raven said. Draco seemed almost uneasy, as though he didn't trust Luke, or maybe just didn't like him. Suddenly, Luke Poked Raven in the side then slunk behind her and poked Willow, both girls turned around, Luke was standing both hands up as though in a fighting stance, only his index finger and middle finger where out, Raven and Willow assumed similar stances. They began to poke and block pokes. Draco stood back and watched. Raven and Willow had had a few of these before; they were known as poke wars, or pooka duels. The object seemed to be, poke you opponent and block their pokes, and who ever thought they poked the most successfully won…. It was very odd. Draco watched them for a moment, before getting slightly annoyed.
"Well if you people are done we have to get going," Draco said.
"Fine," Luke said running by and poking them each one more time, "I win." Raven and Willow chased after him. Both prodding him on either side at the same time, then both jumped out of reach.
"Truce," They both said.
"I hate it when you two do that," Luke said. Malfoy was still walking behind them. Willow turned around.
"Hurry up then Malfoy," She said.
"Actually… I think I'll catch up with Crabbe and Goyle," Draco said, turning and walking a different way.
"What's with him?" Luke asked.
"I don't know… excuse me a second…" Raven said, then trotted after Malfoy. She caught up with him.
"What?" He asked.
"What is wrong?" She asked.
"Why would there be anything wrong?" Draco asked.
"Because you just answered my question with a question… and you've been acting as though Luke has invaded your space, and you stormed off because he started a poke war… is that what's wrong, you don't like Luke?" Raven said. Draco stopped walking and looked down, then to her.
"I hardly know him, why would I not like him?" Draco said.
"You did it again," Raven said, eyes narrowing.
"Did what?"
"Answered with a question, which is telling me you don't like him, why?" Raven said. Draco started to walk again.
"I have to find Crabbe and Goyle," Malfoy said.
"They passed us during to Pooka Duel…" Raven replied, "but if you don't want to answer my question, that's fine, remember you've been a friend to two months, Luke's been a friend for two years, almost, please don't be doing this," Raven said then turned and walked away. Malfoy stood there, watching her walk back toward Willow and Luke, who were apparently attempting to finish off the duel. Draco watched as they walked together preparing to leave Hogsmeade. He began to walk again, slowly, not wanting to talk to any one at the moment.
Hogsmeade
As they all had hoped weeks went by, and were luckily very un eventful, they had a few more Quidditch matches as friends, and the real Quidditch was coming up soon, Raven had been giving Malfoy out some of her Tactics, and Malfoy was accelerating as seeker. Raven liked Draco being her friend…
Raven had bugged Potter about her money, and he still hadn't forked it over, so she wasn't very happy about that. She had gotten a few letters from her mom, and had taken a few Pictures for her cousin, she was going to wait til Draco's first Quidditch game to give him any of those pictures. Hagrid hadn't let them have Chocobo Duels, right now in Care of magical creatures they were studding "Siths" Which were cat like people, possibly warecats, but not really. They were like real people, but friends of Hagrid's and they were letting the students learn about them, so there wasn't too much "grooming" involved. A Hogsmeade trip was coming up soon so that got a few of the students excited. Raven had managed to catch back up on her homework and was maintaining decent marks in school, though she wasn't always super dedicated. Draco had become a really good friend, but she still wouldn't let him know "AL Bhed" yet. She might in time…. might. She of course woke up everyday around the same time and snuck down to the common room, sometimes she was alone, sometimes Willow joined her, sometimes Draco, and on rare occasion, both. First Quidditch game of the season, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff, Of course the Slytherin Rooted for Hufflepuff.
Raven, Willow, and Draco all sat toward the front of one of the booths, paying attention to the game, behind them where all they're other Quidditch friends.
"think potter will catch the Snitch?" Malfoy sneered.
"I dunno, why don't you go dress up as a dementor," Raven replied, tauntingly.
"Hey that was in my third year, okay? I got in enough trouble for that!" Draco said, Willow and Raven laughed.
"I was only kidding Draco," Raven said, elbowing him playfully in the side. He grinned at her, and elbowed her back. Just then a Hufflepuff beater knocked a bludger into Potter, sending him spinning, Draco, Willow, and Raven all shouted in cheer for the beater, along with all the other Slytherin's, and he bowed to them. But a Gryffindor Chaser had the Quaffle and managed to score a point, Gryffindor was in the lead now. Raven always had an eye for the snitch and she spotted it, down at the corner of the arena, close to the ground, She nudged Draco.
"what?" he asked her.
"Look down there, the snitch, it hasn't moved for a while…" Raven said, Draco looked down, he spotted it.
"Well if Hufflepuff wants to win they need that," Draco said. Suddenly Potter went down into a dive, he must have seen it, the other seeker tore after him, they both dived toward the ground, Raven closed her eyes, not wanting to see who caught it. There was a roar and see opened her eyes, Potter had gotten it, All the Slytherins hissed and booed in Anger. The Hufflepuff Seeker snapped and Harry's entire team swarmed around him, in praise. Raven stood angrily and walked out of the Arena across the grounds, Draco and Willow close behind her.
"Perfect Potter…." Raven sighed, "Draco when your seeker, glance at me everyone in a while to see if I've spotted the Snitch okay?" Draco nodded slowly. Raven stopped.
"Oh well, Hogsmeade coming up soon right? So we're good, besides we've got the whole season left to win the Quidditch cup. Hey it's the week end, what you guys want to do, and I'm not in the mood for Quidditch, or Homework." Raven said.
"Up for a game of wizards chest?" Willow asked her.
"Uhhhh Yeah sure," Raven replied. The three of them walked up to the Slytherin Common room, and Willow ran upstairs to grab her bored and Raven's Chest pieces. Raven and Draco went and sat around on of the few Tables in the Slytherin common room. Raven rested her arms on the table and let her head lie on her arms. Draco sat there in silence and thought… But soon Willow ran back downstairs and set the bored down on the table and handed Raven her box of Pieces. Willow spread open the board and set her pieces down in their spots, Raven placed hers on the bored as well. The pieces where moving and yelling, as they always did, they played for a while, not really taking any of each others men, but that's when the game started getting brutal, every other move sent little chunks of chess board pieces everywhere, it finally got down to the point where they both only had a knight, a queen and their king left. Raven paused.
"Call it a draw then?" Raven said, Willow nodded, and both kings dropped their swords, the Queens bowed and the knights got off their horses, Draco laughed to himself some, he'd never seen a draw before and it was kinda funny. Raven and Willow packed everything up and Willow volunteered to run the pieces up to the dorm. Willow was rather annoyed, she suspected that Raven liked Malfoy and Malfoy liked Raven, but they would never admit it, and they didn't think the other liked the other, probably, so yeah… Willow walked back downstairs and Raven and Malfoy had moved to a couch in front of the fire, leaving a spot in the middle for Willow. Willow went over and sat down, it was getting late and there wasn't much else to do, so they all just sat there talking. Soon other Slytherins were drifting in and out, so they decided to head off to bed. Raven slipped into her Pajama's and drifted into a dream, which started out normal enough.
*~*~*~*
Raven and Draco were in the library, studding for a test and Willow was off somewhere looking for a book. After about 20 minutes of studding they both looked up from their books, where had Willow gone off to? It seemed odd that she hadn't found her book by now. They searched the rows of books for her, but she wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Maybe she's gone back to the common room, and we didn't notice because we were studding," Raven said.
"Yeah probably," Draco said. The two put their books back and walked out of the Library. They walked along the corridor and come to the portrait, Raven muttered the password and they walked in. The common room was empty. It was the weekend, of course all the other students were off other places, Raven and Draco walked up to Raven's dorm to see if Willow was there, They got to the door, and opened it, walking in, No Willow. Raven went and sat down on her bed, looking down at the floor, trying to think where Willow might be. Draco came over and sat next to her.
"So… Raven," he said, she looked over at him.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"Have you read the book that your father gave to you yet?" He asked, changing what he was going to say.
"I've read some of it…" Raven replied, then looked back down at the floor. Raven felt weird… different… she wondered what it meant. She looked back over at Draco and he set his hand down on the bed next to hers.
"I wonder where Willow could be…" Raven said.
"I dunno," Draco said, "so… Are you ready for the test we were studding for?"
"I guess I am, Potions shouldn't be to hard, how about you?" Raven asked, looking back at Draco.
"Yeah I think I'm ready for the test." He replied. Raven paused.
"Why does this seem weird, or is it just me?" Raven asked.
"I think it seems weird…" Draco replied, "Raven… I have a secret to tell you…"
"What?" Raven asked.
"I think I kinda…. Have a crush on you," Draco said. Raven looked at him, and his cheeks went slightly pink. Raven looked at him for a moment, not sure what to say at first.
"Draco…" Raven began.
"I have another secret…" Draco said. Raven just looked at him, not knowing quiet what it would be.
"I think I kinda want to kiss you," He whispered. Draco looked at her, and slowly leaned closer to her, and pressed his lips against hers. Raven, a bit surprised at first, put her arms around him, and he placed his hand on the back of her head. Raven returned his kiss, closed her eyes…
*~*~*~*~*
Raven sat bolt up in her bed, eyes wide… She looked around.
"Just a dream…" She whispered to herself. She shook slightly, what a weird dream… She and Draco…
Raven stood, seeing the time was what it normally is when she wakes up. She sighed and walked over to the window, swinging it open, Senosuke flew up to her and Raven petted the bird, it hooted softly, and swooped down form her window. She walked out of the dorm on down into the common room, sitting in front of the fire place, her knees drawn up to her body, she hugged her legs and rest her chin on her knees, watching the flames, she sighed slightly to herself as she watched the flames dance. The end of her dream seemed to keep replaying in her mind. There was no way she was telling anybody about that dream… besides, she got to go to Hogsmeade today, and she didn't need that hanging over her. But she kept thinking about the kiss, in her dream… she wondered if she dreamt it because she willed it or not… Raven wasn't very open to her own emotions, she didn't trust them. She had not been sitting there for to long when Draco came down and sat next to her, she didn't look at him, because she didn't want to give him the wrong facial expression.
"You know, it's the weekend, you figure you'd be able to sleep in, even for a little while," Draco said. Raven smiled slightly.
"Yeah well, that's me for you, I don't think it's entirely fair, but that's the way it works," Raven said, still not looking at him, "though I am really tired right now…" Raven paused a moment thinking… a lot of times, when you remember a dream, and you know you were asleep yet your still tired, it means you were on an astral plan, and mentally that kiss might have happened…
"Your always tired, you do too much, I think," Draco said to her. Raven didn't notice that Malfoy was looking at her, because she was to intent on the fire, Malfoy was watching the flame reflected off her Silver black hair, which seemed to make her glow. Draco shook his head, and looked back into the fire.
"You excited about Hogsmeade?" Draco asked her. She nodded.
"I guess so, I like it up there, I can't wait to get a butterbeer," Raven said to him. Draco nodded.
"Or visit the old shrieking shack?" Draco said with a slight grin.
"What was with that?" Raven asked.
"What?" Draco replied.
"That grin…" Raven said.
"What grin?" He said, part innocently, part playfully. Raven just nudged him with her shoulder. He smiled at her, then nudged her back. She tilted her head, and rested it on his shoulder. He let her, even though it made him perk a brow. Truthfully she didn't know why she'd done it either. They continued to look into the fire, talking about Hogsmeade. After a while Raven stood up.
"I'm thinking it's about time to go back to the dorms," Raven Said, Draco looked up at her, then stood. Raven looked at the staircase.
"What's wrong?" Draco asked her.
"What do you mean?" Raven asked confused.
"You've seemed slightly jumpy, and you acted differently when I came down, like you didn't want to look at me…" Draco said.
"Oh… think nothing of it, I just had a ba… a weird dream," Raven replied.
"ba-a-weird," Draco said in a slightly mocking tone. Raven smirked at him.
"You know what I meant," Raven said. Draco looked at her.
"Want to tell me what the dream was about?" He asked. Raven shook her head.
"Its nothing Draco, never mind," Raven said, she turned to the stairs again. Draco laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you sure its nothing? You can tell me Raven, whatever it is," He said.
"Really its nothing, besides…." She said, thinking of a lie, "I don't really remember it all." Draco paused and looked at her, seeing she had set her mind on not telling him, so he thought he'd joke around with it a bit now.
"Well then, was it about me?" He asked. Raven turned her head to look at him, her eyes narrowed in a "drop it" type manner.
"No Draco… it wasn't I said forget it," Raven said, in a dead tone. Draco stepped back, looking down.
"I'm sorry…" Draco said.
"No I am, but come on, let's go upstairs, I'll talk to you later," Raven said.
They made their way back to their dorms; Raven slipped into her bed, and pulled her sheet over her head, shutting her curtain. She closed her eyes, resting. She knew she wouldn't tell anyone about that dream, Willow didn't need to know and Draco REALLY didn't need to know. She lay there, knowing she wouldn't fall asleep. When she fell asleep, she fell asleep late at night and woke up when she woke up, but that was it, so she was always a bit tired. After a while of laying there and staring at the Green curtains around her bed, Willow pulled her curtains to the side.
"Hey," She said.
"Hey," Raven replied. Willow was fully dressed and the other two girls were gone. Raven sat up, holding her head, she had the slightest bit of a headache.
"You alright?" Willow asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Raven replied, waving her hand. Raven got off of her bed and slipped into some clothes, then threw on a black robe. The two girls walked down to the great hall, grabbing a quick breakfast. Willow and Raven walked around the school talking, about random subjects, waiting for the time to depart for Hogsmeade came. For no apparent reason, Willow Poked Raven in the side, as she so oftenly did, Raven hopped to the side, and looked over at Willow. Raven poked Willow in the side, then broke out into a full sprint down one of the halls. Willow looked at her and began to chase after her.
"Hey, get back here," Willow called after her.
"Catch me if you can," Raven taunted playfully, Willow Ran Faster, and Raven pulled a sharp turn, and Willow slide a few feet past the hallway she had run down. Willow stopped sliding and stepped sideways and began running again, Catching up to Raven rather quickly, Raven went to turn again, but slammed into someone, tumbling over them, and sprawling across the ground.
"Ugh…" Raven said, lying on to ground. Raven looked over at who she had crashed into.
"Oh… Potter…" She said, sitting up.
"Watch it Raven," Hermione said, rather snobbishly.
"Ah shut up you yuppie priss," Raven said, standing, glaring at her.
"Hey Raven," Ron said, "what's with you and Malfoy all of a sudden? Trying to get some Slytherin Glory?" Raven's eyes flared, he had apparently hit a nerve.
"Shut up Weasly, Your grand friend Hagrid isn't here to stop me from attacking you, so I suggest you step down." Raven shot back at him, He only grinned.
"Wipe that gay look off your face, Weasly, it clashes with your hair color," Willow said. Harry Finally stood.
"The two of you are just sad," Hermione threw in, "why do you pick on us so much? Are you jealous that we got into Gryffindor and you didn't?" Raven's eyes flared, she could hardly contain herself, and she threw out a hand catching Hermione around the neck, pressing her against the wall, almost knocking down a picture.
"You want to know something?" Raven hissed, "I was IN Gryffindor at first, but I convinced Dumbledore and Snape to let me switch, because I didn't feel like I fit in, so don't tell me I'm jealous of you pathetic, overly well treated house, or you well seriously regret it." Raven's eyes were narrow and she was just glaring at Hermione. Hermione's eyes Grew wide, Raven just stood there pinning her to a wall by her neck, Raven shook her head, let go of Hermione, and she fell to the ground, rubbing her neck. Raven turned and walked away, not wanting to get anymore engrossed in anymore fighting, because when she got mad, she was explosive. Willow walked after her, quick in pace.
"You do realize…" Willow began. Raven put up a hand to silence her.
"I realize I jus stopped myself from killing her, but I know I can still get in trouble for it if they decide to run to a teacher and tell on me, like the immature, weak Gryffindor they are," Raven stopped shaking in rage, she balled her fist and punched the stone wall, a few pictures above where her fist hit actually shook. Raven breathed in heavily. She pulled her fist back and a drop of silver dripped from her knuckle. Raven stared at her silver blood, even though it was Silver, it was blood just the same, something inside of her lurched. She simply licked the blood off of her hand, and began to walk to the Slytherin common room.
When they finally got there, Raven wrapped her hand and then plopped down on her bed. Willow looked at her concerned.
"I almost bit her… Willow, I almost attacked her… my god, what if I had, what if I couldn't stop myself?" Raven said, looking rather upset.
"Calm down Raven, the point is you didn't, so you don't have to worry about it," Willow said. She sat in the Slytherin common room, Willow in a chair across from her, they talked for a while, the time for Hogsmeade seemed to never come, but finally, Slytherin began to poor from dorms into common room to go catch they're ride to Hogsmeade. Shadow and Spyke spotted Raven and Willow and walked over to them.
"Hey," Shadow said.
"Hi," Willow said, Raven remaining silent. The portrait swung open and McGonagall and Snape walked in.
"Miss Solaris, I'd like to have a word with you, now." McGonagall said.
"Shit," Raven said, walking through the crowd and going over to her. Raven followed McGonagall out the door and into the hall.
"your gonna keep me form Hogsmeade aren't you?" Raven asked as soon as the portrait shut.
"No, Miss Solaris I'm not, but Hermione Granger came to me rather distraught over the fact that you had assaulted her." Professor McGonagall said, looking at her over her spectacles.
"With all due respect, she didn't help any, you must know you noble Gryffindors aren't all that perfect, professor," Raven said, looking down, "And I'm not declining attacking her…" McGonagall Eyed her, pupils narrow.
"You know I could expel you for attacking her," She threatened.
"I'm sorry professor, but students have gotten into fights before, its not my fault you don't like me because I wanted out of Gryffindor," Raven spat. McGonagall's eyes widened.
"Miss Solaris, dare you not mutter I am prejudice against your house!"
"I said nothing of the sort, I simply said that you didn't like me because I wanted out of your house, and into Slytherin, there is more for me here, now can I go?" Raven said.
"I'm afraid your tongue knows no bounties or respect, I'll be forced to give you two days detention… I will give you the papers next time you are in my class." She turned and walked off; Raven scowled after her, but knew damn well her mouth got her in trouble a lot. Raven turned muttered the current password "blood chain" and walked in, walking over in a fury to Willow and the rest of her friends.
"I hate that blooming git!" she yelled in rage.
"What happened?" Willow asked.
"2 days detention, can you believe it? 2! For THAT" Raven growled.
"What did you do?" Shadow asked.
"None of your damn business!" Raven said.
"Sorry for asking," Shadow said.
"I'm sorry, I'm just a bit on the angry side, I might tell you later, but I'm sure exaggerated rumors are going to e flying around like hell bats." Raven said. Draco walked over and looked at Raven.
"Hey, what was that about?" looking kinda concerned. Willow gave him an "I'll-tell-you-later" look, Draco nodded. Raven shut her eyes, then they were all instructed to move out to the carriages. Raven and willow sat next to each other talking.
They made it to Hogsmeade and stepped out into the snowy air. Raven decided to ignore her mood, she ran over to a heap of snow, quickly took some up into her hand and chucked it at Willow, full speed, it hit her sending snow all over, Willow laughed and Raven grinned, Willow scooped up some snow, chucked it toward Raven, But Raven ducked, it sailed over her head and slammed into the side of Professor Snape's head. Willows eyes went all wide, and Snape turned his head toward her.
"Oh shit…" Willow muttered, But Snape saw who had thrown it, and for one of the first times, they saw a half smile creep across his face, he actually picked up a snow ball and tosses it in Willow's direction, Willow was hit on the shoulder. Snape looked and her.
"Carry on," Snape said, and then walked away. Raven and Willow looked at each other. Both Girls cracked a smile then began to laugh, Everybody had spread out through the town, but Draco approached Raven.
"did I just see what I though I saw?" He asked amazed. Raven chucked a snowball at him.
"Yeppers," she said. Malfoy looked at her.
"Yeppers?" he asked. Raven laughed and shrugged.
"New word, I guess," Raven grinned. Draco grinned, picking up a snowball and chucking it at her. They had a small snowball fight, but then decided to stop after Draco and Willow both hit McGonagall… not to accidentally…
"Did she see us?" Raven asked they had hidden behind a huge stack of wood before McGonagall had.
"We'll know if we get detention…." Willow said, "I meant me and Draco, you don't need anymore, Raven."
"Well, shall we go get a butter beer?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, then I want to go look at dress robes, aren't they having a ball again this year? I heard a few people say they might be having a Yule ball every year, instead of just on the goblet of fire years," Raven said. Willow laughed.
"And now we can get a guys opinion on our dress robes," Willow said.
"Ah… I think I'll run into the owlry as you people do that," Draco said.
"Yeah you do that," Raven said, as they began to walk to the Tavern ((author note: forgive me, I cannot remember the name of anything at this point…)) The three friends made their way around and sat at a table in the tavern. Draco went to order three butter beers from Rosemary, The tavern keep. Raven and Willow talked about what kind of dress robes they might get.
"Definitely black… maybe Blood red though…" Raven said.
"Nah… I think you'd look good in gray… I want to check out a dark purple," Willow replied. That was about as close to "girl talk" as they normally got, they didn't pride themselves on being to incredibly feminine when it came to that sort of stuff. Draco came over, setting the butter beers down.
"you know Draco, people are thinking its odd that your all of a sudden hanging out with us… why is that?" Willow asked.
"I was just interested in finding new friends," he said with a shrug, "Crabbe and Goyle can get kind of dense. And people can shove off, it doesn't matter what they think, anyways, what happened to land you two days of detention?"
"Well," Raven began, "Granger, Potter, and Weasly decided they wanted to challenge me of what ever, Granger made a comment and I kinda snapped, I ended up pinning her to a wall be her neck… then I sorta back talked to Professor McGonagall… so that landed me 2 days." Draco smiled. They finished their butter beers while talking about the Yule ball. After they were done Draco headed off to honey dukes and Raven and Willow went to look for Dress robes.
They glanced trough the racks of Dress robes, a short woman walked up to them.
"Can I help you to ladies?" She asked.
"We'll manage," Raven replied, the women merly nodded and walked back to the paying counter. Willow laughed and tapped Raven's shoulder.
"Look at one of those new Designs, where the top of the robe is low cut and rests below the shoulders… I dare you to try it on," Willow said. Raven looked at her, Willow knew Raven hardly ever turned down a dare. She took one of them, a dark green one, off the rack and ducked into the Changing rooms. Willow smirked in amusement waiting for Raven to come out in the dress robe. Raven slipped out of her own clothes in the dressing room, and slipped on the dress robe. Raven looked at her reflection, the mirror looked back.
"You know that's hot," the mirror said.
"Yeah but kid of… low…" Raven replied.
"Go show Willow now," Said her reflection… She knew muggles talked to themselves in a mirror all the time, but to some point, this was ridiculous. She walked out of the dressing room; Willow examined her, and then smiled.
"What?" Raven said. Willow merly smiled.
"Damn, where is Draco when he needs to be around?" She said playfully.
"Draco doesn't need to see this, nobody need to, look at me… my god," Raven said.
"Well it's meant to make you look sexy, Raven," Willow replied.
"I don't want to know if it fulfills that, I'm changing now," Raven said.
"Well, Raven, your looking awfully hot there," said a voice from behind, Raven perked a brow then turned her head, a boy stood there, with black hair and cold green eyes.
"Oh my god! Luke!" Raven turned immediately form him, yanking the shoulders of the robe, up near her neck, making the bottom hang above her ankles, "When did you get back?" She asked slinking back into her changing room. Raven quickly changed into her normal clothes and walked back out.
"Yeah," Willow said, "I though that you were out of Hogwarts because your mother was really sick."
"I was, but mum got over it, and Gram finally had time to come down and care for her, its only about 2 months into the school year." Luke said.
'Luke Stargun,' Raven thought, 'I haven't seen him since last year, I wondered what happened to him." Raven stood for a moment, remembering him, she used to like him, and she wondered if he still did.
"Well, its good to hear your mum is better now," Raven said.
"How's your mum?" Luke asked, meaning it playfully.
"In hiding from the high Vampiric Council, My fathers dead…" Raven said in a low tone.
"Oh god, Raven, I'm sorry…" Luke said, looking down.
"Ah, don't worry about it, I've shed my share of tears over it already," Raven said.
"How did you know where we were anyways Luke?" Willow asked.
"I saw you guys walk in, I've been trying to talk to you ever since I heard McGonagall call you in the common room, what was that about anyways?" Luke replied. Raven quickly explained what had happened. Luke nodded.
'God he's cute…' Raven caught herself thinking, but then shook herself out of it.
"Well we have one more Hogsmeade trip until the Ball, lets go get Draco," Willow Said.
"Draco? Malfoy?" Luke looked confused.
"Yeah he's a friend for some odd reason this year," Raven replied. The three walked out of the shop and over to HoneyDukes to find Draco. Raven tapped him on the shoulder; he turned and smiled at them, then looked to Luke.
"Who the hell is that?" Draco asked.
"This is Luke, he's a really good friend," Raven said, Luke held out a hand, Draco looked down then shook it.
"Well!" Raven said, "we'll get some candy then head back, it's almost time to go home." Raven and Willow got a few blood pops, and then some chocolate frogs. They walked out into the snow, which had strted to drift from the sky again.
"Well, Raven, Willow, we've got a lot of catching up to do don't we?" Luke said.
"Yes, but we'll to that later," Raven said. Draco seemed almost uneasy, as though he didn't trust Luke, or maybe just didn't like him. Suddenly, Luke Poked Raven in the side then slunk behind her and poked Willow, both girls turned around, Luke was standing both hands up as though in a fighting stance, only his index finger and middle finger where out, Raven and Willow assumed similar stances. They began to poke and block pokes. Draco stood back and watched. Raven and Willow had had a few of these before; they were known as poke wars, or pooka duels. The object seemed to be, poke you opponent and block their pokes, and who ever thought they poked the most successfully won…. It was very odd. Draco watched them for a moment, before getting slightly annoyed.
"Well if you people are done we have to get going," Draco said.
"Fine," Luke said running by and poking them each one more time, "I win." Raven and Willow chased after him. Both prodding him on either side at the same time, then both jumped out of reach.
"Truce," They both said.
"I hate it when you two do that," Luke said. Malfoy was still walking behind them. Willow turned around.
"Hurry up then Malfoy," She said.
"Actually… I think I'll catch up with Crabbe and Goyle," Draco said, turning and walking a different way.
"What's with him?" Luke asked.
"I don't know… excuse me a second…" Raven said, then trotted after Malfoy. She caught up with him.
"What?" He asked.
"What is wrong?" She asked.
"Why would there be anything wrong?" Draco asked.
"Because you just answered my question with a question… and you've been acting as though Luke has invaded your space, and you stormed off because he started a poke war… is that what's wrong, you don't like Luke?" Raven said. Draco stopped walking and looked down, then to her.
"I hardly know him, why would I not like him?" Draco said.
"You did it again," Raven said, eyes narrowing.
"Did what?"
"Answered with a question, which is telling me you don't like him, why?" Raven said. Draco started to walk again.
"I have to find Crabbe and Goyle," Malfoy said.
"They passed us during to Pooka Duel…" Raven replied, "but if you don't want to answer my question, that's fine, remember you've been a friend to two months, Luke's been a friend for two years, almost, please don't be doing this," Raven said then turned and walked away. Malfoy stood there, watching her walk back toward Willow and Luke, who were apparently attempting to finish off the duel. Draco watched as they walked together preparing to leave Hogsmeade. He began to walk again, slowly, not wanting to talk to any one at the moment.