A/N: Okay... I decided that I might as well do the Rubberband curse now, because I need to draw that damned comic for the contest and I can't do it with these scenes running around in my head, so I'll draw the damned chapters later. That and I'm a bit on the anxious side for getting through these next chapters.

I hope you like what went on in last chapter. See? Astra isn't always a fight first type of girl. She'll let the antagonist strike first, THEN kick their ass! HAHAHA! Did ya'll think that Miss Snape was creepy? GOD! She is CREEPY! That laugh of hers ALONE could send a cold chill running up yer spine! ACK!

Oh... and for my contest entry, I'm doing a NON-HP AStra Knight. I hope it turns out really well, or my head will be on a platter.


Chapter Twelve


The next morning, Harry felt like he was going to fall asleep in his breakfast. Unfortunately, Neville beat him to it. No one got any sleep the night before in the boys dorm. Ron kept missing his face with his spoon as Hermione patted his back sympathetically.

Transfiguration was next. Professor McGonagall was surprised to see all the sixth year Gryffindor boys crawl to their seats. Then, she was even more surprised to see Draco stagger in with Astra smiling happily as she walked to a seat next to Draco.

"I see... I take it that none of the boys had any sleep last night?" McGonagall asked.

Harry mumbled a "no" with the rest of the boys. Even Draco said "No" with them. Astra smiled gleefully. Harry tapped her on the shoulder. "Why are you so happy? You didn't get any sleep either."

"I have the interesting ability to stay up the entire night and still be fully functional." she smiled at him.

"Maybe I ought to move you to the girls dorm or fix up a room for you two." McGonagall said deep in thought.

Draco stood up quickly. "It will be fine, Professor McGonagall, we won't have anymore problems."

Astra stared at him. "What was that about."

"I just don't want to have to move all my stuff again." he growled at her.

After lunch, they had Defense Against the Dark Arts. Miss Snape was laughing her horrible laugh as she drew a picture of Professor Snape on the board as an Erumpent, a large Rhinoceros like creature that had a horn which could pierce anything and make it explode.

"Oh ho ho ho.... I do LOOOOOVE my dear cousin! Oh ho ho ho!" she laughed again.

"I bet you have a crush on her, Draco." Astra said silently.

"I do not."

"Come on... I know you do. All the boys generally do. She seemingly puts any male within fifteen feet of her into a trance." Astra smirked at Draco.

He just gave her a side glance. Astra was trying to bait him, but it wasn't working. She kept her blue-gray gaze on him.

"I wouldn't stoop so low as date a teacher. She's too old for me anyway. Like an old hag compared to me."

Suddenly, there was silence in the classroom. Astra turned and saw Miss Snape glaring at Draco. Suddenly, she smiled maliciously. "Oh ho ho ho! What was that, Mr. Malfoy?"

Draco grew pale and tried to slide down in his seat. Astra didn't know whether she ought to feel sorry for him or not. "Mr. Malfoy!" Draco jumped out of his seat and hit the floor.

"I would like you to assist me." She beamed at him with those cold violet eyes of hers.

Draco grumbled and walked up to the front. Miss Snape grabbed her wand and beamed at him. "You'll be my guinea pig, Malfoy. Now... I want you to defend yourself from this curse."

"IMPERIO!"

Draco didn't do anything for a moment. Suddenly, he started to hop around like a frog. Hermione threw up her hand. "Miss Snape... Miss Snape!"

Suddenly, Draco stood up. He started to wave his hand in front of his pelvis like he was brushing something off. There were few twitters of laughter at that.

"Miss Snape, we already established this curse!" said Hermione. Miss Snape didn't even look at her. She kept her eyes trained on her new puppet.

Suddenly, Draco started to do a disco dance routine where he bucked his pelvis as he looked at Astra and pointed his finger into the air. "You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man... no time to talk." He singed.

"Very bad..." Miss Snape said finally. "Very bad indeed! I have seen children overthrow that curse!" She tutted at him. Draco stared at her incredulously.

"My next contestant! Miss Knight!" Miss Snape beckoned to her. Astra stood up pensively and walked to the front.

Miss Snape raised her wand at Astra. Astra resisted the urge to draw out her own wand quickly and curse Miss Snape into an oblivion.

"IMPERIO!"

Astra heard a small voice inside her head whispering something. --Go back to your desk-- it said. Another voice that sounded like her own responded. //No... I'm fine here, thanks very much!//

--Go back to your desk--

//Don't know. Don't care. Why should I?//

--Go now.... Go NOW!--

Astra suddenly felt pain as she hit the floor. She realized that she had ben trying to walk and not walk at the same time and ended up hitting something in the process. Draco was in front of her when she finally stood up.

"Very good...." grumbled Miss Snape. "You were fighting it very well... and kept yourself from humiliation...." She growled through gritted teeth and sat at her desk.

Astra sat down at her desk and sat in a stunned manner. What had she been about to do if she hadn't had that same rebellious voice inside her head? Harry tapped her on her shoulder.

"Be glad that she didn't make you do it multiple times. I had to go through that in my fourth year and I ended up with cracked kneecaps and a splitting headache." Harry said.

Before dinner, Astra needed to go to the bathroom. "I need to go to the ladies room." She said quietly to him.

"What?! How exactly are you going to manage this if I can't be more than five feet from you." Draco said pensively.

"Aw, quit yer whinin'! You'll be fine! Just stand outside the bathroom door. I won't go to far away." she said.

She walked into the bathroom, just as Harry walked around the bend with Ron. Ron smiled as Draco suddenly plastered himself to the door. He looked as though someone had pinned all of his limbs to the door.

Ron walked casually over to Draco and casually opened the door. Then, He smashed the door up against the wall and let it go back. He slammed the door again. Then, he did it again. He did it two more times and walked away. Harry had to run to catch up with him.

Astra walked out of the bathroom and heard a THWUMP as Draco hit the ground. She looked down at him and sighed. "I guess it was more than five feet, eh?" Draco merely coughed in response.

That night, another fight ensued, although it did quiet down before Ron was going to toss Draco out. In the morning, Harry was caught off guard by being the only one awake that early. He put on his glasses and glanced around the room.

Ron and Neville were still asleep. Dean and Seamus were snoring away, as well. Harry glanced over at the bed next to his. He barely saw through the drawn curtains and his own curtains. He opened the curtains and walked over to where Astra and Draco were sleeping.

He opened their curtains and nearly fell over in shock. Draco was awake, but Astra wasn't. Draco was lying on his back and he looked paler than he normally did. He looked afraid.

Astra had an arm curled around his waist and her head rested on his shoulder. Harry was fighting the urge to laugh as Draco glared at Harry in contempt. "Good Morning..." Harry managed to get out.

"Help me!" Draco whispered. "I would rather chew off my own arm than wake her myself! She's so HORRIBLE in the morning!"

Harry grinned evilly at Draco and walked away to Ron's bed. "Potter! Potter, get back here!" Draco whispered frantically at him.

Harry shook Ron awake. Ron glared at Harry as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "What do you want, Harry."

Harry pointed at Draco who was trying to lift Astra's arm off of him, but failing. He squeaked when he saw Ron staring at him.

Astra suddenly shifted her head onto Draco's chest, right over his heart and seemed to tighten her grip on him. Ron nearly fell out of bed when Draco started hyperventilating.

"Get this girl off of me, you nitwits!" Draco whispered frantically.

Astra heard some laughter in the haze of her senses. She also heard a low thumping sound that made her want to sleep some more. "Get her off of me, now!" she heard a familiar voice say.

She breathed in deeply and felt her arm was encircling someone. In her dreams, she saw her father as she did when she was two.

She opened her eyes as the thumping sound became quicker. She stretched her arms as she yawned. She slumped against the warm thing and gazed drowsily over someone's chest. Everything was slightly blurry. She saw two letters on something resembling a pocket. D.M......

She shot away from Draco and hit the floor. "Owie..." she said as she rubbed her rear in pain.

"Are you alright, Astra?" said an amused voice next to her. She looked up and saw Harry smiling down at her.

"S-sorry.... didn't mean to...." she stammered. Her cheeks burned like the sun.

Ron appeared next to Harry and grinned. "Not to worry... you weren't the one we were laughing at. Draco was hilarious to watch as he desperately tried to pry you off."

Harry helped Astra off the floor and led her to a chair. Draco grumbled as he was forced out of bed. "When I find that mudblood screw-up, I'm going to strangle her!" he growled.

"Over my dead body, you will, Draco!" Ron growled.

"And mine." said Harry.

"And mine...." said Dean.

"And Mine...." said Seamus.

"I wouldn't mind it at all if I could sort of stay right here away from the fight, if that's alright with you. You all look like you have enough fire power." said Neville. "However.. If it looks like you need me, Ill be there."

"She isn't a screw-up, Malformed." said Astra flatly. "You, however...."

"What was that, Halvsie?!" Draco growled.

Astra got to her feet. She had her wand out and grinned at Draco. He didn't have his with him. "In case you haven't realized it, I can't hurt you with electricity anymore." Draco looked surprised at this. "However,... I may not be as skilled with a wand, but I can make a mess of you if you so much as attempt to hurt Hermione."

Draco looked defeated and it looked like it hurt his pride a great deal. He stepped back a little bit and sat down on the bed next to him. "I should've expected an inhuman personality like you to keep your wand with you at all times."

"I don't keep it with me at all times, Draco... you just don't notice much. This isn't my wand, stupid.... It's Harry's." She grinned evilly at him. She put Harry's wand on his trunk and walked over to her own things. She picked out her wand and smiled. "THIS is mine, stupid."

Harry looked at it. It was longer than his. It had to be a full twelve inches and it was considerably redder in color. "Redwood, phoenix feather, twelve inches." She pointed to the end of the wand where the handle was.

Draco sulked through breakfast and lunch. It was a Hogsmead weekend and Harry decided he wanted to go. Astra dragged Draco down to Hogsmead because she was bored and thought some cold air could do her some good.

When they all arrived at Hogsmead, They each headed their own direction and promised to meet at the Three Broomsticks for butterbeer. Harry went to Honeydukes with Ginny, Hermione and Ron went to Weasley Wheezes, Kennedy asked Avalon if she would like to join him on visiting the Shrieking Shack and Astra dragged Draco to a jewelry shop.

"I don't want to go into a jewelry store! It's boring!" whined Draco.

"Oh hush.... you sound like a little child!" Astra growled at him. They walked in and Astra was amazed by the necklaces and bracelets and rings. She was especially drawn to a ring in a glass case.

The ring was silvery in color. There were two hands that held a garnet heart with a crown on it. "It's a Cladough ring." said an old gentleman clerk as he walked over with a smile. "Irish wedding ring..."

Astra realized that her mouth had been hanging open and she closed it. "Sorry... didn't mean to look like a fish."

"American, I see.... come to take a look around, eh?" the clerk said in an Irish brogue. He motioned towards Draco who was looking at something like armor. "Friend or love."

"Neither. He and I kinda got stuck together because of some strange charm." Astra said glumly. So what does it act as again?"

"It works as a promise ring, really. You wear it on the right hand, it means that your heart isn't taken. Wear it inverted, it means that you don't want to give your heart, of course I do get that one wrong a lot. Wear it on your left hand, your heart is taken." He smiled and reached toward her.

He picked up her star locket pendent and motioned if he could look at it. Astra took off the necklace and handed it to him. "Very nice.... veeeery nice...." He opened it and read the inscription. "Thank you from your friends.... and what is this picture of?"

"My friends. There's my best friend Nev... and... there are my friends Ron and Hermione.... Ron's sister, Ginny, and his twin bothers, Fred and George.... and there's my friend Harry."

"What? Is hat Harry Potter?" The clerk took a closer look at the picture. Astra saw Draco making "gag me" motions over by the armor. "It is... great Merlin... you know Harry Potter!" Draco rolled his eyes and banged his head on the wall nearest to him.

"Yeah, I do... he's pretty cool, though... I didn't realize that I had made friends with a celebrity until I met him face to face." Astra said with a smile.

The clerk closed the necklace and gazed over it. "That stone.... it isn't ordinary." he said suddenly.

"Really? I thought it was a garnet or something."

"No... it's something very strange...." He put on a magnifying glass. "It's unusual...." Suddenly, he threw it at her. His face was white as a sheet and he looked somewhat terrified. "It's not something for just anyone...."

"What is it... why did you throw it like that?" Astra said as she cradled the necklace in her hands.

"I saw.... I saw..." He breathed in and smiled. "I saw a destiny."

Astra stared at him and backed away. "I saw a woman dressed in black and red... a warrior." He called after her as she grabbed Draco and dragged him towards the door. "I saw the PAST!" he yelled as she ran out the door.

"That was weird...." Draco said as he readjusted his cloak. "You know... I think he's a loony, that one. Not quite ripe yet."

Astra put on her necklace and gazed into the deep red gem that christened the front of it. She saw nothing, but her eye staring back at her. "Yer right...."

"What did you say?"

"I said that you are right, why do you need a hearing aid?" Astra stared up at him. She was a couple of inches shorter than him, she only came up to his nose.

Suddenly, Astra heard a bunch of shrieking and laughing from a small group of girls. She found where they were. There was a small group of girls gabbing in front of Honeydukes as they ate some chocolate. Pansy was with them.

"Watch this... she's gonna do that high pitched giggle of hers... OH! If only I had a brain!" Astra acted like one of the girls giggling. She heard Draco snickering next to her. She glanced over at him and gave him an incredulous stare.

"Yer laughing at my joke?" She said. She was started to giggle as well. They walked over to the Three Broomsticks, laughing all the way.

Harry glanced over to see Draco and Astra laughing hysterically as they walked up to him. "What are you two laughing at." he said.

"Joke..." Astra gasped. "You had to be there."

They calmed down and walked in with Harry and Ginny. Avalon came back with Kennedy, blushing madly and clinging onto his cloak. He smiled pleasantly at Astra and she hugged him. "Come on, Kennedy... let's go get warmed up. It has been a good day."