Chapter Seven: Thinking back and helping others
After Quidditch practice Kae seemed to be the only one who wasn't exhausted. When she spotted the Gryffindor team coming towards the pitch, she immediately lowered her broom, clobbered a passing Bludger and then landed on the ground, dropping her broom. Raid watched her uneasily and then when the team left turned to her.
"Please try to not act the way you just did in the game, okay?" he said. Kae turned her head to the ground and nodded.
"Yeah, whatever. I was just – a bit distracted" she mumbled. She had indeed been distracted. She had been thinking about her plan of running away and her eyes had always darted to Malfoy. Once a Bludger Caurus had whacked towards her, had barely missed her left ear. She had obviously shouted at him but when he made a comment on fairies, she only glared at him.
Back at the castle she dropped her broom in her room without caring where it lay and unfastened her Quidditch robes. She dropped them to the ground and then pulled on a dark blue jersey Bite Me Barbie. She looked down at herself and then wondered why she had accepted to come to Hogwarts.
Her thoughts drifted back to when her parents had told her.
"Honey, we've signed you up for Hogwarts. Your cousin, Hermione, goes there too" Laura Granger told her. Laura, Kae's mother, had the same blonde hair as her which reached down to her waist and the same bluish-green eyes."Hermione?" Kae pulled a face. She looked at her parents as if they were crazy. "I don't like Hermione" she told them.
Graham, her father, sighed. He looked much like Hermione, bushy brown hair and protruding front teeth. Kae was always glad she looked neither like him, nor like her cousin.
"Dear. You've already been thrown from two schools, please try and stay in this one" he said. "You ran from Ikari Inu and then from Wolfsberg. We can't keep signing you up for new school."
Kae's pulled her face into an unhappy glare.
"What's in it for me?" she asked, her always-wanting attitude shining back at her parents. Graham sighed again and looked at his wife.
"Well, for one, Hermione's there. So there's someone you know."
"And Harry Potter" Kae interrupted. Inside she grinned widely, but her parents only saw her frowning.
"Who's Harry Potter?" her father asked. Kae snorted. Of course her parents didn't know – they were only Muggles.
"Harry Potter is the most famous wizard there is dad. He survived You-Know-Who" she told them. "The most evil wizard ever" she added at her parents quizzical looks. She had mentioned him and his power often but her parents seemed to forget it evertime.
"Fine. I'll go" she said and shrugged. Her parents smiled.
"We're leaving for London tomorrow" Laura said as Kae got up and went to her room.
Kae was now lying on her bed as her thoughts faded away. Harry Potter had seemed to be a disappointment, as he was friends with Hermione. But, Kae considered, he was a pretty good Quidditch player, no doubt. What was left here anyway to keep her from leaving?
Malfoy!
Kae shook her head and then sat up again. She still had her fairy thing to do and she shivered at the thought. Kae grabbed a piece of parchment from her bedside table and scribbled something onto it. She leant back onto her pillow thought a moment, the feather quill gliding over her face, and then continued writing.
"Maybe the greatest potioner in our class can tell us the uses of a potion made with Gibbler Berries" Snape said glaring at Kae who was completely ignoring him while continuing to write on the parchment from a few days ago. Ron nudged her, as he had had to do over many of the last few potion classes. Kae looked up and slid her hand over the paper.
"Gibbler Berries?" she asked. "They cure drunkenness and er… help with balance" she quickly said.
"Very well" Snape said. "Five points" he added with his poisonous look. Kae grinned to herself but then turned back to her paper grimly.
The students were to make three different potions containing Gibbler Berries but as Kae had only said two everyone had to figure out the third by flipping though their books.
Kae quickly brewed her potions and then continued on her paper.
"What's that?" Ron asked. Kae quickly crumpled up her paper und her hand and glared at him.
"Fine" Ron mumbled. "But could you tell me the third use of Gibbler Berries?" he asked, his voice hushed. Kae looked at him and saw that he had brewed one of his potions.
"When you're going to a dinner party or such" she began not knowing why. "It makes you well-mannered." Kae turned her head back to her table.
"Thanks" Ron whispered and quickly wrote the information down.
Kae slowly walked out towards Hagrid hut after the other. Hagrid had brought the fairies back, as no one had really come to harm and the fairies had left the students alone in the lessons before.
Kae hadn't bothered to fetch a fairy and just listened to what other fairies told other students. She hated fairies now more than every since they had embarrassed her in front of Malfoy. Today she didn't bother listening and continued on her piece of paper.
Hagrid let her be, as he didn't really know how to approach her.
During the lesson Malfoy and his fairy kept coming closer to Kae until he sat right next to her. She had quickly stuffed the paper in her bag and looked towards the student on her other side.
"So you're the one who's afraid of us" Malfoy's fairy said gleefully.
"Shut up" Malfoy mumbled. Kae ignored the two of them and gulped as the fairy flew to face her. Kae didn't turn her head as she didn't want to face Malfoy but lowered her eyes.
"So. What's your beef with us?" the fairy asked. She looked similar to Kae with long blond hair and blue-green eyes. Her face though was more oblong than round and her body was more precious and thin. She also wore colors Kae wouldn't be seen dead in. Light blue was a color the witch wasn't really fond of.
"Nothing" Kae mumbled.
"Heard you've got a match coming up. In that game you people play on your brooms." Kae nodded, not wanting to upset the fairy.
The fairy rolled around so she was hanging upside down. Her hair fell down but her dress stayed the way it would if she were around normal.
"Hm. I wish you luck then" she said grinning.
o.O lookit that nice fairy… I like her *glomps fairy*
well whatever. I hope my readers like this chapter even though it doesn't really have much in it does it? ^^
well, the Quidditch match should be soon ^^
