Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal

By: Rachelfan5000

Disclaimer: I didn't own Harry Potter last time I looked.

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Watching: The Box (Again!)

Listening to: Sinead Quinn -What you need

Quote: See above, by me.

Chapter 16 - Brown eyes tell lies (changed chapter name)

"I'm sorry - I wasn't looking where I was going - oh," Roxie looked up from where she had been gathering the stuff that had fallen out of her bag when she fell over, "it's you." Roxie had learned to avoid Harry and Ginny because they were friends of the mad Gryffindor prefect called Hermione who kept trying to question her. This showed as she looked around quickly for any sign of Hermione.

"It's ok," Ginny said, helping Roxie up, obviously she didn't know much about the Hermione-Roxie squabble lately, it seemed Hermione had found someone to argue with when Ron wasn't around, which wasn't often, the two of them always seemed to be together.

Roxie's face broke into a wide grin, but Harry could see through it, her eyes seemed distracted, complicated and worried equalling a very fake smile. She picked her bag off the grass and gestured she was leaving, she tried to run off, but Ron and Hermione had chosen this moment to burst into the grounds looking for Harry. Roxie turned around very quickly and knelt down behind Ginny, who looked very confused.

"Hide me!" Muttered Roxie anxiously, Harry couldn't see how Ginny could hide Roxie, her extraordinarily messy black hair made her obvious, especially on this particular day when it sprung out like an overgrown Afro.

Ginny did as she was told, but she exchanged a giggle with Harry too.

"Why are you two out here? What have you been doing without us?!" Yelled Hermione as soon as she was within earshot distance, recently she had been taking her prefect roles extremely seriously, which made Ron snigger incredibly. Crookshanks was racing by her knees, looking as if he was taking some kind of run up before pouncing on a poor, innocent bird.

"We've been to see Hagrid," chirped up Ginny, Ron looked at her, as if not noticing before she was there.

"We've? Harry - you haven't been out with my sister, have you?" Ron asked, Ginny looked incredibly annoyed and excluded.

"Noone else in the Common room," Harry shrugged, he then signalled to Ginny not to take this lie personally.

"Oh, all right then," Ron said, Ginny smiled smugly.

"Roxanna?!" so it seemed Hermione had noticed the young girl hovering behind Ginny, who stepped to the right and allowed Roxie to be in full view. Roxie twisted her face into a 'damn you' expression. To make things even worse for the girl, Crookshanks, who had been chasing a few small birds around the Hogwarts grounds, collided with her, giving Roxie the claw and seemingly looking inside her bag. Roxie picked it up very quickly and thrust it over her back, then she inspected her clawed up arm, clearly expecting a nice long nag from Hermione.

Crookshanks made a loud hissing noise and Roxie made a failure attempt to kick him out of the way.

"Go away! You stupid orange furball!" yelled Roxie furiously, trying to stamp on Crookshanks' tail violently.

Hermione opened her mouth to loudly object to Roxie dissing her cat, but Ron was there first.

"Crookshanks isn't a stupid orange furball! Well, he is orange, but that's not the point," Ron yelled, a little over the top.

"He's actually a very smart cat," Hermione said, petting Crookshanks and cooing him into her arms.

"Pity he doesn't have the face to go with his intelligence," Roxie said meanly, indicating Crookshanks' smashed in face. Harry thought she did have a point there, but not that he'd say anything to Hermione.

"Stop being so snide, or I'll deduct points from Gryffindor!" Hermione said shrilly, as though this was the worst punishment she could think of.

"Go ahead, you…" but words failed her for a moment, then Roxie came up with a very inventive but not so witty name, it also happened to be quite rude, Roxie looked proud of herself. But was she really? Looking into Roxie's eyes you couldn't tell.

"Fifteen points from Gryffindor!" Hermione said strictly, giving off the impression she was the brand new (much younger) limited edition Professor McGonagall.

"Be careful, or it'll be more!" warned Ron, then he realised what Hermione had said properly, "Hermione, you can't take points from your own house, that's ridiculous."

"Don't you go on at me Ron Weasley!" Hermione said, turning to Ron.

"Sorry," murmured Ron quietly.

"I'm sorry too," said a quiet voice, Hermione and Ron seemed to have forgotten about Roxie.

"Don't mind me, I'm always swearing, though I think I went a bit too far this time…and Crookshanks isn't ugly, I think he's quite cute," Roxie added, she tried to stroke Crookshanks, but backed off when he hissed.

"How do you know his name is Crookshanks?" Harry asked suspiciously. He was given the impression Roxie was doing some very quick thinking.

"I heard about him from one of the girls in my dormitory - they all think he's adorable too," Hermione seemed happy with this, but to everyone else, it seemed a lie.

Then Hermione gave Roxie a certain look.

"I know, I know," Roxie said, as though she had rehearsed, "To be truthful the guy who shot the dark mark didn't appear out of nowhere, I just thought it would be dramatic, after all, who here's read Hogwarts: A history?" Hermione raised her hand.

"I guessed," Roxie said dryly, "he came from the Forbidden forest I guess, running out like a loony." Her brown eyes were so deep and complicated and understandable it was hard not to believe her, but she could easily be spinning lies again.

"What I mean to say is, can we be friends? It just makes this whole situation so much easier if we're friends and not arguing, well, you and Ron are friends and always argue - in a nice way," Roxie looked anxiously at Hermione, and mouthed the word please.

Ginny looked up at Hermione; she seemed to have forgiven Roxie already.

"Yeah - let's forget the whole thing, but the fifteen points are still off," Hermione said warily.

Roxie smiled.

"Thank you - now you can help me with my hair at the ball, it's not as late as last years - so they're letting us first years go!" Roxie indicated her messy hair; she acted as if she only wanted to be friends for this fact.

"Have you got a date?" Ginny asked teasingly.

"I will soon," Roxie said confidently. Roxie looked at the watch on her wrist, then her face looked shocked.

"Oh my god! I've got to be going! Bye you lot!" As Roxie left Harry could hear mutter under he breath 'save me, save me, save me.' But then Harry was sure he had imagined it, especially when in only half an hour, Roxie returned to the Gryffindor common room with her friend Alexandra.

But did he imagine it?

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Longer chapter than the last, but still pretty short. Sorry! I'll make it up to you all someway! I promise! Well, it came reasonably quickly CONSIDERING 1 REVIEW if sumbody is good at writing tiny summarys then email me. I seriously think my summaries are crap and noone reads a fic with a bad summary (well I don't) PLEASE help and review if you're reading this (likely chance, ha?) I'm probably going to put something stupid like 'read this or die' but that does work, I admit it.

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