Disclaimer: Geico is a car insurance company, gecko is a little green reptile. J.K. Rowling is a person who wrote and owns Harry Potter, Jay K. Rowling is some person who has nothing to do with the HP books. I'm not Jay K. Rowling, but seeing as I'm also not J.K. Rowling, I don't own the HP books either. Now that that's sorted out, please read.
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"So… she just went into the forbidden forest with Malfoy," Hermione was going over what Harry had told her.
"Uh huh"
"Why on earth would she do that?"
"It's not that big of a deal Hermione,"
"Well, I suppose… but really, what do you think they were doing, I mean, what would Malfoy need to show her in there?"
"Maybe they were shagging," Ron suggested.
"Ron!" Hermione looked appalled.
"They could have been…"
"Maybe he has some anti-muggle shrine in there or something," Harry mused.
"Oh, please."
"You think?" Ron seemed interested.
"I don't know, I'm kidding Ron."
"Right, but what if she's muggle?"
"She's not."
"Well," Hermione began, "We don't really know that, do we? I mean, we know her dad's a wizard, but…"
"Yeah, I've never really heard her say anything about her mother come to think of it…"
"Ok," Ron broke up the conversation, "Where to first?"
"Honeydukes," Harry said, "I need sweets."
Ron nodded and led the way. As the entered the shop, Harry spotted Malfoy and Andie in the corner of the shop, looking through the barrels of every flavour beans. Malfoy looked up and saw Harry staring at him. With that, he looked to Andie and then stepped sideways slowly, like he was edging away from something that bothered him. He then looked up at them again and acted as if it was the first time he noticed them.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't Potty and the weasel. Oh, and you've got the mu…muggle with you too." He smiled mockingly.
"Were you going to say something else, Malfoy?" hissed Ron, "Suddenly growing a conscience on us?"
"Believe me, Weasley, I would love to see you gag on slugs again, but we wouldn't want to cause a scene, would we?"
" 'snever stopped you before," Ron muttered. All the while, Andie had been watching from the corner, observing. Just then she walked forward, shoving Malfoy aside gently.
"Harry, there you are, I've, er, been waiting for you guys. I got up earlier, so I just decided get straight here instead of waiting there. Um, lets, go somewhere."
Harry looked at Ron and nodded his head towards the door, Ron and Hermione understood and began to walk out. Harry followed them along with Andrea.
"You'll never guess what happened on my way downstairs this morning," Andie said as they walked to the Three Broomsticks. "Well, I was going downstairs, and all of a sudden, just as I pass this portrait of a girl in a blue dress, it starts shaking. I mean, really shaking, violently. I thought it was gonna fly right of the wall, and the girl in the portrait screams and runs to the portrait next to her. All of a sudden, the shaking moves the portrait she just ran to, and then it goes down the rest of the paintings on the wall, like this big wave of shaking, and then… it just stopped." When she finished, Ron's eyes where wide and Hemione looked thoughtful.
"Are you sure it wasn't just peeves?" she suggested.
"Yeah. See, at first I thought it was him, but when I got downstairs, Nearly Headless Nick was there, so I asked him if he had seen peeves, and he said that just a few minutes ago he was in Filch's office switching the labels on the files."
"So he was in Filch's office when the shaking started?" Ron stuttered.
"You know," Harry said, "something did happen this morning, you where still asleep Ron. I just got up and I was at the window, when all of a sudden, the glass of water on the sill flies at Neville's bed by itself, I thought it was peeves, but now…I don't know"
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After stocking up on sweets and pranks from Honeyduke's and Zonko's, they got ready to return home. Just as they all where about to leave, Harry heard someone clear his throat behind them. Harry turned to see Draco.
"Well," Harry said, "we've been seeing far to much of you today, haven't we."
"Believe me Potter, the feelings about that are mutual," he replied coolly, "I just need to talk with Lupin, I hope you don't mind, she has some information I need."
"What kind of information?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Nothing that would interest you Potter."
Draco turned and began to walk. Andrea gave Harry one look that seemed to say "sorry" before walking away. Hermione and Ron just shook their heads and turned in the opposite direction.
